Dr. Francis Myles, a pastor and author, says in a clip from The Jim Bakker Show that he received a prophetic vision about Donald Trump in the 2020 election. Myles says he saw this vision before the recent spate of mass shootings and saw a goat with innocent eyes who was covered in blood. Myles then says God directly told him that this goat represented Trump, who was innocent but would be turned into a scapegoat for the 2020 election. Myles says a sinister “cabal who grew America” will be responsible for this blame.

“The Lord said to me, ‘See this goat?'” Myles says. “I say yes. He said to me, he says, ‘This strategy that the enemy’s about to use against Trump to stop him from having another four years is a double-edged strategy,’ he says, ‘because this time, it’s coming from the underworld and from the political establishment.’ I said, ‘What do you mean?’ He said to me, ‘A sacrifice has been made in the demonic world, and the new strategy is going to be to make Donald Trump bloody—the bloodiest president in American history.’ But how Lord? He says, ‘They are going to make the scapegoat for every bloodshed that happens in America ’til 2020.’

“So look at the goat. He’s bloodied, but it’s not his blood. It has been put on him by those who want to make the goat look guilty for things that the goat did not do. That’s the innocence, you see, in the eyes. It’s the innocence of this man. His desire is to serve his country. He’s a patriot at the very core of his being. He loves America.”

Myles says intercessors must approach this election season differently.

“You need to understand the demonic configurations around Donald Trump have changed, and the intercessor cannot pray for him like they did in 2016,” Myles says. “Because the enemy has changed tactics. You need to know what the enemy’s doing.”

Myles says the only strategy that can be invoked to stop this is something called “divine restraining orders”—and this is why he’s releasing a book on this very subject this year.

He also attributes this to God: “He said to me, ‘This is why your book on divine restraining orders is coming out at a time [such] as this, because’—He said—’you’re going to win 2020 again using divine restraining orders.'”

Myles’ full remarks can be seen in the embedded clip.

On Thursday, the first trailer for the 2020 film I Still Believe premiered online. Directed by the Erwin Brothers—who directed the hit film I Can Only Imagine last year—the film focuses on the true story of Christian rock star Jeremy Camp.

Camp, an ordained minister and worship leader who attended an Assemblies of God college, married his wife Melissa in 2000. She was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and died only four months later. (Camp later remarried.) His hit song “I Still Believe” was the first song he wrote after her death. Based on the trailer, I Still Believe will deal with their marriage, Melissa’s diagnosis and how it affected Camp’s faith and musical career.

The film stars KJ Apa (Riverdale), Britt Robertson (Tomorrowland), Gary Sinise and Shania Twain, and releases March 20, 2020. Watch the first trailer here.

Alex Kendrick—who wrote, directed and acted in the new Christian film Overcomer—says the movie was guided by God. Alex and Stephen Kendrick, who created the hit films War Room, Fireproof and Facing the Giants, say they always ask God at the start of the creative process what sort of movie they should make next. Alex Kendrick told Movieguide’s Cheryl Crisp that God is always faithful to provide the answer.

“We believe that God is the best storyteller,” Kendrick says. “He wrote the best book of all time. So whenever we go into a movie season, we always say, ‘God, would you inspire us with the stories you want us to tell?’ And He always—after a time of prayer—He always sends us to a certain theme. So we’ll begin researching that theme and the story that goes with it. And so that’s how we came up with Courageous and War Room and now Overcomer.”

While War Room focused on prayer and Courageous focused on fatherhood, the new movie Overcomer specifically focuses on questions of identity.

“I want everybody asking themselves, ‘What have I allowed to define me?'” Kendrick says. “We believe the Creator is the one that defines His creation, and so your identity shouldn’t come from things that change easily—not from feelings or circumstances, even a title or a financial status. We want it to come from, as Scripture says, from the one who made you, that gives you your value, and when we find ourselves in the Lord through faith in Jesus Christ, He gives us incredible value. And since His character doesn’t change, it’s the perfect anchor for our identity.”

Kendrick says that while entertainment is important, impacting viewers’ spiritual lives is the top priority for his films.

“Eventually we want to get people to walk closer to God,” Kendrick says. “So yes, there is an entertainment aspect of this. We want to make movies that are entertaining. But even more than that, that have redemption, so when they walk out of the movie theater, that they are asking themselves questions to help them grow in their faith. So if they are closer to God as a result of seeing one of these films, then that is success for us.”

Watch the full red carpet interview series with the cast of Overcomer here.

Lecrae recently guest-preached at Rich Wilkerson Jr.’s VOUS Church, a Spirit-filled church in Miami. During his sermon, Lecrae invoked 1 Thessalonians 5:20 and reminded the audience that the Bible is the ultimate prophetic word during a teaching on the storms and trials of life.

“Some of us are saying ‘Oh God, make [suffering] go away. Make it go away,'” Lecrae says. “What we need to be saying is ‘God, make a way. God, make a way.’ My grandma would always say, ‘He may not get you out, but He’ll get you through.’ You’ve got to trust Him. You’ve got to trust Him.

“This is what I don’t want y’all to miss, OK? Thessalonians talks about, ‘Don’t scoff at prophecy,’ and the Bible is a prophetic book. And I don’t want you to miss this because, see, we can hear a million sermons. You hear a million sermons, you clap, you get excited today, but tomorrow you forgot about it already—unless it’s a Word for you. And that’s what a prophecy is. It’s a word for you. I believe God has a word for you. So don’t miss this one.”

Lecrae said he believes God’s prophetic promise throughout Scripture is that He will deliver you.

“See, we have to take God at His word,” Lecrae says. “God is not a man that He should lie. God does not break His promises. If He makes a promise, He’s going to keep it. He’s made a lot of promises in the Bible. You go through the Psalms over and over again and it says, ‘He delivers. He saves. He conquers. He’s the deliverer. He answers.’ Guess what? Deliverance is what He does.”

Watch Lecrae’s full sermon here.

In 2018, late night television host and devout Christian Stephen Colbert called President Donald Trump a “heretic against reality” in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine. During a recent interview on CNN, Anderson Cooper asked Colbert about those comments. Colbert delved into a theological explanation of the nature of heresy to justify where he was coming from.

“As a raised Catholic, the greatest sin is actually heresy, because not only are you astray from the right path, you’re inviting and encouraging other people to come with you on that path,” he says. “Specifically, heresy is like proselytizing for the devil. … [The punishment] is red-hot iron coffins in Dante’s Inferno. … So it’s pretty bad.”

Colbert then asserted again that Trump is committing heresy against reality, by trying to force a distorted view of reality upon others and drag them down with him.

“Our president wants to live in a fantasy world where only the way he perceives the world is the way it is, and only the things that serve his vision, and he is also trying to convince us that that is the only world which exists. It’s extremely solipsistic. But he’s also trying to invite us into this madness that he has. That’s heresy against reality. That’s proselytizing for the most selfish and basest instincts that the American people—like all people—have. But he is not appealing to the better angels of our nature.”

In September 2015, Colbert invited Trump on his show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and apologized for past disparaging comments he’d made against him. Now, when asked by Cooper, Colbert says he would not invite Trump back on his show at this time, because he would find it personally difficult to show him proper respect (which is commanded in Romans 13:7).

“It would be hard for me to be properly respectful of the office, because I think that he is so disrespectful of the office, that it’s very hard to perceive him as I would want to perceive a President in terms of their status and the dignity and the representation of the United States,” Colbert says. “So I just think for safety’s sake, it wouldn’t be a good idea.”

The full interviewed is embedded here.

Video from the first-ever Harvest Crusade was posted to YouTube last weekend on Pastor Greg Laurie’s official channel. The event, which was held at the Pacific Amphitheater in Costa Mesa, California, in 1990—was attended by over 90,000 people. Four thousand people received salvation through Jesus Christ at the event. Watch Benny Hester, the late Pastor Chuck Smith—who founded the Calvary Chapel movement—and a young Greg Laurie in this powerful historic footage.

In an episode of It’s Supernatural! recently posted to YouTube, Sid Roth says that the mass salvation of the Jewish people will predate Jesus’ Second Coming.

After observing several historical trends, Roth says, “Every time something major happens to natural Israel, something supernatural happens to an outpouring of God’s Spirit.”

Based on that—and Scriptures found in Amos 9—Roth believes that the salvation of the Jewish people will ultimately trigger a massive revival and is a strong predictor for Jesus’ return.

“When Jewish people are raised up to know God, then it will supernaturally cause a release of God’s Spirit for what Amos calls the greatest revival in history,” Roth says. “You’re going to have to build more congregations and have more believers because there’s going to be so much fruit. There’s never been a time like that in history. When? When the family of David is restored. You see what’s at stake.”

Watch the full episode embedded above.

Banning Liebscher, lead pastor of Jesus Culture Sacramento, says American consumerism—with its lack of intentionality—stands in direct opposition to biblical community. In a recent sermon, Liebscher explained this point as part of a larger teaching on the importance of seeing community not as a large, club-like crowd but as a web of intimate familial relationships.

“Sometimes you can come to church and there’s a sense of community because there’s a common connection,” Liebscher says. “Maybe you [love] Jesus or you all love the sermon so much that there’s a connection to that. And that’s important and that’s healthy. But we want to go from crowd to community to family. … But here’s the rub—is that without realizing it, American consumer culture actually is opposed to biblical community. We don’t realize it, but American consumer culture—consumerism—actually is in opposition to building true biblical healthy community. Mainly because we’re looking for somebody to do it for us.”

To illustrate this point, Liebscher compares it to working out at the gym.

“They can’t work out for me—I’ve got to do that—but I’m looking for somebody to do as much of the other work as possible,” he says. “So I pay money so that I can show up to a place where somebody bought the weights, set them up, figured out what I need. I show up where somebody has put together the entire workout program for the day. They’re put their time and energy into it. They’ve thought through it. They know what they’re doing. And they’ve also gathered a bunch of people so we can do it together. I’m paying money, because I don’t want to have to do that. I know I’ve got to do something, but I don’t want to have to put the work into thinking through, like, What do I actually have to do? So I want to show up with very little effort mentally and go, ‘What are we doing today?’ They say, ‘This is what we’re doing.’ I do it and I leave. So that’s consumerism.

“That thing right there is opposed to biblical community, because community doesn’t work like that. … Community takes intentionality. I can’t just show up and expect community to happen.”

Watch the full clip posted by Jesus Culture’s official YouTube channel here.

Dr. Irvin Baxter, a Pentecostal minister and post-tribulation end times scholar, says there is no biblical evidence for a seven-year tribulation or a mid-tribulation rapture.

“First of all, there’s no such thing as mid-tribulation,” Baxter told Jim Bakker on The Jim Bakker Show. “That’s predicated on there being a seven-year tribulation. There’s not one Scripture in the entire Bible for a seven-year tribulation. Even though everybody teaches it, all the commentaries teach it, not one Scripture. But there are six specific Scripture that teach a three and one-half-year tribulation.”

Baxter cites Daniel 7:25, Revelation 13:5 and Revelation 12:5-6 as proofs that the Great Tribulation will last precisely three and a half years.

“Every single reference to the great tribulation in the Bible is three and one-half years,” Baxter says. “There is a seven-year period called Daniel’s seventieth week, but the Great Tribulation does not start until halfway through. Jesus taught that explicitly. He said in Matthew 24:15, ‘When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet’—which Daniel said happens in the middle of the week, in the middle of that seven-year period—’when you see that then, if you’re in Judea, flee, because then will be great tribulation such has never been before nor ever again shall be.’ So Jesus taught that the abomination of desolation, which happens halfway through the seven-year period, that’s the trigger for the Great Tribulation.”

In the clip, Bakker praises Baxter for defending a post-tribulation rapture. He says pretribulation rapture proponents have to “twist Scripture” to make their case. Baxter says Revelation 20:4-6 was the “last nail” in his “pre-trib coffin.”

“I read there where it said, ‘I saw those that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus. They did not take the mark. They did not worship the beast. These lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. This is the first resurrection.’ That froze me in my tracks. Wait. Are you telling me that people who don’t take the mark when they’re resurrected, that’s the first one? Where’s my resurrection that I’m teaching is supposed to happen seven years before this? I knew right then. I knew I was wrong. From that point, I’ve been [post-trib].”

Baxter also suggests that God will make it so that days are shorter than 24 hours during this Great Tribulation period (in accordance with Matthew 24:22). He then says this miraculous shortening of days has already started.

“God’s gonna speed everything up so the time is flying faster,” Baxter says. “… It’s already happening.”

Dr. Irvin Baxter, a Pentecostal minister and post-tribulation end times scholar, says there is no biblical evidence for a seven-year tribulation or a mid-tribulation rapture.

“First of all, there’s no such thing as mid-tribulation,” Baxter told Jim Bakker on The Jim Bakker Show. “That’s predicated on there being a seven-year tribulation. There’s not one Scripture in the entire Bible for a seven-year tribulation. Even though everybody teaches it, all the commentaries teach it, not one Scripture. But there are six specific Scripture that teach a three and one-half-year tribulation.”

Baxter cites Daniel 7:25, Revelation 13:5 and Revelation 12:5-6 as proofs that the Great Tribulation will last precisely three and a half years.

“Every single reference to the great tribulation in the Bible is three and one-half years,” Baxter says. “There is a seven-year period called Daniel’s seventieth week, but the Great Tribulation does not start until halfway through. Jesus taught that explicitly. He said in Matthew 24:15, ‘When you therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet’—which Daniel said happens in the middle of the week, in the middle of that seven-year period—’when you see that then, if you’re in Judea, flee, because then will be great tribulation such has never been before nor ever again shall be.’ So Jesus taught that the abomination of desolation, which happens halfway through the seven-year period, that’s the trigger for the Great Tribulation.”

In the clip, Bakker praises Baxter for defending a post-tribulation rapture. He says pretribulation rapture proponents have to “twist Scripture” to make their case. Baxter says Revelation 20:4-6 was the “last nail” in his “pre-trib coffin.”

“I read there where it said, ‘I saw those that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus. They did not take the mark. They did not worship the beast. These lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. This is the first resurrection.’ That froze me in my tracks. Wait. Are you telling me that people who don’t take the mark when they’re resurrected, that’s the first one? Where’s my resurrection that I’m teaching is supposed to happen seven years before this? I knew right then. I knew I was wrong. From that point, I’ve been [post-trib].”

Baxter also suggests that God will make it so that days are shorter than 24 hours during this Great Tribulation period (in accordance with Matthew 24:22). He then says this miraculous shortening of days has already started.

“God’s gonna speed everything up so the time is flying faster,” Baxter says. “… It’s already happening.”