SOH Mike Johnson and the five red heifers transported to Israel to be sacrificed in celebration of the End times

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41. This might help explain the seriousness of their insanity...

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Taylor, who specializes in Protestant studies as senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, Maryland, is a gifted narrator and an incisive analyst. The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That is Threatening Our Democracy, just released in October 2024, is as riveting and disquieting as the podcast. Disquieting because the movement he writes about appears closer to realizing what Ché Ahn spoke of four years ago, a triumph that would bring an end to the protection from religious coercion that the First Amendment is intended to provide. The Courage Tour that targeted nineteen counties in the seven swing states with spirit-filled revivals firing up the faithful for Donald Trump in the recent election campaign demonstrated the movement’s ongoing vitality.The New Apostolic Reformation
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Apostolic and prophetic governance forms one of the three legs of the ideological stool, as Taylor describes it, undergirding a mega-network that emerged in 1996 called the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). Taylor writes that the NAR connected a large sector of independent, charismatic Christianity in what became a “potent network of Christian leaders” who “built the theology of Christian Trumpism and then inspired thousands of Christians to show up on January 6 to fight for Donald Trump.”2 Under the radar of most media analysts, including prominent evangelicals, NAR-connected charismatic leaders and their ideas have moved from the margins to the center of politicized right-wing evangelicalism. They have become “frontline captains in America’s culture wars.”32022 (screen capture).

Ché Ahn’s January 5, 2021, remarks also manifest the two other legs of the NAR stool—strategic-level spiritual warfare and the Seven Mountains Mandate. The NAR takes to another level the fairly commonplace notion of “prayer warriors” who do battle against evil in the spiritual realm on behalf of individuals. At the “strategic” level of spiritual warfare, apostles and prophets have authority to lead massive prayer campaigns against specific “territorial spirits”—commanders in the hierarchy of cosmic “principalities and powers” who are assigned to rule specific geo-political territories or institutions. “Jezebel” thus apparently names a specific, command-level demon holding sway over the U. S. government that was to be cast out by “Jehu,” representing “generals of intercession” leading believers in a targeted campaign of spiritual warfare. The Seven Mountains Mandate, bidding Christians to attain dominance over the major realms of human society, forms the ideological link between warfare in the invisible, cosmic realm and political conflict in the visible, earth-bound realm. Thus, success in the spiritual campaign means that on the ground, in Ahn’s words, Christians are going to “rule and reign through President Trump.”

But why Trump? And how could all of this be conceived of as “under the lordship of Jesus Christ.” In The Violent Take It By Force, Taylor tells the story of how NAR-connected leaders have exerted an outsized influence in bringing about the apparent incongruity of evangelical conservatives giving overwhelming and ardent support to a man whose unrepentant immorality, unapologetic self-aggrandizement, and unceasing lies seem to put him utterly at odds with the moral values they say they want implemented in public life. The narrative centers on former Fuller Seminary professor C. Peter Wagner (1930-2016), the architect of the NAR, and reads like a novel in relating how the lives of a vivid cast of characters intersected with Wagner and each other in the process of forming a movement that has made a vast impact.
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https://spectrummagazine.org/culture/books-film/from-revival-to-riot-a-review-of-matthew-d-taylors-the-violent-take-it-by-force/