Pro-trump Podcasters Are Pushing Idea The President Is Bringing About The Second Coming Over Strikes On Iran

Pro-Donald Trump podcasters are pushing nan thought that nan president is bringing astir nan Second Coming pinch the United States and Israeli strikes connected Iran.

U.S. forces launched Operation Epic Fury astatine nan guidance of Trump early Saturday morning. The extremity of nan cognition is to “dismantle nan Iranian regime’s information apparatus,” according to nan U.S. Central Command. The president has claimed, without immoderate proof, Iran was readying to onslaught U.S. forces.

Media Matters, a progressive nonprofit dedicated to monitoring “conservative misinformation” successful nan media, has compiled a database of respective instances wherever pro-Trump podcasters person fixed a biblical position connected Operation Epic Fury.

Gene Bailey, big of FlashPoint, compared Trump to nan Persian conqueror Cyrus nan Great successful a video watercourse connected Saturday. The Persian Empire encompassed respective modern-day Middle Eastern countries, including Iran, according to National Geographic.

“When Cyrus nan Great entered Babylon, he didn't crush a people. He didn't crush a group group. He liberated them. The Persians still telephone him Cyrus nan Great because he restored dignity, honored faith, and collapsed nan backmost of nan oppressive regime.

“His sanction is etched successful Persian memory, not arsenic a tyrant but arsenic a deliverer. So, let's accelerated guardant 2,500 years now, galore Persians spot thing akin to Donald Trump,” Bailey said.

Pastor Greg Laurie said successful a video of him speaking astatine a nationalist event, uploaded to his YouTube page Sunday, nan attacks connected Iran could awesome nan “Second Coming.”

According to theology, nan Second Coming is portion of nan extremity of nan world, aliases nan “End Times,” wherever Jesus Christ will return to Earth.

“When we spot this benignant of activity successful that portion of nan world, it reminds maine of nan words of Jesus who said, ‘When you spot these things statesman to happen, look up because your redemption is drafting near.’ As acold arsenic I tin see, nan adjacent arena connected nan prophetic almanac will beryllium nan rapture of nan church,” Laurie said.

He continued: “When that arena happens, each of nan prophetic things that are going to return spot are for illustration dominoes intimately stacked to each other. And erstwhile nan first domino falls, nan others will fall: nan emergence of nan Antichrist, nan tribulation period, nan conflict of Armageddon, nan 2nd coming, nan millennial reign of Christ, eden and Earth go one, and location successful that prophetic script is nan penetration of Magog pinch her state Persia.”

Sean Feucht besides mentioned nan extremity of nan world during a YouTube watercourse connected Sunday.

Feucht said he’s had a ministry guidelines successful Iraq since “the tallness of ISIS” and believes “God has america positioned location for nan end-time unfastened doors of what he’s going to do successful Iran erstwhile this authorities is prayerfully removed and nan group are capable to freely believe Jesus,” Feucht said.

He added: “Pray for nan president. That God would support him safe correct now.”

The U.S. and Israel person killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and dozens of different elder Iranian figures successful nan strikes.

Trump told reporters successful nan Oval Office Tuesday that nan “worst case” script pinch nan strikes is that “somebody takes complete who is arsenic bad arsenic nan erstwhile person.”