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A Pastor’s Encounter with the ‘Demonic’ at Trump’s Florida Rally
Religion News Service ^ | 2/22/17 | Lauren Markoe

Posted on 02/22/2017 6:05:21 PM PST by marshmallow

RNS) The vitriol of the president’s supporters at a Trump rally has moved a Florida pastor to write a much-shared Facebook post about the mockery of religion he believed he witnessed.

“I have been in places and experiences before where demonic activity was palpable,” wrote the Rev. Joel Tooley, lead pastor of Melbourne First Church of the Nazarene.

The pastor said he felt the “power of the Holy Spirit of God” protecting him and his daughter as he sought to shield protesters from angry Trump fans.

Tooley had brought his 11-year-old to the rally Saturday (Feb. 18) in Melbourne, he wrote, in hopes of exposing her to some of the grandeur of the presidency, despite his own distaste for Trump’s politics.

It began to go badly for Tooley very quickly, when first lady Melania Trump read the Lord’s Prayer to the crowd.

“I can’t explain it, but I felt sick. This wasn’t a prayer beseeching the presence of Almighty God, it felt theatrical and manipulative,” Tooley wrote in the post, published on the day of the rally and since shared more than 14,600 times

(Excerpt) Read more at religionnews.com ...


TOPICS: Evangelical Christian; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: joeltooley; lordsprayer; melbourne; mlbfl
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1 posted on 02/22/2017 6:05:21 PM PST by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

The demonic realm is aligned against Trump. Not for him.

Witches Worldwide are Planning to Cast a Spell on Trump on 2/24/17.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3528083/posts


2 posted on 02/22/2017 6:07:50 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: marshmallow

This boy is a friggin’ lunatic. He is a Clintoonie anti-Trumper and that makes him a liar.


3 posted on 02/22/2017 6:08:17 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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To: marshmallow

If only we were as pure as this pastor.


4 posted on 02/22/2017 6:11:04 PM PST by tillacum (I'm still a Deplorable.)
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To: marshmallow

Protection from angry Trump fans? LOL.
How about Trump fans needing protection from rioters?


5 posted on 02/22/2017 6:13:06 PM PST by dixie1202
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To: marshmallow

You could feel his hate for Trump emanating from that essay.


6 posted on 02/22/2017 6:14:36 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Trump: "I'm not going to tell you.")
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To: marshmallow

And yet he said nothing against the “P” March in D.C. and all the violent protests that have occurred across the country...


7 posted on 02/22/2017 6:14:47 PM PST by Smittie (Just like an alien I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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Perhaps the demonic Rev. Joel Tooley is FOS.


8 posted on 02/22/2017 6:25:04 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: marshmallow

Just because this fellow puts ‘pastor’ or ‘reverend’ in front of his name means absolutely squat....Some of the harshest words in scripture were for ‘pastors’.... Jeremiah 23:1 “Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord.”


9 posted on 02/22/2017 6:28:35 PM PST by hecticskeptic
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To: Gene Eric

POS to boot.


10 posted on 02/22/2017 6:28:40 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: marshmallow

“in hopes of exposing her to some of the grandeur of the presidency, despite his own distaste for Trump’s politics”

A pastor with the feelings he had for Trump would not reasonably be expecting to be seeing “the grandeur of the presidency” (whatever that is???) at a rally for someone who he terribly dislikes.

He went there with “bad vibes” and with obvious agreement with the “protestors” felt “bad vibes” ONLY at the reactions of the Trump supporters.

The pastor’s entire tale reads as a script he had BEFORE he went to the rally AND he USED HIS DAUGHTER AS A PROP in his script.

Full disclosure: I once stood watching, from the curb, a New York City “antiwar” protest march against GW Bush, and I did feel “demonic” forces from the mass of marchers and had to leave the area, feeling I was fleeing to “save myself”. True.


11 posted on 02/22/2017 6:29:44 PM PST by Wuli
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I hope this jerk burns in hell for playing these games.


12 posted on 02/22/2017 6:31:10 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: marshmallow

Never-trumper tool_ey

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3527610/posts


13 posted on 02/22/2017 6:32:55 PM PST by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: marshmallow

Tooley is a tool of SATAN


14 posted on 02/22/2017 6:39:15 PM PST by Third Person
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To: marshmallow

The Lord God told us to not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Here you have a supposed man of the cloth breaking that commandment.


15 posted on 02/22/2017 6:39:50 PM PST by TennTuxedo
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Pastor or not, he's a lousy Christian at best...and NO Christian at all; as the worst. The latter being his true "character".

He's bearing false witness about the crowd, the president, the FLOTUS, and lying through his teeth about himself and his reasons for going there.

16 posted on 02/22/2017 6:41:16 PM PST by nopardons
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Pastor or not, he's a lousy Christian at best...and NO Christian at all; as the worst. The latter being his true "character".

He's bearing false witness about the crowd, the president, the FLOTUS, and lying through his teeth about himself and his reasons for going there.

17 posted on 02/22/2017 6:41:31 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Third Person

He’s no “man of GOD”; that’s for sure and certain!


18 posted on 02/22/2017 6:42:58 PM PST by nopardons
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To: marshmallow

Other threads today outed this pastor as a liar with a nevertrump post history on social media.


19 posted on 02/22/2017 7:03:35 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("January 20, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.")
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To: marshmallow

Here’s an example of real demonic activity at the Democrat National Convention:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtKd005fxnM


20 posted on 02/22/2017 7:03:58 PM PST by kaehurowing
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