Satan's Latest Attempt To Destroy MAGA and Demoralize The Saints
Satan
and his minions would love nothing more than for seemingly damning revelations pertaining
to Trump to be revealed in order to demoralize and even kill the MAGA movement
which then begs the question as to whether or not MAGA as we know it to be can
survive the worst-case scenario as the forces of darkness would be delighted to
see Trump supporters toss the good out with the bad:
What
is the MAGA movement founded upon exactly?
Is
it founded upon Trump or is it founded upon much more with Trump simply being
an appointed figure head of the movement?
If
MAGA is founded upon Trump, then it will most certainly die if indeed damning irrefutable
revelations pertaining to Trump in regards to his dealings with the Epsteins do
surface.
But
if MAGA is founded upon much more than just Trump, then there is no reason why
the movement cannot survive and move forward without him. It would just have to appoint a new figurehead
and standard bearer, hard as that may be.
But
in order to Make America Great Again, we need to learn and find out what it was
that made America great in the first place and that requires an extensive
history lesson and not just the economic and political aspects of American
history but also her spiritual heritage as well; that being the most important
aspect of all and yet the most overlooked, the least known and studied, and
which does not receive the credit that it deserves.
The
spirit and principles upon which any given nation is founded or adopts will
undoubtedly affect its course; in what guides the choices of each and every
citizen thereof, in how our children are brought up, how education is taught, how
information is reported and what information is reported, the quality of our entertainment,
how business is conducted, how the private sector operates and whether or not any
private sector exists, and finally, the manner of governance under which the
people of that nation live.
If
you really want to find out what is really wrong with a nation or with any
given person’s life, look no further than the value system they adhere to and what
they have given themselves over to.
It
is never enough to just simply cut off the branches of a bad tree. It must be uprooted and replaced with a good
tree and if any of us think how fierce the battle must be when we attack the
branches, know that when we attack the roots every bit as aggressively as the
branches, that is when opposition will be the most fierce.
If
we want to make America great again, we must not only learn about what made
America great to begin with, but we must also understand what has been at work
within our nation that has led to its present state and decline and those
things that are robbing America of its greatness are in opposition to that
which made America great and that which is taking away the greatness of our
nation and threatening our freedoms can be nothing more than spiritual darkness
due to an increasing abandonment of that Spirit of Light from which those
virtues and precepts came upon which this nation was built for when a nation turns
away from the source and Father of lights, then so those laws, values, and
precepts that He has given will also be rejected. We have a choice to make in this life as to
whether to side with the Spirit of Light or the spirit of darkness and what
side we choose to align with will ultimately affect the course of our lives for
better or worse.
It
has been the choice of every man ever since Adam and Eve when two trees were
set before them when God created the heavens and the earth and all that is
therein: The tree of life and the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil. (Genesis 2:9) They were given a choice to
either listen to the voice of their Creator or listen to the voice of a fallen
angel called Lucifer better known as Satan, who, in his pride, exalted himself
against his Maker (Isaiah 14:11-21, Ezek. 28:12-19) and consequently was cast
from his position as Cherub which he once held before the throne of God which
thus began that age-long war between God and Satan.
The
tree of life would have enabled man to live forever. (Gen. 3:22) The tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, they were warned, would bring them death. (Gen.
2:16-17, 3:3) Had they heeded the voice of their Maker, they would have lived
forever and that good and beautiful paradise that our world once was might have
been preserved, but instead, they chose to heed the lies of the Devil, being
that serpent who tempted and deceived into the transgression with Adam joining
her.
When
that happened, sin entered into them and with sin came eventual death (Gen.
3:19) and a separation between them and their Creator. They would no longer be able to meet with Him
face to face as they once had done and from them, sin was then inherited from
them by all of mankind because we are all descendants of the original pair into
whom sin entered which is why we all sin and all die; (Rom 5:12, 6:23) sin
being not just an outward act or a carelessly spoken word, but being the
corrupted condition of our nature, influencing not only our actions and speech,
but also our very thoughts, motives, and attitudes which is why it is written, that
is that which come out of a man that defiles him and not that which enters into
him. (Mt. 15:11, 18-20)
But
sin brought with it not only death but a curse upon all of creation (Rom.
8:19-22) and lastly, the dominion mandate given to man (Gen. 1:26-28) was diminished
on account of Adam’s disobedience and thus gave Satan cause to claim lordship
over the kingdoms of the earth (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk. 4:6-7) which is why he has been
called the prince of this world. (Jn. 12:31, 16:11)
Sadly,
many people and nations throughout history have chosen, and perhaps without
realizing that they have done so many cases, to follow Satan and have been held
captive by him, rather than the Lord God who is Creator of all things, the
source of all truth, and the definer of all that is right and wrong, good and
evil, holy and unholy, godly and ungodly, light and darkness, pure and corrupt,
and the establisher of our reality, and from whom comes salvation and true liberty.
A
day is coming when the evil of this world will reach its measure and will
eventually be judged of God and everyone who has persisted and unrepentantly taken
pleasure in those things evil in the sight of God and have loved the things of
darkness instead of the things of light and all things not of God will be eliminated
and thrown into a place of eternal damnation and torment, but God, not willing
that any be subject to the fiery torments of Hell, but that all would come to
repentance and be forgiven of all sin (2 Pet 3:9) sent Jesus Christ, the one
and only eternally begotten Son of God, into this world to offer Himself up as
that sacrifice needed to take away the sins of mankind; the sinless Christ
dying on behalf of inherently sinful man (2 Cor. 5:21, Heb. 4:15) and
afterwards, being raised from the dead for justification (Rom. 4:25) so that any
believing on Him alone for the forgiveness of sins and salvation will not
perish but be granted everlasting life.
It
is because that our own goodness, due to sin in us, falls short of the goodness
that God requires, no matter how much good we try to do nor how uprightly we
try to live, that it was necessary that a Savior on our behalf be sent to take
upon Himself that demanded penalty that the justice and holiness of God
requires of sin so that our sins would be washed away in Him.
In
Him are our souls cleansed of sin and by Him is reconciliation to the Father
made, and just as our souls are liberated from that spiritual death, which is
eternal damnation and separation from God, so also we will be liberated from a
bodily death as well when these corruptible bodies in which we dwell are
changed into incorruptible forms when we are caught up to meet our Lord when He
returns for us (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18) before the judgment that is to
come upon the earth because of the wickedness of man, and finally, creation
itself shall be liberated from the curse brought upon it because of sin when it
is made anew in which there will be no sin, no death, nor any curse, nor any
suffering, pain, hardship, evil, grief, or sorrow of any sort (Rev. 21-22)
since all of those evils will have passed away with this present creation.
And
though Satan be declared cast out and judged (Jn. 12:31, 16:11) he nevertheless
fights and continues to fight against the Gospel of salvation which sets captive
souls free, exposes and rebukes the evil and darkness of this present world,
brings hope to the despairing, purpose to those who once had none, peace to the
tormented, and transformation to the redeemed soul into a vessel and instrument
fit for the service of the Kingdom of God.
The
adversary, in spite of his inevitable and final defeat, when he is cast into a
lake of fire where he, and all who follow him, will be tormented forever and ever,
(Rev. 20:10-15) is not going quietly. He
has various resources at his disposal and by various means and devices relentlessly
seeks to keep as many souls captive as he can, keeping them blind to the sin
within them in order to lure them into a Christless eternity in Hell.
In
his evil, he withholds from and blinds as many as he can from any truth that
might break his hold on their minds, hearts, and souls, and suppresses anything
that might discredit the various lies and falsehoods with which he has poisoned
the minds of many, and relentlessly tries to tempt, divert, shame, threaten, demoralize,
and carry out various forms of persecution against they who would serve Christ
in calling the lost to repentance and advance the Kingdom of God.
One
of the things that Satan loves nothing more and is perhaps one of the most
effective tools against the saints of God is when a standard bearer whom God
has raised up for their edification is disgraced and when that happens, that
can have a very demoralizing affect on any given movement, ministry, or congregation.
When
Satan’s lies are defeated and discredited, when he fails to divert the
attention of the saints from the affairs of the Kingdom of God to worldly
affairs, when he is unable to tempt them into sin, intimidate them, unable to cause
them to value the things of this present world above that of that everlasting and
new world to come, when he cannot intimidate them into silence nor discourage
them by way of even the most severest of tribulations and persecutions, and
when he is unable to over throw their faith by any other means and when all his
challenges to faith and confidence in the Gospel and the authority of the Word
of God by which it is delivered fail, and every attempt of his to infiltrate
the ranks of the saints is thwarted, he will then try to disgrace and
disqualify central and influential figures among us in the eyes of many who
look up to them and are inspired by them in order to demoralize them in their
cause and when that happens, that demoralization and apathy can ruin an entire
ministry, movement, or church to great effect because of how so easily even the
most well-meaning of all of us look to any given central figure for guidance,
insight, inspiration, motivation, edification, admonishment, encouragement and
pin more hope upon them than we should and more trust in them than we ought,
forgetting that they are just as errant, corruptible, and as fallible as any of
us and that even they do not always have the answers or response to every challenge
or adversity that comes our way and that even they need to be held accountable for
what they say and do just like any of us.
And
Donald Trump, no matter how much we may appreciate his accomplishments, how he
bettered and strengthened our nation in office, the good that he is trying to
do now, and no matter how inspired and motivated we may be by him, is no exception.
His
past, undeniably, is not known to be one of moral uprightness. His past business ethics may be questionable,
and he has not always made the best decisions in regards to his dealings and
with whom he has associated, but what we ought to care about is not what he did
in the past but what he does now and not the kind of person he may have been twenty
or thirty years ago, but the kind of man he is now.
But
as the Maxwell trial progresses, I am anticipating that either Ghislaine
Maxwell or an accuser brought forth by the prosecution in the trial will try to
implicate Trump in the sex-trafficking that took place on the Island. There are left-wing media outlets already
attempting to do this though they have not explicitly claimed that he had ever
been to the Island, [1-2] but just because
an accusation may be made against him, does not mean that he did what he was
accused of doing. Just like we prudently
had done in the 2016 election when a number of opportunists and hired liars
tried to accuse him of sexual misconduct, we need to presume him innocent and
stand by him as we have done until he can be proven guilty beyond a shadow of a
doubt of any wickedness of which he may accused.
After
all, if any of us found ourselves in that same position, we would want that same
courtesy to be extended to us.
And
even if it should be found that Trump did indeed visit Epstein Island, that still
does not mean that he did anything wrong there, nor does it mean that everyone
who has been to the private Island did anything wrong there either even though
some who have been there undoubtedly have engaged in very shameful, despicable,
and wicked acts during their visits.
But
the fact that even so much as setting foot on Epstein Island is enough to
implicate anyone in the crimes committed there, regardless of who they may be,
if Trump ever did visit the Island, even once, he will no doubt be subject to
an investigation and even if he is not charged with any criminal activity, it
will still be a political headache for him that he will have to contend with
and overcome.
But
if the worst-case scenario should happen, as much as we may dread it and not
even consider the possibility, the MAGA movement may very well have to regroup
and rebrand itself, QAnon will have to reinvent itself, and the entire
conservative movement may have to find new standard bearers but that does not
necessarily mean that we have to discard everything good that Trump has done. We just hold fast to and build upon the good
precedents that he has set and move forward without him but the denizens of
hell will shout for joy if we should allow even the feared worst-case scenario
to demoralize and defeat us.
We
have to remember that what MAGA represents and stands for was not invented by
Donald Trump. He is just a vessel whom
God has used to bring those very values and principles to the forefront that we
know the MAGA movement for, and no matter what happens with Trump, we need to
keep those things that he brought to the front and center at the front and
center in the MAGA cause.
But
whom we need to have at the helm, even above Trump, is the Christ who will not
fail us, who never errs, nor is corruptible, nor subject to defeat, and in whom
resides all victory, even in the midst of what appears to be defeat by worldly
standards for He is that chief standard bearer of all standard bearers and the
day is coming when all the world will be governed by His standard alone and by
no other and it is before Him upon our faces we must fall and before Him alone
must we examine ourselves knowing that all men and nations will be judged by
Him and to Him we must cry out for from Him alone comes deliverance, and to Him
alone must we submit and resolve within ourselves that we should have no other authority
but the King of kings to Him must we call upon for the wisdom and guidance that
we need to direct our way, and it is in His strength and not our own nor in any
other name or power that we take our stand, and it must be in His name and in
His authority that we move forth in whatever cause and purpose is set in our
hearts.
The
greater the sacrifice in His name, the greater the reward.
The
greater the steadfastness, the greater the vindication.
The
greater the zeal, the greater the victory.
The
more honor to Him, the more honor we will receive from Him.
If
you have not yet given yourself to the King of Kings today, I urge you reader,
to do so that your sins may be washed away and so that you may be delivered
from damnation, that you may be reconciled to the God form whom you were once
estranged, that you may become a citizen of that everlasting Kingdom and the
world to come in which there is no darkness but only light, no sadness or grief
but only happiness and joy before the Lord, no death but only life, no evil but
only goodness, so that you may have within you a hope unfailing, a peace not
had before, and a purpose in Him not yet realized before:
"Lord
Jesus I need you.
I
realize that I am a sinner
who
has fallen short of the glory of God
and
that my goodness falls short
of
your standard of Moral perfection.
Please
forgive me of all of my sins.
Come
into my heart and into my life
to
be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make
me into the servant and follower
that
you want me to be.
In
your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
Amen."
Know
that God is not concerned with the words that you use to call upon Him
forgiveness, but with the attitude of your heart and if you have, with all
sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive you of your sins, placing your trust in
Him only for your salvation and in nothing else, then your sins are forgiven
and your place in Heaven is certain.
End
notes:
1. Angela Wang, “The FAA accidentally disclosed
more than 2,000 flight records associated with Jeffrey Epstein's private jets,”
Business Insider, November 29, 2021
https://www.businessinsider.com/faa-accidentally-released-jeffrey-epsteins-flight-records-2021-10
2. Andrea Marks, “Bill Clinton, Donald Trump,
Hollywood Stars Traveled on Private Jets Government Says Maxwell and Epstein
Used to Traffic Underage Girls,” Rolling Stone, November 30, 2021
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bill-clinton-donald-trump-hollywood-stars-traveled-on-private-jets-government-says-maxwell-and-epstein-used-to-traffic-underage-girls/ar-AARjC9B?ocid=msedgntp
Scripture
references:
1. Genesis 2:9
2. Isaiah 14:11-21
3. Ezekiel 28:12-19
4. Genesis 3:22
5. Genesis 2:16-17
6. Genesis 3:3
7. Genesis 3:19
8. Romans 5:12
9. Romans 6:23
10. Matthew 15:11, 18-20
11. Romans 8:19-22
12. Genesis 1:28-29
13. Matthew 4:8-9
14. Luke 4:6-7
15. John 12:31
16. John 16:11
17. 2 Peter 3:9
18. 2 Corinthians 5:21
19. Hebrews 4:15
20. Romans 4:25
21. 1 Corinthians 15:51-55
22. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
23. Revelation 21-22
24. Revelation 20:10-15
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