Megachurch Pastor Robert Jeffress: God Has Given Trump The Moral Authority To “Take Out Kim Jong-Un”

The Dallas Morning News reports:

Dallas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, one of President Donald Trump’s evangelical advisers who preached the morning of his inauguration, has released a statement saying the president has the moral authority to take out North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

“When it comes to how we should deal with evil doers, the Bible, in the book of Romans, is very clear: God has endowed rulers full power to use whatever means necessary – including war – to stop evil,” Jeffress said. “In the case of North Korea, God has given Trump authority to take out Kim Jong Un.”

Jeffress, who leads downtown’s First Baptist Dallas, said in a phone interview that he was prompted to make the statement after Trump said that if North Korea’s threats to the United States continue, Pyongyang will be “met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.”

The biblical passage Romans 13 gives the government authority to deal with evildoers, Jeffress said. “That gives the government to the authority to do whatever, whether it’s assassination, capital punishment or evil punishment to quell the actions of evildoers like Kim Jong Un,” he said.

RELATED: Earlier this year Jeffress, who once called Obama the literal anti-Christ, called on the media to “stop demonizing Republicans.” Following the 2015 Obergefell ruling, Jeffress consoled his congregation by telling them that gay marriage will only speed the end times and the return of White Jesus. And according to Jeffress, the police are “ministers of God” sent to “punish evil-doers.”