Comfortable in the middle

It’s been quite a while since I have posted anything, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been thinking about it.  I expect I’ll be resuming posts on the creation/evolution series soon, and I’ve been imagining a new series with a title like American Ironies , to comment on all sorts of fun ironies which exist on the left and right extremes of American culture, religion and politics.  You know - things like embracing diversity, but canceling people whose diversity isn’t welcome, or claiming to value life, but not the lives of some people, or supporting freedom of choice, but fighting against freedom of choice. Most recently, I’ve been thinking about the end of 2021, and especially the historic events of January 6, 2021, in the context of what God’s False(?) Prophets have been asserting throughout.  Now that we’ve passed the one year mark of January 6th, and the fact that I’ve continued to surveil a number of the American “prophets”, I felt a summative retrospective on what I...

At the start, let me say, don’t blame the messenger - I’m only sharing information about what authoritative spiritual leaders have agreed on, and declared.  I’m just a curious onlooker.    A number of prominent leaders in charismatic Christianity have laid down the law in an attempt to tame the wild, wild west of unregulated modern Christian prophetic practice.  If you’re not familiar with modern Christian prophecy, there’s an entire world of it readily available thanks to social media and streaming video platforms.  Dozens and dozens of self-proclaimed prophets have YouTube channels, some with large international followings, and others with limited local church community followings.  A huge array of recorded prophetic words are waiting to be discovered by anyone who can hit the correct combination of search terms.  Start watching, and the super-helpful Youtube video recommendation algorithm begins to suggest more and more similar content.  I...

 It’s been nearly two and a half months since I’ve last posted on the topic of God’s False(?) Prophets , where I indicated I would have one last concluding post.  This might be it (unless…the former President Trump DOES become reinstated as president – maybe in August 2021 – some are saying, and that might make for an interesting follow-up post). This post will cover two items – a brief update, and my final thoughts as represented by the title, the dilemma of seeds and weeds.  First the update. What have God’s false(?) prophets been up to recently? The majority of God’s false(?) prophets are still as confident (on the surface) as ever that the former President Trump won the 2020 presidential election, and that there’s going to be some sort of big reveal of election fraud, culminating in Mr. Trump’s reinstatement as president.  The manner in which they talk about it is a bit different now – less overt, and more of couched language that loyal followers understand...

This is the 8th post in the God’s False(?) Prophets series.  Here is a link to the first post , and the most recent post .  I’ve been waiting until the end of March to write this post.  Keep reading to find out why.   One of the false(?) prophets I find most intriguing is Hank Kunneman.   Prior to the 2020 presidential election, I was completely unaware of Pastor Kunneman (I was pretty much unaware of all the false(?) prophets).   I first ran into Hank Kunneman when he appeared as a guest on Sid Roth’s It’s Supernatural! show .   It was through Sid Roth’s show I learned about the most popular false(?) prophets.   Hank Kunneman appeared many times on Sid Roth’s show in 2020.      It turns out that Hank Kunneman has developed a prophetic style following in the footsteps of Kim Clement, who seems to be the ‘go to’ authority, as the founding prophet of the Trump presidency.   Kim Clement prophesied Donald Trump’s future presiden...

This is the 7th post in the God’s (false?) Prophets series.  Here is a link to the first post , and the most recent post . I thought I was done with posting on God’s (false?) prophets, but decided to add this one, after a few new videos were posted as rebuttals of God’s (false?) prophets. For the most part, the “prophets” who have not apologized or repented are maintaining their positions concerning the former President Trump winning the 2020 election, but have simply extended the timeline (moved the goalposts) to allow for God’s perfect timing to accomplish what was prophesied.  Those prophets who seem more dependent on their YouTube channel revenue seem to be more in crisis mode, than those who have other revenue streams. What is new, are videos posted by Christians and non-Christians opposing these prophets and their prophecies.  What I present here is not comprehensive, but intended to share a few that popped up on my radar, primarily by YouTube’s video re...

This is the sixth post in the GOD’S (false?) PROPHETS series.  Here are links to the first , and most recent  posts. The relatively small scale spiritual battle amongst advocates of the New Apostolic Reformation , Independent Network CharismaticChristianity , and Dominion Theology , against their concerned and increasingly vocal Christian detractors rages on.  The monetized YouTube prophets seemingly refuse to budge from their unified prophetic declaration that the former President Trump will win the 2020 presidential election, indicating God will accomplish this according to His timeline, however long that may be.  Their defenders have grown tired of those who accuse these YouTubers of being false prophets, and want their detractors to go away and leave them alone.  “Stop watching their videos, if you’re not going to be supportive” they declare, among less kind sentiments, like calling those who disagree workers of Satan. Now, Christian apologist YouTubers...

This is the fifth post on God’s (false?) prophets.  Here are links to the first  and most recent  posts. I’ve learned so much about the diversity of charismatic Christian practice over the past several months, observing those who boldly prophesied a second term for President Trump, declaring it as God’s will for America.  About two months ago, I encountered the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) movement, and today, while doing some online research, I discovered Independent Network Charismatic (INC) Christianity.  I shared some additional information about the NAR movement in a previous post.  Here is a 2017 article on INC Christianity from Christianity Today , and here is a January 2021 article . The world of the NAR and INC Christianity is quite unsettled right now.  Something big was supposed to happen before President Biden was inaugurated; something that would have resulted in President Trump remaining as the president.  Nothing happened,...

 This is the fourth post on God’s (false?) prophets.  Here are links to the first and most recent  posts. This is the week I’ve been waiting for!  Within three days, it ought to be clear if the very numerous self-proclaimed prophets of God were correct about their consensus declaration that President Trump would be re-elected for a second term in the 2020 election.  While you might think that the completed Congressional electoral vote count on January 6th finalized the 2020 Presidential election result, the inauguration of the next president has not yet occurred.  As the prophets have repeatedly declared, God always shows up on time, and the time is drawing near! It seems that a number of the prophets and their faithful followers are looking to January 18th (today) for God to appear and turn the election in favor of President Trump, based on a prophetic word given by Apostle Chuck Pierce of Glory of Zion International Ministries on November 1, 2020....