So....speaking to whatever percentage of evangelical readers here who know that Donald Trump is pure judgment on America and the church....and not a blessing of any kind....speaking to them I pose this question....why or how did so many....a majority of professing Christians....miss a man that scripture everywhere....when it is talking about who or what to avoid and flee from....is referring directly to someone like Donald Trump? The essence of God's Word when directing us to 'be separate' and 'come out of'....points to Donald Trump. So how did this happen?
There are plenty of political and psychological explanations on how this occurred....and I've posted on that a number of times....but I only want to refer to God's Word here....specifically that famous chapter six of Ephesians....verses that have....since we were young in the faith....been chiseled into our minds and memories.....the Armor of God.
We taught them to our children....and bought them little figurines of a man in ancient military armor. They could play with the man...and put the sword in his hand and the helmet on his head and the shield in the other hand. The problem is that it became too familiar to us....and we forget that these pieces of armor were necessary for our protection....for without them we would indeed fall in battle....and that in essence is what happened.
Those verses in chapter six....starting with verse ten....begin by warning us of the...."schemes" or "wiles" of the devil. We seem to have forgotten that the devil is real....and smarter than we are. He set us up....we did not remain vigilant nor even awake....and thus we did not have those pieces of armor on to protect us from deception.
Truth comes out of God's Word....not Fox News. Righteousness is up on that hill with love and compassion and ethics and integrity.....but we charged down off that hill back in 2016 yelling.....USA USA USA....Make America Great Again! Our feet were not shod with..."the preparation of the gospel of peace"....but rather heavy boots to stomp anything that talk radio and podcasters tell us to stomp. We threw down the shield of faith and picked up the American flag....so we had no shield to protect us. We took off that helmet of salvation and distributed red MAGA hats to everyone. And as for the....Word of God....our memorization today is in sound bites....Russia Hoax....Trump derangement Syndrome....deep state....fake news....make America strong and wealthy and proud and great again....and the new verse for the day....the Golden Age of America Begins right now.
This is only an initial synopsis of why evangelicals were taken in by Donald Trump. We tore down hedges of protection....and did not stay awake....we were not vigilant....and we woke up somewhere in 2015 and did not put on that armor.. That....is why we cannot see who this man really is!
The below video is from CPAC....which was once a legitimate conservative conference. That chainsaw signifies lives that are being torn apart right now....pain and suffering....as we evangelicals laugh. These are the people that are leading us today.
