The internet is ablaze with a Pastor’s apparently bullseye-accurate prophesy about the attempted murder of former US president Donald Trump. Is Brandon Biggs’ prediction accurate?
What happened?
A viral video clip of Pastor Brandon Biggs has emerged (see below), which apparently shows him predicting the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
The attack took place at the weekend, and was unsuccessful, but one supporter was killed, as well as the shooter.
The clip is certainly unnerving. “I saw an attempt on his [Trump’s] life,” Biggs says in a video posted on YouTube several months before the incident. “This bullet flew by his ear, and it came so close that it busted his eardrum. He fell to his knees within this timeframe, and started worshipping the Lord…he got radically born again.”
Biggs posted the clip on his own ‘Last Days’ YouTube channel, although the original video appears to have been recorded in March and posted on the YouTube channel of Steve Cioccolanti, a Trump supporting pastor.
Who is Brandon Biggs?
Although describing himself as a pastor, there is little available information other than on his YouTube channel, where he has nearly 200,000 subscribers.
His videos are mostly severe apocalyptic prophecies about the tribulation and future woes of humanity. For example, the featured video on the channel shows Brandon describing numerous apocalyptic visions of the complete breakdown of society, a pandemic similar to the Black Death, and advice to prepare for these disasters.
The prophecy sounds pretty amazing…
Pastor Biggs predicted a bullet flying past Trump’s right ear along with a hand gesture at exactly the place where the bullet flew past, and also Trump falling to his knees. It leaves an uncanny impression, it has to be said.
Can we test the pastor’s prophecies?
There were a number of other predictions in the clip that could be used to test his accuracy: that there would be a “new patriotism”, that Trump would win the election and that the bullet burst his eardrum. At the time of writing we cannot know whether these extra details will prove accurate or not.
However, Biggs did make one other prediction. He said Trump would be “born again” during the assassination attempt, and it may be noteworthy that Trump has already credited his survival to God. For example, on Truth Social, he posted: “It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening. We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our Faith and Defiant in the face of Wickedness.”
What else did Biggs prophesy?
The short clip includes a rather worrying prediction that after Trump wins the election, the American economy will enter economic troubles even worse than the devastating Great Depression of the 1930s, but that ultimately revival will come afterwards.
In the longer video, he predicts war, extreme weather, and huge tornadoes, among other things.
Is the assassination prophesy really that incredible?
Many commentators have predicted there is likely to be attempts made on Trump’s life, due to the intense political temperature, the failure of attempts to stop his second presidential bid, and the increasingly inflammatory rhetoric around the election.
How are people responding?
Many Christians are taking the prophecy as genuine. There are also many Christians crediting Trump’s survival to God, though it is not the first time that God is said to have been ‘on his side’. Recent events do seem to have inspired more of this rhetoric, however. For example, Trump’s daughter in law Lara Trump, now co-chair of the Republican National Convention, posted a picture of Jesus holding Trump’s shoulder with ‘Fear not, for I am with you’ in the wake of the assassination attempt.
There are plenty of doubters too. Biggs has a long history of making predictions, and some are already claiming he has a track record of getting it wrong. Sceptics will argue if you constantly make outlandish predictions and publish them all online, then sooner or later one of them will come to pass - although that arguably cynical attitude was never endorsed by the Apostle Paul. Writing in 1 Thessalonians on the use of spiritual gifts, he advised, “Do not despise prophecies, but test everything; hold fast what is good.” (5:20-21)
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