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Donald Trump As God’s Anointed

Some Christians, claim that the election of Donald Trump in 2016 is like God’s choice of Cyrus the Great in the mid-500s BCE. Were they right? In the early 500s BCE–roughly 2,500 years ago–the Babylonian empire destroyed the temple in Jerusalem and left the city in charred ruins. Babylon also took some of Israel’s leaders […]