Mark Meadows in a police booking mugshot released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office.
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RUDY GIULIANI
Rudy Giuliani, who served as former U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, is shown in a police booking mugshot released by the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office, Atlanta, Aug. 23, 2023.
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Healing the Boy Born Blind
by
John Presco
Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses!
I am more than The King of the Beats. I am The Beat Prophet! While more mentally ill Disciples of John The Trump file in to the Fulton County Jail to get a mug shot and fingerprinted, I jump over to the Beat Section – and grab the Golden Bohemian Crown! Alas, the Faux Beat Distraction is – FINIS!
As some of the most vicious and criminal enemies of The Beats face trial, and long prison sentences for trying to steal the election from Leftist, Liberal, Lesbian, LSD-Lunatics (The LLLL) this Lone Beat still stands alone – because I have been alone in my thirty-four year struggle. Ken Babbs and the Pranksters did not offer to back me – in any way. How about Marilyn Reed and her gospel choir. Mark and Joy – did their best to destroy me! They did their best to play it safe. Let John stick his neck out and – get what’s coming to him! We are – Sunday Beats! Then there is the betrayal of my daughter with the help of The Tea Party that Mark Meadows – leads! While he cools his ass in prison, I will return to my office at the old Granary. I will enjoy – my hard earned freedom!
Trump’s disciples are beginning to turn on each other – and their Messiah! After that wretched Republican debate, I am the Last Republican Candidate For President – standing! Ken Babbs and all the Hip Cats in Lane Country did not back me up, because they typecast me. They read I was a Republican who uses Bible Speak. Do I smoke the best marijuana money can buy in the Emerald Valley? No, but my fictional Lesbian Bodyguard does. ‘The Royal Janitor’ is a great unfinished Beat Book. I gave up my chance to make money as a relative of Ian Fleming, in order to take on Putin and his Allies – that includes Trump and millions of right-wing evangelicals!
My discovery that the Sanhedrin made a law just before John the Baptist was born, that declared children born with very visible inflictions were outside the help of the general healing that some rabbis performed. They were not allowed to take part in the congregations. They were declared
BORN SINNERS
Because the New Testament authors – including the input of the Devilish Paul – did not include this ruling in their interpretation of A Legal Ruling, I have to conclude THEIR JESUS did not take part in it. I suspect we are looking at the Missing Ministry of John the Baptist, who was born of the two priestly lines of Moses and Aaron. John is REMOVING MUCH SIN put in the world by Law Makers, like the kind that surrounded the Treacherous Ex-President of the United States, who got arrested yesterday! We are living in – real time prophecy! I suspect the Blind Boy became a Disciple of John the Baptist! I am his embodiment! The only way Jesus could be involved with this Lawful Matter, and other Lawful Matters he championed, is if Biblical Scholars conclude the original text was altered. Why?
John Easton’s attorney said his client is a very religious man. On this day, I challenge John and Franklin Graham to a Religious debate about possible religious motives for the January 6th. Insurrection! Franklin accuses Nancy Pelosi of betraying President Trump – who was voted out of office. Did he prophesies Donald would win – like many false prophets did? I would like to see Ken Babbs debate Franklin Graham at Atuzen stadium.
“You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” 28 Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses! 29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”
John The Beat King
Graham also expressed support for protesters at the Capitol and blamed Antifa for the violence: “The people who broke the windows in the Capital did not look like the people out there demonstrating. Most likely it was antifa. For people busting windows, they need to go home. But for people standing out there peacefully holding flags, and protesting, they have every right to do that.”
Graham’s Jan. 14 Facebook post attacked House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 “insurrection,” comparing them to Judas, the betrayer of Christ. “Shame, shame on the ten Republicans who joined with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in impeaching President Trump yesterday. After all that he has done for our country, you would turn your back and betray him so quickly? . . . It makes you wonder what the thirty pieces of silver were that Speaker Pelosi promised for this betrayal.”
Researchers James Beverley and Gordon Melton found that more than 150 prophets predicted Trump’s victory last November, but only a handful have admitted they were wrong and apologized.
“Others have dug in and prophesied a return of Trump to the White House,” said Beverley, who is affiliated with the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Texas and Tyndale University in Toronto.
According to Deuteronomy 18:20, the penalty for false prophecy, including speaking in the name of a god other than YHWH or speaking presumptuously in YHWH’s name, is death1. False prophets and those who seek their guidance will all be punished for their sins2. It is also possible that the phrase “false prophet” was meant as a slur on Ahab’s prophets1.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era.[1] The bulk of their work was published and popularized by Silent Generationers in the 1950s, better known as Beatniks. The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of standard narrative values, making a spiritual quest, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, the rejection of economic materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration.[2][3]
A Tea Party Republican, Meadows was a founding member of the Freedom Caucus. During his time in Congress, he was one of the most conservative Republican lawmakers and played an important part of the United States federal government shutdown of 2013. He also sought to remove John Boehner as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. The founding members who constituted the first board of directors for the new caucus were Republican representatives Scott Garrett of New Jersey, Jim Jordan of Ohio, John Fleming of Louisiana, Matt Salmon of Arizona, Justin Amash of Michigan, Raúl Labrador of Idaho, Mulvaney of South Carolina, Ron DeSantis of Florida and Mark Meadows of North Carolina.[28]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Caucus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Meadows
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
9 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some claimed that he was.
Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”
But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”
10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
11 He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”
12 “Where is this man?” they asked him.
“I don’t know,” he said.
The Pharisees Investigate the Healing
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. 14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. 15 Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”
16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”
But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” So they were divided.
17 Then they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.”
The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
18 They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents. 19 “Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”
20 “We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind. 21 But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.” 22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. 23 That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
24 A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,” they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”
25 He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”
26 Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27 He answered, “I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?”
28 Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses! 29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”
30 The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will. 32 Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
34 To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.
Spiritual Blindness
35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
36 “Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”
37 Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”
38 Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
39 Jesus said,[a] “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
40 Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”
41 Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.
Footnotes
- John 9:39 Some early manuscripts do not have Then the man said … 39 Jesus said.
A Look Back: What Evangelical Leaders Said About Jan. 6 Attack
By Steve Rabey
- January 6, 2022
- 6:55 am CST
- 18 Comments
The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has become a national Rorschach test. Different people discern different meanings in the chaos, destruction, violence, injuries, and death. Here’s a look at what some top evangelical leaders and institutions have said about the events of that day.
Franklin Graham
The son of famed evangelist Billy Graham and CEO of Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, tweeted at 5:20 p.m. on Jan. 6: “I am deeply saddened by what took place in our nation’s capital today. Our country is in trouble.”
Graham also expressed support for protesters at the Capitol and blamed Antifa for the violence: “The people who broke the windows in the Capital did not look like the people out there demonstrating. Most likely it was antifa. For people busting windows, they need to go home. But for people standing out there peacefully holding flags, and protesting, they have every right to do that.”
Graham’s Jan. 14 Facebook post attacked House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump for inciting the Jan. 6 “insurrection,” comparing them to Judas, the betrayer of Christ. “Shame, shame on the ten Republicans who joined with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in impeaching President Trump yesterday. After all that he has done for our country, you would turn your back and betray him so quickly? . . . It makes you wonder what the thirty pieces of silver were that Speaker Pelosi promised for this betrayal.”
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David French
The attorney and pundit expressed his views in a Jan. 10 article, “Only the Church Can Truly Defeat a Christian Insurrection,” writing:
“I’m going to be honest. I can’t shake the sadness. I can’t shake the anger. We have to be clear about what happened in Washington D.C. on January 6th. A violent Christian insurrection invaded and occupied the Capitol.
“…(T)his attack occurred days after the so-called Jericho March, an event explicitly filled with Christian-nationalist rhetoric so unhinged that I warned on December 13 that it embodied ‘a form of fanaticism that can lead to deadly violence.’
“…(T)he right-wing Christian riot was motivated by terrible lies…The problem is that all too many Christians are in the grips of two sets of lies…I hope and pray it doesn’t take a war at home for Christians to gain the eyes to see and ears to hear the truths that rebut our enabling lies.”
Michael Brown
The Messianic Christian columnist, radio host, Bible scholar, and author of Trump Is Not My Savior supported most Trump policies while criticizing the “cult of Trump” that can lead otherwise rational people to put their faith in everything he says, and oppose anyone who disagrees. He spoke out about the Capitol attack in a Jan. 6 Tweet.
“The spirit of lawlessness and anarchy is always from below, not from above, whether it’s BLM-Antifa rioters who set our cities on fire or pro-Trump protesters who just breached the Capitol. Both are dead wrong.”
Thabiti Anyabwile
The pastor, author and Gospel Coalition council member distinguished between the Jan. 6 attack and the 2020 demonstrations for racial justice in a Tweet:
“When people marched in the streets this summer, they marched to make laws more just and equitable. When folks stormed the Capitol in insurrection, they trampled over the very citadel of law in a ‘revolution’ that would destroy it. Do not equate these aims.”
Michele Bachmann
The former Republican congresswoman and dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University was praying in the Capitol chapel as the attack took place.
In a Jan. 6 prayer call with Christians, she said the rioters weren’t Christians or Trump supporters. “You know the kind of people that we were with. The nicest, friendliest, happiest – it was like a family reunion out there. It was incredible, it was wonderful, and then all of a sudden, this happens.” She said the attack wasn’t caused by “the Trump crowd, this didn’t look anything like the Trump crowd or the prayer warriors.”
Eric Metaxas
The author, activist, and radio show host has written pro-Trump children’s books (Donald Drains the Swamp and Donald Builds the Wall) and spoke at Jericho March rallies on and before Jan. 6. In a 5:57 p.m. Tweet he said:
“There is no doubt the election was fraudulent. That is the same today as yesterday. There is no doubt Antifa infiltrated the protesters today and planned this. This is political theater and anyone who buys it is a sucker. Fight for justice and Pray for justice. God bless America!”
Rod Dreher
The conservative writer, blogger, and editor condemned the Capitol attack and railed against Trump and his old friend Eric Metaxas in a Jan. 6 article in The American Conservative:
“My God, this is what Donald Trump has done to this country: he has incited a mob to storm the US Capitol. . . . This is on Donald Trump. This is an assault on constitutional democracy. It’s not happening at the hands of Antifa. It’s not happening at the hands of BLM. It’s a MAGA mob, 100 percent.
“What a complete national disgrace. There are no words. Any Republican lawmaker who stands behind Trump after this is not a patriot. Any American who stands behind Trump after this is not a patriot.”
Sean Feucht
The star of the 120-city “Let Us Worship” tour of “worship protest” events against COVID and loyal supporter of Trump said in a 4:05 p.m. Tweet on Jan. 6: “Standing against violence in cities across America should be a shared and CONSISTENT value. Whether it’s Seattle, Portland, Kenosha, Minneapolis or DC – it has no place on our democracy.”
Jim Daly
The CEO of Focus on the Family since 2010 Tweeted at 2:58 p.m. on Jan. 6: “Peaceful protest is one thing – but violence has no place in American politics. It is despicable. Please join me in praying for peace. Please join me in praying that law and order will be restored in Washington, D.C.”
Daly, who hailed Trump as the “most pro-life president of my lifetime,” has been silent about Trump’s role in the attack, which he called “a stunning and sickening display of mass lawlessness.” But Daly acknowledged long ago that voters chose Joe Biden in a legitimate election, and hosted a livestreamed Inauguration Day of Prayer 2021 after “it dawned on me that no one is organizing corporate prayer for inauguration day, and it’s really important for us as Christians to pray of our country.”
Tony Perkins
Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, a conservative policy and lobbying organization, spoke out on a Tweet issued at 2:07 p.m. on Jan. 6:
“The violent, lawless actions at the U.S. Capitol building against Congress and Capitol Police are wrong and dangerous for our republic. Lawlessness is not the way, and such actions makes it difficult for law-abiding Americans to fight the good fight. Pray for our Republic!”
Perkins held Trump blameless for the attack, suggesting that Antifa may be behind it, as he said on Jan. 7: “There are those who will say that the real villains of the siege were Antifa or some other fascists in disguise. And that may be true.”
Jack Graham
The pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas Tweeted at 2:02 p.m. on Jan. 6: “Violence at our nation’s capital is to be condemned and law and order must prevail. Pray for our country. This is heartbreaking.”
J.D. Greear
The pastor, author and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention Tweeted at 1:03 p.m. on Jan. 6: “Peaceable transitions of power have marked our Republic since the beginning. It is part of honoring and submitting to God’s ordained leaders whether they were our choice or not. We need you, @POTUS to condemn this mob.”
Rev. John Hagee
John Hagee, senior pastor of Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas, and founder of Christians United for Israel, which supported Trump, tweeted at 2:21 on January 6:
“The events we are witnessing at the Capitol today are an un-American abomination and a disgrace to our democracy. There is absolutely no justification for the violence that is transpiring. There is nothing patriotic about storming our Capitol.”
Hagee did not blame Trump or his supporters for the attack in his Jan. 6 statement, or Jan. 10 sermon. Hagee, condemned the assault by “a rebellious mob,” saying, “This was an assault on law. Attacking the Capitol was not patriotism; it was anarchy.”
Kay Cole James
President of the Heritage Foundation and former executive at the Family Research Council, Kay Cole James, expressed her views in a statement released by The Family, a national network of Black conservative leaders.
“The violent storming of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday was a repulsive display of evil, not a peaceful demonstration that is emblematic of America, and we condemn it in the strongest terms possible. Equally disturbing are the conspiracy theories related to the election that led to it, which are being fueled by some politicians in our Party. We must examine reports of voting irregularities to build trust in our democracy, but the results of the election are clear – there was no widespread fraud on a large enough scale to overturn the election. . . .”
Robert Jeffress
Trump advisor and senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, which has performed the pro-Trump hymn, “Make America Great Again.” Jeffress Tweeted at 1:45 p.m. on Jan. 6: “Disobeying and assaulting police is a sin whether it’s done by Antifa or angry Republicans.”
Jeffress called the Capitol attack evil, a crime, and a sin, but he holds Trump blameless. “The president has every right to hold the view that the election was fraudulent and to invite those who share that belief to peacefully protest. He neither called for nor condoned the despicable actions of those who invaded our Capitol and assaulted the police.”
Greg Laurie
The evangelist, author, and pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship sent a brief Tweet at 1:41 p.m. on Jan. 6: “Alarmed by images from our nation’s Capitol. Vibrant protest is American. Violence & anarchy is not. I condemn it. Will you join me – Democrat & Republican – in praying for America?”
Albert Mohler
The President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary did not vote for Trump in 2016 but did so in 2020. Mohler condemned Trump in a Tweet sent at 2:06 on Jan. 6: “What we are seeing in Washington now is the refutation of our American commitment, a form of unleashed anarchy which is the enemy of ordered liberty, and President Trump is responsible now for unleashing mayhem. Pray that God will rescue us from this.”
He followed up the next day with a podcast in which he said: “What we saw in Washington, what we heard from the president of the United States, not just yesterday, but in recent days is an attempt to subvert the very constitutional order that he took an oath of office to defend . . . The president of the United States has sought to de-legitimize the entire national election process.”
Beth Moore
The author and Bible teacher Tweeted at 2:48 p.m. on Jan. 6: “I don’t know the Jesus some have paraded and waved around in the middle of this treachery today. They may be acting in the name of some other Jesus but that’s not Jesus of the Gospels.”
Russell Moore
The former President of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission now directs Christianity Today’s Public Theology Project. He issued a number of Tweets and statements, starting with a 12:28 p.m. Tweet on Jan. 6:
“This mob attack on our Capitol and our Constitution is immoral, unjust, dangerous, and inexcusable. What has happened to our country is tragic, and could have been avoided.”
In a Jan. 11 article, “The Roman Road from Insurrection,” he called the attack “a moral abomination incited by the president,” and challenged those who downplay the seriousness of the Capitol attack. “If you can defend this, you can defend anything.”
Pat Robertson
The CBN founder and host, founder of Regent University, founder of the Christian Coalition, and former Republican candidate for President, said a “madness” had come over Trump in a video clip Tweeted by Right Wing Watch: “There was a madness yesterday, and it came on Donald Trump.”
Ray Ortlund
The former pastor is President of Renewal Ministries. His brief Tweet, sent at 3:38 p.m. on Jan. 6, featured a photo of Trump and this verse of scripture: “One sinner destroys much good” (Ecclesiastes 9:18).
Jim Wallis
The author, social justice activist, and founder of Sojourners magazine and community, Jim Wallis, called for Trump’s removal from office in a Jan. 7 Facebook post: “President Donald Trump incited a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol yesterday. As faith leaders, we must call for his immediate removal from office.”
In an opinion piece published the morning of the Jan. 6 attack, Wallis warned faith leaders not to remain silent about “two fundamental religious issues at stake” in Trump’s seditious “heresy:” his disregard for truth, and his embrace of “the biblical abomination of racism and its ideology of white nationalism.”
Rick Warren
The founder and senior pastor of Saddleback Church and bestselling author Tweeted on Jan. 6: “Armed breaching of capitol security behind a confederate flag is anarchy, unAmerican, criminal treason and domestic terrorism. President Trump must clearly tell his supporters ‘We lost. Go home now.’”
Biola University
Barry H. Corey, president of Biola University, 1908, issued a Jan. 8 statement, which said: “ . . . Christian peacemaking is not spineless. Rather, we are to live at peace with everyone as men and women of abiding biblical convictions. As much as we are to be ambassadors of grace, we also need to be ambassadors of truth. Preparing hearts and minds includes loving our neighbor and being reasonable in thought. The antithesis of these was on display Wednesday, reflecting deeper wounds in our nation, in our world.”
Wheaton College
The flagship evangelical institution, Wheaton College, issued two statements on the attack: an official statement that did not blame Trump; and a statement from faculty and staff that did.
The official statement said: “Wheaton College joins citizens across the United States and the evangelical community in decrying the violent attack on democracy we witnessed this past week in Washington, D.C. and lamenting the way perpetrators used the name of Jesus to promote violence, display racist symbols, and attack our nation’s leaders.”
The second statement, signed by 286 faculty and staff of the institution, said:
“The January 6 attack on the Capitol was characterized not only by vicious lies, deplorable violence, white supremacy, white nationalism, and wicked leadership—especially by President Trump—but also by idolatrous and blasphemous abuses of Christian symbols. The behaviors that many participants celebrated in Jesus’ name bear absolutely no resemblance to the Christian teachings or ethics that we submit to as faculty and staff of Wheaton College.”
Pastors at rally
Numerous pastors from across the U.S. participated in Trump’s rally that preceded the Capitol attack, but it appears only one, Tyler Ethridge, a youth pastor from Florida, illegally entered the Capitol. (Ethridge has since been fired.)
- Tommy Ferrell, who served as lead pastor of Briarlake Church in Decatur, Georgia for 16 years, announced he would be moving on from the 2,300-member Southern Baptist congregation.
- Steve Berger, founder of Grace Chapel in Franklin Tennessee, attended the Jan. 6 rally in D.C. On Jan. 17, he announced he is stepping away as senior pastor of the church, which is attended by the state’s governor Bill Lee.
- Brian Gibson, pastor of HIS Church, a multi-campus church in Owensboro, Kentucky, has preached about election fraud and posted a picture on his Facebook feed with the “QAnon Shaman.” In a diatribe published in Newsweek, which is now owned by associates of controversial Korean Christian leader David Jang, Gibson said liberals would use false narrative of Christian insurrectionists to persecute believers. “Absolutely, 100 percent, they’ll go after Christians for this,” said Gibson
- Ronnie Owens, pastor of Higher Ground Baptist Church in Kingsport, Tenn., went to the Jan. 6 rally with four church members. Owens experienced the presence of the Holy Spirit at the rally, saying he “broke down crying several times.”
Prophets
Researchers James Beverley and Gordon Melton found that more than 150 prophets predicted Trump’s 2020 election victory. Only a handful have admitted they were wrong and apologized, and they have received significant pushback, online attacks, death threats, and diminished audiences.
Most have “dug in,” issued further prophecies about Trump’s immanent return to office, and seen audience numbers and incomes rise. Some have urged their followers to get guns and prepare for a revolutionary war.
Loren Sandford, a Denver prophet, acknowledged and apologized for his erroneous predictions about Trump:
“Instead of strengthening God’s people in the testimony of Jesus, connecting them more intimately and firmly with Him, our prophecies about the election led too many to connect their hope in an idolatrous way to a man or a political party.
“The fruit has been ugly. First, our prophecies failed, and second, we’ve thrown the church into disarray, generated division, caused many people to throw out prophetic ministry as a valid gift for today and caused the name of Jesus to be dragged through the mud.”
Hank Kunneman, who prophesied that Trump would return to office last July 4, remained defiant and asked God to rebuke all critics:
“God, people have laughed at you. They’ve laughed at your prophets, they’ve laughed at your church, they’ve laughed at your intercessors, they’ve laughed at the patriots, they’ve laughed at those that voted for 45. Now I’m praying that their laughter would be turned into silence as you laugh. It’s your turn now, God, to laugh out of the heavens and to show the Earth that you’re a just God.”
*This post has been updated to include information about Tyler Ethridge.
Steve Rabey is a veteran author and journalist who has published more than 50 books and 2,000 articles about religion, spirituality, and culture. He was an instructor at Fuller and Denver seminaries and the U.S. Air Force Academy.
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