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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
When the Founding Fathers mutually pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to each other, they did so “with a firm Reliance on the Protection of divine Providence.” In signing the Declaration of Independence, each of those men was committing treason against the British Empire, and divine providence was the only thing standing between them and the gallows.
Divine providence was also the only thing standing between Donald Trump and death Saturday evening. Had the would-be assassin’s bullet been a fraction of an inch to the right, we would be having a much different conversation right now. If the attempted murder of Donald Trump “is evidence of the reality of evil in the world,” as Robert Jeffress, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, said, Trump’s survival is evidence of divine providence.
Not everyone – not even all Christians – agrees on divine providence and what it means, but the belief of many Reformed Christians mirrors that of the Founders. God did not simply create the universe in six days and walk away; He’s involved in every aspect of His creation. The belief in and understanding of providence is taken simply and at face value from the Bible. As theologian Dr. R.C. Sproul wrote, “Christians have had an acute sense that this is our Father’s world and that the affairs of men and nations, in the final analysis, are in His hands.”
Renowned English preacher Charles Spurgeon took a more personalized view of providence by saying, “I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes.” Perhaps the simplest and most direct perspective I’ve heard comes from a friend at my own church who, in a discussion of providence some weeks ago, interjected, “What is providence? Everything that happens.”
Some people will say that Trump is alive today because he is lucky because he shifted in one direction and not the other because the gunman was a bad shot or something similar. None of these assessments are necessarily wrong, but they are superficial. For every theory on why Trump’s life was spared on July 13, there is one consistent and nagging question: Why?
Why did one thing happen and not another? If he did shift in one direction and not another, why? If the gunman failed to accurately correct for windage in taking his shot, why did he fail? The inescapable ‘why’ prevents us from arriving at any satisfactory conclusion. Some may call it fate, others kismet, but those are just terms used when people don’t have any better explanation, any temporal explanation, for events and their outcomes.
Some will scoff at the notion of divine providence, but it’s no more unlikely or simplistic than a bumper sticker reading ‘Stuff Happens’ or some less polite version. Like many Reformed Christian beliefs that are criticized by atheists or others who believe in something other than the Bible, divine providence is likely to be dismissed as the product of a weak mind, one that is unable or unwilling to search for some tangible explanation to events. In fact, it’s quite the opposite.
One of the greatest minds in human history gives us some insight into the question of divine providence. During early explorations of quantum theory, some of the most robust discussions involved whether the universe is subject to chaos or to order. One man who leaned toward order was Albert Einstein. In defending his position, Einstein said, “God does not play dice.”
There’s no record of Einstein’s belief in a personal God; he often referred to himself as agnostic. But throughout his work in physics, Einstein knew there was something out there that held sway over the cosmos, resulting in the kind of order seen in, say, the predictability of a solar eclipse. He did not dogmatically dismiss God.
Not everything that is real and true is tangible and visible. Not every worldview is expansive enough to believe that which cannot be seen. That is a great pity, given that only five percent of our universe can be seen; the other 95% we have to take entirely on faith, whether it’s faith in God or in a scientist we have never met. Divine providence is part of that 95%.
Something directed that bullet to Donald Trump’s right ear instead of his skull and brain. It is the same thing on which our Founding Fathers relied in forging the nation in which we live, the same thing that led a rag-tag army of starving, ill-equipped colonists to defeat the world’s preeminent superpower in combat, the same thing that gave us the genius of the American Constitution. None of it was supposed to happen. But it did happen, and it happened for a reason.
GOTTA READ THESE – TRUMP STILL IN GRAVE DANGER!!!!
https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/16/bidens-team-deliberately-kneecapped-trumps-security-to-allow-an-assassination-attempt/
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https://thefederalist.com/2024/07/15/any-assassination-investigation-that-includes-merrick-garland-or-chris-wray-is-a-coverup/
“I believe that every particle of dust that dances in the sunbeam does not move an atom more or less than God wishes.” <<< Garbage talk !!!
This is getting into Predestination…
Consider the days before the Great Flood… and God saying… "It repented the Lord that he made man"…
God may intervene… and especially… those that do wrong are not born to be Predestined to hell…
The choices of mankind clearly angers God…
Maybe we should take it as a warning as well. They might not fail, next time. Are we ready to take up the mantle if that happens? Can we take up the mantle now?
Superb article. Being reintroduced to the topic of Divine Providence myself again recently, and watching the events unfold I am stunned into silence by the hand of providence. As the angel said to Abraham “Is there anything to hard for the Lord?”
I am a Jew, not a Christian, but I believe that God saved Donald Trump so that Moses like, he could part the Red Sea and raise one side to a House majority victory and the other to a Senate majority victory that will drown the Democrats, including the backstabbers of Israel.
So what dose that phony Pope have to say about this?!
Probably had to cancel a planned Te Deum
Did divine providence kill the father of the girl he protected?
You’re making too much rational sense. Stop making rational sense. You’re interrupting our magical mystery tour with all your rational sense.
And who are you to question God’s mysterious ways? Reason is limited, God is beyond your puny mind to understand.
“Man’s mind is his basic means of survival—and of self-protection. Reason is the most selfish human faculty: it has to be used in and by a man’s own mind, and its product—truth—makes him inflexible, intransigent, impervious to the power of any pack or any ruler. Deprived of the ability to reason, man becomes a docile, pliant, impotent chunk of clay, to be shaped into any subhuman form and used for any purpose by anyone who wants to bother.
There has never been a philosophy, a theory or a doctrine that attacked (or “limited”) reason, which did not also preach submission to the power of some authority. Philosophically, most men do not understand the issue to this day; but psycho-epistemologically, they have sensed it since prehistoric times. Observe the nature of mankind’s earliest legends—such as the fall of Lucifer, “the light-bearer,” for the sin of defying authority; or the story of Prometheus, who taught men the practical arts of survival. Power-seekers have always known that if men are to be made submissive, the obstacle is not their feelings, their wishes or their “instincts,” but their minds; if men are to be ruled, then the enemy is reason.” – Ayn Rand
Most people are saying it is devine providence and you have no proof that it wasn’t because you can’t disprove the existence of God.
Neither can your addled “Goddess”.
You will always be on the outs.
You have descended into THX-land. He said the same thing to me. I don’t need to know that you are an atheist. Actually, no one does.
I don’t need to be an atheist to believe that man has free will.
No sir. Corey Comperatore had free will. He used that free will to cover his daughter and wife. On a much lower scale, sacrificed himself for his loved ones, as Jesus did for us. From his family, he was a devote Christian. For Corey, there was only bodily death. In his devotion, he believed “[W]hosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.”
The pain is left to the living missing their husband/father. We all bodily die, I can’t think of a more glorious way to go, than giving the ultimate sacrifice for the ones you love.
I agree but if Trump being saved was divine providence then so was the death of the father.
Trump did not know he was being shot at, free will did not come into play, except that he showed up at the rally. The father did make a decision based on shots being fired. That decision was to expose himself to fire acting as a shield for his family.
could it not have been, as I believe, that the bullet missed Trump enough because thousands of people have asked God to protect Trump on his journey to the presidency? God does answer prayers.
I do not disagree with you, but add that divine providence is compatible with and often uses our free will.
You are dismissing the element of free will of the father to protect his children at all costs. One of the strongest instincts known to man and the animal world. Donald Trump was just standing there speaking. Even through this incompetence and the Secret Service failures, the bullet did not meet its intended victim’s target.
In a sense, yes.
It is called God’s permissive will. God permits evil choices and allows people to experience the consequences and all the collateral damage. But God is Sovereign, knowing everything and working all things for our good and His glory.
The cross of Jesus Christ is a supreme example of God’s permissive will.
Mo, your question is a very good one. Let’s go a little deeper. What about the daughter(s) whom that father protected with his own body? Do any of us know what that father would have faced had he lived? A dead wife? And perhaps a daughter? Painful cancer? What about the daughter whose life was saved? We do not know how her life will weigh in the balance, for she is very young yet.
Only God knows these things and can be trusted to do what is right. The LORD gives and the LORD takes away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.
Thats not a question with an answer……
Divine providence also saved Hitler from being assassinated by that bomb in the briefcase.
Don’t ask why God saved Hitler from being assassinated, God works in mysterious ways, it’s beyond our puny minds to understand.
The Last Prophet has spoken. I am the Last Prophet.
Further revelations will be forthcoming as they are given to me. The Last Prophet has spoken.
It’s so easy to point every failed assassination attempt especially when it’s one of your heroes.
Tell that to the Mohammedans.
No angel descended from heaven to change the windage of a rifle round or sat on Trump’s shoulder and moved his head.
God was there that day in the same sick twisted diseased decadence that pulls the trigger misses the shot.
God is here today because if someone else was up on that stage being shot at, someone like me, we are having a much different conversation right now. I would answer with combat sorties not conventions. Everything dies. The world dies. Except the freak who started this. I would extract his glymphic system and keep him alive in horrible medical experiments that make the Kims look good.
To a good general luck is important. You’ve maxed out everything else.
Whatever it was that prevented DJT from being killed that day, I pray to the Lord and give thanks.
Jehovah uses imperfect men to fulfill his prophecies and punishment. I believe this is true of DJT. Only God can read a man’s heart but I believe Trump is sincere in his love and beliefs in doing what he believes is right even if he dies for it. Not many men have that character these days.
Jehovah is the tribal jewish god. Not The God of gods
Wouldn’t divine providence protect young innocent children slaughtered in classrooms?
And where was Divine providence while the retired firefighter took a deadly shot?
The shooter and whoever arranged for the shooting meant for evil, but God meant it for good.
When Jews and/or Christians incorporate “The Book of Trump” into their respective Holy Scripture? Only then will what happened last saturday be recognized as Divine Providence.
Recognized in retrospect. And with a long lens. Sorry, Scott.