Dr. Ben Carson on Tuesday highlighted a biblical principle of restoration—even double for your trouble blessings—that appears to be playing out in President Donald J. Trump’s life.
This from westernjournal.com.
Trump’s former housing and urban development secretary opened his remarks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee by recounting the horror he felt as a would-be assassin shot the 45th president.
Carson said:
I saw President Trump, a dear friend, escape death by mere inches, and my thoughts immediately turned to the book of Isaiah that says, ‘No weapon formed against you shall prosper.’
The full biblical passage from which he quoted—Isaiah 54:17—reads:
No weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord and their vindication from me, declares the Lord.
The whole chapter is about God restoring, both materially and spiritually, what was lost during a very difficult season in life.
The renowned neurosurgeon continued:
Well, let me tell you the weapons that they used. First, they tried to ruin his reputation, and he’s more popular now than ever.
And then they tried to bankrupt him. And he’s got more money now than he had before.
And then they tried to put him in prison, and he’s freer and has made other people free with him.
And then last weekend, they tried to kill him. And there he is over there, alive and well.
Everything Dr. Carson said is true.
According to the Real Clear Polling averages:
Joe Biden was always ahead in polling in 2020 versus Trump.
This election cycle, the former president has been ahead of Biden—and the margin is the largest it has been since January.
A YouGov poll published Monday found the Republican nominee is ahead in all seven major swing states that will likely decide the election: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Biden carried all of them but North Carolina in 2020—with the aid of election fraud.
To Dr. Carson’s second point:
Trump is wealthier than he’s ever been, despite Manhattan Judge Arthur Engoron imposing a $454 million judgment against him in February in a civil fraud suit brought by Democrat Attorney General Letitia James’ office. She threatened to seize Trump’s assets in Manhattan to satisfy the judgment.
However, a New York appeals court stepped in and lowered the bond amount he had to post to $175 million while the president pursues his appeal.
Meanwhile, USA Today reported in March that because of the merger of Trump Media & Technology Group with Digital World Acquisition Corp.:
[T]he president’s net worth went up by more than $4 billion to $6.5 billion, ‘catapulting him into the world’s wealthiest 500 people on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index for the first time.’
His previous high had been $3.1 billion.
It’s like something right out of the Bible’s Book of Job, when God restored twice as much materially to the afflicted man following multiple attacks by Satan.
The Scripture says:
And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning.
God also talks about restoring double to those who have been through affliction in Zechariah 9 and Isaiah 61.
And as Carson noted:
Trump is not only wealthier, he is also freer than he has been for months with the dismissal of special counsel Jack Smith’s classified documents case on Monday.
To Dr. Carson’s third point:
[T]he Supreme Court ruled this month he has immunity for official acts that he took as president, putting a major wrench in Smith’s election interference case.
The SCOTUS ruling also might end up causing Trump’s New York business records conviction to be thrown out or retried, because some of the information presented at trial would fall under official acts shielded from prosecution.
Judge Juan Merchan has delayed sentencing in the case from this month to September while Trump’s attorneys and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s prosecutors respond to the development.
The Associated Press reported:
The postponement sets the sentencing for Sept. 18 at the earliest—if it happens at all, since Trump’s lawyers are arguing that the Supreme Court ruling merits not only delaying the sentencing but tossing out his conviction.
In addition, following the conviction:
[T]he Trump campaign took in a record level of contributions—making the president’s campaign coffers greater than Biden’s for the first time during the election.
Further:
– The Supreme Court also determined that the Department of Justice improperly charged defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol incursion with a federal obstruction crime that does not apply to them. Smith has indicted Trump on the same crime, so it likely will go away too, and
– That leaves Fulton County District Attorney Fanni Willis’ election inference case in Georgia, which an appeals court recently paused to determine if Willis’ conduct has disqualified her from overseeing it. No new trial date has been set, according to the AP.
A recurring theme in Scripture is that people for whom God has a plan can go through persecution and trials (in Trump’s case, literal ones) but come out better in the end. Joseph, David, and even Jesus Christ himself all went through it.
The Apostle Paul wrote in Corinthians:
[H]ad the rulers at the time known God’s plan with regards to Christ, to resurrect him and launch the Christian church, they would have left him alone.
As Moses chronicled in Exodus:
[T]he more the Egyptians afflicted the children of Israel, ‘the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad.’
The same appears to be true in our day as all the democrats’ (communists’/globalists’) efforts to bring down Trump and his “Make America Great Again” movement have only made them stronger.
Final thoughts: A retelling of facts in reference to scripture and presenting the unstopping of President Trump and this MAGA movement hopefully serve to put a smile on the faces of every one of President Trump’s supporters.
God speed to the Trump/Vance team and to the Take Back of our Constitutional Republic.
