What would Billy Graham....R. C. Sproul....John MacArthur....or Phil Robertson....say about Donald Trump today? The Reverend Graham died in February of 2018....but hardly spoke at all in his last year. He voted for Trump in 2016....but then so did I. He warned....over the last half of his long ministry....about the dangers of politics in the gospel! His son has not taken that warning to heart.
Was there anyone as strong as John MacArthur in defense of the gospel? It was a long and wonderful ministry....and most of you....and I....watched his health fail beginning in January of 2023. Not Spurgeon....the Prince of Preachers....or Luther....or Calvin....or anyone was perfect in their ministry....and we can be thankful for that....otherwise we might make idols out of these men. Neither was John MacArthur perfect. I watched through streaming as John stood before his congregation in early 2020 and said....slowly as I remember it....for emphasis...."There is no pandemic." It was a major mistake that led to too much emphasis on church closures....and it led to John MacArthur....the man who warned of false prophets his whole ministry....miss the false prophet Donald Trump. So what would he say today? Those who know him personally might say that he would hold to the same positions....but I believe that he would have come out strong against Trump by now. I say this because the continuous flow of evidence against Trump has become a veritable tsunami. Pastor John's voice was noticeably slower in the few sermons of his last two years....but to me that made them even better....and he had some wonderful sermons!
How about R. C. Sproul? He went to be with the Lord in December of 2017....two months before Billy Graham. He only saw Trump in action for eleven months....and Trump's first term was mild compared to this his second term....of which I described a few times in these posts....as being similar to how Revelation 6:2 describes the rider on the white horse....who came out...."conquering....and to conquer." I think that R. C. would have begun warning long ago.
How about Phil Robertson? Let me relate one anecdote that I posted on at the time. It was late September of 2017....at a Roy Moore rally in Alabama....and here is what I posted on that day...."Phil Robertson followed Steve Bannon. [to the stage] Robertson's talk was nothing short of profound in his emphasis on the eternal over the temporal....[and]....as he finished....before he walked off the stage....he said with the most serious expressions to the crowd....'We better get a godly man in the White House'....[as he walked off the stage he added]....'the Ten Commandments....'trump'....politics....pun intended.' In my opinion....some in the house were stunned for a moment." They were stunned because Donald Trump was already in the White House! I do not know how Phil Roberston would react today to what is going on....I only have a hunch....because I know what men of discernment would do....and Phil Robertson was a man of discernment....I believe that he would want nothing to do with this continuation of strong arm tactics with no compassion and no wisdom.
As I have emphasized so man times in these posts of late.....God has taken these men home. The warnings to America seem to be over. We are no longer as Nineveh under the message of Jonah....given time to repent....but we are Nineveh...as under Nahum....no longer given warnings to repent....but warnings to prepare for what is ahead.
Note: I'm adding one of those John MacArthur sermons that I mentioned above"
