See also: “The Last Reformation — Part 1“

 

This Christian (and probably most) does not idolize Donald Trump.

There is a marked difference between respect and idolatry — and the Word tells us to “honor those to whom honor is due” (Romans 13:7).

Even Daniel wouldn’t curse the King — “May the king live forever” (Daniel 6:21 )…. and David didn’t curse or kill Saul (he could have, at the cave of En Gedi), though Saul tried to take out David. (1 Samuel 24)

Yet, when I see my Nation entering into communistic controls and tyrannical laws, based on history; when I see pedophilia, gender mutilation, infanticide, terrorism tolerated and even aided and promoted; when scripture tells us to pray for good and righteous to govern — while we are here on earth — and someone stands up ready to battle hell itself to do it — how is that idolatry?

Let me explain.

We live in a world that calls a lie — the truth — and the truth, a lie. We know it!

Saying men can have babies and cows should wear masks — global narratives. [If it wasn’t so sad — it would be funny].

Some things we know cause it’s “common sense”.

I may want to fly like an eagle, but if I lurch off The Empire State Building — I’m gonna go splat. It’s crazy to think otherwise.

There’s the same naiveté to oppose God’s instruments whom He uses, because it doesn’t fit our understanding.

The tree is known by its fruit (Matthew15-20), and wisdom is vindicated by all her children, (Luke 7:35).

As there are pros and cons, for and against President Trump all over prophetic sites and podcasts. This post is about “The Reformer” whom I believe God wants to use in this Reformation of America.

Who God uses, is the perspective here.

It’s your prerogative to agree or disagree, but please read this Word in its entirety.

Perspective counts. [The 2nd Amendment and Freedom of Speech have not yet been canceled in America. Well, at least on paper]. So we are “free”!

Strife and dissension is a no-win verbal tug-of-war which I wont engage in. It’s not from God’s toolbox.

That being said, allow me to provide a factual world history lesson, Bible fact, based on actual experience of the person who was there. The eye-witnesses of history were there. Let their wisdom speak.

As The Word says in Luke 1:2, and as Apostle Peter said later “we were eyewitnesses to the Resurrection of Jesus.”

No fake news! No spin! No dis-information media bots back then — they were there!

Allow me to share a perspective that may make all the difference here, in that light:

In the early 1930s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Protestant minister, could no longer stay silent during the government overreach (when Hitler’s, Germany’s Chancellor National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi party) took control of the airwaves, radio, all print and the media of the day.

Bibles, history books, art, literature, it was all destroyed. Books about faith, destroyed.

Anything that did not promote the Aayran agenda was verboten (forbidden). It became a lock-down against all true liberty, freedom and practice of faith (unless that was the state-allowed churches that would speak political points).

Many thousands of German pastors, priests, all denominations chose to play it’s safe rather than risk going against state tyranny — and this is not a statement to judge them.

None of us know what we would do if the gun was pointed at our head, until that moment of decision comes for any one of us. But just a very few thousand chose to speak in love and boldness to say “No“.

Anarchy is not The Gospel. It is not Christ. Taking small children from homes to work camps, death camps, indoctrination classrooms — is not Christian.

Bonhoeffer knew the role of The Church — the clergy — is to “rescue those who are perishing” (Proverbs 24:11-12)

Bonhoeffer and others were rounded up by the corrupt regime in power and killed. Heaven’s heroes.

Sadly, those ministers, Christian businesses, that capitulated and signed onto the control in power, they forfeited many rewards that could have been theirs in the next life.

As an earlier post said — my late parents in-laws lived in Europe, during the indoctrination rhetoric years —1930s. Lived through the holocaust — some family didn’t.

I’ve got friends who were little when Hitler was in power. They saw and heard the ‘playbook’ firsthand.

These older saints are not easily deceived. Their wisdom was borne from experience. So, when they see patterns, political, societal, even in The Church — an alarm goes off. They know!

Once you’ve killed a rattlesnake, you know the difference between a rattler, a cobra and a garden snake. You know the difference between an annoyance and a deadly vipers bite. Pay attention!

“The words of the godly encourage many, but fools are destroyed by their lack of common sense.” Proverbs 10:21

“O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.” Proverbs 8:5 (NIV)

“Remove falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches — feed me with the food allotted to me,” Proverbs 30:8

Proverbs 30:8 show insight we all would benefit by: in essence — neither riches nor poverty make one any more or less virtuous, or wise.

I’ve known greedy poor people, and I’ve known rich friends.

It’s not what you have — but what you do with it.

It’s the parable of The Talents! (Matthew 25:14-30) God blessed Job, Abraham, David, Kings etc.

It’s what they did with the treasures that counted! Stewardship! Obedience! Generosity!

On the world scene — yes — the former billionaire Trump, is a thorn in the side to the establishment.

He couldn’t be bought by lobbyists or political interest groups. He used his own money to run. He is still using his own money to defend against baseless lawsuits every day.

I grew up two hours distance from New York City (NYC), and in the 80s, you’d see articles in papers often about the real-estate tycoon who paid off mortgages of employees, paid hospital bills, many things you won’t hear today.

Articles not by him — but editorials readers sent in. He wasn’t a choir boy, but a good man who loved his family, Nation. A worker. A fighter. Man, I’d love to see half of his courage in Congress!

Listen — for all those who are now posting he may be the Antichrist — as I said before — just remember: thousands believed in the 80s it was Gorbachev, because of the birthmark on his forehead!

The internet wasn’t around then — Christians thought the birthmark on the forehead made Gorbachev a dead ringer for the end-time ruler. They were wrong!

Okay, no one is disagreeing that Trump did not live 60 years as a monk in a monastery — but let’s not load the end-time gun and label him the end-time ruler because of that. Use perspective.

People forget that God matches the person to the calling.

A soft-spoken missionary could never had slain the Nephillim Goliath, Gath, Amalekites, Hittities, all the ‘ites! Those evil spirits are in the earth today — and God needed them out! If not — we wouldn’t be here today.

Same with Ninevah. If strong leaders had not taken hold on the Rhineland, pierced the dikes, been at Arnheim, the beaches of Normandy, the sands of Iwo-Jima, you and I would be speaking only Japanese, German, Russian. We would be like the millions of imprisoned, tortured — even martyred for their faith.

The Bible was banned under Nazi ideology, communism fascism, Hinduism, Islam… So you might not have been born — or ever heard The Gospel.

Eyewitnesses — listen to them. Just like Peter and the disciples said, “We were there! We saw! We heard Jesus!”

It was the secret-believer, Joseph of Arimathea, a Sanhedrin member, who went privately to ‘pay for Jesus’ funeral stone, which was his (Mark 15:43, Luke 23:50-52, and John 19:38).

As it was written, Jesus was laid in a rich man’s tomb. Matthew 27:57-61. This tells me money and riches are neither evil or good, just or unjust. It is the heart and motive behind the use of it.

1 Kings 9:11 shows that Solomon, King David’s son, whom The LORD said would “build The Temple,” had been given great wealth by the pagan King Hiram (1 Kings 7:13-26) to build the most ornate temple. (Some scholars say the amount of gold, silver, marble and every precious stone, the gardens, would be in the multiple billions today).

Not only did God allow it — He financed it through a pagan King! (Yes, we all know Solomon had a thing for the ladies and false gods, like 1000s of them. That’s another story).

Suffice it to say — using the wealth of the wicked for His Purposes — was not a problem for God. So why should it be to us”

Most believers I know can quote by heart, “The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just…’ (Proverbs 13:22).

None of us believers have a problem with that — being on the receiving end.

God doesn’t work to confirm our ways of seeing things done. God is utilitarian. He’s purposeful. He’s highly strategic.

He knows how to get the goods to those who need them — even if he has to get His sinner — or former sinner — to do it!

In the 1770, John Newton, (the former slave trader), was so changed by God’s grace, he would become a soul-winner and rescuer of many.

We all know the words to that famous hymn he penned, “Amazing Grace”.

I don’t stop buying groceries because the store manager might be an atheist. I still cashed my work checks, even if the employer contributed to pro-abortion causes, because I worked for that income, and that wage was the medium of currency needed to live in this world.

God isn’t calling His Church to abandon common sense or reason — or to resort to panic-induced fear — even if the world unravels before us.

What He is saying, I sense, is don’t curse the one I sent — the one I want to use.

To her own peril — history shows — The Church has done that too often!

We live in a world full of darkness — yet, we are called to be light in that dark world.

The Apostle Paul had revelation and common sense.

Paul was never a freeloader, as he still supported himself making tents. That was the 1^st Century equivalent of being a builder.

He taught in his letters and epistles that we still have to work and function in this world and we would not escape having to live among sinners — until we were in heaven one day.

I’m sure if you’re reading this, the electric bill is paid, the lights are on. You’re online. You may be a little hungry — you go to the refrigerator for a snack. Life is good.

Those blessings weren’t provided from the hands of darkness or tyranny or the corrupt.

We’ve all enjoyed America’s bounty as The Gospel seeded this land for 400 years. That could all change overnight.

I’m recalling the quip about the Christian who was fishing in his rowboat at sea, a storm came, washed the boat away, and he was flailing for hours in ocean water.

You see — we too can be like that drowning man in the water! We want to decide how we’re going to be rescued!

Scripture is subject to The Author Who wrote it. God will decide how. God will rescue America as He sees fit. Let’s not refuse the vessels whom He chooses!

To America, To The Church, To the Towns:

The next Mayor or leader God sends you in answer to your cries and petitions, may not speak in tongues or quote scripture.

Don’t limit God — or put Him in your box.

God will reveal who really cares about the people.

Do they have a moral fiber, know how to get things done, and genuinely love the area (even If they’ve got a cigar stogie in their mouths and enjoy beer and clams at the Moose Club).

Don’t bite the hands God sends to care for you.

Your boat — your rescue — is God’s choice!

Don’t spurn the vessel, because they don’t look, act, sing like you. LOOK AT THE FRUIT.

I end with the story of a hunter who asked God to meet up with a ‘Christian bear’, when he went out in the woods, hunting one day.

He said his prayers, headed out to the woods. About 500 yards away was a big, black grizzly — the largest Bear he ever saw.

They locked eyes for a moment. The Christian hunter thought to himself, “I wonder if this Bear has been touched by God — if he can sense I’m a Christian?”

After a few seconds, the Grizzly charged him. As the hunter lay bleeding and writhing in agony — before he took his last breaths — he saw the Bear make the sign of The Cross- and say, “Thank you Father for this meal you’ve provided that I’m about to consume”!

The hunter got his prayer answered — just not the way he thought.

Common sense. It’s just not that common anymore.

 

~ Elizabeth Cassutto

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Rev. Elizabeth Cassutto
Lightbeacon Ministries, Millsboro, Delaware.

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