This brave soldier of the Cross took ill and the people of God rallied round  him and prayed earnestly for his recovery. With faith and courage, he  fought the battle of life to the very end without blinking.  

On his last Sunday in August 2009, he said, “Soon and very soon, our  troubles will be over; I am already looking beyond the Rapture, I can see  the Millennium.” Encouraging the saints, he said, “I have prayed for you  and I have sealed it with my life. I have prayed God to give us a 100 percent  Rapture. That is the extent to which I love you. When I say I love you, I  mean I love you; I mean I want to see you in Heaven, I want to see you at  the Marriage Supper of the Lamb; I mean I want to fellowship with you  during the Millennial Reign. If you get careless, you will have yourself to  blame! 

“The glory that awaits us, eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither  has it entered into the heart of man what the Lord has prepared for His  children. If we do not see here on earth again, let us see at the Marriage  Supper of the Lamb and there, our meeting will never end! Let us see  during the Millennium and let us dwell together in the New Heaven and in  the New Earth! God bless you!” 

His last words were: “Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Jesus!” With these words, Brother Paul passed on to Glory. 

It was a glorious exit for Rev. Paul OgechukwuAkazue on May 21,  2010, when The Apostolic Faith members the world over, and friends of  the Church, bade the immediate past Africa Overseer farewell at the  Anthony Headquarters of the Church. The funeral service conducted by  the Superintendent General, Reverend Darrel D. Lee, was attended by  delegates from within and without the continent.  

Students of the Apostolic Faith Secondary School in Anthony Village,  Lagos State, and their counterparts from Egosi, Kwara State, staged plays  and rendered inspiring songs as part of the prelude to the service. Earlier in  the day, there was a lying in state of the remains of Rev. Akazue at the  Tabernacle Extension.  

Rev. Lee charged the congregation to be of good cheer and not grieve  like unbelievers, pointing out that Rev. Akazue had gone to be with the  Lord. He emphasized that the best honour anyone could give as a legacy  for the love shared with the departed, was to live in the fear of God. Rev.  Akazue, he said, was an evangelist per excellence and would want his  funeral evangelistic. The Superintendent General admonished anyone  who aspired to be where the deceased had gone, to seek the forgiveness of  his sins.  

Quoting from 1 Thessalonians chapter four, he stressed that at the Rapture,  the trumpet shall sound and the dead in Christ shall rise first, and the living  saints will be changed in the twinkling of an eye, to live with Jesus Christ  throughout eternity.