The following post and preface is a December 13 post:
Preface: Here is the predicament that I am in with evangelical friends. Imagine this....I touch on it in the post below....two brothers....twins even....oh let's call them....Mike and John....Milner....how's that? Now they are adults....and everyone in the community thinks that John is the greatest. All they see of him is what he presents to them in whatever setting it is....if it is a church....then he presents himself as a devout Christian....if at a party....then he is the life of the party....if it is at a town hall meeting then John is a defender of what is right and good....but Mike has lived with John his whole life....and knows that John is a despicable individual through and through. He wants to warn everyone that John is not who he presents himself to be....and if people get entangled with him then sooner or later they will see who he really is and regret ever meeting him.
I understand why it is. Donald Trump right now has a 50% favorable opinion rating....the highest in seven years. Let me try to explain why I would give him a zero percent favorable rating. I feel like I know him like a brother....and that the public does not know him at all. How can I say something like this?
The left....or dyed-in-the-wool liberals....they always knew who Donald Trump was....because he was one of them. They knew he was a fake from the get-go! We didn't live in New York City. We only knew Donald Trump as...the Donald....a rich builder of skyscrapers who was a celebrity because of his arrogance and his ego. We might read a news clipping here or there....or see Trump interviewed on the Tonight Show.....but other than that we really knew nothing about him at all.
So when he announced back in June of 2015 that he was running for president....as one of us....we didn't really do anything but laugh it off. The reason he succeeded was that all of the other Republican candidates were blase'. They obviously were not ready for a fight....and here was Trump who with his shouting....was already in the ring. The problem was that it was a pro-wrestling ring....all fake....only for the enjoyment of the crowd....and he was just like a wrestler with a gimmick.
Rural America was more than ready for him....and embraced him with open arms. The phenomenon grew by leaps and bounds....and I knew prior to the 2016 election that he was going to win. I had been following politics since the late 60s....and had never seen anything like what was happening.
So he did win....and I celebrated....even though I did not like him....and here is where the next stage of the problem started. He was only a few months into his term....and we started to get a glimpse of who he really was. Fox cable and podcasters control everything today but back then it was conservative talk radio. Rush and Hannity and Levin knew that Trump lied a lot...and all three admitted it....for I heard all three admit it....but they decided to let it go because the 2020 election had to be won....along with the 2018 mid-terms. I did what I do....I started to read who this man was....and I am over 100 books today. I must have watched thirty or forty rallies....analyzing it all. I need to segue here for an anecdote.
I watched the movie....The Blind....about the "Duck Commander" Phil Robertson....this morning....at a friend's house....I asked if they would like to see it....(my wife and I already had)....for they need to hear the gospel....they said yes....whallah....we watched it....and I praised God. Anyway....I posted on this way back when....it was a Roy Moore rally....and Phil Roberston was the last speaker....this was December 2017....Phil gave his usual good talk....and the last thing that he said before walking off the stage...with his usual grim and serious face....was...."And we need a godly man in the White House." Folks....Trump was in the White House at the time that Phil was making that comment....and the crowd picked up on it....and was silent. Then Robertson said one more thing...."The Ten Commandments Trump politics." I knew then that Phil Robertson saw the same thing in Trump that I did. Where is Phil today on Trump? I Don't know. Phil is in the news over his health concerns....but he knows as well as I do.....Jesus is coming back....soon!
OK....back on track....I followed Trump every day in the news.....and probably wrote about him in 100 posts....and mentioned him in hundreds more. I read into every decade of this life....and on many different areas of his life. I read books for him and against him and even some of his own books. He lived in my head....to use that popular phrase today. I could see through why he did things....and even anticipate things that he would do before he did them. He needed the Jerusalem embassy pick-me-up at the time. So many times he needed a boost or something to deflect what his latest foible was....and he pulled out an escape card that he had been keeping. His lies were big lies and little lies and in between lies. It didn't even bother him when he was caught because he had everyone under his spell.
Russia was not fake....(he had thirty years of money dealings with Russians....in Russia....and was prime kompromat material...our agencies were not only within their rights....it was their duty to investigate a potential president in this instance).....and neither were the impeachments....but today everyone has long ago given up rational thinking....and they actually believe that Russia was fake. It is utterly amazing to have watched this happen. Anthony Fauci is a good man who did his best....(Trump was screwing things up big time for a month before they got him under control)....but just today I heard two women friends....(no longer guided by God's Word but by Fox cable)....still beating on Fauci! They have long ago lost the ability to think for themselves.
Here is my third and last point in this post. His followers....and that is an accurate way to put it....they think that he merely decided to run again....and was determined....and won....case closed.....but that is not how it happened.
First of all he and he alone is responsible for what happened on January 6, 2021. It was pure horror....he instigated it....then denied that it even happened....and once again....almost beyond belief….his followers again believed it! It's astonishing. This is history in the making.... the rise of a great deceiver! (I want to add here that I was watching Trump speak on that January 6....and I had to turn the TV off.....I had to turn it off for what I was watching was so disturbing!)
He would not have successfully come back without the core of politicians who simply believe his lies and obey anything that he tells them to do. This is a most powerful tool! Without it....Donald Trump would be long gone by now if not in prison. The rest who do not like Trump....such as Lindsey Graham and Cruz....well....they were essentially destroyed like everyone who flies too close to Trump's flame.
Trump stayed out of the debates this time around....and we all let him do it. He would give a lame excuse at the time on how the felony charges against him prevented him. He threatened his way to this nomination....and he continues to this day to threaten! He is gone folks....in his mind. It is that bad! Yet....his glory continues to rise. It is long past time for evangelicals who are actually born again....(we are a remnant folks...probably less than 10%)....to look this whole situation over....in humility....examining ourselves....and our motives. There is surely a winnowing coming. The Trump supporting evangelicals are in the great majority now....but this is an age that you do not want to be in the majority!
Addendum....January 8....to evangelicals....you have followed a false prophet....a false prophet. There is not a day in the past nine and a half years that he has not prophesied to evangelicals whom he needed that the best was yet to come....and today he prophesies the coming....Golden Age. You put your America and your own future in front of the gospel and glory of Jesus Christ. Ministers have done this....national....respected ministers have done this! They have failed to warn their sheep!
