Thursday, October 31, 2024

Meet the Christian Zionists Determined to Elect Trump – Mother Jones

When Trump lost the 2020 election, some of the same NAR pastors who had praised Trump for moving the embassy—including Lance Wallnau, Dutch Sheets, and Paula White-Cain—emerged as leaders in the "Stop the Steal" campaign claiming that the election was stolen. In a 2022 broadcast, Sheets said that Trump had told him in a dream, "'God has put the tools in me to tear down, root up, and confront the system.'" 

Fast forward to October 7, 2023, when NAR pastors' commitment to Israel became an all-out obsession. In a forthcoming paper for the religion studies journal Nova Religio, Berry, the St. Lawrence University religion scholar, chronicles how NAR pastors characterized the war in Gaza as part of "a cosmic battle between God and satanic forces." Berry references a broadcaston Rumble titled "Is This WWIII?" that Wallnau published on October 8, 2023. In it, Wallnau claimed that Hamas' brutal attack on Israel was the result of God punishing the United States for electing Biden, abandoning Trump, and allowing trans people to serve in the military. Because of these transgressions, Wallnau says, the United States has become "spiritually vulnerable."… 

To some NAR adherents, paradoxically, the October 7 attack and all the bloodshed that followed was actually good news. NAR pastor Cindy Jacobs, another leader in the "Stop the Steal" campaign, told the crowd on the Mall that God had warned her about Hamas' attack—but he also told her that "after the dark time, Israel would come into a great revival"—presumably, the prelude to Christ's return…


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