Look at the Hand, not the Puppet

I have been thinking about Michael Avenatti. As expressed in earlier blog posts, I have been asking myself how a law school valedictorian could do so many stupid things. I forgot something important: when reality doesn’t make sense, you should look for a supernatural cause.

Avenatti went to a top law school and graduated first in his class, but consider the bad moves he has made. His most prominent client says he filed a defamation suit without her consent; that’s highly unethical. He filed the suit without researching it; the suit was dismissed before it got anywhere because it was based on remarks that were clearly not defamation. He then went to Twitter and committed a glaring ethical infraction, calling President Trump’s lawyer dishonest.

In addition to these errors, it appears that he struck a woman and threw her out of his apartment. According to the police, he said, “She hit me first,” which is about as close as you can get to a confession without confessing. It’s not something a good lawyer would say. A good lawyer would refuse to speak at all, and he would call an attorney friend from jail. This is very basic stuff.

He also went after the alleged victim on Twitter, questioning her honesty. This is something a rapper might do. No competent attorney would even think about it. If he is found guilty, it will be used to show he has no remorse, and that will be considered when he is punished. It could make the difference between piddling community service and time in jail.

He said the Democratic Party needed a white man to run for President in 2020, because white men get more respect. He said this to Time Magazine, not to a friend in a dark restaurant booth.

Let’s not even consider his other legal problems. Child support issues. Eviction attempts. A huge judgment in a case filed by a former business associate. The IRS is after him. His life is utter chaos.

How did this happen?

I believe it’s simple. God is looking after Donald Trump.

Back when it started to look like Trump was going to win, I began to see the parallels between Trump and Cyrus the Great, the heathen king God anointed to help the Jews and restore the temple.

The prophet Isaiah operated during the 700’s, B.C. This was long before Nebuchadnezzar conquered Jerusalem and sacked the temple; these events took place between 605 and 580 B.C., more or less. Long before Jerusalem fell, Isaiah said this:

Who says of Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd,
And he shall perform all My pleasure,
Saying to Jerusalem, “You shall be built,”
And to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid.” ’

“Thus says the Lord to His anointed,
To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held—
To subdue nations before him
And loose the armor of kings,
To open before him the double doors,
So that the gates will not be shut:

‘I will go before you
And make the crooked places straight;
I will break in pieces the gates of bronze
And cut the bars of iron.

I will give you the treasures of darkness
And hidden riches of secret places,
That you may know that I, the Lord,
Who call you by your name,
Am the God of Israel.

For Jacob My servant’s sake,
And Israel My elect,
I have even called you by your name;
I have named you, though you have not known Me.

Isaiah predicted the restoration of the temple decades before the temple was sacked.

Please note: this happened before Cyrus the Great was born. There was a Cyrus before him, but that Cyrus was also born after Isaiah wrote his prophecy. We know of no natural reason why Isaiah would have expected a person named Cyrus to show up and help the Jews.

Cyrus got the restoration of Jerusalem started, even though he did not belong to the Jewish religion.

Here is what the book of Ezra says; it’s the announcement Cyrus made in his first year of rule:

All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Who is among you of all His people? May his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah, and build the house of the Lord God of Israel (He is God), which is in Jerusalem. And whoever is left in any place where he dwells, let the men of his place help him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, besides the freewill offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.

Cyrus was not supposed to be the emperor. He overthrew his grandfather, Astyages, and took the throne. God’s anointed ones have a way of receiving power unexpectedly.

Herodotus has a remarkable story about Cyrus. He claims his rise was prophesied to Astyages, and he says Astyages ordered him to be killed. A shepherd passed his stillborn son off as Cyrus, and he raised Cyrus in secret.

Historians don’t like this story, but it is very consistent with Satan’s treatment of other prophesied deliverers. Consider Joseph, Moses, Jesus, and the early church. Joseph was sold, Moses was saved from Pharaoh’s command to slay the firstborn of the Jews, Jesus was saved from Herod’s command to slay the male infants in Bethlehem, and people like Paul did their best to murder the first Christians.

Satan is big on murdering the young. He loves abortion. The Revelation portrays him as a dragon, waiting to consume the messiah as soon as he is born.

Digression: some people say the plagues of Egypt, including the killing of the firstborn males, were designed to humiliate Egypt’s false “gods.” For example, the plague of darkness humiliated Ra, the sun god. The other day, I heard someone say the Egyptians communicated with their gods through firstborn sons. If this is true, then when God killed the firstborn, he cut the Egyptians off from the spirits they served.

There is always symmetry in the supernatural. Jesus is the firstborn of the church, and he intercedes with the father for us.

Digression over.

Trump has been supportive to Christians, Jews, and Israel. He hasn’t been ideal, but he has done many helpful things, including a real Cyrus move: he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Leftists went ballistic over that. Barack Obama was an enemy of Israel and the church, and people who hate Trump say he is destroying Obama’s legacy.

Before Trump was elected, I started to think he was a Cyrus figure, and I said so here. Later on, I saw other people saying the same thing. I think it’s true. If it is true, then naturally, Satan wants Trump gone. That would certainly explain the explosion of Trump and Trump-supporter persecution that has come from people on the left, millions of whom are so far gone they speak and behave as though they were mentally ill.

They ARE mentally ill. Demons are driving them to say and do nutty things. This is how Avenatti ended up where he is today.

God has his anointed, and so does Satan. God anointed people like Moses and Jesus. He also anointed Trump. Satan has anointed people like Pharaoh, Haman, Eichmann, Hitler, the Beatles, Louis Farrakhan, Ellen Degeneres, J.K. Rowling, Beyonce Knowles, Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama, and Michael Avenatti.

Christians have done a very bad job. We have lost a lot of our knowledge. We have made up bad doctrine. We fell asleep in Delilah’s lap, and Satan shaved our heads. We are weak. We are very selfish. We try to get salvation and favors from God, but we don’t do the other thing he asks: we don’t give our lives to him. As a result, we have evangelized very poorly, there isn’t enough prayer in the world, America has turned to idolatry, and people like Michael Avenatti have been empowered to harass us.

Avenatti never hears from God. He can’t hear the Holy Spirit, telling him he is ruining his own life by fighting God. He thinks he’s doing great things, and Satan has helped him a lot. His problem is that Trump’s anointing is greater than his. Trump’s supernatural sponsor is God, not a defeated angel who built a kingdom on libel and disinformation.

Things could be worse for him. He could be like Oprah or Beyonce. They serve Satan without much opposition. When that happens, it often means God has given up on a person. If God his opposing Avenatti, it may be that he still wants to get through to him.

I don’t think Avenatti is going to have a comeback. His spiritual backing seems to be too weak. Satan has limited resources, and he can’t give his complete support to every person who does his will. Also, a lot of Christians are praying for Avenatti to fail in his efforts to destroy Trump. I certainly am.

I don’t think many people pray for Beyonce Knowles to be defeated. A lot of Christians think she’s a fine role model. Same goes for Oprah, who actively opposes Christianity and supports a cult.

If Trump really is anointed after the pattern of Cyrus, he will be invincible until he achieves his purpose. That doesn’t necessarily mean he will complete the projects he has started. Cyrus didn’t. It just means that whatever work God has anointed him to do will be done. If that means God chose him to do something that requires 8 years in office, 2020 is in the bag. If Trump’s part of the job is already finished, maybe someone will take him down soon.

We should be praying for Trump and his family to become Spirit-led. Trump is not a highly developed Christian, to put it gently. The closer he is to God’s will, the better we can expect him to do. We should also pray for God to correct Avenatti and help him join the body of Christ.

Trump has his issues, but history shows that he is capable of change. That’s more important than starting life with good character. God can only help people who can change. I don’t know if Avenatti is capable of it.

Hell is not full of sinners. It’s full of people who don’t listen. If you can listen and change, it doesn’t matter what you are when you begin your walk with God. You can make it.

It will be interesting to see what happens between Trump and Avenatti. It’s like watching the angels fight. I hope both of them come around, but whatever happens, I hope Christians will understand that this is a supernatural battle, and I hope we will learn from it.

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