Political Prophecies

Some of the prophets who were wrong about Donald Trump winning re-election are claiming that they were right before the 2016 election when they announced that Donald Trump would win, as if that cancelled out their recent error. The problem is that those prophesying prior to the 2016 election did not just predict the winner of the election, they each announced several things that Trump would do. When I read their prophecies from that time, they got the winner of the election right, but many of the other predictions that they made have not been fulfilled.

For example, one prophet prophesied that Donald Trump would become a great prayer warrior. There is no evidence that this happened. Another well-known prophet prophesied that God would “use the wealth that God has given him to expose and launch investigations searching for the truth”. Well, the investigations of corruption did not go far, and Trump did not use his money to pay for them. These are just a couple of examples, but there are plenty more for those who look honestly.

The reality is that most of the prophets who prophesied that Trump would win in 2016 were wrong about much of the detail that they associated with their prediction. That should have set off alarm bells for them, and caused them to work out why they got so much wrong before launching into prophecies about the 2020 election.

Like prophesying the sex of an unborn baby, prophesying the outcome of an election with two contenders is not that hard (because there is a 50 percent chance of being right, even if God has not spoken). Even if one is the underdog, tossing a coin would give the correct result every third time, so being right about the winner does not mean much. It could just be a lucky break. A better way to test the accuracy of the Trump prophets is to examine the other events that they prophesied prior to 2016 and check whether they happened. According to this test, most failed to hear from God clearly. That should have been a warning to them, and to the church.