Many Christians and non-Christians around the world, are confused and amazed as to why Extreme Evangelicals have chosen Donald Trumps rhetoric over Jesus’ teachings. What confuses people even more is that Trump, for all intents and purposes, is the total opposite of Jesus in almost every conceivable way. In this frame of thinking, Trump can very easily be seen as their chosen Anti-Christ.
To get a better understanding of how this happened, I’m going to take you back into my past for a moment and we’ll begin unravelling this mystery there.
When I was a teen, and also as a young adult, I was an active member of Faith Assembly of God, a Pentecostal church. At the time, I considered myself to be a very dedicated and active participant of my Pentecostal or Evangelical beliefs. There was a sincere desire within me to connect with God and all that was holy, pure, peaceful and righteous.
I had high points and low points in that journey that was off and on until well into my thirties. Through it all, I believed everything that I was taught. This was true even when I would backslide or fall away from the church from time to time. When I embraced my beliefs, I knew I was going to heaven. When I ignored my beliefs, I knew I was going to hell.
Life got complicated for me and I eventually stepped away from those beliefs in the decades that passed. That distance from the church allowed me to see our creator in a less defined and more forgiving and loving way. It became clear that light and dark are opposites, and love and fear are opposites, and that they cannot exist in the same place at the same time. It became obvious that I had to make a choice to believe that God is either a God of love or a God of fear. I chose to believe he was a God of love.
One of my favorites quotes to share is:
“God is a God of love and he does not teach through fear or use fear in any way“.
– David Nelmes
This undoes many Biblical teachings where fear, judgement, punishment and similar attributes are associated with God, and Jesus.
That injection of fear into Jesus’ personality and teachings is obvious where the Bible has Jesus leaving the world by being so very forgiving to a complete stranger on a cross next to him, but later in the Book of Revelations, he is transformed into a warrior that slays anyone who simply doesn’t know him.
Extreme Evangelicals Embracing Blind Allegiance
So how could people who so embrace the loving aspects of God and Jesus, also embrace them as being vengeful and murderous at the same time?
And how is it that they not only rationalize it, but embrace it and push their perspectives out as their unwavering facts?
This all comes down to a decision they made when they first believed. They were told that the Bible is 100% accurate and true. Anything or anybody, including myself, that says anything contrary to that, is doing Satan’s work to deceive them.
Evangelicals are required to unconditionally accept every word of the Bible and to unconditionally accept every word their pastors and preachers say to them. In essence, they are prevented from thinking for themselves, outside of their belief box, because that would be judged as evil to do so.
So, since an Evangelical Christian is not allowed to see or investigate where contradictions or false information is provided to them, they work hard at rationalizing why it is all true and accurate.
Many extreme Christians are often so preoccupied with tying as many pieces of the unconnectable puzzle together, in my opinion, to keep convincing themselves they have not been deceived the whole time.
The whole thought system in place for most believers, is to blindly accept what their leaders tell them as being totally true. They are then primed through having the same doctrine preached to them over and over again. The result is that they totally embrace what they are told, whether it is a truth or a lie.
The facts never matter because everything and anything that does not actually fit, will be rationalized to where there is the illusion that it does fit. Otherwise, they would have to think outside their box and face the fact that they are being deceived on a level that surpasses any level of evil they could imagine.
Manipulation and Control of Extreme Evangelicals
Is it getting easier to see how Donald Trump spoon fed this group of people and manipulated their thinking processes? He lies incessantly, and anytime anything truthful comes out about him, he lies to them about it and says that those truths are lies. Then, instead of questioning his responses, they believe the lies on top of the lies, because that is what is already normal for them within their beliefs.
Now we can take this another step forward. Having accepted so many lies and twisted facts about the Bible or Donald Trump, they have one of two things they could do.
- Quiet their minds to allow the true spirit of a loving creator to help them see things more clearly
- Busy their mind by putting their energy into loudly and incessantly pushing their twisted beliefs and perspectives onto others.
It is obvious which one many have chosen. To then put a cherry on it, they validate their belief that they are right whenever anyone pushes back at them. They simply view that as being persecuted for their beliefs in God or Trump, and that further emboldens them.
To see how any loving person could see Trump as being part of their Christian answer, let’s take a closer look at how extreme Evangelicals see their God and Trump.
To start, I believe Jesus was rejected by the mainstream religious leaders of his time because he showed them a loving and forgiving God. He made it clear they should let the Old Testament concept of an angry and vengeful god go. This, of course, was a major threat to established beliefs because it was used to control their people. With that being the case, the religious leaders took steps to prevent him from continuing to spread that message.
But in the meantime, Judas was a zealot or extremist, and wanted to fight the government in order to support the Old Testament god. He wanted to be part of creating a kingdom on earth through a messiah. This king would rule that kingdom and enforce the doctrines of their beliefs onto all who are in that kingdom. Sound familiar? (roe v wade, sexual rights, immigration laws to protect the chosen people, etc.)
Jesus made it clear to Judas and his followers that he had no intention to follow that path. He was not here to enforce doctrine and rule by force, but to share and enlighten. At some point, it became clear to Judas that Jesus would not create this earthly kingdom. Then he to took steps to prevent him from spreading his concepts of peace and acceptance of all people.
In the centuries that followed, the teachings of the angry and judgmental god of the old testament got interwoven into the teachings of Jesus. When New Testament editing concluded, it really wasn’t a new testament at all. This new testament was simply an extension of the Old Testament and introduced fear into Jesus’ teaching of love. For more specific details, please see one of my earlier articles, “Contradictions of Spirit“. That articles provides specific biblical examples of where Jesus’ teachings were manipulated or altered.
The Second Coming of Christ
Jesus’ base teachings are those of love, acceptance and forgiveness. However, extreme evangelicals also embrace an angry, judgmental and warrior concept of Jesus. Then, just as Judas had desired, they want Jesus, or somebody, to create a kingdom on Earth for them. Then, within that kingdom, they want their doctrines to be unconditionally enforced onto all within it.
Now, I have been hearing about Jesus returning since I was 12 years old. It is a primary expected event within Christianity in general, but more specifically within Pentecostal and Evangelical beliefs. The Book of Revelations is interpreted to imply that Jesus will return to slay ALL non-believers (billions of people) who don’t or won’t accept his doctrine.
The Book of Revelations states that the blood will run like a river as high as a horses bridle. This is the kind of enforcement extreme Evangelicals accept as necessary. This is the purpose and goal of the Jesus they see and this is the Jesus they hope will create a government on Earth where he rules.
Well, Jesus has not returned to do this because he never intended to create an earthly kingdom in the first place. He is never going to do anything like that in the future either since it is simply not how you change peoples hearts. It’s easy to accept this if you are willing to see what his original message was all about.
Jesus knew the god of the Old Testament was Yahweh, the ancient God of War,. He knew this false god desired to rule through manipulation, lies and threat of punishment. Jesus knew then, and still knows now, that fear and punishment does not create a path to heal your being. See my Video below for more detail.
So with Jesus not returning, and with many Evangelicals wanting to control the government and the lives of everyone in that country, they made the next practical step. They selected a savior to help bring about the same thing, subjecting their doctrines onto the will of all people. They chose Donald Trump as their savior, as their warrior Jesus, as their embodied Christ.
Jesus had already made it clear that he was the opposite of the Old Testament god. Trump behaves and repeatedly lies like Yahweh, the God of War, so he is just like the Old Testament god. This makes Trump a total opposite of Jesus and represents the opposite of the Christ energy that Jesus brought forward. This very clearly defines Donald Trump as behaving as an Anti-Christ.
Extreme Evangelicals Defending Their Trump and god
So then, don’t let it surprise you when many Evangelicals rush to Trumps side to fight for him or defend him, NO MATTER what he does. The god he emulates has so many biblical stories about him where he killed millions of people and destroyed countless cities all throughout the Old Testament.
Most Evangelicals Christians revere and defend that God as well, and provide justification for every life he took and every life he still plans to take. This includes the billions he has yet to slay, and extreme Christians have accepted this and THEY LOOK FORWARD TO THAT DAY. Let that really sink in.
Will this ever end? I am happy to see more and more Evangelicals returning to their base beliefs of love and forgiveness. This could only be done by letting go of the hate and lies being spewed by Donald Trump and other powerful republicans who see this as an opportunity to gain substantial power.
This whole power grab by Republicans works perfectly since Evangelicals want to be ruled by a king. What is a king without lords? Don’t worry, a large selection of republican politicians embraced this power grab and spreading of lies as well. All hail the King and his cohorts!! This whole thing got out of control because many of the pieces fit so well together, like the perfect storm.
This perfect storm against Democracy is seen as a battle for God from an extreme Evangelical perspective. One of the final victories of these believers is that God will remove our free will because they believe it is our free will that makes us sinners.
The story of biting into the apple in the garden of Eden gave us free will, and since Yahweh was a narcissistic, angry and vengeful being, (just like Donald Trump) free will was written in as being the beginning of our downfall. Alternatively, it could be seen as being the beginning of our enlightenment as it truly is.
Since extreme Christians see free will as a threat, they have no issue with choosing to take your free will away by any means. This includes using bullying, attacking and killing you, because that is how their god gets things done. They are the proud children of their god of war.
The world in general has taken on a more enlightened view of people and their rights over the last couple decades. This desperate attempt by dark forces to stop this growth, proves they know this old energy is fading out.
Recent attempts to embrace anger, promote division and create chaos by Donald Trump, extreme republicans (trumplicans), white supremacists, extreme evangelicals, Putin, China and North Korea, are final and desperate attempts to hold onto this darkness because they can see it is slipping away.
We will get through this because of the light that many of us hold. There is nothing you have to do. Whatever you would like to do, focus more on what you are being, while you do whatever it is you do.
You could choose to be more considerate, be more accepting, be more inviting, be more forgiving and be more open to new ways of seeing things. This will make you a part of why those dark forces continue to shrink. You don’t have to say anything to anyone. Just be.
You don’t have to try to convince anyone or demand things be a certain way. You don’t have to say a word. Just be. Be the light you truly are. Speak through your actions of being loving, all-inclusive, forgiving and peaceful in your ways. That is the energy of Christ, and the return of Christ, in you and in what you are being.
Namaste
