![]() Keywords: Leadership, Theocracy, and Democracy The paper, therefore, recommends that all political leaders in Nigeria should come up with a significant developmental policy that is capable of addressing the nation’s underdevelopment, injustice, human rights abuse, economic paradox, and electoral riggings, among others, to avoid similar execution of the divine justice which came upon Judah and Jerusalem in 586 B.C. ![]() This situation is similar to the context of the Jews where all classes of leaders in Judah failed to deliver and drove the nation to a state of anarchy. Second, situations in Nigeria is tense as bloodshed, political assassination, violations of human rights, underdevelopment, and poor Public Health Care delivery (PHC) are few of the cumulative effects of leadership failure in the land. This situation is in tandem with Yahweh’s exercise of leadership in Israel through three classes of leaders (called human agents, regents, and rulers) namely, the Prophets, Priests, and Kings. First, three divisions of leaders mark the presidential system of government in Nigerian democracy: the Executive, Judiciary, and Legislator. He, therefore, observed two key elements characterising leadership within the two contexts. The writer applies the grammatical approach to interpret Ezekiel 22:23-31 while he considers five critical sectors of the Nigerian nation to explore her leadership dynamics namely, human rights, electoral system, economy, transparency in governance, and health sector. as a result of years of failure in leadership delivery. This end was the fate of the Jews in the sixth century B.C. The inquiry is with a proposition that the prolonged state of anarchy in Nigerian democracy, primarily since the start of the Fourth Republic in 1999, may result in a serious execution of the divine wrath against the nation if the trend remains unchecked. and that of Nigerian people of the 21st century A.D. This paper investigates a possible nexus in leadership between the context of the Jews in the sixth century B.C. When leadership is right in any nation, peace and tranquillity always attends the people, and such a society easily obtains unprecedented growth and development. Keywords: Christian Faith, Challenges, Postmodern Culture, Africa Therefore, the paper recommended that Church messages should focus on this dangerous culture in its various dimensions from henceforth and different action-plans mapped out be conscientiously followed. The writer concluded that the Church in Africa could not afford to oversleep at this challenging time since her God-given task of kingdom expansion is seriously at risk. In the end, the paper analysed some of the necessary responses to the identified challenges as expected from all Church stakeholders involving Christian theologians, religious educators, philosophers, and pastors. The writer examined postmodern culture and its attendant threats to the Christian faith. Essential elements of the Christian faith are, therefore, considered as part of its strength. On account of this evidence, this paper argues that the Christian faith is potent enough to withstand and overcome the attendant challenges of the postmodern culture in Africa. Nonetheless, Christian faith became stronger by the day throughout the Pre-modern and Modern times. The trend continued throughout the Dark Ages, leading to the Reformation of the Church in the 16th century. Persecutions, trials, and oppositions from the Jewish authority and successive Roman Governments across centuries were two of the enemies of the Christian faith in human history, especially during the Greco-Roman period.
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