Judging Prime Minister Trudeau

 

What is our judgment of Prime Minister Trudeau? We judge by fact-based opinion and voting. God judges based on the attribute of omniscience; his verdict hinges on his attribute of righteousness. Because he has made the national debt to double all on his own, because of his childish antics on the world stage, because of the dangerous ‘refugees’ that he has imported, because of the abortions that he is funding at home and abroad, because of the vandalism and violence that he is facilitating, because of the multitudes of Covid mandate deaths, Prime Minister Trudeau is making himself so ripe for judgment that it is a wonder that he hasn’t fallen from the tree yet. God’s patience is wonderful. It would be unchristian not to admit that God’s longsuffering is wonderful beyond words toward all of us. Not one of us deserves a drop of God’s wonderful patience. A Christian may, though, and must, as bashfully and boldly as he can, expose the works of darkness that sinners are guilty of; especially must this be done when the sins are great and are being committed by the man whose business it is, from the political standpoint, to work the hardest for the welfare, not the wreckage, of the nation.

Justin Trudeau is a nominal Roman Catholic. He has never renounced the religion. Therefore it may be that he thinks he is a Christian. Besides all the other fires, as it were, that this man is guilty of starting and fanning, he has been guilty of kindling literal fires and of keeping them going. He could stop the hysteria over unmarked gravesites. He could stop the arson attacks against churches. He could deport immigrants and illegal migrants who are calling for the death of Jews. He knows that it would be good for Canada and Canadians to do these things. “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin” (James 4.17.) The sense here, says Matthew Poole, is that to him it is sin ‘indeed’ and that consequently he will be punished with greater severity because of it. Mr. Trudeau has a lot of plans. He must have many plans to spend the money that kickback-schemers have deposited into his ‘Foundation.’ Why does the ‘Foundation’ exist except for these plans? What does the Bible say to such plans? “Go to now, ye that say, today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that” (James 4.13-15.) We ought to fear God in proportion to how large our plans are and how few years we have left on earth to put these plans into effect. Our fear would be great then; it would be so great that we would burn our bucket lists and then crush the bucket that they were contained in. Or, if we have a bucket for lists, the only list in it should be a list of what we plan to do for God, and even then only ‘if the Lord will.’ A PM who is doing to Canada what Trudeau is doing to it should take notice of how surprisingly God has taken wicked rulers out of the world. King Ahab had big plans. He would have liked to continue enjoying ‘the ivory house which he made’ (1 Kings 22.39) and the vineyard he stole from the man that he and his wife killed to get (1 Kings 21.) He had a clever plan to go on living, robbing, tyrannizing, and merry-making. But God out-clevered him by a ‘random’ incident (1 Kings 22.34), ending his days before Ahab could get back to his ivory house or vineyard even one more time. Wicked rulers do not often repent. Many of us hope they will. We hope to see it happen in our lifetime even in Canada. That it will occur is one of my favorite, frequent prayers. 

Trudeau’s biggest enemy is God; his next biggest enemy is himself. He seems like a pretty safe man with his secret service goons always nearby. And he is pretty safe from his most frustrated citizens because all they want is to be left alone by the government. But pride goes before a fall; few Canadians are more proud than Trudeau is; and God especially hates ‘a proud look’ (Proverbs 6.17.) Watch clips of Question Period and see for yourself if anyone in Ottawa can compete with Trudeau’s proud look. This passage in Proverbs includes a list of seven sins that are ‘abominations’ to the LORD. Trudeau may be easily shown to be guilty of them all, even of having ‘hands that shed innocent blood’ because he incites the hatred that leads to attempted murder, he mandated poisonous vaccines to be taken, and he winks at terrorism. Indeed, thirteen year old Marrisa Shen would not have been murdered by Ibrahim Ali in 2017 if Trudeau had not let the murderer into our country as a ‘refugee’ from Syria. Trudeau can be seen on video laughing or scoffing at questions about this murder. He believes that he’s unaccountable. He believes that he can open the way to arson, attempted murder, and even murder, and still not be held accountable. He will not be held to account in this life; the most corrupt politicians these days are above the law. But no one is fully held to account until Judgment Day anyway. That day is coming; it will come; nothing can stop its arrival. The way world leaders act and get away with what they do, we are tempted to doubt, in our weakest moments, if they can ever be made to listen to even one word of reproof. They sin; they refuse to answer questions; and off they strut to sin more at large. Year after year after year they do this. When they do take notice of a question, they talk around it or make fun of it. What can we do? They have the power; we are the peons. To wink and scoff at capital crimes is easy for a wicked person to do until he is restrained by God to answer for his wickedness. But those who are untouchable now will be as easy for God to judge as it is easy for a man to squash a beetle on the sidewalk. Their future is like this: “The sinner in his day, knew no moderation of sin, the Judge now in his day, will know no mitigation of judgment; there will be a sea of wrath, without a drop of mercy” (Thomas Case, Mount Pisgah, p. 117.) 

With some effort, I can imagine Justin Trudeau as a man convinced of his sins and converted to live for God. I can imagine it; but my faith in the prospect is not great. A good argument can be made that King Nebuchadnezzar—King of ancient Babylon—was finally converted. His evil deeds were great and many. In comparison with him, Justin Trudeau is a little man in every way, even in regard to sin. God can humiliate a king; he can humble a king; he can make a king meet for the kingdom of heaven. He can save a leader of a nation today. While it is true that Canadians—sinners that we are—deserve no better leadership than what we get from Trudeau, it is also true that Trudeau deserves no better than to be allowed, by the lengthening of his tenure, to make his hell as hot as Nebuchadnezzar made his furnace. We should pray for the better leadership that we don’t deserve. And we should pray for Trudeau as if we were him because any sinner, if given power, can have that power go to his head. If we do not realize this fact, how far from the kingdom are we? 

The only way to pay off the debt that Trudeau has plunged us into is to discover and mine diamonds from another planet or an accessible meteor. By giving billions upon billions of dollars away to his friends and our enemies, year after year after year, he has managed to make the debt exceed a trillion dollars. A playboy in charge of a country is how a nation’s massive debt load doubles in just five years. When I think of how world leaders throw billions of dollars around; that is, with as much discretion as members of a wedding party toss confetti in the air—I instinctively imagine these world leaders trying, through penal suffering, to pay every penny of their debt in hell, the interest on that debt increasing by degrees and adjusting for inflation for an infinity of time to make a full payment of that debt always out of reach. The only way that we can judge a leader like Prime Minister Trudeau is to criticize him and expose his wickedness in the hope and prayer that he will step off the stage in shame as soon as possible. That he will repent, either before or after his official role as PM, has got to be our wish and prayer, even if it is impossible for him to make restitution for all that he has cost us. His wrongs cannot be righted; they can only be regretted and repented of. What thanks do we owe God, whoever we are, for his mercy in not elevating us to such heights on earth that we could be tempted to run a whole nation down for the sake of covetousness or conceit! Our sins, no matter who we are, are already numerous enough to warrant unending wrath. If we truly desire mercy to triumph over judgment in our case, which can only happen through faith in Jesus Christ, we want the same for anyone at all, even the chief politicians among us. It is not easy to pray for a minister like Trudeau; it is not easy to wish him well; it is not easy to hope anything for him but that he’ll reap the worst. One man, concerning the healing that he desired for his son, said to Jesus, “Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief” (Mark 9.24.) Concerning my wish to see Prime Minister Trudeau saved, the most that I can honestly say is, “Lord, I can voice the wish that I should have in abundance. Forgive me if this voiced wish is little more than a lie. Help both my wish and my unbelief. ”     

Because hell is everlasting, and since heaven will not be permitted to be defiled no matter who makes it in, would it not be refreshing to witness piety in the place where it is least likely to be seen: in the highest office of our land? Canada’s official designation is not Democracy, Democratic Socialism, or Communism, but Dominion. Canada is supposed to be a Dominion ‘under the crown of the United Kingdom and Ireland’ (British North America Act.) But what forbids it to be under the greater Dominion of God? Have we ever had a prime minister under the dominion of God in a saving sense? I doubt that we have. It is something to pray for. It may be more likely that this will happen than it won’t happen because we can imagine it happening at least once. Stranger things than this have happened in history. Instead of being overthrown for its wickedness, as prophesied, the great city of Nineveh ‘believed God’ and was spared. If God can cause an Old Testament king to exchange his robe for sackcloth, he can cause Trudeau to dress down instead of up. And then we might have reason at least to ask this concerning Canada: “Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?” (Jonah 3.9.)