Before the election, WLT reported
Donald Trump stating at least twice that the Trump rallies that have become so
much a part of our lives, and which we have grown to even love were to soon
come to an end. His last two campaign
rallies were held the day before the election, and as I listened to the video
clips featured in the item, it seems as though Trump either knew something or
sensed something that the rest of us did not know and that I could only
interpret in at least two ways.
1.
He, against all odds, is going to win the presidency once more, which he
did.
2.
His time on the earth was coming to an end, but we just didn’t know how
soon or how. I know most of you who have
rallied behind Trump would not have wanted to hear that but for what it
may be worth, I didn’t like having to consider that either, and I thank God it
was the former (winning the presidency) and not the latter.
My hope and prayer is that these
rallies that have been successful in politically unifying so many will not have
to end entirely though at the same time, I would not expect them to be held as
frequently either, but that instead, they may take on a phase that goes beyond
the political unity that Trump has been successful in bringing about, and that
they will not have to rely on a dynamic figure being at the center. Rather, I pray that there will be rallies at
which something far greater will be at the center; something that can never be
taken from us, that will never leave our hearts, minds, or souls, but instead
will be something that transforms the mind, heart, and soul in a way that even
Trump himself could never do (no disrespect towards Trump or the MAGA movement).
And I can think of nothing that is
able to do that other than the Lord God Almighty who made the heavens, the
earth, and all that is in them, who is able to transform the hearts and minds
of those who are willing to allow Him to, who forgives the sins of the
sincerely repentant who call upon His name, who is able to see to our needs and
address our concerns in a way that nothing else ever can, who is able to
sustain us in dark difficult times in ways that no one or anything else can, is
able to provide deliverances from evil in ways that anyone or anything else is
not capable of doing, is able to instill in us an unfailing hope and a sense of
purpose that cannot come from anyone or anything else, who is able to impart
wisdom and insight that we otherwise would not have, and open our eyes to
things to which we might otherwise be blind.
The figures that are raised up to
inspire us, energize, us strengthen our hope and confidence, and for our
edification and deliverance are but instruments and vessels of God who by His
grace and mercy are raised up on our behalf and while it is helpful to have
such figures raised up on our behalf, they are still just as flawed and
fallible as the rest of us and they are not always going to do everything right
or what we think they should do, and will disappoint and fail us at times,
which is why we need to keep our focus on the One who is perfect in His
character and nature and is incorruptible and who will never disappoint or fail
us.
Even though Trump may have won, we
cannot take that victory nor the hoped for accomplishments and policy changes
that we hope and pray will take place over the next four years for granted
because we still have mid-term elections in the next two years and then after
that, we will have another presidential election and therefore, we cannot allow
ourselves to grow complacent, but we need to find a way to continue to keep
ourselves motivated, encouraged, energized, and galvanized whether we see Trump
on that front and center stage or not.
If MAGA is to continue to survive and
even thrive beyond Trump, it is going to have to act independently of him and
he has already left us a blue print for how to make that possible and not only
that, we have so much that we can fall back on as well including our
Constitution, Declaration of Independence, the counsels left to us by the
founders of our nation preserved for us in historical writings and documents,
history to enlighten us if we will but take the time to learn it, but most
importantly, there is a God in Heaven to whom we can and must look as well for
guidance, instruction, hope, purpose, courage, strength, provision, and
deliverance.
I know that I have said it before on
a number of occasions, but it is no coincidence that MAGA should stand for two
things: Make America Great Again and Make America Godly Again, but I fear that
many within the MAGA movement may be blind to that connection and I believe the
reason why MAGA may very easily stand for both a return to greatness and
godliness is because we cannot have greatness until there is godliness.
In a correspondence with his
respective government, French statesman Alexis De Tocqueville, best known for
his two-volume work, Democracy in America, [2-3] stated the following:
I went at your bidding, and passed
along their thoroughfares of trade. I ascended their mountains and went down
their valleys. I visited their manufactories, their commercial markets, and
emporiums of trade. I entered their judicial courts and legislative halls. But
I sought everywhere in vain for the secret of their success, until I entered
the church. It was there, as I listened to the soul-equalizing and
soul-elevating principles of the Gospel of Christ, as they fell from Sabbath to
Sabbath upon the masses of the people, that I learned why America was great and
free, and why France was a slave [4]
He recognized that the source of
America’s greatness lay not in her economy or government. It did not lay even in its mountains or
valleys. It lay in the spiritual and
moral principles upon which the nation was built; the Christian faith in
particular.
And recently, even Donald Trump
himself stated:
we were a really, people would say, a
Christian and really religious — even other faiths — country… And that seems to
be heading in the wrong direction. And I think as that goes down, I think that
our country goes down. I really do… I think this is a country that needs
religion. It’s like the glue that holds it together, and we don’t … have that.
[5]
Even Trump himself understands
something that most others, including most people of theistic faith, don’t
understand; that our greatness lies in our faith and sincere devotion obedience
to Almighty God and the more devoted to this God we are, the greater our nation
becomes, hence why it is written, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the
Lord,” (Ps. 33:12) and if a nation is blessed
whose God is the Lord God Almighty, then cursed is any nation whose God is
anything but the Lord God Almighty and so we are warned by Puritan Leader John
Winthrop:
…if we shall deal falsely with our
God in this work we have undertaken , and so cause him to with draw his present
help from us, we shall be made a story and a by word through the world. We
shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God, and all
professors for God's sake.
We shall shame the faces of many of
God's worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us
till we be consumed out of the good land whither we are agoing. [6]
John Adams, Declaration signer and
second President of the United States also warning:
While our country remains untainted
with the principles and manners which are now producing desolation in so many
parts of the world; while she continues sincere, and incapable of insidious and
impious policy, we shall have the strongest reason to rejoice in the local
destination assigned us by Providence.
But should the people of America once
become capable of that deep simulation towards one
another, and towards foreign nations,
which assumes the language of justice and moderation, while it is
practising iniquity and extravagance,
and displays in the most captivating manner the charming pictures
of candour, frankness, and sincerity,
while it is rioting in rapine and insolence, this country will be the
most miserable habitation in the
world…
Avarice, ambition, revenge and
licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a
whale goes through a net. Our
Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly
inadequate to the government of any other. [7]
And Ronald Reagan also warned as
well:
Without God, there is no virtue,
because there's no prompting of the conscience. Without God, we're mired in the
material, that flat world that tells us only what the senses perceive. Without
God, there is a coarsening of the society. And without God, democracy will not
and cannot long endure. If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then
we will be a nation gone under. [8]
Donald Trump, if you will, has been
an appointed shepherd over the MAGA movement and will continue to be so as long
as God in Heaven wills him to be, but if the MAGA movement that we know and
love is to endure, it must be more than just the slogan of a man. It has to become a philosophy, a creed, and a
doctrine that we embrace and apply. Men
come and go, but philosophies and ideas have a tendency to long endure past the
lifespan of any man and I pray MAGA will become one such philosophy and creed
that lives on in the hearts and minds of men long after Trump, but in order for
it to do so, the movement must look to that eternal Shepherd by whose hand all
things are sustained and held together and it is upon Him that movement must
stand, and in His power on which it must rely.
Since Trump has emerged victorious, I
say let us celebrate that victory for at least a day, but then afterwards, we
get back to work because though the enemy has suffered a defeat, he will be
regrouping and plotting his next attack which is why we cannot allow our
victories nor the rewards we reap from those victories cause us to grow lazy
and complacent, lest the enemy should creep in and attack us unawares and it
will not be enough to just watch out for the enemy from without, but we must
also keep close watch from within our own ranks as well for what the enemy
cannot destroy from without, he will attempt to corrupt and then destroy from
within and that has happened time and time again with once respectable and
honorable institutions who were not careful to maintain the principles and
values upon which they were founded which why the MAGA movement must ever be
diligent, with or without Trump at the helm, to maintain the very tenets that
have shaped its identity and have defined the movement and we need to be ever
be in earnest and fervent prayer to God Almighty to show us as to what
direction the movement is to take regardless of what happens and lean not upon
our own devices or our own understanding and it is my hope and my prayer that
the MAGA movement will not just remain a mere political movement or even a mere
revolutionary movement, but I pray that it will become an ongoing spiritual
movement with the Lord God Almighty in the lead, at the center of the movement,
and as the foundation upon which the movement rest because, whether anyone is
in agreement with me on this or not, that is what is going to have to happen in
order for the movement to abide long after Trump and I would love to see the
movement continue until the return of Christ Jesus our Lord because I believe
that the MAGA movement was established for the purpose of mitigating and
hindering the powers of darkness on the face of the earth, and I believe that
it can be so to great effect if we are all willing to submit ourselves to the
authority and instruction of God Almighty and to the spiritual transformation
within ourselves that He requires of all people because God is not looking for
a mere change in our outward performance, but He is looking for an inward
change in us that will be nature better our outward performance because neither
this world as we know it nor humanity itself is as God intended it to be; He
initially created both humanity and this world to be better than what they by
nature are because when God did create the world, it was not a world filled
with the death, evil, decay, and suffering into which we are born. It was a world in which only life itself
dwelt, and a world filled with only goodness, peace, and a perfect harmony
between God, man, and nature, and humanity was created not to be inherently
evil by nature, but to be by nature good for an inward inherent corruption was
foreign to man, but then something happened that caused a change in the world
and in humanity from that which God intended to the present condition that both
are in now in that man was given a choice between eternal life and death in the
form of two trees; the tree of life which would have enabled man to live
forever, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (Gen. 2:9) and it was
the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil that was forbidden to
man having been warned of God that in the day they ate thereof, they would
surely die. (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3) but then a lying spirit, coming in the form of
a serpent led mankind to believe that by disobeying that one command of God,
that they could obtain an even greater liberty than they had and not only that,
that they would be even become like gods. (Gen. 3:4-5) but instead of becoming
like gods and more enlightened as the serpent had promised them, they were
relegated to a status inferior than the one in which they were first created,
and contrary to the serpent’s assurance that they would not die, (Gen. 3:4) the
sentence of death was placed upon them as they were warned (Gen. 3:19) for it
was in that day that when the first man Adam and the first woman, Eve being the
wife of Adam, ate of that forbidden fruit that sin entered into them and from
them, the sin which entered into them and brought about their eventual deaths,
was also passed down to all of mankind for all of us are descendants of that
first man and that first woman and because we are their descendants, we have
also inherited the sin that entered into them (Rom. 5:12) and because of that
sin which we have inherited, we all sin in some form or fashion and as a
consequence we all die for as it is written, the wages of sin is death (Rom.
6:23) but sin is not merely confined to outward behavior or performance or even
the words we speak, but it is rather the inherent inward corruption of our very
nature defiling our thoughts, hardening and darkening our hearts, and
corrupting our very motives which is why it is written that we are not defiled
from that which comes from without, but that which comes from within (Mt.
15:11, 18-20) and which is why it is written that all have sinned and fallen
short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23) which demands of us nothing less than
moral perfection and not just in our outward acts but also in our inward as
well which is why it is impossible by our own efforts and our own goodness to
enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, for sin taints, corrupts, defiles, twists,
and distorts more than we can comprehend and the effects of sin are not merely
confined to mankind, but all of creation is subjected to a curse because of sin
which is why it is written that the entire creation groans and travails in pain
to this day (Rom. 8:19-22) but not only that, that wicked and evil spirit who
deceived man into eating that forbidden fruit by which sin and death entered
into the world, presently claims lordship over all the nations, kingdoms, and
empires of the earth, (Mt. 4:8-9, Lk. 4:6-7) which is why he is called the
prince of this world (Jn. 12:31, 16:11) and worst of all, because we are born
into sin, we are also born estranged from our Creator for that which is in sin
cannot be allowed into His presence or into His Kingdom that which is sinful
lest Heaven itself be defiled just as the earth has been defiled and a day is
coming when sin will reach its full measure and will have to face eventual
judgment and that includes all who remain in their sin and they who remain in
their sins have nothing to look forward to but a terrifying and everlasting
punishment in the never-ending torments and darkness of Hell but there is good
news. And the good news is, is that
though the Lord God Almighty be holy and perfect and though He be a God who
must, in His holiness, goodness, and righteousness, eventually punish all evil
and all wickedness, He is also a God of unmeasurable love and mercy who is not
willing that any should perish in their sins and face eternal damnation, but
that all would come to repentance, and therefore has done for us what we could
never do for ourselves in that He, in His graciousness has purchased redemption
on our behalf in Christ Jesus, His only begotten Son, (Jn. 3:16) who came to us
in the flesh, (Jn. 1:14) and being without any sin (2 Cor. 5:21, Heb. 4:15) was
made that perfect sacrifice (Heb. 7:26-27) that was needed to take away the
sins of the world and because of His perfect goodness, He was able to offer
Himself up on our behalf to satisfy the demanded penalty for all sin and
granting mercy and grace through the shedding of His blood on the cross and
after having died, rose again from the dead three days later that we might be
justified in Him (Rom. 4:25) if we will but call upon His name so that we might
be saved from what would otherwise be a terrifying everlasting punishment if we
will but call upon His name (Rom. 10:9, 13) and believe in our hearts that God
raised Him from the dead (Rom. 10:9) for it is by calling upon His name in
sincere repentance that salvation is granted and our souls made clean from sin
thereby liberating us from the threat of eternal damnation and with that
cleansing comes a new spiritual transformation (2 Cor. 5:17) that causes us to
no longer desire to follow after selfish and worldly pursuits but after those
things that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven,
to no longer take pleasure in those
things that are evil and displeasing in the sight of the Lord, but in that
which is good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to no longer desire to walk in the
lies of this present world, but only in the truth that comes from Christ
Almighty, (Jn. 14:6) no longer placing our hopes in the things of this present
world, but looking forward to that new and better world to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to no longer rely on worldly
resources, men, or even our own power, abilities, skills, and wisdom for our
needs and provision but upon God who is able to meet all of our needs, (Mt.
6:25-33) recognizing that the resources of this world and even the people He
brings into our lives are but instruments and vessels through which God meets
our needs and that the skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which we might
acquire our provision are provided and instilled in us by God,
to no longer fear what men can do to
us, but rather fearing the God before whom we will have to one day give an
account for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to no longer look to corruptible
institutions within our society for direction and order in our lives but to God
who, by His written Word has given us laws and precepts to be applied to our
lives and which serve to produce and maintain an ordered life, and who, by His
Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon repentance, establishes in our
lives a course and direction in our lives to pursue for His glory,
to no longer seek our own glory but
the glory of God,
to no longer rally behind corruptible
men, but instead behind the incorruptible God in Heaven bearing in mind that
those men and women God raises up for our edification are but instruments and
servants of His for that respective purpose to which He has called them,
to no longer seek to align ourselves
with the things of darkness but only with the things of the light,
to no longer trust in the wisdom of
the world but only on the wisdom and knowledge that comes from above, nor
depend on corruptible earthly authorities to swiftly administer justice, but
only in the power of God to deliver us from evil.
And it is this new inward
transformation that reconciles us to our Creator (2 Cor. 5:18) from whom we had
once been estranged and just as our souls are cleansed from sin and our spirits
regenerated in Christ Jesus thereby liberating us from the eternal tormenting
punishment that must come upon all who remain in their sins, so one day we look
forward to the liberation of our bodies from death itself when our mortal and
corruptible forms are transformed into that which is immortal and incorruptible
and from that which is imperfect to that which is perfect (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1
Thess. 4:13-18) and lastly, creation itself will be delivered from the curse
placed upon it because of sin when it is made into a new and better world (Rev.
21-22) and liberated from the hand of our adversary Satan, who presently claims
dominion, when he is given his final sentence and cast into an everlasting
tormenting fire prepared for him and his followers (Mt. 25:41, Rev. 20:10-15)
and in that new world which will be made, there will be no sin, no death, no
decay, nor any curse, nor any evil, or violence, suffering, misery, grief,
sorrow, mourning, pain, or hardship of any sort for all of these will pass away
with this present world. Instead, there
will only be light, life, happiness, joy, contentment, peace, and rest before
the Lord God Almighty which is that perfect liberty to which we must look and
place our hope in because it will be an everlasting liberty never to be stolen
from us again like it had been stolen from us in the garden where that first
act of disobedience took place which had cost man that perfect liberty for by
subtlety and deceit did that spirit and source of tyranny and oppression
beguiled mankind out of his perfect liberty through granting the illusion of a
greater freedom, a counterfeit freedom which only estranged man from God,
subjected him to a corrupted nature, sentenced him to death, placed him under
the threat of eternal damnation, brought the entire creation under a curse, and
empowered the source of all tyranny, darkness, oppression, evil, suffering,
hardship, pain, grief, sorrow, and misery of every sort to claim lordship over
all the nations, kingdoms, and empires, tribes, kindreds, and tongues and there
is not a place in the world this day, that has not been influenced or
infiltrated in some in some way by this evil spirit who is lord over all
tyrannical powers and who has for ages waged war against the Lord God of Heaven
and earth ever since he attempted to claim equality with God and claim a status
not rightfully given to him and for claiming that which was not given him, he
was cast out of the position that he once held before the throne of God in
Heaven (Is. 14:11-21, Ezek. 28:12-19) and ever since he rebelled against God,
he has been claiming that which has never rightfully belonged to him in Christ
Almighty, everything that was stolen from us by that serpent who is that fallen
cherub called Lucifer now known as Satan or the Devil is destined to be
restored to us in Christ Jesus in whom there is restored fellowship with God,
deliverance from eternal damnation, the abolishing of death, the reclaiming of
the earth from which Satan will be cast and receive his final sentence, and the
liberation of all of creation from the curse upon it.
The evil that we face is not merely a
political one. It is a spiritual evil
from which all the manifested evils we see in the world at every level and in
every sector and branch of society and throughout every nation and culture in
the world are produced and though we in our imperfect and flawed state may not
be able to eliminate evil entirely from the earth (only the incorruptible
Christ can do that) there is much that we can still do to at least mitigate and
minimize that if we will but give ourselves over to the Lord, God, Savior, and
King who will one day vanquish all sin and all evil from the earth but when
that day comes, that is going to require the elimination of all who remain in
their sin and take pleasure in the things of evil and in death and destruction
who will have nothing to look forward to in that day but an eternity of
everlasting and unrelenting torment far beyond what anyone in this life can
possibly comprehend which is why I urge anyone who has not done so already to
call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins. It is just a sincere simple faith-filled
prayer of repentance away.
"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. Noah, “GOODBYE: President Trump Says The
MAGA Rallies Will Soon Stop,”
WLT Report,
November 1, 2024
https://wltreport.com/2024/11/01/goodbye-president-trump-says-maga-rallies-will-soon/
2.
Madison Clinton Peters, “Empty Pews & Selections from Other Sermons
on Timely Topics,” pg. 35, Philadelphia A. T. Zeising & Co. , Printers And
Publishers, December, 1886
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Empty_Pews_Selections_from_Other_Sermons/f54PAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
3.
Alexis De Tocqueville, “Democracy In America Volume I,”
Translated by Henry Reeve, Esq.,
Saunders & Oatley, London, 1835
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Democracy_in_America/-b5LAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0
4.
Alexis De Tocqueville, “Democracy In America Volume II,”
Translated by Henry Reeve, Esq.,
Saunders & Oatley, London, 1835
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Democracy_in_America/KNJCAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjd7v-OtsWJAxVV78kDHQoAPAUQiqUDegQIChAG
5.
Trump War Room X Post, 0:17-0:36 1:26pm October 28, 2024
https://x.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1850997540642316574?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1850997540642316574%7Ctwgr%5Ecb28406b20dac3a63a24d1ec61820e33b62df9ce%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Ft%2Fassets%2Fhtml%2Ftweet-4.html1850997540642316574
6.
John Winthrop; A Model of Christian Charity, “A Library Of American
Literature From The Earliest Settlement To The Present Time Vol I,” pg. 307; Compiled
and edited by Edmund Clarence Stedman and Ellen Mackay Hutchinson in eleven
volumes; New-York Charles L. Webster & Company, 1892
https://books.googleusercontent.com/books/content?req=AKW5QacdgamGVRVIrz6VpTNic0oeKlyhct2Ec3XdA7vWHTiUjlZxerMeOPRVF-tJxnj9x7CdmcwSAMLD2OVGtwQX04aQC2j4rqbiWX-0IFrMNrlYt4kDbUnVZOmYsJpsGlsZFMTxn6Aj-dvhLmDXi9A2ELax7ezYGI0vHiu5U1k04udXLFfDnh5UNiuEKiAOor2vADDOO7CWoLs0KKxzdtEugNFGWN7_SPlF_ODuzBlVgDI-nycOI-9C5Aokzg361RMofrmRGOTy9TpEGdpcA7u9iwXI83ZsR65gPO770H-AZVimTExISng
7.
Cited correspondence between John Adams and William Hull contained in
“Revolutionary Services And Civil Life Of General William Hull,” pp. 265-266;
prepared from his manuscripts by his daughter, Mrs. Maria Campbell together
with The History Of The Campaign Of 1812 And Surrender Of The Post Of Detroit
by his grandson, James Freeman Clarke; New York, D. Appleton & Co and Geo
S. Appleton, Philadelphia; Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year
of our Lord 1847 by E. F. Campbell in the Clerk's Office of the District Court
for the Southern District of New York
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=43oEAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Revolutionary+Services+and+Civil+Life+of+General+William+Hull&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiu9Ij3vajiAhUJSN8KHTJiCbAQ6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q=Revolutionary%20Services%20and%20Civil%20Life%20of%20General%20William%20Hull&f=false
8.
Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at an Ecumenical Prayer Breakfast in Dallas,
Texas,”
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
& Museum, August 23, 1984
https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/remarks-ecumenical-prayer-breakfast-dallas-texas
Scripture references:
1.
Psalm 33:12
2. Genesis 2:9
3. Genesis 2:16-17
4. Genesis 3:3
5. Genesis 3:4-5
6. Genesis 3:19
7. Romans 5:12
8. Romans 6:23
9. Matthew 15:11, 18-20
10. Romans 3:23
11. Romans 8:19-22
12. Matthew 4:8-9
13. Luke 4:6-7
14. John 12:31
15. John 16:11
16. 2 Peter 3:9
17. John 3:16
18. John 1:14
19. 2 Corinthians 5:21
20. Hebrews 7:26-27
21. Romans 4:25
22. Romans 10:9, 13
23. 2 Corinthians 5:17
24. John 14:6
25. Revelation 21-22
26. Matthew 6:25-33
27. Matthew 10:28
28. 2 Corinthians 5:18
29. 1 Corinthians 51:51-55
30. 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
31. Matthew 25:41
32. Revelation 20:10-15
33. Isaiah 14:11-21
34. Ezekiel
28:12-19
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