I preface this with the assurance that I believe President-elect Donald J. Trump is God’s man for this late prophetic hour. Despite his sometime audacious demeanor, I have no doubt he is precisely the person God has brought to the forefront of what I believe to be the final moments of this Age of Grace for Heaven’s great purposes. And, I’m convinced he truly is a friend of Israel–one who intends to again bring America to genuinely embrace that nation in a manner like before the Obama and Biden administrations that, in my view, acted treacherously against the Jewish state.
At the same time, I’m convinced Mr. Trump might likely be instrumental in bringing about the conditions that will ultimately cause God to gather all nations to the killing field of Armageddon.
I’m aware that this seems incongruent, but such has been the case throughout the biblical history of God dealing with men in leadership positions. The Lord uses men–sometimes terribly flawed ones—to accomplish His holy will and to bring about prophetic fulfillment.
Hopefully I can make clear how it seems that “your favorite president”—as Trump, tongue-in-cheek, calls himself—will both be God’s man for this prophetic hour and at the same time instrumental in bringing about humanity’s most destructive war.
It is just like Lucifer the fallen one to use a word–a concept—that is soothing, pleasant, thus desirable, to obfuscate or camouflage something devastatingly evil. This was Satan’s ploy in seducing the mother of us all in the Garden. He promised Eve that if she ate of the fruit of the tree of good and evil, she would not surely die, as God had said. He said she would gain knowledge—God-like knowledge.
We know the result of that deception from the father of lies. Other than the peace offered by the Lord Jesus Christ, the world hasn’t experienced a moment of true world peace since that seduction and disobedience.
We are told, “and through peace he shall destroy many” (Daniel 8:25). Peace is the operative term being offered to the world’s diplomats by the father of lies today to seduce them into bringing about humankind’s final war. And the peace proposition with which Satan lures rebellious, anti-God forces is front and center as Donald J. Trump prepares to take office on January 20, 2025.
To my way of viewing developments at this early stage of putting his administration together, a trap is being set for Mr. Trump—a kind of trap he doesn’t seem to be aware of. It’s the one Daniel the prophet foretold as given above: “and through peace he shall destroy many” (Daniel 8:25).
It is a matter of discussion that many prophecy watchers from the pre-Trib view have pondered ever since Trump’s major foreign policy achievement in his first term as the nation’s forty-fifth president. The Abraham Accords, the 2020 normalization agreements between Israel and four Arab countries that were Trump’s signature foreign policy effort, will be among the top priorities of his administration. Achieving permanent peace in the Middle East has been the burning desire of every president of the modern era, with the exception, in my opinion, of Barack Hussein Obama.
The prophecy watchers of our ilk believe the nucleus of any agreement that will bring about Daniel’s prophesied destructive peace will have to include Israel’s land being divided. The Arab-Muslim world will accept nothing less than a state that divides Israel’s land and Jerusalem. And the people within those forces so hate Israel that they will not be satisfied even with a divided Israel. They want Israel erased from the land from the river to the sea.
This dividing is also prophesied to come to fulfillment, which we have covered many times in these articles.
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land. (Joel 3: 2)
While there will yet be a future dividing of God’s Israel, the world has long since divided and partitioned God’s land. The world of rebels will pay the price for that treachery at the time of Armageddon.
The trap being set is at this point only a hint of what is to come as the administration comes together and begins to move into the process of peace-making. Most among the Trump brain trust for the new administration hold to the position declared by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He has declared that Israel and Jerusalem will never be divided.
This begs the question: Will Mr. Netanyahu continue to be prime minister, if, as is thought probable by those of us who think the new effort at establishing the Abraham Accords will eventuate in offering the Palestinians some of God’s/Israel’s land in order to agree to permanent peace? –A “peace that will destroy many” eventually, according to the great prophet Daniel?
The following touches on the trap I propose might be in the process of being set to turn the new US presidential administration from no two-state solutions to an offering of land for peace, opposed by Mr. Netanyahu, most of the Israeli people, and, currently, most of Trump’s people.
WASHINGTON — Massad Boulos, President-elect Donald Trump’s advisor on Middle Eastern and Arab affairs, said that the United States would have to discuss laying out a “roadmap” to Palestinian statehood if it hopes to establish relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Saudi officials have long made it known that they would not establish ties with Israel absent progress toward a Palestinian state. But for Boulos — a Lebanese-American billionaire and the father-in-law of Trump’s daughter Tiffany — to emphasize the point is significant because other Trump appointees, in addition to Trump himself, are seen as close to the Israeli right, which rejects Palestinian statehood.
“I think the issue of a roadmap that would lead to a Palestinian state is an important part of the discussions between the United States and Saudi Arabia,” Boulos said in a wide-ranging interview last week with Le Point, a French magazine. “It is certainly a very important point.”
Boulos, 53, framed the focus on Palestinian statehood in terms of expanding the Abraham Accords, the 2020 normalization agreements between Israel and four Arab countries that were Trump’s signature foreign policy achievement in his first term.
Trump has spoken repeatedly about expanding the Abraham Accords. In the interview, Boulos said that many additional countries would initiate ties with Israel if Saudi Arabia did so.
“It is important to remember that Saudi Arabia is not demanding the creation of a Palestinian state today, but it is asking for a vision and a road map for it, that’s all,” he said. “Today, the president’s priority is to resume discussions on the Abraham Accords, with, of course, Saudi Arabia first. Because we know very well, and the president has said it, that once we agree with Saudi Arabia on Israel, there will be at least 12 Arab countries that will be immediately ready to follow suit.” (Massad Boulos, Trump’s new Middle East adviser, touts roadmap to Palestinian state, By Ron Kampeas/JTADECEMBER, Jerusalem Post)
We can all be thankful for the new direction America is apparently pointing with the election of Mr. Trump, who promises a change from the moral and governance madness experienced over the past number of years. But we can also watch and pray while we work toward pointing out that the satanic trap we might be witnessing being set will be recognized by the new president. I hope some of the Bible prophecy-astute pastors who have Mr. Trump’s ear—the bullet damage of which God used, I believe, in shaping his reelection—will as strongly as possible warn him of the dangers involved in dividing God’s land.
Terry James Prophecy Line 
One of the things about the Bible that supports its credibility is its open portrayal of the faults of even the most prominent leaders of the faith across the ages. Abraham twice told his wife to tell foreign leaders she was only his sister to protect himself, Moses’ faith sometimes wavered, Jacob went along with his mother’s trickery to get Isaac’s blessing . . . .
Then we have the unwitting helpers of Israel like Nebuchadnezzar and Cyrus, though I think both men finally saw the light and are in heaven today.
Could be Donald Trump is a modern-day Cyrus on whom the light is beginning to dawn. I think he is a true friend of Israel, but, I do agree with Terry that the good he intends will be corrupted down the line by Satan. It’s the same tactics he used to trick Eve and Adam out of Eden. Make it sound good when it is really bad.
I expect 2025 to be a very pivotal year for the world.
The “upward call” may come before it concludes.
Next year in New Jerusalem!
Merry Christmas to everyone.
George Bush, the last Bush President, tried separating Israel into 2 states, it did not go well at all. Netanyahu was Prime Minister then, Israel had suicide bomber galore, the United States had weather problems for i.e., Hurricane Sandy which almost destroyed the East Coast states of New Jersey, damaged NYC. Trying to divide Israel, not a very good thing to imagine let alone try. GOD does not like it when people mess with his land and people.
You are right.
Look at what happened here in the U.S. for the four years Biden & company have been stiffing Israel, each year progressively worse.
Of course, most people wouldn’t believe there is a connection, but then most people don’t really believe in the Bible anyway and that sadly includes those sitting in the pews of apostate churches each Sunday.
Hi Samuel,
I wonder if you’ve heard of the book, “Eye to Eye: Facing the Consequences of Dividing Israel,” by William Koenig. It recaps all the times in recent history that our politicians tried to divide Israel by trading land for peace—and the judgments that quickly followed.
Convincing, informative, and well-written.
Good article, Terry. However, I believe neither Trump nor Netanyahu are fundamentally opposed to dividing the land of Israel in order to create a Palestinian state. That’s just a bargaining position.
Netanyahu has previously said he is opposed to a Palestinian state ONLY so long as terrorist groups continue to use the land that would comprise their state (i.e., Gaza) as a base of operations. And Trump—despite expressing opposition in public to a two-state solution—will go along with whatever Netanyahu thinks is necessary, just as always.
Therefore, regardless of their current posturing, what both men actually seek is a genuine Middle East peace. A peace which is defined by the neutralization of terrorism, the establishment of free-flowing commerce, and the start of cordial relations between the Arabs and Israelis.
In fact, Netanyahu has already explained how he intends to achieve that state of affairs: it will be by establishing a special protocol with the Palestinians, whereby the longer they prove themselves worthy of trust, the more independence and freedom Netanyahu will grant them.
Eventually, in Netanyahu’s fanciful imagination, the Palestinians will be granted full sovereignty and they live in peace and harmony alongside the very people they once swore to eliminate.
Consequently, once the current generation of terrorists has been rendered incapable of further attacks by the IDF—thereby enabling Netanyahu to bargain from a position of strength at the negotiating table—the Israeli prime minister will give the Arabs exactly what they want (a Palestinian homeland carved out of Israel), the Arabs will give Netanyahu exactly what he wants (so-called “peace and prosperity”), and Trump will go along with the whole thing just to make everyone happy.
Both men will fall into the same trap.
All God’s Best and a Merry Christmas!
Charles
PS – Ed, I’m with you. “I expect 2025 to be a very pivotal year for the world. The “upward call” may come before it concludes.”
Even if both men don’t want a Two-State Solution, it may be forced upon them by circumstances. As we look at the events of the past year in the Middle East, I don’t think anything would surprise me.
We may indeed be out of here before long and when that happens, it’ll be a whole new playbook for the human race – one it will lead them to welcome the worst dictator in history with open arms with the apostate church leading the way.
Next year in New Jerusalem!
I believe it is much more advanced on the prophetic timeline than most realize. President elect Donald Trump if inaugurated on January 20th will definitely play a pivotal role. I have my own personal view of just what this role will be and of course it is as the Son of Perdition, and King of Fierce Countenance. This is again, my person view and perhaps I am wrong, only time will tell!
God Bless,
Rodney
Time will indeed tell.
I, myself, figure he will come from the area which was controlled by the ancient Roman Empire, which is essentially the same as the modern European Union and the lesser-known Mediterranean Union today. Interestingly, the latter also includes areas of Africa and the Middle East.
That gives us a huge area from which the AC could come. Years ago, I thought that Nicholas Sarkozy, the former French president, could be a prime candidate since he has both European and Jewish decent. So Far, I was wrong, but I do think the actual AC may have a similar pedigree. Imagine if he also has some Arab ancestry as well. This would certainly give him wide appeal.
I doubt we’ll be here on Earth to see it all come to pass, but we can be sure that the future will happen exactly as the Bible reveals.
Merry Christmas, Rodney!
The prophetic “trap” for Trump, as you call it, was already set in the latter days of his last administration with his promotion of HIS “Deal of the Century,” or “Vision of Peace” (as he called it and took credit for it). This amounted to a resurrected and modified 1967 Allon Plan which would carve out and cede much Israeli territory to form a central Palestinian state. I believe that the so-called Palestinian state was formed decades ago in Jordan (then called Trans-Jordan by the British Mandate), and that all attempts past, present, and future, are motivated not to secure peace, but pieces of Israel to attempt to destroy it. Whatever overture Trump believes he can play, it’s God’s prophetic orchestra. It seems the majority of pastors these days are not studying, teaching, or promoting Bible prophecy. They are silent while a faithful remnant is watching intently for our Blessed Hope.
I agree with you, Stuart.
Though there may have been people who were thought they were good intentioned when they thought giving away some of Israel’s land for peace, it shows that they were either ignorant of what the Bible says about this or didn’t believe it.
I can almost (and I say almost) excuse this in secular people I cannot excuse it in those who are supposed to be faithful preachers of God’s Word.
God will not excuse them, either (Ezekiel 3:17-21).
never forget the prophecy that came out during Obama’s regime. God said that if America insists on dividing Israel, then God will divide America as punishment. The prophecy is that God would split America into 2 States down the Mississippi River and push the two shores apart by MILES! Imagine the devastation to the American economy if the two banks were even 1 mile apart – bridges down, railways inoperable, barges and shipping stopped as weirs and locks collapse, not to mention the dozens and dozens of towns along the banks that will be swept away.
So hopefully Trump does NOT insist on a 2-party State. God said He will not tolerate that.