The Heritage Foundation is suggesting foul play:
The historic sanctuary of First Baptist Church of Dallas, the church led by Pastor Robert Jeffress, caught fire on Friday night.
The cause remains unknown, though the fire comes less than one week after an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, of whom Jeffress has long been an impassioned supporter.
First Baptist Dallas has 16,000 members, according to its website. The church is part of the Southern Baptist Convention, the second-largest Christian denomination behind Catholicism.
The pastor said that “nothing has been ruled in or out at this point.” Jeffress has long praised and prayed for Trump, publicly appearing with him at events as far back as September 2015.
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Jeffress appeared here in 2021 when he declared that all Christians will have jobs in heaven because “God created us to be workers.” Before that, we heard from him when he revealed that the police are “ministers of God” and that to resist them is to resist God himself.
Jeffress has said that all Jews and Mormons go to hell, that Obama was the precursor to the antichrist, that LGBTQs need rescuing from Satan’s deception, that God designed the borders of the United States, that there will be civil war if Trump is removed from office, and that God gave Trump the moral authority to have foreign leaders assassinated.
In 2020, Trump promoted his online Easter service during lockdown. In July 2021, it was revealed that Jeffress’ megachurch got up to $5 million in bailout funds. In September 2021, Jeffress said that any Christian who votes for Biden has “sold his soul to Satan.”
#BREAKING – Longtime Pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Dallas reacts to 4-alarm fire at the church’s historic sanctuary. He thanks God no one was injured. They had just concluded vacation Bible school with more than 2 thousand children! pic.twitter.com/p2ibR9Clbr
— Cynthia Izaguirre (@wfaaizzy) July 20, 2024