Gov. Rick Perry at The Repsonse
(Leading the Convention Prayer)
http://youtu.be/...
Sounds sincere ... Why fault a person their Faith?
Well, there may be a few reasons ...
Rick Perry's Army of God
A little-known movement of radical Christians and self-proclaimed prophets wants to infiltrate government, and Rick Perry might be their man.
by Forrest Wilder, TexasObserver.org -- August 03, 2011
[...]
Perry certainly knows how to speak the language of the new apostles. The genesis of The Response, Perry says, comes from the Book of Joel, an obscure slice of the Old Testament that’s popular with the apostolic crowd.
“With the economy in trouble, communities in crisis and people adrift in a sea of moral relativism, we need God's help,” Perry says in a video message on The Response website. “That's why I'm calling on Americans to pray and fast like Jesus did and as God called the Israelites to do in the Book of Joel.”
The reference to Joel likely wasn’t lost on Perry’s target audience. [...]
Rick Perry At The Response Prayer Rally
(Preaching to the Choir)
http://youtu.be/...
THAT -- Sounds sincerely ... troubling -- given the Powerful Non-religious Office, Rick Perry would dare to command. God willing ... or is the People willing, still?
[ continuing from the TexasObserver link ...]
Mike Bickle, a jock-turned-pastor who runs the International House of Prayer [IHOP] in Kansas City, a sort of command headquarters and university for young End Times enthusiasts, taught a 12-part series on Joel last year.
The Book of Joel describes a crippling drought and economic crisis -- sound familiar? -- in the land of Judah. The calamities, in Joel’s time and ours, are “sent by God to cause a wicked, oppressive, and rebellious nation to repent,” Bickle told his students.
To secure God's blessing, Joel commands the people to gather in “sacred assembly” to pray, fast, and repent.
More ominously, Bickle teaches that Joel is an “instruction manual” for the imminent End Times. It is “essential to help equip people to be prepared for the unique dynamics occurring in the years leading up to Jesus’ return,” he has said.
And if that weren't disturbing enough, this leading General in Rick Perry Army, has a real knack for Rallying his troops. The man does "paint a picture" ...
IHOP's Mike Bickle's open vision about America
http://youtu.be/...
Bickle says he was given "this vision" (movie projector-like on the wall) which showed him ...
Preacher Mike Bickle:
[TM 2:00]
"Tanks were coming en-mass across America [...] surely it's Martial Law, but beloved, I'm convinced it's more than Martial Law ...
[... TM 4:25]
"The Trumpet [he saw 'the Angel' holding], is a warning that Disaster is coming, and the Trumpet is the rallying call to gather to the Temple -- to the House of Prayer. And the meaning was clear. Two things are happening in the land right now: Disaster is coming. [...] and a Great Revival is coming to America."
And from 3rd Lesson on Mike Bickle's Joel homework page:
Many in Israel interpreted the agricultural crisis as simply a “natural disaster.” Then Joel prophesied that a military invasion was also coming as a “day-of-the-Lord” judgment (Joel 2:11).
Mike Bickle sounds sin-cere-ly ... something too. How would you put it?
Sincerely ... Determined.
Sincerely ... Mission-driven.
Sincerely ... Serious.
Sincerely ... Scary?
Fighting National and International Spiritual Warfare, on an Invisible Landscape, is an Expensive undertaking after all.
SO those IHOP battalions, sincerely ... need your Donations too, to stop and/or encourage all the Great Scourges about to be inflicted upon the Land ... and especially on God-less America.
Such Wars can't be funded on a Credit Card and a Prayer, can they?
Non Profit Organization: International House of Prayer, Kansas City, Missouri
[...]
Income Amount: $4,081,470
Income Range: $1,000,000 to 4,999,999
Revenue Amount: $4,081,470
EIN (Tax ID): 742938029
Exempt Code: Unconditional Exemption
Foundation Code: Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi)
Accounting Period: 06
Tax Period: 200806
Talk about Feeding an Army, and driving all those visionary Tanks ... that 2008 Budget will hardly cover it, now will it, Mike? Especially if you consider IHOP's explosive growth rate, across the Land:
"International House of Prayer" Non-Profit Organizations Page 1 of 8
Better do some Rallying ... out among all those desperately poor people ... keep promising them the world er, ah Heaven -- while you keep raking it in, Bickle.
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Extra Credit: Various Religious Scholars would even say Mike Bickle's International House of Prayer (IHOP) has cleverly adopted most of the hallmarks of a very serious Christian Cult. Seriously.
It seems like Rick Perry may "sin-cere-ly" want to study up some more? Because every time he "drops the Name or Joel" -- it could be maybe, that the obscure OT Prophet was warning us about an approaching storm, bearing the Name of the Dear Governor, himself ...
The Guv does have quite the Track Record of {oppressively} "Good Works" after all ...
Meet the real Rick Perry
TXDemocrats
http://youtu.be/...
Cost Cutting of Programs for the People of Texas ... all sincerely intended, no doubt ... right, Rick?
Now, how about some nice, Texas Pancakes?