MAGA False Pastor Idleman speculates God's wrath upon people who are currently suffering, for political gain...

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if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. - 2Chronicles 7:14 (ESV)

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I remember back in 2005 during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina there were ghouls in the fake Christian community declaring it was judgment upon New Orleans for their debauchery and sin. Never mind that Katrina also destroyed places like Biloxi Mississippi, generally considered a very Christian conservative town. Was God indiscriminate? Did He just have bad aim? Or was the more likely scenario that these hatred merchants were using the suffering, pain and deaths of so many to further their own warped political goals? We see this same dynamic play out every time there is a natural disaster of some kind or another. The NAR, dominionist, apostate church cares only about their power and greed, accomplished through their politics. As such, the individual lives of people mean nothing to them. This is bad enough but they also teach those who attend their churches and follow their teaching to also hate. To extend the bony finger of accusation and loathing against the very people that need compassion and the gospel the most, probably at the very time they need it the most. Like Katrina before us, we are now seeing this play out with the devastating wildfires consuming southern California. Specifically, let us look at MAGA Pastor Shane Idleman, whose church is actually in California.

Idleman is a Trump worshipper who is using this tragedy to advance his own political ideology. The above short video from Facebook asks the same old tired Katrina question - are the fires God's judgment on California? He opens up by claiming he is speaking to this because people are asking. While that may be true, it is more of an indictment against Shane Idleman that he teaches people so poorly they would even consider such a moronic question. So far, at least five people are dead and countless people have lost their homes and everything they owned. Were they all reprehensible sinners incurring the wrath of God? Were they all unsaved? Is the age of grace over and God is starting to judge the world? This fire is unusually south and close to Los Angeles and Hollywood, which gives Shane and his merry gaggle of NAR Republicans an opportunity to lay waste to their political enemies as the fires lay waste to their lives. What about when the fires are more north? What about when they hit a city that voted for Trump? Are you asking the same question then? We just saw two hurricanes absolutely devastate Florida, which is decidedly a red state as well as areas of North Carolina that have been reported as extremely bible believing. I do not recall Shane doing a Facebook Short to ask if that was God judging them. Therein lies the unbelievable hypocrisy. I am reminded of the Sons of Thunder asking to reign fire down upon the Samaritan village that refused to listen to Jesus. He rebuked them and said they did not even know what spirit they were of. Neither does Shane.

He opens the short by admitting we have no way of knowing what God is doing. Then why are you speculating in the video! Because it scores cheap political points by exploiting people's suffering - very pastoral. He then misapplies the key verse, as so many NAR dominionist preachers do. Interesting that he admits these verses were intended for Israel but he plows through nonetheless to claim that this means God allows natural disasters to get his people to turn from their wicked ways. While it is nice that he does not completely misapply it by pretending it is the unsaved that must turn in order for God to heal our land, he still cannot see that it is the apostate church he serves that would need to turn. He has already used this tragedy to regurgitate stupid Republican talking points like claiming the Mayor of Los Angeles, who of course is a Democrat, is responsible because she cut 17 million dollars from the Fire Department budget. What Shane and the Republicans always leave out is it is an 800-million-dollar budget, which means this cut was 2%. Translation? It had ZERO affect on the response to these fires. Shane then makes accusations about California and New York, two Democratic states, regarding the porn industry, sex trafficking, and worshipping Satan. As if that does not occur in other, red states. What about the countless preachers that have fallen from grace for actually sexually abusing girls as young as 12? You know - Robert Morris and Mike Bickle, for example. Were they from California? No, they were from Texas and Missouri, two of the reddest states in the country. Maybe the excessive heat and failed electrical grids in Texas were God's judgment Shane? No Facebook short for that?

Idleman actually makes the argument that our just and loving God allows these tragedies despite "innocent" people being killed as well. Now, he is being very careful here because all events in this world, God "allows." His permissive will accounts for all events, including natural disasters. That does not make it His "judgment," however. Shane then mixes in that God is a holy God that requires holiness from His people and not sin, debasement and debauchery. God is of course holy but the reeking hypocrisy is that Shane Idleman spends his days defending and promoting Donald Trump as the Christian panacea for this country. Debauchery? How about demanding that followers of Christ must blindly support and defend a man who cheated on his first wife with his second wife and his third wife with a porn star? How about demanding idol worship of a man with 34 felonies and a rape conviction? None of that matters to a holy God?

Idleman then goes through several Old Testament prophets as examples of them telling people to turn back to God. This of course has no relevance to this topic. Isaiah, Ezikiel and Jeremiah were speaking to Israel. They were the ones that had to turn back to God. This goes all the way back to Deuteronomy and how the people of God should never worship idols and have false gods, like Shane has and promotes. Realize what he is teaching here. That God is trying to get His people to turn back to Him, by sending these raging fires that kill people who do not even know Him. That paints God as this capricious villain, who apparently is unable to directly communicate repentance to His own followers without destroying an entire portions of a state and killing people whimsically.

What of course is never discussed by the NAR or its Republican masters is the real villain here - climate change. It is being reported that this area has barely received any rain in months. The area is left so dry and barren that when you combine any spark with the hurricane force Santa Ana winds, this is the end result. Shane will not talk about the destruction of God's creation at the hands of the very politicians he adores and idolizes. Do not lose sight of this life cycle of nonsense. For decades the Republican Party, the NAR and false teachers like Shane Idleman have spent billions of dollars and endless propaganda to fight the notion that we are killing this planet through fossil fuel usage. To pretend otherwise is to be willfully deceptive, either to yourself or others. One just has to see the strength of the storms we have had recently to know that something has changed. In my own neck of the woods winter is completely different from when I grew up. Then, as things get worse and worse, we see tremendous tragedies like the hurricanes a few months ago or these fires. Then people like Shane come out to ponder if this destruction, that they wrought, is "God's judgment." Oh, it must be because of a two percent budget cut or some nonsense about smelt fish. What is really despicable is that right now people are dying. People are fleeing for their lives. People are watching everything they have ever owned burn up before their eyes. Where is the Christian compassion? Where is the love of Christ? Instead, the victims see idiots like Shane Idleman wildly speculating that they are being judged by God almighty. You think I am being hyperbolic? Here are some of the comments on Shane's post, from his followers:

"God can and does use the destruction of His enemies to expose themselves and even to destroy themselves!!!!!! Yes, no matter how you look at it, it is His wrath at work to expose and change everything!!!!

Wondered that myself. However stupid leadership, management & voting decisions for years & not listening to those who know how to control these fires is the cause of most of it.

God can and does use the destruction of His enemies to expose themselves and even to destroy themselves!!!!!! Yes, no matter how you look at it, it is His wrath at work to expose and change everything!!!!

Back in October, our House of Prayer prayed and prophesied and prayed "Fire", not only on California, but on the whole of the nation...

Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord- Romans 12:19

I totally believe it is God's judgment. I think everyone in their right mind knows this. I will still pray for those who are suffering from this that they escape it and turn from the California wicked ways.!! California is not the same place anymore. It is ran by Satan himself in my opinion." - Comments On Shane Idleman's post

All of California is run by Satan himself? Oh, but not your state because you vote Republican, right? Beloved this is vile. It is incomprehensibly disgusting and unbiblical. Shane was an active participant in these responses yet there was no rebuke. No curtailing the unambiguous hatred. The real question to contemplate is how these people got like this. Who so bewitched you? The answer is Shane Idleman and the rest of the NAR, dominionist apostate church. Shane is very deceptive and slick beloved. Throughout this short he referred to this as what God "could" do and what He "allows." He does this just to be able to float the hatred and vileness. Once it is out there, he can always pretend that he wasn't saying it definitively, just that it could be true.

Except it is not. Of course, God allows everything that happens in this world, to happen. He allows it in the Christian Republican hills of North Carolina. He allows it in Biloxi and New Orleans. Currently He is allowing it in California. His grace and mercy are still available to all however. Judgment is coming but it is not here yet. Shane used to be a gospel preacher, so I have to believe he knows this. He just chooses to peddle political talking points and dress it up as irresponsible, pious speculation. His followers however are being led down the broad path. They will stand before Christ one day as we all must. They will say Lord Lord, didn't we say that Satan was running California and demand those godless heathens turn from their wicked ways? Shane himself will say Lord Lord, didn't I live stream from the Charlie Kirk America Fest and speculate Your wrath upon people I never met because of geography? My heart is crushed by things like this beloved. By heartless ghouls who care nothing about people while cosplaying as pastors and Christians. I have a pet saying - there are too many people who are in human services who do not actually care about humans.

The same can be said for the church.

God have mercy on all of us.

Reverend Anthony Wade - January 9, 2025

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.