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Why did God save Trump? We know He did because the bullet grazed Trump’s ear instead of killing him. It was so close one can only believe that Hand of God was involved.

Considering all the incredible things Donald Trump has done for Jews and Israel, one might ask, in a whisper, is Trump the Messiah?

I have to admit I have asked a few people. In Jewish belief, though, the Messiah (also called Mashiach) is a Jew, specifically a descendant of King David, who will be the future leader of the Jewish people and will usher in a messianic age of peace and justice; essentially, a Jewish king from the Davidic line. For those of us who whispered – is it Trump? It cannot be him. He is not Jewish.

But is Trump the one who precedes the Messiah and the Messianic era? I have been told that someone from the line of Esau must do repentance for him before the Messiah can come. The two brothers, Jacob and Esau, are considered the fathers of the two nations – goiim( non-Jews) and leumim(belonging to the nation). Esau, Jacob’s brother, forsake his birthright for a bowl of soup. Their mother, Rebecca, knew that Jacob was meant to be the leader of the Jewish people and helped him to get the blessing from his father that was meant for Esau.

Esau continued on a path that led him astray. At the age of 40, Esau married two Canaanite women: Adah, daughter of Elon the Hittite; and Ahalivamah, daughter of Tzivon the Hivite. His wives made his parents miserable, blatantly sacrificing incense to pagan deities.

Twenty-three years later, he married a third wife—his first cousin, Basmat, daughter of his uncle Ishmael. Ishmael is also considered the father of Muslims. Muslims believe that Muhammad was the descendant of Ishmael. For these transgressions, repentance must be made.

Let’s look at Donald Trump. His father, Fred, donated to many Jewish charities  and built the first Synagogue for Jewish refugees in the 1950’s. Donald learned compassion and empathy from his father. And a love for the Jews and Israel.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21390/israel-people-of-the-book

Zionism is simply the right of the Jewish nation to live peacefully in its ancestral home — the land promised them in millennia past. Canaan is their inheritance, and has served as their sanctuary for nearly 4,000 years in a world that largely despises them.

The great British statesman Winston Churchill said in 1922 that Jews had returned to Palestine, as it was called then — based on its revised name, given by the Roman Emperor Hadrian, who was trying to sever Judea from the Jews — “as of right and not by sufferance, and that this was based on their ancient historical connection.”

The biblical Song of Deborah praises those tribes who participated in the battle under the leadership of Barak, the son of Abinoam, and scorns those who did not: “Why did you sit at home among the sheepfolds?” the song asks; “Why did Dan stay home?”

“Even an ancient vision has its moment of birth,” wrote the Israeli poet Nathan Alterman (1910-1970). Alterman lovingly described Israel: “The surroundings of the Kinneret have been a kind of symbol of earthly beauty to us….”

Alterman’s vision of Israel, Eretz Yisrael, and her natural beauty, seems to have been given birth through a deep commitment to an ancient promise made by the Creator to the patriarch Abraham, forefather of all Jews. This covenant was repeated to his son Isaac and then grandson Jacob, again by the Creator. Moses emphasized this promise at Sinai when he declared to the twelve tribes that G-d would restore to them the land of their ancestors.

In this way, the area to be possessed became known to the world at large as the “promised land.” The biblical book of Bereshit (Genesis) records the extent of the land, Zion.