The post below is from July 2 of this year....and the preface to it from August 11....a paragraph I could have written again just about every day since. Donald Trump's rampant narcissism seems to be getting worse.....if that were even possible. I can't recall the source from yesterday....but some article used the term....."scorched earth".....to describe how he is handling his....presumable....last couple of months in office. While others are still shouting phrases of revolt and rebellion as to the election....those who actually recognize dangerous psychological traits are getting more concerned every day. Reiterating what I posted below....please read through his tweets every day.....every one of them....let them sink in as a whole....and it might be easier to discern a serious problem.
Preface: The following post is a little over a month old. Do you see your country yet? Are you weeping yet? Do you see Donald Trump for what he is yet? Please read his tweets from just this morning....Tuesday August 11th. God help us....for this man has the reins of power. The world sees him. That from which he came out of (the lives and the rich and famous) see him. The Never-Trumpers see him. Many conservatives now see him. Many evangelicals see him. The Bible describes him in one way or another from Genesis to Proverbs to the Prophets to Revelation..."...you have some there who hold the teaching of Balaam"....(Revelation 2:14)...."They have followed the way of Balaam....who loved gain from wrongdoing." (2 Peter 2:15)
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What comes to mind first when you think about the Old Testament book of Daniel....the lion's den.....or Shadrach and Meshach and Abednego in the furnace.....or Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a great image with a head of gold and breast and arms of silver and thighs and middle of bronze and legs of iron with the feet part iron and part clay....or his dream of the great tree that was him and was cut down....or maybe the fingers writing on the wall? If you were making a list you might add Daniel's vision of the four great beasts....and the ten horns with the little horn coming up.....or the cryptic prophesies of the king of the south and the king of the north?
What a book this is! The Christian can and should read through this throughout his or her entire life....and that day will come when....and we most likely are nearing it....when piece by piece those words become even more clear....but there is one part of Daniel that may be the most important to us today.....of which most of us may not even recall.....and if we do we certainly do not dwell upon.
In chapter nine Daniel was given knowledge of Jeremiah's prophesy of the seventy weeks....this as he was nearing the end of his life....but he had first prayed and fasted in sackcloth and ashes....seeking mercy over the desolations that had come upon Jerusalem....and it is his prayer that we in America should contemplate greatly upon as our own country lies desolate. Here is that prayer
"I prayed to the LORD my God and made confession saying, 'O Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. We have not listened to your servants the prophets who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. To you, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you, To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you. To the LORD our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to obey your voice. And the curse and oath that are written in the Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because we have sinned against him. He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing upon us a great calamity...."
NOTE: Here's an example of President Trump's tweets from today....Monday....12/21....as I mentioned in the above post. A Wisconsin Supreme Court decision came down against the President....who just tweeted that two years ago in an election to that state Supreme Court....where the Democrat was a sure winner....("had no chance of losing")....Trump was asked to endorse the Republican....("when he was getting destroyed in the polls")....and the Republican then of course won.....("after my endorsement....he easily won!")....fast forward to today....that judge came down against Trump in a 4 to 3 decision....and Trump added to the tweet...."WOW....he just voted against me in a Big Court Decision!" Let's ignore the narcissism....the President has no idea of what he implied here....that judges were essentially there....not to interpret the law....but to repay the people who put them there! Trump supporter Pat Robertson today is all over the news in having said on the 700 Club....that Trump was being "erratic".....and in an "alternate reality." Robertson went on to say....that people say....."He lies about this, that, and the other....No, he isn't lying. To him that's truth." Robertson is right here....and many have clanged this bell for four years now....Donald Trump has no concern for....or even concept of....the meaning of truth.
Please consider watching the video that President Trump put up on his @real twitter account titled....Fight For Trump....to see the personality type we are dealing with....and the potential of this delusion.
Kirk Cameron is in the news as he has organized a couple of....mask-less Christmas Caroling protests in California. I heard a radio talk show host today almost giddily tell his audience that he and his family are flying out to California to have....two large Christmas celebrations....as both he and his wife's families live out there....and I streamed a little of John MacArthur's church from the Sunday evening service...and it was all Christmas hymns....they're cramming them in....(the morning services cram in thousands)....for a Christmas show. Meanwhile the first go-around I hardly knew anyone personally who had the virus....but this time.....I know many who had contracted it....and more almost every day....and some have died.....but they were all up in age......so no big deal. This is what Donald Trump has turned us into.
2 Thessalonians 2:11...."Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false."
John Gill writes of this...."for the efficacy of error is not to considered as a sin, of which God cannot be the author, but as punishment for sin, and to which men are given up, and fall under the power of."
We might want to be thankful that there are denominational divisions in the church....separations that we so often excoriate....for if there were not....and we were one church.....with one governing body.....it would be as ineffective at best and even at times worthless as our own Congress. We can at least examine the denominations and churches out there.....put them on the grid of Scripture....and make the best possible decision on what church of which to be a part. We have that which is indeed perfect....and that is that Bible somewhere in our home. The translation may not be perfect....but the use that God has for us through it.....is perfect. Think of this folks.....we have at our disposal....that which is perfect in telling us....what is God.....and what we are to believe concerning God....and what our duty is concerning God. In a world where everything in some way or other is flawed....there is one thing that is not flawed....and that one thing also gives ample warning of what to stay away from....so why is it that it is not our most prized possession....consulted every day of our lives....where nothing is giving the attention that we give to it....always within reach if much of it is not already in our mind....upon which everything taught us by man is examined through it....and the verity of that which we come to believe is taught to us by the working in us of the Holy Spirit of God...if we indeed have been regenerated.....and born again? Is this easy? No. Is this learning ever complete.....no....and we can be thankful for that also as the exhilaration of reading it is new every day of our lives even if we live to be a hundred? Is there anything on this planet....or even conceivable from that which man can do....that can fill us to an overflowing....with "joy unspeakable and full of glory"....and the end of which is none other than...."the salvation of (our) souls."? No...no...a thousand times no....and all praise be given to God for devising such a wonderful and true and faithful means for us to know Him! I write this for one reason folks...and with one hope....that some who read this might look across the room.....to their bookshelf.....and see there wedged tightly in between possibly Hemingway and Grisham....an unassuming book....and think to themselves...."could it be true that I have missed the gold for the glitter....that the world's greatest treasure....of which multitudes search for in vain....is but little more than the length of my arm away....and has been there undetected my whole life?
President Trump's last tweet on Christmas Eve.....from Mar-a-Lago.....was short and sweet. In it said that he had saved "at least" eight Republican Senators in the election......and now they just sit back and watch....(he does add "almost all").....as he fights the battle....but what I would like you to at least consider is that he concluded that tweet with....."I will NEVER FORGET!". This is but another very clear clue this week alone....(the other being his outrage that a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice who he had endorsed in the election to the court....did not repay him by casting his vote for him in a recent case)....that there are severe mental issues here. As so many have stated for so long long....Donald Trump's bloodlust for revenge....(lifelong bloodlust I might add)....is on display.....but secondly....what is the significance of...."I will never"....for he has less than a month left in office.....what kind of power would he have as a former president? Would he use his army of followers and talk radio hosts to work against them in any future reelection bids? Not this 'conservative' president....he would never do anything as dastardly as that would he? Oh but of course he would.....for he has no ideology....you may remember how in early 2017....after trying to cram a fake Obamacare repeal and replace bill down our throats....he threatened the Freedom Caucus....(our best representatives in Congress)....in their primary bids....and the man who demands personal loyalty....has no loyalty to the issues he professes for which to stand.....and the man who has elevated the word 'fake' to the very top of political rhetoric....is himself the biggest fake of all.
