Obama is not the Antichrist but he could be America’s Antichrist if he gets elected. You have to understand who one of his big supporters and mentors is. New Age Oprah. Oprah believes we can all achieve Christhood. With her support of Obama you might already think that she believes that Obama has already achieved Christhood and has conveyed her judgment of that judgment to Obama. Now you might understand why he is so arrogant and he will take no criticism. After all, once you achieved Christhood what can those who have not achieved Christhood tell you? So Obama has all the answers for everyone and the fine details of how the problems will be solved does not matter because just his being their will radiate solutions. I guess once you have achieved Christhood all that is left is to create the Kingdom on earth and rule over it.
So we now have a nut case in Iran who thinks the Islamic Savior will come and bail him out, and you have the North Korean God and you have Obama in the United States who actually believes he is the world’s savior on some level. Now all we need is a European savior and a religious Savior (Rick Warren or the Pope might qualify) and we will be ready for the big event. The point being, if the world is now programed to pander to Obama as some inspired unifier of the World how much more are they ready to accept Satan’s man? So Hal Lindsey in the below article is almost but not quite correct. Obama did not prep the world for the Antichrist he is proof that the postmodern world has already been prepped for the Antichrist
How Obama prepped world for the Antichrist
America has never faced so many different crises at the same time in living memory. The war with al-Qaida and Islamic terror, the Iran crisis, Afghanistan, nuclear proliferation, the rising price of oil, the falling dollar, enemy acronyms like OPEC, NAM, OIC, U.N. … Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him – a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib and seemingly holding all the answers to all the world’s questions.
And the Bible says that such a leader will soon make his appearance on the scene. It won’t be Barack Obama, but Obama’s world tour provided a foretaste of the reception he can expect to receive.
He will probably also stand in some European capital, addressing the people of the world and telling them that he is the one that they have been waiting for. And he can expect as wildly enthusiastic a greeting as Obama got in Berlin.
The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance.
Don, this sort of thing is “confirming” the sense that I have that our redemption is much nearer than you have speculated some of your articles.
The way things are going, it does not seem like things can hold together for another decade or two:
I’ve been considering the exponential curve of labor pains as they approach delivery along with the the exponential climb of so many end-times indicators. We are very high, up these curves with a high degree of slope. When you put these curves together with decades of the 20th century up to recent years and even months, they compare closely with the weeks, hours and minutes just prior to birth. By my reading the curves, we seem to be in in the “minutes” before birth part, and that does not leave much time for the tribulation!
(Nevertheless, I think the 2015 year of Christ’s return is too soon; I don’t think that the prophesies of Psalm 83/Isiah 17 and Ezekiel 38 can be realized to allow for a seven year tribulation.)
The Rapture is always imminent it could be some years before the tribulation. Remember that Enoch was taken 2/3 of a lifespan before the flood.
The labor pains have to do with Israel and they do not even start until the time of Jacob’s trouble after the 7 year covenant is signed. What we are seeing now are just some false birth pains.
I still do not see all the pieces being in place for the fulfillment of the tribulation for two decades
Russia is coming back in the picture to fulfill the prophecies about Gog but it will take almost two decades for her to actually build the army described in Ezekiel.
China and the Kings of the East still could not field a 200,000,000 man army that can kill 1/3 of all men on the earth. She will have to become a military superpower first. This will take two decades.
The U.S. must fall from the world stage since she is not to be found during this period.
The Mark of the Beast technology where no one can buy or sell will take at least a decade or two to get worldwide. The communication system alone will take more than a decade.
The Beast government must come to power in the area of the Roman Empire and then take over world government. As slow going as the putting together of regional and world government is, this is not likely for two decades.
People are establishing the foundations for religious pluralism but a one world religion is not going to be formed overnight.
Babylon must be rebuilt. We can see this starting now but it will take two decades.
Israel cannot be living in security and peace until she joins some block of nations like the MU but any revised Roman Empire with power to guarantee her security is not likely before Islamic fundamentalism is defeated and outlawed. This means more wars and the rooting out of Islamic terrorists and all that takes time.
Etc.
So no, I still do not see the start of tribulation events happening for at least a decade or two but I do expect civilization to rapidly break down in the West especially in the next decade.
Interesting. I had not considered that the “birth pains” were directed only to Israel.
Of course that rapture is always imminent! 🙂
You make good points, but just as things could require the times spans you’re considering, they could also occur much more quickly — the 20th century has been an astonishing study in the rate of change of the world.
Take Care Don!
I just wanted to point out that Russia has a serious demographic problem. Their population has been steadily declining for years. This is something they’re going to have to deal with if they want to maintain a large, professional military AND a strong economy. Currently there are more abortions than births. It’s one of these problems you can’t just change overnight so it will probably take a decade or more to reverse this trend.
I don’t believe that Russia is so stupid to actually think they can “solve” this problem by allowing more immigrants in the country. Some Liberal airheads in Sweden might think allowing more immigrants from Muslim countries to enter is the way to go but I bet the Russians are a bit smarter than that. I doubt the annexation of former Soviet states would make much difference. Since these non-Russian and often non-Slavic populations may not be loyal enough to Russia, they will want to increase the native Russian population. I admit the following is highly hypothetical but I think we can’t rule out they resort to eugenics to achieve this end. Nazi Germany did it, e.g. selective “breeding” to produce a pure “Aryan” race. Cloning might also be a possibility in the future (think of the clone troopers in Star Wars).
Who knows what a Fascist state might do but I think that the expansionism now starting has the intent of going to the former USSR Russians and placing them back under the influence of Mother Russia. This will vastly increase the numbers so that they can be a major military and economic power within their perceived Empire. Putin is trying to restore the former glories of the USSR.
What better way to increase the influence of your country then by expanding it. Just about every empire in the past did it by conquering more people and bringing them into the Empire. Just in the last 70 years Germany attempted to do that, Japan attempted to do that. Russia did it with the USSR, Arabs are attempting to do that and all the regional powers forming alliances all over the world today have that goal in mind.
So I don’t think Russia has to increase native populations through birth or unnatural means. They actually have quite a few ethnic Russians living in the former USSR countries. What they need to do is to get them back under control of Mother Russia. I think they will do this as the nations see the light and realize that they are not going to get security or the essentials they need looking to the West. Russia controls the energy and these nations will learn to fear what Russia could do to them if they do not tow the line. Remember most people will give up freedom for security. So these people will again choose to pay alms to mother Russia. Further, many of the leaders of the old USSR nations are again led by the same old Fascist thugs.
Once Putin becomes like the Csar of the region it is not going to be all about Russia anymore anyway, his influence is going to be regional. It will be very much like the old USSR in the end but perhaps more powerful.
It’s true there are quite a lot of ethnic Russians in former Soviet states. However, it looks to me like few of them actually mixed with the native population. Take Kazakhstan. At one point there were more ethnic Russians living there than Kazakh people, which are a Turkic-Asian people. Today about half of the population is Kazakh and the other half consists of White, Slavic peoples, mostly Russians. I’m not sure about the birth rates for the different ethnic groups in the former Soviet states but I think with the widespread White supremacist tendencies in Russia, they will prefer to increase the ethnic Russian population and expand Russian settlement at the expense of the native populations as it happened before. However, if as you suggest most if not all of the former Soviet states willfully subdue to Russia, there may indeed be less of a need to take drastic measures to increase the native Russian population.
According to the Book of Revelation; The Battle of Armageddon (Rev 19:19; Rev 20:7-..) If I am reading this correctly is the coalition of countries: Gog…etc the same as EZ 38, 39 and will that coalition take place during and after the Tribulation; Millennium, respectively? Can you clear this up for me?
You have got to be kidding? Clear up all the timing of eschatology for you in a post comment? I can tell you this, Armageddon is not the battle described in Ezekiel, nor are the alignment of nations the same, nor is the way the armies are destroyed. Experts defer about the Ezekiel war being pre trib or during the tribulation. It does not occur after the tribulation or after the Millennium.
Check out http://bible-prophecy-today.blogspot.com for recent thoughts by the experts on these things. I recently read a couple of good articles there on this Ezekiel war. I also have some writing of my own that cover this but you would need to do a search from the main page of my website to find out what I said because the timing of the war was not the main issue of the articles.
I tend to think the Ezekiel war is pre-trib. The Ezekiel war and the war of Psalm 83 are also different wars but one is pre-trib and the other is in the trib but the order can be argued. Armageddon is fought by Jesus against the forces of the Antichrist and does not fit either of the above mentioned wars. So there really are three future major regional wars against Israel described in Bible prophecy.
Nice thought, huh?
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