You Can’t Anoint Yourself

Today, somehow, I came across the name of Johnny Enlow. He says he’s a prophet. He belongs to the Seven Mountains movement, which teaches that Christians are going to take over every aspect of society, right now, before the return of Jesus. Doesn’t the Revelation say the Great Whore sits on seven mountains?

He pals around with a man named Doug Addison, who was a favorite of the late wife of my last pastor, who was imprisoned for molesting a little girl many times.

Incidentally, I find it disturbing that my former pastor was released on probation. He didn’t even do three years. Pedophiles–molesters of young children, not men who give in to aggressive high school girls while drunk–have an extremely high rate of recidivism. When a pedophile is caught, it’s usually after he has gone through multiple victims. When they’re released, a very large percentage of them molest again. I don’t think my former pastor’s niece was his first or last victim. He showed inappropriate attention to the young daughter of a friend of mine while we were at church. On one occasion, he presented her with a Christmas ornament he had bought somewhere, just for her. Her parents were not happy. I would hate to be held accountable for every bad thing I’ve done, but it seems to me the state is betting and using little girls as chips.

Pedophilia isn’t like stealing cars or robbing houses. It’s the result of a compulsion. No one lies awake at night fantasizing about stealing a Mercedes. No one goes online looking at pictures of houses being broken into. True pedophiles are addicts. They can’t necessarily quit just because they’re told to.

The mother of the victim offered my ex-pastor a chance to avoid prosecution. He just had to quit preaching, and things would be taken care of privately. He complied for a while, and then, unbelievably, he returned to the pulpit. That’s why he went to prison. It wasn’t for sexual assault. He was imprisoned for being too proud to listen. A gargantuan ego like that is not likely to be fazed by a short prison term. If anything, leniency may encourage him.

Hope I’m wrong, partly for his sake, but mostly for the sake of people his actions may devastate.

I believe in humility and forgiveness, but sometimes a person has to be labeled and dealt with.

The pastor’s wife was named Allie. Allie used to repost Addison’s material on Facebook, back when I had an account. I soured on Addison for a couple of reasons.

First, he used his followers to get himself a new couch. There was some sort of contest. I believe people were supposed to vote for him. Anyway, the winner got a new couch. Addison won the couch, and he put up a photo of himself sitting on it, pleased as punch. Imagine Jesus doing that.

Second, he interpreted people’s tattoos. God hates tattoos, as evinced by the Mosaic law against tattooing, and spirits enter people during the tattooing process. Only an ignorant Christian could think “interpreting” tattoos, without dispensing any accompanying cautions, was a good thing. Addison is no better than a palm reader, which is to say, a practitioner of the occult, like a witch or astrologer. If Enlow were really a prophet, he would not want to associate with him.

Enlow has a Facebook page. I saw the page a long time ago, when I was still using Facebook. He posted something or other about illegal immigration, seemingly in favor of it, and I corrected him. The Old Testament clearly says it’s a curse when aliens rise up above a country’s citizens. Enlow flipped out and told me I was a racist.

It’s somewhat remarkable that anyone could read the stories of Nehemiah, Ezra, Zedekiah, and Jesus himself and not see that domination by foreigners is a curse caused by rebellion against God. I shouldn’t have to explain it to anyone who owns a Bible. The Hebrews were oppressed over and over in their own land, and they were driven out by their final oppressors, the Romans. God didn’t let these things happen because he was against Jewish racism and xenophobia. He did it because the Hebrews worshiped false gods.

Today I learned that Enlow thinks Trump won the election. He’s right in there with people like Kat Kerr and Hank Kunneman. There is a tremendous crop of professional Christian reality-deniers.

Real prophets can predict the future. They can’t unpredict things that already happened. Trump lost, probably because people worshiped him instead of God.

Enlow has gone so far as to say Trump would replace Jesus in our calendar. Instead of BC and AD, we would say “Before Trump” and “After Trump.”

How can you have the temerity to claim you can predict the future when you can’t even predict the present?

It shouldn’t surprise anyone when a Dominionist (Seven Mountains) adherent turns a politician into a false god. Politics is carnal, and so is the idea that Christians will rule the world before the return of Christ. It’s the same idea the disciples had, before Jesus rebuked them. He said his kingdom was not of this world and that it was within his followers. These things are still true. Jesus will not rule here as a king until after Satan is bound. A planet can’t have two rulers.

Enlow claims he had a vision and saw Trump with a golden crown and scepter. He says Biden has no scepter. He may not have a scepter, but he has the White House, Air Force One, Marine One, command of all our armed forces, the nuclear football, and the power to pack the Supreme Court without our consent. He is definitely the president. There is no question that the Democrats, and some Republicans, committed fraud. Doesn’t matter. The courts made their decisions, and under our Constitution, their word is law. Crazy as it sounds to anyone who remembers Biden’s past, he is the president.

I took a look at Enlow’s “prophesy” for 2020. Most of it was teaching, not prediction. The predictive parts were very vague, and none were correct. He said 2020 would be a year of roaring justice, and that never happened.

He issued a prediction to people he called “the swamp,” in every nation. Here it is:

“Though the pride of the wicked reaches to the heavens and their heads touch the clouds, yet they will vanish forever, thrown away like their own dung. They will fade like a dream and not be found. They will vanish like a vision in the night… His children must make amends to the poor. His own hands must give back his wealth…He will spit out the riches he swallowed; God will make his stomach vomit them up…What he toiled for he must give back uneaten; he will not enjoy the profit from his trading. For he has oppressed the poor and left them destitute…he cannot save himself by his treasure…his prosperity will not endure. In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him, THE FULL FORCE OF MISERY WILL COME UPON HIM…GOD WILL VENT HIS BURNING ANGER AGAINST HIM AND RAIN DOWN HIS BLOWS UPON HIM. THE HEAVENS WILL EXPOSE HIS GUILT AND THE EARTH WILL RISE UP AGAINST HIM.” Job 20: (from 6-27)

Were the wicked thrown away like their own dung last year? Not really. Did they spit out the riches they swallowed? Not yet. Did the heavens expose their guilt? Did the earth rise up against them? Not at all. And 2020 is over, so there is no possibility Enlow will turn out to be right.

Enlow is pretty annoyed with people who hold false prophets accountable, in spite of the very clear Bible teaching requiring us to do this. Here’s something he posted after Trump lost:

Can you get back into contending for your nation—and save the bashing of prophets still contending for your nation— for a day when your very nation’s free existence is no longer at stake? If the ground around you unexplainably shakes know that God is pointedly giving you a sign to heed this message.

How many people have been destroyed by the doctrine of protecting frauds? False prophets were highly destructive to Israel, and they are still destructive today. We have oily characters all over TV, telling the poor to send them money in exchange for riches from God. People lose their savings and end up living with their children because of them, and they are discouraged from getting God’s true blessings of protection and correction. Jesus complained that the priests of his time made a show of praying in public while they devoured people’s houses. It’s still happening.

Enlow is a sports fan, and he thinks God reveals things through the NFL. Spectator sports are extremely carnal, and they have caused problems for God’s people since the Greeks conquered Israel. It appears Enlow is not aware of this. American men idolize sports figures now. We give them the kind of devotion and admiration only God deserves. A real prophet would not take his sick hobby and turn it into part of his religion.

Regarding the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory in 2020, he wrote this incredible passage:

It was and is a good sign that both these teams were in the Super Bowl. It’s an accomplishment of note even by the losing team. Both speak into a JUBILEE time of prosperity. This was also part of the prophetic message from LSU winning the College Football National Championship, as they were led by player of the year, Joseph Burrow (a Joseph prosperity call). The 49ers refer to the gold rush in California, and biblical Jubilee actually had a 49th year and 50th year component. It was repeatedly noted that Kansas City’s last Super Bowl win was 50 years ago. So, 49 and 50 were both highlighted, but the 50 wins. That is a good thing as well; it confirms that it’s not almost Jubilee, but presently yet another full Jubilee.

Did 2020 seem like a year of Jubilee to you? Unemployment benefits had to be extended because people lost their jobs. The IRS allowed IRA holders to forgo minimum distributions so they could keep earning. Huge numbers of businesses closed. Stimulus checks were mailed out.

Enlow said the Dow Jones Industrial Average would hit 35,000, but he was wrong. The number was right, but it happened in 2021, not 2020.

Here’s some even stranger material:

The Chiefs won on 2/2 of 2020. It was coach Andy Reid’s 222nd victory. I was in LA last weekend and as I was coming in, I was getting some pretty strong clues from Heaven that the Super Bowl signified an important shift, and that Kansas City was going to win. My flight coming in was #2222. My car rental ended in 220. I had about 3 other strong 222’s. The repeat patterns are to draw our attention to a message.

Isaiah 2:2 NASB (emphasis mine) says, “Now it will come about in the last days the mountain of the house of the Lord will be established as the CHIEF of the mountains…and all nations will stream to it.”

I didn’t make that up.

Why would a pastor spend thousands on a Super Bowl trip? Glorifying men is dangerous. The average price of a scalped ticket in 2020 was nearly $7000. You have to be under delusion to pay that kind of money to watch a football game.

As a preacher, Enlow is in a very good position. Preachers tend to fail upwards. When they utterly fail at their jobs, they still prosper, because they don’t have to do anything useful. They don’t have to make products or perform services that work. They don’t have to provide correct teaching. All they have to do is convince people to continue giving them money. When they make mistakes or get caught with hookers or other men’s wives, they say, “It’s an attack of Satan!” Their gaslighted followers lap it up and send more money. I doubt Enlow’s history of wrong prophecies will impact his income.

Peter Popoff was caught using radio equipment so his wife could feed him information about people so he could announce it in church and pretend it came from God. He still has a ministry. Jimmy Swaggart is still going strong. I’ll bet my former pastor ends up running another church. Merit has no relationship to preacher salaries.

No wonder Enlow criticizes people who point out his errors. They threaten his business model. Imagine how badly preachers would fare if their pay were linked to their performance.

For many preachers, the goal isn’t to serve God. It’s to convince people to give you money. Once you understand that, you have guaranteed income for life, regardless of how you disgrace yourself.

It always disgusts me when sports-crazy Christians try to drag God into their fetish. God does not endorse competitive sports. He hates zero-sum games. God teaches us to pray for our enemies. He wants as many people as possible to win. In every athletic competition, one person or team wins, and everyone else, without exception, goes home a loser. It ought to be obvious that God doesn’t support that system. He wants all of us to live in victory.

For every young man who succeeds in becoming a pro athlete, there are over 99 losers. Does that sound like God’s system, or Satan’s? Jesus is the only human being who ever won, and what did he do? He delivered himself to be murdered so we losers could be share his victory. We get to climb onto the podium with him, as though we had won in our own right.

In sports, a participation trophy is a disgrace. In Christianity, it’s the only trophy you can get.

God isn’t excited about fleeting glory. He wants us to have eternal prizes.

Think about this: Kareem Abdul Jabbar is a bad basketball player. There is no college team in America where he could make the cut. Why? Because he’s 74. Whatever he had is gone. His vertical leap is history. He’s slow. He’s prone to serious injury. Doesn’t matter what he used to be. His time is past, and it will never return.

A Christian, on the other hand, can be more effective at 90 than he was at 20, in every way. And when that Christian dies, he will take his treasures with him to heaven. Jordan’s money, houses, and trophies will stay right here. In heaven, if he gives up Islam and makes it, he’ll be just like the lady who cleans his toilets. She may be a bigger star there than he is.

I don’t call myself a prophet. God has shown me general things about the future, but real prophets make very specific predictions that come true. I don’t do that. I can’t swear Trump won’t bounce back via some kind of legal miracle. I don’t see it coming, however, and I can tell you for sure that Christians are not going to rule the earth during the present age.

Leftists have always been creatures of the Antichrist, and many Christians and conservatives are in the same boat. Trusting in Trump and football players is idolatry. It makes men false messiahs, and every false messiah is an antichrist. That’s what “antichrist” means. Trusting in militias and rifles is also idolatry. When the rapture comes, Christians who are worshiping Trump and rioting against BLM and Antifa are going to stay right here. I expect Johnny Enlow to stay here, too, unless he changes his ways.

He needs to pray in tongues and fight pride and greed. He needs to ask for revelation and correction.

I’ll pray for him after I get done writing this. I have no reason to feel superior. Whenever I feel proud, I can turn to the Bible page where I jotted down Steve Munsey’s ridiculous “Seven Blessings of Passover” as though they were the truth.