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Government Conspiracies and A Faithful Christian Response To Trump’s Election
In Matthew 28:18-20, Christ assigned us our duty in the world, saying,
“All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to keep all that I commanded you; and behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
This rich deposit of scriptural gold begins with two women looking for Jesus’ body on the third day after the crucifixion. At the tomb, the women encounter an angel who tells them, “He is not here. He is risen, as He said he would.” The angel instructed the women to go tell the disciples. Filled with joy and awe on their way to relay the Good News, the risen Christ, the Lord Jesus Himself, met them on the path, and repeated the angel’s command, telling them to go ahead and tell the disciples that He is risen and where to meet Him in Galilee. (vv.5-10) The Roman soldiers guarding the tomb, reporting directly to the Jewish authorities in this case, informed the chief priests that Jesus had risen from the dead and His tomb was now empty. The chief priests were well aware of Jesus’ claims to divine authority because they had been trying to stop his preaching for over three years.
What happens next is the very first account of a government conspiracy to suppress the truth when they learned that the King of Kings had risen, He lives, and has authority over everything, even death itself. They knew if the news of Jesus’ resurrection were to spread they would likely lose control of their region and lose positions of power and prestige.
So, the governmental response to the very first gospel message was to cover it up. They bribed the guards with a large sum of money to spread the false narrative that Jesus’ disciples had come to the tomb at night and stolen His body while the guards slept. To hinder the gospel, the Jewish authorities conspired with the Roman guards to suppress the truth about Jesus.
And the guards dutifully spread that propaganda, and as Matthew notes, the false narrative – that Jesus' body was stolen – became widely circulated and persists even to this day. The Jewish leaders knowingly fabricated and broadcast a lie about God to preserve their high rank and to obfuscate the truth about the true King who has all authority in heaven and earth.
In the final section of Matthew 28, Jesus appears to the disciples on a mountain in Galilee and declares that "all authority in heaven and on earth" has been given to Him. Then Jesus commissioned His disciples to "go and make disciples of all nations," baptizing them and teaching them to obey His commandments. By faithful application, this clarifies our role in spreading Jesus' teachings throughout the world and with the whole counsel of God available to us today in His fully sufficient and authoritative revealed word, we know what the Lord expects from us and Jesus ends the message with an eternally comforting promise that He will be with us "to the end of the age."
Christians are citizens of Heaven AND ambassadors of Christ’s Kingdom. Therefore, politics is a valid domain for Christian engagement. Our responsibility is to live out our faith through Kingdom principles, even in politics.
God has not called us to personally change anyone’s heart or to transform the world ourselves. Only the Holy Spirit can genuinely reverse rebellion in the heart’s of men and women and compel them to conviction, repentance, and give them a new heart.
Yet, God still uses us in building His kingdom, one soul at a time. How? By sharing the good news with our lost world, pushing back against today’s flawed beliefs, and pointing people to the only true foundation of human dignity—biblical Christianity.
One way we do this is by “pushing the antithesis,” or revealing the weaknesses in anti-Christian worldviews by showing their logical conclusions and contradictions. For example, why should human rights matter if humanity is just the product of random processes? We counter false narratives and false gospels by demonstrating, with God’s truth, the emptiness of man-centered religion, philosophy, and secularism.
As Neil Postman wrote in Amusing Ourselves to Death, “Americans no longer talk to each other; they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas; they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities, and commercials.” This age has become one of self-worship, technological obsession, and a lack of true meaning or direction. Our understanding of what it means to be human is up for grabs, and this confusion shapes everything—politics, education, ethics, family, even our views on gender and life itself.
We’re living in the middle of a moral revolution. The world tells us that human identity and meaning are self-made, a personal project. This makes it harder for people to understand what sets humans apart from animals, and it leaves humanity’s value and purpose blurred. The root of this confusion is found in fundamental definitions: What is a human? A man? A woman? A baby? Our culture egregiously disregards the biblical basis for human dignity, and with that, our society’s hostility to Christian truths grows.
The true answer to our nation’s struggle is re-enchantment, to be reqcquainted with the Imago Dei—the truth that every person is made in the image of God. An eternal truth that helps us understand our own fallenness, and weakness, but also the mercy, grace, and dignity that God bestows on us. Our purpose is found in being conformed to Christ, the God-man who redeems and restores our humanity, and transforms how we live, love, and serve.
Every person is led by some guiding belief and our lives and witness should always point others toward God.
We know that all humans desire truth, beauty, and goodness. Our hearts, aligned with Christ, grounded in reality, can make use of the right guides God has implanted in all of us. We appeal to reason to guide one to truth, imagination to guide one to beauty, and conscience to guide one to goodness.
We must never judge the progress of The Kingdom by the headlines or the apparent success of the wicked. Likewise, we ought not interpret a perceived political victory as a definite mark of God’s direct blessing. If it is good, it has come to us through God’s grace and providence and we certainly should claim Christ’s promise of His future victorious return.
Everyone is glad to share in Christ’s victory. Fewer are eager to praise God for the privilege of suffering with the Savior, but we’re called to endure and persevere. (John 15) God’s kingdom doesn’t advance on our time and because of our desires or personal triumphs. The kingdom will come when God’s work is complete.
Think of how the disciples must have felt when Christ was crucified at the height of their ministry. The headlines might have read something like, “Fringe Extremist Apprehended & Executed.” The Roman officials were sure they had put down a large rebellion. The Jewish religious leaders belived they were honoring God by executing Christ.
Jesus was publicly mocked, shamed, and brutally killed. The disciples feared for their lives and scattered, just as Jesus said they would. But, the beauty of their trials and tribulations, while the world thought it had won, was that history was actually being rewritten and the world forever changed. Jesus’ resurrection marked the start of the church age, the decline of the Roman Empire, and a time when the gospel spread and humanity saw unprecedented progress.
Don’t let headlines lure you into a false sense of security or drag you into despair. Remember Jesus’ words:
“In this world, you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
If we live our lives in a way that honors our grandchildren or all those who will come after us, establishing a legacy, believing that we are impacting generations to come, our perspective will be new and our approach to everything will be changed. We will live with less anxiety, less anger and confusion, be more purposeful and productive for God’s kingdom.
Some describe the gospel as solely what Jesus has done for us. But Jesus said, “If you love me, you will keep my commandments” (John 14:15). He used the parable of two builders to illustrate this: one built on rock, one on sand. When the storm came, only the house on the rock stood. This parable’s meaning is clear—a solid foundation is crucial. Building on rock, which represents God’s word and our obedience to it, is wise; building on sand—our shifting desires—is foolish.
For believers, the rock is the word of God and living in obedience to it. Sand is the ever-changing will of man. The storm represents persecution and life’s hardships in a world hostile to God’s ways. The wise man builds on the solid foundation of God’s word, taking “every thought captive to the obedience of Christ” (2 Corinthians 10:5). The foolish man relies on himself.
To be clear, we rejoice at the endless great blessings from our sovereign God. But, persecution is also a blessing. When we understand that our purpose includes sharing in both Christ’s victory and suffering, we grasp the deeper meaning of the gospel. It’s not only about what Christ has done for us individually, but about the life He calls us to lead in Him—grounded, enduring, and pointing others toward the only true hope.
Let’s keep this in mind as we move into a new political era.
SOLI DEO GLORIA!
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Really great. So on point biblically and where everyone should keep their heads. Thank you