I've been thinking about this issue and I think it's important to look at the people God DID choose in the Bible and what it was like to be chosen by God to lead a nation. Short answer: A great responsibility to truth and justice. Start with Eli the chief priest/ judge. 1 Sam 2 https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1199335022056095744

Eli's sons stole from the people, enacted injustice, and raped women who came to them for help. Eli did not stop them. God was not amused.

"Those who honor me I will honor, but those who despise me will be disdained. The time is coming when I will cut short your strength and the strength of your priestly house, so that no one in it will reach old age." Bye bye Eli's sons.

Then the people asked for a king (which was not God's plan but He went with it) and God chose from all of Israel a strong, powerful, devout man named Saul. Literally chose through Samuel. No doubt it was God's choice. It did not go well.

The problem came when Saul mixed church and state. (1 Sam. 13 - I don't know why people don't talk about this more.) Saul took over the role reserved for a priest and in doing so made himself a religious figure when he was meant to be a civil leader. God was not amused.

Although Saul's reign continued for a while, it was awful. He was paranoid, crazy, murderous, and weak, ultimately committing suicide. All his sons died too, even the good and kind Jonathan.

God had already chosen the musician and warrior David, Israel's greatest king, called in the Bible a "man after God's own heart." And that went well but, also, so not well. So very not well.

When David took (raped?) another man's wife and then had the man murdered, God was not amused. It's interesting that the prophet Nathan confronted him as much about the injustice as about the personal sin of it. David does something no one else did (and Trump doesn't do)- repents

David repents, mourns, tries to make amends, and returns to being a very good and just leader. But there is still hell to pay. His household is never at peace. His legacy is as much warring children and bloodshed as peace and justice.

The point I"m trying to make is that when God does choose a leader in the Bible, He holds that leader to an extremely high standard of personal integrity and national justice. If you wear the mantle of God's chosen, you are to represent God's justice and truth.

It's not a get out of jail free card, as the R's seem to want it to be, not a DO NOT QUESTION order or a follow blindly order. It's a vast and terrible thing to be so anointed, and something to be undertaken with holy fear.

Whether or not Trump is God's chosen one (I don't think he is and not sure what that means in a pluralistic democracy beyond the sovereignty of God over all things), there is danger in claiming that authority and then acting in selfishness and spite and evil. God is not amused.