Several weeks before the election I had a series of dreams. I do not remember anything from those dreams other than the word “Duquesne.” I thought it to be significant so I looked up historical intersections involving that word. The first intersection of that word in the history of America is in the context of the French and Indian War that involved a Fort Duquesne in what is now Pittsburgh, PA. The English made several attempts to conquer Fort Duquesne. The first was an almost unmitigated disaster. However, it turned out to be an early providential moment in the history of America.
While this first battle to conquer Ft Duquesne killed or injured almost every officer, there is one colonel who had a powerful providential moment. Colonel George Washington was shot at least six times and suffered no injury. He was shot four times in his jacket, two horses were shot out from underneath him, and one bullet landed on a Bible in his jacket pocket. This did not go unnoticed, as both American Colonists and Indians believed Washington was miraculously, providentially preserved for a great purpose.
What is Divine Providence. It is God’s general superintendence over the history of the world. In Eph 1:11 that God “…works all things according to the counsel of His will.” Technically, every moment is a providential moment as God has given an eternal decree in the context of foreknowledge that includes His knowledge of our free will and the possible worlds it may produce. Most of the time God decrees a given timeline and lets things proceed according to the natural order. There are times, however, where God intervenes extraordinarily in the affairs of the world to move history towards its eschatological or prophetic endgame. It is these providential moments that are in view in this piece.
We see God’s Providential movement in both Biblical history and extra-biblical history.We see this at work in Daniel, George Washington, and today
Daniel’s Providential Moment
Daniel had such a providential moment that resulted in him spending some time with some very hungry lions in an zoo scale lions den. In Daniel 6 King Darius organized the administration of his kingdom. He had 120 governors and three satraps whose job was to audit the governors. Darius was set to put Daniel over the whole kingdom as a prime minister. Then the drama begins.
Dan 6:1-9 NKJV It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be over the whole kingdom; (2) and over these, three governors, of whom Daniel was one, that the satraps might give account to them, so that the king would suffer no loss. (3) Then this Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king gave thought to setting him over the whole realm. (4) So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful; nor was there any error or fault found in him. (5) Then these men said, “We shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.” (6) So these governors and satraps thronged before the king, and said thus to him: “King Darius, live forever! (7) All the governors of the kingdom, the administrators and satraps, the counselors and advisors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a firm decree, that whoever petitions any god or man for thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions. (8) Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the writing, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.” (9) Therefore King Darius signed the written decree.
We see that Darius wanted to promote Daniel to prime minister because “Daniel distinguished himself above the governors and satraps, because an excellent spirit was in him.” What does it mean that there was an excellent spirit in him? There are two interpretations in the modern church, a false one and a true one. There are those who would simply say that Daniel was God’s anointed and that the others fell because they did not fall in line with God’s anointed. This thinking is common in the NAR, and it utilized in their worship of Trump. The context, however, paints a different picture. We see that Daniel’s enemies acknowledged that Daniel was faithful “(4) So the governors and satraps sought to find some charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find no charge or fault, because he was faithful; nor was there any error or fault found in him. (5) Then these men said, “We shall not find any charge against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.” This information tells us that these governors did not suffer destruction because they failed to fall in line with Daniel as God’s Anointed but because Daniel was faithful and they decided to wage war against the God of Daniel. Daniel was truly anointed by God, but it was the fruits of repentance it produced that set up Daniel’s providential moment. When worshiping God became illegal, Daniel continued to be faithful to God.
Dan 6:10-15 NKJV Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went home. And in his upper room, with his windows open toward Jerusalem, he knelt down on his knees three times that day, and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as was his custom since early days. (11) Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. (12) And they went before the king, and spoke concerning the king’s decree: “Have you not signed a decree that every man who petitions any god or man within thirty days, except you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered and said, “The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.” (13) So they answered and said before the king, “That Daniel, who is one of the captives from Judah, does not show due regard for you, O king, or for the decree that you have signed, but makes his petition three times a day.” (14) And the king, when he heard these words, was greatly displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him. (15) Then these men approached the king, and said to the king, “Know, O king, that it is the law of the Medes and Persians that no decree or statute which the king establishes may be changed.”
Daniel obeyed God even when it was against the law, knowing that he would be thrown into the lion’s den and knowing Darius could not deliver him as even the King could not erase a law once it is passed. Against his wishes, Darius sentences Daniel to the zoo scale lion’s den. Daniel was about to experience his providential moment
Dan 6:16-18 NKJV So the king gave the command, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions. But the king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Your God, whom you serve continually, He will deliver you.” (17) Then a stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den, and the king sealed it with his own signet ring and with the signets of his lords, that the purpose concerning Daniel might not be changed. (18) Now the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and no musicians were brought before him. Also his sleep went from him.
God providentially – miraculously – intervened and shit the mouths of the lions. It should be noted, that while Daniel is indeed God’s Anointed, no mention was made of that anointing in the explanation of this miracle. It was Daniel’s faith and faithfulness – not – his anointing – that decided this providential moment. This is especially noteworthy because Daniel’s anointing is mentioned elsewhere in the book, notably in chapter 2.
Dan 6:20-23 NKJV And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?” (21) Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever! (22) My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.” (23) Now the king was exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him, because he believed in his God.
The Preservation of Daniel set the stage for a coup de etat in the Persian empire. The governors, satraps, and their families are about to become cat food. Simply caging a naturally occurring pride of lions (ranging from 2-40 lions) is wholly inadequate to understand the scale here. This den had enough lions to kill 122 families instantly. While we are not given a specific number of lions, this den could easily have housed over a thousand lions. There was enough lions to kill and break every bone before the people hit the ground. If the average size of these families included a conservative estimate of one wife and four children, then over 1 thousand people were killed.
Dan 6:24-28 NKJV And the king gave the command, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions—them, their children, and their wives; and the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den. (25) Then King Darius wrote: To all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you. (26) I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God, And steadfast forever; His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed, And His dominion shall endure to the end. (27) He delivers and rescues, And He works signs and wonders In heaven and on earth, Who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions. (28) So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
This was a coup de etat in the Persian Empire. The Persian Deep State was destroyed and the King’s heart was changed to glorify God. Once again, while Daniel is God’s Anointed, no credit was given to this fact. It was repentance and faithfulness that won the day.
We read in the text that Daniel prospered through the reign of Cyrus the Persian. There has been much talk in recent years about the Cyrus anointing. Isaiah 44 describes Cyrus in detail, referring to him 400 years prior by name and as “God’s Anointed.” This has been taken out of context to support the idea that Trump is God’s Anointed. I’ll talk more about Cyrus in a bit, but one piece of context that is ignored was that Cyrus could not rise up until the foundation of repentance was laid. In Danial 9 we see that Daniel engages in intercessory repentance on behalf of Israel At the beginning of Darius’ reign.
Dan 9:2-19 KJV In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. (3) And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: (4) And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; (5) We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments: (6) Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
(7) O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. (8) O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. (9) To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him; (10) Neither have we obeyed the voice of the LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
(11) Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. (12) And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. (13) As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth. (14) Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
(15) And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly. (16) O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about us. (17) Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake. (18) O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our desolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses, but for thy great mercies. (19) O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are called by thy name.
Daniel was walking in repentance the whole time. While a single instance was recorded, he was likely praying regularly prayers of repentance as part of his routine. This might even have been the type of prayer he prayed that landed him in the lions den. Let’s see what George Washington found out about Providential Moments
George Washington’s Providential Moment
What did Washington discover. Did he credit his victory and life trajectory as the fruits of being God’s Anointed. The Indians who tried to kill him seemed to think so, telling him 15 years later that ““Listen! The Great Spirit protects that man, and guides his destinies—he will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire!””
Washington himself saw this as Divine Providence, having a much humbler view of himself. The following is his letter to his brother shortly after this battle.
“Dear Jack, As I have heard since my arrival at this place, circumstantial acct. of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity to contradict both, and of assuring you that I now exist and appear in the land of the living by the miraculous care of Providence, that protected me beyond all human expectation; I had 4 Bullets through my Coat and two horses shot under me, and yet escaped unhurt. We have been most scandalously beaten by a trifling body of men; but fatigue and want of time prevents me from giving any of the details till I have the happiness of seeing you at home; which I now most ardently wish for, since we are drove in thus far. A Week and Feeble state of Health obliges me to halt here for 2 or 3 days, to recover a little strength, that I may thereby be enabled to proceed homeward with more ease; You may expect to see me there Saturday or Sunday. . . I am Dear Jack, your most Affect, Brother.”
(Sacred Fireby Peter A. Lillback Page 161-162)
America was a hotbed of repentance during this season. Fourteen years prior, almost to the day, on July 8, 1741, Jonathan Edwards preached Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God. Numerous pastors, including great revivalists such as Edwards and George Whitefield, preached repentance. The pulpits were hot with preaching of repentance and the altars were hot with cries of repentance. America was walking in repentance during this season, and Washington’s Providential moment was a divine response to repentance that changed the course of history. Washington would go on to become General Washington of the Continental army during the Revolutionary War. He would become one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America and the first President of the United States.
How Providential Moments Turn
Let’s go back two interpretations on how extraordinary providential moments turn. One interpretation is that they turn with the appearance of God’s anointed. We have seen that this is the Pagan response. The Babylonian king declared that “the spirit of the holy gods is in Daniel(Dan 4:8,9,18; 5:11).” In the case of George Washington, the animistic Indians proclaimed that “Listen! The Great Spirit protects that man, and guides his destinies—he will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the founder of a mighty empire!”” When Trump came upon the scene, the NAR proclaimed that he was God’s anointed. The NAR narrative was devoid of repentance, but simply proclaimed that Trump would deliver us because he was God’s Anointed. During 2016-2020 Trump’s anointing was proclaimed, and the sins of the House of Trump would be low-balled whenever they came up. During the 2020 election almost all of the major NAR prophets declared he was going to serve a second term, with many of these prophecies explicitly identifying the 2020 election. Nobody, including these prophets, had any understanding that this referred to anything other than the 2020 election.
On January 20, 2020, however, Biden was sworn in as President of the United States. The NAR prophets were fully discredited in a manner not dissimilar to the Millerite predictions that 1844 was going to be Christ’s Return. Trump’s anointing could not save them. Almost as soon as Biden was sworn in, the world went into full chaos. In four years the world has come to brink of both WW3 and economic chaos. Biden’s presidency was a judgment on America for its Trumpolatries. By the 2024 election, America was faced with the end of the Republic with a candidate who campaigned on the destruction of the First Amendment.
This notion that the anointing, absent repentance, is enough reflects a pagan conception of anointing. Shane Vaughn made some very bold and very wrong claims in a Facebook post. He wrote a post that not only regards Trump as God’s Anointed but alleges that the validity of one’s ministry depends on affirming Trump as God’s Anointed. He essentially proclaimed Trump as an Ascended Master when he wrote “a man with THE RECOGNIZABLE TOUCH OF GOD ON HIS LIFE is more than a man.” This is a Gnostic-Hermetic conceptions of the anointing where a member of the enlightened elite possess the divine spark through which god actualizes himself through the actions of the anointed one or enlightened one as such a person does whatever he wills to do. Vaughn is peddling Hermeticism. Under the Hermetic conception of the anointing, there is never a context to challenge or critique the “anointed.” The answer is always “touch not my anointed,” even when the so-called anointed is doing evil unjust things.
The Biblical anointing requires repentance to work. This anointing is simply the availability of God’s power to a person to do God’s work. It is not useful unless it is used to do the works of God. Unlike the Pagan anointing, the Biblical anointing was never a blank check but constrained by God. In Leviticus, we see that the anointing requires consecration, and in 1 John that it teaches us specific instructions to enable us to abide in Christ. When God administers grace, it is done to lead us in God’s ways so we can do God’s work
Lev 8:10-12 KJV And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them. (11) And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all his vessels, both the laver and his foot, to sanctify them. (12) And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.
1 John 2:26-27 KJV These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you. (27) But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
Tit 2:11-14 KJV For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, (12) Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; (13) Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; (14) Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
When the Biblical anointing would show up for the purpose of “breaking the yoke,” it follows this pattern.
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God allows/decrees judgments/trials
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There goes out the call towards prayer and repentance (2 Chr 7:12-14)
2 Ch 7:12-14 KJV And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice. (13) If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; (14) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
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God raises up deliverance, distributing the anointing and other power as He alone sees fit
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He sometimes raise up extraordinary leaders
This Providential Moment
On July 13, 2024, about 40 miles away from where George Washington had has providential moment, Donald Trump was providentially preserved during an assassination attempt. Trump turned his head precisely over the course of 0.31 seconds as the shot was fired. The level of precision involved could not have been duplicated by Trump or any Hollywood set in real time involving live ammunition that killed others. It was God’s providence that preserved Trump
Officer Brandon Tatum has published a similar analysis with more polished multimedia in a Facebook Reel, bringing with it the expertise of a police officer.
There has been the largest uptick in calls to repentance in the final weeks. It was not just the big box events or primarily those big box events, but numerous local calls for repentance and numerous local events geared towards that ranging from events where repentance was preached to prayer events geared toward repentance. This repentance shifted the spiritual atmosphere which then resulting in shifts in the material world which turned the tide.
The 2024 election turned not on the bogus proclamation of the NAR prophets and huge platforms, but on local pastors who preached repentance and on the people who sought God for repentance. The endgame is not installing trump as God’s Anointed but advancing Christ’s Kingdom. Let us continue to walk in repentance and remember the warning Samuel gave to Israel by inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
“1 Sam 12:1-25 KJV And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you. (2) And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day. (3) Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you. (4) And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us, nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken ought of any man’s hand. (5) And he said unto them, The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness. (6) And Samuel said unto the people, It is the LORD that advanced Moses and Aaron, and that brought your fathers up out of the land of Egypt.
(7) Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts of the LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers. (8) When Jacob was come into Egypt, and your fathers cried unto the LORD, then the LORD sent Moses and Aaron, which brought forth your fathers out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place. (9) And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them. (10) And they cried unto the LORD, and said, We have sinned, because we have forsaken the LORD, and have served Baalim and Ashtaroth: but now deliver us out of the hand of our enemies, and we will serve thee. (11) And the LORD sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe. (12) And when ye saw that Nahash the king of the children of Ammon came against you, ye said unto me, Nay; but a king shall reign over us: when the LORD your God was your king.
(13) Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you. (14) If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God: (15) But if ye will not obey the voice of the LORD, but rebel against the commandment of the LORD, then shall the hand of the LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers. (16) Now therefore stand and see this great thing, which the LORD will do before your eyes. (17) Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.
(18) So Samuel called unto the LORD; and the LORD sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the LORD and Samuel. (19) And all the people said unto Samuel, Pray for thy servants unto the LORD thy God, that we die not: for we have added unto all our sins this evil, to ask us a king. (20) And Samuel said unto the people, Fear not: ye have done all this wickedness: yet turn not aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart; (21) And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain. (22) For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people. (23) Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way: (24) Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you. (25) But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.“