Evangelical Christian minister Jeff Jansen, a self-proclaimed “prophet”, claims that former President Donald Trump is still the legitimate president and that the U.S. military is currently carrying out a coup to remove President Joe Biden from power.
Several Christian pastors and so-called “prophets” predicted before the 2020 election that Trump would win re-election, claiming that this was God’s will. When this prophecy did not come true, some apologized and admitted that they were wrong. Others, like Jansen, have found creative ways to justify the current reality in the United States
“You have to realize that what happened in our nation was a hostile takeover, and just because there was a false opening [of Biden]… For optics and posture, let them have their day in the sun, “said Jansen, founder of Global Fire Ministries International, based in Tennessee, during a Tuesday episode of Elijah Streams YouTube program. Right Wing Watch first reported on Jansen’s observations.
“It is a story of two presidents and now in America – because President Trump never conceded, he never agreed to anything, he never stepped aside, he never conceded,” continued Jansen. “He basically moved away momentarily, while things were being worked out.” The evangelical minister said that Trump’s effort to remain in office, overturning the election results in court, was thwarted by “corrupt” courts and judges.
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“The last defense is military. So the military, in fact, the military is in control now,” said Jansen. “They have already made their determination. Now it is about execution. Now it is about returning civilian power after the ‘we, the people’ factor, the president duly elected in the last elections comes forward and exposes corruption – there will be civilian power restored in the United States “he insisted. “And that president will be Donald J. Trump.”
Later in the interview, Jansen asked viewers to “watch what the Lord does”, but he predicted that things will move on and Trump will be reinstated “in late April”.
Newsweek contacted Jansen’s ministry for further comment, but did not receive an immediate response.
Unlike Jansen, the colleague who describes himself as a Christian “prophet” Jeremiah Johnson, a former member of Ministry Jeremiah Johnson, recently apologized and admitted he was wrong about Trump’s reelection. After publicly addressing his error in a series of videos on YouTube, Johnson announced earlier this month that he was ending his ministry. He also raised concerns about the prophetic movement within American Christianity.
“I believe this election cycle has revealed how desperately we need reform in the prophetic movement,” Johnson said in a video. “I have serious concerns about the charismatic-prophetic world that if we don’t wake up, if we don’t humble ourselves, there will be a bigger judgment to come.”
But Pastor Robin Bullock, who describes himself as working “heavily” in the prophetic kingdom, insisted this month that the prophets could call Trump back “for three terms”.
“But you’re going to have to pray for the president-in-law, whether he wants to go back to that or not. You must pray that he will, because God will not make you do anything. “Yes. Is he the president? Yes. That’s why he could just go back, and God will supernaturally get things out of the way,” he said.
White evangelical Christians have been a fundamental base of support for Trump since his 2016 presidential campaign. The exit polls from the 2016 election showed that about 8 out of 10 white evangelicals voted for Trump, and the results were similar in 2020 with between 76 percent and 81 percent of the religious community say they voted for the former Republican president. Conservative Christians have long been aligned with the Republican Party, as they are often particularly concerned with restricting women’s reproductive rights and preventing the LGBTQ community from securing greater legal protections and civil rights.
Trump and many of his Republican Party allies worked to promote the so-called Big Lie that he really won the 2020 election. They claimed that Biden and the Democrats “rigged” the election through widespread electoral fraud. This extraordinary claim is not supported by evidence.
Dozens of election actions filed by Trump and his supporters have been rejected by state and federal courts, including judges appointed by the former president and other Republicans. Former attorney general William Barr, who was widely seen as one of Trump’s most effective and loyal members, said in early December that “there was no evidence” of widespread fraud that would change the outcome of the election. Similarly, the Department of Homeland Security’s Infrastructure and Cybersecurity Agency, led by a Trump nominee, issued a statement shortly after the November election describing it as “the safest in American history”.