Reverend Brandon Holthaus is the Senior Pastor of Rock Harbor Church in Bakersfield California. He has an online ministry focusing on End Times Bible Prophecy which I have been watching weekly since 2020. I often watch the early Sunday service at Rock Harbor Church Livestreamed and participate in the Live Chat.
Pastor Brandon and I both believe in a Pre-Tribulation Rapture.
We are both Premillennialists
who believe that Jesus Christ will physically and literally return to the earth to reign for 1,000 years after the 7-year Tribulation.
We are both Zionists who believe God gave the Jewish people Israel and we actively support Israel's right to exist and flourish in their land PROMISED to them by God.
We both are against Replacement Theology which is basically the belief that the Christian Church has taken the place of the Jews and Israel in God's eyes and that everywhere in the Bible God makes a promise to Israel it doesn't count anymore. Since Jesus has come His promises apply to only Christians because we have REPLACED Israel, which is a completely false doctrine based on a twisted interpretation of the Bible and is often used in Christian circles to justify antisemitism.
So what's the problem, Laura-Lee?💁♀️
Lately I have watched Pastor Brandon completely lose it❗️
He has turned from a Biblically solid End Times Minister watching over his church flock and informing people following him online into
a Biblically inaccurate Pastor who stomps around a stage screaming out his sermons and ranting about Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Trump and (particularly) the “martyrdom of Charlie Kirk”.
However these manifestations only made me pray deeper for him, but he has now crossed a line and the Lord has asked me to shine a light on it.
In his constant push back against antisemitism and Replacement Theology somewhere along the line Brandon's thinking has become severely muddled.
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You know I always say we should place our Scripture reading in context. We should know when and where it happened, who was saying it, who was receiving it and mostly who was it ultimately meant for. It's this last part that Pastor Brandon is in error over and it is a HUGE error that Jesus feels must be IMMEDIATELY corrected.
Let's cut to the chase.
In Brandon Holthaus's sermon from the end of September (2026) he referenced 3 specific Bible verses that most Christians are well aware of.
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“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
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“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11
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“And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.”
Acts 2:17
Then Pastor Brandon boldly stated (actually he yelled it because that's the only way he communicates now) to his entire congregation and everyone watching online who was a Christian that if we believed these verses were meant for us we are “WRONG❗️”
They were originally given to Israel and are only for ISRAEL and then explains his conclusion with some very convoluted thinking.
Well, Brandon YOU 🫵 are WRONG and Jesus is deeply concerned for the people who follow you that you have just stolen these Scriptures from them by telling them they don't apply to anyone who isn't Jewish. In your pushback against Replacement Theology your “pendulum” has swung completely to the opposite extreme by attributing promises from God spoken to (or about) Israel being meant ONLY for Israel and therefore do NOT apply to Christians.
Let me clarify this by helping everyone understand the difference in how God views the Jews and Christians by looking at it in a biological way.
It's as if the Jews are Biological Children of God and the Christians are ADOPTED into God's family with all the legal rights, inheritance and love the Father gives his Biological Children, except all this is happening at the Spiritual level.
“But as many as received Him to them He gave the right to be called sons of God.”
John 1:12
“If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been GRAFTED IN among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.
You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be GRAFTED IN.”
Romans 11:17-18
(emphasis mine)
“For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.”
“The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.”
Romans 8:14,16-17
“There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all ONE IN CHRIST JESUS.””
Galatians 3:28
Don't fear, Children. God's promises to Israel (as a nation) will be lived out in the physical realm and to the followers of Jesus in the spiritual realm. Then someday (hopefully soon) Jesus will return to earth physically and ALL God's promises will be completely fulfilled in both realms.
Hallelujah! Maranatha! 🥹
Now, ☝️what do we do about Brother Brandon's doctrinal Derailment? ❓️🤔
Well, if nobody corrects him directly and convinces him he's wrong then not only will he continue to spout out more errors but they will get bigger and more profound as time goes on.
He is now in such an insulated position from any contact outside his inner circle he cannot be reached by a regular email or a regular person like me. 🤷♀️
I am hoping that someone reading this may have a way to get through to him directly.
And if not, the Holy Spirit can get through to him directly. So I will continue to pray for him.
But I must strongly caution you. ⛔️
As long as Brandon Holthaus remains in such huge error and perverts the Scriptures we must give him a wide berth.
Do NOT go back to listening and following him until he fully repents and comes clean and Jesus restores his authority with some sort of obvious sign so we will all know he's safe again.
Keep reading your Bible DAILY.
Stay sensitive to the prompting of the Holy Spirit and …
… don't let ANYONE take God's promises from you. 🤨
The Truth with Love,
Always Laura-Lee
A previous post of mine that may be helpful as a next step.
"How to Tell if a Bad Christian Leader has Become a Good Christian Leader" LauraLeeWasHere Blog
😖 (whew) That was a really, really tough post.
Let's get build up again with a nice song. 🫠
