Bertin Nana

I was born on September 26, 1963, in Douala, Cameroon. I am the fifth child of a family of 12 children. I was educated in Catholic schools and I was baptized in 1976 in the Catholic Church.

When I was in 6th grade, my classmates used to call me “The man who thinks.” One year later, when I went to 7th grade, 2 of my elder brothers who were college students were arrested for political unrest against the government. They possessed books on communism. I showed my interest in reading those books. I was idealizing Mao, Lenin, and Engels. I loved communism. I thought that a communist is a saint. I was idealizing love. I loved love stories. I loved purity. I was a C student, but most people were saying that I am brilliant. I just had some existential problems. I loved tennis table, sports, and movies. I loved philosophy. My classmates used to call me the philosopher. I was also very active in Christian thinking groups. I graduated from Liberman High School in June 1982.

In the conscience that I have of my own existence, I have always liked kindness, tenderness, justice, ideal and love. On January 1984, I was in the second year of physics and chemistry studies at the University of Yaounde when God tells me: ‘’stick to God and Jesus-Christ and become a saint and go to heaven. Later, I experienced throughout time the rivers of living water of the Holy Spirit: joy, charity, kindness, compassion, peace, and purity in infinite proportion. It was really the heaven! God is a full and happy being. The presence of God in his plenitude is joy, tenderness, love, and kindness. God informs me about the economic collapse of Africa and that of the Third world in general as well as the End of the World getting closer. I will quote the American Deputy Secretary of State to the business of the Third world in those days, John Waynes “the tragedy of the Third world unable to afford the rich, technician and scientific Western civilization, and which saw its ancestral and tribal structures as well as its lifestyle destroyed by the Westerners who had promised its people that they would enjoy material well-being as well as the progress brought about by science. It is rather unemployment, poverty, rural migration for the young people who were born in the consumer society and who cannot go into reverse running towards the civilization of their parents and ancestors. The author predicts the social conflicts, the explosion of delinquency and violence, and even the reconsideration of the principle of intangibility of the borders inherited after colonization and the blossoming of the regional conflicts”. (Jeune Afrique. The Year 1984).

I stress that the rivers of living water of the Holy Spirit gave me the power to like my fellow and be good. One can take pleasure in the Christian ideal and have a heart that likes kindness, but as for the ability to practice justice and kindness effectively, it takes being regenerated by the Holy Spirit.

In January 1985, I was then in the third year of my University studies when the Holy Spirit asked me to leave the University to cultivate the land in Nkondjock within the framework of a nationwide pioneer project. Every evening, after my student's day, the Holy Spirit would come down on me when I was alone in my room and tell me: ‘’you will go to heaven soon, leave the university and go to cultivate the land. I did not take the partials exams and lost my 40000 FCFA monthly scholarship. I left the University and went to Nkondjock. I remained at the pioneer village named Didipé for 6 months. There, I built my house in “Karabot," and I was receiving a 5000 FCFA monthly help from the project. On the insistence of my family and my friends, and also according to the plan of God, I left this village for the eldest child of the family at Edéa. He was then the Head of the Financial Department of Cellucam. For a year, together with my cousin and other blue-collar workers, we worked on planting cocoa, plantain, and exploiting the forest.

Satan, I am saying this compared to now, told me that as God loves me too much, the promise to go to heaven will be achieved on September 26th, 1986 which is my birthday. Then, I told my friends, my brothers and all the members of my family that God spoke to me and told me that I would go to heaven on September 26th, 1986. I added, if it happened that they do not see me anymore on earth, they had to know that I left for heaven. Before September 26th, I was not filled with the presence and the joy of God. I started then to have doubts about my departure to heaven that day. My doubts were confirmed when I did not go to heaven on September 26th. Today, knowing the attributes of God and why the world is, it was too easy! God allowed this lie of Satan. I returned to the university with a huge problem of knowledge. I was also unfortunate because I had chronic malaria. Nevertheless, I graduated that year with my bachelor in Physics. I was strongly disturbed. Satan, using subtlety, wickedness and a malice that was typically Satan, plunged me into a deep darkness. For me, God was henceforth the evil and the Word of God revealed in the Bible was a lie.

Some examples of what Satan used to tell me: ‘Jesus-Christ is a boaster. Anyone can achieve the work of Jesus if he knows that he will die and resurrect. And indeed, it cost Jesus nothing to perform miracles since he is God. Why does your God you claim to be holy and good threaten the Jewish of worse punishments if they do not love Him? Is it no longer free to love? And, besides, who created the right ones and the evil ones?’ At the time of the Gulf War, Satan told me: ‘you see that criminal God of yours? He makes children to have them massacred in wars. I was not reading the Bible anymore, and although I read it, Satan would always lead me to the Old Testament. My elder sister consulted a Catholic priest, Father Sebastian who exorcised me. I remember having fled at the first meeting saying: ‘tell God and Jesus-Christ that they have killed me.’ One month later, I experienced the entire evil presence of Satan. It happened to me one morning, in February 1991 when I was at work. My body collapsed, and I felt all the supernatural evil presence of Satan. At that moment, I called upon God and Jesus-Christ. This is traditional: men make fun of God, insult Him or ignore Him but when they are in danger, this same God is He that they call to rescue them. I was filled with panic and insane anguish. I was transported to the nearest hospital where I had Father Sebastian called. Clinically, I was not sick. The doctor at the hospital told me later that I was to be declared dead long before. He then asked me who I was. After these events and many others, Mary inspired me to write the book << How God Sees the World>> and told me that she is my wife.

I have a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Yaounde, and a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Oklahoma. I have worked as a mechanical engineer, a teacher, and recently as a logistics coordinator.