the extent of all of this type of thinking finally dawned on me in the beginning of w's iraq war. i had a lot of family explaining to me how that war was fulfilling prophecy. god was using the u.s. and our military to manifest his will on earth. like with a lot of this stuff, it was coming from the pulpit, from james dobson (focus on the family), jerry falwell, etc. there is/was an entire cottage industry pushing this stuff. i am sure there are ties to amway as well
currently, robert jefferies, head pastor at fbc dallas i think, is doing a lot of the heavy lifting (and making a lot of bank doing it)