VIDEO: Pastor shares stunning message about history of President Trump’s Bible

A video of a pastor sharing a message about President Trump’s Bible and his connection to a Christian revival in Scotland 80 year ago has suddenly resurfaced and begun to go viral this weekend.

Pastor Clarence Sexton, of the Temple Baptist Church in Tennessee, posted the video clip on his Twitter account Friday morning, and wrote, “Pray for revival. This is our moment. Please share this message about President @realDonaldTrump’s Bible as far as you possibly can.”

The clip was taken from a sermon Pastor Sexton gave in April 2018, on the topic of revival, and the urgency for a revival in America.

“We have a window, just a little window,” Sexton warned. “If we mistake the window for the work that God is doing… if we miss that, we may never have the window again.”

“God help me say what I’m about to say,” Sexton said.  He first clarified that he wasn’t intending to substitute Trump’s story for the Church. He then began to tell a story that many in America may have never heard about the man who is now America’s president, and his connection to the Hebrides Revival in Scotland.

The pastor first told of two elderly women, Peggy and Christine Smith, in their 80s, who lived in a small fishing village on Lewis Island, a part of the Hebrides Islands, off the west coast of Scotland. Peggy was blind and her sister was badly stooped due to arthritis, and they were hungry for a spiritual revival. They contacted their pastor, who contacted others, and the movement grew. A young teen named Donald became an influential part of the revival, the pastor explained.

Donald’s cousin, Mary Anne Smith MacLeod, who was also a niece to Peggy and Christine Smith, immigrated to America, and fell in love with a man named Fred.

WATCH the powerful 5-minute video clip shared by Pastor Sexton below, as he tells the story, then scroll down for more details:

Mary Anne MacLeod Trump (May 10, 1912 – August 7, 2000), the mother of Donald J. Trump, was born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. She was the youngest of 10 children born to Malcom and Mary (Smith) MacLeod.

Maryanne MacLeod’s maternal grandfather, Donald Smith, drowned in a fishing boat accident in 1868 off Lewis Island when he was 34 years old, leaving his wife alone to raise their four children. The youngest, Mary MacLeod, (later Maryanne’s mother) was only one year old at the time her father perished.

Mary Anne immigrated to the United States in 1930 on a U.S. Re-entry Permit, with about $50 in her pocket, and first lived with her older sister on Long Island, working as a domestic servant for at least four years.  She reportedly met Fred Trump at a party and they were married at the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church on January 11, 1936.

Mary Anne became a naturalized citizen of the United States on March 10, 1942.

Fred, a real estate developer, and Mary Anne Trump had five children, who she raised in the Presbyterian faith according to her own upbringing, as follows:

• Maryanne Trump Barry – born 1937
• Frederick Christ Trump Jr. – born 1938
• Elizabeth Trump Grau – born 1942
• Donald J. Trump – born 1946
• Robert Trump – born 1948

On January 20, 2017, Donald J. Trump took his oath of office as the 45th President of the United States, using a Bible given to him by his mother when he graduated from a Presbyterian Sunday School in 1955.

Mrs. Trump reportedly served as a volunteer in a hospital and was involved in many school activities and charities, including causes to help people with cerebral palsy and other disabilities. She spent many years volunteering  at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, and a 228-bed nursing home pavilion there is named after her.

In her later years, Mrs. Trump suffered from severe osteoporosis, and was mugged while shopping near her home on October 31, 1991. The 16-year-old attacker, who took her purse and the $14 inside it, threw her onto a sidewalk, causing her to sustain broken ribs, bruises, fractures, a brain hemorrhage, and permanent damage to her hearing and sight.

A delivery truck driver reportedly caught Mrs. Trump’s attacker, and was later rewarded by Donald Trump with a check that kept him from losing his home to foreclosure.

Fred Trump died in June 1999 at the age of 93, and Maryanne Trump died the following year, at the age of 88, on August 7, 2000.

“I don’t know how, why this all comes together, but I believe God is putting some things together to give us just a window, just a window, if He could find some people who know what the window is for,” Pastor Sexton says in the video clip he shared on Friday.

“Can this be the time the window is open, providentially God has prepared the moment, and we will become the people of prayer?” he asked.

UPDATE: As of Monday, April 20, Pastor Sexton’s tweet from Friday has been deleted.

Pray for revival. This is our moment.

Please share this message about President @realDonaldTrump’s Bible as far as you possibly can.https://t.co/imTx9zMndi

— Clarence Sexton (@ClarenceSexton) April 17, 2020

Pastor Sexton implied that President Trump was named after his mother’s cousin, who participated in the revival, but since his great-grandfather was named Donald, along with several other relatives, exactly who he is named after is not confirmed in this report.

Below is a slightly longer version of Pastor Sexton’s message: