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Bonus roundup: How are evangelicals responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

John Fea   |  February 25, 2022 Leave a Comment

Franklin Graham and Vladimir Putin in 2017

The European Evangelical Alliance says there is “no justification” for Putin’s invasion.

National Association of Evangelicals:

We join with Christians around the world to pray for Ukraine. We recommend this clear statement from @WEAnews & European Evangelical Alliance to you. https://t.co/NOd6XFD2M7

— NAE (@NAEvangelicals) February 24, 2022

Former Trump lawyer, court evangelical, and Liberty University Falkirk Center fellow Jenna Ellis smells an opportunity to politicize the invasion:

Did you see what Biden the Buffoon said?https://t.co/FCA2lnbGSF

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) February 25, 2022

This is massive!
https://t.co/nIW8BInJ07

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) February 24, 2022

This is what happens when government ceases to fulfill its proper role—restraining evil—and instead becomes evil. https://t.co/T1r81cxdXf

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) February 24, 2022

Still nothing from the senile old man in the White House.

— Jenna Ellis (@JennaEllisEsq) February 24, 2022

The Russian Evangelical Alliance is calling for peace.

Here is evangelical worship leader and pro-Trumper Sean Feucht:

😳 https://t.co/0zY95AiJaO

— Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) February 25, 2022

I wonder what they are praying for:

Join myself and General Flynn tonight for a virtual prayer meeting for Ukraine!

We’ll give an update on the situation followed by prayer together!#PrayForUkraine pic.twitter.com/pIGVzVjnKK

— Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) February 24, 2022

More Feucht:

Elections have consequences.

— Sean Feucht (@seanfeucht) February 24, 2022

Alabama Southern Baptists are praying for Ukrainian Baptists.

The director of the Liberty University Standing for Freedom Center:

It would be nice to have that Keystone XL pipeline right about now
 đŸ€”

— Ryan Helfenbein (@RHelfenbein) February 24, 2022

Jack Hibbs uses the war to trash Biden. He tells his listeners to “flee the Democratic Party.”

A Nigerian evangelical prophesies an assassination’ attempt on Putin.

I included this one in yesterday’s roundup, but it is worth reposting here:

Trump-loving evangelist Lance Wallnau declares that "it's hard to make Putin the villain if you have all the facts," claiming that the CIA & Hillary Clinton tried to undercut him by injecting "the LGBTQ doctrine" into Russia until Putin "clamped down, like a good dictator does." pic.twitter.com/vJyRhVtKJ3

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) February 23, 2022

Lance did not stop there:

pic.twitter.com/swU29i9haT

— Lance Wallnau (@lancewallnau) February 24, 2022

And here is Lance on Facebook:

Putin cares about his global profile. He wants to be seen as strong but he runs the risk of very quickly being seen as a dangerous bully.

The anti Putin state department has trotted out their spokesman Biden, Lindsay Graham, CNN and MSNBC but they are somehow not convincing. We don’t trust them. Especially irritating is the fact that while we care about what is happening in Ukraine, we have no direct strategic interest in what is taking place. As Americans we care but as a nation, we have no strategic dependency. It seems like Biden and his party and media apparatus want to blame his failed economy on the “price we pay to stand by our values.” Exactly what values do we have in common with Bidens people? They kill 60 million unborn, won’t fight for their own border, and manipulate their Justice department and FBI to target people like us as domestic terror threats simply because we don’t want our children indoctrinated by hate and drag queens.

If Putin overreaches in Ukraine there will be a danger to him and all involved. There are a lot of good people in Ukraine that can be slaughtered by a Russian freak show of strength. If that happens the West will turn on Putin in a more unified way and that will have consequences. 1. Russia can retaliate and target our electric grid. 2. They could shut down Wallstreet. 3. They could get a dirty bomb into the States thru Iranian proxies who detonate the dirty bomb.

We will watch to see if Putin goes for more than securing more territory with ethnic Russians on the border. If he tries to take over Ukraine or expand his agenda to other countries he will spark a pro democracy pushback against all authoritarian powers including Davos!

In truth Putin is not as bad as they make him out to be. He holds to traditional family structure and rejects gender theory. He seeks the goodwill of the Orthodox religion and stays in good standing with Pentecostal and evangelical clergy. Hiwever (sic), if he acts like a strutting bully and continues to overplay the role of the “tough guy” (in order to impress China and the Middle East) he will be kicking over the hornets nest in terms of media and cultural vilification in Europe and USA.

Worse yet, his aggression will succeed in making credible the annoying “Russia Russia” toxic waste we had to endure for four years under the corrupt instigation of Democrats against Trump.

WE MUST NOT GO TO WAR (under Biden and Blinken)

When Cyrus Trump was in office the words of Isaiah 45 were fulfilled and Cyrus dismantled the military agenda of his enemies. Now that Trump is gone the exact opposite exists and we are vulnerable.

Why are we vulnerable? Because our Government has walked away from God and embraced another deity of woke/perversion. It is the progressives new national religion.

I don’t think God covers us in battle now as in former eras. Afghanistan was a prophetic statement. We were humiliated. This plus Biden’s mental state is what prompted Putin to test the west in a way he would have never dreamed of with Trump calling the shots. America should avoid all military contests. God still blesses and God still judges nations, and I don’t see us in the blessing cycle under Biden/Harris.

YET I see this all as feeding the populist backlash against elites over the next 12 months and can crush the plans of the left in November midterms if we are focused.

Russell Moore makes his position clear:

Vladimir Putin is a murderer and a tyrant. He is an abuser of evangelical Christians, other religious minorities, and even his own country’s orphans. And now he attacks a neighbor, a democracy, a friend of the USA.

God save Ukraine đŸ‡ș🇩

— Russell Moore (@drmoore) February 24, 2022

A Southern Baptist approach to the war.

Beth Moore calls for prayer:

Do not imagine for a moment prayer doesn’t matter. Pray for Ukraine. Pray for divine intervention. Miraculous protection. Pray for the presence of Jesus to permeate households & hiding places & be a shield & comfort to them. Pray a psalm—maybe 27 or 31—as intercession.Let’s pray.

— Beth Moore (@BethMooreLPM) February 24, 2022

So does Ed Stetzer:

Pray for the people of Ukraine.

— Ed Stetzer (@edstetzer) February 24, 2022

The president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary is praying for Ukraine.

Samuel Rodriguez says “silence is not an option in the fact of injustice”:

As Russia invades, I implore the body of Christ to pray for those in Ukraine, their elected officials & the leaders of the world, that wisdom would be enacted swiftly and lives would be spared from further tragedy. Silence is not an option in the face of injustice.#PrayForUkraine

— Samuel Rodriguez (@nhclc) February 24, 2022

David French wants to arm Ukraine:

Deterrence failed. Now it’s time for Putin’s defeat. Sanction Russia. Seize oligarch assets. Arm Ukraine. Arm Ukrainian insurgents. Make Ukraine the graveyard of the Putin regime’s imperial dreams: https://t.co/IeHc5yzGIQ

— David French (@DavidAFrench) February 24, 2022

President Bush:

Former President George W Bush condemns Russia’s attack: pic.twitter.com/AinWgajpUG

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 24, 2022

In good Louisville theobro fashion, Denny Burk calls for manly courage and invokes John Wayne

Another theobro flexes his pro-Trump credentials:

Remember this terrified child the next time someone tells you elections are inconsequential.

May God wake up his church to be clear-eyed about elections, about voting for the best candidates we have, about how doing so–even with imperfect people–is truly loving your neighbor. https://t.co/DdVYFC0Fur

— Owen Strachan (@ostrachan) February 24, 2022

Skye asks, “where’s the outrage”:

Do Americans grasp the magnitude of what’s happened? The world’s largest nuclear power has invaded a sovereign European country. This may have larger implications than 9/11 did for the US & world. Where is the outcry? Our apathy is matched only by our decadence. God have mercy.

— Skye Jethani (@SkyeJethani) February 24, 2022

Jeffress:

Take a moment today to pray for the people & the country of Ukraine. đŸ‡ș🇩

“These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.” — John 16:33 pic.twitter.com/GHwGY7QpEh

— Dr. Robert Jeffress (@robertjeffress) February 24, 2022

Actually, John Kerry’s job is to worry about the environment:

Another alarming example of how the Biden administration is so focused on the Left's radical tree hugging agenda they can't see the forest of freedom burning! WATCH: John Kerry complains Ukraine is diverting attention from climate change https://t.co/kyT4HXkJ8q

— Tony Perkins (@tperkins) February 24, 2022

Greg Laurie:

“Potentially major prophetic fulfillment”:

The people of Ukraine need your prayers as Russia continues their invasion. I have preached in Kyiv 5 times and these are some wonderful people. They need God’s protection as they are facing missile, artillery and air attacks. This is potentially a major prophetic fulfillment. pic.twitter.com/8pciCTUG9l

— Jentezen Franklin (@Jentezen) February 24, 2022

The Council for Christian Colleges and University calls for prayer for one of its own:

We lift up our international member @LCCuniversity who has students & board members from both Ukraine & Russia. In the midst of crisis and confusion, will you commit to praying with us for this institution, this region, and these countries? May the peace of Christ be found. pic.twitter.com/dbvvE8sIjn

— CCCU (@cccuorg) February 24, 2022

Ukraine needs Bibles. The American Bible Society is on the job.

Shane reminds us that Russians are protesting this war:

Courage is contagious. https://t.co/vEfAlhQGT9

— Shane Claiborne (@ShaneClaiborne) February 24, 2022

Franklin weighs-in:

I have preached in Kiev & Lviv where many came to hear the Gospel. @SamaritansPurse works with over 3,000 churches across Ukraine, & we are in the process of distributing over 600,000 gift-filled @OCC_shoeboxes for children through those churches and ministry partners.

— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) February 24, 2022

If only Trump were president…. This looks like a common evangelical refrain.

A GOP candidate for Senate in Delaware wants to defend Putin’s Russia as a “Christian nationalist country”:

Lauren Witzke, the Delaware GOP's candidate for Senate in 2020, has nothing but praise for Putin and "his Christian nationalist nation": "I identify more with Putin's Christian values than I do with Joe Biden." pic.twitter.com/oQ2nhlVGCR

— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) February 24, 2022

And then there is this guy speaking to his 315,000 YouTube subscribers:

More on Russia as “Magog”

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