Donald Trump has tormented the entire world now for ten years. This is judgment from God on all of us. When you read through the New Testament and see what type of person the writers told us to avoid....Trump is that man. When you read through Proverbs....it is Trump that is described over and over again. When you read of all the false prophets that the people of Israel had to endure....Trump is just like them. When you read warnings in the New Testament about great delusion and deception....those warnings include Donald Trump.
How then....can so much of evangelicalism have missed all of this? Well I'll give you just one example here.....Billy Graham's son Franklin. In Franklin Graham we can see....if we have eyes to see....the effect that politics and the lowest common denominator Christianity can have on the church. He is indeed dedicated in his ministry of compassion through Samaritan's Purse....but even here there are chinks in the armor as when Trump ended USAID....as liberal as that institution was....and with a deep need to have it reformed....the end was so heavy-handed....and done primarily to give Trump talking points in that he is cutting waste....that many people will suffer as collateral damage. Yet even today.....again.....Franklin took the time to praise Trump for eliminating it. Let it be noted that he didn't lose his USAID money....for his ministry was given an exemption....after it was appealed.
Franklin Graham....(a better man than I will ever be)....can if given a paper and pencil....(a smart phone is more likely)....as he did today....he can give a 100% picture-perfect description of Jesus being the only way to salvation....but I wonder what his theological training over the decades had been? How can he sit at Trump's left...as he did last week....with false prophet Paula White on Trump's right? He said just the other day that he finds Trump to be an honest man. I have to believe that he hasn't read one single book....of the hundreds that are out there....and the hundred that I have read....on who Trump has been his whole life....and how he conducted himself in his first term....and what his own cabinet members thought of him. I doubt if he had ever even read an article on Trump.
To these folks in major ministries today....good and wonderful as so many of them are....and as is Samaritan's Purse....the number one priority is that Republicans have to win in American elections. We have talked ourselves in believing....more likely been talked into believing....that we are the good people who God is pleased with....and the other side is the bad side that God will judge. We have a big surprise ahead of us. Billy Graham once said....(actually it was his wife Ruth who said it)....that if God doesn't judge America then He would have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah. Folks the America that we want to go back to....is the same America that Franklin's father warned over and over of judgment. LGBTQ and wokism are not the only offenses to God....greed and pride and idolatry are among them.
Trump's first hundred days in his second term will be come on April 30th. So far it has been one gigantic and horrific and uncompassionate mess. The man is winging it every day. We should have to look no further than three women....Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Green and Lauren Boebert....to see how low we have sunk in what used to be conservatism....and the concept of a God-fearing America.
When Donald Trump stands before the cameras and says something.....anything....on any topic at all....if you simply believe what he says....which so many people do....then you are simply under his spell. Trump doesn't live in this type of world that values something called truth. That his website is called....Truth Social....shows only that he knows that people value something called truth....and he being the premier.....world's best....con artist....he thus throws the word about with abandon.
No....when you hear Trump speak before those cameras....consider it as I do....with ten years of reading everything that I could get my hands on....and constant observation of him at press conferences and rallies and in his texting....when he speaks....what he says is only that which at that particular time....benefits him the most! It may even contain truth....but has nothing to do with the concept of truth....but the benefit of Donald Trump.
So back to my initial statement.....Trump has for ten years now tormented the world....you might look at your own relationships with family and friends and other brothers and sisters is Christ....and he does it purposely. It is but one part of his many psychological disorders. He has no idea what he is doing with Putin or China or the economy. Conservatism has been intellectually conquered....and evangelicalism has been decimated by Trump. The Democrats fell first....thirty years ago or so....just as the kingdom of Israel fell first....and then the Republican Party fell next....beginning ten years ago.....just as Judah followed her evil sister. Ichabod is the word for today....The Glory Has Departed.
Addendum: Melania....in her book released last fall....close to the election....gave a strong defense for women taking the lives of their preborn children....and she said that she held this belief her entire adult life. For at least the second year in a row....it may be a lot more....Franklin Graham tweeted how classy a lady that Melania was....this on her birthday. Does he read anything? Is there no one on his board of directors to just give him little hints now and then? All he had to do was....not....feel it imperative to wish her a happy birthday. Did he wish Mrs. Rubio or Mrs. Cruz or Mrs. Alito or Mrs. Thomas happy birthday?
