If you have any fundies among your friends—particularly if they’re hypercharismatics—you’ve no doubt heard about a “prophecy” from retired firefighter Mark Taylor predicting that Trump was going to win the White House. Since Trump’s upset win last fall, Taylor has become the latest big thing in the fundicostal world.
Just this week, for instance, Taylor dropped by Jim Bakker’s show to peddle the standard religious right line that Trump is under attack from the devil.
He also claimed that Christians need to pray for the removal of “corrupt” judges and Senators who dare oppose Trump. After all, the Orange Calf is pushing God’s agenda.
But oh, those cansarn details. I managed to take a peek at Taylor’s “prophecy” for myself. Read it here. Notice when it was issued—in April 2011. And Taylor made it very clear that God had told him Trump would defeat Obama in 2012.
The Spirit of God says, in this next election they will spend billions to keep this president in; it will be like flushing their money down the toilet. Let them waist their money, for it comes from and it is being used by evil forces at work, but they will not succeed, for this next election will be a clean sweep for the man I have chosen. They will say things about this man (the enemy), but it will not affect him, and they shall say it rolls off of him like the duck, for as the feathers of a duck protect it, so shall my feathers protect this next president.
One teeny-tiny problem—just a month after Taylor issued this statement, Trump said he would not run for president in 2012. So by any definition, this makes Taylor a false prophet.
And yet, even though any competent reading of his “prophecy” makes it clear that Taylor was predicting a Trump victory in 2012, he avoided any real scrutiny when he went public with his “prophecy” in the spring of 2016 on Rick Wiles’ show. He was a frequent guest on Wiles’ show during the campaign. A few days after the election, he openly boasted that God was “performing everything he said he was going to do.”
No he didn’t, Mark. If that were even half true, why were we celebrating an Obama victory in 2012—and over Romney, not Trump? The fact that the religious right is still rallying behind Taylor proves beyond any doubt that it has made Trump a golden calf. Or rather, an Orange Calf.