Preface: The following post is from April of 2023. Tim Keller went to be with the Lord a month later...and Pat Robertson a month after that:
There are pastors literally all over America today....flummoxed....that Donald Trump....unless the legal system becomes his final demise....is as it stands the odds-on favorite to get another nomination! Folks....I'm telling you....they are watching this and they cannot believe it. Here's the kicker....Donald Trump is still destroying everything that he touches and everything that even comes close to him....and why is this....ultimately it is because these same pastors refused to call a false prophet...a false prophet....and because they refused to describe how God's Word tells us to stay clear of people like Donald Trump....and because they refused to warn the people that they were trusting in their own perceived powers....something else that God's Word specifically warned us about. So pastors today essentially put in office....the most powerful office in the world...a false prophet....a destroyer....and they are showing no signs of actually changing....even as evangelicalism itself has changed....becoming coarse and vengeful....and in their confusion....pastors wonder how all of this could have transpired!
Billy Graham....as wonderful as his crusade ministry was....and in spite of how desperately we need him today....was a lot like C. S. Lewis....in that God had given them extraordinary gifts....but not as theologians. Neither one was gifted at all in that area. Billy Graham knew that he made mistakes early on concerning too much emphasis on politics....and he even questioned himself later on if he had presented the gospel as being too easy to accept. Who knows what went on in his mind in his last years. Did he see the delusion that was coming? I would suspect that he questioned a lot of things that he did or failed to do. I say this because his last books were so extraordinarily profound. As wonderful as Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse ministry is....it doesn't seem that he has a clue as to the mistakes that his father made earlier on.
Pat Robertson is essentially gone....and his son Gordon may have the fervency for spreading the gospel that his father had....but he also is severely lacking in discernment on politics and the Christian. R. C. Sproul is gone. John MacArthur is sounding real old and much slower of speech. (and now almost 85....making a lot of mistakes). David Wilkerson is long gone. Charles Stanley is now gone. Tim Keller is retired. No one is replacing these men on the national scene. It's not going to be Eric Metaxas. Do you see where I'm going. God is cleaning house....having taken many of his servants home! We have had all the warnings that we normally would have needed....for a half century....but we are not really into warnings. We do not want change. We have a schedule to keep....goals to accomplish....and plans to make....but all of this will change....in a day....in an hour....and we then will see what ministers that God raises to the occasion....and what ministers continue to be deceived.
