Trump as “Nebuchadnezzar My Servant”

by Okey Ikechukwu

Is Donald Trump a historical necessity, put in place by Providence to bring about a roundly rumbustious rattling of the many presumptions of nations and individuals; who think that they can redefine humanity in a world they did not create?  Are we about to walk into a new era that would be characterized by so many changes, and which would be coming so fast on the heels of each other that it would even be difficult to call it an era at all?

Is Trump an instrument of sorts in a world that needs to brought to its senses and, forthwith, to the end of its wits? For the record, I have never hidden my preference for some aspects of Trump’s value preferences, over most of the largely questionable value pretences of the Obama/Biden era. The latter’s vaulting presumption could only be equalled by Trump’s absolutely unmanageable stubborn doggedness and almost fiendish belief in what he represents.

Remember Nebuchadnezzar, the King of Babylon mentioned in the bible? The bible actually describes him as a “servant” of the Almighty! Meanwhile, every child who went to catechism, or Sunday school, would most probably recall the description of this particular king as a dreadful character. Many, like me, may also have seen the pictorial depiction of him as a dreadfully misshapen fellow on all fours. His talons, not nails for me as a child, were so long and menacing in shape that they could have shredded an Iroko tree, or even my father’s car.

Listen to the Book of Jeremiah in the bible (Jer 43:10): “And say unto them, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them”. Besides the foregoing, which had more to do with Egypt specifically, the life and times of the Babylonian king apparently served some divine designs.

And Donald Trump? Could he possibly be an instrument in the hand of Providence, like Nebuchadnezzar? Some points made on this page on November 9, 2024, are even much more poignant; and will be reproduced here in large measure.

“In an Exclusive Commentary of December 5, 2020, in the Houston-based USAfrica, titled “Will Biden Impose Alternative Lifestyles on Africans?” my submission was that a Biden presidency should be a source of worry to non-enthusiasts of gay marriage and anti-gay advocacy”. The publication frowned at Joe Biden’s excitement, and announcement, that he would reconnect with many “globally significant” individuals in order to ensure the globalization of new (alternative) lifestyles. The Obama administration – where Biden served as vice president for eight years, 2009 to 2017 – threatened Nigeria with sanctions for passing a law against same-sex marriage. That presidency diligently promoted the same sex agenda and Gay relationships with the LGBTQ+ movement and created a new world for the exercise of those ‘rights’ when in 2016, Donald trump barged in bared teeth and all.”

The article went on to say that Trump’s victory was going to be a confrontation between “two politico-spiritual currents and counter currents which have been at war in the US for a long time now … What climaxed in the US under Obama and Biden was the chorus of submissions driving the view that everyone had the right to whatever pleased him, provided he did not disturb anyone about it unduly”.

Shortly after Biden was sworn is as president he said: “America is back,” but which America, and whose America? The answer to these questions was given in a Presidential Memorandum, wherein Biden threatened to sanction countries which were still reluctant to make laws to promote, accommodate and perhaps even expand the rights and privileges of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and Intersex (LGBTQI+) people.

The Memorandum sought “a worldwide plan to strengthen the protection of LGBTQI+ rights, in such a way that it would be taken for granted that humanity must now collectively drive a new global priority under this umbrella of rights. It was a continuation and deepening of Obama’s agenda of driving LGBTQI+ issues in such a way that it would become America’s defining core value.

The rest of us were supposed to either tremble and comply, or lie down and die. Because the president of one country on earth declared that his country legalized same-sex marriage; and would inflict stupendous sanctions on any country that failed to comply with this sexual orientation preference.

For a man who cannot actually do such a thing in sny US states opposed to same-sex marriage, to set out to terrorize smaller nations? For a man who cannot do anything about “the legislative federalist orientation of the American State, despite a respected Supreme Court” to rampaging on a global scale?

America’s impudence was once queried thus: “What warrants Biden’s presumption? In what way did it make sense to him to pass his country off as defender of humanity and protector of the ideal values? Is America, with its daily murder records in New York City alone, and its many socio-culturally disruptive engagements all over the world, really in a position to speak about guiding the world to greater sanity? By what universal standard was Nigeria rightly classified a “homophobic” country; as was done under Obama, because of the country’s anti-gay law?

When Nigeria passed an anti-LGBTQI+ country laws it was threatened with sanctions by the Obama/Biden government. Biden’s threat of “…financial sanctions, visa restrictions, and other sanctions” targeted at “…foreign governments” that “restrict the rights of LGBTQI+ persons…” was simply an accentuation of Obama’s trajectory.

As was said, also in November last year: “This column did not, for once, comment on the person of Donald Trump before, during, or after his stint in the White House. He was, in my view, a historical necessity. His tenure as president threw up much about America that needed recalibration and reconsideration, especially along deep fault lines the country was pretending did not exist”.

Now that Biden and Obama are out and Trump is in, we can conveniently overlook Biden’s position that “The United States belongs at the forefront of   speaking out and standing strong” for American values, when those American Values focus largely on LGBTQ+ issues and rights.  When, at the time, Biden speaks of “…enforcing freedoms and promoting tolerance” all over the world, he forgot that he was the President of the US and not the earth.

When we consider that the Obama Government threatened Nigeria with official sanctions, when the National Assembly passed a law against same-sex marriage, when we also consider the fact that the Obama government went to great lengths to prevent Nigeria from buying arms to fight Boko Haram, because of the nation’s stand on LGBTQ+ matters, then we must consider the return of Trump something worth taking seriously.

The fact that the US government went out of its way to even discourage other countries from selling arms to Nigeria to fight Boko Haram at the time, notwithstanding the fact that thousands of women, children and the aged were being slaughtered by the hour says a lot. And what was the argument in defence of this stance? That our government was not respecting the human rights of the terrorists; with no mention of the burgeoning military and civilian casualties on our side.

So, goodbye to Biden’s Presidential Memorandum, wherein he sought to “… further repair our (America’s) moral leadership and reinvigorate our (America’s) leadership on the LGBTQI+ issues internationally. He tried his level best to insist on the need or LGBTQI+ individuals to be allowed in the military service of many nations. He did his best to expand the progressive inclusion of LGBTQI+ history and themes in public education, as well as the deliberate projection of new identities and lifestyles that encourage heterosexuals to go into homosexual relationships.

He did everything he could to secure special treatment for homosexuals. He worked very hard to abolish gender distinctions. It was all in aid of the LGBTQI+ campaign spelt out in Marshal Kirk and Hunter Madsen’s 1987 Essay, “The Overhauling of Straight America”. It was this book that urged Gays to project themselves in ways that would make the world to think of them as normal people who prefer to do certain things differently.

The book was updated years later to “After the Ball: How America will Conquers its Fear of Gays in the 90s”, which mapped out a public relations strategy for the movement. It worked very well for a long time. But now that Trump is here……

Now the likes of Oklahoma Senator, Tom Coburn, who in 2004, saw the gay movement as a more pressing danger than terrorism can rest easy. After Obama and Biden, we can say that James Dobson, Director of Focus on the Family, who in 2005 described the homosexual agenda as a grave danger to humanity was not too far from the truth.

He had then pointed out how it involved the “universal acceptance of the gay lifestyle, discrediting of scriptures that condemn homosexuality, muzzling of the clergy and Christian media, granting of special privileges and rights in the law, overturning laws prohibiting pedophilia, indoctrinating children and future generations through public education, and securing all the legal benefits of marriage for any two or more people who claim to have homosexual tendencies.”

Our collective experience confirms that these are facts on record. Trump’s early signals, despite the infancy of his presidency, are reassuring for those who prefer “Male and female created He them”. And Trump seems poised and ready with as much strong arms tactics as his predecessors.  And more is coming…

A concern once raised here, and which bears repeating, is this: “Can someone wake up one day, declare himself a camel, and demand that we accept his new identity and allow him to graze in the public park; or in his neighbour’s garden? The attempt at a redefinition of the meaning of gender, and even humanity, under Obama and Biden is up again the wall. But it will fight back

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Listen to the Book of Jeremiah in the Bible (Jer 43:10): “And say unto them, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, My servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them” … And Donald Trump? Could he possibly be an instrument in the hand of Providence, like Nebuchadnezzar?

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