Not only Trump detractors will doubtless find this a bit much. However, God has a habit of choosing very unlikely instruments to work His will: a big fisherman on the Sea of Galilee at the time of Christ, a 17 year old French peasant maiden in late Medieval France, three peasant kids in Portugal in 1917, and the list could go on at some length. Constantine was also a creature of both dark and light, as his execution of his eldest son Crispus and Constantine’s wife Fausta in 326, in murky circumstances, indicates. From a historical standpoint, like Constantine, Trump does represent a break from the past, and let us pray that his light outweighs his dark.
Trump has courage. That’s what I love about him. God Bless him. I hope his Presidency has a ripple effect on the world.
Constantine at a minimum. More like Superman meets Constantine meets Aquinas meets Neo. All of human history was leading to Trump, yet he surpassed it by orders of magnitude.
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Have to add Cyrus of Persia who allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem. Also one of the few Persian nabobs who wasn’t totally bonkers.
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Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, PT Barnum, Cyrus the Great, and Constantine. Maybe so. He is allowing us to be Christians which is from God and enabled in the Constitution.
TDS will kick into high gear. When / if the Democratic Nationalists Socialists take over they will go after Christians again. We know this. So, Trump could very well be our Constantine.
If nothing else, Trump has been the bludgeon that has forced many “sophisticated” people to have to answer some really tough questions about “exactly WHY are we doing this?!”. They have reacted about the way you might expect.