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- Heavenly Father... - Heavenly Father...

- ..may the blood of Christ... - ..may the blood of Christ...

- ..cleanse me. - ..cleanse me.

- We bless your name, we praise you, we thank you.

I do pray that you would wake up your church to fight.

- In the beauty of holiness...

In the beauty of holiness...

- ..for the rest of my life. - ..for the rest of my life.

- Blessed is those who listen to the words of this prophecy

and heed what is written in it, for the hour of fulfilment is near.

- I will read and obey your word.

- He, Jesus Christ,

He is our all and all.

He is Lord!

- The next event on God's prophetic timetable,

the rapture of the church.

I will be your servant.

- And from this day forward... - And from this day forward...

- ..You become my Lord. - ..You become my Lord.

- In Jesus' name. - In Jesus' name.

- The four horses ride across the world

and we're beginning to see them ride now.

- SHOUTING

- And I will serve him... - I will serve him...

- ..to the last day of my life. - ..to the last day of my life.

- Or to the sounding of the trump of God.

- In Jesus' name, I am saved. - I am saved.

- And heaven is my home.

- I'm going to talk about war.

How many of you all recognise the Bible is full of war?

- Amen.

- And so I don't want you to think

that I am raising a militia.

Well, I've been accused of that, brother.

Uh, because I get pretty dogmatic about...

Jesus asked us to fight.

And what I want you to just begin to wrap your head around

is that Jesus called us to be warriors.

He said, "I didn't come to bring peace."

He said "I didn't come to bring peace. I come to bring war."

How many of you all remember the scripture in Luke 6 chapter

where it said, "If somebody does evil to you, turn the other cheek."

- That's right. - Yep.

- But see, there is another scripture that we forget to

abide to all of that.

And that's Luke 22.

Jesus, he said, "Times are a-changing."

And he says, "Do you have a sword?"

Well, master, we don't... A sword?

He said, "Yeah, if you don't have a sword, go sell your coat

"and buy one because the time is coming.

"You're going to need a sword." - Amen. - Amen.

- How many of y'all hear that things may change in this country?

- Amen.

- And we're going to have to have a spirit of discernment when to turn

the cheek and when to pull the sword.

- That's right, man. That's right.

- A knight has to be moved by compassion,

by love, by something inside of you that hurts.

I'm here because I believe that there's got to be men

that's raised up.

There's got to be men that take on another level.

And I'll knight you in the name of the father, the son

and the Holy Spirit, and tell you to rise and accept

your sword of responsibility.

The church has lost the battle of a Christian nation

because they've concerned themselves with what goes

on inside the four walls.

The Bible says an warrior must be funded,

an evangelist must be sent.

I believe God is raising up another group of people,

and it's going to come out of the broken, screwed-up people.

- Live pure. - Live pure.

- Speak truth. - Speak truth.

- Right wrongs. - Right wrongs.

- And follow the king. - And follow the king.

- Say, that's my commitment. - That's my commitment.

- That's a knight. - That's a knight.

- The remnant is always a smaller group that stays loyal.

Ad I believe that God is raising up a remnant.

It's going to be made up of those men and women that are radical,

that are willing to put it all on the line.

There's got to be a climax to this war of evil versus good.

At some point, there will be a major Armageddon,

and I believe that the blood will run up to the horse's bits.

We're moving into a time in our history

where we don't know what's going to happen.

- The end of time, when is that?

That's right now.

The next thing that's about to happen is the return

of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Everything that's necessary for this new world order

is at the door.

Major uncontrollable fires, the Bible said, will break out

all over the world spontaneously.

The sun and the moon will be darkened.

Earthquakes so shattering that the islands

of the sea will disappear.

The seven seas of the earth will turn to blood.

A world war so bloody that the blood of those who are killed in battle

flows up to 200 miles to the bridle of a horse.

The coronavirus was no accident.

When you see these signs...

..when you see nations against nation...

..when you see the moral collapse of America...

..when you see these things,

the apocalypse is coming.

We are called to be warriors.

And we need you to get in the fight!

In the tradition of Christianity,

there is no single view of the end times.

But the American evangelical community has latched on to one.

Generally, they believe that believers on earth

will be raptured to heaven before things get really bad.

And that's the promise to the evangelical,

that they will not taste death if Jesus comes back

and the rapture occurs in their lifetime.

- This book is literal from cover to cover.

B-I-B-L-E.

Basic Information Before Leaving Earth - Bible.

- The American evangelical Christian

is someone who believes every word

of the Bible is literally true,

like the apocalypse and the return of Jesus predicted

in the Book of Revelation.

Every single sign and wonder

that could be interpreted

to make it seems like it's sooner,

it's all good news to the evangelical Christians.

Bring it on.

But there are certain verses interpreted in

the Book of Revelation which seem to intimate

that none of this can happen unless the State of Israel exists.

- There will be no lasting peace in the Middle East until

the Prince of Peace, the Lord Jesus Christ, returns.

- The American evangelical movement now,

said, "Not only do we recognise this..."

"This process can be advanced by, for instance, torpedoing the peace

"process so the Palestinians never get their land back.

"The ancient borders of Israel need to be reclaimed,

"and then Jesus will come back."

- When Jerusalem and Israel come together.

As a reporter, I've covered politics for so long,

and I've seen the fusion of politics and religion in so many ways.

In recent decades, evangelical Christian Zionists have become

an increasingly powerful force in American politics.

I'm now investigating evangelical power and how their direct

influence shapes US foreign policy and our relationship to Israel.

- Some argue that calling for the abolition of Israel

and the elimination of the only Jewish state isn't anti-Semitic.

- We are absolutely, categorically committed

to Israel's right to exist.

- I'm a reporter from The Intercept.

I want to ask you about the hearing. Do you have a quick second?

- Sure, man. - Do you think there's a role of

religious extremism here in the US

funding and shaping the conflict?

I mean, there are a lot of folks who are part

of the evangelical movement that want... - To support Israel.

- ..to support Israel, and we don't really kind of see that

same kind of constituent group pushing the other way.

- Yeah, I wouldn't label the Baptist

or the evangelical community

as extreme, because I believe they feel

like they're following the Scripture

and what the Scripture says about Israel.

Those who bless Israel will be blessed.

I mean, they take it literally, and I'm one of those people.

- You know, there are some Christian Zionists that do believe

in some of these biblical prophecies,

and they're very controversial

even within the Christian Zionist evangelical community.

- On what the interpretation is.

- Yeah. And believing in Armageddon,

that there will be a final battle

around Jerusalem, and that after that battle, you know,

there's a Judgment Day.

Jews will be killed or converted,

Jesus will come back,

there's going to be a rapture event.

Um, what do you think about those kind of prophecies?

- I believe Jesus will come back

and I'm going to be on his side.

- The Christian right has a very organised and concerted effort

to shape the messages in DC.

I mean, they really have a political apparatus that's very efficient,

that's very influential, even if it's often

behind the curtain.

Ralph Drollinger is a former college basketball star who decided

to develop his own Bible studies for politicians.

- With the advent of secularism in America increasingly on the rise,

and what we call the mountains of influence that are toppling

of late, one of the places we're trying to hang

on is the mountain of political leadership,

to make sure we make disciples in that arena,

so that they can stand in office

with a prophetic voice and say, "Thus saith the Lord."

- Ralph Drollinger formed his Bible study,

meeting with radical right politicians, and slowly grew it.

His Bible study today has over 50 Members of Congress in attendance.

He brought his Bible study to the White House.

He convened weekly Bible studies with members

of the Trump cabinet.

- So one of the reasons we're issuing this, how to think about Israel

through the lens of Scripture Bible study of recent,

was because of the bombing from Gaza,

and then the glitch within the administration to not fund

the Iron Dome resupply.

I thought I better issue a Bible study that helps bring biblical

clarity to this issue.

- In these Bible studies, Drollinger has attempted to provide

moral and biblical justification for some of the most extreme

radical right policies.

He's used the Bible to justify the coronavirus,

blaming gays and members of the LGBT community...

..and really engage in the type

of radical right rhetoric that you might hear on kind of

dark corners of the internet.

But here's someone who's directly pastoring the Secretary of State

under the Trump administration, and Members of Congress.

- O, God, our Father, Thou Searcher Of Men's Hearts, help us to draw

near to Thee in sincerity and truth.

May our religion be filled with gladness, and may our worship

of Thee be natural.

- When you look at the Book of Revelation,

things are going to get worse before they get better.

And we're going to end up in a tribulation period

where the Antichrist is going to war against Israel,

and Christ is going to come back to save Israel from the Antichrist.

- Here's a public policy issue where the US interests are at play,

where there are so many different policy solutions

that can be considered, but religion is playing the dominant role.

We're talking to Members of Congress about Israel

and the US's relationship.

- All right, y'all go.

The US has an intrinsic interest in making sure that Israel

not only receives our best prayers and offers of success,

but our armaments, our money, and our ability to make sure

that in a very dangerous region, this democracy survives.

- There are some biblical prophecies that say that control of Jerusalem

by the Jews is important for the Second Coming of Christ.

- This entire matter is based

upon faith of Our Maker, of Our Creator,

but it's also faith of a chosen people.

- Did you ask why the Democrats are using our law enforcement officers

as political pawns?

The Democrats, who have been campaigning to defund our law

enforcement as their people, BLM and Antifa

riot and loot in the streets.

There's a new government in Israel.

Can you talk a little bit about the importance of the US

relationship with Israel?

- There have been two nations created to glorify God -

Israel and the United States of America.

I will bless both. I will honour both.

I will do all I can to stand and defend them.

- Thank you, Congresswoman. Take care.

- Is it true that there are people who really believe

that having Jerusalem unified under total Israeli control

will bring on the end times?

- Well, yes, Joy. You know, I come from a fundamentalist evangelical

background, and I grew up in the '50s and '60s.

I'm 65, and when I was...

- So my background is one where biblical prophecy

about the end times of Jesus's return, the apocalypse,

were the reality we lived with.

And I can remember, as a child, flushing a toilet and looking to see

if the water had turned to blood yet...

..because this was a sign that the apocalypse

was about to occur.

- Abortion on demand is another humanistic euphemism

for man playing God.

Its ramifications go beyond that.

- I'm the son of a fundamentalist American missionary.

People would show up to sit at the feet of Francis Schaeffer

and learn the spirituality from him.

I was a prince of evangelical royalty.

By the time I was 18 years old,

I was talking to crowds of 20,000 people.

But over a 15-20 year period, gradually,

like a drug addict, I came clean.

I'm still estranged from huge chunks of my family

because I'm a heretic.

I've joined the other side.

- Jesus! Jesus! Jesus! - CLAPPING AND CHANTING

- The bedrock of support for the State of Israel is there because American

evangelicals think it will bring Jesus back quicker

and without the Republican bedrock evangelical voter,

no Republican, anywhere in America, for any office, gets elected.

- You commit yourself to the principles of God

and politicians align themselves

with the eternal values in this book!

- CHEERING

- Thank you very much.

I want you to know that I endorse you and what you're doing.

- I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States.

- So help me God. - So help me God.

- If the evangelical movement had not morphed into the religious right,

you would not have a situation that would put Donald Trump in power.

- It's a Bible.

- We, who are evangelical Christians,

are going to have a true friend in the White House.

- The big numbers who were there on January 6th protesting him

not getting elected were evangelicals.

For them, when Trump lost the election,

somehow this couldn't be right because they had interpreted him

being president for another four years as God's will.

- Thank you, Heavenly Father, for gracing us with this opportunity.

Thank you for allowing the United States of America

to be reborn.

Thank you for filling this chamber with patriots that love you

and that love Christ.

We love you and we thank you. In Christ's holy name, we pray!

Amen!

- Today, the modern evangelical is preparing for an actual holy war,

armed training, militia groups,

plenty of guns, plenty of ammunition.

They're going to cost

what you might call "sane, ordinary America" very heavily.

- Kenneth, how are you this morning?

- I'm great, Gary. How are you?

- I'm good. Good to see you.

Hey, guys. Before I pray,

Jesus had to be a stud of a man

because he stood there

and broke bread for 15,000 people by himself.

So if you get a little tired, think about who we serve. - Amen.

- All right, here we go. We're rolling!

How are you this morning?

Good.

God bless you all.

- Good morning.

- How are ya doing?

When Jesus comes back,

he's not going to send an army,

he's going to lead an army.

I want to be in that,

and I want to be right up in the front.

Jesus said, "The first shall be last, and the last shall be first."

So if you really want to be at the front with Jesus...

..you've got to quit trying to fight to be successful.

You've got to fight to be at the lower end.

Merry Christmas.

That's fine. We understand. We've all had those days.

Play-Doh!

- Hey, girls, you know what?

We ride motorcycles, so you're going to have a stick horse.

All right? We ride iron horses.

You're going to ride a stick horse, all right?

Hey, we're in the port

in Ashdod, Israel.

And we just opened the containers

and the bikes are good. They made it!

In 2011, I shipped 30 motorcycles to Israel,

took 74 people over there.

When we rolled into Jerusalem, we had our 30 bikes,

and then we had 120 Israeli bikes.

This ride was to honour the IDF soldiers.

- And we would just say, "We just want you to know that we care

"about Israel, and we thank you for your sacrifice

"for this country."

How many of y'all know, when I say Megiddo Valley,

you know what that means?

How many of you know what the Battle of Armageddon is?

The final war of good and evil,

that's where it's going to be fought.

And I'm on this Harley,

and I'm headed in the Megiddo Valley.

I'm coming the direction that the enemy, the Devil,

and all of his forces

are going to come against the bride riding on that big white horse.

Visually, God, I can see that big white horse.

And I'm riding along there and I said,

"God, I don't want to be at the back of the pack.

"I want to be right up there as close to you as I can.

"I want to see Jesus take that sword

"and slay the enemy and watch the blood run up to

"the bits of the horses."

Anybody else in here?

- Yes.

- Man, I'm riding on that motorcycle getting pumped!

And I said, "God, let me...

"I want to be right up there close to the front. I want to see it.

"What have I got to do to get there?"

He said, "What did I teach you?"

What does the word say?

The last shall be first.

The servant of all...

..is the greatest.

- Hi. Good morning.

Welcome to our Jerusalem tour.

For us Palestinians, Jerusalem is not just an important city.

Jerusalem is the symbol of Palestine.

Since the occupation of the eastern part of Jerusalem in 1967,

the Israeli occupation authorities have been designing and implementing

policies of systematic displacement against Palestinians.

The wall is built deep inside the West Bank.

It is not on the green line,

so the wall is not just security,

it is also taking over lands.

Residents in East Jerusalem's Silwan neighbourhood

said that Jewish settlers had moved into two buildings

in the predominantly Arab area.

It's coveted by Israeli settlers, who refer

to it as the City of David.

- It makes me very angry to know that the funding that these settler

organisations receive from people, especially in the United States,

is making it possible for them to actively push

Palestinians out from their city.

In Silwan, there is a so-called national park called

the City of David, claimed to be where King David's palace

was 2,000 years ago.

The City of David is managed and controlled by the notorious

Elad settler organisation, which is in charge of the settlement

activities in Silwan.

The same settler organisation

now want to establish

a biblical theme park in Silwan...

..using Jewish history in order to justify

the uprooting of Palestinians.

- For decades, Palestinian families that have lived in Jerusalem

for generations upon generations

are then forced out of their homes

and squashed into refugee camps.

This is happening in Sheikh Jarrah, my neighbourhood,

this is happening in Silwan,

through various organisations

that ultimately have the same goal

of replacing Palestinian natives

with Jewish settlers.

For years, it was settlers that would change every now and then.

They were in their early 20s

and I believe they were being paid,

and they are just there to harass us.

These settler organisations operate as charities in the United States.

They are tax exempt,

and the evangelical organisations

are just funnelling money into them.

In Sheikh Jarrah, we have what the Israeli Foreign Ministry

refers to as a property dispute

in which billionaire-backed settler organisations can come

from all over the world and exploit a judiciary

that is built by settlers to enforce their claims

over our lands.

- Yacoub, you know this is not your house.

- Yes, but if I go, you don't go back. So what's the problem?

Why are you yelling at me? I didn't do this.

I didn't do this.

It's easy to yell at me, but I didn't do this.

- You are stealing my house.

- And if I don't steal it, someone else is going to steal it.

- No. No-one...

No-one is allowed to steal it.

- Hey, CUFI, you shall see. - Hey, CUFI, you shall see.

- Palestine will be free! - Palestine will be free!

- Hey, CUFI, you shall see. - Hey, CUFI, you shall see.

- Palestine will be free! - Palestine will be free!

- Ladies and gentlemen, will you please stand and give a warm

welcome to a consistent and faithful friend,

the 45th Vice President

of the United States, Mike Pence?

- Well, hello, Christians United for Israel.

- John Hagee is the leading voice of Christian Zionism.

He has built a political powerhouse out of his organisation

Christians United for Israel.

- You know, a lot of people get

spun up with the wrong ideas

that American evangelicals want

to impose a theocracy on America.

Ha! I wish they'd be concerned about the real theocratic takeover

that has been happening in Iran for the last four decades.

Christians United for Israel has a really extreme view

in terms of promoting geopolitical factors that could lead to

what they believe is the battle of Armageddon.

But in terms of the practical effect,

they're promoting policies that arm Israel to the teeth with US weapons,

that drive Palestinians out of Jerusalem,

and that ultimately is pushing towards more conflict

in the Middle East.

- Now, would you give a thunderous welcome

to the greatest rock star in Israel?

- Welcome to the City of David,

the place where Jerusalem began.

Pastor Hagee, thank you for that very warm introduction.

It is an honour, as always, to be here together...

- If you look at the website for the City of David project,

it looks like an effort simply to engage in archaeology

to find these biblical artefacts.

But underneath the surface,

there's a lot of Christian right money

and resources and support for this foundation that's leading

the effort to evict Palestinian families.

The City of David seems like the perfect cover

for Christians United for Israel,

that conceals a very right wing agenda that's driving this violence.

- We have 7.1 million members

and 5,000 of you in this room,

and it's because we're willing to work little by little,

by little by little.

- We are going to have a great time on Capitol Hill.

This is your opportunity to stand up for Israel and the Jewish people

in the halls of Congress, and it will be recorded

in the courts of Heaven, I assure you.

- Outside to my right...

- Thank you for putting action...

..behind words.

Prayers and hard work makes a difference for America,

for Israel, and for the entire world.

- Amen.

- I have determined that it is time

to officially recognise Jerusalem

as the capital of Israel.

- Thanks for joining us, Pastor Hagee.

Really appreciate you being with us here on Faith Nation.

I was curious about some of your interactions

with the President on this.

You visited him at times at the White House.

- We spoke about moving the embassy.

- Welcome, our good friend. - Welcome.

- Let's go, honey. Let's go.

- I talked to him about the significance of moving

the embassy in the Jubilee year.

I said, "This is the year

"to move the embassy and make

"that declaration, because it is a biblical timing

"of absolute precision."

Thank God he's going to do exactly that.

The world will be watching as the United States joins Israel

to mark the official opening of the US Embassy in Jerusalem.

Pastor Robert Jeffress is delivering the prayer

to kick off today's ceremony.

- Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

May those who love her prosper.

Allah!

- I'd like to call upon Pastor John Hagee.

- We thank you, O Lord, for President Donald Trump's courage

in acknowledging to the world

a truth established 3,000 years ago

that Jerusalem is, and always shall be,

the eternal capital of the Jewish people.

Can we all shout "hallelujah"?

Hallelujah!

- Amen.

- The torch goes up when you pray the prayer of repentance.

So you'll have the torch.

Second Chronicles 7, 13 and 14.

"Suppose I hold back the rain, or send locusts to eat the crops,

"or make my people suffer with deadly diseases.

"If my own people will humbly pray and turn back to me

"and stop sinning, then I will answer them from heaven."

- There's a great possibility that us stopping every 150 miles,

putting our feet down on the ground,

and declaring the power of God

over this country, that it could be that God

would work in a heavenly...

Y'all with me at all? - Yes. - Yeah.

- Y'all with me?

I choose to believe every one of you are on

a divine assignment from God.

God, if you can get more glory out of our living,

if you can get more glory out of us getting to Lebanon

and celebrating the prayer there, get us there.

- # If tomorrow all the things were gone

# I'd worked for all my life

# And I had to start again with

# Just my children and my wife

# I thank my lucky stars

# To be living here today

# Where the flag still stands for freedom

# And they can't take that away

# And I'm proud to be an American

# Where at least I know I'm free

# And I won't forget the men who died

# Who gave that right to me

# And I'd gladly stand up next to you

# And defend her still today

- # Cos there ain't no doubt I love this land

- # I love this land

- # God bless the USA

- # God bless the USA. #

- Our organisation is leading from eight different points

of our country to come together

at the geographical centre in Lebanon, Kansas.

Every 150 miles, we're going to get off our bike

and pray a prayer over our nation.

- Father, I just ask that we will be more militant about serving you.

We will be more militant, Father,

about saying "yes" to the things that is yes,

and "no" to the things that is no.

- What's the deal?

Are we in a straight line instead of in a circle?

What is up?

- We like shade.

- You're a bunch of wusses.

- At this time, we're going to honour the Judeo-Christian

values by playing a Jewish prayer.

- JEWISH PRAYER

PRAYING

- I've ridden hundreds of thousands of miles,

and God has spoken so many things to me in that solitude,

and that's my sanctuary.

It's a place for me to hear God.

I grew up in the suburbs of the DC area.

September 11th was a huge event in my life.

Seeing the pillars of smoke billow out of the Pentagon...

..the war on terror,

to see the whole country so swiftly move to suspend civil liberties,

to march towards war.

And I was coming of age around the time of the Iraq War.

I followed the 2004 election campaign,

where Bush had mobilised evangelical voters

and created this dichotomy

of good versus evil, us versus them.

Bush even went so far as to call the war on terror a new crusade.

And so that's why I think it's important to be critical,

to look at the role of the Christian right

in shaping US policy towards the Middle East

and potentially pushing us towards war.

I'm going to speak with Colonel Wilkerson.

He was the chief of staff to Colin Powell.

He left government during the Bush years

and became an outspoken critic

of the war in Iraq, the war on terror.

And he's concerned about the role

of evangelical Christian nationalists in the military.

Some of these Christian nationalists have zeroed in

on some biblical prophecy that if a certain criteria is met,

in terms of the chosen people of Jews controlling Jerusalem,

that there will be an Armageddon.

What are the dangers of having people that have this kind of

doomsday mind-set, that cataclysmic war is important

for bringing back Christ?

How can that endanger US interests?

- The most vivid danger in all of this, I think,

is the special relationship with Israel.

Christians United for Israel,

John Hagee's group,

is a quintessential example of the danger.

They are looking for the US relationship with Israel,

ultimately, to bring about Armageddon, and the Rapture

and Christ's thousand-year reign.

That's what they're there for.

- This is the first time that soldiers from the United States

are going to be permanently assigned to a base in Israel.

- We, in the military, said "no"

to every president

from Harry Truman on.

"We will not put a military base in Israel.

"If you order us to, we'll quit."

- Now we've got a base there.

We've got a base there.

When Hezbollah has the temerity

to put a missile on that base,

or by accident,

we're in for a penny, in for a pound.

That base is there

and Trump allowed that base to go there,

so that, as we say in the military,

if the shit really hits the fan,

we're in it immediately,

because the US has been attacked.

The Stars and Stripes flies over that base.

- Most of the young people that come into the military

are there probably because they're trying to figure out

who they are.

From an evangelistic standpoint,

I've always referred to them as, "Ripe as black bananas."

- Chaplains are increasingly coming

from the fundamentalist sects.

These evangelical fundamentalist chaplains go to some place

where basic training graduates,

and they say beforehand,

in their meeting, "These troops are at their most vulnerable.

"They've been racked and trained to death. Go get them."

- The Holy Spirit...

- We try to reach our recruits immediately.

There are 450,000 recruits in the freshman class of this next

year's Armed Forces.

That's going through boot camp.

We will touch about 200,000 of them this next year.

- They had something like 70 baptisms at Fort Jackson

at the end of basic training exercises.

And they proselytise and they get them,

they take them down and baptise them.

And then they're part of the Christian nationalists.

I'm just calling to ask you to keep your nose

where it belongs.

We don't need you up here.

Have a rotten day, asshole.

- Next message.

- Weinstein...

- Get it! - You're sick.

Go and do something different.

You make me vomit.

- Yeah, Weinstein, you're another corrupt,

heartless, gutless, coward individual.

Go find a life.

Quit picking on the people that defend your sorry ass

every fucking day, loser.

- Colonel Wilkerson recommended that I talk to Mikey Weinstein.

He's with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation,

and he's worked for the last two decades

shining a light on religious fundamentalist influence

within the military.

This is kind of a shadow war.

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- I come from a military family.

My dad went to the Naval Academy,

so I applied for and got into all three of the military academies.

The cadet hat.

The Air Force Academy.

When people come to us, they are freighted with terror.

They are terrified of reprisal, revenge, retaliation.

We're closing in on 76,000 US Marines

that are clients of ours,

and about 95% of them are Christians themselves,

being dehumanised and marginalised for not being Christian enough.

- The military ministry of Cru only does three things, really.

We win people to Christ,

we build them up in their faith, and we send them out into the world

to do the same thing.

- There are probably three dozen parachurch organisations,

some of them well known,

like Campus Crusade for Christ Military Ministries,

Focus on the Family, Officers' Christian Fellowship.

that are incredibly involved in the military.

They have offices on military bases,

they have senior military officials.

We call those fundamentalist Christians or Dominion Christians.

The Seven Mountain Mandate, the New Apostolic Reformation.

Their job is to transform the military and the militaries

of the world into this version of this weaponised Christianity.

Jerry Boykin, the former three-star general, has made it clear

that when Jesus comes back,

he'll be carrying an AR-15.

It's not a veneer, these are true believers.

- The Lord is a warrior. The Lord is His name.

And in Revelation 19 it says, when He comes back,

He's coming back as a warrior, riding a white horse

with a bloodstained white robe,

carrying a sword.

And I believe that sword He'll be carrying

when He comes back is an AR-15.

- You know, in the media, we've seen images of Crusader symbols,

of Christian symbols, of, you know, units deployed

in Iraq and Afghanistan.

- We had 138 US Marines,

they came to us in Helmand Province in Afghanistan.

They were walking into the villages out there and the village elders,

most of them hadn't even heard of 9/11, but they had heard

of what I ended up calling the Jesus Rifle.

A company called Trijicon, based out of Michigan,

they had about a $2 billion contract to make rifle scopes

for our military.

On the scopes, if you look closely, were biblical citations

from the Book of Matthew, Mark, Luke,

John - Revelation.

It was burned into the scope.

Now, think of the optics of American soldiers

shooting Muslims in Afghanistan through the scopes

that have the New Testament citations.

These are Air Force fighters that can carry nuclear weapons.

Complete Crusader iconography,

complete with the helmet,

the three cross-shaped stars,

of course the sword and the crucifix.

All stuff like this does is completely motivate

the recruiting efforts of Boko Haram,

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, ISIS,

the Mujahideen and the Taliban.

How do they refer to America? "The Crusaders."

This doesn't help.

- Never, in the history of the world,

have all the players been on the stage.

Iran.

Russia.

China.

Europe.

America.

Everything is absolutely perfect.

The final battle for global supremacy

will be the mother of all wars and Armageddon.

- There are two Armageddon lobbies in the world.

There are the extreme Islamic Armageddon lobby,

they believe in a final conflict between Islam and everyone else.

And then there is the Armageddon lobby of American evangelicals.

Evangelical American voters in the Republican Party want a final

conflict with all other religions, all other political points of view.

They see it as us versus them,

true Christians versus everyone else.

- Nation shall rise up against nation,

and as we see these things increase

in intensity and frequency,

we can know that the Lord is going to return.

- "We don't want peace."

"We," being evangelicals,

"We want Armageddon. Bring it on."

Their view of Zionism is not going to either help Israel

or any individual Jew.

Their view of Zionism is apocalyptic.

So when Israel is finally attacked

by, say, a nuclear-armed Iran, that suits the Christians fine.

It's exactly what they're prophesying.

Then we'll have a big last battle,

Jesus comes back and we're all going to heaven.

- Are you listening, Iran?

Are you listening, Russia?

God's going to wipe you out.

- The scary thing is, we are armed with the largest and most powerful

military on Earth and thousands of nuclear weapons.

And so when you put Armageddon lobby together with American power,

it's a different deal.

- Father God, we stand here at the heart of our nation,

the very geographical centre of it.

- Yes. - Lord, in recent years, the heartbeat of America has waned.

Lord, I've come here into the centre of America

to plead in its behalf... - Yes.

- ..and ask you, Lord, to heal the hearts.

Father God, I pray for this nation.

I believe for a great revival.

We believe that it could happen

because you're a miracle-working God. - Yes, you are.

- And nothing, but nothing, is impossible.

- Amen.

- We're going live in about seven minutes.

I need everybody to give a shout

and a roar to welcome the six million people

that are going to be joining us right at 2:00.

So let's practise. One, two, three.

- The enemies of faith and godliness

are no longer hiding.

Because our land seems alive now

with demonic powers once hidden.

A canopy of darkness seems to have been stretched

across the whole nation.

Government, the founders believe,

derived its just powers

from the consent of the governed, and without that consent,

the government was without foundation.

Send us a spiritual awakening.

We appeal to Heaven.

- I'm so excited for Gary Burd to be here. - Yeah!

- We thank you Jesus for bringing complete healing

to his body and his wife's body.

In the name of Jesus, hallelujah!

- Oh, praise God.

Four men tried to pick up my motorcycle

pinned underneath a tree,

and there was a manifestation of a divine angel

that came and helped my brother pick that bike up off my wife.

And the Lord brought to my mind about that angel

and he said, "Listen, where you fail,

"that's where I show up."

I'll tell you, I serve a God that's worthy of all praise and glory.

It's my honour to get to pray for the...

- I want to live a life that says

sacrifice is important to me,

and I choose to sacrifice.

Mark 10:45, Christ said,

"I didn't come to be served.

"I come to serve.

"And to give my life as a sacrifice."

- Listen, dear Americans,

God is trying to get our attention.

The destiny of our nation, the hope of our children and grandchildren

lies in our age.

- # We wait for you

# America

# For the truth... #

- So I can't tell you that I believe we are at the end of the end.

I think we are at the end of our comfort.

We're at the end of what we know.

- You're making your people...

..just come into a nation that is very bad.

And then the next day, it is a very holy nation.

- Thank you.

- I thank you for everyone that has upheld America

whenever we were in need.

Whenever we were in need,

we had others that helped us.

When they were in need, we helped them.

Israel will not go down because of us.

No-one will go down that is our ally,

that is not trying to attack us and kill us.

- Please put your hands on them, Lord.

Please protect this earth.

Lord, we'd never lose so much. Amen.

- Amen.

- Now, what giants are we going to face?

I think we've already seen some of them.

Enemies, you know,

the homosexual movement,

the transgender back in our military...

..the abortion issue.

- # I am free

# Hell lost another one

# I am free, I am free

# I am free

# Hell lost another one

# I am free, I am free... #

- It's kind of like we're still telling a fairy-tale.

Everything's going to be OK.

God is good, and everything's going to be OK.

It's not going to be OK.

If you read the book, if you truly believe Revelations...

..it's going to get worse.

- We're going to put these parts in these flames for the sake of keeping

these individuals out of the flames.

- Yeah, yeah. - We're going to snatch them out of the flames of hell.

- Rejoice. Come on.

I'm in Texas because this is really the heartland

of the Christian Zionist movement.

Many of the political leaders

and the theological Christian leaders

who are really the tip of the spear

in terms of pushing the US-Israel alliance,

pushing the kind of end times theology,

they're right here in Texas.

This is their power base.

Our colleague talked to you about talking to Phil King.

- OK.

- Hey, folks, this is a private event. You've got to go.

- Oh, we have tickets.

- We're not going to have anti anything.

This is the great state of Texas.

You've got to go. - Anti what?

- Y'all anti-Israel or whatever,

we're not doing anything like that.

- I'm not anti anything.

- I'll report you to the FBI, so you've got to go.

- You're reporting us to the FBI?

- I would. - For what?

- Sir, you've got to go.

Just leave.

- OK. - OK. - All right.

Many of the proponents of this kind of militant pro-Israel policy

don't want to talk about the merits of this policy.

They don't want to talk about the ramifications.

They don't want to talk about the human rights issues

raised by Israel in terms of the displacement of Palestinians.

They run away, or they literally kick reporters out

and threaten to report them to the police.

I think the fundamental problem

with the Israel-Palestine conflict

is similar to some of the core issues driving political instability

in the US.

There's too much polarisation.

There's too much dehumanisation.

- You're calling Cornerstone Church.

Our office hours are 8:30am to 5:30pm Monday through Friday.

- I've been trying to get in contact with Pastor Hagee and his church,

Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, for some time.

I've tried to get interviews, but they've been completely walled off.

- Joining me now is Pastor Robert Jeffress,

member of the White House Faith Initiative,

pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas.

What do you make of this dust-up between these two congresswomen

- LAUGHTER in Israel?

- They said they didn't want to go to Israel.

They wanted to go to occupied Palestine.

David, that proves that these two women

were not on a fact-finding mission.

They were on a propaganda-spewing mission.

And Israel was...

- Dr Robert Jeffress is one of the most powerful

evangelical leaders in the country.

He's on TV all the time.

He leads one of the largest megachurches in the country.

He's a spiritual adviser to Donald Trump.

- Now, Perfect Ending is a book that talks a lot

about end times, prophecy.

- Yes. - OK. - The Bible doesn't tell us the when,

but the Bible tells us the what.

- Dr Jeffress is outspoken

on the end times,

the battle of Armageddon.

You know, he's not just talking about this to his own flock.

He's making policy. He's influencing Donald Trump.

He's advising him.

He's going to Israel and shaping the geopolitics there.

- Would you join me in welcoming our great friend

and the 45th President of the United States of America,

President Donald J Trump?

Come on up, Mr President.

Thank you so much. - God bless you.

- I love you.

- Robert, I want to thank you so much.

You know, you never told me how beautiful this is.

A highly respected man.

He does very well on television and spreading the word.

- But you have a special relationship with Trump as his friend,

as his spiritual adviser.

Could you talk a little bit about your relationship with Trump?

- Well, President Trump was here just a few weeks ago in our church.

He's the only president who was able to move our US embassy

from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

But people wonder why that was such a big deal.

What that means is Israel possesses the land.

- In the historical City of David in East Jerusalem,

there's been an attempt to find the archaeological artefacts

that form the basis of this ancient city.

Right now, there are Palestinians living there.

What's your view on this City of David project?

- The Palestinians are trying to do everything they can

to stop that project,

because what they are unearthing is

the archaeological evidence that the Jewish people inhabited this land

far before what we call "Palestinians" today.

And let me just say a word today,

what we call "Palestinians", that's a made-up term.

You don't find it in history until 100 AD.

- I've heard you talk about the battle of Armageddon.

Could you talk about what you see in the Middle East and how that fits

the prophetic vision for the battle of Armageddon?

- The Bible does teach in Revelation 16 and 19

that there's a final world battle that will take place.

How would John describe an Apache helicopter or a tank?

How would he explain a nuclear explosion?

He uses the language of appearance, but that doesn't make

it any less real. It makes it more real.

It means these things are literally going to happen.

- In this battle of Armageddon, who is on God's side?

Or in other words, who's God's enemy?

- Well, the ultimate enemy

is going to be all those

who have rejected Christ as Saviour.

And it's a hard thing for people to believe that Jesus,

the carpenter, the mild and meek teacher, is going to return,

as Revelation 19 describes him,

sitting on a horse with a sword

and executing those who have opposed God.

But that is Jesus.

Yes, the first time he came,

he came as Saviour of the World.

The next time he comes, he's coming as the judge of all the world.

Our programme, Pathway To Victory,

is seen on television in all 195 countries.

We're the most viewed programme on the Trinity Broadcasting Network,

the largest Christian network in the world.

- We're going to roll this right quick.

All right. Whenever you're ready.

- The countdown to Armageddon has begun,

and our only hope is that Jesus will return soon

to take his children home.

Though today's global powers make every attempt to establish binding

agreements with other nations,

God will have the final say.

No matter how hard we try to make world peace

or undo the effects of humanity on this earth,

the end of the world is coming

and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

Bible prophecy always begins and ends with Israel,

in which we get a glimpse of the final pages of human history,

the seven-year tribulation,

the final world battle, and finally

the glorious return of Jesus Christ.

My message is titled

"Countdown to Armageddon."

It feels like the end is near,

but once you read and understand

the prophecies in Scripture,

you'll realise that the end

of the world is nothing to fear.

- We heard about the news that the Israeli occupation courts

have ruled to dispossess us around October or November of 2020.

It was such a heavy weight on my shoulders

and the shoulders of my community,

particularly because this is something we have dealt

with for many, many years.

But then we decided we were going to call it what it is and start

a campaign against the ethnic cleansing in

Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan.

- In our series Countdown to the Apocalypse,

we're looking at the signs Jesus said would precede

His visible, literal

return to planet Earth.

And the first of those signs is the rise of radical Islam.

And Jesus said these signs will be like the labour pains,

the birth pains that a woman experiences.

They will increase in both frequency and intensity before the end comes.

Oh, my God.

- SOBBING

- Wow, wow, wow.

Holy shit.

Holy shit.

- How many of you would like to experience

an explosion of God's blessing...

..to enter into a land flowing with milk and honey?

All of your enemies have been conquered before you.

Walk across the Jordan River

and put your foot on the property

God wants you to have.

You are a soldier of the cross.

We are conquerors in Jesus' name.

The victory is ours.

Advance and conquer.

Right now, I'm at a small hotel in the parking lot

of Cornerstone Church.

So not that far away, watching a live stream of Pastor Hagee.

- God is waiting in the wings

to destroy your enemies.

- I tried to secure a sit-down interview

that has been so far unsuccessful.

So I hope to just get a moment with Pastor Hagee

before or after his sermon.

OK. He's here.

Um, excuse me, Pastor Hagee, I have a quick question.

Do you have a moment for just one question? - No, he doesn't.

- I wanted to ask if you're trying to bring about

the battle of Armageddon, is that your goal?

Excuse me, why are you holding me this way?

Excuse me, sir. OK, but why are you twisting my arm?

You're twisting it.

The stakes are high.

John Hagee, he's seen as kind of a political kingmaker.

Presidential hopefuls go to his megachurch...

..seek his endorsement.

The president has unilateral authority

to launch a strike or use nuclear weapons.

So for John Hagee or Robert Jeffress,

or one of these other pastors

who believes that a cataclysmic world war

could bring about Armageddon, these are the people whispering in the ear

of a president who could actually make that happen.

We cannot look away.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners.

- American foreign policy is guided

as much by a theocratic set of ideas

as, for instance, Iran or Saudi Arabia is.

The next step in the American evangelical community

is to turn America into a theocracy.

Today in a landmark ruling,

the United States Supreme Court

overturned Roe versus Wade,

essentially ending abortion rights at the federal level.

A Texas woman facing murder charges over an abortion.

- In God We Trust will be required reading in Louisiana

schools this year.

- USA, USA, USA, USA, USA!

- If, for instance, Trump goes into a second term...

Beyond that, you have these evangelical theocracy people.

- If this vision prevails, they would be fighting

a genuine crusade...

..and so their American foreign policy

becomes a tool of biblical prophecy.

And it hinges on a minority of American voters

to whom this is not AN issue.

It is THE issue.

Because the whole apocalyptic vision

of the end of their own lives hinges on it.

It's personal.

- We're going to see a time

where we're going to have to defend

the Christian life with a sword.

And there's a strong movement underneath the surface

of men that feel this way.

We're going to have a bloodbath

like we've never witnessed

since the Civil War.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

I knight you.