Donald Trump and the Torture Monsters Sent by Jesus
There’s a story about Jesus Christ in the Bible that you probably haven’t heard of.
It’s not because it’s boring. There is magic and spiritual power in this story unlike anything that takes place in the Gospels.
Nonetheless, this story is something that many Christians don’t like to talk about it. They like to pretend it doesn’t exist. In fact, many Christians don’t even know it’s there.
Christianity is quiet about this biblical story because it reveals things about the character of Jesus that most Christians don’t want to confront.
Nonetheless, what happens in this story about Jesus isn’t marginal to Christianity. In fact it shows how the Christian lust for power during the Roman Empire, and ever since then, all the way up through the Christian Nationalism of Donald Trump, isn’t a deviation from the Bible and the teachings of Jesus. The cruel violence often perpetrated in the name of Christianity is an expression of a sacred sadism that was embraced by Jesus in the end.
By the end of the Bible, Jesus abandoned all that talk about peace and love and turning the other cheek. In Chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation in the New Testament, Jesus unleashed swarms of giant locusts with human faces in battle armor. Their tails ended in stings like those of scorpions.
Jesus sent those scorpion locust monsters out into the world to inflict agonizing torture on anybody who refused to submit to his authority.
The Kingdom of Heaven under Jesus will begin with ruthless violence. Jesus will gain power not through love and understanding, but through punishment and pain.
I’m not making it up. That’s what the Bible says.
In the Book of Revelation, Jesus returns to Earth after his death to tell John of Patmos what will happen when Jesus takes over the world in a global bloodbath.
First, Jesus tells John about what he approves of and what hates about the way different Christian churches are doing things. Yes, Jesus talks about how much he hates some Christians, because they aren’t doing Christianity the way he wants them to do it.
The Christian practice of blaming and shaming people begins in the Bible itself, with Jesus himself. In the end, Jesus decided that insults and threats of violence were the way he wanted Christians to extend their power.
That’s why Jesus told John of Patmos, in the Book of Revelation Chapter 9, that he was going to send monsters to terrorize the people of the earth. Jesus wanted people to obey him, and to fear him, not in an abstract way, but with the knowledge that if they didn’t join in with Christian orthodoxy, Jesus would send monsters to torture them.
Torture and violence is the culmination of the narrative arc of Jesus.
If you read the Christian New Testament of the Bible as a narrative, it’s clear what kind of values Christianity actually represents. The tolerance and compassion of the Sermon on the Mount is just a peaceful phase that Jesus goes through. As the Gospels progress, Jesus loses his temper, begins to violently assault people who disagree with him, and even threatens the genocidal annihilation of entire cities unless they agree to worship him as a god king.
Jesus plainly explains that his plan is not to bring peace, but to divide people. He warns that he is going to return carrying a sword.
In the Book of Revelation, Jesus explains his plan to make good on his violent threats. The Book of Revelation is the very last book of the New Testament, the part of the story of Jesus that reveals the conclusion of his character’s transformation from a peace-loving rabbi to an aspiring king who wants to rule the world and is willing to torture and kill huge numbers of people in order to achieve his goal.
The torture locusts are just one of the violent, sadistic plans Jesus has in store for those who dare to defy his lust for power.
The torture locusts of the Book of Revelation are an expression of the terror Jesus intends to inflict upon the world.
The entire purpose of these monster friends of Jesus is to provoke a feeling of horror.
They have the bodies of locusts, the tails of scorpions, the faces of men and the hair of women, wearing golden crowns and battle armor. Their teeth are sharp and predatory, like lions’ teeth.
Worst of all is the sting of these monsters. The sting has the power to inflict the worst agony imaginable, lasting five months. The New Testament states that the pain caused by the torture beasts of Jesus will be so bad that the people who suffer under it will beg to die.
Jesus and his angels order his armor of torture monsters not to kill anyone. People will plead for death in order to escape the pain that Jesus has inflicted upon them, but Jesus will allow them no mercy.
Why?
Jesus wants everyone to understand that his orders are to be obeyed, and that he is to be worshipped as a god king. Jesus will not allow for dissent or doubt. Anyone who fails to obey him and worship him will be brutally punished.
The hordes of monstrous torturers are angels doing the will of God.
Some Christians try to deflect blame for the violent atrocities of the Book of Revelation Chapter 9 by claiming that the cruel locust monsters are demons defying the will of God. The biblical text is quite clear, however, in referring to the monsters as angels.
What’s more, the giant locust scorpion tormenters of the New Testament are promoting the authority of Jesus and the Christian god. They obey the orders of an angel of God, and brutalize 99.99% of the Earth’s human population in order to enforce obedience to Jesus in preparation for a military campaign by Jesus and the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven.
The monsters of the Book of Revelation are on the side of any antiChrist. To the contrary, they are God’s punishers working to increase the earthly power of Jesus and his human followers.
The cruelty of Jesus in the Book of Revelation matches the cruelty of Christians today.
Many Christians prefer to dismiss the Book of Revelation, pretending that it is too confusing to understand or that it doesn’t represent the teachings of the real Jesus.
First of all, the Book of Revelation is not too confusing to understand. Its language is certainly not ideally written, but it doesn’t take much work to comprehend its meaning.
Second, if there ever was a real Jesus, that person was lost to time long ago. What we’re left with are stories and polemics about Jesus that were written decades, even generations, after the time at which legends say Jesus died. What we have is the New Testament of the Bible, a collection of documents that Christian authorities decided would become canon in the religion. The Book of Revelation is part of that canon.
If you reject the Book of Revelation, you reject the canon of Christianity. That’s fine if you want to do that, but there’s no objective basis for saying that the Gospel of John represents the real Jesus while the Book of Revelation does not.
What is particularly revealing about the centrality of the Book of Revelation, its position as the final apex of the morality of Jesus, is the embrace of its moral vision by most Christians alive today.
Let’s state this plainly: The majority of American Christians voted for Donald Trump in 2016, in 2020, and again in 2024. The majority of Trump voters in all three elections were Christians.
Liberal Christians like to say that Donald Trump is not a real Christian in the same way they say that the Jesus in the Book of Revelation is not the real Jesus. Donald Trump is a lifelong Christian, though. He has never once renounced Christianity, and he frequently talks about the importance of Christianity. It’s just not honest to say that Donald Trump is not a Christian.
Furthermore, Donald Trump’s morality is perfectly in accordance with Chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation. Donald Trump is cruel and vindictive in the same way that Jesus in the Book of Revelation is cruel and vindictive. Donald Trump is hateful just as Jesus in the Book of Revelation is hateful. Donald Trump hurts people in the pursuit of power in the same way that Jesus in the Book of Revelation hurts people in the pursuit of power.
Donald Trump’s nasty agenda is an expression of the nasty agenda that Christianity arrives at in the last book of the New Testament. They both pursue global domination through brutal violence without mercy.
Torture Endures
Christianity is not a religion of love. If it was, the majority of American Christians would have voted against Donald Trump instead of supporting him. Most American Christians recognize Donald Trump’s Christianity as a reflection of their own religious beliefs.
Chapter 9 of the Book of Revelation is just one part of the New Testament that supports the cruel Christianity favored by Donald Trump’s supporters. We need to recognize that connection if we are to effectively counter it.
The final teaching of Jesus is the one that set the course for Christianity for centuries to come. Contradicting the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus in the Book of Revelation articulated a religion of power through torture and killing.
In the end, Jesus was not a nice guy. It’s no wonder that the followers of Jesus aren’t playing nice either.