A video from a few months prior to the assassination attempt against Trump had started trending because it shows a man, Brandon Biggs, predicting an attempted assassination against him.

And the similarities give pause for thought.

I can accept that it’s a miracle that Trump survived, because if the bullet that passed through his ear was just a centimeter closer to his head, this country could have easily broken into pandemonium.

Months prior, in a video discussing a total solar eclipse, Brandon Biggs was one of three hosts discussing Bible prophecy. In it, he discussed how he saw a vision of an assassination attempt against Trump. According to Biggs, a bullet narrowly missed his ear, but caused a sound wave that burst his eardrum, resulting in blood getting on his face. Afterwards, he got down and accepted Jesus with a passion. According to Biggs, Trump was a Christian before, but this incident ignited a special passion for Jesus.

The video is embedded below. Biggs’ prophecy begins at about 11 minutes in, if you want to get right to it.

There are many people out there who are accepting the prophecy as legitimate. But it’s not a bad idea to have some healthy skepticism. After having learned of this prophecy, I’ve decided to look into Brandon Biggs and his theology. For one thing, to see what other prophetic predictions he may have made, in the interest of determining how accurate he may have been with those. Also, to learn about his church, because I imagine that it’s getting an influx of interest.

The church Biggs pastors at is Discover Church. Rather than being a traditional church, Discover Church is an online ministry, which doesn’t consider itself a substitution for attending church in person. It nonetheless has multiple membership tiers with differing monthly fees.

Brandon Biggs does have his own YouTube channel, called Last Days. On this channel, he discusses prophecy, with a particular focus on the predictions that he makes.

According to critics, he has made multiple predictions that did not come to pass. For example, he predicted a sharp increase in the price of silver, which did not come to pass. He also predicted a market crash in the year 2013, which also did not come to pass. He also predicted a sharp increase in the value of the Iraqi Dinar; no prize for guessing that this also did not come to pass.

While I’ve heard these claims, I did not come across evidence that Biggs made them. One possibility is that he did not actually make them. Another more believable possibility is that Biggs recognized the optics in making bad prophetic financial predictions, and deleted them from his channel.

Nonetheless, the accuracy of Biggs’ prediction concerning Trump seems startling, even if it’s not precise. However, when examined critically, Biggs’ prediction becomes less impressive.

False prophets tend to do what I like to call, “throwing spaghetti at the wall”. When you throw spaghetti at a wall, the expectation is that most strands of pasta will fall to the floor, but a few strands might stick to the wall. When a toddler that throws spaghetti in such a manner brags about their own ability to make pasta stick to the wall, they’re hoping that you’ll ignore that most of the spaghetti is on the floor.

While a broken clock may be right twice a day, it helps to remember that it’s right for the wrong reason. The fact is, there are many, many people out there who make false prophecies and predictions. With so many people making so many guesses, some of them are bound to come close. And this becomes more likely considering that some of those guesses are guesses which, if they weren’t stated as prophecies, would be reasonable to make.

One prediction that would have been easy to make is an assassination attempt against Donald Trump. This is because political tensions in the United States is high, to the point that some Americans are actually killing each other over differences in political opinion. For example, just two days ago as of this posting, a 22-year-old Michigan man killed an 80-year-old with an ATV for putting up Trump signs, before ending his own life. That’s the point where things are. And, to make matters worse, the corporate media has been spending the better part of a decade propagandizing against Trump, making him out to be a fascist, a racist, a Russian asset, a threat to democracy, and much more.

While there are many criticisms that could be had about Russian society, at least the Russians were smart enough to know that the Pravda was lying to them. But propagandize the American public enough, and at least one lunatic is likely to act on the misinformation. There have been predictions of assassination attempts against Trump specifically going back at least as far as 2016. It’s amazing that one hasn’t been attempted until July of 2024.

Once some lunatic makes an attempt, of the many predictions that have been made, it’s the one that came the closest that would be most likely to stand out.

And Brandon Biggs’ prediction came close. But like the failed assassin, he would miss the mark.

Pay attention in the video above. Biggs stated that the bullet would narrowly miss Trump, but that the sound wave would cause an eardrum to break, resulting in bleeding. In reality, the bullet did hit Trump, but passed through his ear, leaving Trump otherwise uninjured. There are no reports of Trump’s eardrum being broken.

Biggs’ prediction was close, but close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.

Another component of Biggs’ prophecy is that, in that time window, Trump would get down and strengthen his commitment to Jesus, finding a passion for Jesus stronger than he had before. In reality, it seems that Trump ducked down out of self-preservation. Moments after getting up, Trump lifted his fist in the air, and shouted “Fight, fight, fight!” It’s true that Trump credited God with his survival. However, in the past, Trump stated that he never asked God for forgiveness. This would be a necessary step to becoming a Christian.

A person cannot renew their commitment to something that they weren’t committed to already. But hey, how was Biggs supposed to be aware of Trump’s spiritual state?

In a more recent video, Biggs addressed the discrepancy between his prophecy’s prediction concerning the miss that would have broke the eardrum with what really happened. He stated that the vision that he had was true, but that he merely assumed that the blood came from a broken eardrum.

Naturally, we cannot falsify a vision that Biggs alone saw. All we can reasonably do is discredit his prophecy when the words that he used are at variance with reality. Of course, it’s also reasonable to ask why his prophecies primarily concern speculation on the value of commodities and currencies, when we have no indication that Biblical prophets concerned themselves with such things. And why these predictions of his are usually wrong.

Like many similar cults, Discover Church has a business model that I like to call the Profitable Prophet Plan. Their variant of the Profitable Prophet Plan has a feature that can be called, Shotgun Spirituality, because it takes a spray-and-pray approach to prophecy, where many predictions are made over the course of time, and they pray that one of their bullets hits a target, upon which point they can declare victory for the one bullet that hit, hoping you’ll ignore the many that missed.

While I disagree with the idea that such poor accuracy is worth a dime of anyone’s money, Shotgun Spirituality does succeed in wowing enough people to keep many such an enterprise afloat.

At this time, I suspect that Brandon Biggs’ prophecy was not so much a prophecy as it was a guess, one of many like it, notable only for its accuracy, if not its precision. It seems sensible to view it as such, especially in light of his dubious prophetic investment advice, which he has apparently attempted to sweep under the rug.

But what do you think? Do you think that Biggs’ predictions are actually worth getting a membership package to his online ministry over? Or would you value it as less than an Iraqi Dinar? Please leave a comment to let me know whether you believe Biggs’ prophecy was a hit, or whether he was as inaccurate as Thomas Matthew Crooks.