Cindy Jacobs is a screwball, and the whole "New Apostolic Reformation" is nothing but a power-grabbing exercise. Many, many people who subscribe to the NAR's garbage are emotionally starved and desperate for validation of their whacked-out beliefs. They flock to these charlatans because they "prophesy" that these sad, lonely, emotionally-stunted people will "one day", "very soon", be some kind of spiritual super-force... IF, of course, they give the right amounts of money and ingest the right mystical BS from their "apostles".

If you want to debate the LITERAL validity of the historical accounts of Jesus and His apostles, that's one thing. If you want to make up stories that validate your particular twisting of the Bible, that's yet another thing. In the end, however, to be able to make what the NAR is and stands for somehow compatible with EITHER the Bible or with Church history is absolutely impossible.

In short, the NAR is just the kind of thing that the so-called "Tea Party" needs in their corner... people who will attempt to once again galvanize the religious far-right into a motivated voting block. God will have absolutely nothing to do with making the TP's will come to pass... it will be the same old-boy, old-money network that got others elected.

The TP's association with the NAR and lots of the other people associated with so-called "evangelical Christianity" both sickens and scares me.

Full disclosure here: I was once a staff pastor at a church, I am an ordained minister and have studied Church history for many years. The aberration that is "Protestant" Christianity (esp the US variety) is the source and cause of all this political mess.