Maybe I am thinking too small with Mars. I haven’t watched the speech yet (99 minutes!), but on Tuesday, Trump spoke to Congress. Our Gray Iluvatar, I mean, Elon Musk, posted a snippet today where Trump references planting the US flag on Mars.

It’s at the beginning of the clip below:

But he also says Mars is just a first step and will go “even far beyond”. The far beyond could be the promised land where the Lehites now wait for Gentiles to come and scatter them.

Trump also references the “Golden Age” of America that he says he’s ushering in. He also claimed in this speech that God spared his life to bring to pass a mandate for America. I think that’s another way of calling yourself a “chosen one”. It reminds me of this passage about Pharazon from Faithful:

Martalion he was called in songs of praise, a Foretold One like unto the mighty men of old, of Turambar and Tuor his sire over the long years. In gold finery he covered his nakedness, gilded in sunlight so none could withstand him at mid-day, and girded in true-silver of Mithril, an emblem it was said of the portended Noble that would restore the land and its people to the glory that was sung of the gods in yesteryears, when the magic sun and silver Silpion gave light and truth to all the Fair Folk. Indeed, among that people it was held out in a final hope that in the exceeding vanity of this “Chosen One,” (for that title was carved into the belt of silver) – though the wise said in whispers that the belt alone had been chosen – in him some new relations of Man and Eldar might unfold, as indeed came upon them in Eressëa.

Granted, Trump didn’t clothe himself in gold like Pharazon, but the imagery of a Golden Age strikes similar tones. That’s not to say Trump *is* Pharazon per se, but I think this is an interesting parallel to what Pharazon did. He led an armada of flying ships to a new place, Eressea (which in Trump’s speech is mapped to Mars), first and then Pharazon sailed to another place, Valinor (which in Trump’s speech is mapped to “far beyond”). These are places that Pharazon in essence, planted his flag.

I can’t believe I’m just now realizing this, but what Pharazon did maps really well to a vision Nephi had wherein “a man among the Gentiles” will lead his own armada to the Lehite promised land. Once there, he will do just as Pharazon did (i.e. scatter the inhabitants). Bill has pointed out that Pharazon took on a role he was not meant to but that what he did mirrors something that needs to be done. It was just the wrong person, wrong time, wrong way basically. Bill also is suggesting Pharazon might not be the bad egg we’ve all been told — that he did something wrong but his intentions may not have been evil, strictly speaking. The result of his mistake, however, was so bad that the tales around him match the weight of the outcome, leaving no room for the possibility that his actions are mostly Sauron’s fault, and laid at Sauron’s feet. Bill further says that Pharazon now has a shot at redemption by correcting his error. (Bill feel free to correct me on any of this if I’m mischaracterizing.)

If Bill’s correct, then it would make sense that Pharazon is back and in a position to influence the *correct* fulfillment of the sailing forth, and in so doing, help fix his mistake. Meaning, Pharazon now knows he took on the wrong role so he will now try to fix it by making sure the right person sails forth and does what needs to be done. That right person is the “man among the Gentiles” who will lead an armada to scatter the Lehites. That event is crucial to the regathering of Israel because, as Jesus makes clear at Bountiful, it is only AFTER the Lehites are recovered that the Father will set his hand the second time to recover ALL of Israel’s scattered remnants.

When the real “chosen one” sails forth, Eru will not intervene like he did with Pharazon, at least not immediately. He will allow the Lehites to be driven off their covenant lands, but only temporarily. Once the Lehites receive the promised records and repent, they will flip the script on the invaders (with an assist from a portion of the Gentiles who also repent).

This won’t happen overnight, mind you. Nephi speaks in terms of generations:

and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a pure and a delightsome people.

-2 Nephi 30:6

This could be a Nephite figure of speech, by the way. Maybe like in English we say “not too long” to indicate how quickly something will happen. But if Nephi is being literal, then I think the Gentiles will have the stolen promised lands for whatever constitutes *not* many generations. That’s enough time to be considered an age, perhaps, such as the Golden Age referenced by Trump.

Trump is, after all, the one who founded America’s Space Force, so he seems to have some end goal in regards to getting off planet.

I posited last week that Elon Musk is the “man among the Gentiles” and maybe he is. Or maybe it’s Trump. Or maybe it’s someone we don’t know of yet. Regardless, I suspect there is something behind this push into space that maybe gets us into some long-awaited BoM prophecies finally being fulfilled.

Or maybe Trump is simply delusional.

And I guess for me at least this means the space theory is back on.