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In the wake of the prevailing insecurity generated by the Boko Haram in Nigeria and its neighbours in the last three years, scholars from different disciplines are strenuously engaged in discourse on the impact of the insurgency on the socio-economic activities and life in Nigeria. This paper studies Luke’s Gospel, chapter 12 verses 39-42. It adopts the contextual hermeneutical approach now rife in African Biblical Scholarship. The purpose is to unveil the meaning implicated in the text where the ancient author had addressed the readers of his community on the threats and severe persecutions masterminded against them by Judaic extremists and propagandists of the first Christian century. The socio-historical background underlying the Lukan text and its parallel in Matthew, chapter 24 verses 4344 are exegetically exposed. Our findings indicate that both the physical and spiritual insecurity which awaited the members of the Jesus Movement reflect challenges characteristic of the contemporary terror within Nigeria today. The paper concludes inter alia that Christians in Nigeria should become extra-vigilant in order to guard their national and spiritual heritage given the continuing onslaught so that the envisaged proceeds of “Vision”20:2020 shall become realistic.

Security Issues in Nigeria: A Re-reading of Lk 12:39-42 in the Light of the Terror within and Its Consequences on Vision 20:2020 [1]