During last weekend’s announcement by the Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders (see next post) Bishop Dr Bill Hamon – recognised as the father of the modern-day prophetic movement – made the following observations about President Donald Trump (transcript emphases mine). They confirm my series on his heart for the Kingdom of four years ago that I researched as a result of my church leader’s challenge about Trump’s beliefs:

“I say 90% of Christians know hardly anything about prophecy or how it works or how it does, and even Pentecostals (there’s) not that much knowledge on it…So we who are prophetic and have been in it for years and have gone through it and you know, and let me just conclude with saying I just celebrated living 90 years (of which) 70 years of ministry and I’ve lived through about five or six presidents and I don’t remember any president asking for prayer, having people pray for him and  promoting Christianity as much as Trump has. And people that don’t know him don’t realize that he’s had a lot of prophecy. He had the church pray for him the other day and they prophesied to him, they minister to him and he receives it and and he’s done more for the church than any president that we had…He did more for Israel than any president we’ve had, and so to say that he’s a scoundrel like they did (say) and he’s going to be bad for it (USA), he’s going to bring judgement on it – it just doesn’t fit with the facts you know!”

Personal Perspective

I had the honour of meeting Dr Bill Hamon at one of Dr Sharon Stone’s conferences in Windsor a few years ago. In having prophetic words spoken over me in mid-1990s, recounted in Why I Write (re my eagle), I wanted to learn about prophecy and bought his seminal new book Apostles, Prophets and the Coming Move of God.

Having been stunned in 2004 by an in-orbit open vision of Britain, I needed advice from an anointed prophet and so we went to Bath City Church’s prophecy conference where we attended Revd Dr Sharon Stone’s masterclass. In 2001 the ‘father of prophets’ Dr Bill commissioned Sharon and husband Greg Black on their move to England and start Christian International Europe (CIE). Their teaching and ministry encouraged the growth of prophecy in British and European churches.

Consequently, I became actively involved in the prophetic scene and in 2009 started writing on End-times and contemporary prophecies before launching this blog 13 years ago. It was an honour to co-author a paper commissioned by the then President of the Baptist Union on the State of the Prophetic in Britain for his 2020 conference in my old home town of Reading.