It is sad....so very sad....discouraging and even frightening in the ramifications. This is a common occurrence with me. I will be talking to a Christian friend who has not discerned the false prophet and enemy of the gospel in Trump....and a topic will come up concerning Trump....an atrocious action of some sort actually....only the latest....and it is as if in my friend's mind that someone has wiped the slate clean....or erased the tape....and there is only today....just this issue....no past year and a half of constant threats.....no past ten years of constant turmoil....and certainly no past seventy years of belittling others and exalting himself.
We have long ago reached the saturation point with Trump. Gone is all the previously recorded data. We have witnessed too many gross temper tantrums....read too many insane texts....heard too many examples of revenge. The threshold has been reached and all additional data no longer computes!
So if he says something repugnant....or does something dangerous....the continuity and totality of it all doesn't even register! This might be blasphemous comment number 1,000....but the gauge stopped reading years ago! The long-term memory is completely gone....so there is no recollection of a thousand threats....or ten thousand lies....or the horror of January 6th!
I will look into the eyes of my Christian friend and it's like we do not even know each other any more. I used to hear Sproul or MacArthur or Billy Graham speaking through their words....but today I hear the voice of Mark Levin or Jesse Watters or Greg Gutfeld. Edification has been replaced by agitation....renewing of the mind by repeating the talking points....listening for a trumpet sound by listening for Trump to sound off.
If Trump is caught red-handed....which is all the time....the horror of an 'anti-weaponization' slush fund no longer even the latest....it is pointed out that the other side does these things also....end of debate. All of this....I believe....revolves around our lack of both knowledge and interest in what God's Word describes....literally everywhere in Scripture....on what it will be like...and what to look out for....and what to flee from....as the Second Coming becomes nearer and nearer.
I have written this many times....we....the church....deep down....do not want Jesus to return right now. We want more than anything else that America becomes 'great' again. We want our life back....(He who finds his life will lose it.) We want our future back! The solemn toll of the death knell of AI has not reached our ears. The red flags on Israel's existential security....with a collapsing alliance of once strong allies....has not caused us to meditate and ponder God's Word on prophecy. Evidence of 'aliens'....and the demonic everywhere in our society....has not harkened us back to when Jesus came the first time.
Yes....it is frightening and it is discouraging....but most of all it is astonishing! Trump's resume is exactly what Paul and Peter and John and Jude....and Jesus....told us to flee from...and yet we ignore the warnings....but then....why am I astonished....for God's Word said that at the end many would fall away....and follow false teachers and false prophets?
