#Ché Ahn

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Kyle Mantyla at RWW:

Dominionist pastor Ché Ahn appeared on the Christian nationalist program "FlashPoint" last week, where he declared that those who oppose President Donald Trump or anyone in his administration are "fighting God."  [...] "He's put Trump into position," Ahn continued. "But not only that, [Vice President J.D.] Vance. Are you kidding me? This incredible vice president and as well as the cabinet member, it's like an all-star team, a dream team that you couldn't even figure out or make up. God's doing it and so whoever fights them is really fighting God."

On last Wednesday’s edition of The Victory Channel’s FlashPoint, far-right “pastor” Ché Ahn says that who oppose Donald Trump and his wickedly anti-American administration are “fighting God”.

From the 01.16.2025 edition of The Victory Channel's FlashPoint:

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Peter Montgomery at RWW:

Tens of thousands of people answered the call from New Apostolic Reformation leaders to gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Saturday for what organizer Lou Engle called “a last stand for America.” Like the pro-Trump Courage Tour being led by NAR leader Lance Wallnau in swing states, the ten-hour gathering in DC mixed worship, spiritual warfare, and MAGA politics. The day ended with NAR apostle and political activist Ché Ahn talking about the demonic spirit of Jezebel supposedly working through politicians like Vice President Kamala Harris—and making an “apostolic decree” that Donald Trump would be elected in November.  The New Apostolic Reformation is a growing religious and political movement grounded in a theology of dominion—the idea that God wants certain kinds of Christians to take control of the government and every other important institution in society to transform nations and bring culture and laws into alignment with their right-wing biblical worldview. The NAR is also characterized by the idea of strategic level spiritual warfare—prayers and decrees meant to dislodge demonic spirits controlling geographical areas or institutions in “the natural.” 

In the U.S., NAR leaders reached new heights of influence during the Trump administration—thanks in part to having publicly declared during the 2016 campaign that Trump was anointed by God. NAR leaders acted as cheerleaders for Trump and prayed for God to “remove” Supreme Court justices to give him more opportunities to reshape the Court.  NAR leaders are still intimately connected with the MAGA movement and political power at the highest levels; House Speaker Mike Johnson sent a message to the gathering that was read from the stage. Wallnau and Mario Murillo’s Courage Tour is working with MAGA movement groups Turning Point USA and the America First Policy Institute in what scholar Mathew Taylor has called “the most targeted and tactical voter mobilization effort done by Christian nationalists ever.”

The NAR is not a denomination but functions as a collaborative network of leaders and ministries. Many of the movement’s top figures participated in the Oct. 12 rally. In addition to Engle and Ahn, they included Wallnau, Dutch Sheets, Cindy Jacobs, Mark Gonzales, Bill Johnson, and Jonathan Cahn. FlashPoint host Gene Bailey was interviewed on the event’s livestream. 

Engle has spent decades holding large-scale prayer rallies, often connected to specific political goals, like a presidential election or, in California in 2008, passage of an anti-marriage equality ballot initiative. For this event—which was billed specifically as a call to “A Million Women”—he teamed up with Jenny Donnelly, leader of the Her Voice Movement and its anti-LGBTQ “Don’t Mess With Our Kids” campaign. The event was also promoted by Intercessors for America, the Family Research Council, and the Christian Broadcasting Network.

Before Ahn gathered the apostles behind him to make his decree about Trump’s victory, spiritual warriors on stage had engaged in more concrete violence. With Engle urging them on, Cahn and others took sledgehammers to a representation of the altar of the goddess Ishtar, who is closely associated with the biblical figure of Jezebel. Another leader had previously asked people to turn around to look at the Washington Monument, declaring that the obelisk is America’s “Asherah pole”—Asherah is another name for Ishtar. The smashing of the altar, said Engle and Ahn, signified that the day’s prayers had stripped the evil goddess of her spiritual power over the U.S.

The rally was held on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. Repentance on both a personal and national level was a major theme of the day. Speakers led prayers asking forgiveness for pornography, legal abortion, marriage equality, and schools that affirm transgender students. While speakers insisted that they “love the rainbow people,” they prayed that God would “break” the LGBTQ Pride movement and defeat the “demonic principality” they blame for the existence of trans people. Engle has had a dream prophesying that 100,000 “LGBTs” would be “saved.”  Speakers told victims of sexual assault to forgive their perpetrators and people who had been subjected to racism to forgive “all those who’ve betrayed us.” Speakers also asked forgiveness for historical Christian antisemitism and for the U.S. government not being sufficiently “unequivocal” in its support for Israel.  Blue and pink “Don’t Mess With Our Kids” flags—emphasizing two genders—were prominent. One activist held a banner with the same color scheme that called for a return to a patriarchal “Holy Order”—with a hierarchy of God, husband, wife, and children. 

This weekend, far-right anti-LGBTQ+/anti-abortion extremist group Don’t Mess With Our Kids, a project of Her Voice MVMT, had a gathering on the National Mall in DC.

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Peter Montgomery at RWW (10.19.2020): 

Dominionist pastor Ché Ahn has launched 1RACE4LIFE, a new anti-choice initiative that is designed to bring about “the end of abortion on a local, state, and national level.” Ahn recently appeared at “The Return,” a pro-Trump prayer rally on the National Mall, where he denounced legal abortion and marriage equality and thanked God that Amy Coney Barrett would “be the judge that will help us to overturn Roe v. Wade.”

Ahn is a leader of the New Apostolic Reformation, a network of Pentecostal leaders who believe God has empowered modern-day apostles and prophets to perform miracles, transform Christianity, and disciple whole nations to their biblical worldview in preparation for the return of Jesus Christ.

“I feel strongly that we have reached a kairos moment—an opportune, God-appointed moment in time,” Ahn wrote in an Oct. 11 blog post. “I believe it is time for us to rise up, take a stand on God’s Word, and partner with heaven’s agenda to bring reformation to society and revival to our land!” Ahn wrote that during September and October, he “set apart time to travel to the key battleground states and speak at as many churches as I can to mobilize young people to vote pro-life.”

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Peter Montgomery at RWW (02.27.2020): 

In his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference Thursday morning, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk declared enthusiastically, “Finally we have a president that understands the seven mountains of cultural influence.” Many CPAC attendees and online viewers may have missed the quick reference to seven mountains dominionism—sometimes called the seven mountains mandate—whose proponents argue that God wants a certain kind of Christian to be in charge of all the “mountains” or spheres of cultural influence: government, media, education, business, arts and entertainment, church and family.

Seven mountains dominionism is associated with the New Apostolic Reformation, a network of Pentecostal and charismatic leaders who believe God has given modern-day apostles and prophets the power to work miracles, transform the church and whole nations, establish God’s kingdom on earth, and speed the return of Jesus Christ. The rhetoric of the seven mountains has been adopted across the religious right even by leaders who may not share NAR’s theology, but find the concept a convenient lingua franca for encouraging conservative evangelicals to get more involved in politics.

Right Wing Watch reported last week that Kirk had endorsed California congressional candidate Sean Feucht, a worship leader at Bethel megachurch and a favorite of dominionist “apostles” and “prophets.” It turns out that endorsement was the tip of the iceberg of Kirk’s partnership with a group of California-based pastors connected to Christian nationalist political operative David Lane.

Kirk was listed as a speaker at Rediscovering God in America, a Pastors and Pews event in January organized by Lane’s California Renewal Project; Lane’s events are designed to get pastors more actively engaged in turning their congregants into conservative voters. Among the other speakers were California pastors Jack Hibbs, Rob McCoy, and Ché Ahn. Hibbs leads Calvary Chapel Chino Hills Church, a southern California megachurch, and he is helping lead a long-term push to mobilize conservative evangelical churchgoers to topple Democratic political dominance in the Golden State.

In December and again last week, Kirk appeared on stage at Hibbs’s church. Hibbs is proudly defiant of restrictions on electoral politicking by churches and other nonprofits; he endorses candidates from the pulpit and unabashedly tells congregants that the church will instruct them how to vote.

On the morning of Kirk’s appearance last Wednesday, Hibbs promoted the evening event via Facebook video as an “unscheduled interruption by the Lord” that would not only include Kirk but also congressional and judicial candidates. And before the Wednesday evening event, Kirk recorded a segment for Hibbs’s “Real Life Talk” podcast, which was essentially a condensed version of the longer evening session.

On Wednesday night at Hibbs’s church, Kirk was in conversation with another leader in the Calvary Chapel network, pastor-politician Rob McCoy, who Lane describes as the inspiration for his effort to recruit 1,000 evangelical pastors to run for political office. Hibbs warned potential hecklers that it was a federal offense to disrupt a religious gathering, adding that there were local and federal officers in attendance.

In his conversations with Hibbs and McCoy, Kirk sounded less like the leader of a secular political organization and more like Lane himself or one of the dominionists he works with. Kirk described a “spiritual war” taking place in the U.S. between light and darkness. Claiming that American Christianity is in “crisis,” he decried pastors who aren’t willing to be as aggressively involved in politics as Hibbs and McCoy.

In December, Hibbs gushed over Kirk, calling him a “national treasure” whose knowledge is “a gift given to you by God.” Kirk returned the favor, saying the U.S. needed 1,000 pastors like Hibbs. Kirk portrayed President Donald Trump’s election as the result of divine intervention, saying, “it seems as if God came down and intervened at that moment.”

In his conversations with Hibbs and McCoy, Kirk compared Trump to the biblical character Samson, who led an immoral life but was used by God to destroy his enemies. “Samson was willing to do what God’s people weren’t—confront the evil in their culture,” McCoy said. (Samson is among many biblical characters to which Trump has been compared by his religious-right supporters.)

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Peter Montgomery at RWW: 

Rapper Kanye West announced that he and his Sunday Service choir will take part in Awaken 2020, a prayer rally featuring dominionists Lou Engle, Ché Ahn, Cindy Jacobs and other evangelists that will be held Saturday, Jan. 18 at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. According to one report, West’s announcement sparked such a flood of people registering for free tickets that the event website crashed.

Some religious conservatives believe that West’s highly publicized conversion and his traveling “Sunday Service” will help spark the Great Awakening, a revival that religious-right leaders have been trying to set in motion for years. To them, the Great Awakening is not just about saving souls, but about changing politics and shifting the direction of the nation.