# Dutch Sheets Dutch Sheets is the **prophet who supplied the theology, iconography, and organizing frame for the post-2020 election-reversal movement** — most notably through the December 12, 2020 Jericho March in Washington D.C. and his decades-long popularization of the "Appeal to Heaven" flag, which flew at the January 6 Capitol attack and subsequently appeared in U.S. Supreme Court Justice [[Samuel Alito]]'s beach-house scandal. Of all the figures in the [[New Apostolic Reformation]], Sheets is the one whose fingerprints are most directly on the operational religion of the Stop the Steal movement. He is also one of the longest-tenured [[C. Peter Wagner]]-lineage apostles, a daily prayer broadcaster with enormous reach (*Give Him 15*), and — alongside [[Cindy Jacobs]] and [[Chuck Pierce]] — a dean figure among active NAR prophets. ## Background - Born 1954; raised in Ohio in a Pentecostal Baptist family; his father was a pastor - BA from Christ for the Nations Institute (Dallas) - Pastored Springs Harvest Fellowship in Colorado Springs for 18 years - Became increasingly associated with the Wagner/Pierce apostolic network in the 1990s - Founded Dutch Sheets Ministries, now headquartered in the Dallas–Fort Worth area - Launched the daily *Give Him 15* prayer broadcast in 2020 during the COVID lockdown — the broadcast's reach expanded exponentially during and after the 2020 election ## Intercessory Prayer Theology Sheets' foundational contribution to the movement is his 1996 book *Intercessory Prayer: How God Can Use Your Prayers to Move Heaven and Earth* — one of the best-selling books in the entire NAR corpus, with over one million copies sold. Its core claims: - Prayer is **not petition but authority**: Christians don't ask God to do things; they *decree* things into being by exercising the authority God has already delegated - History hinges on intercession: wars won, elections decided, and cities saved by the prayer of ordinary believers with the right revelation - Prayer "assignments" given by the Spirit must be fulfilled or the corresponding earthly outcome will not occur - Spiritual battles are *literal* — entities, territories, and strongholds to be bound and loosed by specific prayer strategies This framework transformed prayer from private devotion into *quasi-governmental spiritual work*. It is the theological foundation for everything that followed. ## The Appeal to Heaven Campaign Sheets began promoting the **[[Appeal to Heaven]]** — a pine-tree flag used by [[George Washington]]'s navy during the [[Revolutionary War]] — as a prophetic symbol in the 2010s. The flag's phrase, drawn from [[John Locke]]'s *Second Treatise*, argues that when tyrannical government has violated covenant, the people have no recourse but to "appeal to heaven" for divine intervention. In Sheets' hands, this became a potent theological-political weapon: - America was founded under divine covenant, which has been broken by secular/demonic forces - Christians have a duty to "appeal to heaven" for God's direct intervention in civic affairs - The flag functions as a *prophetic banner* summoning God's judgment on enemies Through his ministry's distribution networks, thousands of Appeal to Heaven flags circulated through charismatic churches in the late 2010s. By 2020, it had become a signature Christian-nationalist symbol — later adopted by Speaker [[Mike Johnson]] (who hung one outside his congressional office) and Justice Samuel Alito (whose wife flew one at the family's New Jersey beach house). ## The 2020 Election and the Jericho March Sheets' defining moment came during the weeks following the 2020 election. He led the core intercessory campaign to prevent Biden from taking office, using the full NAR toolkit: decrees, prophetic declarations, shofar-blowing, and coordinated multi-state prayer. The culmination was the **Jericho March** on December 12, 2020 — a rally in Washington D.C. organized by Rob Weaver and Arina Grossu in which participants (including Sheets) circled the Supreme Court and national monuments seven times in imitation of the biblical march on Jericho, blowing shofars and declaring the election "stolen." Sheets gave one of the keynote addresses. The event also featured [[Eric Metaxas]], [[Michael Flynn]], [[Alex Jones]], and [[Lou Engle]], and fused NAR theology with [[QAnon]] and [[Stop the Steal]] messaging. Several participants from the Jericho March appeared again at January 6. The Appeal to Heaven flag — directly associated with Sheets — was widely visible among the crowd that breached the Capitol. ## Give Him 15 and the Ongoing Campaign Since 2020, Sheets has used his daily *Give Him 15* broadcast to maintain an ongoing prophetic campaign framing every political development in spiritual-warfare terms: - Biden's presidency interpreted as a "spiritual usurpation" to be reversed - Ongoing prophetic declarations of Trump's "restoration" - Coordinated prayer campaigns targeting specific elections, court decisions, and political figures - Regular appearances on [[Kenneth Copeland]]'s *FlashPoint* and the [[ReAwaken America Tour]] circuit The broadcast's reach — estimated in the hundreds of thousands of daily listeners plus social and podcast distribution — makes Sheets arguably the single most-heard prophetic voice in American Christianity on any given weekday. ## Why He Matters for the KB Sheets is the operational figure who most clearly demonstrates how NAR theology was **weaponized against American electoral democracy** in late 2020 and early 2021. The iconography he popularized (the Appeal to Heaven flag), the ritual framework he deployed (the Jericho March), the daily prayer infrastructure he runs (*Give Him 15*), and his ongoing prophetic justification of election denial are all tightly integrated. He also exemplifies the NAR pattern of **prophecy as unfalsifiable political rhetoric**: when predicted outcomes fail, the failure is reinterpreted as a delay, a spiritual attack, or a test of the church's resolve. This structure makes NAR political engagement immune to ordinary corrective feedback — a property that has significant implications for the movement's political behavior going forward. ## See Also - [[Appeal to Heaven]] - [[Cyrus Prophecy]] - [[New Apostolic Reformation]] - [[New Apostolic Reformation Ecosystem]] - [[C. Peter Wagner]] - [[Chuck Pierce]] - [[Cindy Jacobs]] - [[Lance Wallnau]] - [[Lou Engle]] - [[Stop the Steal]]