So whatever could possibly have led, nay, I would contend, impelled the translators of the King James Version (of The Holy Bible) to use the term 'trump' in such contexts...even imagining it's an 'archaism' or suchlike (which somehow I doubt very much, and I do possess a little background in the English language, 'Anglo-Saxonism' and the like)...? I.e. in contexts where the far more understandable word 'trumpet' (even in King James' day and age, seemingly) not only would've sufficed but surely been the much superior, preferable term? (Which indeed said translators themselves provide a backhanded confirmation of, by using said alternative rendering, i.e. 'trumpet', themselves, and moreover in *those selfsame Scriptural passages even!)
Yes, isn't it an item of more than a little 'curiosity' that no other version (at least to my knowledge, excepting the likes of The Newberry Bible and suchlike closely based upon The King James Bible), including especially that 'modernized' version of the KJV, The New King James Bible, use/adopt that particular usage, i.e. 'trump', in their parallel passages?
All naturally leading me to pose the logical, and I would argue, unanswerable, question: could a Divine Hand have possibly been instrumental in thus 'manipulating' things (unbeknownst to casual earthly onlookers) - to wit: the very words/phraseology that the biblical translators have thus used. For not all evangelicals - including especially for example those of my own particular denominational heritage, regard the precise text of translated Scripture as absolutely inerrant and infallible, rather the inspiration (of the human 'authors' or rather 'transcribers' thereof). For my readership's interest, however, I personally tend to veer more in the direction of accepting the literal inerrancy thereof - at least in the original (Hebrew, Greek and/or Aramaic) versions/writings, anyhow!
Engineering things undetected, behind-the-scenes, but for what particular purpose? To install the likes of Donald J Trump in the White House/Oval Office? Surely not, you howl in perpetual protest?!?!?
No, I see no divine endorsement as such in President Trump's election, except insofar as Scripture admonishes (believers) and declares: **"Let every soul be subject unto the higher (i.e. earthly) powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God." Which, incidentally, has never been regarded by genuine, 'true-blue' Christians or Christ-followers as some sort of invitation to lie down and let whichever government, however flagrantly unjust and patently ungodly, run roughshod, steamroller fashion, over them...for the annals of church history also include the celebrated 'exhibits' of those who, like Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Nazi Germany, considered acquiescence in the unmitigated evil that Hitler's Third Reich represented, as party to that said evil and thus unconscionable for a true believer. Or as others such as those of my own denomination oftentimes point out, when the authority in power invites and/or even compels one to transgress the commandments of God in order to be in compliance with his/her/their particular edicts, then the genuine Christian has no alternative but, like the famous Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego of biblical history, to say a courteous but firm "No!" to 'Caesar' and a courageous and trustful "Yes!" to God.
So what is the significance of such 'trump' references? Need I really ask, the answer is surely patently obvious? By thus signalling His eternal foreknowledge of the presence of a significant end-time figure with the 'monicker' of 'trump', to put matters in the colloquial, the Almighty, the Everlasting One has surely revealed His eternal acquaintance with earthly history from go to woe, and has thus provided just one more indication - as if another were needed in our generation - that "the end of all things is at hand" ["at the very doors"]..."Be ye ready therefore...for in such an hour as ye think not your Lord will come!"
Nuff said, I'm sure!
*Or - to be pedantically precise - at least in those verses previously quoted from 1 Corinthians 15.
**Romans 13:1.
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