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KING OPENS MEC’S E25M CHURCH

15/07/2017 10:06:00 BY SIBUSISO ZWANE

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This is how the pulpit of MEC Manzini Branch looks like.

MANZINI – Keep watch because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.

This was the message from His Majesty King Mswati III to the nation during the official opening of the E25 million Metropolitan Evangelical Church (MEC) Manzini Branch yesterday.

His majesty said after receiving the invite to officially open the state-of-the-art structure, he read the book of Matthew in Holy Bible when it talks about the final times of the world.

He said as he read the book of Matthew, the verse that stick into his mind and kept ringing was Matthew 24 verse 42 which says; “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.”
The King said these were the words Jesus told his disciples after they asked him what would be the sign of his coming and of the end of the world.

His majesty stated that the Lord told them to watch out that no one deceives them because many would come in his name, claiming, to be the Messiah and would deceive many.
The Lord also told them that they would hear of wars and rumours of wars, but they should see to it that they were not alarmed because such things should happen, but the end would be yet to come.

Again the Lord said nations would rise against each other, kingdoms against another and there would be famines and earthquakes in various places. “I say as you see the things that the Lord counted happening, do as Matthew 24 verse 42 says; ‘Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come,” the King said.

On another note, the King commended the church for the state-of-the-art structure. He thanked the church members, the corporate world and donors for persevering in forking out money to construct it. “This is the kind of structure the Lord lives in,” he said.

Meanwhile, Princess Tsandzile, the Minister of Home Affairs remembered how she was given the name; Minister of Heavenly Affairs during an event at the same venue, the main pavilion at Mavuso Trade and Exhibition Centre.

She said as a ministry and government at large, they commend MEC Manzini Brach for the structure as it already houses a preschool and would soon have a clinic and a school. “The pre-school is in line with the Swazi saying which goes; ‘Lugotjwa lusemanti’ because when children will be shown the right as they grow, they will not abandon it.”

Again, with the coming of the clinic to be constructed at the church, the minister said people would be healed emotionally and spiritually.