Is Donald Trump the Anti-Christ? – Fighting for Real Estate – Part #24

“According to the Dispensational Interpretation of Daniel 9:27, Trump has to Be!”

 By Richard Allen – October 13, 2025

This subject was not actually a planned Blog in this series: “Fighting for Real Estate,” but the events of the past several weeks – specifically the “peace deal” between Israel and Hamas – driven in large part by President Donald Trump, has made it critical that we raise the subject. The devotees from the Dispensational camp, drinking “their own Kool-Aid,” have already noticed the strange parallels with their system of interpretation and political events that are happening in the Middle East!  Notice, I did not say “the parallels with their system of interpretation and Biblical Truth.” Their system is not built on Biblical Truth, but the delusions of John Nelson Darby, C.I. Schofield, William Blackstone and others – men who were “Never grounded in New Covenant Theology.”  As to whether Donald Trump is in fact – the Antichrist – the ‘man of sin’ (2 Thesalonians 2:3), let me say from the start, No!  Trump has a “savior complex” and clearly sees himself as a man who rescues others, but he’s not the ‘man of sin.’ There are many Biblical reasons that would rule him out completely. But, for the average ‘Left-Behind’ Dispensationalists, their lack of sound Biblical theology regarding the person and work of Jesus the Messiah, has stirred up concerns among many professing Christians in their camp.

I hope this Blog will show how ridiculous this “Eschatology” is, that is, their doctrine of last things, and help faithful Christians stay grounded in truth – not “endless fables” (2 Peter 1:16).  Let me go straight to this curious doctrine by quoting the passage from Daniel 9 that some Dispensationalists are now quoting:

“During the space of one week (7 years) he will make a firm alliance with many people, and for the space of half a week (3 ½ years) he will put a stop to sacrifice and oblation. And on the temple wing will be the terrible abomination until the end that has been decreed is poured out upon the desolate city” (Daniel 9:27).

Let me point out at the start that Donald Trump has not made a 7 year treaty or covenant with any group of people in the Middle East.  There is no way Trump can put a stop to the Temple Sacrifices and Grain Offerings (oblation) that Daniel mentions – as there is No Temple, No Priesthood and No Sacrifices currently being made by the Jews in Jerusalem!  People should know that Jesus Himself referenced this passage from Daniel in his Olivet Discourse in Matthew 24, Mark 13 and Luke 21. While Matthew and Mark refer to an Abomination that makes Desolate in an ‘obscure’ way – creating questions as to when this event would take place –  Luke’s Gospel openly identifies who the Abomination that makes the City of Jerusalem Desolate, was: The Roman General Titus and his armies encamped around the city:

“But, continued Jesus, ‘when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then you will know that her time of desolation has arrived. Then people in Judaea should run off to the hills, people in Jerusalem itself should get out as fast as they can, and people in the countryside shouldn’t go back into the city’ ” (Luke 21:20-21).

Luke makes clear what Matthew and Mark make obscure – probably because they were fearful of provoking the Roman authorities – these armies were those that surrounded Jerusalem in 67 A.D. to begin the siege. Josephus, a Romanized Jew was eye witness to these events. He records that the Christian congregation in Jerusalem fled the City immediately and went to Pella, escaping the Roman Abomination that Desolated the city, temple and people. While these facts make sense to those who allow “Scripture to interpret Scripture,” those wedded to the Dispensational System of Interpretation will merely scoff and say, “The Abomination of Desolation” is a talking Statue that the Antichrist will set up in a “future rebuilt temple” as he begins to persecute the Jews. So much for “we literally interpret exactly what the Scriptures say.”  Over the past 23 Blogs in this series on “Fighting for Real Estate,” I’ve tried to show that this form of teaching is “selectively literal” when it suits their system, but always “fleshly, carnal and natural.”  They never try to understand the “Spiritual Message” the Scriptures intend, even when Jesus says things contrary to their Interpretation.

Notwithstanding, some of their own are now identifying Trump as the Antichrist, and have noted several parallels between the Donald and their “make-believe” version of the Antichrist. But what this Dispensational system ignores is the whole context of Daniel Chapter 9.  We looked at this passage in more detail in “Fighting For Real Estate – Part #20,” published on June 30, 2025.  It’s clear that the talk about the “sevens” (Hebrew heptad), clearly refers to weeks of years. But there are other players mentioned before Daniel 9:27 that have to be understood to make sense of any of this prophecy. The Angel’s explanation to Daniel had more to say. A total of 490 years of Gentile Domination were decreed upon the Jewish people and Jerusalem before God would accomplish His purposes:   

“Seventy ‘sevens’ (weeks of years) are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy One” (Daniel 9:24).

My readers should understand that the early Church Fathers, along with most Godly men throughout Church history – including the Reformers – all believed that these prophecies were “Fulfilled in Jesus Christ!” Included in this prophetical decree of 70 weeks, the whole passage makes clear that other events will take place: 1.) The Temple would be rebuilt after Israel’s return from captivity in Babylon, Media and Persia. 2.) The Anointed One, that is the Messiah, would be killed, 3.) A ruler would come who would destroy the City of Jerusalem, 4.) The Anointed One will “make a strong covenant with many,” and 5.) The Anointed One will put a complete end to Temple Sacrifices. If these purposes in Jesus Christ have not been accomplished, we are still in our sins and without hope. To any clear-thinking Believer who holds the Scriptures as the “Word of God,” it’s clear that many of these things were accomplished by Christ during his 3 ½ year earthly ministry. Then, for 40 years afterward as God patiently waited, sending Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers, He accomplished the rest. God sought to save “some of the natural branches” (Romans 11:18-27), readying His judgment upon a “stiff-necked and rebellious people” (Acts 7:51). Between 67-70 A.D., God sent the armies of Rome, and literally “tore an incomplete religion of weak and beggarly elements down, one stone from another” (Matthew 24:2).

t's almost crazy to think, but if we flash forward to modern times, many professing Christians now believe and preach that “Jesus only paid it all” for the Gentile Church.  They confidently preach that God still wants to set all those stones back up and renew the sacrifices – which Paul the Apostle said were “weak and beggarly elements that could never take away sin” (Galatians 4:9).  Those Christians are caught on the horns of a dilemma:  Most of these Dispensational Americans, wanting morality and Christian influence to once again be permitted in the “Public Square” (not confined to Church buildings on Sundays), voted for Donald Trump!  And Donald Trump has, and is delivering on his campaign promises.  He is working to stop open persecution of the Church, promoting morality and Christian virtues in the public sphere, and most of all – He has been a friend to the State of Israel!  But because of the unsound theology of Darby, Schofield, Blackstone, Chafer and many other “misguided teachers” over the past 200 years, they are trapped by their own “bogus interpretive schemes.”  Instead of seeing that “it was Jesus who made a strong covenant with the many,” they teach that it’s the Antichrist who will make “a covenant,” allowing the Israelis to tear down one of Islam’s most holy sites – The Dome of the Rock – all to allow the rebuilding of the Jewish Temple, and promote Jesus’ return.

I’m sure over the next months and years – regardless of whether the “peace agreement” in the Middle East holds, or if the Jewish State and its Muslim neighbors resume their “Fight for Real Estate,” there will be many more false pronouncements made by Dispensational teachers. They actually want Israel to “build a Temple” and bring on “The Battle of Armageddon.” This certainly doesn’t sound like the Godly work of “preaching the Gospel to the lost.” Wrong Biblical Interpretation has been the excuse for carnal men to enter the “Fight for Real Estate” for much of Church History. The Church is the New Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22), but many ungodly men have desired to make the Church a replacement for “natural Israel,” that is, the earthly fleshly kingdom, using their twisted interpretation as justification for their own war for Real Estate. As I mentioned over a year ago when I started this series, the fight for “Real Estate” in Palestine is the sad result of Bible teachers failing to grasp the New Covenant of Jesus Christ. Sadly, this has been the failed approach of “misguided teachers” within the Church for the past 1,600 years.  Long before William Blackstone used his Memorial to plead with President Rutherford B. Hayes to push for a Jewish State in Palestine – Catholic and many Protestant Denominations were also “Fighting for other Real Estate” besides the Real Estate in Palestine. The Blackstone Memorial was a petition written by William Blackstone and signed by 431 noteworthy dignitaries, in favor of a Jewish State in Palestine.

Most of the faulty teaching in the Church since the days of the “so-called Christian Emperor, Constantine,” has come because men did not understand the “spiritual nature” of the New Covenant. Whether they were fighting for the Holy Roman Empire or warring in Post-Reformation Germany, it was still the same fleshly, carnal and natural view of the “Kingdom of God,” which propelled violent men to fight for land and power.  If the Lord delays His return, human history – especially “religious history” – will continue as it has for the past 6,000 years: “Fallen Men will Fight for Real Estate to establish a name for themselves, trying to make themselves pleasing to God with human efforts!”  It’s really “A Tale of Two Cities,” the Earthly Jerusalem vs. the Heavenly Jerusalem. Jesus told the Samaritan woman in Chapter 4:

“Jesus said to her, ‘Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.  You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:23-24). 

Soli Deo Gloria