By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter
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Thomas Horn, an author of End Times books, speaks during an
April 2021 episode of "The Jim Bakker Show." | Screenshot: jimbakkershow.com |
According to a news article in the Christian Post,
A guest on a recent episode of the “Jim Bakker
Show” claimed that he believes an asteroid will hit the Earth in 2029,
spreading a virus that will lead to the rise of the Antichrist.
Thomas Horn, an author who has
focused on End Times issues, was interviewed by Jim Bakker on an episode of
the televangelist’s program that aired last week to promote his book The
Wormwood Prophecy.
Horn claimed that it was “more
likely than not” that the seven years of the Great Tribulation described in the
Bible book of Revelation “could begin in the year 2025.”
He went on to predict that an
actual asteroid, named Apophis by the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration, will hit the Earth on April 13, 2029.
“I believe that Apophis is carrying
an alien micro-organism on it in which a virus is being sustained and I believe
it’s going to make coronavirus look like a walk in the park,” said Horn.
NASA released a statement last month stating that,
contrary to the claims of some, “new radar observation campaign combined with
precise orbit analysis have helped astronomers conclude that there is no risk
of Apophis impacting our planet for at least a century.”
“Apophis quickly gained
notoriety as an asteroid that could pose a serious threat to Earth when
astronomers predicted that it would come uncomfortably close in 2029,” NASA
stated in late March.
“Thanks to additional
observations of the near-Earth object (NEO), the risk of an impact in 2029 was
later ruled out, as was the potential impact risk posed by another close
approach in 2036. Until this month, however, a small chance of impact in 2068
still remained.”
In response to the NASA
statement, Horn cited scientists who, according to him, are “not buying
it." He argued that “NASA is involved in a cover-up” about what will
really happen.
Horn explained that he
believes Apophis is actually Wormwood, the “great star” that falls to Earth,
according to Revelation 8, and
poisons a third of the rivers.
He viewed the alleged
impact of Apophis and its purported virus as “a global trigger event” that
“leads to the Mark of the Beast” and the eventual empowering of the Antichrist.
Kyle Mantyla of Right
Wing Watch, a project of the liberal organization People for the American
Way, wrote that he
believes the episode indicates that the “Jim Bakker Show” is becoming
“decidedly stranger.”
“While televangelist Jim
Bakker’s daily television program has always been a repository for
misinformation, baseless conspiracy theories, and End Times fearmongering, his
show has gotten decidedly stranger in recent days,” wrote Mantyla.
“Bakker [also] interviewed
right-wing conspiracy theorist Steve Quayle [last week], who spent two programs
warning about aliens, demons, trans-dimensional beings, and ‘diseases that are
designed to initiate cannibalism in human beings’ and turn them into literal
zombies.”
News Source: Christian Post
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