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Last updated on: July 28, 2024 at 1:20 pm by Kermit Zarley

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Trump Exploits Christians 2024-07-28T13:20:01-07:00 Kermit Zarley

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Donald Trump—the former U.S. president and now Republican nominee for the presidential election in November—spoke at a political rally in West Palm Beach, Florida Friday in which he told Christians to vote for him so he could become a lifetime dictator by overthrowing the U.S. Constitution. The rally was conducted by Turning Point Action, a politically, right-wing, conservative group founded by billionaire Charley Kirk that supposedly was attended by many professing Christians.

Trump hammered his constant lie that the 2020 presidential election had been stolen from him due to voter fraud and then said, “Christians, get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore,” insinuating that he will overcome the stipulation in the U.S. Constitution which limits presidents to two terms.

Trump continued saying to the Christians, “Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore my beautiful Christians. I love you, Christians. You gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.”

By “fixed” he meant he will get the Constitutional two-term limit abolished. How? Trump never gives details. He talks to people like he expects them to believe him whatever he says without having to prove it or support it with facts. In my opinion, that Trump habit, which is his strategy, is an insult to human intelligence. Some people are suggesting Trump will get it done by installing more conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court as he did during his first term. And his saying, “you’re not gonna have to vote,” meant there would be no more voting because he will be a lifetime dictator.

Remember Trump’s main shtick when he campaigned for the U.S. presidency in 2016? He said of the immigration problem on our porous southern border, “I’ll build a wall and Mexico will pay for it.” That was his constant refrain. Yet he would never say how he would make Mexico pay for that very expensive, 2,000-mile wall even when the media would ask him about that.

Donald Trump has made much of his philosophy known about how to influence people. He told it to Billy Bush, that guy who was with him on the Access Hollywood tape when he bragged about grabbing women’s genitals without their approval. On another occasion he said about lying, “Billy, look, you just tell them and they believe it. That’s it; you just tell them and they believe. They just do.” I’ve got that quote on p. 14 of my book, Bible Predicts Trump Fall.

People are fools to vote for Donald Trump for president. And Christians doing so makes them even more foolish because they should have access to the wisdom of God, which would steer them away from this lying charlatan. But then, are these people who say they are Christians genuinely so? People show they are true believers in Jesus, not by simply making a profession about it or attending church, but by honoring the teachings of Jesus by trying to follow him.

When it came to lying, Jesus didn’t mince any words about that when he once said to his interlocutors, “You are from your father the devil, and you choose to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according his nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies” (John 8.44).

Donald Trump is biggest liar I have seen in my lifetime. My book critiquing him consists of 200 posts on my Kermit Zarley Blog during his presidential campaign in 2016 and his four-year presidency, thus mid-2015 to January 2021. I did it to warn people of this lying conman because I kept saying he was a threat to our democracy. Every day since then that becomes more and more apparent. I posted on my blog on May 20, 2016, “I think Donald Trump is a big bag of hot air ready to blow up like the Hindenburg blimp if he becomes U.S. president.” On June 1, 2016, I posted, “I think he’ll bring America down, not Make America Great Again.” And on July 21, 2018, posted, “I think Trumpgate will make Watergate look like a Sunday school picnic.”

The man was impeached by the House twice, which had never happened before, and he has been indicted four times, two federal and two state, being charged with almost a 100 crimes. Last year, an elite group of authors who have written biographies of U.S. presidents unanimously declared Donald Trump “the worst president in U.S. history.”

For me, Donald Trump has some characteristics similar to the final antichrist prophesied in the Bible. The two most prominent are his lawlessness and lying. The apostle Paul writes in his second epistle to the Christians at Thessaloniki about these two features of the Antichrist, whom he calls “the lawless one.” (It seems Christians had not created the term “antichrist” until after the time of the apostle Paul’s writings as indicated in the later letters 1 & 2 John, where the term “antichrist(s)” appears 5x and nowhere else in the Bible.)

Paul predicts concerning Jesus’ second coming, “Let no one deceive you in any way; for that day will not come unless the rebellion comes first and the lawless one is revealed, the one destined for destruction” (2 Thessalonians 2.3 NRSV). Paul says people will be deceived by this Antichrist “because they refused to love the truth and so be saved” (v. 10). They will “believe what is false, so that all who have not believed the truth but took pleasure in unrighteousness will be condemned” (vv. 11-12).

For me, Donald Trump has some characteristics that make him a forerunner of the final Antichrist. Perhaps the main one is his power to deceive people to believe lies.

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