One memorable Sunday night, while listeners are waiting for Bro. Eli’s turn to speak in the GENIUS family, Bert Valinton of the 7th Day Adventist Church accused him of being of Satan, a devil’s minister and preacher of devil’s doctrines. Later on, not only Bert Valinton accused him of such but almost all of the panelists. That reaction was the only thing they could do to detest Bro. Eli, for they found it hard to reason with him whenever he reads the Scriptures. Whenever Bro. Eli reads, their doctrines stand out to be false in the strict sense of biblical principles.

Bro. Eli eventually became Don Manolo’s favorite panelist as well as of the listeners because of his credibility in citing the Scriptures. They requested him to answer their queries because they knew no one else from the panel who could give them satisfying and convincing answers.

The program became more popular when queries through telephone calls were aired and answered live. Before Bro. Eli joined the GENIUS family, the panelists screened the questions first so that they can prepare for the answer. It is said that at times, the panelists were the ones making their own questions to make it appear that they were knowledgeable about the Bible. Eli’s presence surely brought beneficial modifications for the program and for the listeners.

More enemies over the airwaves emerged in an attempt to temper Eli’s remarkable boldness in exposing fraudulent doctrines. One was Teofilo Ramos, a minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ founded by Felix Manalo) or INC. Their arguments resulted in the awakening of many INC members, who afterwards left their congregation and joined the Church of God Bro. Eli is presiding.

Eli’s incontestable biblical knowledge soon merited him the Most Outstanding Minister award, a recognition Don Manolo Favis gave after so many tests. The prestigious award that everyone in the panel wished for rested in Bro. Eli’s name for many consecutive years, and no one else was able to receive the same honor after him.

Defeated in the invisible war in the airwaves, some members of the panel did not show up anymore. Eli was then requested to speak almost all throughout Don Manolo’s three-hour program, while the few remaining other panelists had only a few minutes, as they several times went kaput in biblical discussions with Eli. The number of panelists then reduced every passing week until Eli was left alone.

The Old Path program, side by side Bro. Eli’s popularity in the GENIUS family, also took progressive steps in propagating the gospel. It was later aired at different local radio stations: DZME, DWAD, DZRD, DWAN, and DZXQ, aside from other provincial radio stations scattered throughout the Philippines.