Is Donald Trump the Bible's "Last Trump"?
Lou Comunale recently asked:
Is the Donald the “Last Trump”?
He began: "I’ve never seen so much speculation about the end times as we’re seeing today. Each year these speculations become more and more preposterous. Did you hear this one? Doomsday prophets suggest that the apostle Paul was referring to Pres Donald Trump as the “last trump” (1 Cor 15:52).
This feeds right into the doomsday scenarios pictured by many internet prognosticators. Yet, meanwhile, what they may be missing out is that God is using President Trump to expose deep corruption which will lay the groundwork for great revival in the land.
Historian David Montaigne, who has written several books on the end times blogged in 2016, “I am not suggesting that Donald Trump absolutely *IS* the last trump – but since the LAST TRUMP is one of the most clear and final signs in end times prophecy, can we overlook the possibility that a presidential candidate named Trump is being used as a sign by God?”
Comunale believes that Trump will be used by God to lead America to a Christian revival. I don't have high hopes for that; time will tell... But he does correctly point out that most American Christians wrongly expect a pre-tribulation rapture, when in reality, we will NOT be whisked away before the horrific suffering of the great tribulation. The disappointment from this will feed the great apostasy. Consider Comunale's book:
“Escape the Coming Antichrist – When the Pre-Tribulation Rapture Fails (and it will!).”
and of course, consider my take - that we should pay great attention to the detailed correlation between the skies described by biblical prophets thousands of years ago and the matching positions of all the major astronomical bodies we can see, like the sun, moon, and planets - which not only match prophecies but move in a manner that astronomically acts out all the major steps of an ancient Jewish wedding ceremony in the sky, during Hanukkah, in December 2019.
If you're less interested in timing (Though you gotta admit, the clock is ticking for the "generation" that witnessed the creation of Israel in 1948 to see all these things wrapped up...) and more interested in understanding the nature of the Antichrist or why America is Mystery Babylon, consider my Antichrist book or an even more scholarly one by Alan Kurschner: Antichrist Before the Day of the Lord