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The Spirit of Elijah ??

Categories: Donald Trump, Elijah, Evangelicals, Prophets, Racism

 

This blog deals with a little back-and-forth between myself and a good friend of mine relating to the Spirit of Elijah and Donald Trump.

MY TEXT TO A FRIEND OF MINE:

My wife had me listen a certain preacher’s Periscope broadcast from a recent Wednesday night, where the preacher said he believed that the ‘Spirit of Elijah’ was upon… Donald Trump- SAY WHAT ????

Are you kidding me? What are some of these Evangelicals ingesting??

MY FRIEND’S RESPONSE:

Think about it….. Elijah was a fly off the handle, poking fun and sometimes disrespecting the adversary type of prophet. God used that kind of smug persona to confront the spirit of Jezebel (Hilary) and Ahab (Barak and Bill). Elijah wasn’t necessarily a likable person. He had radical leanings. Complained to God over dumb stuff. In today’s context, most Christians probably wouldn’t even like Elijah, especially black Christians.

MY RESPONSE TO MY FRIEND:

Ok, I can see your analogy- but, to paraphrase Lloyd Bentsen, I’ve known of Elijah, and Trump is NO Elijah!

Now Trump may be a ‘bootleg’ Elijah for many Evangelicals who are hoping for the Lone Ranger to show up on the WHITE horse (WITHOUT Tonto, mind you), as an answer to the corrupted version of ‘hope’ being peddled by Hillary, Barack and Bill.

In reality, my friend, we are dealing with a heavily corroded coin aka the American 2 party system, where many are damnably desperate to find heroes, saviors, or deliverers on EITHER side…

Which leaves many clutching at ‘theological straws’, including our Evangelical friend, as the REAL Elijah was not trying to nullify entire groups of people, nor make much of his money from the greed, avarice and foolishness of others…

As far as black Christians & Elijah go, we’ve had ‘Elijah types’ in our community- as far back as Adam Clayton Powell (BEFORE he was consumed by his excesses), who pushed thru important legislation in the times of LBJ. Did I forget to mention Jeremiah Wright? Whose arguably prophetic sound bite of “…God—- the United States of America…” was snatched out of context & struck a primal fear into the heart of ignorant, white, patriotic America?

Consider this- Martin Luther King Jr., as erudite as he was, and is respected as being AFTER his death, was NOT embraced by the black bourgeoisie, or for that matter, many whites IN or OUT of power- as MLK spoke of his convictions re: Vietnam & economic inequality – to his own hurt…

MLK, just as ELIJAH did, spoke to and sounded the alarm to power- WITHOUT attempting to nullify entire subsections of people – THAT is a manifestation of the TRUE spirit of ELIJAH- LOVE – which emanates FROM the HEART of GOD…

As long as much of the church in America forgets or neglects to deal with the schizophrenia caused by the taking of the land from one group of people, the importation and subjugation of another group of people to work the same land, for the benefit of another group of people, large portions the church will be stuck somewhere between Egypt and the wilderness, looking for Moses in the guise of potentially destructive and divisive demagogues, such as Trump.

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