So, our own court system basically calls his assertions non-reality-based lies. The truth is Denmark was not persecuting him, but they did want to prosecute him. So, he ran away to the United States but was supposed to leave after 90 days. But he didn't. He stayed for years until finally the law caught up to him and properly deported him. Oh, and while he portrays himself as this indigent persecution victim, he was immediately fleecing the flock here too. I saw one story from him about how someone gave him $50,000 two days after arriving. He was living in a 2-million-dollar home in Florida that rents for $14,000 per month. Just his suitcases, right.
'Now, in his first media interview since being deported, Torben told CBN News how shocked he was to be imprisoned in America. "I think the biggest thing was shock," Søndergaard said. "I did not understand how this could happen in a country like America, where there's so many Christians and churches and ministries."' - CBN News
It is infuriating that scammers like this are allowed to enter into the sheepfold. What happened here was the law was enforced. He lied about why he came and now he is lying about what happened to him here. Besides the financial grift there is a political one going on as well. The Republican Party wants power back so they will use anything to beat Joe Biden, including lying about this case to make Sondergaard out to be persecuted and the victim. They sell that garbage to the people in the church buildings every week and the outrage builds. All the while, Sondergaard is laughing all the way to the bank. He fleeced Denmark until they were going to arrest him. He fleeced the United States until they deported him. Now he will begin fleecing his new undisclosed country until they realize the huckster that he is and then that country will be persecuting him too. The apostate church meanwhile will hold his hand, help him fleece the flock some more and use it to help their political masters. Absolutely disgusting.
"Søndergaard told us that inside the facility, he faced a level of hostility and intimidation from ICE officers that was different from the treatment of other detainees. He said, "I had people come to me and say, 'What is happening to you? What is happening here? They don't treat anyone else like this.' There was intimidation. I had some encounters with the ICE officers that were very unusual, and it was very frightening to be there. So, in that way, yeah, my case was different." At a House subcommittee hearing in July, the Chairman of the Border Security and Enforcement Subcommittee, Congressman Clay Higgins (R-LA), accused the Biden Administration of targeting and persecuting Søndergaard." - CBN News
All self-reported horror stories that do not pass the smell test. Here we see the political end game. Republicans using this to pretend that Christians are being persecuted so they can gin up the Evangelicals to go vote. Except Biden is Christian! He is Catholic but he has been Christian his entire life! For the record, Torben Sondergaard is a horrible false teacher as well. He plays the demonology card and pretends to be able to cast everything out of you. This is probably why Saldivar defended him. He is not an evangelist. He is a grifter who latched on to the church and every time he gets close to being caught, he cries persecution and goes to another country. The grift ends here.
'Søndergaard believes his experience is a warning to the church that persecution is coming.
"We think (persecution) is for the few extreme (Christians) out there. And we think we are safe if we just don't do like them. And maybe it's just a few now, but it's a few now and then in a short time it will be the many. And in the future, it will be everyone who confesses Jesus as Lord."' - CBN News
Please. Right now, there is a Chinese family being arrested for holding church underground in defiance of tyranny. Right now, a Middle Eastern brother in Christ is asked to choose between denouncing Jesus or facing beheading. He will choose death. These people are being persecuted. Torben Sondergaard entered this country on a 90-day Visa and stayed for three years. He applied for asylum and was denied. As a result, he was arrested and eventually deported. That is consequences for your actions, not persecution. It is sad enough that someone like this can deceive so many but to be aided by the apostate church just compounds the problem. This entire article by CBN News is nothing but lies and distortion. Look at the apostate celebrities lining up to cry the victim. Beloved, this guy did not even get what he truly deserved but at least he is not here anymore to make videos whining over his treatment while living in a Florida mansion at 14K per month. It should be obvious, but mark and avoid and do not be used by the apostate church to further this offensively inaccurate narrative. If we so casually lie about this, why would anyone want to hear what we have to say about Jesus Christ?
