The Man of Lawlessness: Why Trump Isn’t Just a Threat—He’s a Theological Event
How Trump’s Rise Reveals the Spiritual Architecture Behind the World’s Moral Collapse
They worship him.
They chant his name at rallies. They weep when they see him. They declare he was sent by God. Some have even replaced pictures of Jesus in their homes with portraits of Donald Trump. To outsiders, this looks like madness. To insiders, it feels like revelation.
But this isn’t just about Trump. This is about something older, deeper, and far more dangerous: what Paul calls in 2 Thessalonians 2 "the mystery of iniquity."
In that chapter, Paul says three things will mark the unraveling of the world: a spiritual force called the mystery of iniquity, a human figure called the man of lawlessness, and a great falling away—an apostasy. These three aren’t random. They are stages of a single drama. A dark spiritual force begins to take root in the world. Then it manifests through a man. And through that man, a mass spiritual deception takes hold.
Whether Trump is the Antichrist is beyond the scope of this argument. What matters is that he fits the prophetic pattern perfectly.
He is a man of lawlessness in every sense. He rejects legal limits, defies moral norms, rewards cruelty, punishes truth, mocks righteousness, and flaunts his impunity. But what makes him spiritually significant is not simply that he breaks the law. It’s that millions of people rejoice when he does it.
That’s the mystery.
That’s what Paul meant when he called it iniquity—evil not merely done in secret, but done with celebration. Lawlessness as virtue. Cruelty as strength. Deception as strategy. And more than that—lawlessness as worship.
Because the truth is: people don’t just want to break free of God’s law. They want someone powerful enough to bless their rebellion. Someone who can make their darkness feel like light. That’s what the man of lawlessness provides. He doesn’t abolish religion. He retools it.
And that’s exactly what we’re seeing.
A large segment of the American church has undergone something like a spiritual inversion. They still speak the name of Jesus, but they follow another gospel entirely—a gospel of domination, violence, grievance, and pride. Trump didn’t create that movement. But he became its messiah. The man through whom a generation could transfer its rebellion and still call it righteousness.
That’s why Paul links the rise of this man to a great apostasy. Because the man of lawlessness doesn’t just gather the wicked. He deceives the faithful. He doesn’t just polarize a nation. He splits the church. He doesn’t just tempt sinners. He seduces saints.
Jesus warned us this would happen. In Matthew 24, he says, "At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people." That’s not a vague warning. It’s a description of now.
Families torn apart. Friendships shattered. Churches splitting. Truth ridiculed. Love replaced by tribal rage.
This is what happens when a nation opens itself to the mystery of iniquity. The law is not just broken. It is inverted. Evil becomes good. Good becomes evil. And the person who best embodies that inversion is exalted as a savior.
So no, Trump might not be the Antichrist. But he is a mirror.
And what he reveals is terrifying: that millions of people in this country, many of them in the church, are ready to abandon truth for a lie, unity for division, Christ for Caesar.
That is the real danger. Not just what Trump does. But what he uncovers.
And what he prepares the world to receive.
Jason Chukwuma (@truthispeaking) is the creator of TRUTH IS SPEAKING on YouTube and the TRUTH SPEAKS newsletter on Substack, delivering sharp commentary on politics, news, and culture. His work reaches audiences across Instagram, Twitter (never X), Medium, and more, and has been featured on MSNBC and The Daily Beast, establishing him as a rising voice on politics and culture. He is a student at Harvard Law School and a graduate of Harvard College.
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Jason, I just watched your YouTube video, “How Conservative Christians Have Betrayed Christ”, and you are spot on as the Brits say—therefore, “Truth Speaks”, right? You and James Talarico have the uncanny ability to cut through the clutter and speak truth to power. I have often said that we as a nation must return to our true (not contrived) foundational values if we are to arrest our current decline. We need a New Enlightenment, and I am calmed to know you already are one of its leaders. May the peace and vision of Christ be with you this Christmas and always.