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?1540389946Unbeknownst to people with even a tenuous grip on reality, prior to the midterms a thousand theaters showed The Trump Prophecy, a film about a firefighter who, in a blinding orgiastic epiphany, picks up a Bible and turns to Isaiah 45, which describes the anointment of King Cyrus by God. Get it, Isaiah 45 Trump 45? What more proof do you need, right?
Stewart goes on, saying that evangelical author and speaker Lance Wallnau has said:
I believe the 45th president is meant to be an Isaiah 45 Cyrus [who will] restore us from cultural collapse.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/1/1/1822839/-Evangelicals-God-Sent-Trump-to-be-King
underpants
(182,904 posts)MontanaMama
(23,337 posts)Our work here is done.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The insistence on building a wall.
That is an important theme in the post-Babylonian-exile return to Judah.
Upon return to Jerusalem, portrayed in Ezra and Nehemiah, the first order of business is rebuilding the walls of the city and the temple.
They even took pictures:
The "wall building" theme is an important one:
Act_of_Reparation
(9,116 posts)Sounds redundant.
As far as religion is concerned, people have been making this shit up on the fly for the past 10,000 years. That evangelicals can get behind Trump without much cognitive dissonance isn't particularly surprising or unique.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)So I will insist that the verse refers to Truman. Or perhaps it is referring to james polk, who came to power in 1845. See I can play that game too!
Maeve
(42,288 posts)raging moderate
(4,311 posts)Yes, he was a conqueror, but he was much better than the other kings of his day. He was reputed to be intelligent, diligent, honorable, and self-disciplined, tempering justice with mercy. It is said that the poor people of the besieged cities used to open gates to let his army in, because his armies were under orders to be merciful overall and helpful to those in need. That was the secret of King Cyrus's success.