Michael L. Brown - Donald Trump is Not My Savior: An Evangelical Leader Speaks His Mind About the Man He Supports as President

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DR. MICHAEL L. BROWN holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Literatures from New York University and has served as a visiting or adjunct professor at seven top seminaries. The author of more than thirty books, he hosts the Line of Fire radio program, a syndicated, daily talk show, where he serves as your voice of moral, cultural, and spiritual revolution, and his syndicated columns appear on many Christian and conservative websites He also hosts TV programs airing on NRBTV, GOD TV, and METV, and he has appeared as a guest on secular and Christian media (including Piers Morgan, Tyra Banks, Phil Donahue, 700 Club, and Daystar). He has conducted debates or outreach lectures on major campuses, including Oxford University, the Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Ohio State University, Yale, and USC. Michael and his wife, Nancy, have two children and four grandchildren. They live near Charlotte, NC.

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M ANY of us are now used to the words President Trump. But if you predicted four years ago, Donald Trump will be the next President of the United States, you would have been laughed to scorn. President Donald Trump? Are you kidding me?

This, in fact, happened to conservative pundit Ann Coulter when she appeared on the liberal Bill Maher show on June 19, 2015. When asked who the best candidate would be to win the general election, she said without hesitation, Donald Trump. The audience roared with laughter. Donald Trump?

But what if your prediction went further? What if you said, Actually, Trump will crush a host of Republican candidates, including senators, governors, and former governorscandidates like Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Mike Huckabee, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Scott Walker, Rand Paul, Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson, and others. Then, he will beat Hillary Clinton.

People would have been absolutely incredulous. That could never happen, they would say with conviction. Trump could never beat a pack of candidates like that.

But people would have been sure you had lost your mind if you said, Actually, Donald Trump will be elected with the help of evangelical Christians who will support him in large numbers because of his strong pro-life, pro-Christian stance.

Are you crazy? you would be asked. Hell will freeze over before evangelical Christians will rally around an ungodly, immoral narcissist like Trump. For that matter, hell will freeze over before Trump becomes a pro-life champion and a staunch defender of Christian liberties.

Yet that is exactly what happened. Eighty percent of white evangelical voters reportedly voted for Donald Trump. And they are among his staunchest supporters today. How did this happen?

How is it that the same evangelicals who rejected Bill Clinton in the strongest possible termsin particular because of his sexual immoralitybecame some of the greatest supporters of Donald Trump, a thrice-married, self-confessed adulterer? How is it that the same people who once shouted Character matters now proclaimed, Were voting for a president, not a pastor?

Did these evangelicals (especially the leaders) sell their souls for Donald Trump? Did they compromise their convictions to gain a seat at the table? Did they prove themselves to be shameless hypocrites? Or did these Bible-quoting, church-attending Christians sense that God had a purpose in raising up Trump?

It is one thing to vote for Trump in order to vote against Hillary Clinton. Its another thing to venerate him as a man chosen by God for such a time as this to the point that he can virtually do no wrong. How did so many evangelical Christians, among whom are many fine men and women, end up anywhere near the Trump camp?

Richard Land is the president of Southern Evangelical Seminary and a highly respected Southern Baptist leader with a Ph.D. from Oxford University. On my radio show, he stated that of the seventeen Republican candidates, Trump was his seventeenth choice. Today, Dr. Land serves on the presidents Faith Advisory Council. What changed his mind?

James Robison is a world-renowned evangelist and Christian TV host, the founder of LIFE Outreach International. He has been a friend of past presidents and will tell you with a smile that he gave Mike Huckabee his first job. Although he does not endorse candidates for office, he urged Dr. Ben Carson not to endorse candidate Trump. How can this be?

As you will see in the pages that follow, I spoke out publicly against Donald Trump during the primaries, warning evangelicals not to vote for him. I said he could not be trusted. I questioned whether he would keep his promises. I told fellow evangelicals that we could not look to a man like this to protect our rights.

At the same time, I had read prophetic words from respected colleagues like Jeremiah Johnson and Lance Wallnau, both of whom likened Donald Trump to a Cyrus figure. (Cyrus was a pagan king who was raised up by God to help the Jewish people; see Isaiah 44:24-45:6.) They said that Trump would be like a bull in a china closet, like a divine wrecking ball, and they pointed to him as our next president.