(Blog 0016 AndrewHadden.com)
God started to speak to me, and my wife, Amber, about President elect Trump’s political appointees, as some started to go through the difficult, and sometimes quite hostile, confirmation hearings. Some are spared that, depending on the position. Of course, they also go through grilling, or roasting, from the press. Endorsements can be important to that process.
But we often are denied seeing the most important endorsements, God’s endorsements, in the press. We would generally trust our ministers to help us pray through to hearing from God about who to support with our votes and public opinions. But this is denied us by the Johnson Amendment in the IRS Code, put in place years ago by a sore loser Democrat, who did not want any minister to, ever again, be able to speak against any candidate, especially him, or for any candidate either. He also did not want them to be able to speak against legislation, no matter how immoral it was. This was not from the wisdom of the founding fathers. They would have been outraged at the very idea, as an unconscionable infringement on both the freedom of religion, its free exercise, and freedom of speech.
Trump tried to get this changed in his first term, but was thwarted in a weird way, not by the elected representatives of the people, in a vote of the House or Senate, but by the parliamentarian, on some inadequately addressed procedural concern. Since when do we allow an unelected position to block the action of our elected representatives? Will they let the accountant, or the security guard, stop the next bill important to Christians all over the country?
Well, Democrat Johnson can roll over in his grave. I am going to exercise my constitutional freedom of religion, and freedom of speech, as a minister. I am a minister, but I am not currently leading a church, or a 501(c)3 ministry (under the IRS code). In fact, God had me shut down and dissolve the ministry I founded and ran for 19 years, as preparation for getting more involved in politics and government. I have seen ministries or ministers be audited and harassed if their leaders speak out too much about anything, even outside of, and carefully separated from, their ministry or church, in how they communicate.
This is persecution of the Church and its ministers. And it is also persecution of Christians in general, and the religious in general, if their leaders are muzzled from speaking about things that concern them about our leaders and laws. Lawmakers are denying them the voice of their chosen leaders in areas of great concern to them. Prophets in the Bible spoke for and against kings many times. The founding fathers actually read and knew their Bibles. They quoted them. Don’t tell me they did not expect ministers to be able to comment on political leaders and the morality of laws, in and outside of the pulpit and the Church.
Now let’s talk about the press. People in a position to know, whose families were high in the occult in this nation, have told us that infiltrating the media is one of their main goals, and essential to eventually subverting nations to their control. This is not “conspiracy theory;” it is the testimony of eyewitnesses. Often, we see good people, especially Christians, smeared beyond all measure, and driven out of politics, and the public square. Meanwhile, people eventually shown to be scoundrels, and even traitorous, get fawned over and given only softball questions by media interviewers, and even given inside information for debates. The media sure seems to control who can run for public office, at least run successfully. Trump, who championed issues important to Christians, saw adversity taken to a whole new level, and more. So, what we have is the media controlling the political realm, with a lot of occult people reported to have infiltrated it. I also remember a valid and respected survey that reported that people in the media are the most anti-Christian segment of society. So the enemies of Christians get control over having a public voice, while the Church is muzzled completely. How convenient for evil.
For decades we in the Church have endured this. I am standing up. But I have paid a great cost not to violate our current unjust, and likely, actually unconstitutional, laws. I am going to share what God is saying about candidates, and appointees, and legislation.
Let’s start with Trump’s political appointees now being grilled in the Senate, or roasted in the media that seeks to dominate us all. My wife and I were discussing the news, and she had just read about Pete Hegseth, nominated by Trump to be his Secretary of Defense. My wife read his background and accomplishments. Then I heard God say, “A good man.” I was surprised to hear God speak, because I had not been asking him, and had no opinion myself. So we researched him. We noted his website says up front that he is a Christian. He is also against the “woke agenda” now holding sway over the military since the Biden administration took office – because Hegseth’s focus is on what wins wars.
He is also against women in combat. Let’s think about that. If we are very convinced that biological men should not compete in women’s sports, because they have a definite advantage because of what testosterone does to the body of a boy to make him a man – added muscle mass that gives him an unfair advantage over a woman, then why would we want women in combat? The enemy in war will use a strength advantage to kill them. Having accepted that, why would we want a woman on a military combat “team” where their muscle mass, and strength, difference might tip the scale between life and death to the soldier, the unit, and all the units, and victory or loss in war? And many of us don’t want wives and daughters drafted and thrown in combat in the future. Pete Hegseth is focusing on what wins wars and makes fighting units efficient and effective – which protects us all.
And God instructed me to say, about Pete Hegseth, “I stand behind him.” I say what God tells me to say.
Then God said to me, “It’s a blog. Let’s include some others. Kash Patel. He’s still a good guy.” God had spoken positively about Kash Patel long before Trump appointed him to be FBI director. I noted he has very good credentials, and has an impressive track record of exposing wrongdoing and corruption, fearlessly. But God surprised me by now saying that he wants Kash Patel not at the FBI director position, but as the boss of whoever becomes FBI director, the Attorney General. It will be interesting to see what circumstances might bring that about.
My wife wondered about mentioning Susie Wiles, President elect Trump’s former campaign cochair, and now named Chief of Staff. I noted she does not need a congressional approval, but we both had discerned previously that she is God’s choice for where Trump has put her, a top leadership role in the White House, and the first woman to get that role.
Then my wife heard, “Tom Holman” and then she saw, in a vision, a big thumbs up, a way of God endorsing him. She also saw a chart with the line going up steeply, which we took as another way of endorsing him. He has been nominated as Border czar. As his name was mentioned, I heard God say, “Good as gold.”
I will note that I have learned that God speaks these kinds of things about people based on where they are at the time, and where he wants to bring them, if they keep obeying him. And that can apply even after people mess up in some major way, and repent. As a minister, I can point to King David in the Bible for that. He messed up in a major way, including adultery, but, with repentance and more time, he was called “a man after God’s own heart.” I have seen people accused in confirmation hearings based on vague recollections of something they might have done in college, at a party with alcohol being served.
As confirmation hearings proceed, I encourage people to seek God’s opinions themselves, and let their voices be heard accordingly. It seems, many times, that liberals and far left radicals pull out the stops to make their voices heard against good people, and especially Christians, such that they get so smeared that it taints them, to where good people don’t even want to try to serve in high government offices. They need our support by making our voices heard to our senators’ offices.