After serving as the 45th US President and losing election to the 46th President, Donald J Trump has bounced back to become the 47th President of the United States. He will be the second US President to serve two non-consecutive terms following Grover Cleveland, the 22nd President who lost election to the 23rd President but bounced back to become the 24th President in the 1890s. The 24th season is bounce-back season! Jesus bounced back from the dead in Luke 24!
What is the significance of Trump becoming the 47th President of the United States? What can we expect in the season of the 47th President of the United States?
The Bibllical patterns for the 47th season indicate six things we must apply to the season of the 47th President of the United States:
- IT IS A SEASON TO CELEBRATE THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD
Donald Trump’s win in the 2024 US election to become the 47th President is a clear message that the earth belongs to God as Psalm 24 says; and that He is the King and Lord as Psalm 47 declares. Psalm 47 draws our attention to the kingship of God and calls us to engage in triumphant celebration to praise Him. Psalms 47 says, “Oh, clap your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph! [2] For the LORD Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth. [3] He will subdue the peoples under us, And the nations under our feet. [4] He will choose our inheritance for us, The excellence of Jacob whom He loves. Selah [5] God has gone up with a shout, The LORD with the sound of a trumpet. [6] Sing praises to God, sing praises! Sing praises to our King, sing praises! [7] For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding. [8] God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne. [9] The princes of the people have gathered together, The people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted”.
Here are three things that Psalm 47 calls us to do that are applicable to this season of the 47th President:
i. Clap your hands (applaud God)
ii. Shout to God with the voice of triumph
iii. Sing praises to God
This is a call to praise God for the victory. A lot went into this election to make Trump victorious – manpower, money, methodology – but all glory must go to God. This prophetic celebration is an acknowledgement of God’s majesty in this season of the United States. It is also Heaven’s weapon and prescription against all that the enemy will want to do the season of the 47th President. Praising God and celebrating His majesty are keys to winning battles of this season. The 47th season is for acknowledging the Lord as Sovereign and King over America and all the earth. It is a time to celebrate God as the Lord and Owner of all things. As Pharaoh became the owner of, and had claim to, all Egypt in Genesis 47, that is how Psalms 47 shows that America belongs to God. He can put one down and raise another up.
- THIS IS A SEASON TO FOCUS ON THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF THINGS
The season of the 47th US President will express the 47th book of the Bible (2 Corinthians). This book is a call to focus on God and on the God-side of things – faith, the invisible, the inner man, the spirit, and so on. It is a season to enthrone the spiritual over and above the material; the spirit above flesh, the invisible above the visible, heaven above the earth, the supernatural above the natural, and God above man. Americans should focus more on the spiritual side of another Trump presidency. What are the possible spiritual benefits of Trump presidency in this season of the United States? The things that happen in a 47th season come to draw the attention of men, from themselves and things around them, to God – the Creator, Sovereign Ruler, and Sustainer, of the Universe (2 Corinthians 1: 8-9). The season of the 47th President should be a time to look at people and things from a spiritual perspective. This is a season to exalt the word of God, and the will of God, above all other considerations in America. We should give God the room He deserves in this season by interpreting all things from God’s perspective. The 47th book of the Bible says we do not look at the things that are seen but at the unseen things. It says we walk by faith and not by sight. The Church in America ought to have the 47th book and 47th chapters of the Bible handy in this season.They are the guiding lights for the season of the 47th US President.
- IT IS SEASON TO COUNTER ‘DRYNESS’ WITH HEAVENLY WISDOM AND POWER
The 47th season is a time of war against dryness. It is time to address dryness – spiritually, materially (economically), socially and politically.
In Genesis 47, the famine in the land became very severe. Money failed in Egypt. The people were in great need and sold themselves to Pharaoh to have food. Joseph was prepared for the season. Donald Trump is supposed to be a Joseph to America and all nations in the four years from January 2025 to January 2029 when the world will go through a famine and will need food more than money.
In the 47th chapter of Ezekiel, water flowed from the threshold of the temple and healed whatever it touched in the land. The 47th season is a season of healing and restoration when God judges disease, distress and death in the land. Ezekiel 47 is about the healing waters that flowed from under the threshold of the temple; and brought healing to waters in the seas and whatever else it touches except the swamps. The healed waters caused the multiplication of fish and fishermen and the growing of trees used for food and medicine. Water is refreshing; and people need refreshing in the 47th season. This chapter also speaks of the distribution of land to the twelve tribes of Israel. The waters of Ezekiel 47 flowed from 1947 when both Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the Voice of Healing Movement kicked off in America. Let us pray that healing and revival streams will flow again in America in the season of the 47th President.
- IT IS A SEASON TO SHOW GREAT RESILIENCE
The 47th book of the Bible shows that the 47th season is a time to stand up to adversity and refuse to go down. 2 Corinthians 4:8-10 says, “We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; [9] persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed- [10] always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body.” This is not a season to day-dream but a time to prepare to stand.
- IT’S A SEASON OF JUDGMENT AGAINST THE SPIRIT OF BABYLON
In the 47th season, God demonstrates His sovereignty in abasing the proud and exalting the humble. Isaiah 47 Is about the humiliation of Babylon. The spirit of Babylon has risen in our world. It will reach it’s zenith by 2027 and then go down . The imperial spirit of Babylon seeks to push nations to swallow up nations. This spirit has possessed Russia, Iran and China. The season of the 47th President is for crushing modern ‘Babylon Imperialism’. The 47th season is a time of vengeance against the proud, wicked and arrogant. This is a time when the mighty and ungodly are brought low. Isaiah 47:1 says, “Come down and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon; Sit on the ground without a throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans! For you shall no more be called tender and delicate”.
Think of 1947 and the British Empire. In this year, India won independence by non-violent resistance and humbled Great Britain. The British empire began to lose power and to decolonize territories. She did not prove to be a good custodian of the nations God gave her. The independence of India in 1947 was a statement that the great empire shall go down without the force of arms – though she and her allies won WW2 by military might. We have come to another 47th season!
- THE 47TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WILL GO IN THE SPIRIT AND POWER OF SAMSON.
The United States is going through the season of her 7th seven Presidents. This season began in 2001 with Bush ’43. This season of the 7th seven Presidents is a Book of Judges season in the United States. The 7th seven Presidents are like the judges in the 7th book of the Bible. They are raised and called to fight for America as the judges fought for Israel in the 7th book of the Bible. A major part of their calling is to fight terrorist enemies of America – push them back, secure the land against infiltration and recover whatever the enemies have taken. Donald Trump is privileged to have two slots in this season – as the 45th and 47th President. As the 45th President, he was Gideon to America. Like Gideon in Judges 7-9, America turned against him after he had helped America. As the 47th President, Trump is Samson (Judges 13-15). Like Samson, Trump is called to fight the modern ‘Philistine’ enemies of America. This agrees with the Jeremiah 47 pattern for the 47th season. Jeremiah 47 is about God’s counsel against the Philistines. It’s about God’s season of plundering the Philistines. Jeremiah 47:1-4 says, “The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before Pharaoh attacked Gaza. [2] Thus says the LORD: “Behold, waters rise out of the north, And shall be an overflowing flood; They shall overflow the land and all that is in it, The city and those who dwell within; Then the men shall cry, And all the inhabitants of the land shall wail. [3] At the noise of the stamping hooves of his strong horses, At the rushing of his chariots, At the rumbling of his wheels, The fathers will not look back for their children, Lacking courage, [4] Because of the day that comes to plunder all the Philistines, To cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper who remains; For the LORD shall plunder the Philistines, The remnant of the country of Caphtor”.
As the 47th President of the United States, Trump will prove to be the strongest of the 7th seven Presidents. God will protect him and help him greatly. He had been anointed and preserved “for such a time as this”. He will not have an easy time but he will record great exploits. He will succeed no matter who supports or does not support him but he will by no means fully deliver America from her Philistine enemies. The two presidents who will come after Trump to complete the season of the 7th seven Presidents must be received from the Altar – if America will be saved from leadership vacuum, spiritual bankruptcy and civil war. While we celebrate Trump’s victory and season as the 47th US President, let us go to work to secure the future. There is no time to wait or waste!
PRAYER POINTS
1. Pray that God will save Trump from people and countries who hate him.
2. Pray that Trump will fully trust in God, stay committed to Him and depend on the wisdom and power of the Holy Spirit.
3. Pray that God will help Trump to pick the right people who will help him fulfill God’s purposes this season.
4. Pray that the spirit, wisdom and strength of Joseph be upon Trump to save Americans and many nations from economic distress this season.
5. Pray that the captive-making spirit of Babylon harassing the world at this time will lick the dust this season.
6. Pray that streams of healing, revival and restoration will throughout America and become “a river that cannot be passed” in this season of the 47th US President.
God bless America!
