The Spiritual Significance of What's Happening to Trump!

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Hello everyone, I'm Stephen Strang and welcome to this live edition of the Strang Report.

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I don't do live editions very often, but today, no teleprompter, no notes, no makeup, I'm

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just going for it because I wanted to comment on the spiritual significance of the historic

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events that have happened in the last few days.

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I know you're not looking at my podcast to find out the news, you're all watching cable

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news like I am, I think you're online looking at all the different news apps like I am.

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In fact, I was with my wife trying to minister to her in a manner of speaking.

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She was sick on Saturday and I was kind of taking care of her.

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I intended to watch the Trump rally in Pennsylvania, but hadn't turned it on.

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One of my staff let me know that they had brushed him off the stage and they thought

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there had been a shooting and of course we all know what happened.

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It was an absolute miracle that he did.

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Now you don't need to watch this to find out the news.

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Everybody's commenting, what I want to do is to go over the spiritual significance of

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what's happening, to open mind about it.

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Not that I'm an expert, but I have been doing this a long time.

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I do work for the Lord and I have written books about Donald Trump.

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In fact, this book right here, God and Donald Trump, the main reason is that there had been

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prophetic voices that God had raised up this politician who wasn't even really a politician,

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he was a businessman.

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We all know this story that God had raised him up and he would be elected president and

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he was at raw odds.

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And I may talk about this later, not today so much.

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In fact, I'm going to start doing some live, fairly short commentaries every day as the

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Republican National Convention convenes, but also to talk about some of the prophetic voices

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that have been talking about this.

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Now earlier on Saturday, I was at a birthday party for a friend at a restaurant and we

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were talking about how things have gotten so extreme we could not be surprised if somebody

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did try to assassinate President Trump.

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We were not speaking up prophetically to force, we didn't want that to happen.

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But just a couple hours later, he came within a millimeter or so of being killed.

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It was God's hand and even Donald Trump himself posted on social media, it was God who alone

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who prevented the unthinkable from happening.

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And God is up to something.

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He's raised up Donald Trump for a reason.

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That's what I went into in this book is that God has plans and purposes and they don't

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neatly go along with everybody's ideas, certainly not the secular community and even a lot of

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Christians have all these preconceived ideas of what God could and shouldn't do.

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God has got a plan and purpose and when you think of everything that has been against

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Donald Trump, everything, they have tried everything from the Russia hoax.

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And I'm not talking just about the Democrats, I'm talking about the people who oppose what

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God is doing in our day.

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They have done everything and it's not that Donald Trump is a particularly religious person.

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He was raised a Presbyterian, he does name the name of the Lord, he's open to the Christian

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community, he has been supportive of Christian or freedom of religion.

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He's the one who helped get rid of Roe v. Wade like he said he would.

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He's been very supportive of Israel.

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He invites Christian leaders to meet with him and pray with him at different times.

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He gave me an interview and I've written extensively.

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In fact, I've written four different books about Donald Trump and they were written in

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a different era and I have been hesitant to talk about them, but I have very strong views

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and if you hear my voice, if you find interesting what I say or what we say here at Charisma

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Media, then I encourage you to subscribe, hit the little bell so you know I'm on live

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and I'm going to do this several days.

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Now, I was going to even do it in my office, but the lighting wasn't right, the camera

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wasn't right, so I'm doing it in our little studio and just tell you that I think that

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God is up to something.

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God has his hand on this man and even today, what is today?

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Today, the 15th of July, 2024, where one of these court cases was thrown out and the Supreme

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Court thing giving him immunity, it's like things are starting to turn in his favor,

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but what I was saying earlier was everything has been thrown at him, including charging

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him or saying that he was a result of the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th.

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Actually, it was not an insurrection.

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Nobody had guns.

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It was no military.

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It was a riot that got out of control and the other side even used that to attack him

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and then when they couldn't get rid of him that way, it was lawsuit after lawsuit after

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lawsuit, most people would have just given up.

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You know, if he would retire and go back to Bedminster and play golf or go to Mar-a-Lago

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and play golf, all this would go away, but I believe that he really loves America and

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he wants to make America great again.

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Now, I've been looking at all the sites like you have and I'm just amazed at all the people

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that are giving God glory and you've probably heard a lot of these, but Senator Lindsey

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Graham said, obviously God is not through with Donald Trump.

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Corey Mills, the congressman from central Florida where I live, he said God has his

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hand on Trump.

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He said it's like Ephesians 6.

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I mean, when's the last time you heard a politician even refer to Ephesians 6?

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That's the chapter that talks about the full armor of God.

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Lawrence Jones, one of the personalities at Fox News, said that he was talking about this

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with someone and he said that God had his hand on him and he gave glory to his Lord

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and Savior Jesus Christ.

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I just thought it was interesting that a newscaster or commentator would say that.

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Vivek Ramaswamy, the former presidential candidate said God intervened in the life of the United

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States when the bullet missed President Trump.

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Governor Mike Huckabee, who's a former Baptist preacher and of course a very, very strong

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Christian and someone who I'm privileged to call a friend, and he's never afraid to

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stand up for the gospel.

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He said on Fox News, what you've probably heard him say in other places, that this was

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not a political attack.

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It was a spiritual attack and we need to recognize it for what it is.

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He said that we are wrestling not against flesh and blood, but against principalities

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and powers, and he added that God spared President Trump for a reason.

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Pastor Greg Locke of Mount Joyeux, Tennessee said on Facebook, today the entire world saw

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a dispatch of angelic protection from the Lord.

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In fact, because I'm doing this live and it's a little bit impromptu, I actually have some

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pictures.

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I'll do this later with one of my live.

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I'll show some pictures of where there was like people had painted like an angel protecting

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President Trump, and there was also a picture of Jesus sort of embracing President Trump

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that I've got a little inside story.

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I'll tell you about that probably tomorrow.

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You know, it is spiritual warfare.

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God has put a shield around President Trump, but you know what?

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We need to pray.

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We need to pray because this is a lot more about one more than just one politician, more

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than just one assassination attempt.

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There is something very strong going on.

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There is a battle for the soul of our country.

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And of course, God is interested in the whole world, and the world is a lot bigger than

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just America.

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But America has been raised up by God to be a light to the world.

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And also, as America goes, so goes a lot of the rest of the world.

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So, the enemy knows, and the enemies of the gospel and the enemies of democracy know,

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that if they can bring down America or neutralize America, that they, in a lot of ways, they

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have won.

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I'll talk about this in other live commentaries.

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I just wanted to go on the record.

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I wasn't really able to do it over the weekend, you know, for obvious reasons.

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But I just feel that it's important to share.

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And also, there is a spiritual aspect.

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The Holy Spirit is at work.

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We have to believe that prayer changes things, and we need to pray, pray, pray.

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In fact, the Spirit-filled community, which is, from my perspective, mostly behind Donald

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Trump because of the policies, not because of his personality.

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In fact, there are things about him that are a little bit obnoxious.

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We all know that.

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But you know what?

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There are things about all the other politicians that are obnoxious, too.

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But Donald Trump is held to a different standard.

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But right now, it's not about personalities at all.

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It's about the policies and about what God is doing in America.

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And I just wanted to share this.

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In other podcasts, I want to talk about gaslighting.

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You know, the other side tries to gaslight so that even we Christians start to feel like we're on the defensive or that their narrative is somehow correct.

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We've got to be strong.

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We've got to be bold.

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We've got to be forceful in the Spirit.

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God has given us the Holy Spirit to take power over principalities and powers.

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So there's a lot more that I could say.

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But since I'm not trying to squeeze it into one podcast, by the way, I am on regularly Tuesdays and Thursdays at 4 p.m.

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But that's become almost like a little TV show in a way.

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And it has kind of kept me from being spontaneous.

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So I'm going to do both for a while.

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We're going to see what happens.

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Be sure to write comments in the comments section below.

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I want to read them myself.

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See what you have to say.

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And I plan tomorrow to come back with other commentaries.

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I'm not sure what time I'll do it.

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But if you sign up, hit the little bell, you're notified when I'm on live.

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And of course, it'll be put on YouTube and you can watch it later.

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Thank you for watching.

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Be sure to share this with other people who you think would be interested in my commentaries, in my thoughts, trying to bring a spiritual perspective.

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I'm not the only one who's doing it, of course.

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But I do have a perspective of being a Christian journalist now for nearly five decades.

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And one of the things that I'm checking out are some of these prophecies.

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We are going to check them out.

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We're going to believe that they are valid.

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One of the problems with prophecies is when they come to pass, sometimes it's hard to kind of prove it.

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It's hard to find the original prophecy.

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So anyway, I've got to do some checking.

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My staff is checking.

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And I just arranged a few minutes ago before I came on this live podcast, one of the prophets who had made a rather remarkable prophecy that I had not seen until somebody sent it to me has agreed.

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There are several things you don't want to miss it.

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You don't want to miss the upcoming String Report podcast.

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Thank you for watching.

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Until then, God bless you.