Cruise Down The River Styx....If you are around 40 years old....an adult for say twenty years....then the last ten years of your short twenty year adulthood had been a graphic novel...TV reality show....tabloid....true crime....seedy stateroom cruise down the River Styx. You have never experienced the America that once was....even in its last few decades....and you have never experienced the gospel as a mainstay in the church....or preaching that mortifies man and glorifies God. Read Daniel 9....and see what a prayer for national repentance is supposed to sound like.
We live in abject fear....petrified at the possibility of a Harris presidency....or some other progressive. Without that fear Trump would have been given the heave ho years ago....but he perfectly and diabolically plays that fear to his advantage. We should rather live in abject fear of standing before a Holy God....after ignoring His clear warnings....and going after other gods!
"Any Republican, in the House or Senate, that votes against TARIFFS will seriously suffer the consequences come Election time, and that includes Primaries!" We all know who typed this text out....for this is ten years running....and getting worse all the time. This is a cult leader. And to those who read these threats....and think that they are good....he will come after you some day....if you dare to disobey him....or stop taking your Trump media....(formerly conservative media)....medicine.
The New Testament....in various places....goes into great detail....on the type of person that the Christian must stay away from. That person is Donald Trump. Reading through Proverbs one can see Trump come up again and again and again. False prophets appear all through the Old Testament....with the same message of peace and prosperity to Israel and Judah....that Trump gives to evangelicals....but this information means little to today's Christian Nationalist evangelical....who thinks that defending America is more vital than defending the gospel of Jesus Christ.
"And it shall be, when you show this people all these words, and they say to you, 'Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? Or what is our iniquity? Or what is our sin that we committed against the LORD our God?'....then you shall say to them, 'Because your fathers have forsaken Me.' says the LORD; 'they have walked after other gods and have served them and worshiped them, and have forsaken Me and not kept My law."
Evangelicals will at some point ask the same thing....'Why....the other guys were the bad guys....we were trying to stop them!' God is not concerned with what the pagans of this nations have done....but what we have done....and what we have done is to go after other gods..
"Now all these things happened to them....[our fathers]....as examples....and they were written for our admonition....on whom the ends of the ages have come." 1 Corinthians 10:11
I offered a commentary on Jeremiah to a Christian brother recently....highly recommending it....but he was not too interested. Friends....Jeremiah and Isaiah and Daniel and all of the prophets are there for us....telling of all the things that the people of Israel and Judah had done....as examples for our benefit....so that we might see that we are doing the same thing!
Paul summarized these examples in verse 14...."Therefore....my beloved....flee from idolatry."
Trump is an idolator....and what he has led us by the nose into....is either pure idolatry....or tinged with idolatry....and yet we tell ourselves that we are trying to honor God?
We have become racists. Do you remember Trump campaigning in 2024.....at a rally....when he said....(I'm watching it again right now)...."I think that suburban women like me a lot....(cheers from the crowd)...."why wouldn't they".....and then he told them that he was keeping low-income housing away from their suburban homes! He was keeping criminals away. He thinks of low-income people as criminals! On that day....in August of 2024....after that rally....evangelical pastors should have totally disassociated themselves with Trump....but of course that did not happen.
What would it take for the average everyday pastor in America to admit that Donald Trump was a false prophet? He has 'prophesied' great things for ten years straight...every day....and directed primarily to evangelicals....of which they believed....when God's Word warns that judgment is coming! Pastors cannot admit that right now because their only excuse for not speaking out against Trump is...."We elected a command-in-chief and not a pastor-in-chief." If Trump is identified as a genuine biblical false prophet....then there goes their only excuse!
When we start to protect religious freedom so much....that we make alliances with he who may appear to champion religious liberty....but who at heart is the biggest tyrant of all....then we start to prove the warning of Martin Niemoller who said in effect that he stood by while they arrested others....but eventually they came for him!
The elephant in the room has always been.....what if a madman....whether a physiological madman....or mental....or political....or even spiritual (demonic) madman....became president of the United States? Well we may not know which one....or what combination....but unfortunately we do now have growing evidence on what would happen.
No one on planet earth knows more than Donald Trump....that if his praetorian guard in the congress....formerly known as the Republican Party....should lose their committee power....then he will be investigated with multiple special counsels and even impeachments....particularly in investigating if he used the White House to amass billions of dollars in personal profit.
I have been a conservative....evangelical....republican....for forty-four years....a veteran and a Reaganite....avid conservative talk show listener....Tea Party before Tea Party was cool....who voted for Trump in 2016....but today you could not pay me to vote for any republican....who did stand up and challenge what is going on with Trump. Do you think that serious and experienced republican polling operatives might be interested in my comments?
