Prophet Mayor Eric Adams!
Not only has he known he’d have the Big Apple’s top job for at least three decades, Hizzoner revealed God has visited him several times to help him plan for the role and most recently instructed him to publicly preach about his faith.
“Thirty something years ago I woke up, out of my sleep in a cold sweat. God spoke to my heart and said, ‘You are going to be the mayor January 1, 2022,” Adams described the divine encounter during a Father’s Day mass at the Lenox Road Baptist Church on Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn on Sunday.
“God stated, ‘You cannot be silent. You must tell everyone you know!’”
“And I [would] go around the city…and I would tell everybody, ‘I’m going to be mayor January 1, 2022. People used to think I was on medication!” he recalled.
Adams made waves earlier this year when he decried the separation of church and state, then defended his comments, explaining it’s tough for him to split his faith from his government job.
Although he stopped short of calling for the landmark 1962 Supreme Court decision’s repeal, Adams said that a lack of faith across society has led to an upsetting spread of gun violence in schools, homelessness and domestic abuse.
On Sunday, Hizzoner disclosed he was visited again by God, as he moved “closer and closer” to Jan. 2022.
“God said, ‘write in your journal everything that you see that needs to be fixed in the city. And every night before going to bed, I’d make another entry in my journal, and I’d start making marks and I would start seeing the people who I needed to be part of my administration. So, the people you see in my administration, they’re not here by accident!”
He complimented his team as “non-traditional people” chosen over the political “experts” that served in prior administrations.
“If all the professionals were all that good, then why were we such a mess when I inherited this city?’ reiterating a frequent criticism.
Adams then said God visited him “a couple months ago,” just before he began his faith-filled campaign.
“Let me tell you what happened a couple of months ago: The same message I got 30 years ago, a few months ago, I woke up with the same statement. God said, ‘Talk about God.’ And I started to say ‘don’t tell me about separation of church and state.”
“Don’t tell me that when you took prayer out of school guns came in. Don’t tell me that I have to remove my feeling of God.’ And you saw what happened? You saw the front pages and the national stories!”
“How dare the most powerful mayor on the globe start talking about God,” he imitated alleged critics.
“I don’t care what anyone’s saying. It’s time to pray,” he said.
Adams again noted that “the children” need refuge from gun violence, the scourge of drugs – specifically cannabis-laced products and depression but the only cure is faith in God.
“On this Father’s Day, I’m a father. I’m not my son’s buddy. My son is supposed to hate me until he’s old enough to say, ‘Now I understand what you’re trying to say.’”