For Eric Metaxas, a prominent evangelical public intellectual and Christian radio host, knowing that the 2020 presidential election was stolen is like believing in Jesus.
He just knows in his heart that it is true.
During a prayer call with evangelical supporters of President Donald Trump on Tuesday night (Dec. 2), Metaxas said that God is on Trumpâs side in the fight against a âstolenâ election.
âItâs like somebody saying, âOh, you donât have enough evidence to believe in Jesus.â We have enough evidence in our hearts. We know him and the enemy is trying harder than anything we have seen in our lives to get us to roll over, to forget about it.â
Once a Trump doubter, Metaxas has become one of the most devout Trump followers. âIâd be happy to die in this fight,â Metaxas told Trump earlier this week, during a call with the president broadcast on his show. âThis is a fight for everything. God is with us.â (...)
During an appearance on TheDove TVâs âFocus Todayâ program Tuesday, Sam Rohrer of the American Pastors Network said that the alleged effort to steal the election from President Donald Trump is a treasonous coup for which people must be tried by a military tribunal, and a sign that we are living in the End Times.
âThis is a coup,â Rohrer said, citing Wednesdayâs âStop the Stealâ event led by conspiracy theorist attorneys Lin Wood and Sidney Powell in Georgia. âIf itâs trueâas we heard yesterday from Lin Wood and now supported by other mechanismsâthat China actually bought Dominion Voting on Oct. 8, you actually have now a military operation where this is cyber warfare. And as (retired Gen. Thomas) McInerney says, the president as commander-in-chief needs to step in and pull up the Insurrection Act and say, âThis is a military issue,â and round up those who have committed treason, and then it goes down the path of a military tribunal. This is the kind of big stuff that is actually in front of us right now.â
âThose who are viewing (this) right now need to understand that there is far more at play,â he continued. âThis is not a Democrat or a Republican issue. This is way bigger than that. This is warfare. It is cyber warfare, at the very least. It is more than that. Itâs spiritual warfare at the highest levels manifesting itself, but itâs in the context of these End Days where deception comes forth, the man of sin is ultimately revealed, and all of this is set up ultimately where the justice of God is brought against the God-defying nations of the world.â (...)
Two prominent supporters of President Donald Trump from the âpropheticâ Pentecostal wing of the religious right, Dutch Sheets and Frank Amedia, put out a call Tuesday for supporters to participate in a special prayer session from 12:30 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. Wednesday morning to wage spiritual warfare against Valkyrie, the name Sheets gave to the effort to steal the 2020 election from Trump.
The early morning session was called by Sheets in response to prophetic dreams relayed to him by two friends. Sheetsâ spiritual call to arms was delivered by his wife to subscribers of Sheetsâ daily âGive Him 15â prayer alerts. Sheets said that the dreams spelled out a strategy to defeat âValkyrie,â a figure from Norse mythology who decided who would be slain on the battlefield. Historically, the word Valkyrie has been used to mean a plan to take over a country, Sheets said, adding that in our current situation, Valkyrie ârepresents the plan to take back America by stealing the election.â
âThe literal definition would mean they have decided Trump must be taken out or die on the battlefield,â Sheets said.
Combining elements of the two recent prophetic dreams, Sheets came up with a plan for intercessors from every state to pray in order, from the first to the last, and ending at 3:00 a.m. when one of the dreams declared that Valkyrie would fall. So, Sheets set up a plan for people to pray from and for each state in the union for three minutes at a time, finishing at 3:00 a.m. eastern time this morning. (...)
But if you donât see the difference, epidemiologically speaking, between doing laundry or waiting for a bus and spending an hour or more seated close together indoors with a large group of fellow worshipers, singing and chanting (and exposing yourself to the respiratory droplets of others), then you are being willfully obtuse.
In California alone, as Becerra noted in his brief, a number of church services have been identified as super-spreader events: â71 infections were linked to a single indoor service in Sacramento in March, and multiple rural communities experienced COVID-19 outbreaks tied to indoor services on Motherâs Day.â
The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that one day after public health officials announced a COVID-19 outbreak at the Kearny Mesa chapel of Awaken Church, the church held an indoor service attended by more than 100 people. Most did not wear masks, the newspaper said.
STEPHENS: ⦠Barclay, I hear Dominion software, it makes me angry because the believer was given dominion, and⦠how dare they use that to steal an election? That name â something rises up in me, this whole Dominion software thing, there in Michigan.
BARCLAY: 99%⦠99% of anybody who uses the word âDominionâ is Christianity. And, again â this is just how I see it, guys, and I think I see it right. I mean, I donât want to sound arrogant, but look â Theyâre stealing Christianity and everything important thatâs us. Itâs called Anti-Christ. They steal Christmas from us. It turns into Santa Claus and flying reindeer, etc. They steal Easter from us and itâs a bunny with eggs⦠and this word âdominion.â Thatâs our word. Thatâs a Bible word. Itâs almost like, how dare you even use it in this context?
And then, if you look into Dominion â you know, Iâm not an IT guy, but Iâm not deaf, dumb, blind, and stupid either â you look into this software, and what it does, and how easily it can be manipulated. And by the way, whoâs manipulating it and whoâs governing it? This is Anti-Christ, anti-America, anti-justice, anti-fairness â and itâs being proven! And so they need to do something about it, like maybe just get rid of it
STEPHENS: ⦠Barclay, I hear Dominion software, it makes me angry because the believer was given dominion, and⦠how dare they use that to steal an election? That name â something rises up in me, this whole Dominion software thing, there in Michigan.
BARCLAY: 99%⦠99% of anybody who uses the word âDominionâ is Christianity. And, again â this is just how I see it, guys, and I think I see it right. I mean, I donât want to sound arrogant, but look â Theyâre stealing Christianity and everything important thatâs us. Itâs called Anti-Christ.
They steal Christmas from us. It turns into Santa Claus and flying
reindeer, etc. They steal Easter from us and itâs a bunny with eggs⦠and
this word âdominion.â Thatâs our word. Thatâs a Bible word. Itâs almost like, how dare you even use it in this context?
And then, if you look into Dominion â you know, Iâm not an IT guy,
but Iâm not deaf, dumb, blind, and stupid either â you look into this
software, and what it does, and how easily it can be manipulated. And by
the way, whoâs manipulating it and whoâs governing it? This is
Anti-Christ, anti-America, anti-justice, anti-fairness â and itâs being
proven! And so they need to do something about it, like maybe just get
rid of it
Where are the lightening strikes when we really need them? Are these people freakin serious? How can they believe their own bullshit? Did he beg for money at the conclusion of this nonsense?