At last week’s POTUS Shield gathering at Trump ally Frank Amedia’s church in Ohio, preacher and author Mani Erfan declared that Islam “has to be completely broken down” to bring about the return of Christ. The Trump-supporting “prophets” and “apostles” of POTUS Shield believe the church must build God’s kingdom on Earth to usher in the return of Jesus Christ. On his ministry’s website, Erfan says he believes we are in the end days and that “the Lord is coming back.”

Erfan, a member of the POTUS Shield council, described himself at Amedia’s church as an Iranian-American half-Jew, half-Muslim who became a Christian. He said that the Christian church is growing faster in Iran than anywhere else in the world, a development he connected to an ancient biblical story in which Cyrus, a Persian king, released Jews to return to Israel. (Many of Trump’s Christian supporters described him during the campaign as a modern-day Cyrus.)

If God can bless Iran 25 centuries after one or two acts of favor to Israel, Erfan asked, how much more will God bless the U.S. for its support of Israel? American Christians, he said, must resist attempts by “the enemy” to diminish U.S. support for Israel. POTUS Shield, he said, is fighting “for the very survival of our nation at the seat judgment [sic] of Christ.”

Erfan declared that Islam must “crumble” and be “completely broken down” for Christ to return. He repeatedly slammed down a gavel used at the POTUS Shield gathering when one of the speakers was making a declaration or decree for something they were asking God to bring to pass: