The United States Supreme Court just handed President Donald Trump a significant victory in the fight to rein in the rogue bureaucracy that has taken over Washington, D.C.

On May 22, the Supreme Court stayed a district court order directing President Trump to reinstate two federal officials he had fired: Gwynne Wilcox and Cathy Harris. The immediate effect of this decision is that neither Wilcox nor Harris will work for the government. Yet the long-term implications of this Supreme Court ruling are far more sweeping.

Under the U.S. Constitution, Congress makes laws (Article i), the president enforces them (Article ii), and federal courts judge the application of federal laws to specific cases (Article iii). Most powers are reserved to the states (Article iv) or to the individual citizen (Amendments 1–10). Yet the federal government now dominates the states, the executive branch dominates the federal government, and bureaucratic agencies dominate the executive branch. This is why many conservatives call bureaucracy the “deep state.”

This bureaucratic state is nowhere sanctioned in the Constitution, yet it has amassed legislative, executive and judicial powers within itself and exerts more control over U.S. citizens than the other three branches.

“The deep state is, in fact, a very real thing,” geopolitical forecaster George Friedman wrote in 2017. “It is, however, neither a secret nor nearly as glamorous as the concept might indicate. It has been in place since 1871 and continues to represent the real mechanism beneath the federal government, controlling and frequently reshaping elected officials’ policies. This entity is called the civil service, and it was created to limit the power of the president. Prior to 1871, the president could select federal employees. … Carl Schurz, a German-born Union Army general, proposed the idea of a nonpolitical civil service.”

Schurz’s plan was meant to create a professional civil service and limit political favoritism, yet it ended up creating a fourth branch of government that is neither elected by the people nor accountable to them.

In 1926, Chief Justice (and former U.S. president) William Howard Taft tried to prevent the civil service from becoming a fourth branch of government by writing for a majority of the Supreme Court in Myers v. United States. This opinion made the unsurprising conclusion that under Article ii of the Constitution, removal of federal officers, is an inherently executive function that cannot be limited by Congress. Nearly a decade later, however, the Supreme Court repudiated this opinion and ruled that Congress could create multimember federal agencies where the employees could not be fired by the president once they were confirmed.

The 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States is one of the pillars of the modern U.S. administrative state, insulating federal officials from political accountability. Yet the current Supreme Court is returning to a more textually faithful reading of Article ii.

In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, decided last summer, the Supreme Court struck down the “Chevron deference” doctrine and ruled that executive branch agencies may no longer interpret their own application of a law. Many constitutional conservatives are hopeful that Trump v. Wilcox will end in a decision clarifying that the president has the authority to fire anybody in the executive branch. Such a long overdue decision would unify the second branch of government by abolishing the unconstitutional fourth branch of government.

Such a ruling would move the nation back toward the original constitutional model where elected representatives of the people in Congress make laws, judges appointed by elected officials determine their application in specific disputes, and the president enforces them, with full control over those who assist him.

Bible prophecy strongly indicates that the Supreme Court will help Trump move the U.S. government back toward the unitary executive model that the Founding Fathers established.

Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry has proved that President Trump is an end-time type of the ancient Israelite King Jeroboam ii. He wrote in the August 2019 Trumpet issue that Amos 7:12-13 is a prophecy that this same Jeroboam figure will be supported by a religious movement called the “king’s chapel” and a secular governmental entity called the “king’s court,” or “kingdom’s court.”

“In Washington, D.C., is the Supreme Court building, where judges are to interpret the law,” Mr. Flurry wrote in “Can President Trump Get Control of His Own Divided Government?” He continued:

In the same area are buildings for the cia, the fbi, the Justice Department, the State Department, the Pentagon and others. Most of them were built during and after the Great Depression, when they had a lot of manpower to use, so they built some truly impressive structures for the government.

It is logical this prophecy is talking about these government structures, or agencies. After all, if Jeroboam is going to be used to save Israel, he would need the law on his side. He wouldn’t be able to use the government like he needed to without the legal structure behind him.

The first time Trump was elected, officials loyal to Barack Obama tried to subvert his agenda while hiding behind the false notion that they were acting as a constitutional check on the president. Yet a number of recent Supreme Court cases have clarified this very issue and held that federal officials cannot usurp legislative authority and that they possess only as much executive authority as the president delegates to them.

This means President Trump is likely to succeed in trimming back the sprawling, oppressive, wasteful, unconstitutional bureaucratic mass into a smaller, more efficient agency that actually helps him enforce the laws representatives in Congress see fit to pass, as the founders intended.

When Amos 7:12-13 refer to the kingdom’s “court,” it uses the Hebrew word bayi, which is usually translated as “house.” This word does not refer to a city full of millions of people but rather a household or courtyard full of people dedicated to enforcing the kingdom’s laws.

It is refreshing to see America waking up to the fact that it must balance its budget and shrink its government. Yet the resurgence brought about by this end-time Jeroboam will only be temporary unless the American people make much more drastic, permanent changes.

The context of Amos 7:12-13 is religious people rejecting God’s prophecies in the time of Jeroboam and the kingdom’s court. The fact that Trump is making such swift progress toward getting control of his divided government may be a harbinger of things to come. Once the founding idea that it is the elected representative of the people who runs the government has been restored to America, the nation will have to take a long, hard look at the character of the people themselves.