We keep the same small thought in the back of our mind. I never say it out loud, but sometimes I think..."Who is like him? and who is able to fight against him?"
I don't think so, but sometimes I have to wonder.
It is a dangerous thing to make a man your "functional" Messiah. So I try to keep it all in perspective.
My pastor and I had a great conversation recently, centering around Galations 4.
In that time, the system of education was such that the student never surpassed the teacher (Socratic system). The teacher knew it all and had it all. The teacher guided the student to knowledge...his knowledge. When the teacher passed, the student would only carry on the teacher’s knowledge...nothing higher was attained.
Apostle Paul comes along and undermines that system among the Galatians by telling them they, as students, can become greater than the teacher. They can be hired into the university and teach others! The socratic method is disassembled as Christ - THE teacher- subsides and the students become the master. They “red-pill” the people aropund them.
That’s how I delineate the current situation when I struggle with making parallels to Biblical accounts, persons and timelines.
Q is still a socratic teacher and we are the students that will never surpass him. This is unlike the accounts of spreading the Gospel “unto all the earth”.
Correspondingly, we do know that we have heavenly salvation. Q is just helping us in our earthly travails.
It is a dangerous thing to make a man your “functional” Messiah.
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Very true.
My belief:
He is our leader operating under the guidance of God as long as he puts his faith in God and tries to follow His path. And it is important for us to continue to pray for Trump’s safety and his faithfulness.
I see Trump as a flawed man who tries to be better and who God allows to lead as a political leader. I have never viewed him as messiah or any form of religious leader. Sad that some would try to view him as the antichrist.
Obama prancing about the world touting himself as world leader came much closer.