Hank Kunneman is a Christian nationalist Trump cultist conspiracy theorist MAGA pastor who, despite a demonstrably lackluster record, declares himself to be a prophet of God.
In this capacity, Kunneman generally delivers two sorts of prophecies: Those that are conveniently open-ended and vague and those that are so laughably predictable as to be essentially useless. Both forms of prophecy serve Kunneman well by allowing him to claim credit whenever something resembling the predictable ones inevitably occur while also allowing him to insist that the vague, open-ended ones will eventually come true at some indeterminate point in the future.
Kunneman's gift for delivering self-serving prophecies was on full display last week when an episode of the "FlashPoint" program was broadcast from his church during his annual "Opening The Heavens" conference.
Terrified that Republicans could lose control of Congress in the midterm elections due in no small part to skyrocketing oil and gas prices stemming from the war that President Donald Trump started against Iran, Kunneman sought to use his prophetic gift, and some props, to assure nervous voters that God has promised that gas prices will fall.
"We're in a time of a shift change," Kunneman proclaimed. "It's begun."
"I want to bring a prop because I want you to see it," he continued, holding up a red gas can and donning an Amoco hat. "The gas prices are going to go down, down, down, down, down."
"You know why I'm holding this?" Kunneman asked. "God has been saying for a long time the gas prices are going down. Watch the oil of the Earth, [God] prophesied. We did a whole show on Flashpoint about the oil. We showed prophecies that specifically said Venezuela would be set free and their oil would be given to the Earth years before what you just saw. The oil is going to come down, but so is the Spirit of God. The oil is going to come down, and as you watch the prices of gas go down, you need to rejoice because it's a sign of the spoils of war, but it's also a sign of what we're talking about: the glory of God is coming down also."
In this case, Kunneman managed to take full advantage of both the open-endedness and the inevitably of his prophecies in one fell swoop because, of course, the price of oil will drop at some point in the future. If, in the meantime, gas and oil prices continue to rise, Kunneman can just perpetually insist that his prophecy hasn't yet come to pass until the moment when prices do begin to fall, as which point he will rush to take credit for having prophesied it.
