“This is a religious war that Islam cannot – and must not – win,” Rev. John C. Hagee, pastor of the 18,000-member Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas wrote in a recent book, Jerusalem Countdown, which focuses on what he said is a coming nuclear showdown with Iran.

“The end of the world as we know it is rapidly approaching…. Rejoice and be exceeding glad – the best is yet to be.”