In what would be one of the most ultimate of ironies if it weren’t so tragic, the MAGA movement, the effort to Make America Great Again), is in fact the final stage of God’s plan to reveal the true nature of the USA and to destroy her.. In these last days God is revealing hearts and the heart of the USA and the MAGA movement is revealing  the love of money and self, and an entitlement for themselves  that is regarded as the purpose of the USA.  It reveals a deep racial prejudice that believes at its core that only white people have the intelligence and the values to be trusted with the right to form majorities in governance.  It reveals a ‘Christianity’ that somehow mixes a Bible, a Flag, a gun, and Trump to express its’ values, as if they were Christian.  These in fact are so opposite Jesus. It is shocking to conceive of anyone putting Jesus and MAGA together as if they belong together.  They don’t.

You can study the Bible and its teachings of Last Days hard and long, and you will never find a single verse that describes a desire of God to make a nation great.  God has plans for the salvation of a Jewish people as the nation of Israel, but other than that He has no desire to make the USA or any other nation or leader great.  No nation is destined to bring the rule or glory of God to a world.  The glory of God on earth comes through the Lord Jesus Christ and His church that He is building from every nation, tongue, or tribe,  God’s passion and effort in the last days is to complete the bringing of the Gospel to all nations.  The Bible describes true Christians as ones who are not patriots of any nation, their Fatherland is with Jesus in the New Jerusalem.  Christians are loyal citizens but they are not national patriots. There is no such thing as a Christian Nationalist.   Hebrews 11:13-16 describes them this way, “These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on earth. For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.  If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.  Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared for them a city.”  It is good government to give freedom to the Gospel, to have laws influenced by righteousness, to care for the poor, to treat with compassion those who seek refuge, to have a society that is truly just regardless of a person’s ethnicity, nationality, gender, wealth – these are all values God desires in a nation.  But to make any nation great, including the USA, is not in God’s plans or desires.  God is not a MAGA deity.  To call for a government to have mercy is not the cry of a radical leftist it is the heart of God.

In social media expressions we see Jesus is My Lord and Donald Trump is my President as if those two go together.  There has even been discussions of Trump as “Anointed’ as if he has been anointed as President to lead America to greatness.  A money grifting offer is selling Trump inauguration Bibles for sale.  The fact is Trump lives as opposite the true Christian values as a political figure could.  The truth is the character of Trump is the description of the kind of qualities in a person God hates.  The Bible says in Proverbs 6:16-19, “There are six things that the Lord hates, seven things that are an abomination to him:  haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.”  Each of these, particularly haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and one who sows discord describe Trump.  Trump is ordained by God as all leaders are but not to bring greatness but to reveal the corruptness of our nature, our love of money, our passion for security, all expressions of our queen entitlement mentality.  

Trump has not created the USA’s  love of money and queen mentality he just maximizes it as his appeal and promise.  The truth is the USA is the Great Babylon of Revelation 18.  It is our merchant class(Bible’s description) that realized in the 1950s that with nuclear weapons war was not longer good for business as war could end life on the planet.  They realized that wars were most often caused by nationalism and religion so the need was to develop a citizens of the world mentality and  religions as one.  The song Imagine sung at Jimmy Carter’’s funeral expresses the desired ideology, “Imagine there’s no countries it isn’t hard to do.  Nothing to kill or die for and no religion, too.”  The USA merchants were key in developing a world economy that originally was trilateral, USA, Europe, and Japan.  It was about world peace in that it was good for business and would have no wars that threaten world survival or business.  It was all rooted in the love of money which is the key love of the USA.

The love of self and the love of money are the loves of Donald Trump and his plans for the USA.  HIs America first policy and that every relationship with other nations is to have transactional value in money for the USA are the only true values he pursues.  Listen to how the Bible describes the Great Babylon and see if it doesn’t describe Trump and his appeal to America. Revelation 18:7-8, “As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see,’ For this reason her plagues will come in a single day death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire, for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her.”   Notice it is the queen mentality.  No desire for world domination, just a desire to live in luxury and security.  Trump doesn’t have a conquering king mentality, he has a queen mentality that lives in luxurious privilege as an entitled right.

God has purposed Donald Trump to express the true heart of many in the USA and the one to lead her to her final judgment..  Trump’s key leaders and influencers are male billionaires(Broligarchs) who have sided with Trump because his promised policies only benefit the wealth class and corporations. God has great judgment for those who accumulate wealth with little or no regard for anyone else. Listen to what God says about those who accumulate wealth in the last days in James 5:1-6, “Come now you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.  Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth eaten.  Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire.  You have laid up treasure in the last days.  Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.  You have lived in luxury and in self indulgence.  You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter:  You have condemned and murdered the righteous person.  He does not resist you.”  Does not the statement that you have lived in luxury, pride, and self indulgence describe Trump and the billionaires?  

Trump has realized the dominant motivating issue of conservative evangelical voters has been the right to life and the desire to prohibit abortion.  But notice during the campaign Trump and Vantz said their motive was to make abortion a state’s rights issue. They advocated no right to life only that the issue should be decided by individual states.   Now that the Republicans have the Presidency and the majority in both houses of Congress no mention is being made of a national abortion ban.  It is no longer popular with Trump as it was never his heart passion, just a cynical manipulation of voters. Moral values play no role in the choice of leaders in the Trump Administration. Without judging the person Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Treasury is a man who is an open homosexual and has worked in the past with George Soros.  He is wanted  by Trump because he is a billionaire and is loved by Wall Street, which is Trump’s longing is to be loved and respected by Wall Street.  The new Secretary of Defense has a shocking record of management incompetence, unfaithfulness in marriage, and repeated stories or being drunk.

There is no question the saddest and most guilty in the Maga movement is what is called the evangelical vote, the ‘Christian right’. Some time in the 1970s started the concept of the Moral Majority.  The belief was the majority of Americans upheld conservative values but an elite conspiracy of the left in government, education, and media had stolen America.  In their reasoning the need for America was not the Gospel but political action.  There began the idea of ‘taking back America’ by political power.  The right to life became the single galvanizing issue for political action.  But that value no matter how right was just manipulated by cynical leaders. Christian political leaders were seduced into a pact with those with an extreme social view who said you must embrace our whole conservative agenda.  The Christian political leaders were not about the Kingdom and Glory of God through Jesus Christ, they were only about power.  All of the key Christian leaders are incredibly wealthy and continue to bow to Trump no matter how obviously in contempt of Christian values he is.  It was seemingly no accident he would not even put hid hand on the Bible as he gave his Presidential oath.

What we will soon see is Trump pressuring Israel for a peace plan that will reveal the AntiChrist.  The gulf economic powers of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are pushing for peace with Israel and other nations based on the Abraham Accords, a form of statehood for Palestinians, an international Jerusalem as Israel will be allowed to built a Temple on the Temple Mount beside the Dome of the Rock.  The Abraham Accords say all the religion that came from Abraham lead to the same God so each can pursue their own religion with peace with other religions.  The elite want the Jewish Temple as they envision a new age with access to the powers of heavens.  The Broligarchs all envision a new world order in which they the elite create a new reality, as one says a Metaverse.  They will establish trade on a new digital currency, no longer tied to the US Dollar.  The USA won’t care because it is what the Broligarchs want and Trump will still be the entitled queen.  He is the one who the more he thinks he is winning he is fact losing, and mocked by other world leaders.  HIs first call to a foreign leader was to the leader of Saudi Arabia with discussion of Mideast conflict resolution.  Trump’s first foreign visit is reported to be to Saudi Arabia.  Trump is no more a lover of Israel than he is a lover of unborn children.  HIs only true love and value is money.

This blog started with the irony of the MAGA movement.  Perhaps the ultimate irony of the MAGA movement is that the people God blesses through MAGA are those deported to their native lands as they will be spared the destruction of the USA which Revelation 18 says will happen in one hour.  That would make the true winners those James describes as crying out to God, “Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts..”, James 5:4.

Let us remind ourselves as those who are disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ we have one message to the world.  Our message to the world is not political, it is not cultural, it is not sexual, it is not economical, it is not angry, it fears no conspiracy..  Revelation 22:17 describe the message of the Holy Spirit and the church proclaimed with open compassionate arms is, “The Spirit and the Bride say, “Come”.  And let him who is thirsty come; let the one who is thirsty come; let the one who desires take the water of life without price.”  The desires of the faithful church is to fulfill the mission of taking the Gospel to all nations.  Our simple message and cry to our Lord Jesus Christ is not to make the USA or any nation ‘great’, it is the cry to Jesus “Come Lord Jesus!”, Revelation 22:20.  And if you are reading this it’s not too late to come to Jesus.  Amen.