My reply to J.D. Farag’s July 19, 2020 sermon regarding Qanon, which can be viewed here. 

First the good:  I believe his heart is good and his motives are pure.  I believe he means well.  I love his passion for the Word of God and defense of the rightful position of God as Sovereign. 

I don’t think he’s a bad guy, I just think he’s wrong.  Most of his errant points come from a lack of understanding of what Q really is, and taking things out of context.  We can do that all day, from news stories, to movie quotes, to book excerpts, to conversations, etc.  If you don’t have the right context, your conclusions are usually wrong.

I don’t have a lot of time to spend on this, the over an hour of this was more time than I had to start with, so here’s my main points.  The maddening thing about Mr. Farag’s contention is he acts like Q is pretending to be a leader for Christianity.  Know your audience.  Q is about the patriot movement.  There are Christians in that movement and non-believers and everything in between.  Q isn’t talking just to Christians.  Taking his language as though he is, is disingenuous. 

By the definition of “cult”, Christianity is a cult as well.  Take that as you wish.  There’s a negative connotation with the word cult, and he used cult to describe the Qanon movement, then he defined cult by the Merriam Webster Dictionary.  By the definition he used, Christianity is a cult too. 

He starts off contending that Q called for an oath to be taken.  Then he makes a big to do about taking the oath to uphold the Constitution is “anti-Christ”.  Oh wow.  This is going to be exhausting if it’s starting like this.  Again, the Qanon movement is a patriot movement.  Q is highlighting allegiance to the Constitution in a day that allegiances to social justice issues, political parties, and pet issues are wildly rampant.  He’s focusing the patriots to the founding document our government is derived from.  He’s emphasizing and focusing the army of digital soldiers that have enlisted, and that they need to have as their foundation an allegiance to the Constitution, not to thoughts and feelings and creeds.  It is that simple. 

Declaring an oath to the Constitution to focus one’s motives and actions is not anti-christ.  Just wow.  Just what about that would be?  He implies it’s taking the place of Christ.  No.  In America today, people are all over the place in declarations about what should and shouldn’t be.  Focusing an American on civic duties to the Constitution that defines American law is not anti-Christ.

Then he begins to go through select Q drops and phrases.  I’m going to breeze through these as quickly as I can.

“Sheep no more….”  (from 1797 and others)  Again, context please.  We’re still talking about our nation, not a belief system or Christianity.  Yet Mr. Farag insists that this is somehow blasphemous to the concept that Christ is the Shepherd and His people are often referenced as sheep.  THAT’S NOT WHAT Q IS TALKING ABOUT HERE.  He’s talking about people dulled into mindless submission and compliance to propaganda and unrighteous government acts.   This has nothing to do with our position in Christ. It’s ignorant and deceptive to pretend that Q is referring to who Christians should or should not be. He’s talking about Americans, not Christians.

“Dark to light….”  (from  3014 and others) Mr. Farag takes this phrase and selects Q post 666 that says “follow the light” and springboards off it to refer to it as a “Luciferian light”.  Please note that Q posted “dark to light” first in Q drop #134.  He disregards that Q drop 666 is about the stock market crashing at the number “666”, and that the entire drop is about bad actors hiding their bad deeds and the need for truth to illuminate their darkness, which is why he ends with “follow the light”, which here refers to following the exposure of these dark deeds so the people behind them can be exposed.  The post references Rothschild, Soros, Saudi kings, and ilk selling assets and making alliances through marriages to keep their secrets in the dark.  Yet Mr. Farag alleges Q is cryptically calling readers to follow Lucifer. Reading the post in context can reveal its meaning. Taking a phrase out of context will obscure it.

He further goes on to allege Q is implying believers are in the dark.  This is yet another example of lacking context to make a point.  Again, Q posts are targeted at patriots intent on restoring the Republic, not Christians looking for spiritual guidance.  It’s exhausting to have to keep pointing this out, but he carries this same mistake throughout his presentation.

What’s also exhausting about this entire line of thought and accusation throughout his presentation subtly disguised as a “warning”, is the concept of what he’s suggesting.  Q has been primarily a conduit for information that exposes dark deeds, (human trafficking, pedophile rings, vile and abhorrent deeds done in darkness, corrupt governments and government black operations, etc.).  Why would satan expose his own deeds in an effort to enlist followers?  Christ Himself was plain that a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand.  This makes no sense whatsoever.  [See Mt. 12:25 or Luke 11:17]

“trust the plan”….  Mr. Farag takes offense to the phrase “trust the plan”, again failing to recognize it’s a military action plan to restore the Republic that it’s referring to.  He spiritualizes it as though this is an affront to Christianity to put our trust somewhere other than God.  This is yet another attempt to infer Q’s references are specifically for Christians.  Again, they are not.  Q is about restoring the Republic of the United States, not building the Church of God.

He takes further offense when Q says “trust and believe in yourself” (numerous posts).  Farag says, “It’s not trust in self, it’s die to self.”  And I wholeheartedly agree with him where it’s concerning our faith, and living our lives for Christ.  Again, context matters.  Q is speaking to a group of patriots that are from all different walks of life and are riddled with doubts about how to walk out their patriotism –when to speak, when to act — and he is encouraging patriots to act with confidence in the face of great opposition and many adversaries.  Mr. Farag is correct in his sentiment and I agree, but he has misapplied the intention of Q’s statements.

“Where We Go One We Go All”  [from 2788 and others]…. I feel I’m just being redundant here.  It’s the same thing.  If you don’t understand Q’s references, you can make them sound like just about anything.  Mr. Farag says this “smacks of the world” and then references Scriptures talking about loving the world, etc.  The phrase “where we go one we go all” is a phrase from the movie “White Squall” where the ship captain teaches the crew that all of their efforts affect everyone else.  It’s a team creed if you will to understand our individual efforts at restoring the republic benefit all patriots.  Mr. Farag accuses this is a new world order motto just in other phraseology.  Except it’s not.  That’s not what Q is saying or means.

Mr. Farag took the Q post 4249 that had a meme with Mark 11:22 and the words “Have faith in God” as an opportunity to accuse this was not the God of the Bible, because the picture meme Q posted didn’t have “Jesus said” in it.  He asserted that Q never mentions Jesus Himself, and reminds us that Satan quotes the Scripture and knows Bible prophecy better than anyone.  This is an outright accusation that Q is satanic. 

He leaves out the knowledge that Q posted in 3708, on December 17, 2019:  “Though nothing should ever replace Christ in Christmas.  Merry Christmas , Anons/Patriots.”  Sure, it’s not a “Jesus” reference, but it is a reference to Jesus Himself.

Mr. Farag also neglects to mention the multiple times Q posts Ephesians 6:10-18 about putting on the whole armor of God, ending with praying for all the saints.

I would agree with Mr. Farag on the wording in Q post 2450 when he says a “beautiful brave new world lies ahead”.  The wording in this bothered me at the time as well and I don’t have a reason for it, because I don’t know the reason for that wording, other than Q maintains that bringing the workers of gross iniquity to justice will improve our world.

And lastly, he makes a big deal about Q using the phrase “the Great Awakening” [post 3858] and calls it “a great deception”.  He doesn’t actually frame Q’s post 3858 with the 520 other words in the post that explain what Q means.  He does as he did on all the others and assumed the meaning and placed his own spin on it. [You can read this and any other Q post here.]

He then segued into something he called “the great awakening map” by a “Champ Parinya”.  And this is where I lost my patience.  I have never heard of the “great awakening map”.  It is not something Q has ever posted about, mentioned, or pointed to.  It is an offshoot that someone else created, borrowing phrases from Q.  It is clearly and obviously new age, but it has nothing to do with Q.  It is not Q.  Attributing it to Q as though these are Q ideas and thoughts is deceptive itself.  It has nothing to do with Q. I can’t emphasize this enough. “The great awakening map” is not from Q.

Someone took license from the Qanon movement to make their own new age interpretation of things.  It’s dishonest to attribute that to Q, and I can’t express appropriate disgust that someone would be so dishonest as to misrepresent this.  I can only assume Mr. Farag is basing his “information” on hearsay, because it is not on firsthand knowledge.

I was pretty much done listening to this man’s religious rhetoric steeped in misinformation, but I did hear him suggest that Qanon is a form of a Hegelian Dialectic.  He said Q has pitted the right against the left, Democrats against Republicans, conservatives against liberals, etc.  Which only serves to prove he has no idea what or who Q is or is about.  He further makes the mistake of assuming Q thinks the Deep State are the liberal Democrats.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Q has called out President Bush (R) and John McCain (R) and Mitt Romney (R) and other Republicans as well.  The Deep State is both and neither political parties. It is actors from America and Europe and several other countries. It’s not a left/right thing. It’s an evil group of people who use whatever vehicle and/or person available to accomplish their deeds.

Mr. Farag suggests his “warning” is obedience to God, but how can it be when it is full of so much misinformation and error?  Q is not to be worshipped, and is not a replacement for faith and obedience to God.  And Q has never asserted such either.  Q is an operation for restoring the rule of law and justice to our Republic, and has painstakingly exposed satanic clubs and rituals and actors in the effort to expose the deeds of darkness that have stained our nation.  An honest assessment of Q posts would reveal such. 

Mr. Farag’s presentation is woefully misguided and in error and not at all representative of Q or the Qanon movement.