Trump’s peace plan is basically Obama 2.0. And if that’s the case, then the ramifications and the implications are going to be absolutely devastating.

The title of Joel Richardson’s video is, “Has Trump made the biggest mistake of his presidency?” I have reproduced most of what Joel says below so you can either read the content or watch the video.

Joel begins by saying, “I am a Trump supporter. He’s very entertaining at the very least. But I want to be very clear. My job is to be a Bible teacher. And the job of any Bible teacher, any responsible Bible teacher who wants to actually carry the prophetic spirit of the prophets, it’s to speak truth to powerful people, e.g. John the Baptist and any number of the Biblical prophets. They are constantly speaking to kings and those in power, speaking truth, calling them to truth, calling them to repentance. And so my job is to call a spade a spade. It’s not to be a sycophant and to be a cheerleader for President Trump. I’m going to support him when he deserves support. But where I believe he deserves criticism, I’m going to offer criticism. Now, I want to be very clear because there will be voices out there that say, “You shouldn’t criticize the president. You should only pray for him.” We should be praying for him. But in a free society, it’s okay to criticize horrific decisions because he is a representative of you and I as Americans. He is supposed to be a servant of the people. He’s not a king. He is our representative. And I want to make it very clear, I am in profound disagreement with this current peace plan.

Now, at the beginning of the war, I largely supported the war. And the reason is very simple. I believe that the Iranian regime, the Ayatollahs and the IRGC are evil. It is an apocalyptic death cult. I have studied their eschatology, their goals, what they believe, who they are for well over 20 years. I’ve read their books. I know what they believe. And it is evil. And as it says in the book of Ecclesiastes that in an age where evil exists, sometimes there is a time for war. Now, war is always hell. In this age, things are broken. War is not ever the ideal, but in a corrupt, wicked age when evil people exist and really hurt people and threaten people, sometimes war is called for in the same way that we need police. The Iranian people deserve better than the government that they have. You know, roughly 60,000 people have been killed, Iranians, out in the streets protesting. And President Trump, went out publicly and he called to the Iranian people. He said, “Help is coming. Protest. Get out there in the streets.” He called for them to go out in the streets and promised them that we were coming to help them. “Regime change is coming.” He certainly implied it very strongly. Let’s put it this way. And according to all reports, there was initially a plan with Mossad, with Israel to give weapons to the Kurds and there was going to be an insurgency and that would have been the tipping point that would have seen the IRGC overthrown. We could have had a more Western friendly government.

But somewhere along the line within the Trump presidency, the Vance wing, if you will, of the White House, because J D Vance is much more on that libertarian side, no wars, a peacetime president and this type of thing. And they’re very, very critical, the more libertarian side, they’re increasingly hypercritical of the American alliance with Israel. So no wars, no alliance with Israel. And JD Vance is really the mouthpiece of that side of the conservative movement.

He said this great deal will bring peace and security to the whole region. Peace and security. Now really. He said many presidents have tried to make peace with Iran. All have failed before me. The leaders of the region have for the first time found a president who can help them achieve real peace. With the opening of the Strait upon the signing of the deal on Friday for purposes of mine removal, removing the mines, oil will flow on both ends again for the region and the world. Now, when I read this, alarm bells went off. First of all, because that phrase peace and security is one of the most dangerous phrases in Bible prophecy. Paul the Apostle said when they are saying peace and security sudden destruction will come upon them like a woman in childbirth and they will not escape. The labour pains will come upon them suddenly. When they believe that peace and security has actually been attained through the power of the flesh through the power of the deal then sudden destruction will come upon them. That’s right out of the Bible. That’s a huge red flag. Second, when I see President Trump bragging. Now, look, pursuing peace is a good thing. At least it should be. You should pursue regional peace if you’re being realistic and humble about it. But then President Trump said, “Many presidents have tried to make peace and all have failed before me.” Then begins the bragging. They finally found a president who can help them achieve peace. When I read that, immediately my mind thinks of and then they all gather together to make a tower. The Tower of Babel. But again, all have failed before me. That’s President Trump. This is Daniel 4:30. This is Nebuchadnezzar. He looks out at his kingdom and he says, “Is this not Babylon the great which I myself have built? I built this. Look at what I’ve done. They all have failed before me. Look what I’ve done.” And then he said, I’ve built this royal residence by the might of my power, for the glory of my majesty. Nebuchadnezzar’s heart was lifted up in pride. And what did the Lord do? He humbled him. And then becomes the whole episode of him crawling around like a wild animal and eating grass. The Lord humbles those who are proud, including emperors and kings. Pharaoh looks at the Nile, which of course is the source of life for Egypt, and he says, “The Nile is mine, and I myself have made it.” Pharaoh believed he was a god. Now, of course, the source of the Nile is the Lord. That’s who feeds Egypt. Pharaoh goes, “The Nile is mine. I have made it.” The same type of arrogance. Anytime you have a seed of the serpent, Satan is the one who says, “I will make my throne like the most high. I will be like the most high. I will make my throne above the stars of of the Lord, above the host of the Lord.” His followers have that same type of arrogance. And then later Isaiah 10:13, Senarobb the Assyrian, he says, “By the power of my hand and by my wisdom I did this for I have understanding.” Whether it’s Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, Senakarob, the Assyrian, or Pharaoh, these are three of the primary types of the Antichrist in all of scripture. And it sounds a lot like President Trump. It’s one thing to think arrogant thoughts. It’s another thing to brag about it publicly on social media. Everyone else has failed before me. That arrogance is terrifying and any believer should be terrified. If you support President Trump, you should be terrified that the Lord is not going to release judgment on our leader and on our nation. Now, he says, “All leaders before me have failed.” And he’s bragging about his plan. Three months ago, three, not even three months ago, President Trump was mocking the 2015 deal made by President Barack Obama. Mocking it. This is a quote. He says, “They sent Boeing 757s over there loaded with cash. Hundreds of millions of dollars. That’s not going to happen with Trump.” Well, guess what? We already gave them three billion already. Three billion. 3 billion is 3,000 million. Not hundreds of millions, not the hundreds of millions in cash on pallets that President Obama sent over, but hund thousands of millions. That’s not going to happen with Trump. Well, guess what? It has. And so, again, no matter how much you love him, we have to be honest. He is giving billions of dollars. He’s unfreezing releasing billions of dollars to the Iranian regime. It’s basically a bribe. So just Friday, I’m recording this on Monday, just a few days ago, it was reported that the UAE, the United Arab Emirates, the the UAE is the banking hub of the Middle East. So they’re and they’re a key American ally, US ally. They released $20 billion. 20 billion of frozen Iranian assets. Now, part of the deal that President Trump announced is that we will release the embargo on Iran. This has been the sanctions on not embargo, the sanctions on Iran that have been in place for years. That is going to drastically free them up. Now, when this happened with Obama again, working with the underground church, and Obama promised that it wasn’t going to be used for the wrong purposes, well, guess what they did? They used it for to fund Hezbollah to fund Hamas. And they used it to hire tens of thousands of SEPA, that’s the religious police in Iran, to hunt down Christians, underground Christians in Iran. The persecution was ramped up drastically after Obama released those hundreds of millions of dollars. We’re giving thousands of times more than what Obama gave them. That’s already happening. that’s already unfolded. So what Trump has frequently referred to, referring mocking President Obama, he’s frequently referred to it as the worst negotiated deal in American history. He’s just negotiated a much worse deal. And he is supposed to be, you know, the one who wrote the book, The Art of the Deal. He’s pointing, he points to Obama, his deal as like exhibit A in American loss. And then he negotiates and he’s trying to get us to support an even worse deal. And I’m sorry, but I’m not going to do it. Now, let me just talk about Israel because there was a big hullabaloo on social media over the past week or so between public statements on social media of Netanyahu and Trump. And basically in negotiating as Trump’s negotiating with these terrorists, Hezbollah starts raining down missiles and then Iran rains down missiles on Israel and Israel responded. And then President Trump publicly castigated Netanyahu and Israel for responding. Now think about this. What’s more important, the deal or Israel’s security?