An LDS Apostle speaks on modern-day Anti-Christs among us

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THE LDS CONFERENCE EASTER TALK YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD BUT DIDN’T: THE ANTI-CHIRST IN OUR MIDST

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmdP30j4ebo

Elder Patrick Kearon View attachment 1240004

He did not focus on a single apocalyptic “Antichrist figure,” but rather on the New Testament pattern of “anti‑Christ” meaning anything or anyone that opposes Christ or denies Him. Trump fit the pattern. So does Mike Lee and Peter Hegseth.

His message centered on:

• Christ’s power to heal
• Christ’s victory over death
• The hope of the Resurrection
• The need to resist influences that oppose Christ’s teachings

"My brothers and sisters, the cult worship of Donald Trump is destroying everything in this country, and making a mockery of the religious precepts you all profess to love. I call you to repent from a political ideology that couldn’t be more at odds with your spiritual aspirations.

"Take the War on Iran. It is itself a war crime. It is also a crime against God and diametrically opposed to the teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. But as our President issues another bombastic deadline, he’s putting his internationally recognized war crimes in writing. 'Bomb Iran back to the stone age', and 'blow up everything,' and for Easter he blasted, 'Tuesday will be Power Plant and Bridge Day…There will be nothing like it! Open the ******* Strait, you crazy bastards or you’ll be living in Hell.'
"Killing innocent civilians and civilian infrastructure is terrorism. Many of you are worshipping a man who talks like mob boss, behaves and reasons like a toddler, and has the moral constraints of a psychopathic, homicidal monster--he is a terrorist. This is exactly what your own prophets warned about when they talked of a spiritual darkness and the coming of an Anti-Christ.

"But what also makes it even more unsettling is the religious frosting many have slathered on this perverse cake. This week, our President compared his own persecution to the suffering of Jesus. Then his blasphemous 'spiritual adviser/con artist' Paula White-Cain, took a few minutes off her 'speaking in tongues' career and compared our President to Jesus because both had been 'betrayed and arrested and falsely accused.' Then the President obtusely compared what he was doing for the country today to what Moses did for the Israelites. I remind you if there was ever someone who worshipped idols and golden calves it would be this President.
"On Wednesday Pete Hegseth asked Pentagon officials to join him in praying for 'overwhelming violence' against Iran, 'in the name of Jesus Christ.' Hegseth cited a prayer he had had a chaplan give before Trump invaded Venezuela. 'I pursued my enemies and overtook them. I did not turn back ‘til they were consumed. I thrust them through so that they were not able to rise. They fell under my feet. And those who hated me, I destroyed. They cried for help, but there was none to save.' He called on God to 'snap the rod of the oppressor' and 'break the teeth of the ungodly.'

"And then Mister Hegseth wrapped it up in this sickening display of hypocrisy and depravity. “'Give them wisdom in every decision, endurance for the trial ahead, unbreakable unity, and overwhelming violence of action against those who deserve no mercy,' he said, calling for 'justice to be delivered without remorse. We ask these things in bold confidence in the mighty and powerful name of Jesus Christ.'

"Wrapping up violence, murder, and the malignancy of evil in the mirage of religion and Jesus Christ is exactly what the concept of an Anti-Christ is all about. American religious groups have been the most devoted of MAGA cult members. As an article from this week’s Deseret News explained, our own Church members have been the second most ardent MAGA supporters (behind evangelicals) among all religious groups. To our somewhat credit, the percentage of LDS members who are Republicans has dropped slightly since Trump 2.0.

But LDS people still affiliate with Republicans over Democrats by a 40 point margin.
"You can’t name a single issue; on taxes, healthcare, immigration, war, education, the environment, loving your neighbors as yourself--that the current standards of the Republican Party align with what the Savior admonished us to do. Virtually none of you have hate and cruelty in your hearts. Most of you on a personal level are kind and giving. Yet you vote for a man who is anything but and his policies are exactly what the Savior preached against.

"There is only one example of Jesus using or endorsing violence; when he threw the money changers out of the temple. I dare say if Jesus were to endorse violence today, it would be to storm an ICE facility and throw the oppressors out. Gov. Cox, you must withdraw your support of the concentration camp and instead use your influence to prevent it from ever happening.

"Let me extrapolate from what is perhaps the greatest parable in the New Testament, the Good Samaritan. We cannot be Good Samaritans while we support a man who reigns violence and death down upon another nation and kills children without regret. We cannot love our neighbors as ourselves if we sit idly by and allow the innocent to be incarcerated, beaten, and killed under the pretense of making us safe. We cannot be good Samaritans and allow tax policies to further engorge the wealth of the rich at the expense of the poor, and to build vast armies and weapons of death while American children go hungry at night. The Good Samaritan paid out of his own pocket for the care and healing of the crime victim. A nation of Good Samaritans cannot allow 20 million people to be stripped of their health care and left at the mercy of fate for their survival.

"Mr. Hegseth encouraged you all to attack your supposed enemies without remorse. I on the other hand ask you to feel remorse for acceding your political power and your moral standing before God to someone who is literally, as prophets have warned you against, the Anti-Christ. I ask you repent. I ask you treat all others as you treat your neighbors, whether they live in Iran, whether they came from Central America, or whether their religion, life style, or skin color is different than yours. In your heart I believe you know better. Now turn off Faux News and do better. This is what Jesus would say to you if he were here at this conference with us.

"I say this in the name of Jesus Christ."

Did God endorse the US going to war against Hitler? There are times that war is necessary, in fact, in the OT we see God sending nations to fight against other nations on several occasions because it actually was the best solution to various problems, problems like the Third Reich and Hitler.

God will only allow evil to a certain point, and when you cross that line, it is curtains for you. No mercy will be shown.

You do realize that Iran has been killing Americans and other people in the Middle East since their revolution in 1979 when they declared war on the US and Israel, right? It is no small wonder then that when the US and Israel attacked Iran, Iran then leashed out on virtually all the countries around them even though they were not part of the group attacking them.

Will you have us to believe that the Iranian regime is not worse than the American regime when they just got done murdering 30 thousand plus of their own citizens for protesting their corruption and oppression of the people? How many people did Trump gun down who have protested him? Oh, that's right, none. Would you also have us believe that they are better than the American regime when gays and women have virtually no rights under their laws, unless you are one of the big wig leaders, and then they just ignore them being gay of course.

I don't even view Trump as a Christian, but neither was king Nebuchadnezzar whom God raise up to attack the apostate nation of Israel.

God is in control, not you and certainly not this man who leads a cult known as Mormonism.