Right-wing pastor Rick Joyner joined televangelist and End Times prepper pastor Jim Bakker on his television program yesterday, where they declared that Hurricane Harvey was God's judgment on the city of Houston and used the devastation wrought by the storm to promote Bakker's line of survival products.
Joyner asserted that the storm had nothing to do with climate change because "the real issue with the weather and everything else on the earth has to do with sin and wickedness."
"The whole earth will cry out because of the shedding of innocent blood," he said. "That's what throws nature off more than dumping CO2 or anything."
That prompted Bakker to declare that he felt that "this flood is from God, it's a judgment on America," and Joyner agreed, noting that "these kinds of things don't happen by accident."
Joyner said that Key West, Florida, had been hit by a hurricane "on the day they're supposed to have the Day of Decadence parade" and another hurricane hit New Orleans right before it hosted another Day of Decadence festival.
"Coincidence? I don't think so," he said. "We have to stand up against the perversion of our times and call it what it is."
Bakker agreed, saying that the former mayor of Houston "ordered all the preachers to turn in their sermons before they preached them. Just remember, God gets the last word. God gets the last word. Be not deceived, God is not mocked."
