Discovering Love: Of carousel stiffs, asses, and false prophets

After Trump, in an attempt to be a wartime President ahead of the 2020 election, assassinated the Iranian general, Solemani, the "prosperity gospel" televangelists are blowing the trumpets to carry the United States into another endless war, with countless deaths including women and children, families torn apart, and economic ruin for all but a handful of war profiteers.

Trump and White

“Both Mike Pompeo [Secretary of State] and Mike Pence [Vice President] who have pushed Trump towards aggressive action towards Iran believe that there is a battle between good and evil that will end with ‘the Rapture’. A key belief of the evangelical Christian extremists is the establishment of a ‘greater Israel’ before the end of days,” according to the British website Church and State.
According to spiritual shyster and Trump advisor Paula White, Trump will have a role in the final battle.
“God came to me last night and showed me a vision of Trump riding alongside Jesus on a horse made of gold and jewels,”
said White in Charisma, a fundie publication. “This means he will play a critical role in Armageddon as the United States stands alongside Israel in the battle against Islam.” Source: The Biz News

There's your horse of gold and jewels. It only goes in circles.
Carousel ride, Ca. 1915 Carmel-Borrelli Jeweled Jumper, Outside row jumper.
Partial armor. Double scabbard war horse. Over 400 jewels. $15,900.

The ONLY time Jesus rode instead of walked in his life, it was on a donkey foal, six days before his crucifixion. Which ride was better? The fake-jeweled wooden one that goes around in circles, or the humble, living one that took a Savior into the city where he would suffer and die to provide eternal life for his friends?

When I visited the ancient city of Petra in southern Jordan, Bedouin boys
offered me donkey transport, begging me to hire them.
"Taxi, Madame?" was their repeated plea.

Article from Sojournors:

At King Jesus International Ministry, several prosperity gospel pastors and leaders hosted the president for a political rally and prayed publicly on stage beforehand. After the prosperity pastors laid their hands on Trump in prayer and political support, the president of the United States openly said this: “I really do believe that God is on our side. I believe that. I believe that ... or there would have been no way we could have won, right? People said, how do you win? You don't have the media, you have so many things against you, and we win. So, there has to be something, has to be something."
Apparently, Trump does believe that. And, apparently, so do the “leaders” who were with Trump on stage or are part of the new evangelical coalition.

It is blasphemy for Donald Trump — or any political leader — to suggest that God is on his side or favors his candidacy or political party. That blasphemy must be named for what it is. To imply that Trump won his election because of divine intervention — as some of his court evangelicals have said — is to essentially bestow on Trump the divine right of kings, an idea that is antithetical to the principles upon which the United States was founded and to the gospel of Jesus Christ. It also shows again that Trump thinks of himself as a monarch, as so many of his words and actions prove.

Abraham Lincoln spoke words of wisdom that are as timely today as they have ever been: "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right." Donald Trump and his supporters would like to believe that God is on his (or their) side. But every one of them must now ask, "Are we on God's side?” Are Trump’s statements and policies of racial bigotry and division on God’s side? Are his policies that dehumanize immigrants and separate migrant families at the border on God’s side? Is Trump’s lifelong demeaning, exploiting, and betrayal of women, including his own three wives, on God’s side?
Source: article by Jim Wallis, president of Sojourners, 16 January 2020.

Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, explained the danger of false shepherds or false prophets--and their fate.

Matt. 7:15-20 “Watch out for false prophets! They dress up like sheep, but inside they are wolves who have come to attack you. You can tell what they are by what they do. No one picks grapes or figs from thornbushes. A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. A good tree cannot produce bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit. Every tree that produces bad fruit will be chopped down and burned. You can tell who the false prophets are by their deeds."

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Christy K Robinson is author of these books (click the colored title):

We Shall Be Changed (2010)

Mary Dyer Illuminated Vol. 1 (2013)

Mary Dyer: For Such a Time as This Vol. 2 (2014)

The Dyers of London, Boston, & Newport Vol. 3 (2014)

Effigy Hunter (2015)

Anne Marbury Hutchinson: American Founding Mother (2018)

And of these sites:

Discovering Love (inspiration and service)

Rooting for Ancestors (history and genealogy)

William and Mary Barrett Dyer (17th century culture and history of England and New England)