MAGA pastors push for holy war with Iran 'to bring back Jesus'
Former Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann recently appeared on a "World Prayer Network" broadcast, where she declared the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran as having biblical significance. Any president, especially Donald Trump, must back Israel, she said.
“This is a spiritual battle,” said Bachmann, who ran for president unsuccessfully in 2012 before retiring in 2016. “Israel’s at her greatest hour of need right now, every nation on Earth should thank Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu. We should all kiss the ground and be so grateful that Benjamin Netanyahu is prime minister and that he had the guts to take on this greatest evil terror state that has defined plans.
Pastor Shane Vaughn, another speaker on the broadcast and a figure in the MAGA evangelical coalition, described the Israel-Iran conflict as part of a divine timeline. “The missiles that flew on Friday the 13th were not just iron missiles but they were spiritual projectiles," he said, referring to Israel's missile strike on the Iran capital city last week.
“Netanyahu is a foreshadowing of the true lion that is getting ready to rise in the land of Israel,” Vaughn said. “That lion that is soon to come of the tribe of Judah, Jesus Christ, Yeshua the Messiah, the Bible said when he returns that his vesture will be dipped in blood. He is not coming back to play, he is coming back to bring the rod of correction over the enemies of Israel.”
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, a pro-life activist group in Washington D.C., said on the World Prayer Network presentation that by standing with Israel attacking Iran, "we unlock the blessings of God."
“For those who say we cannot afford to support Israel, I say we cannot afford not to,” he said. “If we abandon our support for Israel, we will soon discover that the account of God’s blessing on America is overdrawn.”
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Former Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann recently appeared on a "World Prayer Network" broadcast, where she declared the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran as having biblical significance. Any president, especially Donald Trump, must back Israel, she said.
“This is a spiritual battle,” said Bachmann, who ran for president unsuccessfully in 2012 before retiring in 2016. “Israel’s at her greatest hour of need right now, every nation on Earth should thank Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu. We should all kiss the ground and be so grateful that Benjamin Netanyahu is prime minister and that he had the guts to take on this greatest evil terror state that has defined plans.
Pastor Shane Vaughn, another speaker on the broadcast and a figure in the MAGA evangelical coalition, described the Israel-Iran conflict as part of a divine timeline. “The missiles that flew on Friday the 13th were not just iron missiles but they were spiritual projectiles," he said, referring to Israel's missile strike on the Iran capital city last week.
“Netanyahu is a foreshadowing of the true lion that is getting ready to rise in the land of Israel,” Vaughn said. “That lion that is soon to come of the tribe of Judah, Jesus Christ, Yeshua the Messiah, the Bible said when he returns that his vesture will be dipped in blood. He is not coming back to play, he is coming back to bring the rod of correction over the enemies of Israel.”
Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, a pro-life activist group in Washington D.C., said on the World Prayer Network presentation that by standing with Israel attacking Iran, "we unlock the blessings of God."
“For those who say we cannot afford to support Israel, I say we cannot afford not to,” he said. “If we abandon our support for Israel, we will soon discover that the account of God’s blessing on America is overdrawn.”
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/u...y-35431514
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
