Lex Anteinternet: A Protestant Country. It's history, and what it me...: Puritans on their way to church. One of the blogs that's linked into the right on this site recently had this item: The Declaration of I...
In that thread, I addressed the New Apostolic Reformation movement which sees itself as having a mission to make restore a (Protestant) Christian culture to the nation, some by any means possible.
Some have wondered about Speaker of the House Johnson's connection with this.
Well, listen to this: Johnson giving keynote speech to National Association of Christian Lawmakers.
As Rolling Stone summarized it:
The Lord began to wake me up, through this three-week process, in the middle of night to speak to me,” Johnson insisted. “Now at the time,” he continued, “I assumed the Lord is going to choose a new Moses.” But because of his own lesser rank among the GOP’s leadership, Johnson said, he believed the heavenly message to be: “You’re gonna allow me to be Aaron to Moses,” citing the role of the Old Testament prophet’s brother and biblical sidekick.
But then Johnson watched as candidate after candidate failed to generate the necessary Republican support to win the Speakership. “Ultimately 13 people ran for the post. And the Lord kept telling me to, ‘Wait, wait, wait,’” Johnson recalled. “So I waited, I waited. And then at the end … the Lord said, ‘Now step forward.’” Johnson regaled the audience with his surprise to be tapped as the Moses figure: “Me?” Johnson said. “I’m supposed to be Aaron.” But that was not the message, Johnson insisted, recalling: “‘No,’ the Lord said, ‘Step forward.’
Now, if you are Catholic, like me, this is the sort of thing that causes you to peek outside early in the morning to see if Oliver Cromwell and the New Model Army have shown up yet.
Make no mistake about this, there's something going on here that is far beyond the normal American association of politics with religion. A person's politics should be informed by their religion.
But people who see themselves in the role of prophets, let alone one of the most significant prophets of all time . . .?
Johnson clearly sees himself as shepherding the People of God somewhere.
