"David Barton (born January 28, 1954 in Aledo, Texas) is an evangelical Christian political activist and author. He is the founder of WallBuilders, LLC, a Texas-based organization that promotes unorthodox views about the religious basis of the United States. He has been described as a Christian nationalist and "one of the foremost Christian revisionist historians"; much of his work is devoted to advancing the idea, based upon research that many historians and journalists describe as flawed,[1] that the United States was founded as an explicitly Christian nation[2] and that the assertion that the United States Constitution calls for separation of church and state is a "myth."I, for one, do not welcome any new overlords that smell like this.
All of this raises important questions.
First of them, Trump’s coalition of support appears to include many evangelicals. Do they therefore believe that God can work through Donald Trump, and more specifically, does it signal that they believe the end times are not imminent since presumably Donald Trump would not be the most logical choice for somebody who did hold that belief.
Second question, is this new development a sign that the widely held view of “either/or” evangelical Christian or Mormon beliefs about the end times is about to be replaced by a mutually agreeable version with the common theme being a belief that the second coming of Christ will take place soon and will directly involve America (in the sense that America would be the chosen land)?
A third question would then be, supposing this became a strong dynamic of the nomination process and either man then goes on to win, how does that leave things with regard to the general election? One can imagine that Hillary Clinton would be inclined to campaign against any sort of hints that the Republican nominee viewed his candidacy as a necessary condition of the end time prophecy. Many Democrats are liberal Catholics or other non-evangelical Christians and so a Mormon-Evangelical coalition of end time believers would be a strong rallying point.
And the most fascinating thing is that none of this in any way seems incompatible with Biblical prophecy or even with more specific Mormon beliefs.
We must recall what was said quite often in 2008 about the present incumbent who has now served seven years. That too is interesting in this context.
As someone who has long believed that the end times are quite likely to occur soon, I would still say that prayer for discernment is the only valid course of action here, and I don’t strongly favor one candidate over the other one even in view of this question. To the extent that God’s will comes into play in a presidential election, one would suppose that God wants a strong and prosperous United States and also one that is receptive to His word. Looking at the two candidates, it is by no means obvious which of the two is better qualified on those two points.
We may be seeing astonishing things and I think these issues should be openly discussed and given prayerful consideration.