Donald Trump is the most destructive force in the history of our country. The word that I have used for at least the last six years in describing him is....destroyer....as he destroys everything around him....and has for his whole life....young and old....friend and foe....talk radio and the pulpit....those and that which he purposely sets out to destroy....and those who just get too close to his flame....and those things that are the natural result of the malevolent power that he wields.
This will bore many....to read it again....but I started reading about Trump in early 2017....after voting for him and celebrating the 2016 victory....and then after only a few months in office seeing that there was a very real problem here....reading over the ensuing years....100 books on him....exactly 100 books as of today....books for him....exalting him really....books against him....academic books....and even books supposedly by him. Note that the man who ghost wrote Trump's first book....Trump: The Art Of The Deal....and spent eighteen months by his side in the process....and who also found out who Trump really is....regretted his part in bringing Trump to the fore....and said that if he were to write about him today....(this stated back in late 2016)....it would be a different book that would be titled....The Sociopath.
Probably you consider Joe Biden the worst....and you might only be one off....but we have Biden today in part because of reaction to Trump. Both of these men are judgments....on us....from God! I did not vote for Trump in 2020....and will certainly never cast a vote for him again....along with many if not most of my evangelical friends....and the pastors that I am closest to. John Piper did not vote for Trump in 2020. This election is not a...lesser of two evils situation....but a....Woe are us....may God have mercy on us....situation.
As for those whom Trump has destroyed since he came to power were....Ted Cruz....once a bright light....now barely a dim bulb.....Lindsey Graham.....Marco Rubio....the Freedom Caucus....CPAC....Rand Paul....the list literally goes on and on of once capable and logical republicans who failed the biggest test of their political lives.....in not standing firm against Trump....and now grovel at his feet. I distinctly remember the few days....I posted on it at the time....when first Rush and then Hannity and then Levin....(it may have been coordinated....for this was a particularly obvious time of Trump's lying)....admitted that yes Trump lies.....but that's just him! We now readily admit that he lies....but somehow don't realize that he also lies to us!
Trump has destroyed what there was of evangelicalism. We are a crossless....political evangelicalism....where no one has to be born again anymore....only recruited....we lack compassion in many areas....we are vengeful....greedy....prideful.....and even at times racist....having been greatly deceived....and most of all we are doing exactly what God's Word has forcefully told us throughout....not to do....and that is refuse to trust in God....and instead go to the world for help.
Trump made comments two days ago on NATO....where if there were any sanity and common sense and ethics left to us....we would immediately be calling for a replacement every bit as much as the democrats should be calling for a replacement for Biden. This in his speech....“You didn’t pay? You’re delinquent?… No I would not protect you. In fact, I would encourage them....(Putin)....to do whatever the hell they want. You gotta pay. You gotta pay your bills.” This incredible malignant narcissism from a man who never liked to pay his own bills! This is all spiritual folks. God has blinded our eyes....given pastors over to fear of what they perceive to be problems in the church if they speak out....and permitted us to blindly follow....and worship in many cases....a genuine biblical false prophet....and an antichrist....as the apostle John Labels them....and only God knows what else? The Lord of Glory is at the very door....and this is where we are at! ("Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?" Luke 18:8)
That comment on NATO made two days ago at a rally in South Carolina was pure horror. We have had the....meme is what it turned out to be....Russia Hoax....crammed down our throats for seven years now....and we long ago bought into the lie. Trump is a Putin dupe....and always has been. Do you even remember when he met with Putin in Helsinki....alone....to the horror of some of his aides....for a couple of hours....with only two interpreters....of which Trump told our interpreter to destroy his notes?
Trump used this phrase again at the end of his latest rally in South Carolina.....that we are...."one glorious nation under God." Whereas we are a nation in complete rebellion to God.....a rebellion once led by the democrats....but now carried on by us....dragging so to speak the Ark of the Covenant to rallies....claiming God's imprimatur on our pride and greed and-self seeking glory....totally unaware that He will say to us in our time of need....."But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; For according to the number of your cities are your gods. O Judah." (Jeremiah 2:28)
It is too late folks....decades too late to return in any way to being a God-fearing people. Jonah-like warnings are over....and Nahum-like proclamations of coming judgment have been here for quite a while. God's word of prophecy to us is all over both testaments....Daniel and Jeremiah and all the prophets....the Olivet Discourses as related in the three synoptic gospels....Paul's and Peter's direct warnings....throughout the Psalms....from the words of Jesus....and of course Revelation....but we are blind to them.
Our pulpits have utterly failed to warn us of anything. We have failed to separate ourselves from the lure of the world. We have not remained vigilant....nor even sober-minded. We are Laodicean....and as with the letter to the church at Laodicea....we think we are doing just spiffy thank you....but we are about to find out that we in evangelicalism are...."wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked." Our only hope....which is the mercy shown....is in the words of Jesus to that Laodicean church...."As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent."
title verse....1 Samuel 12:25
