Blasphemous Prophets
ReAwaken America's Message of Divine Vengeance
I am not a particularly pious man. I swear a lot and I laugh at dirty jokes. I have been known to overindulge in booze and unhealthy food and skip church because I didn’t feel like going. These aren’t mortal sins, but they are impious and betray any Christian attempt at temperance, sobriety, or discipline. This is the perspective from which I evaluate much of what I see and hear from my Christian brothers and sisters. My Orthodox worldview keeps my sins ever before me. But, Sweet Fancy Moses, I can’t begin to approach the outright blasphemy of the contributors at Clay Clark’s “ReAwaken America” conferences.
If you grew up Evangelical like I did, using the Lord’s name in vain, or blasphemy, was, on the scorecard of possible sins, near the top in severity. It was somewhere just below murder but above marital infidelity and domestic abuse. Using the Lord’s name in vain was saying “Jesus Christ!” or “Goddamn!” as an expletive. As an adult, I came to learn that blasphemy is ascribing to God something that God did not do or say. In short, if you are in earshot of someone who begins a sentence with, “God told me…”, you’re probably in the blast radius of blasphemy.
Allow me to share just a few of the prophetic words offered at the ReAwaken America conferences:
Bo Polny:
As best as I can tell, this guy is a gold, silver, and cryptocurrency analyst. His website [https://www.gold2020forecast.com/] refers to him as “The Analyst of Time.” On the page, he goes through a seven-seals prediction of a global catastrophe in which the wise and Godly people are going to be stocked with silver and gold. Natch! So, what did Bo say on behalf of the Almighty?
“The angel of death is coming to visit these people. These people are going down. These people who control the world think that they are pharaohs. Soon you shall never see again… the Angel of Death is coming for them by year-end… treason will be written on them for all eternity.”
Who are “these people”? Glad you asked… The photos displayed included Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, the Clintons, Lindsay Graham, Bill Gates, Chris Matthews, Justin Trudeau, Merrick Garland, Michelle Obama, Gavin Newsome, Rachel Maddow, and other people who don’t like Donald Trump.
Julie Green:
Mrs. Green is associate pastor at her father’s church, Faith Family Fellowship on the Iowa side of the Quad Cities. She’s been preaching since 2010. Her bio is typical of charismatic Evangelical pastors. Mostly an account of when she was saved/born again and filled with the spirit. She’s taken upon herself the mantle of prophet and Clay Clark keeps giving her the mic so I don’t think she’s going away any time soon. This past weekend at the ReAwaken event in Pennsylvania, she said:
“Says God, you can’t stop my son, who is the rightful president. He is on his way back and how he takes his position back on center stage, you will never see that coming because you won’t see me coming. And I am with him.”
OUCH! Strained something with that eye roll…
But this is the issue that needs to be addressed. As Christians, we have to take seriously the way we move through the world. We’ve passed the point where we can write this off as a fringe, back-pew-weirdo phenomenon. I was a pastor in a charismatic Evangelical church and I have been cornered by my share of well-meaning Christians with borderline personality disorders who believe they have a word from God. Seldom have any of them been as egregiously blasphemous as the content of these Christian Nationalist rallies. These are grifters masquerading as prophets who have traded the gospel of Jesus Christ for their 15 minutes of fame. Real, lasting damage is being done to the Christian faith and we are helpless to stop it.
So, what do we do? The only way to counteract this sort of wickedness is to fervently seek to become like Christ. There is enough wrath and judgement being peddled from a few cacophonous corners of the Christosphere. We have to match that wrath with peace and judgement with mercy. There is no other way forward but to embody Christ all the more fervently.
Truth.