Preface: About a month ago my wife was in the car with three ladies....to and from an event. They were probably mid-70s....just guessing....and according to my wife they were gushing about Trump....saying things that made no sense at all. We evangelicals have lost the understanding on what racism is....and we are not aware of that. The philosophy behind this....'big beautiful bill'....will take food out of the mouths of millions of children....and benefits away from millions of seniors....all backdoor of course....so he doesn't get the blame....and we are actually cheering this! Delusion....and false signs and wonders....false prophets prophesying peace and security....all of this and more has overtaken evangelicalism. The national defense is....systematically....little by little....from one institution to another....being weakened. The entire Republican congress.....and....all the conservative pulpits in America....live in abject fear of Donald Trump....that if they dare criticize or warn of him....they will pay dearly by loss of support. This is all judgment from God upon us as we rejected trust in Him and put that trust in one big beautiful broken cistern.
So Trump is starting the tariff threats again. Let me tell you something about what I've learned about Trump after ten years and over 100 books on his life. He is a sociopath who is not satisfied unless he is causing consternation in someone else. This has been him his whole life....even when he was young. There is not an ounce of truth or compassion in this man. He has at all times to be inflicting some sort of suffering in someone. As for his megalomania....it is so advanced that he has no concept anymore of consequences or collateral damage on anyone or anything. The following post is from February 11....this that we are witnessing is not the final falling away....but it may be the beginning of that biblical prophecy.
As I finish this Trump is giving the West Point commencement. That he once said that soldiers were losers doesn't mean anything. He simply denies having said it....case closed....like he denied saying that the White House was a dump. There are hundreds of quotes like this....that he simply denies ever making....and his followers of course believe him!
If This Isn't That...."Falling Away"....Then It's A Good Imitation
It is a different church than it was thirty and forty years ago. You could tell back then who the Christians were. You can't tell that today....as they have been swallowed up by patriotism....so everybody says that they are Christian. The world would shy away from us back then because we would always talk about Christ. They stay away from us today because we always talk about Trump.
Even though our country was nowhere near in rebellion to God as we are today...we had the fear of God in us. Our youth were Christian youth back then. They are republican youth today. We just knew that Jesus was about to come back soon. Today....a genuine biblical false prophet leads our nation....and we put him there. We are right now on the very precipice....and this man shows every sign....of every tyrant in the past....and just like in the past....that tyrant has a people who believe every lie that he says. It is nothing less than astonishing.
We knew what cults were at one time. We might read a book now and then on any one of them. The charismatic leader had complete control....using mind-altering methods on the members....where they only read what they were told to read....and were shunned or purged in they didn't toe the line. We don't even know or care who those cults are today....and there is a very strong likelihood that that we have been taken in by a new one.
God has judged His church first. He has put blinders on us....which is the only explanation on how someone as empty and as bloodthirsty as Donald Trump....could successfully bind and lead away most of evangelicalism.
God's Word says that there will be a falling away. If this isn't it....then it's a good imitation. The Bible talks about last days/end times false signs and wonders....and delusion....and deception. We've been taken in to believe that what Trump has done in a few short weeks is marvelous! We actually think that what this man is doing....will bring peace and safety....and we are oblivious to that being exactly what God's Word tells us we will think! Benjamin Netanyahu....this surprised me anyway....was taken in also by Trump's promises and rhetoric....but then so has Ted Cruz and so many others.
We are in the midst of a winnowing. A strong wind is passing over the threshing floor....as we are being tossed up....again and again....trying to breath through the dust...vexed....and landing hard time after time. Whether the Lord gathers us up....or replants us to sprout new wheat....it will be His perfect will.....may He give us the strength and wisdom and discernment necessary to wait upon the Lord....and to endure to the end.
