Video for Christians: Trump or Clinton? Cyrus or Antiochus?

"Judge me by the enemies I have made."

10.26.2016

A new video from the YouTube channel "Sensus Fidelium" dares to ask whom Christians should vote for in November by making a rather atypical comparison unused thus far by conservative bloggers during this election.

The biblical character most often named in reference to Donald Trump by Christians making such comparisons has been King David, most notably for his adultery and eventual repentance. The speaker in the video, however, feels King Cyrus the Great would be a more appropriate example.

Though a pagan and a man lacking in serious virtues – he practiced polygamy and held many concubines – Cyrus the Great largely respected ancient Jewish practice and allowed the Israelites to return to their homeland and rebuild the Temple. His leadership protected ancient Israel and gave way to religious tolerance.

Hillary can easily be paired with any number of Old Testament pagans, but the one used in this analogy was King Antiochus, a schemer who insidiously subverted Jewish culture and sought to replace it with a counterfeit pagan one. While King Cyrus earned the label "anointed one" that pointed to a coming Messiah, King Antiochus resembled an anti-Christ.

Christians sometimes get confused between AN anti-Christ and THE anti-Christ. Anti-Christs have been seen throughout all history as figureheads trying to set themselves up as false gods in place of God himself (Muhammad, Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, etc.). Given that uncovered emails reveal Hillary Clinton's campaign actively placing puppet cells inside the Catholic Church to influence and change their beliefs, not to mention Hillary's own admission that deeply held religious beliefs in America need to change, the former FLOTUS may very well fit this description.

Time will tell if Donald Trump may in any way be like Cyrus the Great – neither myself or the video is prepared to make that bold declaration – but one interesting point the speaker makes that's worthy of consideration is the type of enemies Donald Trump has made for himself this election season, which is to say, all the right ones: social revolutionaries, leftists, socialists, elitists, etc.

As President Roosevelt once stated: "I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made." That may very well apply to Mr. Trump.