Apostolic Clarification: Constancy Is Not Neutrality

… Response to Kingsley Okonkwo’s statement; “Satan the same yesterday, today, and forever.”

Citizen Bolaji O. Akinyemi

It was an early morning message; it came in this morning on my WhatsApp, from one of the many fervent stewards of the kingdom who looks up to me in our labour for God and his Kingdom.

“Daddy mi.. I don’t understand again oooooo..

It comes subtly! First it was Tattoos, now promoting satan…. Who knows what will be next! May God help His church! We pray Gods intervention in whatever is going on!!!”

I naturally would have waited to know what Kingsley Okonkwo has up his sleeves. But the parallel drawn between Christ and Satan cannot wait.

There is a statement often echoed in contemporary Christian discourse and recently attributed to Kingsley Okonkwo:
“Satan is the same yesterday, today, and forever.”
At face value, it seeks to describe the consistency of evil. Yet, by apostolic standards, such a construction demands careful correction—not condemnation, but illumination.

The phrase “the same yesterday, today, and forever” is not a neutral description. It is a sacred attribution, reserved exclusively for divinity. Scripture is unequivocal:
“Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” — Hebrews 13:8

This declaration is not merely about consistency; it is about immutability rooted in righteousness, holiness, and eternal perfection. To extend that construct—even rhetorically—to Satan is to risk granting a fallen being a linguistic proximity to divine nature.

Apostolic doctrine insists on precision in truth.

Satan is not “the same” in the sense of divine constancy; rather, he is consistently rebellious, persistently deceptive, and unchanging in his opposition to God’s purpose. Scripture defines him not by stability of being, but by continuity of corruption:

“He was a murderer from the beginning… and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.” — John 8:44

To attempt to decorate such a Being with the eternal truth of God’s word is sacrilegious.

This is the difference:
Christ is the same because He is Truth embodied.

Satan is not just a liar, but the father of lies. Unchanging because he rejected the truth. The Bible concluded, there is no truth in him.

The distinction is not semantic—it is theological, and it is eternal.
From the garden of Eden to this present hour, Satan’s operational method has indeed remained consistent: deception (Genesis 3:1), accusation (Revelation 12:10), and destruction (John 10:10). But consistency of behavior must never be confused with identity of essence.

To do so, even unintentionally, risks dulling the believer’s sensitivity to the holiness of Christ’s uniqueness.

Apostolic engagement therefore calls us higher—not to attack voices, but to refine language, preserve truth, and guard doctrine.

As Martin Luther King Jr. once echoed in a different context, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” In the same vein, imprecision in doctrine anywhere is a threat to truth everywhere.

We must speak carefully.

We must teach accurately.

We must correct lovingly.

And above all, we must ensure that no expression—however well-intentioned—blurs the eternal distinction between the Creator and the adversary.

This is not rebuke for rebuke’s sake.

It is preservation—for the sake of generations yet unborn.
Shalom.