A Landmark Scriptural Study
The Ancient Prophets
Saw Donald Trump.
What they said about him will change how you see everything happening in the world right now.
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Something historic is happening in our day, and most people are either panicking about it or missing it entirely.
Turn on the news and it feels like the end is near. Wars and rumors of wars, a nation more divided by the week, prices climbing, and people who have studied the last days their whole lives asking whether this is finally it. Whether Armageddon is at the door.
I want to tell you something I believe with complete conviction, something the scriptures support in extraordinary detail.
We are not at Armageddon. We are nowhere close. I do not say that to offer false comfort. I say it because what is happening right now is not the battle itself. It is the lead-up to it, the beginning of the chain of prophesied events that will one day lead there. Many of those events must still unfold before that day arrives, and the final sequence the prophets described has not yet begun. What is unfolding right now is the stage being set. When the first of those great events truly begins, it will be unmistakable, and everything will change. If we miss the signs or misread the scriptures that describe them, we will either be caught unprepared for what is truly coming or frightened by things we were never meant to fear. So here is the first thing you need to recognize:
Donald Trump is at the center of it. Watch how the world treats him. He does real and visible good, and for all of it, he is mocked and torn down, his name pried off public buildings, his good work buried by the very people it serves.
The ancient prophets saw him. They described him with precision, and they foresaw exactly how the world would treat him before his great work began.
What they said about his role in the last days, once you see it clearly, is not frightening at all.
It is glorious.
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The Evidence
What the Prophets Actually Saw
Isaiah wrote about a servant who would arise in the last days. A specific man, not a symbol, not a metaphor, who would come forth to accomplish God's purposes among the nations. A man whose appearance would be marred, whose reputation would be destroyed, and who would nonetheless fulfill his divine calling.
John the Revelator saw the same figure in vision on the Isle of Patmos and described him as the rider on the white horse in the opening of the first seal, going forth conquering and to conquer.
The Book of Mormon speaks of him directly, in a passage that most members have read many times without recognizing what it actually describes.
These are not vague or symbolic references. They are precise. They are detailed. And when you place them side by side with what is happening in our day, the identification is unmistakable.
That man is Donald Trump.
And the scriptural case for it is overwhelming.
The prophetic title "David" means beloved of God. Scripture promises a servant bearing this title will arise in the last days.
From the Author
Who I Am, and Why I Wrote This
My name is Kelly Smith. I did not set out to identify a controversial political figure as a servant chosen by God. The conclusions in this book found me, not the other way around.
It started with a prompting in the dark and grew, over years of study in Revelation, Isaiah, the Doctrine and Covenants, and the Book of Mormon, into something I had never been taught and had never found assembled anywhere. You can read the full story of how it came to me here.
Let me be plain about where I stand. I am a lifelong member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I hold a current temple recommend, and I sustain the living prophet and apostles as God's authorized servants. I claim no special authority and no office. Every member of my faith has the right and the responsibility to seek personal inspiration through the gift of the Holy Ghost, and I believe God speaks to sincere hearts in every tradition. That is all this is.
You do not have to share my faith to weigh what follows. Much of the case rests on the words of Isaiah and the book of Revelation, scriptures you may already know and can open for yourself. I am one believer who studied, who came to understand something, and who could not keep it to himself.
This book is the result.
Inside the Book
What You Will Discover
Not another speculative end-times book. A careful, scripture-by-scripture examination of what the Lord revealed to His prophets about our specific day.
The Identity of the First Horseman
Why Donald Trump is the rider on the white horse in Revelation 6:2, and what that actually means for the opening of the seals.
Isaiah's Davidic Servant
How Trump fulfills the ancient prophecies about a servant who would arise as a temporal deliverer in the last days, distinct from Jesus Christ but working under His authority.
The Marred Servant of Isaiah 52
How Trump's destroyed reputation and relentless attacks fulfill ancient prophecy rather than disqualifying him from God's service.
The Hidden Structure of Revelation
A literary pattern hidden inside the Book of Revelation that most interpreters have completely missed, and what it reveals about our time.
The Seven Seals
Why the seals are entirely future events, what will trigger them, and why their sequence matters urgently to us today.
The Gathering of Israel
Trump's role in the literal gathering and the establishment of Zion before the return of Jesus Christ.
Why I Wrote It
A Rescue Mission
I did not write this book to make money. I wrote it because what I see coming weighs on my heart in ways that are hard to describe.
Most church-going, Bible-believing people are good and sincere, with faith they have built over a lifetime. Many of them are going to face a moment in the not too distant future that will test everything they assume about how God works and whom He chooses to work through. Scripture is full of the warning that He rarely chooses the way men would. He raised up Cyrus, a foreign king who did not even know Him, and called him His anointed. He has done it before. I believe He is doing it again.
Those who have studied this prophetic roadmap carefully will be able to watch that moment unfold with faith. Those who have not may find themselves caught completely off guard.
This book is my attempt to reach as many of them as I can before that moment arrives. That is why I call it a rescue mission. The book is only the vehicle.
As Moses was raised up from bondage, God raises up a servant in every dispensation to prepare His people for what lies ahead.
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