Amidst the chaos of President Trump's appointments and
firings and, without any evidence of a crime, the allegations against him about
Russian collusion in the Presidential election, it is hard to discern God's hand
in any of this. However, God can write straight with crooked
lines and, despite the crooked lines of our President's apparent
character defects, nevertheless God can use him to write
straight.
Like a pencil, President Trump may be an instrument in
the hands of God. President Trump is certainly not a messianic savior
figure, but could he be another Cyrus? Cyrus the Great returned the Jews from
their Babylonian Captivity and helped them to rebuild their Temple and culture.
Could President Trump return America and help to rebuild its
foundational principles and a Culture of Life?
Cyrus the Great
was the King of Persia. In 539 BC, he conquered the Babylonian Empire that had
destroyed the first Temple in Jerusalem and that had brought the Jews from
Jerusalem to captivity in Babylon. God chose Cyrus, who didn’t even know the one
true God, to be the deliverer of the Jews from their 70 years of exile in the
Babylonian Captivity. Cyrus enabled them to return to their homeland in
Jerusalem and provided funds for them to rebuild their Temple and culture.
The book of Isaiah sets forth a prophecy about Cyrus,
“Thus says the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I
have grasped to subdue nations before him and strip kings of
their robes, to open doors before him—and the gates shall not be closed. I will
go before you and level the mountains, I will break in pieces the doors of
bronze and cut through the bars of iron, I will give you the treasures of
darkness and riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that it is I,
the Lord, the God of Israel, who call you by your name.” (Isaiah
45:1-3).
The meaning of calling Cyrus “anointed” in the prophecy was not
that he would be a messianic savior, but that God in his divine providence would
choose him to be an instrument of his divine plan of deliverance of the Jews
from their Babylonian Captivity. It did not mean that Cyrus was an especially
holy or virtuous man, but that he would be God’s instrument whom God would lead
to the victory of justice as a witness to all of the glory of God. Although
Cyrus did not know God, God foreknew him and called him by name to deliver the
Jews from their captivity and to help them to restore their Temple and culture.
Could President Trump be another Cyrus? Could he help to deliver us from
the captivity of our secular Culture of Death and restore us to a Culture of
Life?
I know an American priest who was concerned about what
kind of a President Donald Trump would be. His concerns were somewhat alleviated
when he was contacted by a leader of a prayer group from Australia. The leader
said that most of those in the prayer group had received in prayer the
prophecy of Isaiah 45 and that God would raise up President Trump to be another
Cyrus.
The priest was rather skeptical, but he tested God at a
seminary that he visited. An open Bible was present in the foyer upon which he
placed his finger without looking. He opened his eyes to see his finger pointing
at Isaiah 45. Still somewhat skeptical, he visited another seminary. Again,
he saw in the foyer another opened Bible upon which he again blindly
placed his finger on what he saw again to be Isaiah 45! This was a
confirmation of the message from the Australian prayer group
leader.
Another prophecy from the 1980s might help to confirm that
perhaps God in his Divine Providence chose our President Trump to be an
instrument of his divine plan of deliverance and saving justice from our Culture
of Death with its atheism, secularism, socialism, sexualism,
materialism, consumerism, sterilization, contraception, abortion, no-fault
divorce, same-sex false marriage, so-called transgenderism, addictions,
euthanasia and suicide. Perhaps President Trump may be instrumental in
returning our country to its foundational principles and a Culture of
Life.
In his first six months, President Trump has handpicked
cabinet members who meet with him in a Cabinet Bible Study Group that will be
explained in Part 2 of this article. He has appointed a pro-life United States
Supreme Court Justice and other pro-life federal judges. He has ended federal
funding for foreign abortions and continues to work towards defunding Planned
Parenthood. Manufacturing, jobs and the economy are up while unemployment is
down.
1980s
Hermit’s Prophecy about Donald Trump
Father Giacomo Capoverdi, an American priest, shares an
amazing prophecy about Donald Trump in a video that Father Capoverdi produced.
In his video he tells the story about his encounter with Tom Zimmer, the Hermit
of Loreto, At the site of the Holy House of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Loreto,
Italy. Tom was born in America, but he lived a life of prayer and penance as a
hermit for many years at Mary’s House. He joked that he had lived in Mary’s
House longer than St. Joseph. In his video, Father Capoverdi relates
that this hermit had prophesied all the way back in the 1980s that Donald Trump
would lead America back to God.
“The millionaire playboy from
New York?” asked an incredulous friend of Tom’s. “Yes,” responded Tom. In fact,
Tom was so convinced that Donald Trump would become a great leader of
America that as an act of faith he wrote his name on a brick and had it placed
in the 1980s inside St. Peter’s Holy Door in Rome in order that Mr.
Trump would receive blessings from the many Masses that would be said
there.
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Holy Hermit
Tom Zimmer at Mary’s House
Fr. Capoverdi said that he wanted to get this
message out after he saw President Donald Trump’s wife Melania begin a political
rally in Florida by praying the Our Father.
You may see Fr.
Capoverdi’s video about the Holy Hermit here.
Let us pray the Novena that, through the intercession of Our Lady of America,
God will bless America and us so that we might have true hope and change and
return to our foundational principles with a Culture of Life.
To be
continued in Part 2.
