Chuck Darwin on Nostr: This was also a theme the next day at Gateway House of Prayer, where I waited to ...
This was also a theme the next day at Gateway House of Prayer,
where I waited to learn my own fate,
as people began praying in tongues
and free-forming in English
as the Holy Spirit gave them words.
“We’re asking for a full overturning in the media,” a man said.
“We’re asking for all the media to turn away from being propagandists
to being truth tellers.”
“Their eyes need to be opened,”
a woman said.
“They don’t know God at all.
They think they know all these things because they’re so educated and worldly.
But they do not see God …
And that’s what we need.
The harvest.”
“The reformation,” the grandmother added.
“The reformation,” the woman said.
At one point, a man questioned me:
“The whole world knows The Atlantic is a left-wing, Marxist-type publication.
Why would you choose to go and work there?”
At another point, the group leader defended me:
“I feel the Lord has called her to be a truth seeker.”
At another point, the grandmother spoke of a prophecy she’d heard recently about punishment for the wicked.
“There are millstones being made in Heaven,” she said.
“Straight up. There’s millstones.”
Another woman spoke of “God’s angry judgment” for the disobedient.
“There’s a lot of people that are going to change their minds,” a man said.
“You’ll be happy with the changes God brings,” a woman reassured me.
“You’ll be happy.”
This went on for a while.
I wasn’t sure where it was going until the leader of the group decided that I should leave.
She could not have been nicer about it.
She spoke of God’s absolute love,
and absolute truth,
and absolute justice,
and then I headed for the door.
A few women followed me into the lobby,
apologizing that it had come to this.
They were sorry for me,
as believers in the movement were sorry for all of the people who were lost and confused by this moment in America
—the doubters,
the atheists,
the gay people,
Muslims, Buddhists, Democrats,
journalists,
and all the godless who had not yet submitted to what they knew to be true.
The Kingdom was here,
and the only question was whether you were in, or out.
-- This article appears in the February 2025 print edition
with the headline “Army of God.”
-- The post "The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows"
appeared first on The Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-movement-trump/681092/
where I waited to learn my own fate,
as people began praying in tongues
and free-forming in English
as the Holy Spirit gave them words.
“We’re asking for a full overturning in the media,” a man said.
“We’re asking for all the media to turn away from being propagandists
to being truth tellers.”
“Their eyes need to be opened,”
a woman said.
“They don’t know God at all.
They think they know all these things because they’re so educated and worldly.
But they do not see God …
And that’s what we need.
The harvest.”
“The reformation,” the grandmother added.
“The reformation,” the woman said.
At one point, a man questioned me:
“The whole world knows The Atlantic is a left-wing, Marxist-type publication.
Why would you choose to go and work there?”
At another point, the group leader defended me:
“I feel the Lord has called her to be a truth seeker.”
At another point, the grandmother spoke of a prophecy she’d heard recently about punishment for the wicked.
“There are millstones being made in Heaven,” she said.
“Straight up. There’s millstones.”
Another woman spoke of “God’s angry judgment” for the disobedient.
“There’s a lot of people that are going to change their minds,” a man said.
“You’ll be happy with the changes God brings,” a woman reassured me.
“You’ll be happy.”
This went on for a while.
I wasn’t sure where it was going until the leader of the group decided that I should leave.
She could not have been nicer about it.
She spoke of God’s absolute love,
and absolute truth,
and absolute justice,
and then I headed for the door.
A few women followed me into the lobby,
apologizing that it had come to this.
They were sorry for me,
as believers in the movement were sorry for all of the people who were lost and confused by this moment in America
—the doubters,
the atheists,
the gay people,
Muslims, Buddhists, Democrats,
journalists,
and all the godless who had not yet submitted to what they knew to be true.
The Kingdom was here,
and the only question was whether you were in, or out.
-- This article appears in the February 2025 print edition
with the headline “Army of God.”
-- The post "The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows"
appeared first on The Atlantic.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-movement-trump/681092/