Might be worth remembering this Q&A w/ Pompeo in March 2019 - would Trump be the "Queen Esther" to save "the Jewish people from the Iranian menace?" Pompeo: "that's possible."
There's always some evangelical apocalyptic/rapture thing in the background.
nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/…
There's always some evangelical apocalyptic/rapture thing in the background.
nytimes.com/2019/03/30/us/…
You can expect that tomorrow's Evangelicals-for-Trump rally will be a theological orgy of end times prophetic signaling.
Since August, prophetic-types have been ramping up talk of an Iran War. This is from Charisma, a magazine in the Trump-evangelical orbit:
charismanews.com/marketplace/77…
charismanews.com/marketplace/77…
End times prophecy has long identified Iran with the Battle of Gog and Magog, a war "predicted" in Ezekiel 38-39 and a precursor to the Rapture, that will initiate a religious revival among Jews eventuating in their conversion to Christianity.
One of the big proponents of this is John Hagee, who has Trump's ear. jhm.org/Articles/2018-…
Hagee is founder of Christians United for Israel. Here he is with one of his new political friends:
He's never held more political power, nor been more convinced that the end is at hand. Hagee has been calling for a first strike on Iran - and you can bet he's said so in White House meetings.
sacurrent.com/the-daily/arch…
sacurrent.com/the-daily/arch…
More from the article from the San Antonio Current:
At tomorrow's Evangelicals-for-Trump rally, Trump will make a very big deal of this. He will emphasize that he kept his promise to move the embassy to Jerusalem. He WILL cast the events of tonight in biblical terms, their longed-for hope to set up events for Christ's return.
It cannot be said enough: Trump's evangelical advisors WANT war in the Middle East. They want it. They've wanted it and waited for it for four decades.
fyi: @JoyAnnReid .@JoeNBC
Please note that not all evangelicals think this way. There is a lot of diversity about views on the last things among (especially) well educated evangelicals.
But the evangelicals in Trump's orbit do.
But the evangelicals in Trump's orbit do.
And the Trump evangelicals will be both prophetically and politically ecstatic about this Iran news.
Both aspects of the story -- prophecy and politics are key to understanding a significant portion of their support of the president.
Both aspects of the story -- prophecy and politics are key to understanding a significant portion of their support of the president.
And this will also strengthen Trump's delusion of divine calling as president.
So, there's that, too.
So, there's that, too.
