Cliven Bundy Claims God Told Him To Fight ‘Civil War’ Against Feds


Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who made headlines in April during a widely-reported standoff with Bureau of Land Management Agents, claims that God was on his side in the confrontation.

“The Lord told me… if (the local sheriff doesn’t) take away these arms from federal agents, we the people will have to face these arms in a civil war. He said, ‘This is your chance to straighten this thing up,'” Bundy claimed, according to The Spectrum of St. George.

“There was people from almost every state in this United States was there. Some of them told me they’d traveled for 40 hours to get there,” Bundy added, asking, “Why did they come?… Because they felt like they needed to. They was spiritually touched.”

Bundy made the comments while addressing an IAP summit at St. George’s Lexington Hotel. The IAP, or Independent American Party, is socially conservative and rejects the “duopoly” of both the Republican and Democratic parties.

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management backed down in the standoff at Cliven Bundy’s ranch, as The Inquisitr previously reported, though BLM officials say that Bundy will be held accountable for his role.

“If the standoff with the Bundys was wrong, would the Lord have been with us?” Cliven asked, according to Politico. The rancher pointed out that no one was killed as tensions mounted, asking, “Could those people that stood [with me] without fear and went through that spiritual experience… have done that without the Lord being there? No, they couldn’t.”

Bundy also questioned attendance at the event, which drew between 100 to 120 people. “Where is all of your college students? Where’s our young and where’s our old? Where’s our black and where’s our brown?” Bundy said, asking, “Where are you people? Aren’t you interested in freedom and liberty?”

At the event, Bundy also drew comparisons between the Constitution and the Bible:

“‘If our (U.S.) Constitution is an inspired document by our Lord Jesus Christ, then isn’t it scripture?’ he asked.

“‘Yes,’ a chorus of voices replied.

“‘Isn’t it the same as the Book of Mormon and the Bible?’ Bundy asked.

“‘Absolutely,’ the audience answered.”

Cliven Bundy’s case remains under investigation by the FBI and U.S. Justice Department, and BLM officials have said that they will pursue the matter through the legal system.

[Image via The Spectrum]

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