{"id":35977,"date":"2026-07-16T06:46:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/maga-pastor-greg-locke-claims-federal-officials-raided-his-home-but-gives-few-details\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T06:46:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T01:16:47","slug":"maga-pastor-greg-locke-claims-federal-officials-raided-his-home-but-gives-few-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/maga-pastor-greg-locke-claims-federal-officials-raided-his-home-but-gives-few-details\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Pastor Greg Locke claims federal officials raided his home but gives few details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Everlit Audio Player\" src=\"https:\/\/everlit.audio\/embeds\/artl_PEgDSddglzK?ui_title_intro=Listen+now%3A&amp;client=wp&amp;client_version=3.2.3\" width=\"100%\" height=\"136px\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(RNS) \u2014 A controversial Tennessee pastor has claimed federal officials broke down his door and raided his house after former members of his church accused him of financial impropriety.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev. Greg Locke, pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Lebanon, Tennessee, said he was lying in bed about three weeks ago and heard a knock on the door. Outside, he said, about 60 federal agents had surrounded his house for an early morning raid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the time I got my robe on and got out of the bedroom, a team of federal agents had batter-rammed our front door,\u201d Locke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fpQ2KqO8ti4\">told<\/a> church members during a service on Sunday (July 12). \u201cIn riot gear, they had me on the ground. I was screaming, \u2018I\u2019ve got kids in the house, don\u2019t shoot, don\u2019t shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Locke claimed federal agents told him they were there because of reports of \u201cmisappropriated funds\u201d and said agents had search warrants for his home and a church building. Those agents, he alleged, took his cell phone and computers and bank records. It\u2019s not clear which federal agency raided Locke\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not even telling you what three-letter agency it was,\u201d he told church members.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<hr\/>\n<p>The Tennessean newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/news\/religion\/2026\/07\/15\/greg-locke-home-raid-fbi-irs\/90927307007\/\">reported<\/a> that the IRS, and\u00a0not the FBI, was involved in the raid. It\u2019s also not clear what day the raid took place \u2014 Locke claimed it happened three weeks into a six-week sabbatical he had taken <a href=\"https:\/\/religionunplugged.com\/news\/2026\/5\/11\/pastor-greg-locke-son-evan-dies-of-drug-overdose\">following the death<\/a> of his son in May.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Wilson County Sheriff\u2019s Office said it had no records on an investigation into Locke or Global Vision Bible Church.<\/p>\n<p>Two former pastors at Global Vision <a href=\"https:\/\/roysreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Resignation-Letter-Greenwells.pdf\">resigned<\/a> last year, alleging spiritual abuse and financial mismanagement at the church, <a href=\"https:\/\/roysreport.com\/pastors-accuse-greg-locke-spiritual-abuse-financial-mismanagement\/\">according to<\/a> The Roys Report, a Christian watchdog site. Locke said allegations on a webpage had led to the raid but did not give any details. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The subdued announcement was out of character for the firebrand pastor, who has used social media to build a national following, with posts on everything from witchcraft and stolen elections to Christian nationalism and bathroom policies at Target in the past. In recent years, he has pivoted from political MAGA sermons to what he has called \u201cdeliverance\u201d ministry, which claims to cast out demons.<\/p>\n<p>He also <a href=\"https:\/\/lockemedia.org\/\">runs a<\/a> media company and held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/remnantfm2023\/posts\/-what-an-amazing-night-with-sean-feucht-and-let-us-worship-as-we-contented-for-w\/877663958732862\/\">revival<\/a> recently with Sean Feucht, an activist who runs patriotic worship protests, but Locke made no mention of the raid until this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI could have went live the first day it happened and caused riots in the streets with the size of our platform, but the Lord said, \u2018No, no, no! I will vindicate you. You don\u2019t have to fight them. Amen,\u2019\u201d he told church members, according <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fpQ2KqO8ti4\">to a recording<\/a> of the service posted online.<\/p>\n<p>Locke told members that the congregation\u2019s bank accounts have been closed as well as his personal accounts. He also said the church\u2019s online giving provider had no place to send donations because the accounts were closed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re praying that the Lord this week will do a Red Sea miracle and give us a bank so we can put the checks in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Locke said he expects the church will be cleared of any wrongdoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have nothing to hide, and they\u2019re figuring that out,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m not fighting them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also said the plan for now is to wait the investigation out. Locke, a fierce defender of Donald Trump, also said the church will return to its more confrontational strategy in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll know when it\u2019s time for us to fight the governments when the Antichrist shows up, and we\u2019ll fight that Joker, and we\u2019ll go down swinging, and we\u2019ll use the platform God\u2019s given us for it,\u201d he said. \u201cBut now is not the time to fight. Now is the time to believe God for a water-walking miracle.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<hr\/>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2026\/07\/15\/maga-pastor-greg-locke-claims-federal-officials-raided-his-home-but-gives-few-details\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(RNS) \u2014 A controversial Tennessee pastor has claimed federal officials broke down his door and raided his house after former members of his church accused him of financial impropriety. The Rev. Greg Locke, pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Lebanon, Tennessee, said he was lying in bed about three weeks ago and heard a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}