The late prophet Kim Clement delivered a sobering word more than a decade ago about the corruption of what was once precious—and the horrifying image of mothers turning against their own children. Today, those words carry an eerie resonance as the nation continues wrestling with the Lindsay Clancy case.
In a recent livestream, Donné Clement Petruska shared one of her father’s prophecies from Feb. 22, 2014, in which Clement spoke of God’s displeasure with wickedness and the spiritual deterioration of something once treated as precious.
“How the gold has become dim,” Clement said. “The stones of the sanctuary are scattered at the head of every street. The precious sons of Zion, valued as fine gold, are now regarded as clay pots. Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets, and those brought up in royal scarlet now embrace ash heaps.”
Clement continued with a picture of devastating decline.
“Is this what I wanted?” he said. “My people were brighter than snow, whiter than milk. They were like sapphire in their appearance and now they are stricken for lack of fruits in the field.”
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Then the prophecy took a chilling turn.
“The hands of a once compassionate woman have cooked their own children, and their children have become food for them,” Clement said. “Your children have become food for who were once compassionate women. But My fury is fulfilled says the Lord.”
Clement’s language draws heavily from the imagery of Lamentations 4, but hearing those words again in 2026 is difficult to ignore amid a case that has forced America to confront the unthinkable: a mother killing her own children.
Clancy admitted to strangling her three children—Cora, 5; Dawson, 3; and Callan, 8 months—in their Massachusetts home in January 2023. The spiritual imagery behind Clement’s words is striking—particularly when viewed alongside a warning Charisma previously highlighted from Pastor Josh Howerton.
Howerton urged Christians not to look at the Clancy tragedy solely through a psychological, legal or cultural lens. He pointed specifically to reports discussed during the case that Clancy had described hearing a male voice telling her to kill her children and herself.
“If you’re a Christian with a Bible in your lap and eyes in your head, you’re going, ‘Now, wait, wait just a second,’” Howerton said, pointing to Jesus’ warning in John 10 that the thief comes to “steal, kill and destroy.”
“I do not find it totally coincidental,” he said.
That is where Clement’s prophetic warning takes on an even more sobering dimension.
More than 12 years before the Clancy trial shocked America, Clement proclaimed biblical imagery of a society in spiritual decline, where what was once precious was cheapened, and the natural compassion of motherhood itself became grotesquely inverted.
Howerton, viewing the tragedy through the lens of spiritual warfare, raised a similar underlying question: Are we willing to acknowledge that evil comes from a spiritual realm?
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,” Paul writes in Ephesians 6:12, “but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age.”
Clement’s prophecy was rooted in an ancient biblical warning. Howerton’s message brought that spiritual warning into a modern American tragedy.
When the unimaginable becomes reality, the church cannot afford to lose its ability to discern the spiritual battle raging around them.
Abby Trivett is a writer and editor for Charisma Media and has a passion for sharing the gospel through the written word. She holds two degrees from Regent University, a B.A. in Communication with a concentration in Journalism and a Master of Arts in Journalism. She is the author of the newly released book, The Power of Suddenly: Discover How God Can Change Everything in a Moment. For interviews and media inquiries, please contact [email protected].
