Charismatic Trumpism in Crisis

https://www.getreligion.org/getreligion/2020/11/9/no-ones-covering-how-trumps-loss-is-a-faith-crisis-for-charismatics-and-pentecostals

What I see watching this video is a sad deceived woman, a woman who thinks she's serving God but is in fact zealously labouring in opposition to Him.

There is a demonic element at work in what's happening here. One is reminded of high place worship and the frenzy that starts to take over. Her clothes are slipping off and if she wasn't so repulsive and plastic one could say there's a bad kind of sensual energy at work in her presentation and her carriage. The whole scene is really evil. It has nothing to do with New Testament Christianity.

And the article is right. The Charismatic movement has (as a subset within the larger sphere of Evangelicalism) more to lose. Their many false prophets stand exposed. They've laid their credibility out on the line and many have made outrageous predictions about Trump. They're false prophets and so as expected their prophecies fail. Their words and their dreams are the fruit of their own wants or in other cases are the fruit of deception. Many of these people open themselves up to the spirit world and easily led astray by dark actors and elements.

I guess it's a good thing for them that the Theonomic aspects of the Seven Mountains Movement don't hold sway and their vision hasn't been realised. If a theocratic order really did take hold they would be taken out and stoned. I don't say that to be cruel or in a gloating manner. It's a stark if startling fact – a refusal to acknowledge the nature of the fire they're playing with.

Watching this also makes me think of John MacArthur. He's one of the few voices that's really come out strongly against the Charismatic Movement and denounced them. Listening to the audio of the Strange Fire conference I found myself both encouraged and disappointed. Some of his arguments were fatally flawed – for example his vehement and impassioned defense of Eternal Security which is neither Biblical nor historically Calvinist, at least not the way he has presented it.

There's plenty to critique about the Charismatic Movement and in some respects he did a decent job but in other respects he used the occasion to ride some of hobby horses which can be just as problematic.

But what does it matter, for in the end he's on the same team with these folks. He's a functional ally of these people in his support for Trumpism and its garish style and bawdy ethics. While MacArthur is hated by the Charismatics, where the rubber meets the road it terms of ethics, in terms of understanding the Church and the world, he's cut from the same corrupted mammon-stained cloth.