Biography Of Verse 23: King Of The World

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Reading these three verses is like reading something from a Donald Trump biography. Verse 23 mentions that “a king will arise, insolent and skilled in intrigue”. If I were to announce Trump at an awards banquet, I could do worse than use that description as an introduction. He’d own up to every word. I address earlier how Donald, a name that means King of the World, knew he was born to be King. Keep in mind that the use of the word King here simply means, ruler of a nation. At what part of his career this rise to power is, it doesn’t say, but it’s likely when the Antichrist rises to the position of heading up this league of ten nations.
The word insolent means, “showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect”. If I need to jump through hoops
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Its premise stated that Trump is able to say and do whatever he pleases because we’ve now reached the place in society where nobody can judge anything, because judging isn’t nice (which ironically is in and of itself, a judgment; but I digress.) Trump is like this sewn-together monster made from the bad fruit of both the right and left. In the name of political correctness, he is the first American political figure who can pretty much say and do whatever he feels like and, “That’s okay. It’s just the Donald.” No. It’s not okay. It’s the collapse of ethics in our nation. It’s one thing to not be politically correct. It’s quite another to make “a**hole-ness” one of your cherished principles. I’m all for standing up to political correctness. Just writing a book from a Christian perspective has now sadly become an example of …show more content…
I can picture all the political intelligentsia watching these events in total disbelief. When I was a child, I used to love to watch Godzilla movies. They made my Saturday mornings exciting. Watching the Republican Primary run was like watching a Godzilla movie. Picture a cheesy film where you have all these monsters teaming up against this terrible monster. Every time one of the monsters attacked the terrible monster, rather than weaken it, it simply absorbed the energy from the attack as it sucked the life-force from its attacker. The more the monsters attack, the weaker they get as Mr. Terrible gets

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