A Parallel to Consider

A Parallel to Consider

Am I the only one who sees the parallel between what the political and media establishment (really one and the same) is doing to Donald Trump and what the Jewish establishment – the Priests, Pharisees, and Sadducees – did to Jesus?  The hatred that the political establishment vomits upon Trump is identical to the animosity that the Jewish establishment spewed upon Jesus, and it is done for the same reasons.

Now, before I go any further, let it be understood that I am not even coming close to implying that Donald Trump is to be compared to Jesus in his character, life-style, comportment, or any in any other way.  Donald Trump is a sinful human being like the rest of us are.  He is no worse or better than any of us, just sinful in different ways than we are.  Jesus was the perfect Son of God, the God Man, God in the flesh, and as such was incapable of sin in any way.  So, the hatred that was directed toward Him was sin in the greatest degree.  Hatred against Donald Trump is still sin, however not nearly to the extent that hatred against Jesus is.

The Jewish establishment was the political establishment of their day.  They were the rulers.  They dictated what the Jews could or could not do.  They hated Jesus because He was not one of them.  He did not teach what they taught.  He did not see people the way they did – as vile sinners who did not keep the law (the way they interpreted it); these sinners needed to be condemned, not saved.  Jesus saw them as sinners in need of forgiveness and redemption.  However, the law did not apply to them.  They were exempt from the law they demanded others keep.  So they thought and practices because they were the elite. 

He was an outsider.  He did not play by their rules.  Why, He even had the nerve to heal people on the Sabbath Day after they told Him not to.  He did things His way, the true way, God’s way; He did not live according to their phony, self-seeking, self-promoting, arrogant life style.  He criticized them for seeking to gain more wealth and power to themselves by stealing from widows.  They were only concerned with their power structure and maintaining it for themselves.  They would not admit any others into their exclusive club. 

The common people loved Him.  He met them right where they were.  He explained the way of God in language that they could understand and relate to, not like the Pharisees.  The establishment began almost immediately to seek to destroy Him.  If He continued drawing people to Himself, why they would lose influence and power over them.  They just could not allow that.  Their prestigious positions and life-styles depended upon His total destruction, or at least the collapse of His impact in the lives of those who were being deceived by Him.

They would not give up their pursuit of His demise.  They needed Him to disappear so they could continue in the administration of their power without interruption.  They had no clue as to what was going to happen.  The object of their hatred would indeed die, but would only remain dead for three days.  His resurrection would set in motion a government that would have no end.  Their power, city, temple and way of life would perish in a few short years when Titus swept through Jerusalem and completely destroyed them and their city.  What they desired for Jesus came back on their own heads as they cried out to Pilate “His blood be upon us.”

Can you see how the political establishment consisting of Democrats, Republicans, and the media, today parallels this in regard to Donald Trump?  He is an outsider who does not play by the rules they have established.  He tells it like it is, not as how the establishment has defined it.  The establishment specifies life and politics as they want it to be and they vilify anyone with the audacity and temerity to deviate from their definition.  They are a closed club that only allows those who are like themselves to enter. 

But he is appealing to the common folk and the establishment just cannot understand why.  As Hillary recently said, “Why am I not 50 points ahead?”  Could it be that people are just sick and tired of the same old crap that the establishment endorses?  The same old lies?  The same old cronyism?   The same old “do as we say, not as we do”?  The same old “we deserve a better health care system and retirement system than you peons”?  The same old “let’s enrich ourselves and let them get by as best as they can”?  The same of way of doing things that never changes or improves?  The same old way of giving away money and status to those who have no interest in supporting America?  The same old “we can commit adultery and fornicate to our hearts content – even if it is in the Oval Office, and that is OK because we are in power.  (This is exactly what the Pharisees did).  But if he even suggests such thoughts in a private conversation many years ago, we need to condemn him without mercy.”

I am afraid that many people don’t care.  They are either blind to what is happening or they are selling their souls for a mess of pottage.  I am not criticizing the concept of government, for it is ordained and established by God.  But we need a righteous government, not a greedy power structure that only seeks its own progression at the expense of those it is designed to serve.  It is time for the political establishment to crumble. 

I realize that some people will not agree with what I am about to say, but it is my understanding of the book of Revelation.  After 50+ years of study I have come to the following conclusion.  All governments that seduce people into worshiping them, that persecute those who do not buy into their system, that increase their own power at the expense of others, that will not tolerate any form of criticism or discontent is a manifestation of the beast of Revelation 13.  There have been many appearances of this beast throughout human history, and there are many today, and our own is one of them.  Our government is not Godly; it is corrupt because its leaders are corrupt.  Donald Trump cannot change most of it, but he can make some improvements.  Only when Jesus returns will wickedness in all of its forms be destroyed forever.

The Pharisees were blind to who Jesus was and what the ultimate outcome of their hatred would be.  Donald Trump is not Jesus, but there are many in the establishment who would not mind seeing him crucified, if not literally, then politically.  They, however, do not have the ultimate say in these matters.  God is still on the throne of the universe and will have His way regardless of what the power elite want. 

There is much more that could be written here, but this is enough to hopefully get you thinking of the absolutely disgraceful way those who “dare to be different” are treated.