Names Are Never Random

From the creation of the earth, we recognize that names signify origin. When God named the first man Adam, the word was closely tied to the word ground in the Hebrew language and calls to mind the fact that Adam was created from the dust (Gen. 2:7). Adam, drawing on God’s example, named Eve, and her name means “life” or “life-giver,” pointing to the fact that her role would be mothering all the living (Gen. 3:20).

Reading through the Bible’s many genealogies and lists of towns and nations (read 1 and 2 Chronicles if you love lists), we can see that God loves names. They are important to Him.

Names carry meanings, and for people, they carry mental frameworks that shape their lives. This is why Solomon wrote in Proverbs 22:1, “A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.” This verse is about more than a person’s reputation or status; it is about the identity and purpose God has designed for their life from the “foundation of the world” (Eph. 1:4, NKJV).

This is why God chose to highlight what names meant or give people new names when He was ready for them to do something for Him. The choices He made are never random; they are significant, meaningful, and full of life-changing power.

What’s in the meaning of their names that could tie them together prophetically and speak to the destiny God might have for America? Donald Trump’s name is very fascinating. Donald comes from Scottish origins and holds in it the meaning of “world leader.” Ancestry.com explains: Does this apply to Lockwood and Trump?

It can be traced back to the early medieval period when it was associated with the powerful clans and ruling families of Scotland. … In early Scottish history, Donald I, better known as Domnall mac Ailpn or Donald II, became one of the first kings of Scotland in the 9th century. He played a crucial role in consolidating the kingdom and establishing the Scottish royalty.

His last name, Trump, is an English name rooted in an occupation: a trumpeter. It can literally mean “trumpet horn.” Prophet Kim Clement declared very boldly that Trump would live up to his surname:

“Trump shall become a trumpet” says the Lord. “I will raise up the trump to become a trumpet…” says the Lord. … “It shall come to pass that the man that I place in the highest office shall go in whispering My name, but,” God said, “when he enters into the office, he will be shouting out by the power of the Spirit. For I shall fill him with My Spirit when he goes into office, and there will be a praying man in the highest seat in your land.

Ingersoll is an English name, drawn from two Old English words: limper and hill. Lockwood is also English in origin and made up of two Old English words: loc, which means “lock enclosure fold,” and wudu, which means “wood.”

It’s not a stretch to see in the life of Ingersoll Lockwood a path of humility—limping about this world with no acclaim for his writings and alone in the end, yet a position of some height where he could see what was coming for at least one family, the Trumps.

His last name could signify something even more powerful. What if his name, a combination of a “lock enclosure fold” and “wood,” represents God’s desire to enclose this country with the divine presence of Jesus, empowered by a new revelation of the cross, or wood, that Jesus willingly died on for us?

Taking the prophetic significance of both men’s names deeper and turning to a Hebrew tool called a Gematria calculator, an even brighter light seems to illuminate what God is saying to us through these two men.

Gematria, which comes from the same Greek word as geometry, “refers to a process by which numerical values are ascribed to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet.” Each letter has been given a numerical value, from Aleph, the first Hebrew letter, given the value of one, to the last Hebrew letter, Tav, being given the value of four hundred.

The Gematria calculator gives Donald Trump’s name a 589. The phrase “a storm is coming” also has a value of 589.28. Ingersoll Lockwood’s name is given the number 1,408, as is the phrase “we caught them all.”

If we look ahead and consider some of the things Lockwood wrote about, especially in The Last President, we can see that a storm is coming, and it could possibly result in Trump’s repeated statements that “We will demolish the deep state” and “drain the swamp”—a reference to his remarks to “make every executive branch employee fireable by the president of the United States” and to “remove rogue bureaucrats.” Russ Vought, director of the Office of Management and Budget under Trump, explained in an interview why Trump wants to “drain the swamp.” Vought discussed dismantling or remaking the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Environmental Protection Agency, among other federal agencies.

“This is not Bill Clinton’s big government,” Vought said. “It’s not Jimmy Carter's big government. It’s a Barack Obama, Joe Biden infused, hybrid, militant, woke, and weaponized government that makes every decision on the basis of climate change extremism and on the basis of woke militancy where you’re effectively trying to divide the country into oppressors and the oppressed.”

While the Gematria connections of Trump’s and Lockwood’s names are intriguing, the fact is that names in the Bible have prophetic meanings, often communicating a person’s destiny. Take Abraham for example. In God’s perfect timing, He stepped into Abram’s world and changed his name, calling him Abraham, a prophetic sign of the Lord’s promise to him: he would be blessed and be the father of many nations (Gen. 12). Abram went from being “exalted father” to the “father of a multitude” (Gen. 17:5)

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