Donald Trump is promising to use his second term in the White House to defend biblical virtues. For much of the past 16 years, radical government officials have dismissed Jewish and Christian concerns as irrelevant and used the power of the state to coerce people to act contrary to their faith by subsidizing abortion procedures and participating in homosexual wedding ceremonies. Now the new president-elect is vowing to fight back.

“Remember, every Communist regime throughout history has tried to stamp out the churches, just like every fascist regime has tried to co-opt them and control them,” Mr. Trump said in February. “And in America, the radical left is trying to do both. They want to tear down crosses where they can and cover them up with social justice flags. But no one will be touching the cross of Christ under the Trump administration, I swear to you.”

Promises like this have made Mr. Trump very popular among American Christians. Exit polling data published by abc News shows that 63 percent of American Protestant voters cast a ballot for Donald J. Trump, while 58 percent of American Catholic voters did the same. These statistics indicate that roughly 37 million Protestants and 18 million Catholics voted for President Trump. Kamala Harris received votes from only 21 million Protestants and 12 million Catholics, so the data is clear: America’s Christians want political change.

Roman Catholic swing voters were especially critical to Mr. Trump’s blowout victory. Since secularists typically vote Democrat and Protestants typically vote Republican, the Catholic vote usually determines the outcome of American elections. In the 2020 elections, only 47 percent of Catholic voters cast a ballot for Mr. Trump. In the 2024 elections, a full 58 percent of Catholic voters cast a ballot for him. So one of the biggest American political changes of the past four years is a Catholic realignment from the Democrats to the Republicans.

Many evangelicals are comparing Kamala Harris to Jezebel, a wicked queen who persecuted God’s prophets in the days of Elijah and Elisha. A celebrity pastor named Jonathan Cahn has taken this analogy a step further and compared Donald Trump to King Jehu, who vanquished Jezebel and purged Baal worship from Israel. Yet Cahn fails to mention that even though Jehu “destroyed Baal out of Israel,” he did not depart “from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat” by getting rid of “the golden calves” in Bethel and Dan (2 Kings 10:28-29).

Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has compared Mr. Trump to a different king: Jehu’s great-grandson Jeroboam ii. Amos 7:13 says King Jeroboam ii was supported by a religious movement known as “the king’s chapel,” which was centered around the cities of Bethel and Dan. This chapel did not worship pagan deities like Baal, but rather used idols and pagan holidays to worship the true God of Israel. In other words, it represented a counterfeit version of the religion practiced at the temple in Jerusalem.

Anciently, the king’s chapel helped save Israel by destroying “Baal out of Israel” and fighting the type of child sacrifice Baal worship involved. Ironically, it also succeeded in doing something even Jezebel failed to do: banishing God’s prophet from Israel. After the priest Amaziah banished the Prophet Amos to Judah (verse 12), the land of Israel suffered a “famine of the word”—a time when God’s truth was no longer readily available—caused by suppression of that message (Amos 8:11-12).

This isn’t just a warning for an ancient nation; it is a prophecy for modern times. The Bible tells us that a time is coming when God’s message will be suppressed: not by atheists, Communists or the radical left but by counterfeit Christianity. So while President Trump’s victory over the radical left is a positive development, it is more important than ever to prove all things and hold fast to that which is good (1 Thessalonians 5:21).

To learn more, read “Who Is the Modern-Day Jeroboam?”