Thread by @TaylorMatthewD

These comments from Roger Stone at the Pastors for Trump/ReAwaken event at Trump's Doral resort this week are very important. For those who don't speak "Independent Charismatic," allow me to translate. Stone is claiming a prophetic destiny based on a prophecy from Kim Clement. 1/

https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1657552352579133440

Kim Clement passed away in 2016 (here's a tribute from the Christian music artist Carman facebook.com/CarmanLicciard…), but before that, he was the *original* Trump prophet. He was a South African Charismatic prophet, with a real dramatic flair - synth music, rambling, etc. 2/

Clement was part of Cindy Jacobs' Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, a core New Apostolic Reformation institution that C. Peter Wagner superintended. elijahlist.com/words/display_… He rubbed shoulders with & was close to Lance Wallnau, Dutch Sheets, Lou Engle – the whole crowd. 3/

The most famous prophecy Clement gave was at Bethel Church in Redding in 2007, where he said "Trump shall become a trumpet." elijahlist.com/words/display_… Once Trump started doing well in the 2016 primary, this was unceasingly invoked as a foretelling of Trump's prophetic destiny. 4/

In fact, according to Lance Wallnau, Clement's prophecies bolstered his own interest in Trump. The 2 of them were slated to meet with Trump at Trump Tower on Sept 14, 2015, but Clement suffered a stroke that day (a step toward his death a year later). facebook.com/ShawnBolz/post… 5/

When I intrvwed Bill Johnson, he invoked Clement's prophecies about Trump as part of his rationale for why he was so diehard about Trump in 2020. These prophecies were so early (& Clement so respected) that they're seen as ironclad, irrefutable evidence of Trump's anointing. 6/

So now we hear Roger Stone similarly trying to connect himself to a Clement prophecy (this one about a single "stone" killing a giant rumble.com/v2axo2i-kim-cl…) as a means of gaining influence & legitimizing his authority in Independent Charismatic circles. 7/

This is not a new spiel with Roger Stone, who's been on the Charismatic circuit for at least a year (ElijahList, Eric Metaxas' show, etc.) claiming to be a born-again, repentant commentator. rumble.com/v24r3py-prophe… As with all things Stone, his sincerity is... dubious. 8/

This is worth paying attn to for several reasons: First, Roger Stone is as savvy (& devious) a political trickster as they come, & he clearly knows which way the wind is blowing in Republican politics. He's targeting the Independent Charismatics, cuz that's where the juice is. 9/

Second, this shows the further Charismaticization of right-wing Christian politics. The fact that Stone would invoke Kim Clement (a household name in Charismatic circles but virtually unknown outside them) signals that the audience is also well-versed in Charismatic lore. 10/

Third, when you link this to the other atmospherics & rhetoric of the ReAwaken tour about "physical battle" against the evil & demons of the Democratic Party

https://twitter.com/karriegaspard/status/1657558390510440450

, you can begin to see the early-on, groundswell rationalization for the next #January6th. 11/

If/when we see another campaign of semi-organized Christian political violence in the US, I wager it'll originate in these radicalized, Charismatic, epistemically closed arenas like the ReAwaken America tour. Leaders like Michael Flynn & Stone flock to these same spaces. 12/

So go ahead & scoff, if you must, at the kooky sounding prophecies & prophets & hucksters & shofars, but please don't take your eye off the grave threat to democracy that is festering in the ReAwaken America tour. 13/