The leader of Charisma and the dominionist movement now feels that when his party loses it must be God's judgment upon his idol, America.

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So the men turned from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord. Then Abraham drew near and said, "Will you indeed sweep away the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there are fifty righteous within the city. Will you then sweep away the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous who are in it? Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?" And the Lord said, "If I find at Sodom fifty righteous in the city, I will spare the whole place for their sake." - Genesis 18:22-26 (ESV)

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We all know the big names. The big draws. Those with the loudest pulpits. The Bill Johnsons. The Brian Houstons. The Joel Osteens. These are the usual focus for discernment ministries because they are the most egregious and often most public. Then you have the less influential but potentially just as dangerous. The Jennifer LeClaires. The Shawn Bolzs. Then there are the wizards. The ones behind the curtain, pulling the strings. The above linked article is from one of them. His name is Stephen Strang. He is often not featured because he does not preach per se. He runs Charisma News so in many ways, he is a kingmaker for heretics. He is also a rabid dominionist, which is why Charisma News is so heavily slanted towards that particular false teaching. Strang, undoubtedly depressed by the mid-term results, has proposed the above as a "prophetic revelation" about the future of America and the end times. That means he is claiming this is coming directly from God. Let us reason once more as we pull the curtain back to expose the monster under the bed. The skeleton in the closet. The Great and Powerful Strang.

'It's no secret that we live in an upside down, crazy world, and it appears like things are getting worse and worse. Immorality, open borders, inflation and socialist policies are running rampant throughout the country. Many believers were standing in faith for a turning point during the midterms. I have a more contrarian view on the results and how I believe we should move forward from here. It's becoming harder and harder to live out the Christian lifestyle as the world moves further away from biblical values. Now what? Many Christians across the nation believed electing a few conservative, Bible-believing politicians would help move our country forward. I am actually one of those people and I talk about it in the latest episode of my podcast "Strang Report."' - Stephen Strang

The chicken little cries of the sky is falling only reveals further the disingenuous nature of what Strang pushes. The bible is quite silent on matters such as immigration, inflation, and socialism because these are man made terms to discuss man made politics. Strang's ongoing sin is that he thinks he is supposed to be citizens on this mortal coil when the bible says we are but pilgrims and sojourners. Inflation is not new. It cyclical and this time very predictable because of the money pumped into the economy during the pandemic. Open borders have always been around and there have always been demagogues to demonize the brown people. Or the Irish before them. Or the Chinese when the west was being settled. Besides, if your main Christian activity is making sure poor and oppressed people are not helped by the richest country in the world then good luck when you stand before Christ. Socialism is also not some anti-Christian boogeyman. That social security your parents live on? Yeah that is socialist. Same for the Medicare. All socialism is just as evil as all capitalism. Either way it has nothing to do with Jesus Christ. Now immorality certainly does but the sad thing for Stephen and the dominionists is they only see immorality in people they disagree with. The lost? Immoral! The world? Immoral! The Democrats? Way immoral! Our side? Pure as the driven snow of course - except they aren't. They are just as evil and just as immoral. That includes the apostate church Strang is a leader of. The fact is the world NEVER lived by biblical values. It is not moving further away - it is away! What part of the lost are walking in darkness is confusing? This should have zero affect on a Christian living out their values - ZERO. In fact, the more you think they move away from Christ the greater the need for you to draw closer to Him! Look however at the admission that Strang thought by electing bible believing conservatives would move the country forward. Not the preaching of the gospel. Not the winning of the lost. Instead he appears distraught because lunatics like Doug Mastriano, Kari Lake, and Hershel Walker were not elected. Or maybe it was the guy who used to sell sugar pills as cure-alls like Dr. Oz also lost. I could understand that because hucksters feel more akin to other hucksters.

"What can we learn from this? One of my good friends, Barry Meguiar, the founder of Ignite America wrote an article for Charisma News and raised a sobering point. With all of the truth vs lies, good vs evil, many Christians held the belief that "God's will" would prevail. Meguiar says, "Here's the problem: we believed our will was God's will." Billy Graham was quoted saying, "If God doesn't soon bring judgment upon America, He'll have to go back and apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah!" In nearly every category that you measure: media, movies and pornography, America leads and influences the world." - Stephen Strang

Wow. Can you see what Strang is offering here? First of all, that his side was truth and good and the other side, the winning side, were lies and evil. This is the same thing that whackadoodles Mario Murillo and Greg Locke preach. Secondly, that only the election of their side was believed to be "God's will." The aforementioned Walker who likes to hold loaded guns to the heads of his wives and forces those who aren't his wife to abort their children is God's choice. That is not to pick on Herschel either because he is just a microcosm for the morality stunted candidates offered by both parties but to Strang and his associates - only theirs are God's will. Thirdly, their new assumption is that the election of Democrats represent God's divine judgment. The delusion is so strong here. As for the absurd reference to Sodom and Gomorrah, we turn to scripture. The key verses are the chapter before God destroys these two cities. Not countries, cities. Here we see Abraham interceding for the cities, making the case for the righteous that are living with the abomination. Abraham starts at 50 but works his way down to ten people. If there were ten righteous, God admits he would spare the cities for their sakes. While I agree America is the purveyor of great many societal evils that flood the world, it is hardly where there are only 10 righteous left. What Strang should be far more concerned with is the fact that America is the world supplier of heresy and Strang is part of that supply.

"I, along with many others, believe God raised America for a special purpose. The fact is, most American citizens don't believe that. Only 20% of Americans believe and put their faith in biblical values. I used to love to go to Donald Trump rallies. When you were in the arena, the morale was high and filled with excitement for the future of the country. But, a lot of Americans didn't feel that way. When you are in a certain sphere of influence you are impacted and encouraged by those like-minded people around you." - Stephen Strang

Can you blame the lost for not placing their faith in the false gods Strang offers them? Donald Trump? For years now we have watched Strang and his compatriots liken Trump to the second coming of King Cyrus with a Deborah mantle and an Elijah calling - all true stories. Why is it that only 35% of the people felt this fantastic excitement? Perhaps because they see Trump more honestly than Strang. A failed businessman, who bankrupted multiple businesses. A failed husband who cheated on all three of his wives. A man who cheated on a pregnant Melania with a porno star and then tried to cover it up with hush money. Because you know, Jesus. This is your "Christian" idol. The hypocrisy was not lost on the lost for while the things of God are foolishness to them - carnal hypocrisy is not.

"Barry Meguiar made a point that I think is important for everyone to recognize: "The reelection of Trump's agenda to 'Make America Great Again' would have been out of step with God's judgment on America and End Times prophecies." He notes that America isn't even mentioned in last day prophecies. It is clear the eternal judgment of God is upon this nation. Something is building toward the end of time and Meguiar says America has earned God's judgement a thousand times over. "In two short years, America has lost the world's respect and our nation's confidence," he says." - Stephen Strang

When they had reached the bottom they just kept on digging. The Trump MAGA agenda is now deemed to be in step with the will of God Almighty. Wow again. You know, the folks who stormed the Capital, defecated in the well of the Senate, killed police officers and then stopped to pray thanks to Jesus. It is true that God's judgement upon this land will come, as it will for every nation. The problem with Strang and Meguiar is that they only blame the "other" side. You can easily tell how slanted this view is by the lies here about America, which has regained the world's respect over the past two years after watching Donald Trump erode it for four years. Unless Strang considers Vladimir Putin our ally and NATO our enemies. At least our current president doesn't push the leader of Montenegro out of the way for photo ops. That is not to defend one side over the other but to show how utterly deceitful it is to pretend that your guy is everything good and the other guy is everything bad.

"Despite that stark reality, have hope that we serve the eternal God. We need to be encouraged. It looks like it's getting really bad, but the truth is, we are a people who believe that following the grim future is the 1,000 year reign of Jesus on earth. We don't talk about this very much in church anymore. The world is not ending because the midterms did not go as planned. God is on the throne. Hebrews 11 talks about the heroes of the faith and how many died without seeing the promise fulfilled in their day. The key is that they died in faith and scripture says "having seen them from afar, were assured of them, embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." The chapter tells us that anyone who thinks of the country out of which they came, would have the opportunity to return. The heroes of the faith weren't meditating on the state of the world but they had a heavenly perspective. They recognized they were just pilgrims on earth and they desired a heavenly homeland. They lived in the reality that God was preparing a place for them and that is where their hope rested." - Stephen Strang

Yes! This is the entire point which is completely contradictory to the rest of this article and Strang's overall body of work! We are but pilgrims on this earth! Our homeland is heaven! God does not allow dual citizenship! The reason we do not talk about this in church anymore is because Strang doesn't use his platform to pursue the things of God! The apostate church is dominionist because of Charisma. Because of Strang. The eternally sad thing is that Strang fails to see that when he stands before Christ he will answer. He will answer for the souls he led astray to worship the political idols of this world. Paragraphs like this only prove that he knows better.

"We have a responsibility as believers to vote, run for office and encourage those who are in politics. With that in mind, we need to look beyond politics. These problems our nation is facing are going to continue despite what happened in the midterms. Set your gaze upon Jesus and the reality that He has paid it all. We will be joined together with Him one day for all eternity. There is nothing more joyful than that." - Stephen Strang

It is so frustrating to watch someone go from pilgrims and sojourners to thinking it is our Christian responsibility to vote. Beloved it is not. You can argue it is a civic responsibility but then you should just realize that your citizenship is not here. The world always gives you two evil choices the best you can ever do is try and discern the lesser evil but than ask yourself how it is your Christian responsibility to vote for evil, no matter how "lesser" you may perceive it. Strang takes it further in that he absolves his lesser evil from being evil at all! Instead he confers upon them a righteousness they do not deserve. Instead he claims they are God's choice and now if you disagree you are disagreeing with God! Now if you disagree with him you become reprobate and hell bound. That is what the evils of dominionism do to you. One day those who have faith in Christ will be joined with Him. But not those who spent their days selling a false Christ and preaching a false gospel. Not those who spent their days shipwrecking the faith of others on the shores of their political idols.

Reverend Anthony Wade - November 19, 2022

Authors Bio:
Credentialed Minister of the Gospel for the Assemblies of God. Owner and founder of 828 ministries. Vice President for Goodwill Industries. Always remember that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.