{"id":3307,"date":"2022-03-29T10:50:28","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/?p=3307"},"modified":"2022-03-29T10:50:28","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T14:50:28","slug":"megachurch-pastor-calls-putin-new-hitler-on-a-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/christnewstoday\/2022\/03\/megachurch-pastor-calls-putin-new-hitler-on-a-rampage.html","title":{"rendered":"Megachurch Pastor Calls Putin &#8216;New Hitler on a Rampage&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been going on for more than a month. It\u2019s still on the hearts and tongues of everyone worldwide. Many people have wondered what\u2019s going through Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s mind regarding the invasion. Now, one pastor is comparing Putin to Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>An evangelical pastor in Texas recently preached a sermon on Bible prophecy in which he declared that Putin is \u201cthe new Hitler on a rampage.\u201d\u00a0Pastor Jimmy Evans, the founder and apostolic elder of the multi-site Trinity Fellowship Church in Texas, appeared as a guest preacher last Sunday at Ed Young\u2019s Fellowship Church. He preached the finale of a four-part sermon series on End Times prophecy.<\/p>\n<p>During the\u00a0March 13 sermon, titled \u201cWhat in The World is Going on?\u201d the 66-year-old pastor and founder of XO Marriage discussed the apocalyptic belief that Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine could be part of the End Times prophecy being fulfilled.\u00a0Evans said, referencing the figure mentioned in Ezekiel 38, \u201cToday, I would say that Vladimir Putin is Gog. Now, if this is going to happen years in the future, Gog could be somewhere else. But now we have a leader in Russia who is a very evil man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7bHcvqDbySM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He said Russia \u201cis bombing women and children, bombing nursing homes, bombed a mosque this week and killed the people in it that were hiding there.\u201d Evans thinks that Putin wants to reunite the Soviet Union, a collection of communist governments dominated by Russia that collapsed in 1991. The pastor asserted that Ukraine isn\u2019t his end game. Evans added, \u201cThis is a new Hilter on a rampage. This is the most aggressive military action that has taken place since World War II.\u201d He believes that Putin will also try to conquer other parts of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>While some evangelical pastors and biblical scholars believe that\u00a0Ezekiel 38\u2019s mention of\u00a0Gog and Magog\u00a0joining other nations in attacking Israel is modern-day Russia, other scholars\u00a0disagree.\u00a0Using a map to show Ukraine\u2019s position to the far north of Israel, Evans cites\u00a0Ezekiel 38:1-6\u00a0to speculate that all nations mentioned in the Scripture as going to attack Israel are \u201cpolitically and militarily aligned.\u201d He said, \u201cRosh is Russia at the top of the map. You\u2019ll notice Ukraine is there to the left. Ukraine, biblically, could be part of Rosh, especially East Ukraine, which is historically Russian. So, Ukraine could be part of that Magog.\u00a0Ezekiel 38\u00a0mentions Magog.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Evans, the End Times was \u201cthe most prophesied about period in human history,\u201d adding, \u201cThe Bible tells us exactly what\u2019s going to happen in the End Times, and it is happening right before our very eyes. Just about every generation of Christians since Jesus has believed they were living in the End Times.\u201d\u00a0Many people have compared Vladimir Putin to a tyrant or Hitler since the invasion of Ukraine started. However, pastor Evans is one of the first to compare Russia\u2019s attack to the End Times. Hopefully, Russia and Ukraine can compromise soon, and this invasion will end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been going on for more than a month. It\u2019s still on the hearts and tongues of everyone worldwide. 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