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Charles D. Pierce is the founder and current president of Glory of Zion International Ministries. He is most known for his "prophecies," including a successful prediction that
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would be elected to the US presidency and a failed prediction that Donald Trump would be reelected in 2020. Pierce is an author of several books of prophecy and frequent speaker on the subject. In 1999 he was a founder, and is one of the current leaders of, the
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Early Ministry

As of 1999, Pierce was vice president of
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Glory of Zion International Ministries

Pierce is the founder and current president of Glory of Zion International Ministries, located in Corinth, Texas. Glory of Zion International Ministries is a Vertical apostolic network. It includes a former
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aircraft factory as its headquarters and Sunday worship center; 600
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es where small groups meet to view the services online; 1000 associated 501(c3) nonprofits; and more than 100 privately owned businesses. All of these associated entities
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to the ministry. In 2022, their total contributions were US $21 million.


New Apostolic Reformation

In 1999 Pierce was a founder and is one of the current leaders of the
New Apostolic Reformation The New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) is a Christian supremacist theological belief and controversial movement associated with the far-right that combines elements of Pentecostalism, evangelicalism, and the Seven Mountain Mandate to advocate for s ...
(NAR), a term associated with fellow founder C. Peter Wagner. The New Apostolic Reformation is a
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dominionist movement, run by the "spiritual oligarchy" of independent networks of apostles and prophets, which seeks to set up a
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in the United States. It intends to do this through the
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, which states that Christians should control seven aspects of society: family, religion, education, media, arts and entertainment, business, and government. Pierce, along with fellow apostle
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, wrote the book ''Releasing the Prophetic Destiny of a Nation'' in 2005. It is an account of prophecies delivered by both authors while on a tour of the 50 states of the US. Those that participate in the NAR see themselves as being in a spiritual battle with demonic forces and expect that God will enter the war soon and deliver them to victory. Pierce is a member of Wagner's Apostolic Council of Prophetic Elders, along with other prophets such as Cindy Jacobs, Mike Bickle,
Dutch Sheets William Dutch Sheets (born March 10, 1954) is an American author and pastor affiliated with the New Apostolic Reformation movement who has written 23 books. Early life Sheets was born in Ohio; his father was a Church of the Nazarene, Nazarene E ...
, and James Goll.


Notable predictions

In 2008, Pierce predicted that
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would one day be president of the United States. He also predicted that
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would be president. Pierce, along with several other charismatic leaders, incorrectly predicted that Trump would be reelected in 2020. This led to a group of charismatic leaders drafting a "Prophetic Standards" document governing behavior of "prophets" when their predictions are wrong. Pierce has not signed the document as of 2021. In September 2019 and again in January 2020, Pierce predicted that the world would suffer a plague in February, March and April 2020. In March 2020 when the
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was rapidly spreading in the United States, Pierce's son expressed concern that this was the end of the world. Pierce responded that it was not the End Times since "The Lord’s shown me through 2026, so I know this isn’t the end of time.".


Criticism

In her 2021 doctoral dissertation, "From Peter Wagner to Bill Johnson: The History and Epistemology of the 'New Apostolic Reformation'", Yvie Ruth Baker asserts that Pierce has employed several strategies for confounding verification of his prophesies. These strategies included the fact that "contexts given for these rophesiesusually were unrecorded or private, hence not traceable". For the prophesies that Baker was able to trace, "I found that the claim was either fabricated, details were changed, or his prophecies differed substantially in meaning and intent from his later claim. These included his claims to have predicted the
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, Trump's election in 2016, and the COVID-19 virus."


References

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