Last Monday, we watched as Donald Trump again became President of the United States. Optimism abounds; many believe he can change the disastrous, vile, and anti-biblical policies of the previous administration before it’s too late to avert the Lord’s wrath and/or the end of America.
I’m exceedingly thankful that Trump is now our President; I witnessed more reasons for hopefulness while watching Trump’s first day in office than I anticipated. He is far from perfect and I disagree with him on a few key matters. However, if Harris had prevailed last November, we would even now be experiencing an accelerated erosion of our freedoms, Biden’s 1,500 J6 political prisoners would still be languishing in prison with no hope of an end to their torment, those imprisoned for praying outside abortion mills would still be facing lengthy prison sentences, and our tax money would continue to flow to corrupt tyrants such a Zelenskyy and to those who are here illegally and seek to harm us.
Even with the positive and heartwarming scenes that emerged from Inauguration Day 2025, the US faces a future fraught with danger. The following perils facing the newly elected President are not exhaustive, but they are the ones I consider to be the most daunting.
1. The Threat of WWIII
I remain convinced that the Lord is currently restraining the breakout of a deadly nuclear war that will result in far more casualties than what happened during the last century as the result of wars and communism/socialism. During his last months in office, President Biden appeared to do all that he could to provoke Russian President Vladimir Putin into attacking NATO and the US.
The threat to America’s security posed by the Russia/Ukraine war still exists. Some believe that WWIII has already begun via this conflict. Will President Trump be able to calm tensions in a war that has already claimed so many lives? The heavy loss of life seems to have hardened Putin’s heart against accepting any peace agreement that doesn’t give him a decisive victory.
The other key flashpoint is China’s threat to invade Taiwan. I expected this to happen during the final days of the Biden administration. This could easily result in a war with horrific consequences.
The latest news is that experts expect Iran to possess a nuclear bomb within two months. If that happens, its leaders will seek to use it against Israel and US interests in the future. Iran’s recent twenty-year pact with Russian gravely complicates this alarming development.
2. A Deeply Divided Nation
In response to the Pharisee’s accusation that He cast out demons by the power of Satan, Jesus responded, “Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and no city or house divided against itself will stand” (Matthew 12:25). His words apply to what we see happening in the US. We are a deeply divided nation and in many ways, a nation at war with itself.
The policies proposed by President Trump and his cabinet choices will wreak havoc among the deep state and cost them billions of dollars, if not more. His ongoing efforts to expose the hidden wickedness of the elite in Washington, DC, puts him at odds with these home-grown globalists who possess considerable clout in the media and as members of Congress.
Trump’s naiveness regarding the depth of the deep state’s powers hurt him during his first term as President and resulted in betrayals by many of his trusted advisors. As he seeks to delegitimize these globalists who hate America and still seek to destroy him, we can be sure they will put up a fight with no regard for the consequences, even if it means the destruction of the US.
His recent address to the World Economic Forum (WEF) eviscerated their Build Back Better agenda. It was perhaps the most anti-one-world-government speech ever given to that group and no doubt left many at the WEF gathering seething with anger.
The President furthered his anti-globalism campaign by outlawing Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC’s) in the US. The coming beast system of Revelation 13 cannot control all buying and selling without them. In the future, the CBDC’s combined into one will become an integral part of the beast system. Trump’s executive order stopped this dead in its tracks until it’s revived in the future.
By removing the US from the World Health Organization (WHO), the President cutoff its backdoor plans to impose the New World Order (NWO) upon the US. Proposals before the WHO would grant its chairman total control over a nation’s response to what the WHO deemed to be a health emergency. Trump foiled this wicked plot of the globalists to subvert the sovereignty of America an impose the NWO upon it.
During his first day in office, President Trump removed the US from the Paris Climate Accord and stopped all the Green New Deal policies in America. These actions will deprive the globalists of at least one trillion dollars, money they are gathering for the NWO under the ruse of a “climate emergency.”
Make no mistake, President Trump is an enemy of the deep state, or the globalists by any other name, in America. They are exceedingly evil and will use deadly force, if necessary, to maintain their stranglehold on America and sabotage the agenda of our newly elected President.
3. Economic Devastation
I have written often about the dangers of America’s national debt and out of control spending. It now stands at $36.2 and is growing at a rate of one trillion dollars every one hundred days. If not for the Lord’s restraining hand, this surely would’ve long ago plunged the US and the world into an economic depression far worse than what happened in the 1930’s.
A priority of the incoming President is that of bringing the spending under control, but is it too late? Is this a ticking time bomb that’s set to explode in the near future?
The massive debt levels in the US and throughout the world tells us that third rider of the apocalypse is ready to ride (see Revelation 6:5-6). The day is rapidly approaching when Jesus will open the third seal and bring economic woes upon the entire world. Does this not also signify the nearness of the Rapture?
4. Illegal Immigration
Officials from the outgoing Biden administration have admitted that because many enemies of the US have entered our country through Mexico during the past four years, we face the likelihood of a devastating terror attack perhaps worse than 9/11. There are credible reports that hundreds, if not thousands, of Chinese men of military age, who illegally entered American without spouses or children.
President Trump’s deportation program to rid the country of the illegals has already begun and will grow in the weeks and months ahead. Though just and absolutely necessary, this will cause much strife and perhaps spark violence.
5. The Push to Divide Israel
Although President Trump is a friend of Israel, he faces a worldwide mindset that’s determined to divide Israel and thereby bring the Lord’s wrath upon the nations. The prophetic words of Joel 3:1-2 are ever so close to reaching fulfillment:
For behold, in those days and at that time, when I restore the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem, I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land.
Though these verses speak to gathering of the world’s armies at the time of the Second Coming, they accurately depict the current mindset that seeks to divide the Land of Israel and as a result, kindle God’s wrath. The world’s uncanny obsession with Jerusalem has already begun the fulfillment of Zechariah 12:1-3. The world is well on the way to fulfilling the Joel and Zechariah prophecies.
The current obsession of the nations to divide both Israel and Jerusalem was set in motion by Saudi Arabia in 2024. These countries plan to meet again at the UN during the first week of June 2025 with the goal of formulating a seven or ten-year peace covenant with Israel. It’s possible that they will agree to impose upon Israel a seven-year peace treaty with plans to formally ratify in September of 2025. It’s entirely possible that we now witness is the buildup to Daniel’s seventieth week (Daniel 9:27) and with it our imminent departure from planet earth.
What will be President Trump’s role in the scheduled meeting set for June 2025? Any acceptance of the dividing up of the Land or Jerusalem will surely bring God’s wrath upon the US. His support of Israel and its efforts to defeat those who wish to destroy the nation will be his greatest test as President. So far, the book is still open on this test.
I wish President Trump well and pray daily for his safety and wisdom as he deals with these perils. The perils facing our President threaten our wellbeing as well. The globalists who comprise the deep state seeks the destruction of the US, we are all in the line of fire. As Americans, we all have a target on our backs; it makes no difference whether or not you like our President.
That’s why our hope for the future rests one hundred percent with Jesus and His imminent appearing to take us home to Heaven.
At any moment now, the Father will send Him to fetch His bride.
Maranatha!!
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