Fathom Events and ReelWorks will bring The Trump Prophecy to 1,000 movie screens Tuesday, October 2 and Thursday, October 4 at 7 p.m. The Trump Prophecy is a powerful film based on a true story and book detailing Mark Taylor’s 2011 vision of Trump’s presidential win. But it’s more than that. It is about a nation-wide call to prayer for our country’s leaders. The call to prayer continues through conference calls attended by thousands of people that will be held through this year’s mid-term elections. 

The Prophecy and Prayer

Mark Taylor, a former firefighter, suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. On the night of April 28, 2011, he couldn’t sleep. At 2 a.m. he turned on the television. Donald Trump was speaking, but Taylor heard another voice, one he said came from God. Taylor heard God say, “You are hearing the voice of the next president.” He wrote down the message in a journal he kept.

Years later, Taylor received counseling for PTSD. His doctor, Dr. Don Colbert, asked Taylor if he could share Taylor’s journal with Colbert’s wife, Mary, who was an international ministry networker. Mary believed the message was one the world needed to hear. She began a prayer chain — first with her friends, but it quickly expanded.

Just before the 2016 presidential election, the conference call shut down two servers due to the number of people participating — around 100,000 per day. Mary and Taylor believed God answered their prayers and placed Trump in the White House for “such a time as this.” Mary held onto 2 Chronicles 7:14: “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” The “Pray for Our Country” movement was born.

A Voice of Healing

The Trump Prophecy tells the story of only one of Taylor’s prophetic messages from a book he wrote with Mary called The Trump Prophecies. Executive producer and writer Rick Eldridge told The Stream he wanted to focus on the first three chapters of their book. “I felt like this was an important message, and it’s a message that we need to hear. Hopefully it will be a voice of healing.” He added that the main message of the movie is prayer. “Mark’s story was a source of healing for him and then it led to a movement of prayer all across the country.”

Many believe that the faith community was one of the biggest reasons that Trump was able to win the presidential election. “I do believe [the faith community] was a big influence in that,” said Eldridge. Going into the midterms, the prayer chain will continue. Now is the best time to release the movie because it’s a great reminder of the power of prayer. “If we truly believe, as our money says, ‘In God We Trust,’ then we can pray. We can pray for God to intervene and do His will in our country. I think we can all agree on that, no matter where we sit, no matter what our title happens to be, so perhaps this can be a point of unity.”

World Leaders Speak

The dramatic movie takes the viewer through to the 2016 presidential election. After the dramatic part of the film, 14 world leaders discussed the U.S. military, international business, and the U.S.’s world influence in documentary style. They also talked about what it means for the U.S. to be strong economically and they discussed the relationship between the U.S. and Israel. 

The Greatest Country

Eldridge, a former recording artist, wrote the theme song for the movie called The Greater Good. “I think no matter where you fall in this whole political conversation, you’re behind that song, because that song speaks to everybody. …Like God Bless the USA, it’s that kind of flavor of a song.”

The movie isn’t overtly Christian. It’s principles are those anyone could get behind. “I really want people to walk out with their head up with a real sense of pride [in America] and maybe hope for the future to say, ‘We live in the greatest country in the world, we have a lot to be thankful for.'”

Kicked Off of Facebook

Making the movie wasn’t easy, especially since the filmmakers were ostracized by social media. “[Facebook] would not take our money and blocked the ads.” After several attempts to put ads on Facebook without success, the campaign manager contacted Facebook to find out what was going on. “He was interrogated. They asked him for his social security number. They asked him for his drivers license number. I wouldn’t have done that, but he was thinking, ‘I’ve got to do my job,’ so he gave it to them. They were basically doing a background check on him because they were saying, ‘What you’re doing is political and propaganda.’ And it’s not. We were just promoting the movie.”

The movie doesn’t say anything negative about anyone, Eldridge is quick to point out. “We purposely didn’t go the Michael Moore, you know, slam Hillary, slam Obama, slam anybody — we purposely didn’t.” Facebook was simply reacting to the title The Trump Prophecy because they hadn’t seen the movie, Eldridge explained. He calls Trump the “T” word. “Because they saw the “T” word, they decided to block our stuff.”

The only way they were able to get back on Facebook was to check the box that said it was propaganda and political content. Social media is still shadow banning what they do on Twitter and Facebook.  

God Uses Anybody

Eldridge wants people to know that God can use anyone for His purpose. “God can speak through anybody, He really cares about each of us, no matter where we’re at. You know, Mark was at the point where he was depressed and he didn’t know what to do with himself. This message was really a point of healing for him.”

But there is an even bigger message in the film — the power of prayer. “I think that, as someone who believes in God, if you read the scriptures, our biggest band-aid is to pray — and it’s to pray for those in authority over us as 2 Chronicles 7:14 says.” He wants audience members to walk away knowing that truth. “I want them to walk away with the sense that, ‘there is something I can do — pray.'”

The prayer call is held daily at 9 a.m. To participate, please call 641-715-0700, code 230273. 

To see The Trump Prophesy Tuesday or Thursday night, check Fathom Events for a movie theater near you.