Irvin Baxter, a prominent Trump-supporting Evangelical pastor and televangelist who once blamed the coronavirus pandemic on premarital sex, has died of the coronavirus.
Endtime Ministries, which Baxter founded in 1991, confirmed that Baxter died on Nov. 3 as a result of complications from COVID-19. He had been hospitalized after testing positive for the virus a week prior.
“Irvin went on to his great reward. We celebrate his life, but at the same time, there is sorrow, there is grieving,” said Dave Robbins, co-host of the ministry’s television program “End of the Age.”
Irvin Baxter had recently appeared on the “Jim Bakker Show,” where he preached about “the sin of fornication” before marriage and claimed that the pandemic was God’s way of giving us all “a wake-up call.”