It's Supernatural

               It would be a different automobile for everyone....but for me....it would be like sitting in a 1968 Oldsmobile Cutlass....starting it up....and driving it out of someone's garage where it had sat 56 years with only occasional tuneups and drives around the block. I know I would sit there and just say....'wow'....and maybe let myself be transported back to 1972 when I was 22 years old. 
                 Folks....I thought that I read a lot about the Kennedy family over the years....and the Civil War....and the war in Vietnam....special interests of mine....but I have read more on Donald Trump in the past 8 1/2 years than all of those topics combined over the past five decades....and what I see is that he is the same today as he was fifty years ago....the same....yesterday....today....and tomorrow! I used those words purposely folks.
                 There is a long-running program on Christian television called....It's Supernatural. Every week the host interviews a different person on 'supernatural' experiences in ministry or elsewhere in their life. This is bad stuff folks....and Christians eat it up. The popularity of topics like near-death experiences....and great mysteries revealed....is indeed supernatural....only it is not coming from God. To the evangelicals reading this....this Trump movement is also....supernatural....as it defies logic.....and it also is not of God.
                 It all started in March or April of 2017. I was a Ted Cruz guy but come August 2016....when the convention was over....and there was no other choice to stop Hillary....I got behind Trump....by October I knew he was going to win....and then I celebrated when he did. Then I sat back and watched how things were transpiring. After only a few months I knew that something was wrong. Something was terribly wrong. Who really was this man. I knew so little about him. We all knew so very little about him. I knew the names of his three wives....and that he was a major builder....and that he owned golf courses and an airlines....and that he had a hit television show....a show that I had not watched one single minute of in however many years it had been on!
                 I set out to read about who this man was.....(this reading never inhibited  the volume of Christian books that I had been reading for decades)....and I sat there and looked at the pile of books.....and counted them.....thirty-two....and I've kept track ever since. I am on number 104 right now....and this is after a pause of about six months when I thought....and hoped....and expected....that Donald Trump would go the way of the Hula Hoop.
                 I read books on every decade of his life.....and books only on certain areas of his life....such as golf....or Mar-a-Lago....or his family history. I read books that were 100% pro-Trump....and books that were the opposite....and books that really were neutral. I even read some of his own books. I read the impeachment books....and the Russia books. And I am here to tell you that the Donald Trump today....is the exact same man who he had been his entire life. Nothing changes in a vacuum....and as for ideology or religious belief or compassion....(which there was none)....he is the same as when he might appear back then on the Tonight Show....a vacuum....ready to be filled with something.
                  The liberal/progressive media....and those who live in this world....knew who Donald Trump was because he was in their world. He was one of them. They laughed about him back then....and when he moved over to our world....for one purpose....to promote himself....they took great umbrance.....this after laughing him off at first. They were as culturally corrupt as he was....and they were not going to let him fool the voters like they themselves fool all of their voters....and they would not lay down and let him win the day for their enemies.....the God-fearing conservative element in our society. It was OK when he played his ego and con games when he was one of them....but not OK when was giving conservatives what they wanted....Supreme Court judges! 
                  Things then spiraled out of control. I sat and listened every day to conservative talk radio.....to Rush and Hannity and Levin. They were upset to begin with back in early 2017....and then....just gave up the ghost....once again as if it were a supernatural thing. They were followers now....no longer thinking for themselves. The hated Republican 'establishment'....the RINOs....recognized from the beginning that Trump was seriously psychologically unbalanced. They became the 'never-Trumpers.' This group that I for many years vehemently opposed in these posts.....for their lack of resolve on conservative issues....became the only group of everyone concerned that wasn't taken in! We had fallen so far that the once insipid 'do-nothing'....kick the can down the street element of the Republican Party....was now the only group that knew what was going on.
                   A similar but far more ominous....'delusion'....was taking place....in evangelicalism! We were to be put to the test. Would our Christian faith hold strong? Well there could be no other answer because evangelicalism was no different than the rest of the world in that it was comprised of the genuine and the almost but not genuine....the real and the imposter....the wise and the foolish. As it turns out....the redeemed of the Lord are few in America folks....a small remnant! 
                   Evangelicalism fell the quickest of all the groups....for being doctrinally weak to begin with....we were sitting ducks for every quack to come along. Franklin Graham....good man that he is....and such a blessing in emergencies through his Samaritan's Purse....missed the wolf that has entered the sheepfold dressed in sheep's clothing! We are like Linus from the Peanuts comic....who could recite Scripture beautifully....but at the same time was sure that there was a Great Pumpkin.
                   Believe it or not it takes me about four to six hours on average to write a post like this. So today I took a break and walked out to our porch that overlooks a patio with a glass table....and in the reflection off the glass table was that of an orange fall ornament hanging on a typical wrought-iron hanger.....and in the reflection on the table....the perfectly round ornament was very clear....but it was an oval....and everything else in that reflection off the glass was greatly elongated. I submit to the readers here that the view you have of Donald Trump is not who Trump is. It is greatly distorted.
                   Ominous is the word that comes to mind as I read the news every day.....breathtakingly ominous! Both candidates in this coming election are judgments....upon all of us....from God. How many times had we read in God's Word about what it would be like when Jesus returned? Hundreds of times over the years? But the words were sterile to our minds. That day had to come nearer before we could even get a glimpse of the real dangers....and the delusion....but those days are now here. We need to clear our minds of the flood of distractions that block our discernment....and pray that God would apply a balm along with the vision of where we are....because that vision could be incapacitating without the sure knowledge that God had warned us of what was coming.