Donald Trump in Bible prophecy?
Many End Times preachers are saying
that the rise of Donald Trump was prophesied in the Bible as a herald that
the last days are upon us. He’s not the anti-christ. We know that because the Bible says of
the anti-Christ:
“Neither shall he regard the God of
his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify
himself above all.” (Dan 11:37)
Trump, with his history of
womanizing, does regard the desire of women, so we can rest easy about that.
Rather, he is a much more positive sign. The Scriptures clearly say
that Christ will come back after the sounding of “the last trump.”
Never mind that the connection only
works in the English language. And that “trump” as short for “trumpet”
only works in the archaic English of the King James Bible. Or that
turning the Bible into a symbolic code, rather than attending to what it
literally says, undermines Biblical authority.
Other objections present themselves:
Isn’t the new president the “first Trump” to be in office? Maybe he
will start a dynasty. Maybe his son Barron, or Barron’s son or grandson,
will be the “last Trump.” Where does “last” enter into the prophecy?
(Can you think of other problems with this interpretation?)
A sample of this End Times
prediction after the jump.
From David Montaigne, Donald Trump in Prophecy? “The Last Trump” | TRANSFORMATIONAL
AWAKENING:
I am not suggesting that Donald
Trump absolutely *IS* the last trump – but since the LAST TRUMP is one of the
most clear and final signs in end times prophecy, can we overlook the
possibility that a presidential candidate named Trump is being used as a sign
by God? I have been explaining that evidence points towards everyone knowing the real identity of the politician who has not yet been revealed
as the Antichrist in 2016. (I suspect one politician in particular,
but then again I thought this would have been much more clear by now already…)
As for biblical clues on an end
times TRUMP:
First, Paul wrote to the Church at Thessalonica, “But I would not
have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye
sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that
Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God
bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we
which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not
prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump
of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are
alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the
Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words” (I Thess. 4:13-18).
Second, Paul wrote to the Church at Corinth, “Behold, I
show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be
changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:
for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this
mortal must put on immortality” (I Cor. 15:51-53).
