The United States is experiencing a religious revival under the Trump administration. On May 1, in a speech commemorating the National Day of Prayer, President Donald Trump said, “We’re bringing back religion in our country. We’re bringing it back quickly and strongly—because for America to be a great nation, we must always be ‘one nation under God.’”

New findings from Pew Research’s “2023–24 Religious Landscape Study” show that after many years of steady decline, the share of Americans who identify as Christians is leveling off at around 6 in 10 adults. This is because Generation Z is not giving up on religion to the same extent that Millennials have. President Trump has now established a White House Faith Office and a Religious Liberty Commission to encourage people to seek out religious guidance.

Many Christians believe that God supernaturally intervened in human affairs to save President Trump from an assassin’s bullet so that he could make America great again. These Christians are now praising God for His mercy toward America. Yet they don’t talk much about why God allowed the radical left to gain so much power in the first place. Nor do they talk much about the need of the American people to repent of their sins and follow God’s law.

My father, Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry, is almost a lone voice preaching a message of repentance!

“President Trump has a strong following among evangelicals and Catholics,” he wrote in “Why God Is Saving America Through Trump.” “Many Christians in America today look to this man for leadership. Some people believe America is on the cusp of a religious revival. But you need to know your Bible and beware religion that has only ‘a form of godliness’; God tells us ‘from such turn away’! (2 Timothy 3:5). … The golden age Donald Trump is promising is illusory.”

That is a starkly different message from what you hear from most religious teachers. Why is the golden age Donald Trump promising illusory? Because his administration is not encouraging Americans to repent of their sins.

Jesus Christ taught a message of repentance (Mark 1:15). When is the last time you heard a politician say that God will punish Americans unless they forsake adultery, drunkenness, drug abuse, fornication, gambling, homosexuality, pornography and other vices? Even modern religious teachers avoid teaching people about God’s law.

In his famous Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln said, “It is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

You don’t hear presidents today talking like this! Lincoln talked about confessing sins and seeking forgiveness. Trump encouraged Republicans to drop opposition to homosexual “marriage” from the Republican Party platform so the party would be more inclusive and popular.

To be a true Christian, you have to do a lot more than oppose taxpayer-funded sex-change surgeries for teenagers.

God is showing America some unmerited pardon right now. But President Trump’s golden age will indeed be illusory unless people do more to “turn from their wicked ways” (2 Chronicles 7:14).

Something has gone terribly wrong in American Christianity.

“America’s founders knew the Christian life was not only a general belief in Jesus but also a war on vices and lust,” Andrew Miiller wrote in the March 2025 Trumpet. “But it all went terribly wrong in the 19th century. When Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution gained acceptance, parts of the Bible such as the Genesis creation narrative were called into question. Liberal Christians increasingly rejected the belief that the Bible is without error and began to reinterpret many of its doctrines. The doctrine of repentance was one of the first to go as modernism took hold. … If America wants to prosper, it needs to remember Thomas Manton’s admonition: ‘In choosing the ways of God, the heart must come to a firm resolution rather to suffer the greatest inconvenience than to commit the least sin.’”

Suffering the greatest inconvenience rather than committing the least sin is not a popular message. Only about 120 people took action after hearing Jesus Christ’s preaching (Acts 1:15).

Why then are so many American young people showing a new interest in religion? Many of them can see that the secularist thinking that has swallowed our modern world is bereft of meaning. But in most cases, the religion they are looking to for solutions is a counterfeit of the truth. The preaching they are hearing is not the actual gospel of Christ. The message they are hearing may contain inspirational rhetoric about a new American golden age—but it does not contain anywhere near the emphasis on repentance that our Founding Fathers heard, much less the emphasis on repentance that Jesus Christ preached.

Amos 7:13 says that an end-time Jeroboam ii will be aided in his fight by a “king’s court” and a “king’s chapel.” The Supreme Court has already given President Trump much aid, and religious chapels across the nation are waking up to the fact that God is using him in a miraculous way. But it’s not enough to realize that God is intervening in American affairs; we need to understand why.

Your one and only hope depends on repenting of sin (verse 8). If you are ready to face this—ready to realize the individual accountability each of us has toward the God who made America great in the first place—read Repentance Toward God, by Gerald Flurry.