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An American tourist had to be hit with a taser by Israeli police during a crazed rampage, after he claimed that Jesus appeared to him in a vision.
The unnamed man, who reportedly attacked a guard during the rampage at the entrance to the Kibbutz Almagor, near the Sea of Galilee, was seen repeatedly screaming 'Fire!' at Israeli authorities in the police footage taken on Friday.
'In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, fire!' the 31-year-old yelled at police, while grasping a metal tire iron in one hand.
'In the power of the Holy Spirit, fire! Fire! Fire!'
The footage then shows the American tourist appearing to lunge towards one of the officers, before he is tasered and wrestled to the floor.
Police told local media the man was 'detached from reality.' He was then arrested and taken to Nazareth Magistrate's Court.
Authorities say that the tourist has been visiting Israel with his wife and son for two weeks, when he claimed he'd had a vision from Jesus,' Israel National News reports.
'Jesus was revealed to him and told him to go north and destroy the credit cards,' his wife told police.
A judge in the Nazareth Magistrate’s Court on Friday ordered the man held on bail until Tuesday.