November 7, 2024 (One Day After)
The news is only a day old, but its impact is enormous. Former President Donald Trump was elected on November 5, 2024, to be the 47th President of the United States. Praise God!
President Trump’s return to the White House is the greatest comeback in modern political history of the United States. While America’s political history and tradition do not prohibit comebacks, they almost never happen, especially in the federal level.
Donald Trump’s return was thought to be an impossibility. His exit from Washington D.C. in the aftermath of the 2020 election was the most notorious and most embarrassing in American history. While many pundits dogmatically say that Joe Biden won the election, they have a hard time explaining how he won with 80 million votes over President Trump’s 75 million. There was no fair and square, but rather a new level of corruption-all justified in the name of COVID-19. Mail-in ballots, drop boxes, corrupt officials in states like Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Arizona colored the election process.
When the numbers coming out of these states started to change after ballots were being dropped out of bags, things began to seem very suspicious. Michigan election officials started to cover the windows of the polling area as the ballots were being counted in the night. Ballot number counts in Arizona, Georgia, and Pennsylvania started to change rapidly from Trump to Biden as bags of mail-in ballots started to materialize and drop after polls closed, late in the night.
It was a mockery and there was no way President Trump was going to just acquiesce without a fight. And fight he did, through the courts, all the way to January 6, 2021-the day the 2020 election was to be certified in a joint session of Congress, presided over by Vice President Mike Pence.
President Trump wanted Vice President Pence to delay the certification for 10 days so that investigations could be made in the offending states where there was suspicion of corruption. There was nothing in the Constitution to prohibit that, but Pence decided to err on the side of tradition and precedent and denied the delay saying that such a move would give unprecedented power to the Vice President of the United States. Something, according to his opinion, the Framers of the Constitution did not intend. But this debate became an afterthought.
The “Insurrection” happened during that joint session of Congress on January 6. I wrote extensively about that event 4 years ago, which was one of the biggest lies ever invented against the American people. Without going back into the details of that day (please feel free to read my article about this from January 2021 on Pastor’s Desk), President Trump was unceremoniously swept away from Washington D.C.
It became the moment when the Establishment powers unmasked themselves-meaning the people who are sinecure inhabitants of the capital city, no matter which party or person is in power. They, in their own eyes, are the power centers and brokers in Washington DC. Every single one of them bloodied their proverbial daggers in President Trump destruction. People like Mitch McConnell and his wife Elaine Chou (who was part of President Trump’s cabinet as Secretary of Transportation) who never liked President Trump or most of his policies (if any) and on that day pushed for his exit…by any means necessary.
I remember watching those moments. The days prior, members of the Presidential cabinet had called upon Vice President Pence to enact the 25th Amendment and to take power from President Trump. He, to his credit, did not do that. Instead, with a small closing ceremony, Donald Trump exited Washington D.C. with all of them laughing at him.
Donald Trump became the first American president (other than those who died in office) not to be present at his successor’s inauguration-the symbolic peaceful transfer of power-since John Adams skipped Thomas Jefferson’s ceremony. I remember clenching my fist and kneeling down in prayer, asking God to one day bring this man back into office. “Prepare a table for him in the presence of all his enemies!”
Why? In my heart, I believed that everything that happened to this man-not just at that moment-but also during those 4 years of his presidency, was unjust. Concocted investigations, public insults, two impeachment proceedings, the corrupt media-all of it was unjust. “O God, bring him back with great power!” That was my prayer on January 19, 2021.
The four years of the Biden-Harris years could be considered a Comedy of Errors to some, but I choose to call it “Bizzarro World” (those who are familiar with Superman know the reference). President Trump was the proverbial “Bogeyman” and in the first month itself they began to overturn every policy he ever made without any consideration or reflection. They threw open the southern border making a hysterical joke of national security and the dreadful consequences that followed, with violent crime spiraling out of control. The rights of American citizens and legal immigrants was lampooned. The economy was turned on its head. Inflation spiraled out of control. And despite their theatrics, America’s rivals and enemies laughed at America’s weakness in leadership-and took maximum advantage. War exploded between Russia and Ukraine. Israel was invaded by terrorists. The People’s Republic of China not only flexed its muscles, but also began to make new economic in roads into Africa and Central and South America. All the while, the press functioned as a propaganda ministry, attempting to cover up (with increasing futility) the mental decline of President Joe Biden. Worse than anything else the press did, they justified the assaults on the freedoms of Americans- specifically 75 million American who voted MAGA were now marked out as a terror threat.
I hope and pray that fact is not forgotten. Biden’s hate filled rants in front of Independence Hall (September 2, 2022) which WAS a Hitlerian speech against anyone who voted President Trump, is just one example of a consistent stream of the Democrat’s threats against the freedoms guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution for the last 200 years. The Founders of this nation understood that if one person, one group of people, if their freedoms are taken away, then in a short time, everyone’s freedoms will be taken away.
The mainstream press/legacy media celebrated when President Trump’s freedoms were assaulted by the New York State Legislature, the NY state attorney general Lettia James, the Manhattan District Court and civil courts with unfair rulings and prosecution. Similarly in the state of Georgia by the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. All of this was done to destroy Donald Trump, either by jailing him and/or bankrupting him. And it was coordinated by the Biden-Harris regime. But this was not the only attack on freedom that they celebrated.
One cannot forget the hundreds of people jailed because of the sham prosecutions with regards to January 6, and who were jailed in atrocious conditions by vile judges in the DC circuit courts, with very little (if any) judicial rights provided like defense attorney representation or judicial review. Rather they were subjected to threats by dictatorial judges and prosecutors, and then forced into multiyear prison sentences. We must never forget the victims who committed suicide because of the abuse that they took from such a “justice system”. Individuals who were personally (and with their families) and financially destroyed and reduced to utter hopelessness. The press celebrated.
They celebrated when a pro-life advocate’s home was raided by the FBI agents and a swat teach. Not to mention when the Biden Regime ordered the FBI raid on President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in a bogus search for “classified documents”. The agents were given permission to use “deadly force” (not a joke).
The Press celebrated when a 91 year old woman was jailed for praying in front of an abortion clinic. They celebrated the financial ruin of people close to President Trump, like former New York City mayor, Rudy Guliani. To this day, no one knows why Mayor Guliani, or that 91 year old woman merited the sentences that were thrown at that them. Apparently the press believes that prayer in front of an abortion clinic and questioning an election are not covered under the First Amendment, though they cannot explain why it is not covered.
With the exception of Dr. Jonathan Turley, Allen Dershowitz, and Greg Jarret, and maybe a few others, most of the media pundits seemed oblivious to the main idea gleaned from these incursions: from this point onwards American freedoms are endangered.
No one else had the sense to realize that unjust/unfair legislative and judicial maneuvering and rulings can be used against anyone. A precedent has been set and the people of these here United States (especially in the states of New York, Georgia, and Michigan-in fact all the states) must be forever watchful. Furthermore, the people of this nation will not be able to rely on the press or media to be their “watchful guardians”.
President Trump’s reelection to the Presidency of the United States is the righteousness of God, as well as an extension of His mercy to this nation. I do not say that idly. This nation could not afford four more years of a liberal/woke presidential administration that is antichristian in virtually every policy that is peddled in public. An administration which celebrated every vile lifestyle which the Bible calls sin and acted like it was the model of normality and a “defense” of human rights, to the point that even child abuse, mutilation, and possibly torture was cast in the most positive light by this administration and its propaganda ministry. No. We could not take another four years of that.
The 20 million illegals who have crossed into this nation, the hundreds of thousands who have been trafficked into this nation, 300,000 missing children from Department of Homeland Security records…no we cannot take any more of that. Whether anyone in the press will say it or not, there is a bona fide slave trade functioning in the world today, and with the foolishness of the Biden-Harris administration with regards to the Southern Border and illegal immigration, the Federal government as well as the local government in several states and cities were complicit in that slave trade. May God bring all the persons responsible for this atrocity out of the shadows in the light of justice in the coming days and months. And to this end, may the second presidency of Donald J. Trump be proactive to the very end.
One last thing that I will mention which was different in this election period versus 2020-a factor regarding the Church world. It goes without saying that this was a year in which there was a type of civil war within the Body of Christ, and that war went deeper than just political biases. Perhaps the group that was the most lampooned after the 2020 election was the “prophets crowd”. From within the church world, as well from without, the ridicule came after President Trump’s 2020 defeat.
To be honest about it, there were wounds that were self-inflicted among this group. I say self-inflicted because some of the characters who made up the “prophets’ group” were strange (to say the least) with ministry operations that were really no better than divination. Their only focus seemed to be on acquiring notoriety-despite being wrong Biblically as well as in their predictions. They became increasingly fantastic to the point they seemed to create their own madness! The months and years after the 2020 election were a time of deep soul searching and reflection for many in the Church world, especially as the Biden-Harris regime revealed its antichristian/antibiblical true face. And as this phenomenon played out, it was not just the prophets’ group who were in introspection, but rather any denomination or ministry that had any respect for the Bible. And at that moment, the ‘wolves in sheep’s clothing’ began to come into focus. (I’ll write more about this later.)
Thank God this time around, the story is different. Why? What?
There is the fifteenth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah, a prayer from the prophet and an answer from the Lord, which comes to my mind as I think about the ministries of many who are Pentecostal/Charismatic…and people who believe in prophetic ministry. It illustrates well what the better ones in the prophets’ group went through in the last 4 years, and the victory that has restored their value (not everyone-but for the sincere ones).
“You who know, O Lord, remember me, take notice of me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. Do not, in view of Your patience, take me asway; Know that for Your sake I endure reproach. Your words were found, and I ate them, and Your words became for me a joy and the delight of my heart; For I have been called by Your name, O Lord God of hosts. I did not sit in the circle of merrymakers, nor did I exult. Because of Your hand upon me I sat alone, for You filled me with indignation. Wha has my pain been perpetual and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? Will You indeed be to me like a deceptive stream with water that is unreliable? Therefore, thus says the Lord, “if you return, then I will restore you-Before me you will stand; and if you extract the precious from the worthless, you will become my spokesman. They for their part may turn to you, but as for you, you must not turn to them. They I will make you to this people a fortified wall of bronze; and though they fight against you, they will not prevail over you; For I am with you to save you and deliver you”, declares the Lord. (Jeremiah 15:15-20)
That is basically the answer to the “what” and the “why”. I do not speak about everyone, but enough people, not just in the prophets’ group but also in other sections of the Church world, had the opportunity to do soul searching and wait upon the Lord. We went through personal sanctifying moments these last four years. It was difficult to get through those moments. We were crushed. But we were not destroyed. It was difficult to learn to trust in God again. It was difficult to come to that point where we say to God, “Lord, we do not understand but we trust you.” It was difficult, but once again, we came to that point where we could sense the move of the Holy Spirit again. While I may not agree with everything that the prophets’ group say and do, I will not question the sincerity of all of them. Some of them do preach the Gospel in addition of their prophetic ministries, and that must not be discounted by anyone. And I thank God that this time, that this small group as well as the wider Evangelical church is not being laughed to scorn. Thank Your Lord Jesus. Praise God from Whom all blessings flow.
I pray that President Trump’s next administration will be a time of renewal and revival. May God help us.