Theocratic Sect Prays for Real Armageddon

[katty]

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Theocratic Sect Prays for Real Armageddon

By Casey Sanchez, Southern Poverty Law Center. Posted August 30, 2008.

Members of Joel's Army are fighting to bring about the millennial reign of Christ.

LAKELAND, Fla. -- Todd Bentley has a long night ahead of him, resurrecting the dead, healing the blind, and exploding cancerous tumors. Since April 3, the 32-year-old, heavily tattooed, body-pierced, shaved-head Canadian preacher has been leading a continuous "supernatural healing revival" in central Florida. To contain the 10,000-plus crowds flocking from around the globe, Bentley has rented baseball stadiums, arenas and airport hangars at a cost of up to $15,000 a day. Many in attendance are church pastors themselves who believe Bentley to be a prophet and don't bat an eye when he tells them he's seen King David and spoken with the Apostle Paul in heaven. "He was looking very Jewish," Bentley notes.

Tattooed across his sternum are military dog tags that read "Joel's Army." They're evidence of Bentley's generalship in a rapidly growing apocalyptic movement that's gone largely unnoticed by watchdogs of the theocratic right. According to Bentley and a handful of other "hyper-charismatic" preachers advancing the same agenda, Joel's Army is prophesied to become an Armageddon-ready military force of young people with a divine mandate to physically impose Christian "dominion" on non-believers.

"An end-time army has one common purpose -- to aggressively take ground for the kingdom of God under the authority of Jesus Christ, the Dread Champion," Bentley declares on the website for his ministry school in British Columbia, Canada.

[Blue_Tires]

1. shaping up for Koresh part 2?

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. Yes. Since the Palin misstep, Armageddon is the only way to prevent

an Obama landslide, so I am sure that it sounds good to many of them. Their aim is not good lately - they pray for rain for Obama, they get Gustav to mess up the convention. One shudders to think what will befall them with this armageddon business!

[billyoc]

3. "Armegeddon" will come in the form of the removal of their tax exempt status.

:rofl:

[katty]

4. yeah, luv that!!

[Hugabear]

5. Are they stockpiling weapons yet?

This is why we must NOT allow McCain to take office, he won't do a damned thing to stop groups like this.

[TlalocW]

6. Wait a sec... Aren't these people going to be swept up into Heaven when the Rapture comes?

Or do they claim Armageddon is nigh, and they're going to start going around kicking ass and taking names in the name of Jesus before everything happens?

TlalocW