'Evil will be shaken down': Gleeful evangelicals warn God is vengeful after Trump trial

Former President Donald Trump's criminal conviction on 34 counts of falsifying business records in New York has led to an upsurge of rhetoric from MAGA-aligned evangelists, wrote Tim Dickinson for Rolling Stone — and they are casting the former president as a religious martyr, and the conviction as a trial for America from which God will deliver the faithful.

Trump supporters comparing the former president to Jesus is not a new phenomenon — but some are solidifying a clearer narrative than ever in the wake of the trial, which centered on Trump's illegally concealed hush payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels to hide an extramarital affair from voters in 2016.

One such voice driving this narrative is Julie Green, an Iowa-based online preacher.

"In a prophetic word filmed shortly after Trump’s conviction, Green delivered a message she claimed was sent down from the most high," Rolling Story reported.

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"'Woe to the enemies of Almighty God. You are laughing, thinking you got what you desired," Green said, voicing her version of the Christian deity. "I will tell you I will have the last laugh. Your verdict is a joke. And an illusion … I will show you whose verdict really counts. My son is not guilty," Green claimed God said of Trump.

"'And the world will … see your kangaroo courts, and how they are a joke, and how they are nothing against Me.' Casting Trump in the mold of a biblical king, Green continued, 'I say, you do not have my David where you want him. But I have you where I want you. I told you you will reap what you have sown … Your show is about to end, and my children are about to laugh.'"

Another of these evangelists is Dutch Sheets, a self-proclaimed modern "apostle" who delivered to his followers a vision he had, Rolling Stone reported.

"Sheets related that in this dream Trump said his work would take two terms. 'It’ll be an eight-year process, and it’ll take two men — me then another — for the full sweep of power.' Sheets then insisted that the new convictions showed Trump 'truly is a political martyr,' whose destruction has been sought by 'the leftists, globalist, and Dems,'" the reports stated.

Sheets concluded this sermon by laying down a prophecy: “Trump, he is being martyred politically, but You will raise him up again. And we decree that darkness will scatter in the light, evil will be shaken down and truth will prevail in America.”

The fervor with which many Trump supporters compare Trump's legal struggles to a religious cause has led to widespread condemnations of blasphemy from less radicalized punditry.