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While Israel wallowed in the Babylonian captivity, Isaiah delivered a prophetic word, that God would raise up a Persian King named Cyrus the Great, who would return the Jews to the Promised Land:
It is I who says of Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd,
And he will carry out all My desire.’
And he says of Jerusalem, ‘She will be built,’
And of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’” (Isaiah 44:28 NASV)
This pagan king would be so in tune with God’s plan, that the Lord actually referred to him as “My Shepherd.”
This is exactly what happened. After Persia conquered Babylon in a bloodless cue, Cyrus ended being one of the most benevolent kings of the ancient middle east. Historical records showed that he allowed people taken captive by the Babylonians to return to their homelands.
Those who don’t believe in the Bible predictably mock these type of prophecies and insist they are fake.
How could any prophet know the name of a future king and predict he would restore the Jews to their homeland, they ask?
They argue that this part of Isaiah was written after Cyrus had showed up and allowed the Jews to return and then it was passed off as a prophetic word.
Kim Clement’s prophecies about Donald Trump
Yet, the recent election of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States has many pointing to a prophetic words given by an American prophet, Kim Clement, who spoke about Trump becoming president, nine years before it actually happened.
I am not suggesting that Trump is the next Cyrus, but simply that God was prophetically setting up kings 2,500 years ago, and He is still doing it today (Daniel 2:21).
Clement, who coincidentally died in 2016 just two weeks after Trump was elected president, had also stated in 2007 that Trump would serve two terms.
Under the US Constitution, Presidents are only allowed to serve two terms. Typically these terms are consecutive, and Donald Trump’s reelection in 2024 is only the second time in America’s history that a person has been elected president in nonconsecutive terms.
In her article for Charisma news, Abby Trivett provided transcripts of Clement’s prophetic words.
One described Trump’s character as ‘hot blood’ and added that he would protect the country. The latter was one of Trump’s major election platforms:
“There will be a praying president, not a religious one. For I will fool the people, says the Lord. I will fool the people, yes I will,”
“God says, the one that is chosen shall go in and they shall say, ‘He has hot blood.’ For the Spirit of God says, ‘Yes, he may have hot blood, but he will bring the walls of protection on this country in a greater way, and the economy of this country shall change rapidly,’ says the Lord of hosts.”
The second word spoke about his two terms and the spiritual changes that would take place in Trump:
“God says, ‘I will put at your helm for two terms a president that will pray, but he will not be a praying president when he starts. I will put him in office and then I will baptize him with the Holy Spirit and My power,”
Clement didn’t say consecutive, he just said two terms.
I realize that there were dozens of prophetic words about how Trump would be re-elected as President in 2020. Though I have not read every prophetic word given at that time, if they stated that he would definitely be re-elected in 2020, they were wrong.
Some did the right thing and acknowledged they were inaccurate.
Others didn’t stop and stated that the election results would be overturned in December 2020, and when that didn’t happen, said it would happen by inauguration day of Jan 20, 2021. Of course, it didn’t happen then either and one even said Trump would restored to the presidency, later that spring in 2021. Those were simply false prophecies.
I believe many of these individuals had the gift of prophecy. But, there is a huge difference between having a gift of prophecy and being called to the office of a prophet.
Israel only had a few full-fledged Prophets, like Jeremiah (Jeremiah 1:5), were called to deliver prophetic words to governments and politicians.
I wonder if many of the failed prophecies in 2020 were due in part to individuals prophesying beyond their calling.
