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LAGOS, Nigeria — A modern Lazarus miracle caused city-wide revival in this nation’s capital city, but the man at the center of it is anything but happy.

“I’d like 15 minutes in a room with brass knuckles and that idiot Narobi,” said David LaPonte, 43, the revived man. “I don’t give a [care] about my witness.”

Evangelist Nguno Narobi prayed over LaPonte’s casket during a crusade meeting in mid-June. LaPonte had died from severe dysentery. Narobi thought LaPonte would rejoice at being revived, but he sat up and looked around and seemed crestfallen. His first words were, “What the …? I’m back?” The crowd of thousands cheered and praised God, but LaPonte hopped out of the casket and demanded to know who’d raised him from the dead. Others pointed at Narobi, and the revived man began chasing him around, cursing and shouting threats until he was restrained.

He recounted how he’d been in a tunnel of light with relatives and angels all around him. At the end of the tunnel was Jesus, but before LaPonte reached him, he felt himself sucked back through the tunnel and into his body. He came to consciousness in the casket in a dirty tent meeting in Lagos.

LaPonte was taken home and pronounced healthy and well. Doctors revoked his death certificate. But three weeks later, he’s still furious, despite the revival that resulted from the miracle. He says he’s considered suicide. He cries “all night and all day,” he says.

Narobi has tried to make amends and invited LaPonte to take part in crusades so that “many more will be saved.” LaPonte refuses. He vows that if he ever encounters Narobi on a dark street he’ll “beat him very badly.” •