Hebrews 13:14
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

I believe that the election of Donald Trump is an immense political victory; as in the Reagan era, we have the potential to see not only an economic recovery, but a revival of public morality, and a potentially safe place for Christian faith and morals to be safeguarded.

Another aspect which we are excited about is the apparent anti-establishment tendencies in the administration. One thing that has been long ignored is the public-health sector; RFK Jr. is already stepping up efforts to make changes to bad government regulations on foods; I would hope that this will lead to a full revision of public health institutions as well.

There is a hopefulness that the new political administration – which has shown anti-establishment tendencies; I hope that the COVID pandemic will be investigated and prosecuted for crimes of oppression against the whole population of earth (though I am in no wise confident any such thing will happen).

Yet while there exists the prospect of a new time of peace, we cannot expect that the globalist beast stepping back into the bush has or will be abolished. Their mouths have been silenced (to an extent) in America because it is obvious that the populace has chosen against them.

Yet corruption has not been abolished with the election of Trump. For evangelicals, Trump’s election may be considered nothing but good – and I don’t want to fear monger or negate the good that it is – yet the here-and-now political victory as an utter good is not only naïve, it is idolatry.

Heb 13:14
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

As with Raegan who in the view of some seemed unable to do wrong, so to many evangelicals Trump can do no wrong because he is pro-Israel and conservative.

In 2019 many prophetic voices stood up and declared publicly & to the whole world that Trump would be in the white house during the 2020-2024 term. I tend to agree that 1) the election was stolen, and 2) that it was – in fact – God’s will that Trump be in office for said term. (By all means, argue with me in the comments.) Yet that wasn’t the issue – the issue was that these all prophesied falsely that Trump would be in office for the term now expired.

When this happened, those who publicly, loudly, and falsely prophesied did not repent (none that I observed) – which would mean turning from ‘prophetic ministry’ and introspecting deeply to determine why they were in error.

I believe there are two specific reasons why they were in error, which are:

1) I believe it actually was God’s will that Trump be in office last term

God’s will in the world is left up to man – more specifically, his body in the world. In fact, Jesus tells us in the Lord’s prayer to pray that God’s will be done in earth as it is in heaven (Matt. 6:10), thus not only distinguishing that God’s will is not automatically happening in the world but also that we are to co-labor with Him to make it happen.

2) They are fundamentally wrong about Israel

Most evangelicals – Pentecostals included – believe that political support for the present secular state of Israel is akin to righteousness. Many today call this ‘Zionism’, I call it Herodianism (the Herodians of scripture being those who believed that the Messianic line would come through Israelite political figure – many in Herod’s time actually wondered whether he were the Messiah through his conquest of Jerusalem, his extensive renovations of the temple, etc.)

This second is the primary danger in misconception among evangelicals (I, myself, am an evangelical Christian). We tend to support whatever candidate is against abortion, and for Israel. This Herodianism is a form of idolatry, which makes a political earthly nation a spiritual entity.

Heb 13:14
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.

Many of the Old Testament prophecies which we take in support of the modern secular state of Israel (Herodian interpretation) are actually about the first coming of Christ, who brought the blessing of salvation to all the nations of the world and established the eternal temple in the earth: His Church.

1 Cor 3:16
Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

If you have not watched Trump’s interview on Rogan, I would suggest that you do.

There was an interesting exchange near the end. Rogan asked Trump why he hadn’t released the files about the JFK assassination; Trump responded that Mike Pompeo, and certain others whom he would not name asked him not to because there were still people around whom it would affect.

Interestingly, he then changed the subject to UFOs; at the tail end of that discussion, Joe asked Trump if it were possible that there was some sort of military program that Trump hadn’t heard about.

Trump then jumped immediately into talking about Israel, the middle east and nuclear weapons. That’s a little bit odd because they had not been talking about Israel at all, rather Joe asked about whether the military (presumably American) had programs that Trump wasn’t aware of. Before that UFOs, before that the JFK assassination and Mike Pompeo.

“You know there are prophets that say that the world will come to an end in the middle east, you know that?”

Many people are unaware that the JFK assassination directly led to Israel becoming a nuclear power. JFK was against Israel developing nuclear weapons and argued vociferously with Ben Gurion (then PM of Israel) about it. As soon as JFK was dead, however, Lyndon B. Johnson allowed Israel to develop nuclear weapons, and they are now a nuclear power.

“You know there are prophets that say that the world will come to an end in the middle east, you know that?”

I can’t speculate on exactly what Trump believes with regard to these things – although the progression of thought in the conversation was interesting to me – but one thing is vital to keep in mind:

We like Trump for similar reasons that we liked Reagan; likewise we have hopes he will fight against the establishment like JFK who wanted to shut down the CIA & abolish the fed (& we see where that got him).

We need to pray for Trump – both that he will have God’s wisdom, and not man’s, and that God will protect him.

Heb 13:14
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.