When Israel launched an attack on Iran in June of 2025, religious-right activists celebrated, excited by the prospect that it could precipitate the End Times and the return of Jesus Christ.
Predictably, these same religious-right activists are once again overjoyed after the United States and Israel began jointly bombing Iran over the weekend, killing the nation's supreme leader and dozens of top military commanders.
While the attack has generated retaliatory strikes and fears of a wider Middle East war, evangelical Trump supporters are gushing over President Donald Trump's action, with megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs declaring that "for such a time as this, this man is being led by God."
During a special sermon on Sunday, Hibbs absurdly declared that "this is not regime change, this is removing the obstacle so that the people [of Iran] can pick their leadership," before marveling that the attack was carried out on 9/11 of the Islamic calendar.
"Who planned this?" he asked. "I think God planned it."
On Sunday, pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, delivered a special "prophetic sermon" in response to the attacks to explain "what God's plan of fury is for Iran."
"It's refreshing to know that God is in total control and he has plans that will not be removed," Hagee said.
During a service later on Sunday, Hagee led his congregation in thanking God "for the fabulous military victory over the enemies of Israel" and "for our president, Donald Trump, whose wise courage has crushed the enemies of Zion."
Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht likewise praised the attacks, saying that God has positioned his own prayer team in Iraq in order to take advantage of "the End Time open doors of what he is going to do in Iran when this regime is prayerfully removed."
In a separate video, Feucht declared that the attacks represent "the greatest day of harvest" for Christians to spread the gospel in Iran.
"God is using this moment to open wide the doors for evangelism like we haven't seen in 50 years," he celebrated. "Let see the gospel penetrate this ancient land."
On Saturday, Trump cultist Shane Vaughn did an emergency broadcast to explain how Trump is a "prophetic instrument of God" who "has an assignment to protect Israel."
"Yahweh raised up a man to do what happened this morning," Vaughn proclaimed. "Donald Trump did not strike Iran today because of a foreign policy doctrine ... Yahweh, the God of Heaven, raised up Donald Trump for today."
The Christian nationalist program "FlashPoint" likewise did a special broadcast on Saturday, during which MAGA cultist Lance Wallnau insisted that Trump did not want to attack Iran but "God made the Iranians just recalcitrant" during negotiations, just like when "God hardened Pharaoh's heart" in Exodus, thereby forcing Trump to take action.
"They refused to budge," Wallnau said. "And when Trump saw that they were not going to move and that there was no sense in delaying, he went ahead and made the decision, as he always does."
Later in the broadcast, Wallnau noted that the attack fell just before the Jewish holiday of Purim, which commemorates the failure of Haman's plot to destroy the Jews as told in the book of Esther.
"Isn't it interesting that the ancient stronghold of the Prince of Persia that sought to exterminate all the Jews is now coming down again under the authority of another modern-day ruler who the prayers of God's people have been empowering?" Wallnau declared. "During their feast of Purim, when they had a reversal of a destructive threat, we're watching that reversal happen again in our day."
"Things are happening right in alignment with actual feasts," Wallnau added. "There's always a feast day manifestation because Israel and the return of Jesus is back on the menu."
