Mixed feelings about that. It would give Obama time to issues thousands of pardons so the miscreants would never pay.
If it were up to men, it would be a vexing conundrum.
As it is, I have robust confidence now that God knows exactly what He is doing. He can pardon sins from heaven, and if they are pardoned from heaven then men do not sin by pardoning them on earth. The call of Donald Trump, visible to men, is for reconciling even at the cost of some people not meeting “just deserts.” Theologically, this is known as Jesus bearing their sins. If Jesus is about to burst onto the scene big time and own it, perhaps first in the form of a revival, this could make perfect sense. “Look who just saved you sad sacks! Rejoice!”
God can do this, yes, because He can arrange for the elect, even if viewed as a pool of souls waiting in eternity for redemption, to be present on earth anywhere and at any time He desires and chooses. To get the elect cost Calvary. To place the elect after that, is no harder than placing anybody else.
Pool of souls... well, we’ve heard of deadpool. Why not a live pool?
It’s happened before when God has intensively placed them on earth. It happened in John Knox era Scotland — perhaps the Calvinists of that age, believing firmly in the power of God to do it, prayed for the placement of these souls and the prayer was answered.
It also happened at the time of the early church, and perhaps less so but still substantially at the time of other revivals.
This is one of the most intensely fascinating things about the Lord’s plan to me. It would seem to be an obvious thing to pray for the planting of a revival. Also, if the founding of Israel in 1948 lit the fuse for the return of Christ before the lives of the generation then living have not all ended (no one knows the day or hour, but that might not preclude roughly framing it) then God will have had to lay the spiritual explosives down, so to speak, so that there will be faith on the earth.
To me this is just utterly fascinating. But it’s not going to be about us, not about you or me. It’s going to be about the Lord and will catch us up in some manner.