J.D. Farag Leaves Calvary Chapel, Warns of Zombie Apocalypse
For the uninitiated into the stranger things, J.D. Farag is a wildly popular prophecy wonk from Calvary Kaneohe, HI.
His YouTube channel has over a quarter million subscribers and people all over the world consider him their pastor and source of truth.
In my opinion, he is also either utterly delusional or purposefully deceptive.
In this epic video, Farag first cites a bunch of random prophecy verses , then declares that the Covid 19 vaccine is creating zombies…and this was foretold in the Scriptures.
He ends it by declaring that he was disaffiliating from Calvary Chapel because they have given in to the zombie makers.
“In lieu of today’s “But God” testimony, I sense that this would be an appropriate time to apprize you of a Board of Directors’ decision made over one month ago on March 17th to disaffiliate from Calvary Chapel. This for reasons that were bathed in much weeping, praying, and fasting by the board, leadership, and staff for well-nigh four years now, chief among these reasons was and still is this aforementioned strange change beginning in 2020, specific to Covid-19 and the vaccine so-called. What ensued was the heartbreaking realization that we were no longer walking together in agreement.
It’s for this reason that we’ve already removed our exterior sign from the front of the building. To the question of what will change, absolutely nothing except our name, which out of respect will now simply be Calvary Kaneohe.
[ Applause ]
Wow! Thank you for that. That blesses this pastor’s heart. Thank you for that. Please know that we remain committed to and will continue with simply teaching the Bible simply book- by-book, chapter-by-chapter, and verse-by-verse.
Additionally — yeah, you can — [ Applause ]
We are most compelled to teach Bible prophecy in this the last hour so as to get Jesus to people and people to Jesus, as many as we can and as quickly as we can, while we still have time.”
J.D. Farag is proof that we are living in a biblically illiterate culture and the great biblical prophet Barnum had the anointing when he declared that there is a sucker born every minute…
Um…wow! Just…..unbelievable.
My question is, how can you continue to teach book by book, verse by verse, and still believe these things?
Bob,
Because they didn’t learn anything in the other books, chapters, and verses…
Well, Jack Hibbs did say that he believes that one’s response to COVID is an indicator on who is a true Christian or not, sooo (insert eye roll )
I love when kooks excommunicate themselves.
Dave,
It does solve the problem efficiently… 🙂
Wendi,
Another brilliant expositor…
Dave,
If only more of them would follow that advice. You would have a much smaller movement, but perhaps one that might have a greater impact.
I almost choked on my soda. I can’t find “zombies” in my Strong’s Concordance.
Calling this guy a prophecy wonk is an insult to prophecy wonks the world over. Well, many of them anyway.
Linn, you must have the abridged version. It’s a tool of satan to keep folks from detecting the reality of the zombie apocalypse.
The “zombie apocalypse” is in the zombie apocalypse bible.
-JD (no relation)
Wait, WHAT?!?
Wow. My daughter and her family lived in Hawaii for five years and we drove by this CC church several times. I had no idea that the pastor there was so crazy. She attended Calvary Chapel with us for 18 years in San Diego as a child. Thank God she never attended this CC with her family in Hawaii.
It seems like every time I read something about a church lately, it confirms my lack of desire to darken the door of another one. I have not been to a service in about a decade. What goes on in those places that sinks people’s minds to lizard people and zombies, wife killers and right wing politics? I would rather perform my own eye surgery! COVID vaccines make zombies?!? For real?!? People wonder why Christianity is shrinking?
Reuben,
I have a very small church of good, large hearted people trying to follow Jesus.
There is nothing I could report that would interest many…but it is a life giving group.
Reuben
Much of the church has none of that.
Find life.
Reuben, I understand how you feel. Fortunately, there are still a few small churches with broken, but good people and humble leadership. Michael pastors one and I’ve found one in Arizona.
I have no doubt that there are a few good churches out there, but my God, how do things like this keep happening in churches? Do they even have a food pantry? Does Jesus come up in the sermons? This is yet again an accelerated evolution of the mentality that AIDS is bad, but not as bad as condoms, and deifying those who spew such filthy nonsense!
I share Reuben’s lament. What is happening in so many evangelical churches that so many have evolved into such insanity? There must be some common cause. It’s almost as if these churches are teaching people to be paranoid. I don’t see paranoia taught anywhere in the Bible, so where is it coming from?
The common cause is theological illiteracy…evangelicals talk more about the Bible and understand it less more and more as time passes…
If there really a zombie apocalypse, then one better get prepared by reading this:
https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Survival-Guide-Complete-Protection/dp/1400049628
Interestingly, Max Brooks is the son of Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft.
Zombies… weird. I indulge the guilty pleasure of following true crime stories, especially those involving Mormons. Right now Chad Daybell is on trial in Idaho for conspiracy to murder several people, including his girlfriend’s 2 children. He imagined himself to be a visionary and if anyone got in his way he said they had become zombies so it was ok to kill them. This was all tied up in his bizarre end-time scenario (and his lust for the lovely Lori). So, Zombies.
The zombie genre has been overdone. Though if one wants to see a comedic version of the genre, one can watch “Shaun of the Dead.”
Pastor JD is not for everyone, but he is loved, and I am one who loves this awkward, emotional brother in Christ. He is an Arab who loves Jews, and he was wise enough to decline the temptations of worldly success after he became a popular speaker at prophecy conferences, pulling back to serve his own congregation and community. Calvary Kaneohe is providing for the needy in many generous ways, and they never ask for tithes or donations, either from their own congregation or from online viewers, and yet they always have a surplus beyond their needs with which to take care of widows and orphans and poor, sick, and hungry. As for the zombies, that is his name for the flat affect and personality changes that he says have afflicted some of those who take the Covid19 vax. I have not observed this, but a vulnerable member of my family does suffer neurotransmitter swings whenever affected by Covid, so I can see his point, especially as I did the medical research after my own bout with Covid gave me sleepless manic periods followed by depression caused by depletion of serotonin. No doubt Pastor JD carefully and prayerfully considered the effect of his words on his congregation and online viewers, and knew that those who hear him teach regularly would “get the reference.” Context and history would assist with understanding, but the Holy Spirit is the One who connects us, and it grieves Him when the church becomes known for its scorn rather than its love for one other, my brethren.
TRY,
Nice try. Next.
TRY,
Farag is not for anyone who is biblically literate or versed at a minimum level in actual science.
For those like you who are biblically illiterate and enjoy sensationalist tripe, he’s the ticket.
Enjoy…
TRY,
If you would like to try some zombie fiction, go with Max Brooks or Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies (and similar literary mash-ups).
Michael,
I am quite Biblically literate (and also literally literate, as I am a retired English teacher and researcher). My father was an Episcopal priest, and we raised our family in the Anglican church. I have a great respect for the scholarly method and the recent discoveries and translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which clarify many puzzling verses in Scripture, as the angel foretold to Daniel. The heart counts more than the brain, however. God bless you, brother.
TRY,
If you think Farag is a good teacher, you are biblically illiterate.
Period.
Going way beyond what is written.
If you check-out Farag’s sermon delivered on 11 September, 2022 he tells the congregation (which must include thousands on-line), that there were no aeroplane’s involved in the demolition of the World Trade Center towers in NYC on 9/11. This ‘revelation’ has waited 21 years to be revealed from a Christian pulpit. Check-out from 15 minutes into this link >>>>>>>> https://www.jdfarag.org/bible-prophecy?sapurl=LytkNmtjL2xiL21pLys5bjVzZnZiP2VtYmVkPXRydWUmcmVjZW50Um91dGU9YXBwLndlYi1hcHAubGlicmFyeS5tZWRpYS1zZXJpZXMmcmVjZW50Um91dGVTbHVnPSUyQjgyeXhwOGY=