Preface: I watched part of yet another Trump rally yesterday....with its concert theme....as the entire time his eyes move from the teleprompter on the left to the one on the right....words written by Stephen Miller and others....carefully crafted exaggerations and outright lies mixed in with a portion of truth. Take away the teleprompter and Trump's speech is awkward....even juvenile....often disjointed....even flailing....as was the time four or five years ago when at the end he tried to add his own words in the benediction....what came out was...."And we pray for God." The people in the back....behind him on the television screen....always appear the same....chosen for their looks or what they are wearing....cheering things that could not be proven....nor would they have any inclination to ask for proof anyway....for this is a mass psychological movement....aimed primarily at evangelicals....who demanded a king as other nations had....instead of looking to the King of Kings!
I've used a lot of different words to describe Trump over the years....despicable and vile....destroyer and deceiver....and he is a genuine biblical false prophet and as the Apostle John described those who are always out there....an antichrist....but I don't think that I've used this yet....evil. We in evangelicalism....in the church....even in leadership of denominations....and some Christian colleges....are playing with evil.
His megalomania is like nothing that I have ever witnessed....or hardly even read about....it actually seems worse than Nebuchadnezzar at his worst. He is a sociopath....driven by seeking revenge on those who do not give him the obeisance that he demands be given to him. He actually thrives on hate. That which has vexed and tormented the remnant in the church over the past decade....he thrives on!
This appears to be the falling away in the church that God's Word warned us about....or at least the beginning of it. Trump used to spout all the time about draining the swamp....which in retrospect is almost surreal....for as it turned out....the Trump family swamp is the most fetid of all the swamps....and Christians have been lured and dragged and tricked into wading in....and as of today....not coming back out.
Discernment is all gone....as we started out thinking that we were protecting the freedom to proclaim the gospel....an honorable goal....but eventually we fell in love with the greed and the pride that was hand-fed us by Fox and talk radio....once proud media that was led to contravene the implied laws of journalism....and reported only that which aided the leviathan that was born on a blood moon....and appeared out of nowhere in the 2014/2015 tetrad of blood moons.
Trump's god....by definition a being that neither depends on anything....while everything depends on it....is riches....money....and the power that goes with it. That is the god that we evangelicals have latched onto....unawares of it of course....but without excuse.....because the evidence is and has been all around us....but we chose to rely solely on Trump's narrative....and block out that which we were told was....fake news.
A couple of years ago I posted on a comment that Trump's former Chief of Staff General John Kelly had made at the time. That comment sums everything up. General John Kelly....after answering a question about his time with Trump....finished with this...."What can I add that has not already been said....There is nothing more to be said....God help us." We in America should be saying just that....'God help us'....instead of the overused and abused....'God bless America.' There are ten years of very clear evidence that Trump is a terribly troubled man....and of his many grotesque antics and comments....the latest would only have been from yesterday....as he spoke to a Republican conference and boasted...."Only I can do this S#%T."
This has never been....as the reason always given to us to vote for Trump....that he was the lesser or two evils. These past ten years....Trump.....and Biden....and now this new Trump....have been ten years of God's judgment on not only America....and not only the entire world....and not only on evangelicalism....but on Christians. God's judgment came to the church first....just as His Word tells us that it would do.
One of my prayers for Christian friends who have been totally taken in by Trump....is that God....as He lifts the veils....which He is doing right now....and shows us what we have done....and who we have put in power....that He would also supply and apply a great balm....for it will be a bitter pill to swallow that will come with the revelation.....for we all are responsible for what we are....and all in need of that balm....some sooner than others.
