Both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday that advisers to Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY) intervened with officials of the New York State Department of Health in July and caused them to underreport the number of COVID-19 deaths in the state at that time by at least 2,800, and possibly more.
At this moment, the only thing holding up “Randy” Andy Cuomo is the fact that the fake news media is still not really going after him like they would a Republican. If this was Trump, the combined media assault would be relentless and inescapable. But because it’s a Democrat, different rules apply. The media is reporting on it, albeit half-heartedly and not aggressively.
So not only did Cuomo issue the order that sent thousands of COVID-infected elderly back to the nursing homes that resulted in thousands of catastrophic deaths, he then ordered it to be 1). covered up, and 2). lied and had all his aides lie about the deaths and the coverup. His liberal sycophants in Hollywood gave him an Emmy award for his phony, lie-filled press conferences while praising the ‘real leadership’ coming from New York.
This is all “par for the course” from a man who laughed and rejoiced after signing the Reproductive Health Act bill into law authorizing the murder of unborn New Yorkers up to their due date. Cuomo is killing them from both ends of the spectrum, and astonishingly still sits in the governor’s chair as of this writing. If you find any of this, or all of this rightly sickening, just remember he is also facing a minimum of three sexual assault allegationsbrought against him by former female employees. What will it take to remove this stain on New York?
WSJ, NYT: Cuomo Advisers Altered Report that Undercounted COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths to Shift Blame from NY Gov.
FROM BREITBART NEWS: The primary purpose of this New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) report, as initially published July 6, 2020 using the significantly underreported COVID-19 nursing home death data, appears to have been to absolve Gov. Cuomo of responsibility for the dramatic increase in nursing home COVID-19 deaths that took place in the immediate aftermath of his March 25, 2020 order requiring nursing homes to accept COVID-19 positive residents.
“A survey conducted by NYSDOH shows that approximately 6,326 COVID-positive residents were admitted to facilities between March 25, 2020 and May 8, 2020,” the July 6, 2020 NYSDOH report stated:
However, an analysis of the timing of admissions versus fatalities shows that it could not be the driver of nursing home infections or fatalities. An individual nursing home-by-nursing home analysis of admissions versus fatalities further supports this finding.
A causal link between the admission policy and infections/fatalities would be supported through a direct link in timing between the two, meaning that if admission of patients into nursing homes caused infection—and by extension mortality— the time interval between the admission and mortality curves would be consistent with the expected interval between infection and death.
However, the peak date COVID-positive residents entered nursing homes occurred on April 14, 2020, a week after peak mortality in New York’s nursing homes occurred on April 8, 2020. If admissions were driving fatalities, the order of the peak fatalities and peak admissions would have been reversed.
But Thursday’s reports in the Journal and the Times serve to undermine the credibility of that absolution for Cuomo, since the underlying data underreported COVID-19 nursing home deaths by at least 40 percent, if not more, during the March 25 to May 8, 2020 time period when COVID-19 positive patients were admitted to nursing homes.
Citing “people with knowledge of the report’s production,” the Journalreported the details in a story titled “Cuomo Advisers altered Report on COVID-19 Nursing Home Deaths: Changes resulted in a significant undercount of the death toll attributed to long-term-care facility residents.”
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s top advisers successfully pushed state health officials to strip a public report of data showing that more nursing-home residents had died of Covid-19 than the administration had acknowledged, according to people with knowledge of the report’s production.
The July report, which examined the factors that led to the spread of the virus in nursing homes, focused only on residents who died inside long-term-care facilities, leaving out those who had died in hospitals after becoming sick in nursing homes. As a result, the report said 6,432 nursing-home residents had died—a significant undercount of the death toll attributed to the state’s most vulnerable population, the people said. The initial version of the report said nearly 10,000 nursing-home residents had died in New York by July last year, one of the people said.
The changes Mr. Cuomo’s aides and health officials made to the nursing-home report, which haven’t been previously disclosed, reveal that the state possessed a fuller accounting of out-of-facility nursing-home deaths as early as the summer. The Health Department resisted calls by state and federal lawmakers, media outlets and others to release the data for another eight months. (emphasis added)
The latest revelation in the expanding Cuomo nursing home scandal comes on the heels of a report last month from the Empire Center for Public Policy that “undermines claims by the New York State Department of Health that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D-NY) controversial March 25 order requiring nursing homes in the state to admit coronavirus-positive residents had no impact on nursing home coronavirus death rates.”
In that report, titled, “COVID-positive Admissions Were Correlated with Higher Death Rates in New York Nursing Homes,” the Albany, New York, based think tank concluded, “The admission of coronavirus-positive patients into New York nursing homes under March 25 guidance from the New York State Department of Health was associated with a statistically significant increase in resident deaths.”
Cuomo’s controversial March 25, 2020, guidance was in effect until May 10, 2020.
“Statewide, the findings imply that COVID-positive new admissions between late March and early May, which numbered 6,327, were associated with several hundred and possibly more than 1,000 additional resident deaths,” (emphasis added) the Empire Center study found .
The data indicate that the March 25 memo was not the sole or primary cause of the heavy death toll in nursing homes, which stood at approximately 13,200 as of early this month [February 2021]. At the same time, the findings contradict a central conclusion of the Health Department’s July 6 report on coronavirus in nursing homes, which said, among other things: “Admission policies were not a significant factor in nursing home fatalities” and “The data do not show a consistent relationship between admissions and increased mortality.”
The Journalreported back in September that Cuomo’s aides reviewed the July report:
State health officials said in a July report that long-term-care facilities were already rife with infection by the March 25 nursing-home order, attributing the spread among patients to employees who brought the virus with them to work.
Senior members of Mr. Cuomo’s staff reviewed and edited the report before it was published, state officials said. The governor’s team also withheld approval for the resumption of nursing-home visitations, people familiar with the matter said, and rejected a Health Department proposal for a regional approach to easing the ban.
A Health Department spokesman said the agency had taken a thoughtful approach that involves “monitoring the data, reviewing reasonable requests and recognizing that this pandemic is not over.” (emphasis added)
The New York Times on Thursday offered a similar account to the Journal on the underreporting of COVID-19 nursing home deaths in the July 2020 New York State Department of Health Report, though it said the true number of COVID-19 nursing home deaths was 9,250, not the Journal‘s “less than 10,000,” as Breitbart News reported:
The New York Timesdetails the coverup citing new documents and interviews with six people involved in the concealment of deaths.
Cuomo (D) faced early criticism in his state for ordering nursing homes to take patients who had tested positive for the coronavirus, as the elderly are among those most vulnerable to the virus.
After reports surfaced in February that Cuomo was intentionally hiding the numbers, the governor’s office explained he was withholding the truth to prevent then-President Donald Trump’s administration from using the data to launch a politically motivated attack.
Cuomo blamed the “toxic political environment” and “disinformation” for the revised numbers.
But the Times states Cuomo began hiding the truth about the numbers long before the Justice Department began their investigation in August.
The June numbers showed the actual death toll in nursing homes was “roughly 50 percent higher” than the numbers ultimately cited by the Cuomo administration, according to the Times.
The actual number of 9,250 nursing home deaths by June were much larger than the reported 6,432 nursing-home deaths — more than a 40 percent increase.
Cuomo’s hold on his job appears to be weakening each day as new revelations about COVID-19 nursing home deaths in New York and allegations of sexual harassment against the embattled governor continue to mount. READ MORE
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The 5 Mothers In The Messianic Line Of Jesus Show That God’s Promise Was Preserved By Grace And Fulfilled In Jesus Christ
Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus Christ does something startling and deliberate when it identifies Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary. In a record dominated by fathers and sons, the Holy Spirit stops the reader and shines a light on five mothers whose stories preach the mercy, sovereignty, and prophetic precision of God. Thamar reminds us that the promise of God survives the failure of men. Rachab shows that saving faith can reach into a doomed Gentile city and pull out a sinner marked for mercy. Ruth stands as the redeemed Gentile bride brought under the wings of the God of Israel through the kinsman redeemer. Bathsheba, identified not by name but as “her that had been the wife of Urias,” keeps David’s sin in the record and proves that Bible truth does not whitewash its heroes. Then Mary appears, not as an object of worship, but as the chosen virgin vessel through whom “Jesus, who is called Christ” entered the world according to the scriptures.
“And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.”Matthew 16:1 (KJB)
Together, these five mothers declare that the line of Christ was never preserved by human purity, religious respectability, or spotless family history. It was preserved by the faithfulness of God. There is scandal in the line, Gentile blood in the line, widowhood in the line, failure in the line, sorrow in the line, and finally a virgin birth at the end of the line. That is not an accident; that is doctrine in genealogic form. God is showing us that the Saviour did not come from a sanitized human record, but into the very ruin He came to redeem. Every mother in that line points beyond herself to the promised Seed, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham, and the Son of God. The glory is not in the bloodline itself, but in the Christ who fulfilled it, entered it, and rose above it.
SUNDAY SERVICE STUDY NOTES: The 5 Mothers In The Messianic Line
The 5 Mothers In The Messianic Line
The Old Testament Mothers In The Line Of Christ
1). Tamar: The Mother Of Phares
Matthew’s Chronology
“And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;”Matthew 1:3 (KJB)
Old Testament Corresponding Verse
“And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez. And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.”Genesis 38:27-30 (KJB)
Synopsis
Tamar’s story is one of failure, shame, and family disorder, yet God brings Pharez through that broken situation. Matthew reaches back into Genesis 38 and names her because the Holy Spirit is showing that the Messianic line of Christ is preserved by God’s promise, not by man’s perfection. Pharez is the child of Judah, from whose line Jesus will come, and Tamar Judah’s daughter-in-law who is the first prostitute mentioned in the Bible. Israel is typified in throughout the Old Testament as a harlot that wanders away from God. “…but thou hast played the harlot with many lovers; yet return again to me, saith the LORD.”Jeremiah 3:1 How fitting it is that the first mother mentioned in the Messianic line “plays the harlot” as well. In spite of these rough beginnings, God will show grace and mercy, and ultimately, blessing.
2). Rahab: The Mother Of Boaz
Matthew’s Chronology
“And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;”Matthew 1:5 (KJB)
Old Testament Corresponding Verse
“And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.”Joshua 6:25 (KJB)
Synopsis
Rahab was brought out of a city marked for judgment and brought into Israel. Matthew names her in the line of Christ to show the reach of God’s mercy. She was a Gentile, a sinner, and a woman from Jericho, yet faith brought her into the covenant people and into the Messianic line.
“And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.”Isaiah 49:6 (KJB)
“But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, The first. Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.”Matthew 21:28-31 (KJB)
3). Ruth: The Mother Of Obed
Matthew’s Chronology
“And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;”Matthew 1:5 (KJB)
Old Testament Corresponding Verse
“And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman. So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.”Ruth 4:12, 13 (KJB)
Synopsis
Ruth is the redeemed Gentile bride brought into Bethlehem by providence and joined to Boaz, the kinsman redeemer. Her son Obed becomes the grandfather of David. This is one of the clearest Old Testament pictures of redemption, inheritance, and grace reaching outside Israel while still flowing through Israel’s covenant line.
4). Bathsheba: The Mother Of Solomon
Matthew’s Chronology
“And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;”Matthew 1:6 (KJB)
Old Testament Corresponding Verse
“And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him.”2 Samuel 12:24 (KJB)
A second Old Testament confirmation is found in Chronicles:
“And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bathshua the daughter of Ammiel:”1 Chronicles 3:5 (KJB)
Synopsis
Matthew does not call her Bathsheba by name, but says “her that had been the wife of Urias.” That is deliberate. The Holy Spirit keeps David’s sin in view while still showing that God’s royal promise moved through Solomon. Bathsheba’s place in the line does not erase David’s sin; it magnifies God’s mercy and faithfulness.
Summary Table
Mother
Matthew Reference
Old Testament Reference
Son In The Line
Tamar
Matthew 1:3
Genesis 38:27-30
Phares / Pharez
Rahab
Matthew 1:5
Joshua 6:25
Booz / Boaz
Ruth
Matthew 1:5
Ruth 4:13-22
Obed
Bathsheba
Matthew 1:6
2 Samuel 12:24; 1 Chronicles 3:5
Solomon
Closing Thoughts
These Old Testament verses show that Matthew’s genealogy is not floating by itself. It is rooted in the Hebrew Scriptures, line upon line, mother by mother, promise by promise.
Tamar shows grace overruling personal failure.
Rahab shows faith spared from judgment.
Ruth shows the Gentile bride redeemed by the kinsman.
Bathsheba shows mercy operating after sin has been exposed.
And all of it points forward to Jesus, who is called Christ.
The New Testament Mother In The Line Of Christ
5). Mary: The Virgin Mother Of Jesus Christ
Main Text
“And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.”Matthew 1:16 (KJB)
Synopsis
Mary is different from the other women in the genealogy. The verse does not say Joseph begat Jesus. It says Joseph was “the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.” That wording protects the virgin birth and shows that Jesus Christ is not the natural son of Joseph.
“Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”Isaiah 7:14 (KJB)
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”Isaiah 9:6 (KJB)
“And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.”Luke 1:46,47 (KJB)
Mary is blessed among women, not above women. Mary is chosen by God to bear the Messiah according to the flesh. But she is not divine, not sinless, not a mediatrix, and not an object of worship. She is the chosen vessel, a servant. Christ is the Saviour. Mary’s place in the line brings the genealogy to its glorious end. The promise to Abraham, the throne of David, the prophetic expectation, and the Messianic line all arrive at Jesus Christ.
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The Rothschild-Funded Scofield Study Bible Myth Is A Smear Designed To Attack Dispensational Truth, Rightly Dividing And God’s Future For Israel
There is a fresh round of online Bible “discernment” making the rounds, and like most of what passes for discernment on social media, it comes wrapped in just enough historical trivia to sound impressive, and just enough conspiratorial fog to keep people from asking for actual evidence. The claim is that the time-honored Scofield Reference Bible was secretly funded by the Rothschild banking family in order to create a pro-Israel, pro-Zionist, dispensational Bible that would deceive generations of Christians. That is a very serious charge. It is also a very serious charge that collapses and evaporates the moment you ask one simple question – where is the proof?
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.”2 Timothy 3:16,17 (KJB)
The documented publishing history of the Scofield Reference Bible is not hidden. The first edition appeared in 1909 through Oxford University Press, and the 1917 edition is listed by the Library of Congress as published by “Oxford university press, American branch.” Oxford University Press itself is not some Rothschild front operation; Oxford describes OUP as “a department of the University of Oxford.” So where did the Rothschild story come from? From inference. From insinuation. From anti-dispensational writers connecting Scofield to elite circles, then connecting elite circles to Jewish financiers, then connecting Jewish financiers to Zionism, then dragging in the Rothschild name because it gets clicks. That is not history. That is guilt by association wearing a trench coat.
The actual historical support behind Scofield’s work points not to the Rothschilds, but to Christian businessmen and Bible-believing associates such as Alwyn Ball and John T. Pirie, men connected with the Bible conference and Brethren-influenced world that helped spread dispensational Bible study in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One historical account says Scofield was encouraged by Alwyn Ball and introduced to Oxford’s Henry Frowde, after which Oxford University Press took up the project. A 2025 fact-check likewise found the Rothschild-funding claim false and pointed instead to non-Jewish support behind the Scofield Bible’s preparation.
But let’s be very clear: we do not defend Scofield because Scofield was perfect. He was not. No Bible teacher is. We do not defend Scofield because his notes were inspired. They were not. We do not defend Scofield because a study Bible should replace personal Bible study. It should not. We defend Scofield for the right reason, because the central framework he helped popularize — rightly dividing the word of truth — is biblical.
“Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.”2 Timothy 2:15 (KJB)
That is the verse the critics cannot get around. They can mock dispensationalism. They can sneer at prophecy charts. They can act like anyone who believes God has a future for Israel has been hypnotized by 20th-century politics. But the command to rightly divide did not come from C. I. Scofield, John Nelson Darby, Oxford University Press, or any banking family in Europe. It came from the Holy Ghost through the apostle Paul. The real issue is not Rothschild money. The real issue is Romans 11.
“I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.”Romans 11:1 (KJB)
That one verse detonates the whole replacement theology system. God has not cast away Israel. Israel is blinded in part, not erased. Israel is fallen, not finished. Israel is set aside nationally for a season, not dissolved into the Church.
“For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.”Romans 11:25 (KJB)
That is why Scofield is hated. Not because someone discovered a secret Rothschild receipt. Not because Oxford printed a Bible, and not because the man had connections. Scofield is hated because his reference Bible helped millions of ordinary Bible believers see the difference between Israel, the Church, and the nations. It helped them understand that the Church does not inherit Israel’s earthly kingdom promises, that the Body of Christ is a revealed mystery, and that the Lord will catch out His Church before the time of Jacob’s trouble.
“Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”1 Thessalonians 4:17 (KJB)
There it is. The catching away of the Church is not a Rothschild doctrine. It is Bible doctrine. Israel’s future restoration is not a Rothschild doctrine. It is Bible doctrine. The distinction between prophecy and mystery, law and grace, Israel and the Body of Christ, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of God — these are not inventions of a study Bible. They are truths found in the Book when the Book is believed as written.
Should we test Scofield’s notes? Absolutely. Every note in every study Bible must be judged by the pure words of God. Scofield was a commentator, not an apostle. His notes are not Scripture. But the crowd yelling “Rothschild!” is usually not calling people back to the King James Bible. They are often trying to herd Bible believers away from dispensational truth and back into covenant confusion, replacement theology, amillennial fog, or post-trib panic.
That is the sleight of hand. They pretend the issue is “Who funded Scofield?” when the real issue is “Do you believe Romans 11?”
The Scofield Reference Bible was not perfect, but it was used mightily because it pointed Bible believers to a framework that made sense of the Book without stealing Israel’s promises, flattening the dispensations, or forcing the Church into the time of Jacob’s trouble. The devil does not care if you own a Scofield Bible. He cares if you learn to rightly divide. That is where the attack is really aimed. So let the internet rage. Let the replacement theologians sneer, and let the prophecy mockers recycle their Rothschild memes. The born again Bible believer does not need a conspiracy theory to explain why God still has a future for Israel. We have the Scriptures, and the Scriptures are enough.
Some Fun Facts Connecting CI Scofield And DL Moody
1. Scofield helped with Moody’s St. Louis campaign shortly after his conversion. Scofield was converted in 1879, and by that same period he was involved with Moody’s evangelistic work in St. Louis. One biographical summary says Scofield was assisting in Moody’s St. Louis campaign and serving with the St. Louis YMCA.
2. Moody later invited Scofield to speak at Northfield. Moody’s Northfield conferences were a major platform for Bible teachers, evangelists, missionaries, and premillennial Bible students. Frank Gaebelein’s historical article says Moody recognized Scofield’s gifts and invited him to speak at the Northfield Conference.
3. Moody persuaded Scofield to leave Dallas and pastor Moody’s own church in East Northfield, Massachusetts. This is probably the most important direct connection. In 1895, Scofield left his Dallas pastorate and became pastor of the Trinitarian Congregational Church in East Northfield, Massachusetts — Moody’s own church, connected with the Northfield and Mount Hermon schools. Gaebelein says this happened “at Moody’s insistence.”
4. Scofield’s Northfield pastorate also put him over the Northfield Bible Training School. That role placed Scofield right inside the Bible-training world Moody had built. The Gaebelein article says the pastorate carried with it the presidency of the Northfield Bible Training School, and that Scofield remained at Northfield for seven years.
5. Scofield’s Bible correspondence course was later administered by Moody Bible Institute. Dallas Theological Seminary’s Scofield Papers page notes that Scofield developed a Bible correspondence course later administered by Moody Bible Institute, and that he regularly spoke at Bible conferences including Niagara and Northfield. Gaebelein likewise says the course was later carried on by Moody Bible Institute and had been taken by large numbers of students.
6. Scofield presided at Moody’s funeral. That detail shows the relationship was not merely institutional. It reflects Scofield’s standing in Moody’s circle near the end of Moody’s life.
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Christian MAGA Pastor Mark Burns Dedicates Towering Golden Trump Statue At Doral While Insisting The Political Graven Image Is ‘Not A Golden Calf’
There it is, standing under the Florida sun at Trump National Doral, a towering golden image of Donald Trump, raised up on a pedestal, unveiled with a public dedication ceremony, and then explained away by a Christian MAGA pastor who had to immediately assure everyone that this was “not a golden calf.” When you have to begin your ceremony by saying “this is not a golden calf,” you have already told us what it looks like. This is total preparation for lost people to be decieved when the man of sin is revealed, and the worship of his image will begin.
“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 (KJB)
The statue called “Don Colossus,” reportedly stands 22 feet high including its pedestal, depicts Trump with his fist raised after the Butler assassination attempt, and was dedicated by Pastor Mark Burns at Trump National Doral in Miami. Burns insisted that the statue was not worship, saying it was about honor, resilience, freedom, patriotism, courage, and the hand of God over Trump’s life. My dad used to tell me when I was a kid, “don’t pee on my boots and tell me it’s raining”, and we can certainly apply that here. What do the Roman Catholics say about Mary? “We don’t worship her, we venerate her”. As Doc Ruckman used to say, “Oh yeah, man, that’s the business”.
BREAKING NEWS: Evangelical and Jewish religious leaders gather today in South Florida to pray over a golden statue of President Donald Trump called ‘Don Colossus’. This is IDOLATRY that needs to be both called out and condemned. Total preparation for the coming Antichrist. Flee… pic.twitter.com/wNc6LwL7fX
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But this is not merely about a statue. It is about the Christianization of political personality worship, where patriotism is treated like piety, a political leader is framed in near-messianic language, and pastors who should be preaching Paul’s gospel are standing beside golden images explaining why it is not really what your Bible-trained eyes tell you it resembles. The issue is not whether God spared Donald Trump’s life. God is sovereign, and every man’s breath is in His hand. The issue is what men do with that mercy afterward. Do they point sinners to Jesus Christ, the crucified and risen Saviour? Or do they build a golden monument to the man, gather a crowd, dedicate it with religious language, and call it a movement? That is where the line is crossed.
This is the Laodicean church in full bloom: rich, political, image-driven, self-celebrating, and completely unable to discern how far it has drifted from New Testament Christianity. The Bible-believing Christian can thank God for preserving a life without turning that life into an icon. We can pray for rulers, as the Scripture commands, without polishing them into golden symbols. We can love our country without confusing America with the kingdom of God.
What happened at Doral is a warning sign. It shows just how deep the merger of evangelicalism, nationalism, celebrity politics, and end-times delusion has become. The pastor says it is not worship. Fine. But the optics are not neutral, the symbolism is not innocent, and the Bible is not silent. A golden image, a political strongman, a religious dedication, a crowd of admirers, and a pastor insisting it is not idolatry. We who believe The book have seen this movie before.
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