Preface to a July 7 post: To sit on the perimeter....as I am....and have watched the rise of Donald Trump....is to witness first hand an historic event right up there with every other demagogue that has...'risen'....to incredible heights of power....only to destroy the nation that fell under his (her) powers. If one is not at least on the perimeter....but inside the maelstrom....one cannot see the power that one has come under. We were ripe for such a tyrant in 2016. Hillary was about to replace Barack Obama....but little did we know that God's judgments were just beginning....and a different judgment would follow Obama! We wanted the roar of a lion....and Ted Cruz and the others did not roar....as they kind of purred. We didn't like this vile man Trump one bit....this man who did roar....and continues to roar as he devours....but we really knew nothing about him.....so after the Republican Convention was over....the task at hand was to defeat Hillary Clinton. We all celebrated....I celebrated...and we began to party....taking off our armor....and putting on princely garments as we headed off to the feast. It is probably because of my background in researching cults that claimed to be Christian that I saw very early on that something was terribly wrong. I turned my attention on finding out who this Donald Trump really was.....researching every single aspect of his life.....every decades of his life....and walking the cemeteries with tombstones of those who perished in his wake. A false prophet had come into and been accepted by the church! We have seen the rise of Donald Trump....but the fall of Donald Trump has not occurred as of yet...and that is what concerns me.....because of the potential horror that this man can produce....for he is not a thinking despot who might retreat when the heat is on....but a vacant mind....with no beliefs.....ready to be filled....but by what? He has "his people"....as he likes to refer to them....surely it must be a dwindling number....but he threatens every republican in congress and every republican that wants to go to congress with the votes of...."his people.". Incredibly his blood lust revenge was evident in Georgia a few days ago....and when an Ohio congressman who had voted...rightly so....for impeachment....announced that he would not seek reelection.....Trump's response was...."One down....nine to go." Trump's plan is to use Joe Biden....and to claim responsibility for a successful 2022 mid-term elections....and then immediately start purging again....and probably limiting primaries again....to regain his lost power and glory....as so many tyrants of the past have done. So the following is but one of dozens of previous posts warning of Trump that I hope to bring back. May the Lord open our eyes to this man.....and have mercy upon us for following the shimmering wings of the lure that hooked us....and being paralyzed in our thinking by the tremendous roar of this lion....and may our pulpits warn us this time of this man....this false prophet.
This Man Did Not Do....."A Lot Of Good Things"
Trump's bedside Hitler speeches are in the news again. It was Ivana....(not Ivanka)....who let it slip that Donald kept the book....which was a gift....by his bed. Trump said that if he ever owned such a book that he wouldn't have read it. Only Donald Trump could give an answer like that. (the actual quote is...."If, I had these speeches (which he later admitted that he had), and I'm not saying that I do, I would never read them.") This is back in the news because a new book reports that General John Kelly said that Trump once said that Hitler...."....did a lot of good things".
Here's the problem....The evil German Chancellor had a very well-defined agenda....and that was to get on the good side of the German people in order to get total power over them. In such a scenario.....one where prosperity is used as leverage to promote a deeper and darker agenda....then ultimately that prosperity is not....'good'.....not without extreme qualification anyway....because in this case it was also a means for horror to rise up.
With Donald Trump....the economy picked up....(as it would have with any of the candidates on that debate stage)....and that economic success was enough to secure a second nomination. Trump gave us a 'win' in 2016....(the others may not have)....and that was the only thing he did for us....and in hindsight with the absolute devastation of evangelicalism....and conservatism.....and the Republican Party....that's not necessarily a good thing....for we don't know if Hillary would not have been in office for four years....and we might have had a total Republican government today?
This much is certain....the judgments on America and the world are still coming.....and intensifying. There is little wisdom left....if any....no hedges of protection....apparently no cooler heads....not in positions of power anyway...no great minds....and not enough faithful pulpits left to tell us of how we brought this all upon ourselves....and warn us of what we are still inviting in....and to turn all of our dependence upon whom it should have been all along....our coming King....the Lord Jesus Christ.
