Is Trump Nebuchadnezzar - and Does That Mean You Should Vote for Him?

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist Monday, July 25, 2016

Many evangelical Trump supporters keep using analogies about how Trump is like Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar and since God used these flawed leaders to accomplish His will, then we should elect Trump.

But that argument is a serious misuse of scripture.

First of all, it's a red herring. The debate is not whether God could use such a person to accomplish His will. Followers of the Bible already know the answer to that. God can, and has, used awful people for His purposes. He's used tyrants, apostates, mass murders even the devil himself to accomplish His purposes. He used strong pagan leaders like Pharaoh and Cyrus and Nebuchadnezzar to accomplish His goals, to discipline His people, to destroy Israel's enemies, to make the point that His people can trust Him to take care of them even under the worst of circumstances.

But He certainly never told His people to vote for anyone like this. Those passages are simply not about elections. They're about periods in the history of Israel when they were in captivity and deprived of their right to elections. They're not saying, "when you choose a leader, choose someone like Nebuchadnezzar or Cyrus, because I can even use them to accomplish my will."