President Obama isn’t
the Antichrist – but he sure is “paving the way” for him, said some Christian
evangelists who’ve been watching the White House in biblically prophetic light
with alarm.
“Although President
Obama is certainly not the Antichrist, his policies are paving the way for the
Antichrist,” said Pastor Robert James Jeffress, Jr., of the First Baptist
Church of Dallas, Texas, Christian Today reported. “While I am not suggesting that President Obama is the
Antichrist, the fact that he was able to propose such a sweeping change in
God’s law and still win reelection by a comfortable margin illustrates how a
future world leader will be able to oppose God’s laws without any
repercussions.”
Some of the
objectionable perceived anti-Christian policies Obama’s pushed include same-sex
marriage and homosexual rights, as well as funding for Planned Parenthood and
abortion in his signature Obamacare, the newspaper said.
“There is an
anti-Christian bias that is now in our government,” said Christian evangelist
and missionary Franklin Graham, citing Obama’s views as infecting America’s
political and cultural systems, Christian Today reported. “It has permeated our
government.”
And Obama’s to blame
because he’s imposing a “new morality” on Americans that flies in the face of
biblical teachings, Graham said.
“It’s a morality that
does not include God or His standards,” he said. “That’s what we’re facing
today. It is an Antichrist movement that we’re seeing taking place.”
And one more anti-Christ
reference toward Obama, from columnist Jennifer Leclaire, at Charisma News:
“[He's] made plenty of Antichrist moves during his presidency. I don’t believe
Obama is the Antichrist, but the fact that so many people are utterly convinced
is telling … The chatter continues. One thing is clear, believers are paying
close attention to the signs of the times, including the rise of the
Antichrist.”
Still others point to
biblical teachings to remind that the term “antichrist” is used to simply
describe those who stand opposed to Jesus Christ and that Scripture does not
specifically refer to any Revelation-period “Antichrist” figure.
In other words, some
say, the term “antichrist” is simply the word used to describe anyone who
denies Christ, or whose works oppose those of Jesus – and in that case, could
apply to Obama as well as to a host of other past and present political and
cultural figures.
As Carl Gallups, author
of the newly released “Final Warning: Understanding the Trumpet Days of Revelation,” and co-author with Charl Van Wyk of the
upcoming “Be Thou Prepared: Equipping the Church for the Persecution
and Times of Trouble,” told Fox News Radio
host Alan Colmes in a past interview: An antichrist spirit can be present in
many.
He told Holmes: “I have
never claimed to believe that Obama is the antichrist. However, I have said
that Obama certainly displays an alarmingly powerful antichrist spirit.”
Gallups, in a written
statement to WND, clarified further.
“The bottom line is that
many world leaders, down through the years, have displayed undeniable spirit of
antichrist qualities,” he said. “No, Obama is probably not the antichrist. But,
to many Bible scholars, it certainly appears that he is being used to pave the
way for the real deal. If there ever was a time for people to be right with our
Creator through a born again relationship with Jesus Christ, it is now.”
The World Factbook gives the
population as 7,095,217,980 (July 2013 est.) and the distribution of religions
as Christian 31.50% (of
which Roman Catholic 16.85%, Protestant 6.15%, Orthodox 3.96%, Anglican 1.26%), Muslim 22.74%, Hindu 13.8%, Buddhist 6.77%, Sikh 0.35%, Jewish 0.22%, Baha'i 0.11%,
other religions 10.95%, non-religious 9.66%, atheists 2.01% (2010 est.).[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religious_populationsThe majority of Americans identify themselves as Christians, while close to a quarter claim no religious affiliation.[2] According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, 70.6% of the American population identified themselves as Christians, with 46.5% professing attendance at a variety of churches that could be considered Protestant, and 20.8% professing Roman Catholic beliefs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States
Comments
The US
government’s war on Christianity started in the 1960s. The family Bible served
as the most read book prior to that. Obama’s recent advancement of Islam may be
his reaction to his childhood religion, but his Alinsky attacks on Christianity
are right out of the Communist playbook. It started with “tolerance”, and that
became intolerance when it came to Christianity. The US is over 70% Christian
with 25% attrition. Europe is about the same. As secular governments embraced
more socialist policies and become more controlling, Christianity is being
replaced by government imposed values.
These
values do not bode well with Westerners and these governments are
bankrupt. As we struggle to improve our
economies, tolerance for forced communitarianism wanes. This leaves nationalism
and free markets as the preferred way forward instead of the slide toward a one
world government.
We may be
able to break the back of our tyrannical nanny-states when they run out of cash,
but we will need to be prepared to seize this opportunity. This is happening,
one country at a time. If citizens demand nationalism and free markets, we are
likely to succeed. If that happens, we may be able to put away our “end of
days” predictions for a while.
There is
nothing more elusive or dangerous than trying to forecast the “end of days”. We
need to make sure we avoid being trapped in a self-fulfilling prophecy. The
“end of days” is God’s business, not ours.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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