"For false christs and false prophets will arise and will provide great signs and wonders, so as to misled, if possible, even the elect." Matthew 24:24 NASB
I submit to you that Donald Trump is one of these false messiahs. So how did John MacArthur....the foremost public authority on false prophets in the church today....how did he get misled....or deceived....or led astray....as other translations put it?
I do not know that answer....but I know that John Piper was not fooled. Franklin Graham was taken in.....completely....Russel Moore wasn't.....Robert Jeffress was....but many pastors in their pulpits were not.
The entire charismatic movement was not only deceived....but they have all their false prophets out there giving false prophecies on Trump. MacArthur only had his attention misdirected. The 700 Club today couldn't spot a false prophet if one applied for a position under that title. Many pastors all over America are cowering in fear that if they would warn their sheep of the wolf...then half their congregation would leave....but half of a healthy flock....fed and warned and protected....is better than a malnourished whole flock with a wolf within it....set to devour it.
Even a little bit of discernment.....and a morsel of humility....should make a Christian look at Donald Trump....and say....I want nothing to do with this man....or his promises....for I see the bones of dead goats all around him....and wounded sheep ready drop over
Even just a barely navigable amount of vision on America and the world right now..., should give a view of the great falls that we are about to be washed over. Why is this? It's because we have lived for ourselves and our own goals....and set idols up in every city. We simply but very determinably did not want to hear anything about separating from the world....and we paid for this very dearly.
When King Josiah's priests found the Book of the Law....the king tore his clothes. I submit also to you that when we see what we have wrought in Donald Trump....we will in effect tear our clothes! The king wanted an answer from the LORD....and sent men out....and they went to a woman....Huldah...a prophetess....and here is what she said....
"Thus says the LORD God of Israel; 'Behold I will bring calamity on this place and on its inhabitants, all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah....because they have forsaken Me and burned incense to other gods...'."
What we are witnessing right now...with the making of a government of loyalists....kissing the ring of the king....willing to do anything that he commands....and world leaders bowing down to him as if he were Nebuchadnezzar at the head of his armies....is part of the curse. A coronation is planned....but without God it will be as when Nebuchadnezzar....not God....put the crown on the head of Zedekiah.
Huldah speaking for the LORD again....gave word to King Josiah that because he read the Book of the Law....and tore his clothes....and humbled himself....and wept....that the LORD God would hear his prayer! May that be us today....weeping at what we have become....and humbly seeking mercy....that God might bring us together at this time....and open our eyes....and apply a balm....that we might not collapse at the weight of our mistakes.
