While televangelist Jim Bakker's daily television program has always been a repository for misinformation, baseless conspiracy theories, and End Times fearmongering, his show has gotten decidedly stranger in recent days.
Earlier this week, Bakker interviewed right-wing conspiracy theorist Steve Quayle, who spent two programs warning about aliens, demons, trans-dimensional beings, and “diseases that are designed to initiate cannibalism in human beings” and turn them into literal zombies. On the heels of those programs, Bakker interviewed End Times conspiracy theorist Tom Horn, who warned that an asteroid will strike the Earth in 2029, unleashing an alien virus that will give rise to the Antichrist.
On Thursday's program, Horn discussed his recent book, "The Wormwood Prophecy," which claims that the government is covering up the fact that an asteroid known as Apophis will strike the Earth in 2029. While scientists say that Apophis will simply pass by our planet in 2029, Horn insists that it will actually strike the Earth and fulfill the prophecy in Revelation 8: "The third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star, blazing like a torch, fell from the sky on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water— the name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter, and many people died from the waters that had become bitter."
"I believe Apophis is the asteroid that is talked about in the book of Revelation, chapter eight," Horn said. "It is what is called 'Wormwood' in the Bible."
"I believe that Apophis is carrying an alien microorganism on it in which a virus is being sustained," he continued. "I believe it's going to make coronavirus look like a walk in the park. On impact with the Earth, the contagion that is going to be brought to this planet. ... I think that it's going to be a trigger event that ultimately leads to the Mark of the Beast, which will mean that you're going to have to be vaccinated."
"A contagion during the Tribulation period could sweep the world," Horn added. "Literally tens of millions of people are dying by the hour, and an international cry goes up around the world for some kind of cure, a vaccine. Well, a man comes forward—a single individual who happens to be the Antichrist—and he's the only man on Earth whose blood is naturally immune to this alien virus. And so a vaccine is created from his blood by which all mankind then are required to be inoculated. So, it's almost like a black communion."
