LE††UCE PREY
Preachers Prophesied a Quick End to the Crisis!
Networks of conservative evangelical “intercessors” who have been mobilizing prayer on behalf of President Donald Trump and his reelection have turned their attention to the coronavirus crisis. Through numerous prayer calls, written prayer guides, and podcasts this week, religious-right activists and evangelists have rallied around Trump, asked God to bring a swift end to the pandemic, and predicted that God would use the crisis to launch a massive spiritual revival.
Intercessors for America held a coronavirus-focused prayer call last Friday. Consistent with the shift in messaging from the Trump administration, IFA leader Dave Kubal did not downplay the severity of the pandemic, but he did engage in spin seemingly designed to deflect criticism of the administration over the country’s disastrous lack of capacity for testing for the virus. Kubal said that because there is no vaccine or treatment, “testing has limited value.” (This is not true; testing is key to fighting the spread of the virus.) Kubal prayed that people would not be “distracted” by the fact that there aren’t enough tests.
Some of the “Highlights”:
- Thanking God for answering their prayers for clear and decisive leadership.
- Paula White .
- Praying for medical advances.
- Praying for divine healing.
- Praying for spiritual revival.
- Some nutter “thanked God for giving Trump “supernatural wisdom” for the protection of the American people.”
- Another nutter named Alveda King said Trump’s misinformation is a spiritual strategy, such as his claims about the 15 COVID-19 cases decreasing in the U.S.
- Something about a satanic plot against Trump, but “God will flip the script on Satan”.
- Another said “the virus is part of a “satanic agenda” to cancel evangelical events this year.
- Others said the virus did not come from God, but he allowed it, because, blah, blah, blah…
- Some good news: A guy named Strang said “the pandemic would be “solved somehow around Passover”” which is April 8. (warmer weather I guess)
And my favorite, A guy named Lou Engle that God talks to: “God told him that the decision to allow the coronavirus to be unleashed was “a judgment from the Lord” but that God has also granted Engle spiritual authority to call for a breakthrough!”
