Yesterday, televangelist Jim Bakker and radio host Rick Wiles launched into a discussion on the topic of pornography, which was abruptly stopped when a fire alarm sounded in Bakker’s television studios. Bakker, of course, promptly blamed the fire alarm on Satan.
“That’s a signal that the Devil’s mad,” Bakker said. “Whenever we hit a subject that really stirs hell and Satan, the fire alarm, that goes off, every time.”
Bakker and Wiles went on discuss the conflict in Syria and their failed doomsday prophecy around September, 2015.
Bakker and Wiles were both involved in promoting claims that the month of September of last year would be filled with cataclysmic events: Wiles said that the Dow Jones would crash during the month (it actually went up), while Bakker said that America risked not only a financial collapse but also typhoons, earthquakes, bombing and an attack involving Pope Francis’ tour of the U.S.
Wiles, however, said that something noteworthy did happen in September: the Russian bombing campaign in Syria against anti-Assad rebels.
“God bless Russia,” Wiles said, praising Russia for curbing online pornography and banning gay pride parades and speech deemed “gay propaganda.”
“It’s illegal to say ‘God bless America’ in schools,” Bakker added.
Wiles then claimed that God may use Russia in a future war against America, where he said Christians will soon move underground. “Russia is turning to God,” he said. “America has walked away from God. America is losing her leadership in the world and Russia is becoming the leader of the world. If we don’t understand it in this context, we’re going to keep talking about, ‘Bad Russia, they’ve got to be attacked, they’ve got to be brought down.’ No, you don’t understand it, God may use Russia to attack evil America. We’re the Christians that are going underground, like they did in Russia.”
