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Hal Lindsey Lives... And Associates Obama With The Antichrist

02 Aug 2008 10:16 am

We forget how important Mr. Lindsey was to the resurgence in the 70s and early 80s of the dispensationalist bent of  Christian fundamentalism in this country.... (as distinguished from -- mostly --  the eschatological inklings of the evangelical great awakening...)

Having predicted the End of the World a few times, he's now become a political commentator on WorldNetDaily.

His latest: How Obama prepped world for the Antichrist

There was a time when it was considered unpatriotic to be ashamed of America, but that time is long past. Being proud of America means you are probably a Bush-loving neoconservative, so the only sure way to prevent such misidentification is to apologize for it at every opportunity.

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.


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