President Trump « A Call To The Remnant

The opposition to President Trump from professing Christians is considerably perplexing. Those that resist him usually declare to be apolitical, but their stance betrays a transparent ideological bias. In the event that they have been sincere, they may acknowledge long-standing left-leaning tendencies. As a substitute, they have interaction in advantage signaling, trying to spiritualize a flawed place and body it as an ethical dichotomy. Strikingly, these similar people by no means voiced criticism when professing Christians supported Biden or comparable leaders. This inconsistency exposes motive and the political nature of their stand whereas on a regular basis claiming to not be political.

Paul makes it clear that secular authorities exist to restrain evil, wielding the sword not in useless however as a crucial pressure in opposition to wrongdoing. When rulers abandon this duty, they forfeit their legitimacy. The enemy seeks to dismantle rightful secular authority, for he thrives on lawlessness, celebrating evil moderately than restraining it. We now have all the time lived in a secular world—that is our actuality.

Undoubtedly, President Trump is a secular chief. He isn’t a born-again Christian, nor does he declare to really know Jesus. However being a Christian just isn’t a prerequisite for the presidency. In reality, historical past reveals that the majority presidents have solely paid lip service to religion, whereas others ignored it completely. But, given the selection, I might far choose a frontrunner who upholds ethical order moderately than the godlessness seen in a lot of Europe, Britain, and its Commonwealth. The elemental obligation of a secular authorities is to ascertain legislation and order. This is the reason Rome was allowed to rise—Pax Romana introduced a measure of stability to a chaotic world, creating circumstances that enabled the unfold of the Gospel. True believers acknowledge this: we’re on this planet however not of it.

If a secular chief takes a stand in opposition to abortion, protects youngsters from dangerous ideologies, defends parental rights, restores legislation and order, and seeks to forestall pointless wars, then we as followers of Christ needs to be grateful. I definitely am. The top occasions proceed to attract close to, and Christ’s return stays imminent. This world continues to be misplaced. The present president will probably be gone in 4 years, and we should always mirror on the results of his final departure and the chief who changed him. Be ready, saints, there’s nice darkness forward and we have to be discovered to be strolling within the gentle.

The Scots despised Margaret Thatcher—actually despised her—however even that pales compared to the sheer depth of Trump Derangement Syndrome. It operates on the reverse finish of the spectrum from adulation.

I as soon as heard an interview with a German lady in the Nineteen Sixties who had attended Hitler’s rallies. When requested why she idolized him, her response was profoundly chilling: “There was one thing within the ambiance, and all of us breathed it in.” That assertion has stayed with me for years. I imagine her fully. And that “one thing,” to me, was completely demonic.

Historical past reveals us that at sure occasions and in sure locations, a collective insanity overtakes folks—a pressure past motive, past particular person thought. It’s the satanic inversion of company worship. It’s zeitgeist on steroids.

Zeitgeist, a German phrase that means “spirit of the age,” describes the prevailing cultural, mental, moral, and political local weather of a specific period. It defines the essence of a time. And to both wholly idolize or completely despise an individual is to be swept up on this very spirit. To partake in such excessive emotional reactions is to breathe on this ambiance, consciously. I say consciously as a result of we’re accountable for what we permit to enter us. But it’s a “wilful unwitingness,” if there’s such a phrase.

Saints of God should not inhale this poison. To take action is a willful act. We can’t be discovered on the spectrum of hating or idolizing a person. As a substitute, we should breathe within the rarified air of the Kingdom of God, standing agency in His presence, enveloped in His ambiance.

Because the world spirals into end-times chaos, it’s the saints who should stay the final bastion in opposition to whole insanity. The ultimate storm has already made landfall—what we’re experiencing now’s merely its outer bands. Allow us to be discovered within the eye of this storm, the place a supernatural peace reigns, untouched by the howling winds of the age.