The following report is by NBC News:
The audience of about 1,500 people waved small American flags and chanted “USA! USA! USA!” as television cameras began filming last Friday inside a Regent University ballroom. Many in the crowd wore red “Make America Great Again” hats. Some carried Bibles.
They had paid $60 each to attend a live taping of “FlashPoint,” a national TV program that’s won loyal viewers with a unique blend of pro-Trump political commentary and prophetic messages about God’s divine plans for America.
Over the next three hours, the audience heard the same overarching message that “FlashPoint” broadcasts three times a week on the Victory Channel television network and various streaming platforms: The world has entered its final years. Jesus will soon return. But Christians are not meant to wait idly while evil runs rampant; they are called to occupy positions of power and influence in society. And in the short term, that means putting Donald Trump back in the White House.
“I watch to get the truth,” said one “FlashPoint” attendee, who described a “supernatural” rush of clarity the first time she found the show while flipping channels two years ago.
“This is the only news show where you hear what Jesus thinks,” said another attendee, a mother of three school-aged children who’d driven four hours from central North Carolina for the taping.
Launched in 2020 and hosted by pastor Gene Bailey, “FlashPoint” at times looks and sounds like other right-wing cable programs. But unlike Fox News hosts, the rotating panel of conservative pastors and commentators on “FlashPoint” pepper their political analysis with messages that they say come directly from God.
Viewers hear regularly from Lance Wallnau, a self-described prophet known for popularizing the Seven Mountains Mandate, a philosophy increasingly embraced on the right that says Christians are called to claim positions of power atop seven key “mountains” of society, including government, education, business and media. “FlashPoint,” which presents itself as an alternative to mainstream news, embodies that strategy.
In a January broadcast, pastor Hank Kunneman, another “FlashPoint” mainstay, said the Lord told him that 2024 would be a year of “divine reckoning” and “vengeance against the wicked.” In the months since, the show has portrayed the presidential election as a spiritual clash while depicting Trump as a flawed leader — like a modern King David — who’s been anointed by God to save the nation.
The show draws a monthly cable TV audience of roughly 11,000 households, according to Comscore data, while clips of the program reach hundreds of thousands more viewers online. With a rabid following, it has “become incredibly popular and even gravitational” on the Christian right, said Matthew Taylor, a senior scholar at the nonprofit Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Maryland. Trump is one of several prominent Republicans who have appeared as guests on “FlashPoint,” including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA.
The program fits into a growing evangelical movement that calls on followers to “think of themselves as soldiers in a cosmic conflict,” said Bradley Onishi, a former megachurch pastor and author of “Preparing for War,” which documents the history and rise of Christian nationalism in America. To “FlashPoint” loyalists, political debates are no longer just about who wins the next election, Onishi said; they are about the fate of eternity.
“When you explain it that way to folks,” he said, “you’re able to prime them, not only for action, but I think for extreme measures.”
Trump has embraced elements of this framing, warning in speeches that the left wants “to tear down crosses” and promising that his return to office would restore Christian power. He also has promised to eliminate the Johnson Amendment, a rarely enforced federal law that prohibits nonprofit foundations and religious organizations — including the one that operates the Victory Channel — from endorsing political candidates.
White evangelical Protestants remain among Trump’s most loyal voting blocs, with more than 80% planning or leaning toward voting for him in November, a recent Pew Research survey found. Hoping to push that number even higher, “FlashPoint” has called on pastors to start preaching a pro-Trump message on Sunday mornings.
Bailey, the “FlashPoint” host, did not respond to messages requesting an interview.
Rick Green, a regular “FlashPoint” panelist, is the founder of Patriot Academy, a Texas nonprofit that teaches courses about what it calls the nation’s explicit Christian origins — an idea disputed by historians. He told NBC News that he believes many critics of the show’s mixing of religion and politics are ignorant “about the founding principles of America.” Others, Green said, harbor “hatred and intolerance of differing views.”
“You get more truth from ‘FlashPoint’ than any news program in the nation,” Green said.
To rally the show’s most loyal fans, known as the FlashPoint Army, the Fort Worth, Texas-based Victory Channel, a Christian network run by the nonprofit Kenneth Copeland Ministries, has hosted tapings across the nation as part of its Rescue America Tour. The live programs, even more than the regular broadcasts, take on the feel of a Christian revival service.
The episode filmed in Virginia Beach opened with brief remarks from each of the night’s panelists, who included Dutch Sheets, a self-described apostle who led a series of prayer rallies in the months after Trump’s 2020 election defeat in a bid to keep him in office.
“We are in a dark place in this nation, maybe as dark as it’s ever been,” Sheets told the “FlashPoint” audience last week. “But God is coming with the light of his glory, and he’s going to save this nation through his people.”
A moment later, a husband and wife duo stepped forward to lead the crowd and those watching at home in worship. With hands stretched upward, audience members sang, “There’s power in the mighty name of Jesus. Every war he wages he will win.”
Between songs, Bailey invited anyone suffering from physical ailments to approach the stage. The election was coming soon, the host said, and they weren’t going to be able to save the country if people were sick.
“America needs you for the long haul,” Bailey said, as dozens came forward, including a woman who said she’d been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Bailey, Sheets, Wallnau and the other panelists placed their hands on each person and, one by one, declared them healed in the name of Jesus.
Some audience members dropped to the floor in a euphoric rush that, in some charismatic Christian faith traditions, is described as being slain in the spirit. Others sat quietly in their chairs, tears streaming down their cheeks.
Moments later, the conversation on stage shifted back to politics and the urgent need to mobilize local churches to get out the evangelical vote and re-elect Trump in November.
This seamless weaving of immersive religious expressions, apocalyptic preaching and right-wing political organizing worries some religion and extremism experts, including Onishi, who pointed to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as evidence of what can happen when people come to believe a candidate has been chosen by God. There’s long been a strain of American evangelicalism that portrays current events as signs of the coming apocalypse. But tying the fate of humanity to a particular candidate is “something new and novel in modern U.S. history,” Onishi said.
Several attendees at Regent University — a private Christian college founded by the late televangelist Pat Robertson — said the show’s blending of prophecy and bare-knuckle politics is what they love most about “FlashPoint.”
Speaking to a reporter outside, Tom Jones, a military veteran from Virginia Beach, said he used to watch Fox News but started watching “FlashPoint” instead after someone at church told his wife about it three years ago. Jones, wearing a “FlashPoint Army” hat, said he likes that the program doesn’t shy away from applying “God’s truth” to current events.
“If you look at what our Constitution says and the rights that we have, they’re all based on the 10 Commandments,” Jones said. “And we’re losing it.”
Terry and Barry Pawelek said they try to attend every “FlashPoint” live event. This was their seventh. The couple had driven 21 hours from Oklahoma to be there.
“They balance both Bible and news,” Barry Pawelek said of FlashPoint. “That’s the thing that we need to hear.”
“It’s encouraging,” Terry Pawelek said.
It’s also inspiring, she said. After hearing MyPillow founder Mike Lindell at another “FlashPoint” taping discuss his debunked theory about rigged voting machines corrupting the 2020 election, the Paweleks said they decided to become election precinct chairs in Caddo County, Oklahoma.
SEE: [see articles on Mike Lindell here].
“‘FlashPoint’ encouraged us to make a difference,” Barry Pawelek said.
Several other attendees, citing their distrust of mainstream news, which “FlashPoint” routinely depicts as a tool of Satan, declined to share their names with an NBC News reporter, who bought a ticket to attend the taping. One woman, invoking Wallnau’s Seven Mountains teachings, prayed that the journalist would become an ambassador for God in the media mountain.
Back inside, the final hour of the program focused on the presidential election. The panelists criticized conservative Christians on the fence about voting for Trump — currently on trial in New York on charges of faking business records to cover up an alleged affair with an adult film star — because he hasn’t come out in support of a national abortion ban.
SEE: Trump Backs Off On Hard Abortion Stance, Condemns Arizona’s Ruling To Outright Ban Abortions
Wallnau, comparing Trump to King Solomon, a biblical figure renowned for his wisdom, said the former president was deploying a complex political strategy that would, over time, deliver major victories for conservative Christians, including on abortion.
Nodding in agreement, Green, the Patriot Academy founder, said he was furious that some evangelicals might turn against the former president.
“If you are so self-righteous as to think, ‘I’m not going to vote for the man because he’s not perfect,’” Green told the audience, “you are helping the destruction of America.”
Pastor Tony Suarez, executive vice president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, acknowledged that he initially didn’t support Trump in 2016. But he said God opened his eyes. Suarez then referred to what he described as a prophecy that says “a certain president” would come to fully embrace Jesus “in a second term.”
“I’m just praying that in that second term,” Suarez said of Trump, his voice raising to a crescendo, “that that Holy Ghost fire will get a hold of him, and we’re going to see something great happen.”
The FlashPoint Army was now back on their feet, hands in air and cheering as Suarez completed his prayer for Trump and for America.
“In Jesus’ name!”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Jeremiah 17:5 Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD. [6] For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. [7] Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. [8] For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. [9] The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? [10] I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
The NAR movement is cursed and is not of God. I’ve warned about the NAR thing in a number of articles beforehand (see links below), and it is one of the most dangerous movements out there today that is plaguing so many Christian groups; and the passage I quoted more than proves that the movement is not of the Lord, especially considering it rallies behind a wicked man like Trump who uses these people for the “useful idiots” that they are, as Stalin would call them. Consider this passage also:
Isaiah 42:22 But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore. [23] Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and hear for the time to come? [24] Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law. [25] Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
The MAGA prophets and proselytes, and really Americans in general, are not calling for the former days, as Jeremiah 6:16 says: “Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.” Instead, they, like the rest of this country, still want their “progress” and their wickedness but without the repercussions and residue of sin that follows. The people are just self-loving, spiteful, envious, greedy dogs and swine that don’t want real change and restoration, but just to have a man-god that will give them the assurance of being able to have their cake and eat it too.
Most of the stuff this Charismatic wingnut show is saying is just regurgitating the same nonsense they and Trump and were saying during his first tenure. And guess what? The nation only spiraled down the toilet bowl deeper.
Daniel 2:21 And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding:
While it is true that God has indeed put Trump in as President for a time, and perhaps again (we’ll find out later this year), he also allowed Biden and Obama, and others, to become President; and God’s reason for Trump being there, in my observation, is to act as ensign in that God can judge the people with. Trump’s presidency and exit has highlighted the true idolatrous and rebellious hearts of Americans, and how they truly think and believe, either by their vitriolic chiding against him or their blind obedience and idolatry to him; none more so than the professing “Christians” who have proven whom they really serve.
Ezekiel 14:4 Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols; [5] That I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.
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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Listen – the powers that ought not be were willing to poison millions of people so that DJT wouldn’t get in, in 2020. Do you honestly think they’ll let him in this cycle? No. They won’t.
DJT is a mason, MAGA is witchcraft, he’s not born again, and his homes are replete with idols. The ‘Red Shield’ family (satan worshippers) bailed him out, and these people think he’s on their side?
Come on, people! WAKE. UP!
14) Then the LORD said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.
15) Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.
Jeremiah 14:14-15
“Trump is anointed by God to bring back America” uh huh yeah right and fish fly out of my nose!
America wants their man god who’ll make them comfortable and feel righteous in their self righteousness and pride while they bask and celebrate their sins galore, more sins you can shake a stick at, but don’t worry because they’re “God fearing educated healthy adults” because they go to church buildings and are part of the church board.
God is so angry and fed up with Great Satan America and so am I!
Kenneth Copeland is a devil in the flesh and his face even shows it! Did you see his face when Lisa Guerrero was interviewing him? I nearly jumped out of my socks – he scared me so bad! Another lying minister of Satan who prophesies false visions and divination so he can fly his Cessna Citation V and live in his mansion like he’s a king all paid for by spiritual blood money!
I pray these ministers of Satan especially these televangelists wind up poorer than paupers!
The 7-Mountain Mandate (of Satan).
Revelation 17:9 – And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.
Revelation 17:5 – And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
2 Peter 2:17 – These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
If Kenny Copeland is involved it’s of Satan, period end of statement!!
Brethren, it’s not going to get better and those of us that read God’s Word know it.
Just stay in the Word and stay out of the world as best as possible and PRAY…
Heb_13:5 Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
More like ‘Fleshpoint’. This is like the craft franchise ‘churches’ around here: New Point, Cross point…etc. Craft, craft & more craft. I personally knew one family involved in establishing one of them twenty miles to the north of us, & now they’ve one twenty miles to the West. They’re no more ‘Christian’ than Rome or any other of the cults though back in the day they used all the right terminology etc.
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They think they’re spiritual humanists, superiors, etc, ‘scientific Christians’…and that they’re ‘getting away with something’ as they damn their own souls & those of any fool & wicked enough to follow them, but the Lord & Master of all truth & wisdom has more than a little surprise in store for all of them. All they ‘get away with’ is fulfilling & confirming the word to a ‘t’ that they say doesn’t exist or that isn’t true.
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Revelation 18: 2 KJB And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
This quote from the article above, I believe, shows exactly what the plan antichrist Rome & apostate Jewry have for getting rid of the King James Bible & real Christians once & for all. This is all a set-up & a show that has been scripted for a long time. Marginalizing, misrepresenting & sending in, then media puffing wicked devils like Steven Anderson…acting like Westboro Baptist was legit & mainstream, etc. James Beller wrote of this frame- up in his books, ‘America in Crimson Red’, & ‘Sacred Betrayal’.
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Quote: This seamless weaving of immersive religious expressions, apocalyptic preaching and right-wing political organizing worries some religion and extremism experts, including Onishi, who pointed to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as evidence of what can happen when people come to believe a candidate has been chosen by God. There’s long been a strain of American evangelicalism that portrays current events as signs of the coming apocalypse. But tying the fate of humanity to a particular candidate is “something new and novel in modern U.S. history,” Onishi said. ENDQUOTE
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The real ‘weavers’ include guys like Onishi and the satanic fake evangelicals like Copeland BOTH with the antichrist spirit they’re prostituted to& serve. No doubt, this sort of circus is to be their excuse for their big crackdown & imposition of ‘official’ & ‘certified’ ‘Christianity’ under Rome & openly yoked with State. Part of the ‘crusade’ against Islam & boogeyman Russia when all the leadership of both & all is Craft: but the real Christ is coming, & he is ever with his people & has promised us that he would never leave us nor forsake us, & grace for every need.
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It’s ALL foretold. All Luciferian. And, they think they’re really ‘something’, these ‘little gods’: but the Lord & true God of the Godhead has it all firmly in control. See Isaiah 59& compare with Romans 9-11, the latter Old Testament prophets & latter New Testament epistles & Revelation KJB.
The NAR is indeed an occultic pack of wolves in sheeps clothing. At rhe heart of the NAR is dispensational premillennialism—a novel strand of Christian Zionism that seeks to “fulfill” prophesies already fulfilled in Christ Jesus. These deceivers are trying to foment a clash of nations that will be used as cover for the destruction of the Al Aksa Mosk in Jerusalem. Why? So the 3rd Temple can be built in fleshly Jerusalem. and the ensuing Noahide Laws can be implemented globally in order to kill all true Christians. So, the editor at this site can pretend, as seems to be his consistent MO, that he’s against this eventuality, but his dispensationalism and Christian Zionism betray where his loyalties lie—and it’s not with Jesus. Do not be deceived reader!
PS. Editor, you spend alot of time supposedly warning Christians about that which they need to know. How about doing something on the Bible’s teaching of Israel according to the Flesh vs Israel accoryto the Spirit? After all, it’s the Talmudic Noahide Laws (promoted and carries out by Israel according to the Flesh) that is the satanic end game.