Preface: The following post is only six weeks old. The denomination that I belong to has a inter-denominational synod scheduled in a few days. Is it possible that the issue of Trump might come up....a genuine biblical false prophet....a wolf that has already devoured most of the sheep....and an antichrist as the Apostle John termed them? I'm inclined to believe that it will not come up....they will avoid the issue. We are a divided kingdom....we are a divided house....we are divided tongues.
God had called Jeremiah to warn Judah and Jerusalem to turn back to Him. Jeremiah did so for over forty years.....with extreme opposition the entire time. He warned the king that Nebuchadnezzar was coming....and God was going to use him to punish Jerusalem....so just do what the king of Babylon says and God would still be with them. Well....for this....Jeremiah was accused of being a traitor. The false prophets who said that Judah would ally with Egypt....and break the bondage of Babylon....were wrong. Nebuchadnezzar burned the city and razed the temple....and punished the king with extraordinary vindictiveness.
God is not calling America today to surrender to anyone....but we have been warned for the same forty plus years. He is though telling us that judgment is coming for what we...all of us in one way or another....have become....(that judgment is already here and increasing).....this as opposed to the same false prophets telling us that we will be greater than we ever were.
God has....'divided our tongues'....as He may have at Babel. Oh it's the same words we use....freedom....liberty....tyranny....totalitarian....fairness....love....hate....and even God....but two different people will use those words with entirely different meanings.
There was a high school football coach......way back when....and as I heard it often related to me.....he might at practice shout out....."I want half of you over to this side.....and the other half of you over to that side.....and the rest come with me." Well in that same vein....half of America today defines words one way.....and the other half defines words another way.....but the rest....a small remnant....actually hear God's words....and commands....and warnings.
We cannot fend off God's already dictated judgments....through political victories.....or even military victories. Does saying that make me a traitor? I have carried a God-fearing...patriotic banner....for four decades now....but God is very clear in His Word.....it is too late....do what is right within the 'city'....show compassion to the poor and the widow and the sojourner....and put our trust back on Him where it belongs.
There is a radical fringe element that has taken over the Republican Party....some of them....similar to the voice of the false prophet to Zedekiah....using God's name the whole time....are refusing to accept the reality of God judging us. The result will be the same. Our trust is to be in God alone....we have forgotten that....may He awaken His shepherds.....and awaken all of us who proclaim His name....and He may then show compassion and have mercy upon us in the turmoil that surely lies ahead.
