As the days/weeks/months roll on, and MAGA continues to do headstands to sweep the mountain of evidence re: Donald J. Trump’s long, sick record of sexual predation under the rug, it has become tragically obvious – there is nothing that can be found in this man that will squash our family’s cultish devotion to him. A vast swath of American evangelicalism remains slavishly entrenched in the fog of a very great delusion. It’s the greatest perversion of the gospel of Jesus’ Kingdom in the history of our nation.

With supernatural breath, the Lord is intensifying His summons to our fellowships, conferences, prayer-gatherings, and Bible-studies: We can either humble ourselves and wholly walk in intimate fidelity to Jesus in this midnight hour, or we can discount the numerous calls to repentance, and continue to prostitute ourselves to this prideful man of lawlessness, and his deceitful narratives, at the peril of being severely judged, and even ultimately rejected by our coming King.

The New Testament scriptures are filled with references to those who draw near to Jesus with their lips (Matthew 15:8), whose love grows cold (Matthew 24:12) and are subsequently leveled by the King of glory’s sobering true analysis of their lives.

Five of the seven churches in Revelation have arresting, “let Me set the record straight” encounters with the resurrected Jesus (Revelation 2:4; 2:14; 2:20; 3:1; 3:16-17).

In both Matthew 7:23, and Matthew 25:12, Jesus lays out the scene at the end of the age when He will shock those who anticipate “skipping into heaven” with these words: “Depart from Me. I do not know you.”

These will be the most horrible confrontations in the history of humanity.

It’s vital to note that Jesus doesn’t make this pronouncement upon those who don’t know Jesus, who don’t seem to believe in Jesus, or even desire to be with Jesus. Many will undoubtably also assert that #ChristIsKing, along with the devil and his angels (Philippians 2:10).

Jesus turns away those whom HE DOESN’T KNOW – meaning, those who, in spite of their rhetoric, and apparently even contrary to their theological assertions, their vaunted Christian ministries, actually look nothing like Jesus; and/or who never humbled themselves to the point of broken repentance, who refused to walk in contrition, and lowliness, and did not cultivate lives that were intimately dependent upon the sure mercies of the Lord.

In essence Jesus will be saying to these ones, “You withheld your self from Me. You did not bare your soul, your sin, your proclivity to sin and unrighteousness to Me. You never let Me in to redeem the carnal way of thinking and treating others. You kept living according to the hostile, anti-meek, unholy spirit of the world that you were born in. You gave yourself to conspiracies, and self-exonerating rhetoric, but you kept your self at a distance from Me, and never let Me change the root-loyalties of your heart.”

My ardent prayer for myself, and our family in 2026, (it’s what I do) is the one the apostle Paul prayed for the saints in ancient Turkey: “We do not cease to pray for you, and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that you may have a walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and long-suffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father Who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.” (Colossians 1:9-12)

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JSB • December, 2026