QAnon conspiracy theorist Johnny Enlow appeared on the Elijah Streams YouTube channel Monday, where he claimed that President Donald Trump has the legal right to impose martial law on the country and arrest everyone who has been part of the alleged effort to steal the election from him.
Enlow, who is a leading proponent of Seven Mountains Dominionism, claimed that Trump is intentionally allowing the dispute over the election results to drag on because doing so creates more opportunity to expose those who are engaged in treason and must be arrested and executed.
Enlow said that it doesn’t matter if the Supreme Court eventually rules in favor of Joe Biden and the Electoral College certifies Biden’s win because Trump can ultimately play his “trump cards” by imposing martial law and arresting his political opponents.
“It doesn’t matter,” Enlow said. “There is an expectation of the Electoral College turning it over to Biden. I’m just going to tell you that the Trump side, they have that in mind, they’re prepared for that. If it has to go that far, it’s OK because that just puts the treason at an official legal level by doing that, and it makes certain high individuals, it makes them guilty at another level.”
“There is an emergency order from 2018 that this nation is operating under, and they literally are going to go down as traitors,” he added. “You go to the extreme case, it’s executable.”
“It’s not even that the Supreme Court is the last level, really,” Enlow insisted. “We are actually under emergency executive order, kind of a state of war, and President Trump literally has the right to put the whole nation under martial law, to take over social media, where he doesn’t have to have fake news taking his message and not allowing it to get out there. He has legal rights to do that at any time.”
“What he’s obligated to do as president is to defend this nation from foreign enemies, and he can activate that because what is proven is that foreign agents—China, Iran, Serbia, other ones—were trying to steal an election in this nation, both through the Dominion and the other software, but also through the money that they paid, the millions and millions they paid off,” he continued. “[Trump] can use his national emergency broadcast authority that he has and have on everyone’s cell phone, computer, it show up the actual information and proof of everything, show it to the American people and based on that, all these arrests have to be made of these. It’s not a political thing at all. It is a national security thing. And so he has about five levels of things to appeal to. He has the trump cards.”
In the less than 24 hours the video of Enlow has been on YouTube, it has amassed more than 34,000 views.
It was not a good weekend for anyone hoping that President Donald Trump and his allies might soon concede that Joe Biden won the presidential election.
In addition to Saturday’s far-right “Stop the Steal” rally and a much smaller “Walk Away” gathering on Sunday, Trump’s lawyers made the rounds on right-wing media claiming that they had irrefutable proof that the presidential election was stolen by nefarious computer software designed for that purpose. On Sunday night, thousands of Trump supporters heard from a succession of “prophets”—joined by Sen. James Lankford and pundit Eric Metaxas—who decreed that the exposure of this demonic corruption would be so explosive that it would be a sign of divine intervention like God parting the Red Sea for Israelites fleeing Egypt’s armies, and that it would ensure that the U.S. Supreme Court would abide by the ruling of the Courts of Heaven and keep Trump in the White House for a second term.
Members of Trump’s legal team, including Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Jenna Ellis fanned out to push Trump’s unfounded claims that he won the election and it was stolen from him. They pushed a conspiracy theory involving Dominion software, which has already been debunked by the New York Times and Fox News. As Mediaite noted, Powell even insinuated that the CIA was involved.
As Right Wing Watch has reported, Trump’s religious-right supporters have been actively promoting his claims about the election being stolen from him, and many have continued to insist that God will yet intervene to keep Trump in the presidency for four more years.
On Sunday night, anti-LGBTQ activist Jim Garlow hosted a prayer call ostensibly to pray on behalf of “election integrity”—his sixth since the election and one of dozens being held by a variety of leaders and ministries, including White House aide Paula White. During the call, Garlow showed a four-minute clip from Saturday’s march compiled by LifeSite news that included participants talking about putting Biden in jail and telling Trump not to concede “under any circumstances” and to “fight this to the death if you have to.”
Garlow opened the call and turned it over to religious right activist Mario Bramnick, who noted that Dec. 14, the day that electors will vote to certify the results of the election, comes during Hannukah. “We decree and declare that the hammer of God would come to expose what Satan’s dominion is trying to take over,” Bramnick said. “Satan’s hammer is no match for the Maccabee of God, for the hammer of God. And I decree by December 14, we will be victorious exposing the fraud and that President Trump will be declared our president for another four more years.”
Lankford said, “ultimately, at the end of the day, God is the one who raises up and he is the one who puts down.” He prayed:
Over and over again in scripture, your people called out and said, ‘God, may the unjust be shown to be unjust.’ You called out through the Old Testament over and over again for equal weights and that you hated unequal weights and measures where some people were measured one way, and other people were measured another. So God, I pray that you would bring in this election equal weights and measures and that anywhere where it is unequal it would be exposed in the light, and that we’d call it out and to be able to see it for what it is.
Garlow said he’d hoped to have Ellis on the call, but since that didn’t work out he turned to Metaxas, who interviewed Ellis twice over the weekend. Metaxas said that the “evidence” that Powell and Ellis have is “so explosive that I believe that we all need to be praising God that the election went this way.”
Metaxas continued:
In other words, what is going to be exposed is so extraordinary, that it is far more powerful than if Trump had simply won. I can’t really overstate that, Jim. In other words, God has arranged this.
And when you talk to people who are in on this, like Jenna Ellis, and to some extent, Sidney Powell, you realize that they have seen the evidence. And I think that God is using them to encourage us and to say that anytime anybody thinks, “Well, we don’t know how it’s going to go,” I think you need to say “No.” There’s a level of injustice that has been done here. To steal votes to try to undermine our democracy is something so foul, so offensive, that’s going to harm human beings around the world, that we need to be angry.
And we need to say that we don’t care what it takes, we will pray till our knees bleed, we will pray and pray and pray because the Lord is calling us to pray, because he wants to do something.
Jenna is right in with the president. She spoke to him five times today. They know, they know that there was fraud, and they have the evidence, and the church needs to not just have patience and wait, but while we’re waiting to really pray. This is a spiritual battle—you all know this—unlike anything we’ve ever faced.
Sidney Powell said, this is going to be like a new American Revolution. The stuff that’s going to come out, it’s going to be staggering. This is something that God is doing—that God has done. He has set things up to do this. And I feel like we’re against the Red Sea. And we need to praise God. He is going to part the Red Sea. He’s going to destroy Pharaoh’s army. We need to praise him and know that now. And the people that I’ve talked to, even just in the natural, they know they have the goods.
There’s nobody more sober minded than Sidney Powell. She’s the lawyer for General Flynn—utterly brilliant, sober minded. She said some things on the Lou Dobbs program, and in other places that—she’s not just a talker, this is a woman who know. She has seen the evidence.
The nutshell version is that the Dominion stuff was designed for voter fraud. It’s not that it was used to defraud us in this election. It was specifically designed originally, so that it could be used for voter fraud in Venezuela, and I believe she said in Cuba. And the point is that this is something that when it’s exposed, we’re going to be looking at a different landscape. It’s not just going to be that Trump will be president. It’s going to be a different landscape. So, I want to say that to encourage people. We’ve got to praise God for what he is doing. We’ve got to praise God and don’t let anyone say, “Well, who knows?” We cannot let this stand. The prayers of God will be answered. We’ve got to storm heaven because this cannot stand.
Bramnick introduced Robert Henderson, who claimed earlier this year that God had made him Trump’s “spiritual running mate” and who prayed on election night that God would dispatch an army of angels to prevent Democrats from stealing the election in Pennsylvania and Michigan. He said in October that Trump was chosen by God and therefore “should never be criticized” by Christians.
Henderson said that Christians need to plead Trump’s case in “the court of Heaven” to get a ruling that will sway the U.S. Supreme Court to reseat Trump as president, which “we all know is the intention of God.”
Next up was Becca Greenwood, who talked about a vision she had in 2019 that covered the five-year period through 2024, which she said would bring “historic exposures” of corruption. It will look like “complete chaos,” she said, but it will be a sign that God is cleansing the nation and that “the demonic grip of the enemy, of corruption, antichrist elite structure, would let go of this nation.”
The call continued for about two hours, with additional speakers from around the world making similar assertions and decrees for God to ensure Trump’s reelection. Abby Abildness talked about “Jericho marches” taking place in Pennsylvania. She prayed that God would “bind everything that is in opposition to the holy governance of the Lord God Almighty, and you would loose this new era of a nation and nations founded on righteousness and justice.” She added a prayer the God would “establish justice at the gates of the Supreme Court of the United States.”
Garlow’s wife Rosemary prayed that God’s coming action in the election would be so “mighty” that it will spark a spiritual revival:
He says, “I’m coming out of Heaven, and I’m stepping on the on the land of your nation.” And even though the demoniacs come and react to my appearance, there is going to be such a mighty deliverance in the United States of America and in the government, that when the Lord appears the fear of the Lord is going to strike the nation in such a way that the eyes of multitudes will be open.
And though they were raging—we have seen these people in person in DC, in a total demonic rage out of their mind—there is going to be a massive deliverance of multitudes of people, and [] their nakedness will be covered, there’ll be closed with salvation, and they will come and be the greatest evangelists in our country and for the next revival, as God is now birthing this great End Time move of God. The Lord says, “Just watch me. I’m stepping into your nation. I am coming with deliverance. Do not be afraid. Do not be timid. Have faith. I calm the storm, and I am coming to deliver you from evil.”
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And now, Father, we as your body, we submit ourselves to fulfill your word to see and have faith that what you did will come to our nation. We will have this deliverance. We will have this breakthrough. You will take hold of these demonic spirits and cast them out of the premises of our country. And we will rejoice not only to receive our rightful president and have the evil exposed, but we rejoice even more for the precious people made in your image, who are going to come to know you, because of this time and because of these prayers and because of this experience.
Among the prayer leaders from outside the U.S. was Jack Van der Tang from the Netherlands, who described an experience he had in 2017 in which God told him that he had chosen Trump. Van der Tang asked God for forgiveness for his country for having recognized Biden as president-elect.
On Friday and Saturday, a small group of right-wing activists, led by radical religious-right bigot Dave Daubenmire, carried out a series of protests outside the home of Joe Biden in Delaware, as well as the home of former president Barack Obama in Washington, D.C., demanding that the Democratic presidential nominee and the president for whom he worked as vice president be arrested, tried, and executed for treason.
The protests were a continuation of Daubenmire’s “Equal Justice Tour,” which began in 2019, when the same group of activists protested outside the home of Bill and Hillary Clinton in Chappaqua, New York, declaring that Hillary must be arrested and sent to prison so that she would “be taught to fear God.”
Since then, Daubenmire has only ratcheted up his attacks on Clinton, declaring last month that she must be publicly executed.
“I do not believe that there has ever been a more corrupt American politician than Hillary Clinton,” Daubenmire said on the Oct. 8 episode of his “Pass The Salt Live” program. “Her public life has been one slimy action after another. The demonic left loves her. There is no doubt in my mind that she is under control of very dark forces. Spiritual forces. Demonic forces. Gates of hell forces. Hillary Clinton is a child of the devil.”
“The greatest example of love is discipline,” he added later in the program. “The greatest example of love is to kill those traitors, so others learn never to do it.”
Daubenmire is a deeply bigoted, anti-Semitic, anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, right-wingconspiracy theorist—the sort who proudly declares that women become lesbians because they are so ugly that no man could ever love them, asserts that Barack Obama was “a quasi-Muslim freak” and “an emissary from Hell,” warns that Oprah Winfrey was planning to run for president in order to carry out a white genocide, complains that he is not allowed to say the “N-word,” gripes that the marriage of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was a “psy-op” intended to promote “the blending of the races,” and calls interracial marriage “spiritual AIDS.”
Daubenmire has defended former Republican senatorial nominee Roy Moore, the anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, and the extremists he deemed “patriots” who marched at the white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. He has also declared that only evangelical Christians should be allowed to serve on the Supreme Court, proclaimed that a woman can never be president “because women are not to have authority over men,” lamented that the North won the Civil War, and called for the embrace of a “more violent Christianity.”
Daubenmire made news earlier this year by threatening to sue the NFL for supposedly putting his eternal salvation at risk by broadcasting unsolicited “crotch shots” of performers into his home during the Super Bowl halftime show.
By any measure, Dave Daubenmire is a thoroughly radical and intensely bigoted right-wing activist for whom the U.S. attorney general inexplicably found time to personally speak, pray, and take photos with yesterday, even as Daubenmire was protesting to demand the arrest and execution of leading Democratic political figures.
Trump-supporting “prophetic” personality Lance Wallnau will host a preelection “prayer assault” and spiritual warfare rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., this weekend. Wallnau’s advocacy on behalf of Trump has earned him insiderstatus at the White House.
Wallnau, a promoter of Seven Mountains Dominionist theology, is a member of the leadership council of the POTUS Shield prayer network. He has described Trump as a “rough prophet.” Wallnau recently declared, “Fighting with Trump is fighting with God” and he blamed demons living inside journalists for “all of the animosity, hatred, venom, and vitriol” that is stirred up against Trump. This month, he appealed to God to make sure that Trump was reelected so that heathens will not be able to embarrass Trump.
On Friday, Wallnau promoted this weekend’s “As One” rally with an email with the subject line, “The Storm is Here”—the latest example of a religious-right figure employingrhetoric popular among followers of QAnon conspiracy theories. In QAnon-speak, “The Storm” refers to predicted mass arrests of powerful people—political opponents of Trump—that are supposedly involved in a satanic pedophile network that Trump is always just on the verge of bringing down. Amedia doesn’t mention that conspiracy, but does use the storm metaphor to describe “demonic turbulence” and a “cultural tropical war” that will “make landfall” during the Nov. 3 elections:
Over the last few months it has been like watching a cultural tropical storm ramp up into a category 5 hurricane, and now as the eye of the storm is about to make landfall America’s 2020 election is the flood barrier upon which this storm now breaks. The question on everyone’s mind is, “Will the ship of state be able weather the storm or will it sink?”
For more reasons than COVID, the nation is dealing with an “invisible enemy.” If we do nothing to stop this demonic turbulence, it will not simply go away, it will actually increase and intensify. … We must learn to deal with the organizational structures looking to exploit the turbulence and the spirits working behind them.
“We are going to have to wage war in the heavenlies and contend for the destiny of America,” Wallnau wrote.
A day earlier, another rally-promoting email from Wallnau and his wife Anabelle declared, “This coming election will define, or redefine, America as we know it for the next 50 years.”
“Yet, many Christians choose not to vote because they don’t think it will make a difference, especially if they live in states dominated by a demonic ideology,” Thursday’s email stated. “What they fail to realize is that their vote means something, their vote counts, it is a seed they get to plant in the soil of America. It is a statement of faith.”
Like other leaders associated with the New Apostolic Reformation movement within Pentecostal Christianity, Wallnau believes that the church has a responsibility to “disciple nations.”
“We must do all we can to support candidates on every level who will govern according to Biblical principles,” the Wallnaus wrote.
Last year Wallnau charged people about $1,000 for a “spiritual warfare” gathering at Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. Before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Wallnau was planning a “Glorious Chaos” tour of swing states to promote Trump, who Wallnau declared “God’s Chaos Candidate” in 2016.
Wallnau’s “As One” rally is scheduled to take place Saturday, Oct. 31 from 6pm to 9 pm and Sunday, Nov. 1 from 10am to 6pm. Scheduled speakers include Mario Murillo, Ramiro Pena, Robert Henderson, Mario Bramnick, and Jeremiah Johnson and some “wonder women” from event sponsor Women Fighting for America.
According to Wallnau, the Museum of the Bible, a culture-war beachhead for religious-right activists in the nation’s capital, is offering “As One” attendees a 50 percent discount.
Earlier this week, Buzzfeed reported that Patriot Front, a three-year-old a white supremacist group labeled “one of the most active hate groups in the United States,” is actively training in preparation for violence following the upcoming presidential elections.
The group, which was created in the aftermath of the 2017 melée in Charlottesville known as the ‘Unite the Right’ rally, now has several hundred members training with the ultimate goal of creating a white ethno-state. According to the report, the group celebrates Hitler and Mussolini and wants to “expel immigrants, people of color, and Jews, remaking the fabric of America.”
Patriot Front members reportedly participate in mandatory weight-loss regimens and workouts, and train in “hand-to-hand combat” in anticipation of future conflicts no matter the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.
“It does not matter what people personally believe about it,” wrote the organization’s leader, Thomas Rousseau (h/t Buzzfeed News). “Casting a ballot is a submissive gesture to legitimize tyranny. It is fundamentally amoral. It is done as an insult to the nation’s cause and the organization.”
The white supremacist group is one of several militant gangs that have emerged in the U.S. following President Donald Trump’s election in 2016. Among the most infamous of these groups is the Rise Above Movement (RAM), a white supremacist group that refers to itself as the “premier MMA (mixed martial arts) club of the Alt-Right.” RAM made headlines over the past few years for violent encounters during protests in Huntington Beach, Berkeley, and Charlottesville. Their members would then glorify their antics in propaganda videos.
Four RAM members, including co-founder Ben Daley and UCLA doctoral student Michael Miselis, were arrested by the FBI in 2018 for their role in the violence that erupted in Charlottesville at the hands of participants in the Unite the Right gathering. They pled guilty and were sentenced. RAM co-founder Robert Rundo and two other members were later arrested on rioting charges in relation to a rally in Huntington Beach but were released after the charges were dismissed by a district judge.
Since being released, Rundo has taken to writing blog posts espousing RAM’s violent ideology. His posts include “Combat Sports For The Future of Nationalist,” where he referred to mixed martial arts as a “weapon” for white supremacists.
“This sporting culture is something we can lay claim to, this is something we are setting the trend in,” Rundo wrote. “What better trend to set for our people to become in shape, active, and capable. Meanwhile, the left is burning itself out pushing drug culture, consumerism, and apathy.”
Other such groups include the Proud Boys, a far-right male chauvinist hate group that promotes political violence in the U.S. Under the leadership of Vice co-founder and Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes and now under chairman Enrique Tarrio, the gang has made it its mission to target leftists at protests. Some of their members even wear “Pinochet Did Nothing Wrong” shirts, referring to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s murders of leftists and socialists.
This is Gavin McInnes, founder of The Proud Boys, talking about why he created them & what their purpose is.
For a time, the Proud Boys had a “tactical defense arm” known as the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights (FOAK), led by convicted felon Kyle Chapman. The group used hand-to-hand combat as well as weapons like knives to attack protestors. The aim of the group was to “protect and defend our right-wing brethren” through “street activism, preparation, defense and confrontation.” They also claimed that violence was the only way to save Western civilization from “globalism, radical Islam, and communism.”
There are several MMA fighters who have shown support for the Proud Boys, including Ultimate Fighter veteran and pioneer Tara LaRosa. The fighter tweeted a fake list of anti-fascist activists and organizers ahead of a Proud Boys rally in Portland. The list, which was devised on 8chan — an extremist forum where white supremacists and domestic terrorists have uploaded their manifestos — is actually a list of people who signed an anti-Trump petition from refusefacism.org.
Then, during a protest in Portland, Oregon, LaRosa pinned a demonstrator on the ground in an attempt to restrain her. When the pinned woman gasped “I can’t breathe,” LaRosa responded with “I don’t care.”
LaRosa later claimed that the woman she pinned down approached her and shouted, “Fuck Proud Boys,” after which a fight broke out. No arrests were made.
There is a clear trend between the rise of far-right militias in the United States and their attraction to combat sports such as MMA. For some, it is a community-building tool for like-minded white supremacists. For others, it is a necessary weapon in their ongoing conflict against anti-fascists and progressive Americans.
Timothy Johnson @ Media Matters: Militia leader Stewart Rhodes says that his group will be at polling locations and is ready to kill Democrats.
Jerry Lambe @ Law & Crime: Full Panel of Federal Judges, Including Three Trump Appointees, Unanimously Reject Judicial Watch’s Effort to Depose Hillary Clinton.
Religious-right groups are making a last-minute push to turn out conservative evangelical voters for Donald Trump by sharing a Virginia pastor’s sermon that denounces the Democratic Party as evil and demonic and warns evangelical Christians that if they don’t get more involved in politics, they will allow Muslims and secular humanists to shape the country.
In the sermon video, Pastor Gary Hamrick of Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Virginia, calls the election a “spiritual war” and says politicians who are “advancing a godless agenda” are “pawns of darkness.” Hamrick was one of the religious-right leaders who attended President Donald Trump’s speech at the White House in August accepting the Republican nomination for president.
Hamrick’s sermon is being promoted by White House aide Paula White’s Once Voice Prayer Movement, a political outreach project of the Trump White House in the guise of an online prayer group. One Voice Prayer Movement promotes dominionist leaders and Christian nationalist rhetoric, and White, herself, has a habit of portraying Trump’s political opponents as demonic.
Unlike most OVPM “prayer alerts”—in effect press releases promoting Trump and his administration—the promotion of Hamrick’s sermon didn’t bother to couch it as a “prayer request” or “prayer need” by the White House. The video was simply sent with a note praising its “boldness and clarity” and urging people to share it.
Closely aligned with One Voice Prayer Movement is Intercessors for America, a group of pro-Trump “prayer warriors” whose leader Dave Kubal helps run OVPM. IFA, whose monthly prayer calls regularly feature right-wing politicians, is also actively promoting Hamrick’s sermon with a five-day “sharing campaign” that began Saturday. IFA is sending its intercessors daily emails encouraging them to share selected clips from Hamrick’s sermon along with a link to copy of the full sermon published on IFA’s YouTube channel.
Hamrick’s sermon began with a dramatic build-up to those sitting in the pews as he delivered it. He said that some people might become so angry that they would leave the church. And he claimed that local law enforcement and state troopers were “stationed throughout the congregation” to enforce Virginia law against disrupting a religious service.
He told congregants that he is not angry with them personally, adding:
But I am angry with the spiritual forces of evil that have hijacked the hearts and minds of people in an effort to try to capture the soul of America. And I’m angry with demonic principalities, and by extension demonic principles that have influenced millennials, Gen Xers, and Gen Zers with godless philosophies and the doctrines of men. I am angry with politicians who are either knowingly or unknowingly pawns of darkness, instead of agents of light, who are advancing a godless agenda that is destructive to our country. And thus, I cannot be silent, I will not be silent and neither should you. America needs to wake up, and it starts with the church of Jesus Christ.
We need to wake up, Christian. We, we need to wake up, Christian. This is a battle. This is a war. This is not a game. It’s a spiritual battle that we are facing for the heart and soul of America and for the heart and soul of the next generation.
Hamrick grounded his sermon in the biblical book of Jeremiah, a prophet who warned of God’s wrath on nations that reject his law. He said the U.S. is at a crossroads, adding that if the body of Christ would get its collective act together and honor God “in this election cycle,” then perhaps God will have mercy on the country.
Hamrick rejected the “pushback” against what he calls his Election Day sermons from people who think pastors should keep politics out of the pulpit. Channeling religious-right pseudo-historian David Barton, Hamrick offered a presentation on pastors “leading the charge” in the Revolutionary War and at other moments in history. And he had a question for his congregants:
Okay, so let me ask you a question. Don’t you think that Rep. Ilhan Omar integrates her faith and politics? Don’t you think that Rashida Tlaib integrates her faith and politics? You better believe it. In fact, for those of you who are not aware, Joe Biden has already publicly declared that he will be adding Muslims to his administration. Listen to him yourself.
Hamrick showed a video that included Joe Biden speaking to Muslims and clips from a civic participation campaign encouraging American Muslims to vote. Hamrick claimed he was not sharing the video to disparage Muslim Americans, who also have freedom to worship in the U.S. But, he added:
Well, what I am saying is that if as Christians, somehow you believe the lie that faith and politics don’t mix, that pastors should stay out of that—it’s just too divisive—then by your apathy and your reluctance, you are actually helping to advance the doctrine and dogma of other world religions and of secular humanism, to influence this nation, rather than the values and virtues of Christianity. That’s what’s happening. Wake up! They’re not asleep. They’re not asleep. Why are Christians asleep today when it comes to this? Now, the fact is that only in recent times, have pastors kowtowed to political correctness, and remained silent or indifferent about faith and politics.
Hamrick read from a prayer guide distributed by Intercessors for America that contrasts positions in the Republican and Democratic Party platforms. He highlighted the Democratic Party’s—and the Biden-Harris ticket’s—support for LGBTQ equality. He said the Democratic platform’s call for “shared prosperity” is “political speak” for socialism. He praised Trump as the “most pro-life” and “most pro-Israeli” president the U.S. has ever had. He played a short video clip from a Trump speech in which Trump said “you still need help from the boss”—meaning God—and joked that he’s not the most famous person in the world because Jesus Christ is.
Hamrick told the Democrats in his congregation that theirs is no longer the party of FDR, JFK, or even Bill Clinton.
Listen to me, I’m going to speak truth to you. If you are a lifelong Democrat, your party has left you. Your party has left you. That ship has sailed. It’s true. I used to believe that the two-party system in America was much like a husband and a wife in a marriage, just differences. Just, you know, different people with different approaches and different perspectives but who shared a common goal and vision in life. And so, therefore, you could learn from each other’s different perspective, and you would balance each other out. I don’t believe that anymore. I believe that there is a liberal progressive agenda influenced by spiritual forces of evil, that if allowed to progress will be the demise of America. I believe it with all my heart. And while people are sitting around, foolishly talking about how they don’t like Trump’s tweets and his unfiltered style and his checkered past, meanwhile, the enemy is roaming around like a roaring lion looking for a nation to devour.
I know Trump is not going to win Miss Congeniality. Get over it! It’s not about personality. It’s about guardians of what is true and what is right in our day. That’s what we need to be concerned about.
Donald Trump is not our savior. Joe Biden is not our savior. Jesus Christ is our savior, and because he is my Savior, as for me in my house, I cannot, I will not vote for a candidate whose party platform advocates the murder of unborn babies, embraces same-sex marriage, encourages transgender behavior, and ignores God and his word in our culture.
I cannot. I will not. Cannot. Will not. Amen.
Listen, if you in good conscience cannot vote for Donald Trump, then don’t. But I don’t know how in good conscience a Christian can vote for an agenda that is evil.
Hamrick called a church that is “silent about the moral issues of our day “complicit in the evil,” like Christians in Nazi Germany that did not resist the regime’s persecution of Jews.
Hamrick’s sermon was posted on YouTube Oct. 18. As of Monday morning Oct. 26, it had nearly 140,000 views; a copy of the video posted by Intercessors for America had another 25,000 views.
“Prophet” David Herzog, who participated in End Times author Jonathan Cahn’s recent “The Return” rally on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., released an “urgent word” about the upcoming election this week. In an email to supporters, Herzog said the outcome of the election will determine whether Christians in the U.S. experience “a great awakening” or “mass persecution.”
Here’s an excerpt from Herzog’s email:
We are now less than 2 weeks until the election. This election is by far the most life altering election for America, the Church, Israel and the unborn and will determine the future of America and the church towards a great awakening with stadiums and parks filled or mass persecution and the church going underground. It will affect everything from the future of freedom to simply attend Christian meetings, the legality of spreading the gospel freely, to the future of our children, the future of the unborn, the US position with Israel and so much more. Not to mention the possibility of the greatest economy or the worst crash ever depending on the outcome of this election and our prayers. It can be the best or worst of times and God put the ball in our court as believers!
Herzog’s fear-mongering is part of a campaign by religious-right leaders to mobilize conservative Christians to vote by convincing them that Democrats and leftists are out to shut down churches and criminalize Christianity. He encouraged people to pray and fast before Election Day, and to vote because “your vote is a spiritual act permitting destruction or restraining the enemy’s plans.”
Herzog’s message linked to an 18-minute video in which Herzog said his message was “not political,” but he told Christians that “if you vote Democrat, you are literally helping kill the babies.”
“This is the last moment in history that we can hold back the demonic Antichrist spirit around the world,” Herzog said.
Herzog called public health restrictions on churches to slow the spread of COVID-19 a sign of worse persecution to come. “What the Democrats are talking about is dictatorship,” Herzog claimed. “It’s not like during the Obama years—that’s not what we’re about to—we’re about to get, if we don’t get Trump as president, something really evil and wicked. It’s the globalism, it’s the demonic one-world plan.”
Herzog told readers that their actions will influence the course of the End Times:
The culture is rapidly changing and we need the next 4 years to allow God to use the church to spread the gospel, bring one more national awakening and shift the tide. It’s now or never. What we do now determines how fast end time events will speed up. The enemy knows his time is short and the great harvest is at hand but If we obey God He can do another miracle! Prophesy is always conditional as we must do our part. That’s why we are already seeing churches forced to shut down, cities burning and pastors in America threatened with jail time for holding services and this is just a taste and forewarning if we don’t pray, fast and vote.
He also spread some conspiracy theories about voting by mail, and urged people to pray against assassination attempts on President Donald Trump.
Herzog’s message linked to state-by-state voter guides produced by the Hispanic Action Network, which is run by POTUS Shield member Mark Gonzales.
Herzog also claimed that God chose to have “Jewish judge” Ruth Bader Ginsburg die on Rosh Hashanah as part of a grand divine plan to deal with the national sin of legal abortion. God’s plan, he said, was to fill Ginsburg’s seat with “a born-again spiritual believer—she’s Catholic, but she’s spirit filled,” which he called “a sign that God’s hearing our prayers of repentance and shifting that situation.” He said that Trump’s announcement of Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court came as he was blowing the shofar horn—normally used in Jewish religious ceremonies—at “The Return,” which he called a sign from God that “this thing is rigged in our favor.”
Right-wing pastor Rick Joyner posted a video on his Facebook page Friday in which he told viewers not to worry about the looming civil war that is supposedly coming to the United States because even though there will be violence and bloodshed, it’ll mostly be confined to the inner cities, and life will be “pretty much business as usual” for everyone else.
Joyner, who has been warningfor years that the United States is heading for civil war and martial law and recently declared that God had “seeded our country” with military veterans who are experienced with urban warfare to head up “good militias,” assured his viewers that they would most likely be minimally impacted by the coming conflagration.
“Everyone, when they hear civil war, they think, ‘Oh no, every city, community, everybody’s gonna be in battles,’” Joyner said. “Think about it: Only a tiny percentage of the population of America was engaged in the first Civil War. Really it was 1 or 2 percent of the actual population of the country were engaged in battles in the Civil War. The rest of the country went on with business as usual.”
“Now, I believe this one is going to be of a different nature,” he continued. “It’s not gonna be pitched battles with armies. I believe it is going to be inner cities. I believe it’s gonna be a lot of militias engaged. I believe it’s going to be difficult, no doubt about it, but it’s going to be different. But still, in most of the country, it’s gonna be pretty much business as usual.”
