Katherine Watsey is the founder of Fire on the Altar Ministries in Fairfield, Iowa.
The basis of Katherine Watsey’s membership in Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is her role an apostolic prophet and associate of the Heartland Apostolic Prayer Network, through which she has spoken about her prophecies of the re-emergence of the ancient god Baal in the United States.
Watsey teaches her followers that we are living in a special time when the forces of the Christian god and the forces of Baal are fighting in the state of Iowa.
She connects ancient stories from the Book of Exodus with contemporary politics, declaring that the Christian god will lay waste to the United States in the equivalent of the legendary seven plagues in Egypt. “We are living in the times now for these things to be fulfilled!” she says.
Watsey claims that the Christian god himself is in direct contact with her, providing her with messages about disasters that will soon befall the state of Iowa.
Christians, she says, will soon be “taking back everything that the enemy took from us.”
“The Lord is saying I’m giving you a new authority in this region now. You have authority to be the gatekeepers over the borders and boundaries of this nation. God is giving you a new mantle, new anointing, new authority.”
Watsey tells her followers that Christians have the right to take power for themselves, overturning American democracy. According to her, the Christian god has appeared before prophets such as herself, and announced that Christians have his permission to take over the United States and transform it into a religious kingdom.
“My warrior angels right now have come and they’re going to throw down the horns of those that are coming against the purposes of God.”
Katherine Watsey travels to churches across the Midwest, giving sermons in which she announces that she and her associates are engaged in a magical battle against evil sorcerers. On April 27, 2022 Watsey told the audience at a worship service at the Impact Center in Lawton, Oklahoma:
“We’re going to defeat the magicians and sorcerers of today. Yes we are!… I’m trying to paint a picture of what God is doing in this decade. You see, he’s raising up his people in this decade to walk in a way that you’ve never walked before, just like Moses and Aaron… See, we have these same magicians today in all kinds of things in our society.”
In one specific instance of her magical war against the evil sorcerers of Baal, Watsey claims that she was sent on a supernatural mission to set up a magical canopy of protection over the state of Indiana, identifying secret magical altars of evil that were hidden underground across Indiana, at locations such as an oil refinery in the northwestern corner of the state.
“We found out that there were altars under the ground in there, put there by people that use altars for power, and the reason I knew is because when I looked up that county, it was called Lake County, Indiana, it is the most corrupt county in the United States of America… You see, this wicked county where we went, God told me that if you will go to that place and pray, where those altars have been, and that have from long long ago manipulated the petroleum industry over the nation, you watch what I’m going to do.”
“We are going to take down the altars of Baal in this nation, if the church will rise up!”
Christians, Watsey said, have been given a divine command to plunder the secular society of the United States.
“God is going to cause you to plunder your enemies… The church is getting to rise up in power and glory. That’s why he’s saying get ready… This is the season for us to come into many of the things that God has promised to us.”
Katherine Watsey uses the language of war to describe what her followers are soon going to unleash.
“You’re about to see God cut the enemy in pieces.”
“We have to war. The lord is getting ready to crush the dragon.”
Some of Katherine Watsey’s calls to arms, encouraging Christians to seize power and go to battle to take their rightful place in control of the United States, came before the insurrection of January 6, 2021. She has continued her talk of divine commands of holy war in the aftermath of that attack.
Katherine Watsey cites the genocide of Jericho as an example of what Christian Nationalists in the United States must do to their enemies. In the biblical story of Jericho, armies of people who believed they were given divine authority to control the entire country of Jericho surged into the city and killed every single person there… even the babies. This same kind of bloodbath is what Watsey now has in mind for the United States.
Watsey focuses her prophecies on the state of Iowa, where she has identified a long list of supposedly magical events that she believes are proof that the Christian god wants the people of Iowa to rise up in a holy war.
This bizarre conspiracy theory is the context of Katherine Watsey’s membership in Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition. Donald Trump has aligned himself with someone who believes that she is fighting dragons and evil sorcerers for control over secret underground magical altars of power across the state of Iowa.
The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a radical political organization that violates the law
Let’s make it our business to become aware of the radical preachers who are members of the Coalition.