Donald Trump’s presidency has excited many, including various ones claiming to be in the Churches of God.
Why God Is Saving America Through Trump
The Golden Age of America begins right now,” Donald Trump declared in his inaugural speech, January 20. “From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world.”
President Trump signed executive orders that will halt illegal immigration, designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, approve oil drilling, and enact tariffs. He said the U.S. government’s official policy is that male and female are the only two genders. He renamed Mount Denali as Mount McKinley and the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. “The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons,” he said.
This is a stunning contrast from the dangerous policies that characterized the administrations of Barack Obama and Joe Biden. How did this dramatic change happen?
Trump answered this question in his inaugural speech. After referencing the attempt on his life last summer, he said, “I felt then, and believe even more so now, that my life was saved for a reason. I was saved by God to make America great again.”
Trumpet readers know this is exactly what the Bible prophesied. God saw the bitter affliction of America and the other end-time nations of Israel (2 Kings 14:26-28) and decided to save us—temporarily—by the hand of a modern King Jeroboam ii: Donald J. Trump. Even through the darkest days of Trump’s political wilderness years, I showed you how God prophesied that He would bring him back to lead a national resurgence. (Read “Why I Still Believe Donald Trump Is Coming Back.”)
Now this is reality. And it truly is a miracle! Many people are thanking God for this stunning turn of events. God has been protecting and empowering this man.
The big question you must ask yourself is why.
We must look beyond the surface, and beware the serious mistake of glorifying Donald Trump rather than God.
Is God blessing America for its righteousness? Or is there another reason? What does God expect from us?
The answers lie in other important prophecies.
Blessings and Curses
What do you think of Bible prophecy? Most people ignore it. Did you know that one third of your Bible is prophecy? God inspired it and preserved it in Scripture for many important reasons.
The most important purpose of Bible prophecy is to reveal God. It reveals God’s mighty hand in world events, it warns us of the consequences of defying Him, it shows His mercy and unveils His plans. When we see God’s prophecies being fulfilled, we need to recognize God’s power, think deeply on that, and grow in awe and respect for Him!
One consistent message of Bible prophecy is that when we obey and serve God, we receive blessings; and when we disobey and reject Him, we receive curses. Read Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28, which specifically list those blessings and curses—and realize that America is chief among the modern descendants of ancient Israel, to whom God gave these promises.
The fact is, America is enjoying fewer and fewer of these blessings and is suffering more and more of these curses: weather disasters, agricultural blights, sickness and disease, promiscuity and family breakdown, skyrocketing debt, porous borders, weak law enforcement, broken national will, defeat in war. The problems facing this country are not merely the result of a handful of wicked leaders. They are signs of national sins that are arousing God’s deep anger!
However, prophecy shows that some of these curses are going to abate under Donald Trump’s leadership. We can expect this to happen. Is this because the nation is becoming more righteous and pleasing to God?
Actually, Scripture is clear that there are times God blesses despite the sins of the people. The reign of Jeroboam ii in ancient Israel was one of those times. The sinful nation was in a time of bitter affliction and about to be destroyed. Yet God stopped the forces seeking to blot out the name of Israel, and He saved the nation by the hand of King Jeroboam. Israel turned back its enemies, the nation’s borders expanded, and its people prospered magnificently (2 Kings 14:25). This turnaround did not follow a national repentance or spiritual revival. It simply demonstrated God’s immense mercy and love in spite of their ongoing sins!
Two of God’s prophets who were active during this period were Amos and Hosea (Amos 1:1; Hosea 1:1). The messages of these two men are especially relevant to America today. Both reveal a painful truth we must understand: Even in a time of growing prosperity, there are grievous national sins that God intends to punish!
From Obama to Trump
A second prophecy I have pointed to for the last four years to show that Donald Trump would return to the presidency is in Amos 7. This chapter describes specific events to occur during the reign of the modern-day Jeroboam.
Verses 1-6 show God’s anger at national Israel and His intention to punish it severely. The context shows that, as I explain in America Under Attack, the reason for His anger is the destruction caused by Barack Obama, abetted by the sins of the American people. America truly has been under attack! Yet verses 3 and 6 show God actually relenting, showing mercy, and refraining from immediate punishment.
Beginning in verse 7, however, there is a shift to the reign of Jeroboam, an indication that God would silence Obama (article, page 35).
Between verses 6 and 7, you can insert the prophecy of 2 Kings 14:26-28. This is a dramatic intervention by God in American politics! God stopped the destructive work of this man who was “fundamentally transforming” the country by destroying its founding principles, and He installed a man who loves America and has shown tremendous courage to fight those ruinous forces.
Look what Mr. Trump has endured for the past nine years! I know of no other man who would be willing to resist such fierce and relentless opposition. And look what he has accomplished. In many ways he has done a great work. God has been able to use his talent, ability and fervent passion to fight America’s enemies, especially those within, to temporarily save this country. That is clear to see and something to behold! I expect this to happen even more dramatically during his second term.
This makes the next verses in Amos’s prophecy, when it shifts to the Jeroboam era, particularly jarring: “[B]ehold, the Lord stood upon a wall made by a plumbline, with a plumbline in his hand. … Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumbline in the midst of my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more” (verses 7-8). In other words, God will give one last warning—and then the time for mercy is over! He is still angry, still planning to punish the nation!
In verse 9 comes this stunning statement: “And the high places of Isaac shall be desolate, and the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste; and I will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.”
Think about this! Here God has just worked marvelous miracles to put this man back in power, to silence his enemies, and to lead an impressive national resurgence. Yet in the same context, God says He is about to bring the sword against Jeroboam’s family!
Why is God so upset? If you are only looking at these events physically, you simply will not understand them. God provides these prophetic warnings to give us His perspective. He has been doing this throughout the Obama years, then the Trump years and Biden years—and He is doing so right now, with this Trump resurgence.
Let’s first study the context provided by Amos and Hosea. Then we will pick up more details specifically about Jeroboam.
America’s Sins
Amos 6 shows people enjoying great luxury in spite of terrible curses on the land: “That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief ointments: but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph” (verse 6). Joseph is the patriarch of Manasseh and Ephraim, the names that Bible prophecy uses for the United States and Britain. There is deep affliction in our nations—family breakdown, drugs, pornography, immorality, indebtedness, unchecked immigration, violence and crime. We should be grieving over this affliction, the moral and spiritual shattering and destruction. President Trump has promised to fix some of these problems. How deeply are people grieving over this affliction? The time ahead will reveal a great deal about America’s character.
Think about the parallels between this period in ancient Israel and America today.
The Anchor Bible Dictionary says Amos’s description of elaborate banquets and “his reference to the rich women of Israel as the ‘cows of Bashan’ (Amos 4:1), fattened on their wealth and security,” suggests a period of “prosperity that enveloped the royal family and prominent members of society but did not trickle down to the poor. It is this uneven distribution of wealth … that set the atmosphere for the social crimes that Amos so violently abhorred.”
THERE ARE SIGNS OF AN EFFORT TO REJECT SOME EVILS THAT HAVE INFECTED AMERICA AND TO STRENGTHEN THE NATION’S MORAL FIBER— A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
“Furthermore, they considered their wealth and security as evidence that [God] was pleased,” this commentary continues. This, I expect to see even more in the time ahead as the nation experiences a recovery during President Trump’s second term. “[T]he people … were reasoning in reverse: Their prosperity proved that they were righteous.” Watch for this attitude in America in the time ahead. God tells us to pursue righteousness, and the material blessings will follow.
Anciently, the people prioritized wealth. This was “wholly abhorrent to [God], according to the prophet,” the Anchor Bible Dictionary says. “‘One’s conduct in the marketplace must always conform to one’s attitude in the holy place ….’ And Israel’s did not. Amos decried the social injustice, the oppression of the poor, and the lack of any moral or ethical values on the part of the rich and powerful. According to Amos, the spokesman of [God], Israel was a violent, oppressive and exploitative society. … The rich falsified weights and measures (8:5) and traded dishonestly (8:6). Even the courts, the last bastion of hope for the poor, were corrupt. Judges were bribed to cheat the poor out of what little they had (2:7; 5:10, 12). In fact, Israel was no longer capable of acting with justice (3:10; cf. 5:7, 24; 6:12). Truth and honesty were now hated (5:10)” (ibid). How much can you recognize these sins in America today? Isaiah 1:5-6 prophesy of moral and spiritual sickness that infects America from the upper echelons of leadership to the lowest common citizen!
Amos 6:8 says, “The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces ….” What our nation esteems highly, God abhors! What Israel exalts, God hates! Do you view things as God does? Do you hate the same things God does? Do you abhor the evils and sins of this society?
Remember, this is an end-time book, specifically for our day! Think seriously about these warnings from Amos as you watch what happens next in America. Prosperity alone does not indicate righteousness.
There are some signs of an effort to reject some of the evils that have infected America and to strengthen the nation’s moral fiber. That is certainly a move in the right direction. Yet America is going to have to take many more such steps to avoid the sins that entrapped Israel under Jeroboam anciently.
The Prophet Hosea paints the same picture. “Hosea began prophesying at the end of a period of material prosperity under King Jeroboam ii of Israel (2 Kings 14:23-27),” the Hebrew-Greek Key Word Study Bible says. “Unfortunately, however, during most of Hosea’s lifetime, the people were spiritually bankrupt. Their leaders permitted them to practice idolatry (2 Kings 15:35; 2 Chronicles 27:2) and commit spiritual ‘harlotry’ against the Lord (Hosea 1:2; 2:8; 4:12-15). They refused to recognize that God had provided them with the wealth that they possessed (2:8). In fact, they attributed their prosperity to the idols (2:5; 10:1). The people had become covetous and greedy, oppressing those who were least able to defend themselves (4:2; 10:13; 12:6-8).” Again—do you recognize the disparity between America’s material wealth and the spiritual bankruptcy?
In that period of Israel’s history, God sent prophets to expose and convict people of their sins and to warn them of the consequences those sins would bring. God is doing the same today. Will you heed God?
King Jeroboam II
Anciently, God used Jeroboam ii to temporarily save Israel (2 Kings 14:26-27). However, this is what that prophetic passage says about the king himself: “… Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria …. And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin” (verses 23-24).
Before you dismiss this, remember that this passage is what God has been emphasizing to show that Donald Trump would return to office. This modern Jeroboam warred his way back—just as God prophesied (verse 28)—and now we need to pay close attention to how God assesses the situation and what He says will happen next.
So many people are investing faith in the new president and are excited about the changes he promises to make. Many of those changes are good and will reverse some of the bitter affliction America has suffered. But none of them is a substitute for the national repentance that must take place to replace the curses and punishments that await us with the lasting blessings of God!
People are looking to Donald Trump to fix America’s problems. No man can accomplish what Mr. Trump thinks he can!
God wants to make America’s temporary resurgence permanent. But that will happen only if we as a people truly, genuinely repent and turn to God—and that includes the president.
Again, in Amos 7:9, God warns that He “will rise against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.” This king has a lot of sins, and if he does not repent, God will send the sword! This is reality!
That verse also says “the sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste.” What does that mean? Sanctuaries are places of worship. This is prophecy about America’s religion. God is so displeased with the state of our religion that He is warning that our sanctuaries are about to be laid waste!
God repeatedly warns in Scripture about the dangers of false religion—even religion that uses the name of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul, for example, forewarned of “false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness …” (2 Corinthians 11:13-15). Christ Himself said, “And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? … For many shall come in my name, saying, I [Christ] am Christ; and shall deceive many” (Luke 6:46; Matthew 24:5). So many people who consider themselves religious know nothing about the Bible. We must be discerning about who we follow!
Here in Amos 7 is a confrontation between one of Jeroboam’s spiritual advisers and the Prophet Amos. This “Amaziah the priest of Bethel” is a trusted religious figure—but he is a false priest and an enemy of God. (I explain specifically about this man in my booklet The Lion Has Roared.)
This prophecy shows a terrible warning sign of something very wrong in the Jeroboam administration! How could you have such a man exerting such influence and still expect to receive God’s backing and support?
This “priest of Bethel” rebukes God’s prophet and tells him, “O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there: But prophesy not again any more at Bethel [a reference to the capital city, which we could liken to Washington, D.C., today]: for it is the king’s chapel, and it is the king’s court” (verses 12-13). The “king’s chapel” is a place of worship that belongs to the king. President Trump has a strong following among evangelicals and Catholics. Many Christians in America today look to this man for leadership. Some people believe America is on the cusp of a religious revival. But you need to know your Bible and beware religion that has only “a form of godliness”; God tells us “from such turn away”! (2 Timothy 3:5).
If you understand this prophecy, you recognize that there is something wrong with this religion. Just think: It describes a confrontation between the king’s religious leader and a true prophet of God! Amos’s message was not popular. That prophet had to boldly stand for God in a time of a strong and popular king, a time of prosperity, a time when religion, of a sort, was ascendant—and give God’s final warning before the nation fell!
Remember, this is prophecy for today!
Will you heed God’s warning?
America’s Last Chance
Sadly, Amos 7 prophesies that most people will not heed God’s warning. Verse 10 shows Amaziah telling King Jeroboam, “Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.”
Anciently, people could not bear Amos’s message. What about today? What about you?
This prophecy warns of Americans being caught up with Jeroboam and not wanting to hear about sin and punishment. There is a real danger when people close their ears to God’s correction! If people fail to learn lessons from the curses we have suffered, if they fail to examine their lives and make changes, there will be grave consequences.
Anyone who believes that, now that Trump is back in power everything will be just fine, needs to pay attention! God prophesies otherwise. He says people must repent. He has warned many times, and He is now giving His last warning! He will not again pass by anymore.
America’s problems are much deeper than Donald Trump can solve. This nation has forsaken God. America is in so much trouble, you would think millions of people would be turning to God! If there isn’t repentance, the Jeroboam resurgence will die out—and the result will be nothing like what people expect!
How angry is God? Amos has some of the most blistering warnings of any prophet in the Bible of the horrific curses that are about to descend on our nation (e.g. Amos 3:11-12; 5:3; 6:9-11). Amos 1 and 2 describe a nuclear “fire” (1:4, 7, 10; 2:2, 5) that is about to envelop America, along with several other nations! The Anchor Bible says these are all referring to “one cosmic holocaust, not just several invasions that would pick off these countries one by one.” Nuclear war is coming—primarily in an attack on America and Britain!
Why is the punishment so extreme? In Amos 4:11, God likens this nuclear conflagration to the fire that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah—“fire from the Lord out of heaven”! (Genesis 19:24). God destroyed those cities for their rank immorality! Shouldn’t His punishment of Sodom cause us to think twice about indulging in the same sins they were guilty of? Unless there is real repentance, God will punish us as He did Sodom!
Many Bible prophecies warn of this nightmare! (e.g. Isaiah 1:9; Jeremiah 50:40; Ezekiel 16:49-50; 2 Peter 2:6; Jude 7). Jesus Christ Himself said of our day, “Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (Luke 17:28-30).
God is temporarily saving America by the hand of Donald Trump. For this we can be very thankful! But why is He doing this? Not because of the nation’s righteousness. Not so we will put our faith in politicians or the political process. God is saving America to give us one last opportunity to repent and turn to Him! He is creating some stability to provide His prophet and His work the means to trumpet one last warning.
Amos’s Fate
God’s prophecies for America, as well as Britain and the Jewish state in the Middle East, truly are horrifying! God forewarns of an economic besiegement, cities being engulfed in burning and violence, and even worse. You can read about these in Herbert W. Armstrong’s book The United States and Britain in Prophecy.
“Shall a trumpet be blown in the city, and the people not be afraid? …” (Amos 3:6). This is a time for blowing the trumpet of warning! People in cities should be afraid, especially if they know what is about to happen to the cities of modern-day Israel!
Verses 7-8 say, “The Sovereign Lord never does anything without revealing his plan to his servants, the prophets. When a lion roars, who can keep from being afraid? When the Sovereign Lord speaks, who can keep from proclaiming his message?” (Good News translation). Why does God roar? To try to get people to change their ways so they can avoid those punishments! People must hear and respond or pay a terrifying price!
How does God roar? He always does so through His loyal people. “[N]o prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation” (2 Peter 1:20). God reveals the meaning of His prophecies to His servants, who then have the responsibility to publicize that understanding to the world. That is what He did anciently through Amos and Hosea. Today, He works through His end-time prophet and the work that supports him.
Resume the story in Amos 7 to see where this strong warning message leads. In a confrontation with God’s servant, Jeroboam’s false priest Amaziah will say, “O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there” (verse 12). Again, this shows something is dreadfully wrong with Jeroboam—having a man like this leading him spiritually. This horrible man will tell God’s people to get out! The indication is, there is such hostility to God’s message that God’s people will be exiled!
Amos 8:11 speaks of “a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord.” People won’t be able to hear God’s message because God’s people are silenced and cast out!
Amos stood up to that false minister and gave him one final prophecy: “Therefore thus saith the Lord; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land” (Amos 7:17). The only thing that will stop this from happening in our day is national repentance!
Your Responsibility
You have just witnessed a spectacular fulfillment of prophecy. God preserved and protected a man who was universally considered a political corpse! Against all odds, God exalted him back into the presidency in breathtaking fashion. Prophecy said it would happen, and it has.
This should increase your faith in Bible prophecy—even the unfavorable prophecies! Just as God’s word about Trump’s return was fulfilled, so too will the prophecies of America’s fall! God says, “So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it” (Isaiah 55:11).
God is warning today—and it is His last warning before the Great Tribulation begins. Jesus Christ said, “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be” (Matthew 24:21).
People really think they can somehow turn everything around, solve all the problems, and create a new golden age in America and the world. Yet the reality is that we are in the final days before the worst suffering ever on Earth!
People are going to come to see that they truly, deeply need God. I hope and pray they will come to recognize this soon—or else sadly, most people will only be reached through indescribable suffering.
This need not be the case for you. Listen to God’s warning as He delivers it through “His servants the prophets.” Use this resurgence—this calm before the storm—to repent and turn to Him.
This is why God is so carefully orchestrating all these events. It is not merely to show His power—though it certainly does do that. It is to draw people to repentance. “… As I live, saith the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? … Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near” (Ezekiel 33:11; Isaiah 55:6).
If you turn from the ways that are bringing God’s judgment and support the modern Amos work that is proclaiming His warning, then you will live! God protected Donald Trump miraculously—and He promises to protect His faithful people too! And He will use them to help Jesus Christ establish a Kingdom that supplants and surpasses all the kingdoms of this world.
The golden age Donald Trump is promising is illusory. But the golden age God Himself promises is sure—and it is almost here!
No, the borders of the US did not expand nor did a religious revival sweep across the USA under Donald Trump’s first term in office.
Gerald Flurry was predicting some type of ‘war’ that would put Donald Trump in office before the 2024 election (I bolded his statement above to make it easier for people to notice that he had been wrong about that). Gerald Flurry has a documented history of error.
It should be pointed out that Gerald Flurry did not teach a “pause” between Donald Trump’s presidential terms before.
Right before the election in 2020, Gerald Flurry was NOT teaching that Donald Trump would one day again be President of the United States–he was teaching that Donald Trump had to remain in office now. Here is direct proof as Gerald Flurry wrote the following:
But Gerald Flurry was wrong as Joe Biden assumed the office on January 20, 2021.
There are also various other religious people who place their hopes in Donald Trump, despite his obvious moral flaws.
Donald Trump is not going to save America.
While it is good that he asserts two genders and took steps to prevent men from competing in women’s sports, God is not using him to save the USA.
Donald Trump has stated that he has never repented, so unless he really does, people need to be more cautious about their over-praise of him (and yes, there are people who over-criticize him unmercifully).
Now since that book came out, world events have aligned with several warning, predictions, and unintended consequences pointed to in it. Below, in italics, are statements from that book, with the page numbers where the prediction can be found in the printed book shown within ():
There will be many unintended consequences of the Trump-Vance Administration. Donald Trump was not sent by God to save America.
Notice the last statement above.
ALL of those things have happened in the last month.
There have been many unintended consequences of the Trump-Vance Administration–and there will be more.
