The Troubled and Befuddled Mind of Bill Watson

Church of God International Pastor Bill Watson sees communists and conspiracies everywhere, and he has continued to make them the focus of his ministry. In his latest post for his “News Alert Blogs” titled Is the United States in an Irregular War?, Bill portrays his favorite president, Donald J. Trump, heroically battling the forces of the Deep State which he asserts “are controlled by foreign Marxists international puppet masters, working in the shadows.”

From Bill’s perspective, the CIA has been a tool of this Deep State cabal of America haters for several decades. In the post, he even suggests CIA involvement in the assassination of JFK (OK, that conspiracy theory is popular with a lot of Americans). Even so, it seems that Bill is reluctant to dismiss any conspiracy theory which the internet can invent! And, to be clear, the internet is awash in this stuff – much of it originating in places like NTD (New Tang Dynasty) News and The Epoch Times (both affiliated with the anti-communist Chinese Falun Gong).

What does any of this have to do with Jesus Christ and advancing his kingdom? Well, from Bill’s perspective, all of this is indicative of the time of “Jacob’s trouble.” In Bill’s own words, “The profiles described in Genesis 48:19-20 fit the formation of the USA and U.K. very accurately––identifying them as these modern day, end-time geopolitical nations, prophetically identified as ‘Israel!’” For Bill, Herbert Armstrong’s original conspiracy theories (Anglo-Israelism and “False” Christianity) still make sense in trying to understand the very complicated world in which we live.

Add to all of this Bill’s wholesale rejection of anything that the “Mainstream Media” has to say on these subjects, and you have all of the ingredients of a self-perpetuating state of delusion. For Bill, all of these conspiracy theories are inexorably leading to one outcome. He wrote: “The irregularity of the tension and conflict the United States culturally is in, can’t help to make one wonder, are we witnessing the ‘Train Wreck’ of the Birth-righted nations prophesied by the voices of the Prophets? The present disruption DJT’s administration is causing has the potential to derail the hegemony of North America (Canada included) and result in anarchy, which could open the doors for a third-party invasion––and obviously, a stage setting for the fulfillment of Revelation 6:7-8, ––the arrival of the Fourth Horseman, the Fourth Seal [You ought to read it]. It’s quite a foreboding thought and description of what is in store for mankind at some point in our future. …. Lets pray it’s not yet!”