I'm given to understand Pompeo was the main person pushing this and he does happen to be an evangelical who believes in the rapture and the tribulation and Armageddon. How front and center that actually is / was in his thinking is anyone's guess unless someone's aware of a direct quote of the general nature of "we need to start a war with Iran to usher in the second coming".

As far as overtly alarming breakdown between church and state go, there's more on record with Barr than with Pompeo AFAIK. He's running around giving speeches about it in fact. Not about hastening Armageddon, but the notion of bringing about various Dominionist wet dreams.

Just read elsewhere that ‘we’ deal in “toxic politics.” No, we’re fighting it with all our might! Thank you for pointing it out ... if in as toxic a fashion as it deserves.