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Is Christian Nationalism Rising Through Kid Rock's Rallies?

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0:00 we are not and we will never be one nation under muhammad because we are and we always will be one nation under god the crowd came unglued bob ritchie the man you know as kid rock said this right before he brought president trump onto the stage at the f m bank arena at a midterm rally with the elections three weeks out he preached first saturday night he walked out onto a stage in tennessee brought out the president of the united states and told an arena full of people this is one nation under god president trump came in for a midterm rally with the election a little over three weeks away senators marcia blackburn and bill hagerty spoke but the man who brought the president out was bob ritchie and he opened with faith he said we are not and we will never be one nation under muhammad i believe there's a real difference between the islam and as a world view and sharia law as a legal system and no legal system gets to override the constitution of the united states kid rock is free to make that political argument at any political rally what i'm watching for is something else i'm watching for a gospel claim and a nationalist claim getting delivered from the same microphone at the same rally to the same cheering crowd with no line drawn between them now jesus drew that line himself rendered therefore unto caesar the things that are caesars and unto god the things are god of course this is talking about taxes this is talking about money but i think it's important to draw the line here as well jesus answered he said my kingdom is not of this world if my kingdom were of this world then would my servants fight that i should not be delivered to the jews but now is my kingdom not from hence of course he was saying this before he was being taken to be and tried. But listen, the principle still applies. Christ had a crowd that wanted to crown him king by force, and he walked away from it. What the video shows in Clarksville was a crowd getting Jesus as king and one nation under God handed to them, wrapped around a rally three weeks before the election. With the press mocked, Islam condemned, and the arena roaring at all three in the same breath. Now, I've said for years Revelation 13 describes a worship issue where religion and political power end up reaching for each other and combining hands with each other, and I'm saying this is exactly the shape it'll take when it does, and when it just feels good to the crowd in the room. Another thing that feels good in the room is if you help us continue this message, because we only survive by donations like you. So, if you want to help us continue with that, you can go to orionmedia.tv slash donate. A reoccurring gift means a lot to us. Clarksville was not a place for religion. It was a place for religion. It was a place for religion. It was a first time Kid Rock had said something like this in public, though. Back in February of 2024, he told Joe Rogan point blank that he believes Jesus is real.

3:34 Jesus is in the room. Jesus is in the flower. Jesus is in the shooting star. Jesus is in the idea of aliens, he said. Huh, sounds like something this channel should talk about. The Jesus described here is not the Jesus of the Bible. It's pantheism. It's the Omega Rebellion. It's the false revival. The Jesus he's describing is a feeling that follows anywhere something looks beautiful or strange. And I said before, I think some of these celebrity conversions are sincere. But the devil allows non-sincere ones anyway, because a believer with a slightly wrong view of Christianity becomes a very effective evangelist for a counterfeit Christ. Paul warned in Timothy this exact thing was about to come. Now, the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times, some will depart from the faith. The Bible says that in the latter times, some will depart from the faith, and some will depart from the faith. Kid Rock named his pastor in the same conversation. And wouldn't you guess it? It's Paula White. Paula White is not just a televangelist. She's not just a personality on TV that talks about God.

4:41 She's a senior advisor inside the White House faith office under President Trump. When a musician's faith claims and his pastor's government office sit that close together, the line between revival and rally gets even closer. It one forнич ..." A few months before Clarksville, Kid Rock preached again this time in Turning Point USA's All-American Halftime Show in February, broadcast against the official Super Bowl. There's a book that's sitting in your house somewhere that could use some dusting off. There's a man who died for all our sins, hanging from the cross. I'm glad people have heard the cross mentioned on stage in a place that size. It's about to take the man's life and some of us are going talk. millions of people will never walk into a church and hear an altar call. And I have said before that I think that Charlie Kirk and Kirk Cameron did more to push the truth out to the public in a year than parts of the church did. That's hard to say. But I hope that the same thing is happening here and it isn't twisted into something else. But a line about dusting off your Bible in a stadium built by a political advocacy organization is not the same thing as teaching someone the Bible. The same mixing shows up at the top, not with Kid Rock. In May 2026, a photo circulated of President Trump depicting Jesus Christ and people reacted to it on camera. I'm not sure if you saw. We did. I saw that. You think you're Jesus, but you're not. For that picture, he will be taking a one-way trip to Gehenna Hell. I remember standing near the National Mall in May of 2026. For the Rededicate 250 event and watching a protester hold up a giant golden cap, they had one blown up beside him, with Trump's face on it. I couldn't get a close enough view to film it, but the image has stuck with me. Because whether you agree with the protester or not, idolatry is exactly the right word for what happens when a political figure gets dressed up in the imagery that belongs to Jesus alone. At the same event, I heard people call Trump Daddy from the stage, and that gave me a few real red flags to think about. A nation can have Christian principles running through its history without needing a man at the top of the government to wear the image of the Savior. Now, Robert Jeffress spoke at that same event in Rededicate 250, and he made the Christian nationalist label part of the celebration itself. As my friend Gary Bauer notes, these leaders who loved our country, and loved our God, would be called Christian nationalists today. And it is a title they would have gladly embraced. By the way, if being a Christian nationalist means loving Jesus Christ and loving America, count me in. I love Jesus Christ. I love this country too. So on the surface, that line sounds like something I'd agree with. But Christian nationalism isn't just loving Jesus and loving America at the same time. I love Jesus Christ. I love America. I love America. I love America. I love America. I love America. I love America. I love America. I love America. It's a belief that America's laws should be enforcing Christian values, and that the state should carry the church's authority. I hold the opposite position, because actually America came out of that system already. Under the First Amendment, this is not a Christian nation by law, and I don't want it to become one by force, because God has never once worked by force. God is about choice. Freedom of choice. The moment government starts, legislating worship, you've built the very system Revelation 13 describes, where the second beast makes the earth worship the first. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he

8:30 had two horns like a lamb, and spake like a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth, and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. In the book The Great Controversy, on page 588, it says what it looks like when that union falls apart. It says, When Protestantism shall stretch her hand across the gulf to grasp the hands of Roman power, when she shall reach out over the abyss to clasp the hands of spiritualism, when under the influence of this threefold union our country shall repudiate every principle of its constitution, I don't think we're there yet. I don't think we're reaching hands across the gulf right now just yet. But a pop star's call at a political rally, or maybe his own show, a televangelist inside the faith office, a president's face on a golden calf, and a hand reaching in that general direction is all you need for this prophecy to be fulfilled. Kid Rock still brands himself with language that God's law would call taking the Lord's name in vain, right alongside the album built on Jesus's name. And I want to think about something real quick, because it's not always the language that makes something taken in vain, right? If you take God's name in vain, you could just be saying, I am a Christian. And doing something totally different. That's the same as taking God's name. Upon yourself, I'm a Christian, but I do X, Y, and Z, that's a sin. Taking God's name in vain. God addressed that directly a long time before Kid Rock or any of us were born. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. I've said this before, breaking any of his commandments is a spiritual unfaithfulness to him. Every single one of us is a spiritual unfaithfulness to him.

10:19 And that God reaches out in a loving way. This applies to Kid Rock, to me, to you. The point is, none of us get to pick which commandments we keep and which ones we call finished. I'm writing a new book talking about the power of Jesus's name. And if you've had a supernatural experience where you overcame it by calling out in the name of Jesus, I want to hear from you. And if I haven't messaged you back, it's not because I haven't heard you, it's just got a please message me. Or go to the website, orionmedia.tv slash contact. And I'll email you back myself. And if you want your name changed in the story, I'll do that too. But I'd love to hear from you. And when you pray, don't just pray Lord or God, because there are other powers in this world that would love to answer for that title. Pray in the name of Jesus. Pray to the creator of the universe, the one that made you and me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Make it exactly clear who you're talking to. And I'd ask you to walk away with this. A roaring crowd does not tell you whether someone is of God. The word does. To the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word is because there is no light in them. Test what Kid Rock says the same way you test anything I say on this channel. Open your Bible yourself and see if it holds up. Pray for the Holy Spirit to guide you.

11:42 Pray for the next celebrity who stands at a podium and says the name of Jesus into a political microphone, because the deception that's coming at the end won't look like an enemy of the cross. It will look exactly like this, a packed stadium, a familiar name, and a crowd that cannot tell the difference between a revival and a rally. My name is Bradley, and this has been Pure Strangeness and Absolute Normalcy. We'll see you next time.