Church of Laodicea ‘Christians’ endorse Trump for President in 2024
With the 2024 election just around the corner, the Fellowship of the Pharisees and so-called evangelical Christians are desperately working on ways to defend their sellout to Trump despite his abandonment of nearly everything they profess to stand for.
“Mulligans” aside, some of the most egregious displays of moral relativism by today’s evangelical is how they try to squeeze Trump’s immorality into a “Christian” mold and how frauds like Robert Jeffress judged “Never Trump evangelicals” during the 2020 election — apparently, judging Trump is bad, but judging people who don’t support him is OK — by labeling them “spineless morons.”
Throughout his tenure as the adopted standard-bearer of Christian values so-called leaders of the evangelical community claim to hold, Donald Trump has been heralded as:
- The most “godly, biblical president” America has ever or will ever have
- God’s man for such a time as this
- The last chance to save America
- The most pro-life president in history
- The Son of Man – The Christ
“Cheap grace” and the cult-like worship of Donald Trump and his immoral leadership by evangelicals hasn’t had the effect they were hoping for, and as a result, more than 30 million Christians are planning on sitting out the 2024 election.
So, what can you do when the cheap grace gospel is no longer getting results you wanted? If you’re the Fellowship, you recycle another gospel that’s equally false and just as dead … the prosperity gospel. After all, the love of money may be the root of all evil, but in the world of the Pharisee, it comes in pretty handy when you’re trying to win an election for God’s chosen immoral candidate.
After numerous years of failed attempts to guilt the Body of Christ into supporting Donald Trump — Bob Vander Plaats recently accused Christians of being biblically illiterate for not supporting Trump and Eric Metaxas said they were being deceived by a “satanic lie” — evangelical “leaders” along with their friends in Washington and the faux-conservative media been recycling Trump’s “greatest economy in history” rhetoric as the primary reason to vote the New York liberal in 2024 despite his complete lack of moral character.
Who cares if Donald Trump is an immoral man who habitually lies, breaks his promises, and wants to dismantle the Constitution? We’re getting paid!
Of course, Trump’s “greatest economy” talking point is one of those lies because the economic struggles we’ve been experiencing since the 2020 election were created by Trump’s tariffs, trade wars, and his response to COVID.
Trump’s early economic “success” began under Obama. Unemployment was already declining when Trump took office, and the GDP was essentially the same as his predecessor. Additionally, Trump’s spending addiction exceeded Obama’s — despite inheriting a healthier economy.
But let’s put these lies about the economy aside for a moment.
When evangelicals compromise their values in exchange for mammon under the mistaken belief that money covers a multitude of sins, they have essentially turned Washington into the city of Laodicea and the Church of Jesus Christ into the Laodicean church. In the Book of Revelation 3:15-17, we see why this is the case (The Message):
“I know you inside and out and find little to my liking. You’re not cold, you’re not hot—far better to be either cold or hot! You’re stale. You’re stagnant. You make me want to vomit. You brag, ‘I’m rich, I’ve got it made, I need nothing from anyone,’ oblivious that in fact you’re a pitiful, blind beggar, threadbare and homeless.” (Emphasis mine)
This isn’t about being pro-Trump or anti-Trump; it’s about the hypocrisy and compromise of evangelicals and their “leadership.” Their failure of the Christian community to hold Trump accountable for his complete lack of character, along with choosing to defend him when it is openly displayed, has effectively and permanently removed character and integrity as criteria to be president.
During the rise of Nazi Germany, Dietrich Bonhoeffer rebuked the church for refusing to call evil by name and its overreliance on what he referred to as cheap grace — defined as forgiveness without repentance. And I’ve written about frightening similarities between the church of today and the church of Nazi Germany.
Biblically illiterate and/or ignorant evangelicals have rejected criticism of Donald Trump’s immoral and indefensible behavior, choosing instead to praise him as God’s man. But presidents aren’t appointed by God, they are elected by individuals exercising their free will.
God will stop the spread of cheap grace, and he will shake the things that can be shaken to expose the men and women who are destroying the testimony of the church. Scripture promises that the leaders spreading cheap grace will be removed from their self-centered, politically motivated positions of power:
But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
Many will follow their depraved conduct and will bring the way of truth into disrepute.
In their greed these teachers will exploit you with fabricated stories. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping.
II Peter 2:1-3 (emphasis mine)
Lukewarm cheap grace evangelicals are dangerously and eternally wrong to think money and a healthy economy are we need to consider when voting in 2024 because America needs more than wealth to be great again.
America needs revival and a return to moral character, beginning with evangelicals themselves and reaching to their leaders and the politicians they vote for.
David Leach is the owner of the Strident Conservative. He holds people of every political stripe accountable for their failure to uphold conservative values, and he promotes those values instead of political parties. He the author of The New Axis of Evil: Exposing the Bipartisan War on Liberty.
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