Franklin Graham, son of Baptist evangelist Billy Graham and President and CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association says that it was the “hand of God,” rather than Russian hackers, that determined the outcome of November’s presidential election.
“I think maybe God has allowed Donald Trump to win this election to protect this nation for the next few years by giving maybe an opportunity to have some good judges,” said Graham.
Graham will be one of six clergy to offer the invocation, benediction and several readings at Donald Trump’s swearing-in ceremony on January 20. Graham said that beyond mere human factors, the mysterious hand of divine providence was at work in the elections.
“All I know is Donald Trump was supposed to lose the election” according to all the polls, he said. “For these states to go the way they did, in my opinion, I think it was the hand of God,” he added. “It wasn’t hacking. It wasn’t Wiki-leaky or whatever. It was God, in my opinion, and I believe His hand was at work, and I think he’s given Christians an opportunity.”
What opportunity might that be? While evangelicals will certainly influence Donald Trump and the Republican congress to do some very worthwhile things, the liberals have pushed America so far to the left that these evangelicals will likely find it hard to resist going beyond the right balance and to far in the opposite direction and imposing laws that would restrict religious freedom of minority religions.
Graham never endorsed Trump, but was a sharp critic of the Obama administration and a vocal opponent of Hillary Clinton, especially for her uncompromising support of abortion-on-demand.
Shortly before Election Day, Graham declared that the best choice for president “isn’t difficult to figure out if you are a Christian.”
“I think Donald Trump has changed,” Graham said a few weeks earlier. “I think God is working on his heart and in his life. But people have to make up their own mind.”
“Our political system is broken, and it will take strong, tough leadership to begin fixing some of this,” Graham, who has not yet chosen his inauguration Scripture, said.
“And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.” Revelation 13:15.
Comments
Joseph
Wednesday January 4th, 2017 at 08:59 AMThis is non sense did GOD also put Hitler into power? GOD gave men free will to choose life or death. So if men choose death GOD well not intervene but respect that choice as sad as it may be. If you choose to kill steal commit adultery GOD will not stop you. These Grams far away from GOD making such claims is ridiculous.
admin
Wednesday January 4th, 2017 at 10:06 AMGod said that He set up Nebuchadnezzar, though he was not a righteous man. So there is some ground for Graham to say this. But the fact is that Graham is aiming for ends that are prophetically designated. The result will be similar to the way Nebuchadnezzar treated the three hebrews who refused to bow down to his image.
Andrew Large
Wednesday January 4th, 2017 at 07:18 PMIt is clear from scripture that God works to a prophetic timetable, examples of which are the great flood, beginning and cutting off of the ministry of Christ and the 2300 prophetic days which terminated in 1844. There are a few prophetic events yet to unfold and the divine timeline still holds true. The final events will not occur haphazardly but rather on time, God’s time which will have a real, corresponding point in this worlds calendar of events. It is very likely that DT has been divinely “appointed” and HRC was not as more liberalism will not bring things to a head prophetically until a conservative backlash occurs. How can USA do the Papacy’s bidding when it is overwhelmingly secular and liberal, notwithstanding that some significant ground work has been laid with the Papacy during the Obama years. With DT about to become President it is clear to me that conservative Christian America and the Papacy will have an increasing role in the new government. DT has made overtures to the evangelicals and them to him while he has also publically stated his appreciation and goodwill towards US Catholics. The evangelicals have also had much dialogue with the Papacy over the last two years; it’s all become one big circle of goodwill. Unfortunately, it’s not the type of goodwill God desires as that unity that Christ prayed for was complete unity under him and his truth, all of it, Genesis through to Revelation. The world’s churches are fallen due to pride and stubbiness over doctrine and pagan practices. How can that kind of unity be acceptable to God? Hence his call to the endtime generation to come (get) out. I believe that the Lord is yearning to have this worlds events wrapped up and in order to do this he must ensure that certain events occur while still maintaining the free will principle. Satan of course is much less anxious and I suspect would be happy for continued liberalism and globalism under the liberal agenda, he knows what is instore for him although he will try and change that outcome. Although the evangelicals might like to think that DT has been divinely set up to bring the nation back to God, this is not a biblically sustainable belief with respect to America in prophecy, which is unfortunately ignored by most as they look to literal Israel prophetic manifestations. Just in closing, regarding being divinely appointed, if God wants to divinely appoint us, we still have free choice. DT wasn’t forced to put his name forward…by God at least. With free choice it is possible to “walk into” an unconditional prophecy (one that God will not change under any circumstances) through pride and selfishness thus the prophecy is fulfilled but eternal life may be put in peril if we become an enemy of God.
Pilgrim
Friday January 6th, 2017 at 12:21 AMDaniel 2:21says: “And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding…”
M J
Saturday January 7th, 2017 at 05:18 PMYes, there is overwhelming evidence of the love, respect, and hope among Evangelicals for unbridled evil, considered “strength”. Even some SDA’s and SDA Ministers no less find it hard to contain their joy over the results of this election singing his praises in their sermons! They say, “We can expect GREAT things”!
I do not speak of hearsay, but I personally witnessed this in my local SDA church.
Apparently it is easy to justify and claim “conversion” of someone who says he NEVER asks God for forgiveness, and even go as far to say God did this when there is an underlying bias and COMPLETE deception.
Then to sweeten the “deal” the Pres. Elect has promised to give the Evangelicals and I quote “whatever they want”! So here we have a “heads up” on the direct fulfillment of prophecy! We can not resist Satan’s charms.
God does ALLOW evil to rule at times, but this is NOT His will no more than He wants us to listen and obey Satan. He allows this to show us our folly and REPENT.
These self righteous “church folk” are quick to point to the degradation of the Obama Administration, but most of it comes from an position of pure HATE and prejudice. I don’t know of ANYONE who received a notice from the U.S. Gov. stating that they HAD to become a homosexual, but we will receive one to receive the mark of the beast. Homosexuality is WRONG – but God has his own way of addressing it, ask the Sodomities. Lot was not required to try to influence by LAWS or any other method to get them to change. It was time to “come out of her”, just like it is time for us to, see Rev. 14.
To illustrate what just happened – the 2016 election, picture this: We – America – have just jumped out of an airplane and are exuberant of the wind wafting about us. At some point we will try to engage the parachute when some find no string or string and no parachute!
Where the parachute should have been was just a bundle of FAKE news. Then an urgent call is made “ah, Mr. President your highness, our parachutes did not deploy, what can we,…. Mr. Pres. “I’ll get back to you on that NEXT WEEK”.
We destroyed one of the twin institutions – marriage – under the “liberal” Administration, now will destroy the other – the Sabbath – under the “conservative Administration.
This was SATAN’s intention all along. There is NO guess work here, only a few seconds left to find the “ark of safety”.