Biblestudy: Jehu: A Type for Today
A Savior People Wanted Not Needed
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Richard T. Ritenbaugh
Given 09-Nov-24; 70 minutes
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A Protestant pastor suggests that Donald Trump may have been appointed a savior, but not in the manner of Jesus Christ or King David, but more like Jehu, dispatched to rid the middle east of Ahab and Jezebel in Israel and Athelia in Judah. Jehu may have been called to save Israel, but he was impulsive and a wrecking ball, probably like the current modus operandi of Donald Trump, who is driven by competition with an obsessive desire to win. The prophet Elijah, who fled from Jezebel, anointed Elisha as his successor, who would then anoint Jehu as king over Israel, with a mandate to exterminate the entrenched Baal worshippers. Like the so-called silent majority in America, the believers in Almighty God in Elijah's day were intimidated by Ahab and Jezebel and the tyrannical Baal worshipers hating God's moral law, hated by current leaders of Israel to this very day. God instructed Elijah to appoint Jehu, a militaristic strong-arm leader as king over Israel, with a mandated to destroy all remnants of the Jezebel's Baal worship, ostensible making Israel great again, like present day politics, demanding the total annihilation of the enemy (domestic and foreign). Jehu was anointed king with a command to destroy Ahab and Jezebel, permanently destroying their dynasty and evil influence. Sadly, though he destroyed Baalism, he did not restore true worship of Almighty God, proving a secular savior only.