Posted on 07/20/2020 7:46:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The presidency of Donald J. Trump is a grand enigma, so enigmatic that powerful opponents — and even some supporters — thought he must have had outside help to win the Oval Office. The Mueller investigators spent more than $30 million over two years searching for Russian collusion and produced almost 450 pages trying to solve the Trump enigma but found no collusion. Impeachment proceedings then feverishly sought reasons to remove Trump from office.
The maddening (to some) mystery remained: What power made Donald Trump the president of the United States of America?
“How?” is indeed at the heart of the Trump enigma.
Journalists, academics, celebrities, members of Congress, and a multitude of others are searching for a contemporary “Alan Turing,” the British savant who solved the Nazi “Enigma” code in the Second World War. The mystery of the covert code consumed Turing and his team, working in Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire, England.
However, no cryptanalysts have been able to decipher the mystery of Trump, because they are looking in the wrong places.
Since the Democrats’ 2018 takeover of the United States House of Representatives, there has been a near-frantic attempt to turn the House into a political “Bletchley Park,” where money and energy are being spent on trying to wrest the Oval Office from a man they believe should not, by all logic, be there at all.
Who put him in office? How was it possible for a person many prognosticators said could not win the presidency to do just that? Did Russia somehow bring about the Trump victory? Were there mysterious forces at work beyond the capacities of the “deep state” to put Donald Trump in the Oval Office?
Some of the nation’s leading evangelicals believe that God put Trump in the presidency. They include people like Franklin Graham, son of Billy Graham; Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr., whose father was the founder of the Moral Majority; and Robert Jeffress, pastor of Dallas First Baptist Church — a flagship for Southern Baptists, America’s largest evangelical denomination.
Nikki Haley infers that both the permissive and intentional will of God could be applied to Trump’s election to the Oval Office. “I think God sometimes places people for lessons and sometimes places people for change,” she told David Brody, White House correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network.
How could she and others believe God chose Trump as president? Why would such noted leaders put their reputation on the line for a man like Trump?
Could it be that God really did select or at least permit Donald Trump to occupy the Oval Office in this critical season for the United States? If God, who is perfect in His holy character, chose Trump, whose character is regarded by many as flawed (to put it generously), why would the Lord of History grant him authority?
To answer that question, I argue in my book, Two Men from Babylon: Nebuchadnezzar, Trump, and the Lord of History, we must turn to two important passages in the Bible.
The Old Testament Scripture was written by the Hebrew prophet Daniel, who was captive in Babylon during Nebuchadnezzar’s reign. In fact, Daniel had much interaction with the king, who himself was such an enigma. Inspired by the Holy Spirit, Daniel wrote:
Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever,
For wisdom and power belong to Him.
It is He who changes the times and the epochs;
He removes kings and establishes kings.
(Daniel 2:20–21)
The New Testament text that is joined to Daniel’s prophecy records words spoken by Jesus: “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come” (Matthew 24:14).
Five principles are clear from these passages:
First, God has grand purposes for time and history: the coming of the King of kings and Lord of lords, the advance of His kingdom in the world, and ultimately, at His return, the establishment of the kingdom globally.
Second, there are manifestations of the kingdom that appear throughout finite time and history, giving hints of how the world will look when the kingdom comes fully.
Third, the biblical church established at Pentecost is the primary agent for the expansion of kingdom ministry in the world between Christ’s ascension and His return, and through it, all institutions are to be impacted by kingdom principles.
Fourth, nations are of strategic importance in the fulfillment of God’s plan.
Fifth, it is God who establishes and removes the leaders of those nations either by His intentional will or by His permissive will, with His purposes for time and history in view.
Human observers can only speculate about the resolution of the riddle that is Trump. However, the answer to the removing and establishing of any national leaders, whether Barack Obama, Donald Trump, or any others, can be found only in the kingdom’s purposes and plans of the Lord of History.
Therefore, the Lord of History is the focus of this volume, not President Trump or any other human leader.
Good article. I think it will take another divine intervention to help him win re-election.
Christian Post topics from the FRchives:
Praying for another miracle......
Nikki Haley
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This one I have no use for.
That our kind Maker may have intervened to help defeat the Satanic HilLIARy beast from wrecking His creation, is plausible indeed. We are praying he will help us push back the (same) SorozNazi-commie-nazi-IslamoNazi-DNC unholy alliance this year, again.
But we have to roll up our sleeves and really pitch into this effort. We are up against 24/7/365 enemy propaganda that would have made Jos. Goebbels proud. AND, the D’s and SorozNazi are desperate to seize power again. They’ve already thrown millions of Americans out of work and closed countless businesses, effectively destroying the great economic recovery of the past 2 or 3 years. They’ve also got their hooligans and street gangsters Burgling, Looting, and Murdering us. Poor, suffering, and unhappy people do tend to “vote for change,” and the DNC cabal is cynically trying to transfer its responsibility for all of this damage they’re inflicting on us to blame PDJT instead. MAYBE THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS GRAND DECEPTION, TOO, given that their mass media is pumping out their lies and other propaganda distortions 24/7. We need to find ways and means to overcome this plot, and quickly. It may be working...
It’s really not mysterious. It was the GOP’s turn to win it all. And with what a GOP led Congress was polling at any “outsider” was pretty much guaranteed the nomination. And our electoral history means he’ll almost certainly win in November. And then the Dems get it in 2024. Our election results are monotonously predictable.
The question he asked of black voters last time, "What do you have to lose?", can be asked of all voters this time.
A vote for Biden is a vote for losing everything.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.