{"id":28209,"date":"2023-08-30T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=28209"},"modified":"2023-08-30T13:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T20:56:07","slug":"jesus-wasnt-a-pacifist-training-christian-minutemen-to-remove-domestic-enemies-from-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2023\/08\/30\/jesus-wasnt-a-pacifist-training-christian-minutemen-to-remove-domestic-enemies-from-office\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jesus Wasn\u2019t a Pacifist\u2019: Training Christian Minutemen to Remove \u2018Domestic Enemies\u2019 From Office"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a>By Kyle Mantyla<\/a> | August 23, 2023 2:55 pm (rightwingwatch.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the wake of former president Donald Trump\u2019s loss in the 2020 election, the \u201cElijah Streams\u201d program has become increasingly focused on promoting far-right conspiracy theorists and self-proclaimed \u201cprophets\u201d who<\/a> resolutely<\/a> insist<\/a> that Trump is actually still president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most vocal<\/a> of these guests<\/a> has been Johnny Enlow, a Trump cultist<\/a>, QAnon conspiracy theorist<\/a>, self-proclaimed \u201cprophet,\u201d<\/a> and Seven Mountains dominionist who believes<\/a> that the United States government should \u201cfunction as a virtual theocracy.\u201d Enlow, who is associated with the dominionist New Apostolic Reformation movement, has made dozens of appearances on the \u201cElijah Steams\u201d program where he has incessantly<\/a> spread<\/a> wild<\/a> conspiracy theories<\/a> and made<\/a> untold baseless claims<\/a> for which<\/a> there is no evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following Trump\u2019s loss, Enlow openly declared<\/a> that Trump would be justified in imposing martial law and calling for revolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday<\/a>, Enlow served as a guest host on \u201cElijah Steams,\u201d where he interviewed Amanda and Henry Hastings, who run a biblically based tactical weapons training program called Shoot, Move, Communicate<\/a>. Henry Hastings is a former special forces commander who \u201ctransitioned to the ministry\u201d until, he claims, he had a \u201csupernatural encounter\u201d in which God reportedly told him to start training up \u201cmodern-day Minutemen\u201d\u2014emphasis on \u201cmen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hastings told Enlow that the importance of this type of tactical military training is outlined in the Bible so that believers have the skills needed to \u201covertake and destroy those who would threaten freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJesus certainly wasn\u2019t a pacifist,\u201d Hastings said. \u201cIf you go to the Book of Revelation and you really get to know who the Lord is, he\u2019s definitely not an anti-war pacifist at all. And if you want to go to the Old Covenant and see how men moved and operated, there were definite enemies. \u2026 They were people and they were enemies, and men had to go up when freedom was threatened by them and overtake and destroy those who would threaten freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hastings then claimed that the Constitution and Bill of Rights place \u201csupreme authority\u201d in the local sheriff who has the power to establish militias under the Second Amendment to remove \u201cdomestic enemies\u201d from office. Hastings\u2019 claims about sheriffs\u2019 authority are similar to those promoted<\/a> by the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, whose leaders talk about their mission in spiritual terms and train<\/a> law enforcement officers in their \u201cconstitutional sheriff\u201d ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe federal government is now becoming an enemy of \u2018We The People,’\u201d Hastings declared. \u201cAnd when we have elections where people have not been legally or lawfully elected, we have domestic enemies in office and our Constitution gives us the authority to remove them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hastings warned that the nation is heading to another Lexington and Concord<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just in the spirit,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s in the natural.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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