Jonathan Kahn is a pastor at the Beth Israel Worship Center in Wayne, New Jersey, where about a thousand parishioners gather every weekend for a kind of teaching, writes The New York Times.
Kahn devoted an entire book to his claim, which he said he received from God.
In The Paradigm: The Ancient Blueprint That Holds the Mystery of Our Times, Kahn compares Trump to the biblical Israelite king Jeha, who led the ancient people of Israel from idolatry.
The literary work claims that all sorts of figures in modern politics have biblical counterparts. For example, the counterparts of the evil Ahab and Jezebel are Bill and Hillary Clinton, according to Kahn.
Kahn writes that Trump, "like his ancient predecessor," was a "cracked vessel" used by God.
“An unlikely and controversial warrior was destined to become the new ruler of the earth. The template will determine that Donald Trump will be the next president,”he said.
Speaking about Trump's potential ban on abortion rights, the appointment of conservative Supreme Court justices and the move of the American embassy to Jerusalem, Kahn characterizes Trump as a heroic figure.
“Trump offers us a window to awaken, a window to return to God. What happened in the elections was not connected with Trump, but with something much higher - with the goals of God,”the pastor notes.
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Kahn will make his first trip to the Mar-a-Lago presidential residence in Florida. He is going to speak to a small gathering of activists and advisers.
The son of a Holocaust survivor, Kahn grew up in an ordinary Jewish family in the suburbs of New York. But from an early age he was drawn to the more esoteric nuances of faith. Kahn's assertion as a Doomsday pastor began in his early youth, when he avidly read the writings of Nostradamus, a psychic from Virginia Edgar Cayce, and the conspiracy theory of ancient astronauts.
He also read The Late Great Planet Earth, a 1970s bestseller, which argued that the Bible's doomsday prophecies were associated with events such as the Cold War and the Six Day War in Israel; he also took a crash course in Christian eschatology (the doctrine of the end of the world - ForumDaily approx).
Kahn argues that abortion, gay rights and the gradual shift from religion to secular life are warning signs that America, like ancient Israel, has gone astray.
When asked about how he raised money for his first church, Kahn said: “A mysterious Indian appeared and brought a check for 150 thousand dollars. They call him Wahu. God commissioned him to come to me."
“On the day the first book came out, our building was flooded after a hurricane. On the second day of graduation, my appendix burst. People called it spiritual warfare,”the pastor says about his creative path.
Pastor Kahn declined to assess Trump's odds of winning the 2020 presidential election.
“The Bible doesn't say one or two dates,” he said.
A recent Fox News poll found that one in four Americans believes "God wanted Donald Trump to be president."
Celebrities such as TV hosts Paula White and Franklin Graham have supported this idea. Presidential press secretary Sarah Sanders expressed the same idea in an interview in January. “I think God is calling us all to fill different roles at different times, and I think he wanted Donald Trump to become president,” she said.
And on the day of the opening of the Conservative Political Action Conference in March 2019, millionaire businessman Michael Lindell took the stage and declared President Trump "the chosen of God."