JokersUpdates.com: News Stand - A Texas-based church network that believes its fighting spiritual war against Jezebels, and now has a direct line to the White House. “The Lord is sending his son back, and he’s coming with fire

in his eyes and a sword in his mouth.”

Speaking from the main stage of his Fort Worth church last month, Pastor Landon Schott recalled a recent vision he’d had while praying near the U.S. Supreme Court, one in which a demonic serpent descended upon the Oval Office.

“I see Jezebel circling the White House,” he said in December, referring to the biblical character often associated with idolatry and sexual impurity. “She’s in the form of a snake; her neck is a python. And I watch her slither around the White House twice. The first time going around was Hillary [Clinton]. The second one was Kamala [Harris]. And then I saw the hand of the Lord keeping her from the White House. There is a demonic attack, because Washington, D.C., is one of the greatest places of power in the world.”

Since 2019, Schott has copastored Mercy Culture Church, guiding the Fort Worth–based church network amid rapid expansions into Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, and Waco. Schott, along with his wife and copastor, Heather, has steadily accumulated influence and celebrity in a fast-growing sect of charismatic Pentecostalism that believes Christians are commanded by God to battle demons and wage spiritual warfare to save America.

Now the pair is taking that battle directly to Washington. Last month the church announced a major expansion into the nation’s capital, which includes a new congregation as well as a prayer house, located across the street from the U.S. Supreme Court, that the Schotts believe will let them guide the spiritual courses of the high court and the country. The church is also set to open another campus in Orange County, a historically red part of California with deep ties to fundamentalist conservative movements.

But Mercy Culture’s national ambitions are hardly surprising. Since the Schotts, who did not respond to interview requests, founded the church, it has been among the most politically active congregations in the state, driven by an existential view of politics and the couple’s belief that Christians have a divine mandate to control every aspect of society. “We are not a political church,” Landon Schott told congregants in December, drawing laughs from a few in attendance. “What we are talking about is not political. What we’re talking about is spiritual. . . . We’re a church of fighters. We’re a church of reformers, and we’re a church that’s gonna see righteousness in our nation.”

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