In the book of 1 Samuel, the prophet Samuel delivered a message from God instructing King Saul to lead the Israelite army in an attack on Amalekites.
"Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them," Samuel told Saul. "Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys."
During a recent broadcast, Christian nationalist pastor specifically cited this biblical example in defense of the military attack that the United States and Israel are carrying out against Iran.
Vaughn, an obsequious MAGA activist so blindly committed to Trump that he openly admits to being a "cult follower" of the president, has long been a vocal cheerleader of military action against Iran, insisting that it is necessary to prepare for the End Times and the return of Jesus.
"There was a man in the Bible by the name of King Saul," Vaughn said. "And God saw that there was a group of people called the Amalekites that hated Israel. The Amalekites had one desire: To destroy Israel from under the sun. And God raised up King Saul and told Saul, 'I want you to preemptively strike the Amalekites. I want you to go in and kill every man, woman, boy, and girl. And I don't want you to explain it to Congress. I don't want you to explain it to anybody. I want you to do what needs to be done to preserve my people a little longer on the face of the Earth.'"
"Now, if King Saul was to do that today, the entire world would turn against him," Vaughn continued. "But you see, when God is in something and a man doesn't care what the world thinks, he is obeying the dictates of God himself. When God raised up Donald Trump; Iran is to America what Amalek was to Israel. The same thing."
