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 Trump’s side in the fight against a “stolen” election.

“It’s like somebody saying, ‘Oh, you don’t have enough evidence to believe in Jesus.’ 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.”

Once a Trump doubter, Metaxas has become one of the most devout Trump followers. “I’d be happy to die in this fight,” Metaxas told Trump earlier this week, during a call with the president broadcast on his show. “This is a fight for everything. God is with us.” (...)

During an appearance on TheDove TV’s “Focus Today” 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.

“This is a coup,” Rohrer said, citing Wednesday’s “Stop the Steal” event led by conspiracy theorist attorneys Lin Wood and Sidney Powell in Georgia. “If it’s true—as we heard yesterday from Lin Wood and now supported by other mechanisms—that 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, ‘This is a military issue,’ 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.”

“Those who are viewing (this) right now need to understand that there is far more at play,” he continued. “This 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. It’s spiritual warfare at the highest levels manifesting itself, but it’s 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.” (...)

Two prominent supporters of President Donald Trump from the “prophetic” 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. Sheets’ spiritual call to arms was delivered by his wife to subscribers of Sheets’ daily “Give Him 15” prayer alerts. Sheets said that the dreams spelled out a strategy to defeat “Valkyrie,” 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 “represents the plan to take back America by stealing the election.”

“The literal definition would mean they have decided Trump must be taken out or die on the battlefield,” 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 don’t 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: “71 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 Mother’s Day.”

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.

Rick Wiles, the senior pastor of the Flowing Streams Church in Florida, said that President Donald Trump's administration should "start shooting" Democrats and members of the media in firing squads if it turns out they conspired to rig the presidential election.

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 — something rises up in me, this whole Dominion software thing, there in Michigan.

BARCLAY: 99%… 99% of anybody who uses the word “Dominion” is Christianity. And, again — this is just how I see it, guys, and I think I see it right. I mean, I don’t want to sound arrogant, but look — They’re stealing Christianity and everything important that’s us. It’s called Anti-Christ. They steal Christmas from us. It turns into Santa Claus and flying reindeer, etc. They steal Easter from us and it’s a bunny with eggs… and this word “dominion.” That’s our word. That’s a Bible word. It’s almost like, how dare you even use it in this context?

And then, if you look into Dominion — you know, I’m not an IT guy, but I’m not deaf, dumb, blind, and stupid either — you look into this software, and what it does, and how easily it can be manipulated. And by the way, who’s manipulating it and who’s governing it? This is Anti-Christ, anti-America, anti-justice, anti-fairness — and it’s being proven! And so they need to do something about it, like maybe just get rid of it