{"id":104186,"date":"2018-06-06T00:23:47","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T07:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=104186"},"modified":"2018-06-04T21:13:36","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T04:13:36","slug":"secular-messianism-is-alive-and-well-in-the-age-of-king-donald-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2018\/06\/secular-messianism-is-alive-and-well-in-the-age-of-king-donald-i.html","title":{"rendered":"Secular Messianism is Alive and Well in the Age of King Donald I"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"http:\/\/obamamessiah.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Remember when Christianists were warning that Obama\u2019s base thought he was the Anointed of God<\/a>? What a bunch of maroons them Lefties were! What a bunch of ignoranimouses!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianpost.com\/news\/liberty-university-cinema-dept-producing-feature-film-trump-prophecy-224312\/?utm_source=newsletter\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Fast forward to now<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn6-thechristianpost.netdna-ssl.com\/full\/131086\/590-331\/the-trump-prophecy.jpg\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Liberty University students and faculty are helping produce an 85-minute feature film that will be shown in over 1,000 theatres nationwide highlighting one man\u2019s \u201cTrump prophecy\u201d and a movement of prayer that led up to the election of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The film, titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrumpprophecymovie.com\/about\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Trump Prophecy<\/a>,\u201d will be shown at select cinemas nationwide on Oct. 2 and Oct. 4 and is a production led and funded by producer Rick Eldridge and his Charlotte-based ReelWorks Studios, which also helped produce the 2015 documentary based on the book\u00a0<em>Four Blood Moons<\/em>\u00a0by megachurch Pastor John Hagee.<\/p>\n<p>About 56 Liberty University students and several staff members from the Virginia Christian school\u2019s cinematic arts department will also work on the project as part of the department\u2019s spring semester film project.<\/p>\n<p>The film focuses on the prophecy of a retired Florida firefighter named\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/news\/377097\/the-firefighter-prophet-who-says-he-predicted-trumps-rise\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mark Taylor<\/a>, who claims that God told him in April 2011 that Trump would one day become president. Although Taylor initially thought that meant that Trump would become president in 2012, the prophecy was ultimately fulfilled in November 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor\u2019s prophetic claim was described in his 2017 book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trump-Prophecies-Astonishing-Tomorrow-Coming\/dp\/0998142670\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>The Trump Prophecies: The Astonishing True Story of the Man Who Saw Tomorrow\u2026 and What He Says Is Coming Next<\/em>.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah.\u00a0 But that\u2019s just some nutty Evangelicals.\u00a0 Thank God that Catholics don\u2019t fall for this nonsense!<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.\u00a0 About that, here\u2019s manly priest of manliness, the aptly named Fr. Richard Heilman, pausing briefly from hawking his Roman Catholic Man \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.romancatholicman.com\/special-forces-weapons-spiritual-warfare\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spiritual Ammo Kits<\/a>\u201d to declare to us the revelation that Trump is God\u2019s Anointed and Constantine Redivivus in his prophetic utterance: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/catholicismpure.wordpress.com\/2018\/02\/06\/fr-richard-heilman-yes-i-believe-president-trump-was-an-answer-to-prayers\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Yes, I believe Trump was an Answer to Prayers<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Monica Crowley, at the David Horowitz Freedom Center\u2019s 2017 Restoration Weekend (Nov. 16th-19th), gives a stirring speech that identifies all of the forces President Donald Trump has faced and is facing. It\u2019s mind-boggling when one sees it all laid out like this. As Monica lays out so clearly, the seemingly invincible ruling class has met up with a formidable opponent in Donald Trump, and they are scared to death. Could it be that we may be freed from the stranglehold of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/contributions\/matt-walsh-christians-our-true-battle-is-spiritual-not-political\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Secular Satanism<\/a>\u201d by way of President Donald Trump?<\/p>\n<p>I am not working for the cause for President Trump\u2019s canonization, but I do believe, through the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people of faith, we may have been delivered a Constantine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS776US776&amp;ei=2YYVW_WBG4i7tgXPm4-wAg&amp;q=Trump+%22new+constantine%22&amp;oq=Trump+%22new+constantine%22&amp;gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i22i30k1l2.16845.20877.0.22359.2.2.0.0.0.0.138.248.0j2.2.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.2.248...0i30k1.0.SjhiZeyvhdk\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The theme of Trump as the New Constantine is a common one with Catholic Trump supporters<\/a>.\u00a0 Liesite promoted it.\u00a0 So did Mercatornet.\u00a0 So did Zmirak at The Stream.\u00a0 So has Michael Voris. And the True Believers got the message:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-sea1-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/v\/t1.0-9\/34200326_10216179986641929_7137249744799137792_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&amp;_nc_eui2=AeH72Z47lC5UYBfCBmS26DV3EElb64lkRvRoPkyOENCL6nXRO-Uxkab6e_VT1malP3jtc1OQex25nQis7w5FoJOnR69Uwf5eTEVTMsXqXNhXyA&amp;oh=4aece531ff90170e56311f92e9fa3cfd&amp;oe=5B843B87\" alt=\"Image may contain: 1 person, car and outdoor\"><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a way to say \u201cTrump is our secular messiah\u201d without the messiness of the charge of blasphemy that clumsy Protestants incur when they call him the \u201cfulfilment of prophecy\u201d.\u00a0 But it comes down to the same thing in the end, as the driver of that car understands.\u00a0 Trump is the Suffering Servant, despised and rejected of men.\u00a0 Like sheep before his shearers, he opened not his mouth, and by his stripes, we are healed.\u00a0 He is, we are to believe, God holy anointed king, chosen to, in his own words, see to it that \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/donald-trump-christianity-merry-christmas-2016-1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Christianity will have power again<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 And that\u2019s what these people are all about: power.\u00a0 Not, of course, the power of the Spirit.\u00a0 Just raw, earthly power to punish enemies and enrich themselves and achieve domination.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why they spend their time worrying about a Pope who humbles himself and calls us to do likewise while saying not a word about a King who claims he can kill people in cold-blood and pardon himself for doing so.\u00a0 These people are enemies of the gospel of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 They want tyrannical power, not the humility of Jesus.\u00a0 And as the photo above makes clear, they dress that drive for tyrannical power in biblical jargon and imagery.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s reality:\u00a0 throughout history we are offered a choice: join the antichrists big and small who crucify Jesus in the least of these or join Jesus with the least of these.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><a class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">675<\/a><\/b>\u00a0Before Christ\u2019s second coming the Church must pass through a final trial that will shake the faith of many believers. The persecution that accompanies her pilgrimage on earth\u00a0will unveil the \u201cmystery of iniquity\u201d in the form of a religious deception offering men an apparent solution to their problems at the price of apostasy from the truth. The supreme religious deception is that of the Antichrist, a pseudo-messianism by which man glorifies himself in place of God and of his Messiah come in the flesh.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"676\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><b><a class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">676<\/a><\/b>\u00a0<span class=\"text1\">The Antichrist\u2019s deception already begins to take shape in the world every time the claim is made to realize within history that messianic hope which can only be realized beyond history through the eschatological judgment. The Church has rejected even modified forms of this falsification of the kingdom to come under the name of millenarianism,\u00a0especially the \u201cintrinsically perverse\u201d political form of a secular messianism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"677\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><b><a class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">677<\/a><\/b>\u00a0The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection.\u00a0The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God\u2019s victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven.\u00a0God\u2019s triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgment after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Christianists have made their choice clear: they crave the power of antichrist.\u00a0 What is your choice?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Christianists were warning that Obama\u2019s base thought he was the Anointed of God? 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