Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church of Dallas is an anti-gay and anti-Muslim pastor who has generated attention in the past by going on the attack against Mitt Romney, urging Christians not to vote for him because of his Mormon faith and and for admitting that he’d vote for an incompetent Christian over a competent non-Christian if the two were running against one another.
But I expect that we’ll be hearing a lot more about Jeffress considering that he is about to kick off a sermon series called “Twilight’s Last Gleeming,” beginning on 9/11, proclaiming that America is doomed and cannot be saved and that Christians need to see the nation’s inevitable collapse as an opportunity to spread the Gospel:
As Jeffress told the Christian Post, the sermon series is based on a book that he has coming out next year for which Mike Huckabee wrote the foreward:
“Twilight’s Last Gleaming” is actually based on my book coming out in January by Worthy Publishing. Mike Huckabee did the forward [sic] to the book, and the book is subtitled How to Make America’s Last Days Your Best Days. In this series, what we’re trying to do is help people realize that, ultimately, we are not going to save America.
America’s days are numbered, because this world’s days are numbered. But instead of reacting with despair and fear, Christians are to realize that while we cannot prevent the demise of our country, we can delay the demise of our country by being the salt and light Jesus commanded us to be. That’s really what this series is about: how Christians can be salt and light in a decaying and darkening world.
I sure hope that America and the world still exist in January so that we can read all about how America and the world are doomed.
