God has always performed miracles throughout history and right up to the present day. President Trump’s miraculous survival of an assassination attempt is the obvious latest example.

Donald Trump has given “God alone” the credit for his surviving the assassination attempt. Many famous personalities and politicians have publicly stated the same. I’m sure thousands, and hopefully millions of other Americans, have come to the same conclusion that God is still in ultimate control of human events.

I heard a former Secret Service member say that an 18-year-old with a mere .22 caliber rifle could have made an easy kill shot at that short range of 130 yards.

If Trump had not turned his head at just the right angle to look at the graph he was pointing toward at the time the shot was taken, the result of the assassination attempt would have been very different. It is an ‘absolute’ miracle Trump survived; that is what many are saying.

God’s intervening ‘providence’ was at work at the rally in protecting Trump, and that is the only possible answer.

Why do I say that? Well, as a historian, the assassination attempt on Trump reminded me of an incident with George Washington, which I learned about years ago in a ‘Wallbuilders’ booklet by David Barton about America’s Godly Heritage, and also from a Wikipedia internet article about the Battle of Monongahela in 1755. I doubt if you have ever heard about the whole story of the battle and its results. It used to be in school textbooks prior to the 1950’s, but not since at least 1953.

I will provide some pertinent details below about July 9, 1755. If these details pique your interest, you can take a deeper dive into it on multiple internet websites.

The story is about how George Washington’s life hung in the balance for over two hours during the battle and how God intervened to spare his life.

Great Britain and France both claimed the same territory along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The French and Indian War took place 20 years before the American Revolution. In 1755, the British and Americans were allies against the French and Native Americans in the area. In July of 1755, the British General Braddock, along with George Washington (a Colonel in the Virginia Militia), about 100 Virginians, and 1,300 experienced British troops marched on the French-held Fort Duquesne (now Pittsburgh). On July 9, 1755, just seven miles from the fort, the British were ambushed as they marched through a wooded ravine by around 300 French troops and Indians.

George Washington wrote in a July 18th letter that General Braddock was mortally wounded and died on July 13. Of the 1,300 British troops, 456 were killed and 422 wounded. Out of 86 British officers, 26 were killed and 37 wounded, and of 50 women serving as cooks and maids, only four survived. The French casualties were only 8 killed and 4 wounded. The Native American French allies lost 15 killed and 12 wounded. At the end of the battle, George Washington was the last officer still on a horse, even though he had multiple horses shot out from under him during the battle.

In the same July 18th letter to his family, Washington wrote that after the battle was over, he had taken off his jacket and found four bullet holes through it, yet not a single bullet had touched him, and he was not harmed. Washington told his family, “By the all-powerful dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation.”

In 1770, Washington returned to the scene of the battle and met up with an old Indian chief who had participated in the battle. The chief had instructed his braves to single out all the officers and shoot them down. The chief said he had personally shot at Washington seventeen different times, with no effect. Believing Washington to be under the care of the Great Spirit, the chief instructed his braves to cease firing at him.

What an amazing story that very few Americans today know about. Just like the fact that many Americans do not know or believe in America’s Godly heritage. For example, do you know that 52 of the 55 Founding Fathers who worked on the Constitution were members of Orthodox Christian churches, and many of them were evangelical Christians? This is the kind of American history that most leaders in our government and school systems do not want us to know about or be taught about today.

God only knows what purpose He has for the United States of America moving forward, but whatever it is, I know God is in control, and we should all trust in that!

This article is about how God has in the past and will in the future carry out various judgments on humanity and the earth. In times past, God judged humanity’s sin and wickedness on Earth by means of a water deluge, referred to as the Great Flood, as detailed in the biblical book of Genesis, in chapters 6 through 8. God spared the only righteous people at the time, Noah’s family, from the deadly flood by means of the ‘Ark’ boat, which God had directed Noah to build using precise specifications, to accommodate all the animals and make it strong enough to survive the flood waters.

At a near future time, God will spare the current righteous people on earth from a deluge of delusion by the Anti-Christ during the Great Tribulation. The believers in God’s son Jesus Christ – that is, all true Christians – will be removed from the earth in an event commonly referred to as the Rapture, meaning ‘to be snatched away’ (I Thess. 4:13-18), thus sparing the people of God’s ‘church’ from the Tribulation period (Rev 3:10).

Make no mistake about it; Satan has been using deceptions and delusions from his playbook ever since the Garden of Eden (Gen. 3:1-24), and it continues right up to the present day (II Cor. 4:4). That is how Satan works and interacts in the lives of people, with the goal of sending as many unrighteous people to ‘Hell’ as possible. Today, we are already seeing Satan deceive most of the earth’s population in an ever-increasing way on a daily basis (Luke 8:12). Satan’s deceptions show up in all areas of human activity, but they seem to be especially evident and manifested in politics and government, culture, education at all levels of schooling, in news reporting, and sadly, even in churches.

Satan’s eventual plan is to share his rebellious and evil ways’ playbook with his protégé known as the ‘man of lawlessness,’ that is, the Anti-Christ, who will be revealed and rise to world power after the Rapture (II Thess. 2:3). Why will it be at that time? Because not only will Jesus Christ remove his church (Christians) from the earth at the time of the Rapture, but the Holy Spirit’s role as the restrainer of the Anti-Christ’s evil intentions will be removed (II Thess.2:6-8). If you think the line between good and evil, truth and lies, is blurred today, just imagine what it will be like during the tribulation period dominated by the evil Anti-Christ, referred to as ‘the Beast’ in the Bible (Rev. 13).

Once the Rapture happens and the Holy Spirit’s restraining work is withdrawn from the earth, there will be no limit on the amount or types of evil and sins to take place during the terrible 7-year tribulation time, especially in the last 3 ½ years after the Anti-Christ breaks the peace treaty with Israel, sets himself up in God’s temple, and proclaims he is God (Rev.13:5). That event is known as the ‘abomination of desolation,’ spoken about in Mark 13:14 in the Bible. Then, as you might expect, all hell will literally break loose on Earth, initiated by the Anti-Christ and his minions, including the False Prophet (Rev. 13:11-18).

All the Anti-Christ’s evil ways will be taking place on Earth at the very same time Jesus and his angels in heaven are opening scrolls and commencing God’s seal, trumpet, and bowl judgments on humanity and the earth, which will take place throughout the Great Tribulation period (Revelation: Chapters 6, 8, and 16).

As we can see happening today, many people are walking away from the truth they once embraced, found in the Word of God (the Bible). People in greater numbers worldwide are now refusing to love God’s truth. Sadly, those who willfully reject the truth and gospel of Jesus Christ before the Rapture may well lose their chance for salvation because Satan is already using his secretive powers to deceive people right now. And then, after the Rapture, God will allow the Anti-Christ to use his persuasive power to delude people into believing a lie. This strong delusion will enter the minds and hearts of people during the tribulation period, thereby preventing them from seeing the truth (II Thess. 2:7-12) that only Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life (John 14:6), our Redeemer and Savior.

All those people believing the lie and delighting in wickedness will be condemned by God (II Thess. 2:12) and cast away to eternal separation from God the Father and Jesus Christ—just like the unbelieving people who were swept away and died during the Genesis deluge.

In Isaiah 66:2-4, the Lord God says, “These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word,” referring to those people who are faithful. In contrast, those who have chosen their own ways and delight in their abominations tremble at nothing—and they will be punished. “I will choose harsh treatment for them and will bring on them what they dread. They did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.”

Do you tremble at God’s truth declared in the Bible—or do you scoff at it? The choice is yours to make, but the choice you make, in your mind, has eternal consequences of determining where you will spend eternity—either with Jesus in heaven or forever separated from God. Choose wisely—as though your life depends on it, because it does, both now and forever. You still have time before the coming Rapture to choose Biblical truth and salvation over lies and irreversible delusion.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son [Jesus Christ], that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).

“If you confess with your mouth ‘Jesus is Lord’ and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved” (Romans 10:9).