The "Mandate" S4 | Religion
Doomsday Prophecy and the AI Apocalypse
Do you believe in Biblical prophecy? Do you believe in modern-day prophets? How about psychics or fortune tellers? Do you know what divination is?
There is so much to say about the “Religion Mountain,” or sphere of influence.
So much so, I started a podcast to try and wrap my head around it. After all, this is the eye of the storm. Many Biblical scholars, pastors, journalists and historians have tried to warn us of this looming danger to democracy for years.
What these guys have done and have been doing for decades… they were trying to merge Christianity with politics and they invented this new thing which is neither Christianity or politics. It's something new, but it's also very scary,
if you really understand the history of how it came to be.
John Collins | William Branham Historical Research
GOING DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE
In my last article about the “Media Mountain,” I pointed out how Fundamentalist Evangelical elites and political New Right strategists initiated a plan to change “the overall character of American popular culture” and establish a theocratic “form of government where the actions of leaders are seen as sanctioned by God ”1
An article from Political Research Associates published in 1992 explains it like this:
[The theocratic right believes that] people are basically sinful, and must be restrained by harsh punitive laws. Social problems are caused by Satanic conspiracies aided and abetted by liberals, homosexuals, feminists, and secular humanists. These forces must be exposed and neutralized.
In order to achieve this plan, Paul Weyrich and William Lind created the Free Congress Foundation (now called American Opportunity) which was a pressure group focused on the development and promotion of “cultural conservatism.” They propagated and amplified a conspiracy theory that it’s Cultural Marxism that’s turning America into a godless nation.
The seeds that we now sow will have dramatic repercussions over the long term. We have the capacity to fundamentally transform the face of
American culture in the 21st century by following a different path,
one built on the aggressive dissemination of our cultural values.
We will never stop being engaged in the wider culture.
Our movement will be entirely destructive, and entirely constructive.
The Integration of Theory and Practice:
A Program for the New Traditionalist Movement
Free Congress Foundation’s Strategic Plan for Activism
This culture war was the spark to ignite this plan to re-shape America into a theocracy, while manipulated Christian doctrine would be the fuel to indoctrinate the masses. The “politics of othering” was in full gear.
In marketing, there is a phrase often used to describe a persuasive speech that summarizes your idea in about 30 to 60 seconds—called the elevator pitch.
For Christians, the elevator pitch from the theocrats is this: we are in a spiritual warfare for the soul of the nation and we need to “put on the full amour of God” to do battle against the forces of evil to re-establish God's kingdom on earth before Jesus returns… AND the forces of evil are the Democrats, trans and homosexual ideology, communist Hollywood, abortion, feminism, integration, white replacement theory and “fill in the blank” with your Republican political talking point.
The most important thing any movement can do is capture the imagination of the people. One must give them dreams and ideals that have been put in terms they can understand, and that touch their hearts, as opposed to their rational minds.
Free Congress Foundation’s Strategic Plan for Activism
• Fundamentalism | Pentecostalism
The deeper I went into history, the more obvious it became that for Fundamentalists like Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and Tim LaHaye, political power became necessary in their minds for re-establishing cultural and societal norms according to the Hebrew Bible—and they were the rightful bearers of moral authority.
The 1988 Presidential candidate Pat Robertson, founder of CBN and the Christian Coalition made his theocratic beliefs very clear:
“There will never be world peace until God’s house and God’s people are given their rightful place of leadership at the top of the world. How can there be peace when drunkards, drug dealers, communists, atheists, New Age worshipers of Satan, secular humanists, oppressive dictators, greedy money changers, revolutionary assassins, adulterers, and homosexuals are on top?”
While the “saved or sinner,” fire and brimstone, left-behind apocalyptic Fundamentalists were establishing a web of separate, conservative Christian media, academic, and political institutions—funded by beer and fossil-fuel tycoons; there was another more grassroots, “Holy Spirit filled” version of Non-Denominational Christianity rapidly growing in the USA—The Pentecostals. They did not hide their Dominionist ideology. They were shouting it from the mountain tops.
These Independent Charismatics were “starting a new thing,” and gaining celebrity status (and money) among the church-going populous throughout the 1980’s to early 2000’s through mega churches, tent revivals, divine healing, intercessory prayer, and the word of faith movements—i.e. name it and claim it!
Matthew Taylor explains in his book, “The Violent Take it By Force,” this fringy group of “supernaturally ordained oligarchs” called themselves modern-day prophets and apostles—Paula White, Cindy Jacobs, Lance Wallnau, and Ché Ahn to name a few—and they were extremely savvy in marketing and technology. With their platforms they were redefining Christianity with a New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) that added an extra layer of intensity to the Dominionist theology—divine assignment, strategic prayer and prophetic memes.
What stunned me was discovering that, despite their differences, the Fundamentalist establishment and the Pentecostal mavericks shared a hidden common thread—deep roots in Christian Identity. Today it’s not something anyone teaches outright… well MOSTLY it’s not, but the belief in this type of Dominionism—that America is a Christian nation—stems from this foundational supremacist worldview.
In this environment therefore, Lance Wallnau’s 7MM prophesy, emerges not as divine revelation, but quite sinisterly, as another authoritarian political strategy—branded as religious doctrine for American Evangelicals.
• The Dominion Mandate
Searching for the origins of the 7MM, I found myself once again in the late seventies; caught up in a mythological story involving two very popular youth parachurch founders. In 1975 Loren Cunningham2, founder of Youth with a Mission (YWAM) and Bill Bright, Campus Crusade for Christ (Cru) founder, shared similar visions of the seven spheres of influence as spiritual “war zones” in which Christians should engage.
Cunningham said he had a revelation about seven classrooms, each corresponding to the seven spheres of society that Christians needed to impact to bring about change. He went to tell his friend, Cru founder Bill Bright, about this revelation in 1975. But before he could say anything, Bright announced he'd had a revelation and produced a basically identical list of seven spheres. A few weeks later, Cunningham heard Francis Schaeffer make a very similar argument about taking dominion for Christ over these seven different areas: family, religion, education, media, art, economics, and government. The idea was later popularized by Bethel pastor Bill Johnson and others as the "Seven Mountain Mandate." It became the theological basis for many American Charismatics to embrace Donald Trump. Christianity Today
Bill Bright and Loren Cunningham called it a “vision” or a dream, however I cannot help but be skeptical, which is why I consider it mythological. Only these two men can say for sure, however all around this revelatory meeting, are well-documented machinations of the New Right’s theocratic plan for government takeover.
Bill Bright, Loren Cunningham, Tim LaHaye, and Francis Scheaffer were just a handful of the Christian Right “action-oriented elite” tasked with writing books, speaking at churches, establish conferences and study guides that would provide Biblical support “to transmit [the Traditionalists Movement] through them to the masses.” The establishing Christian platforms, institutions and media would support and propagate this doctrine.
One of the key leaders of the Religious Right is often overlooked. Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade, had a larger role than a lot of people realize.
In 1974 and 1975 Bill Bright convened a series of secret meetings with 20-25 key Christian Right leaders. They formed Third Century Publishers to publish books and study guides to link their political agenda with conservative Christianity.
Charles Stanley… invited scores of Georgia preachers to meet at his church for a "Campaign Training Conference" where Paul Weyrich…told them how to get their congregations involved without jeopardizing their churches' tax exemption.3
Since Francis Scheaffer spoke of this concept, the Seven Spheres of Influence was adopted into Christianity as sound doctrine, loosely backed by scripture and the unholy alliance flourished. Christian books, music and media became a thriving money-making industry. The Evangelical Industrial Complex was born—books, study guides, media, movies, music and conferences—that guided the Christian mind to their political and cultural ideology wrapped around the holy Word of God.
“I began to look around and just say hey, these people are awful.
I'm part of a criminal enterprise called Big Time American evangelicalism.
It's all about money. It has nothing to do with what my parents did in their little mission. We were crooks and liars basically and
we were using this for nefarious purposes—as access to power.”
Frank Schaeffer, Son of Francis Schaeffer | Author of “Crazy for God”
Mega-churches starting popping up around the world with dynamic pastors being “called into ministry by God” and turning into household names. This new “church culture,” the mega church, became part of the fabric of American Christianity.
We called it “doing Church.” It was inspiring and Holy Spirit-filled. It seemed like everyone was welcomed. Church included amazing worship music and life-changing messages. There were community outreaches, small groups, and retreats. It was family. Sometimes you would go “church hopping” to find the best fit for your personality and there was always an alter call… but sometimes, for me at least, there were unspoken questions or doubts—real life problems explained away as “you didn’t have enough faith.” Leadership was not allowed to be challenged because they had a “special anointing” and the masses were being saved for Jesus so how could it be wrong? Any corruption or controversies were hidden away and eventually “erased.”
The Seven Spheres of Influence a outlined in 1975 was just one of many tools pastors used to define cultural Christianity and give followers a the sense of a higher purpose. Twenty-five years later, Lance Wallnau would repackage spheres to influence and market them as mountains to conquer.
REVIVAL 2000 | THE CALL DC
Christians love numerical symbolism—the Bible is full of it. For example, 7 represents completion or perfection in biblical numerology; God created the world in 7 days. The number 7 is apparently used 700 times in the Bible. 2000 is a pretty significant number as well. It represents a time of transition, renewal, and fulfillment.
Also, part of our faith as Christ followers is that we believe Jesus is God the Son, who rose from the dead and will come again to re-establish His heavenly kingdom on here on earth. However, before He returns there will be a time of “tribulation” called “end times.”
Now, Jesus clearly tells us we will not know when He will return, the angels do not know, NOT EVEN HE KNOWS (Matthew 24:36). Still, people continually try to predict the end of the world, using the symbolism and numerology they see in the Bible.
There is a theory that some Christians believe, particularly Christian Nationalists and Christian Zionists. With the support of manipulated Bible verses, this theory has been twisted into prophecy:
God’s 7000 Year Plan:
The Bible documents 2000 years from Adam to Abraham, and 2000 from Abraham to Christ; so there will be 2000 years for the Christian era and then would come the Millennium - 1000 years of Jesus’ reigning here on earth.
Their argument seems pretty compelling, however, I want to reiterate that Jesus was sure to tell us that NO ONE KNOWS WHEN, except God. No matter how clever you think you are, you will not crack the code.
And yet, the Y2K vibe was pretty wild for everyone in 1999; even Prince was singing about it. We feared our computers were going to blow up once we hit the year 2000, because the practice of using two-digit codes for years didn’t account for data failures when returning back to 00. Companies hired people just to fix that computer glitch—the Millennium Bug. Was this a sign of the end times?
Christian Bookstores made a new section dedicated to “end times” prophecies and Rapture merch. Jerry Falwell, still very political, produced a video called A Christian's Survival Guide to the Millennium Bug, which you could buy on his Y2K website.
The evil-left, communist, marxist, baby-killing Democrats had 8 years of presidential reign with the morally decrepit Bill Clinton and the Fundagelicals were forced into political exile. Still perpetuating the culture war however, they continued to proclaim “Christian persecution” in America and because of all this fury, the year 2000 election was a pivotal one for many.
Was Jesus about to usher in the Millennium?
For the NAR Pentecostals of the 1990’s, Satan had made the Church “lukewarm” and this was the perfect time for a paradigm shift—a reformation. So they made one. Much like Falwell’s Moral Majority in 1979, Independent Charismatic Lou Engel created an organization entitled TheCall, through which he would sponsor political prayer-and-fasting rallies (excuse me, revivals). With Ché Ahn, Engel would organize these revivals around the world for the next 8 years. On September 2, 2000—two months before the Presidential election—he produced the first revival: TheCall DC.
In The Violent Take it By Force, Matthew Taylors describes the atmosphere:
Part of what put Ché Ahn and Lou Engel on the map… was a mass event titled TheCall DC. Arguably, [they] helped create the very mass-gathering, prayer-and-warfare styles that were on display on January 6, 2021. You see, 20 years before the Capitol Riot—during the presidential election that ultimately elevated (via the US Supreme Court decision) George W. Bush—Lou Engle received a prophetic vision that he was supposed to lead a massive gathering of young people for a day of prayer and fasting on the National Mall in Washington, DC. This event would counter what Engle and Ahn viewed as a creeping cultural tendency toward apostasy, particularly through the liberalizing US courts and the tolerance of abortion.
I am convinced that TheCall DC was orchestrated to indoctrinate the youth of that time for the cultural acceptance of a new fervor—to take it by force—a paradigm shift.
If Jesus wasn’t going to usher in the Millennium, then they would.
In February of 2000, Loren Cunningham met with Wallnau and shared his revelation of the 7 Spheres of Influence; “mind-molders of culture.” Lance, in turn, changed the spheres to mountains and so began the mandate that Christians are to infiltrate culture and take over.
The elevator pitch: Satan is the now ruler of this world and has taken these “mind-molders of culture” captive. In order for Jesus to return we must first Invade Babylon4 and claim spiritual victory a top each cultural mountain.
This Huffington Post article, published in 2009, reveals how TheCall DC revival —along with Wallnau’s 7MM church speaking circuit—was part of a coordinated effort to prepare for the acceptance of Christianity’s theocratic dominance. This is not merely Nationalism, but Christian Supremacy agenda is now defining New Right politics.
Documents Show Christian World Domination Group Paid For
Bipartisan Congressional Hawaii Trip
Sep 11, 2009
Travel disclosure forms obtained through Legistorm.com, a nonprofit dedicated to government transparency… stated the destination of Tony Hall's and Frank Wolf's February 18-25, 2000 conjugal junkets was Kona, Hawaii, home of the international campus and headquarters of Youth With a Mission. YWAM is a global Christian ministry that owns the “C Street House” and whose founder Loren Cunningham proposes an ambitious plan for Christian domination in which believers achieve control of key societal sectors including government, business, media, and education: the 7 Mountains Mandate
To the 7MM Dominionist, the government institutions, elite universities like Harvard, the public school system, Hollywood and even Christianity has been succumbed to Satan’s control. All of it is corrupt—full of waste, fraud and abuse—and must be destroyed, rebuilt and Christianized. The cultural mountains are “territories “to take over. America is the new Babylon and this is a crusade. The “chosen” apostles and modern-day prophets are “manifested sons of God”—God’s generals gathering up their army.
They’re not interested in discipleship or conversion but in this “overall consensus” that we are a Christian nation that our laws or culture and our institutions should reflect that. So that could mean people in power making that so,
but it does not mean a majority of the people in the nation.
The seven mountains mandate is an institutional national mandate. It is not about converting individual people to go influence. It is about taking over institutions.
Matthew Boedy, author of The Seven Mountains Mandate: Exposing the Dangerous Plan to Christianize America and Destroy Democracy
Take a moment to reflect again on the quote from Paul Weyrich’s FCF manifesto.5
THE WHITE HOUSE FAITH OFFICE
A top the RELIGION MOUNTAIN stands an apostle, a tiny blonde woman… Paula White.
In 2002, it was Trump who approached the already famous Paula White. At this point she was pastoring the 2nd largest mega-church in Florida, hosting a highly successful Christian talk show on BET and was a spiritual advisor to the stars.
Author Matthew Taylor recounts that on the phone call in 2002, Trump told White
she had “the it factor” after he saw her on TV preaching about “the value of riches.” From that moment, White believed she was “called” to be Trump’s personal pastor.
Taylor goes on to explain how Paula White was not part of the original Fundamentalist “old guard” who established their political power since the 1980s, but instead had crucial connections with the celebrity mega church pastors, modern-day prophets, faith healers and prosperity gospels preachers—the rich and famous of the Charismatic Christian community.
The most important bridge that White built from 2015 to 2020 was a bridge between the previously isolated and irrelevant Independent Charismatic celebrity class and the leadership echelon of the religious right.
The fringe became the carpet.
Matthew Taylor - The Violent Take it by Force
In exchange for her connections, Trump gave Paula White a place in his regime… excuse me, I mean his Executive Branch.
In his first term, Trump had established an Evangelical Advisory Board, something White helped to co-ordinate, which was made up of “old-guard” theocrats and fringy Charismatic elites—all men except for her. He re-established the White House Faith Office to put White in charge in 2019 and then again in 2025.
In this second term, there is a revised Religious Liberty Commission. I would encourage you to just research a few names. It is very revealing and important for us to understanding who is advising Trump on “religious liberty.”
This effectively is an attempt to remove the constitutional separation of church and state. However, the “state religion” is not Christianity—it’s 7MM Dominionism; and the “good news” is not John 3:16—it’s the prosperity gospel.
• The Prosperity Gospel | The Government’s Christianity
Well, I guess it takes a conman to know a con-woman. Both Trump and White are famous for their grifting. Since the beginning of White’s career, many Evangelicals have criticized her ministry as heretical; although she wouldn’t consider herself a prosperity gospel preacher. However, as David French explains in his New York Times article, this is at the heart of the crisis in American Evangelicalism.
[Trump’s] bond with evangelicals isn’t just a result of flawed theology. It’s a result of the broken culture that flawed theology helped create. And in some parts of American Christianity the theology is so flawed, and the culture is so broken, that evangelicals don’t see Trump contradicting their values at all—he’s exactly like the men and women who lead their church.
Sometimes I wonder what came first… the adoration of fame and fortune that corporatized Christianity into the prosperity gospel, or the overall societal explosion of self-help books like The Power of Positive Thinking, and The Secret; as well as celebrity gurus like Tony Robbins selling the philosophy of mind over matter, the power of words, and vision boards. Maybe the answer is too obvious.
Americans LOVE their capitalism. They don’t like being over taxed or over regulated. Some believe in the “American dream”… that if you work hard enough, you too can be successful; maybe even start your own business and become the next Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. Some believe if you invest in the right thing at the right time you can make big money fast. Crytpo is the perfect example of the newest unicorn venture—today’s Gold Rush.
The prosperity gospel, made famous through mega-churches—and these Christian entrepreneurs like Paula White, Lance Wallnau Ministries, Lou Engel Ministries, and Ramsey Solutions—just gives the people what they want... a transactional God.
Jesus and the Bible warns humanity about the dangers of wealth and the love of money. It’s not that wealth is a bad thing, but that eventually, you will be faced with the ultimate choice—which “master” are you going to follow? Where is your true allegiance?
The Independent Charismatic elites, or spiritual oligarchy—to use Matthew Taylor’s phrase—make ridiculous amounts of wealth with no accountability, since their “ministries” are Non-Denominational, meaning there are no checks and balances.
The apostle or pastor is the ministry’s CEO, CFO and COO. Additionally, as Skye Jethani explains in his article, the Evangelical Industrial Complex is designed not just to influence society, but also promote the interests of those with celebrity status and power.
Their fortune is justified by saying they “activated the blessing through faith” and they are “chosen by God,” so if you invest in them, you too can receive the blessing... if you have enough faith.
Paula White is said to have a net-worth $5 million… her Passover and Easter message for us this year? She’ll send you an angel with “seven supernatural blessings” and a crystal Waterford cross for a gift of $1,000 or more.
“God will assign an angel to you. He’ll be an enemy to your enemies, he’ll give you prosperity, he’ll take sickness away from you, he will give you long life, he’ll bring increase in inheritance, and he’ll bring a special year of blessing.”
Paula White’s Easter Grift
• False Teaching
In addition to the prosperity gospel, there’s also the concept of an “anointing,” an irrevocable divine authority to lead. There’s also a heavy emphasis in many churches on various kinds of dominionism, the belief that Christians are entitled to rule. (David French - NYT, The Donald Trump Leap of Faith)
The purpose of going down this rabbit hole was to show how the over 50 years of social and emotional manipulation was not just indoctrinated into the 8-10% of core MAGA/Trump followers. This false teaching has rippled throughout American Christianity and the world, and is enabled by the well-established Evangelical Industrial Complex.
Wherever I go God rules. When I walk on White House grounds, God walks on White House grounds … I have every right and authority to declare the White House as Holy Ground because I was standing there and where I stand is holy.
Paula White
The Religion Mountain - the prosperity gospel and dominionism - is represented by Paula White, the apostle of capitalism, and the Project 2025 mandate is its doctrine.
The war against cultural Marxism, also know as secular humanism, has poisoned American Christianity, by looking righteous and holy on the outside—protecting the rights of the unborn, stopping sexual immorality, returning to family values and our keeping our neighborhoods from Venezuelan gang members—but inside it is full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. (Matt 23:27-28)
We must continue to hold up the mirror to reveal the true motives of Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation, the Executive Branch and the hijacked Republican Congress; not just for its obvious political and financial corruption, but also, for the evil of leading people into the obsession of a fake culture war as they celebrate cruelty; turning them away for the true teachings of Jesus Christ.
Nothing would do this country more good than
to have Christians re-discover their Christianity
Skye Jathani, Holy Post Media
PROPHECY OR DIVINATION?
“Christian support for Trump had an extra degree of fanaticism to it
that most of the mainstream media just missed completely,
and that fanaticism was supplied by prophecy.”
David French, God + Country Documentary
The modern-day prophecies about Trump did reach the ear of the mainstream media at times, but it was not taken seriously. That he is King Cyrus, a wrecking ball, that he has a mandate, that he would serve two terms and that he was saved by God are all “prophecies” made by established modern-day prophets that spread in the Charismatic Christian environments.
Even today it’s not taken very seriously and this is dangerous. In order to understand why, let’s just start with the basic definition of the word.
Prophecy comes from the Greek propheteia; which simply means the "gift of interpreting the will of God.” In the days of the Bible, a prophet would sometimes speak about the future, but not in terms of predicting or foreseeing future events. More so, a Biblical prophet was a mouthpiece for God, warning His people that they have turned away from God and have become corrupt and selfish; so they need to return or suffer the consequences, which could end in death or destruction. These prophets did not just give prophetic warnings, they offered prophetic hope.
Divination on the other hand, comes form the Latin divinare; which means to use supernatural powers to foresee, foretell, or predict future events or discover hidden knowledge interpreting a dream or vision.
Do you remember Nostradamus? When I was a child, we heard about the many predictions he had made that came true. An astrologist from the 1500’s, Nostradamus has said to have predicted the rise of Napoleon and Hitler, both world wars, the death of Princess Diana and 9/11. Many Christians would consider his seemingly accurate predictions divination, not from God, and therefore demonic.
”You don't speak a prophecy and your words made it happen.
The description of a Biblical Prophet is God speaking through the person.
It cannot deviate from what happened. If there's even a minor trivial detail that's wrong then it was not the Christian God saying it.”
John Collins | William-Branham.org
• Modern-Day Prophets
In Pentecostalism, the distinguishing belief is that the believer is enabled with spiritual gifts when baptized through the Holy Spirit, one of which is prophecy. Since the beginning of the movement, certain divinely ordained prophets made predictions regarding specific national and world-wide events, like Nostradamus; however their claim was that these prophecies came from God. Many of these prophesies were warnings about the end of the world—Doom’s Day prophecies.
Perhaps this sounds far fetched, but these modern-day prophecies seemed to have come true, or they were propagated that way.
Today, there are a handful of celebrity prophets specifically annointed with this gift. People like Jonathan Cahn, Kim Clement, Lance Wallnau, Dutch Sheets, Chuck Pierce and Mark Talylor that will have a direct “word from God.” The divinely inspired prophesies revealed that not only would Trump become president for two terms, but that his presidency would usher in spiritual warfare and “demonic desperation will manifest in people with new levels of desperation and anger and new strategies with which to oppose us.”
“This generation will go into battle with a faithless generation
and a perverse generation”
Kim Clement
The Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders (ACPE) was created by Cindy Jacobs and C. Peter Wagner to oversee these prophetic visions from prophets they have appointed. This council would “test the spirits” a give accountability and validity to the prophecies. Or course it is made up of self-appointed and wealthy spiritual oligarchs with the NAR movement.
Matthew Taylor also coined the term Prophetic Meme—A prophecy that spreads widely online from person to person within the Christian culture. There is a whole network of prophetic visions.
“Seed a meta-narrative and then hit it opportunistically so it spreads.” Maria Ressa
The language of spiritual warfare against Satan, the demonization of people and people groups, and evil leftist deep state corruption infuse these visions. They are filled with fear, hate, and imply violent uprising. They have predicted the complete destruction of America, a resurgence of world wars, storms and earthquakes as signs for the end of this evil, dark world.
You have a completely negative outlook on life. Why would I care about this world?It's going to be destroyed. There's no reason for self-improvement.
No reason to establish peace on earth. They see this negative outlook in life
is a good thing. They have been given twisted versions of scripture.
Passages completely ripped out of context to believe this thing.
John Collins | William-Branham.org
• False Prophecy
From the outside looking in, you can see these prophecies for what they are and maybe your astounded by how the Republicans and/or MAGA voters can be so prone to conspiracy theories. However, inside this subculture, your trusted pastor verifies the narrative in his sermon and your media intake looks the these visions are predicting the future.
Have actually heard one of these prophecies—Kim Clement’s “Trump will be a Trumpet”, Lance Wallnau’s “Trump will be a Wrecking Ball?” Did you hear Bob Jones’ prophecy?
Matthew Taylor says William Brahman pioneered the heyday of the Charismatic Pentecostal movement in America. Researcher Robert Collins claims Brahman is the “forgotten prophet who reshaped global Christianity.” Both portray him as a misogynist, racist fraud that directly affected the Latter Rain movement, a revival from which many popular Charismatic Church find their origins.
You can go online and see multiple videos accounting Brahman’s 1933 Seven Visions prophecy as the sign of the end times. Collins describes how these so-called Seven Visions are a complete scam—”starting with the myth that there were seven and that is was 1933”
And YET… Brahman and his 1933 Seven Visions Prophecy are held in high regard in many mainstream Pentecostal churches to this day. The last vision, yet to occur, describes how “the United States would be purged and lose its power in the world.” There will be an “end of days race war that would cause all of this immigrants from Africa and Asia to rise up in America—all of this is going to happen before the Rapture.”
“These were actually detrimental to the mental health, to the overall outlook,
to the happiness of the members of the cult of personality.
These prophecies and their intent completely robbed us of our happiness.”
John Collins | William-Branham.org
• The Doom’s Day Prophesy
Christian nationalists have apocalyptic politics. It's not so much about the flourishing of this world. It's about the end of the world. Christian nationalist want to acquire more power and Christian institutions to convert people to Christianity. Their apocalyptic politics are not about this world.
Brian Recker “Hell Bent”
If you are an Evangelical Christian, I can understand why you might not want hear that America is leaning toward fascism or that some of our beloved, well respected Christian mega-chruches like Hillsong, Mars Hill or Bethel turned out to be toxic and cult-like.
Authoritarian take-overs are happening all over the world, the psychological confusion created by social media propaganda and AI deep fakes make it hard to trust anyone, and on top of all the confusion, many of us we grew up with the fear that we would be left-behind or raptured. Retreating to our communities and giving the responsibility to a leader who will restore our way of life sounds comforting.
I am the chosen one. I alone can fix it.
When somebody's the president of the United States, the authority is total.
DJ Trump
To say no to President Trump, would be saying no to God.
Paula White
Some pundits have called this new regime and political ideology Trumpism. I hate hearing this mere human has his own -ism. I am not sure we want that word cemented in our history. Alas, it’s already in Wikipedia.
In addition to this Doom’s Day cult influencing Christianity, we also have tech billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk with their own cultish idea of world domination, not hiding the kleptocratic coop of our personal data. They have inside access not just with Trump, but mentee JD Vance, in helping to advance their own apocalyptic politics of Techno-Feudalism and the AI Armageddon, as outlined in this article in The Verge.
We're in facing this kind of authoritarian Putin-esque future
if we keep going this way and evangelicals get their way.
Frank Schaeffer - January 4, 2024
Whether it’s a power hungry mega-church pastor, the Heritage Foundation and the New Right regime, or big-tech’s Dark Enlightenment imposing theocracy on us, this harkens back to the Pharisees of Jesus’ day. This is the same failure of the human condition the Bible warns us about in Chapter 1 of Genesis.6
• Self-Fulfilling Prophesy
On Oct 29, 2024, one week before the election at the Inaugural Faith Summit in Atlanta, Jonathan Cahn, a prominent modern-day prophet, delivered a prophecy directly to Trump. This was the Jehu prophecy, which Cahn says he was “burdened with” since August.
[Cahn] compared Trump to Jehu, a vicious king in ancient Israel who is notable for the killing of Jezebel, the evil queen of Israel who came before him. (Kamala Harris is Jezebel in this prophecy) In Scripture, Jehu ordered the execution of Jezebel and trampled her body with his horse. Wild dogs came and ate her corpse. [Chan claims his prophecy] is about defeat and disgrace. But if you listen to those words is it any wonder that empathy is on the wane in American Christianity?
(David French)
”Jehu overturned the cult of Baal by which children were sacrificed.
You [Trump] are a trumpet of God, and the trumpet can only fulfill its purpose if it’s filled with a breath of the one who holds it up and blows through it.God is the One who lifted you up, and He wills that you be filled with a breath of His Spirit.”7
Excerpt from The Jehu Prophecy
Chan’s prophecy went viral and Kamala Harris had an unexplainable waining vibe shift just days before the election. The Trump campaign was exhausting us with the harsh rhetoric of division and hate, and going all in on the Culture War.
“She is for they/them.”
They/them were eating the cats and dogs. They/them were aborting babies outside the womb. They/them cared more about trans prisoners then “us.” Trump et al played the campaign game like the season finale of The Bachelor. Even Harris’s laughter was portrayed like the evil cackle of a two-faced b*tch that was going to break Joey’s heart.
If it’s a mistake to overestimate the numbers of Trump’s independent charismatics (they’re a minority of American Christians), it’s also a mistake to underestimate their influence. (David French-NYT)
Pundits have said that Trump won because he created a cultural and social sense of belonging, but for who? Christians?
In the last decade, there has been a dramatic rise in Christians leaving the religion. Many, like me, began deconstructing their faith; a word I never heard before 2015. Many have left Christianity completely, calling themselves “ex-vangelicals” or nones. According to the Pew Research Center, in the early 1990s, about 90% of US adults identified as Christians. Today, only about 64% of adults call themselves Christians. The decline in religiosity over the past 15 years is twice as great as the decline between 1975-2010.
What if God’s prophetic word is not from Jonathan Cahn to Trump; but rather from Hosea to us, His Church—The Body of Christ? What if the warning from the prophet Hosea—that just like Israel, American Christians have “exchanged their glorious God for something disgraceful” (Hosea 4:7)?
Did we loose the ability to share our loving and merciful God with others?
They set up kings without my consent; they choose princes without my approval.
With their silver and gold they make idols for themselves to their own destruction.
Hosea 8:4 NIV
There is a crisis in American Christianity that comes from the bad theology we have been taught and have accepted by false leaders, for some of us since childhood.
The Prosperity Gospel teaches us fame and fortune is proof of being blessed.
7MM Dominionsim teaches us someone is on top so pick a side: winners or losers.
Trump’s Reality TV politics teaches us its all for show, nothing is real, empathy is weakness; so embrace your schadenfreude.
God is warning us that the hypocrisy of our worship—breaking the commandments, allowing social injustice, and then going to church like everything is fine—and our political idolatry will be our own destruction.
What if there is still hope? What if God, moved by His mercy and compassion,
will heal our rebellious hearts and love us back to a relationship with Him?
POPE LEO | THE OPPOSITION CHURCH
Perhaps you have heard of the human or animal’s instinctual “fight of flight” response. Physiologists have learned of another reaction called “freeze”— it’s when you are unable to move or act against a threat— like a deer staring into the oncoming headlights or an ostrich burying he head in the sand.
I think the “freeze” response one reason why so many didn’t vote on November 4th and why many Christians today are still choosing to ignore the cruel policies or look away from the obvious corruption. Silence in the face of Trump's cruelty is complicity.
There is no more room for silence and complicity within the worldwide Christian body. We have to come face to face with how much partisan idolatry has falsely defined Christianity. As Jim Wallis, author of God’s Politics and The False White Gospel, say “the right gets it wrong,” by claiming that having moral values means you are pro-power, pro-rich and anti-woke.
However for far too long, “the left didn’t get it.” Democrats often hide their Christian faith or diminish its value when pursuing a social agenda that strives for economic security, health care and educational opportunities for every human being. In the effort to give every marginalized identity their own voice, they have lost importance of being a voice for all the people.
For too long, Democrats in particular have seated religion to the other side and we have failed to talk about our tradition and how it influences our decision-making and our public policy proposals.
Texas Rep. James Talarico
“We are often worried about teaching doctrine, but we risk forgetting that our first duty is to communicate the beauty and joy of knowing Jesus.” Archbishop Prevost
In the beginning of May, the first American pope, Pope Leo XIV was ordained. I find it hopeful that the Arch-Bishops of the Roman Catholic church were humble and prayerful about their choice, knowing that they are accountable to God. Pope Leo XIV comes from the Augustinian order which dedicates their spirituality to “live together in harmony, being of one mind and one heart on the way to God.”
Our churches and government leaders can follow this example of humility and accountability to Christ, as we focus less on moral righteousness for our political position and more “the beauty and joy of knowing Jesus”
The pope of the Catholic Church is not a “on our side or on the other side issue.” This is not, at its heart, a position that aligns one way or another
with American politics.
That said, this appointment obviously comes at a crucial time in our country's history but also in moment of global authoritarianism. To have a pope, the head of the Catholic Church, who seems poised to offer a strong moral and theological stance in opposition to abuses of power and abuses of people,
to stand for the dignity of all … these are basic Christian teachings.
Kristin Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne
Christian Nationalists are in the minority. For those 70% who are in opposition of this state defined distortion of Christianity, it is time for us to come together. Here are three ways we can do that within our own communities and nationally.
• Stop the Culture War
Jesus is not a Republican or a Democrat, but he does desire us to love and honor Him by feeding the poor, visiting those in prison, and helping the orphans, the widows and the immigrant. He wants to love our enemies and let go of our worldly possessions. We should not seek power, but instead seek to love God by serving each other in love.
I believe this fabricated dehumanizing culture war which has weaponized Christianity has been the most ANTI-LIFE agenda the power-hungry political elites have attempted to subvert on our society these last 50-60 years. One of the most beautiful beliefs that the Christian faith holds is that every human being is an image of God, worthy of His unconditional love.
As Christians, we can no longer accept the culture war divisions and the doomsday politics of the spiritual oligarchy, designed to keep us under their authority and influence. It is our calling to love, not judge.
Jesus befriended people that other’s called ‘sinners.’ The only people in the Bible that Jesus condemned religious leaders you used religion to hurt others. I refuse to let Christian Nationalists, twist a religion on love to justify their hate.
Texas Rep. James Talarico
• Anti-Wokism is Anti-Christian
In the quest for dominations, Trump and his Administration hold people in spiritual captivity. In Ephesians 4:18-21 it says this dark spirit causes followers to be blind “in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them.” Their hearts become cold and callous. ”That is not the way you learned from Christ’s teachings!”
Martin Luther King Jr famously said “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Instead of giving up the power of “being woke” - embrace it. Shine the light on the true meaning of love by being aware of the people and the needs around you. Let’s be self-reflective and humble, listening and learning from strangers and their experiences.
“To be woke is not a threat. It’s a calling.” Unknown
Open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light.
Acts 28:18 ESV
• Love, Abundance and Hope
“The prosperity gospel is literally is a multi-billion-dollar house of cards with no foundation.” Trump’s doomsday cult teaches us to be defeatist and escapist as we fear the end of the world whether it’s through AI or otherwise.
But God’s love and mercy is more powerful than our failures. His ultimate justice will make all things new and a believers it is our job to start creating that world now. This promise was the message of hope and restoration that has motivated causes like the Civil Rights movement. To know God will ultimately renew to the whole world back to His original loving design allows us to take the risk of responding to violence with peace, and to hatred with love.
The original believers were following an unknown poor Palestine, a homeless refugee who offered an alternative view opposite of everything we as humans put our trust in. Money and power provide counterfeit success and fleeting happiness. God’s upside down kingdom is found is a life of service instead of domination, compassion instead of retribution, and in loving your enemy instead of living in fear.
MOUNTAIN UPDATES
- Education
In Project 2025, there is a two-pronged attack on the mountain of education. Defund public schools and privatize all schooling, which will reduce educational opportunities for the poor. With private schooling they can Christianize the criteria with a more “patriotic education” rewriting and white washing history by removing DEI achievements. Banning Books- Moms for Liberty Article on CNP
Good News! Judge blocks Trump bid to dismantle Department of Education
- Business/Finance
DOGE was merely a front for the very real data collection project by the Broligarchs. With Peter Theil’s company, Palantir they are building a techno-authoritarian surveillance state. Among the various nefarious items in the Big BS Bill, there is a section that codifies, for the next 10 years, no regulation or oversight on AI.
AI itself is theft or your information and a scam that can be stopped - find out more on Carole Coldwater’s substack. How to Survive the Broligarchy
Federal court temporarily reinstates Trump’s tariffs on dozens of countries.
A federal court judge ruled that president Trump could not use The International Economic Emergency Powers Act to impose blanket 10% tariffs, however the appeals court is allowing them to stay in place until the administration can form a case.
- Media
Seems like Elon Musk has been communicating with Russia since 2021. Definitely a concern for national security. Could this be part of the Russian communications effort to capture US? New AI models are looking increasing accurate, like real people. This will make mis-information more of a challenge. We need congress to regulate big tech to stop this authoritarian grab. Call your congressman and tell them to remove this hidden section in the BBB that prevents oversight on big tech.
Unless otherwise noted, block quotes come from this article from politicalresearch.org Theocracy and White Supremacy: Behind the Culture War to Restore Traditional Values
Lance Wallnau and Bill Johnson (Bethel Church) in conjunction with Ché Ahn and others wrote a book called Invading Babylon in 2013. Babylon was in essence America—“the deep state.”
The seeds that we now sow will have dramatic repercussions over the long term. We have the capacity to fundamentally transform the face of American culture in the 21st century by following a different path,
one built on the aggressive dissemination of our cultural values.
We will never stop being engaged in the wider culture.
Our movement will be entirely destructive, and entirely constructive.
To understand a more accurate and hopeful interpretation end times in the Bible,
I suggest listening to this episode from the Bible Project podcast.