Obama is just another pawn. That guy is the Anti-Christ.
Posted on 08/15/2008 9:20:38 AM PDT by Alter Kaker
Contact: Beverly Rykerd, 719-481-0537, Beverly@rykerd.com
CAROL STREAM, Ill., Aug. 15 /Christian Newswire/ -- John McCain's campaign ad "The One" has generated a lot of buzz regarding the "Left Behind Series." Political commentators are comparing McCain's portrayal of competitor Barack Obama with the blockbuster apocalyptic series' depiction of the antichrist. But even the series authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins don't think Obama is the antichrist. What may have been created as a farce has generated a firestorm of controversy on the internet.
LaHaye and Jenkins take a literal interpretation of prophecies found in the Book of Revelation. They believe the antichrist will surface on the world stage at some point, but neither see Obama in that role. "I've gotten a lot of questions the last few weeks asking if Obama is the antichrist," says novelist Jenkins. "I tell everyone that I don't think the antichrist will come out of politics, especially American politics."
"I can see by the language he uses why people think he could be the antichrist," adds LaHaye, "but from my reading of scripture, he doesn't meet the criteria. There is no indication in the Bible that the antichrist will be an American."
Jenkins and LaHaye don't take McCain's commercial or the antichrist speculation over Obama too seriously.
Pundits have pointed out that there are similarities between the "Left Behind Series" character Nicolae Carpathia and Obama. Other than some vocabulary and charisma, Carpathia, a young Romanian politician who eventually oversees a one-world government, and Obama don't have much in common. "If even the people who created the character Nicolae Carpathia don't see the comparisons as warranted, then perhaps this is overblown," says Jenkins.
"Left Behind" is a series of 16 apocalyptic novels (1995-2007/Tyndale House Publishers) using end time prophecies in Revelation as a framework. All sixteen books reached the "New York Times" bestseller list with seven reaching the #1 spot. Overall more than 63 million copies have sold in the "Left Behind" product line. For more information on the "Left Behind Series," visit www.leftbehind.com.
Press contact: Beverly Rykerd at Beverly@rykerd.com or (719) 481-0537.
Whew. I can get back to worrying about Bentley.
FWIW, I don't think so either. He ain't that important. He is just one of the many enablers of the antichrist.
How about Indonesian?
Firestorm?
The ads making fun of “the one” aren’t subliminally trying to tell people he’s the antichrist. They are making fun of his followers for their awe-struck devotion to someone who you wouldn’t hire to work in a convenience store.
Is the job of False Prophet still open?
or kenyan, take yor pick!
Obama is just another pawn. That guy is the Anti-Christ.
The Left is just trying create a strawman with this anyway, the makers of the ad weren’t saying that he’s the antichrist (as was said, he’s not even important enough or effective enough for the role), they were poking fun at his media-created image as our “Messiah”, and he most certainly has had that image created by the media, and played up by all his worshipful fainting followers They love creating strawmen, in order to ignore the factual and true issue.
Of course he’s not. The AC will emerge first in Europe, with Middle East birth origins.
I thought he was supposed to be Romanian. Maybe it’s Béla Károlyi
It was Oprah who called Obama “The One” (meaning a savior, a special one, one who will change things, the chosen one).
It was countless MSM editors who pictured The One with his halo. Airbrushed covers.
Have to wonder why so many are making Obama a new god.
“Jenkins and LaHaye don’t take McCain’s commercial or the antichrist speculation over Obama too seriously”
And who takes Jenkins and LaHaye seriously?
Obamassiah may not be THE anti-christ, but his actions indicate to me that he is likely AN anti-christ.
You beat me by seconds
Karolyi is ethnically Hungarian.
Turning the biblical prophesies of the end times into fiction is something I just cannot stomach. I watched one of these end times movies. They actually put words into one of the two witnesses mouths, while the Bible itself is conspicuously silent on those kind of specifics.
But this is not the place for my full rant...
Speed typing school.
***I am worried that people actually think Jerry Jenkins or Tim LaHaye actually know anything about Prophecy or have a clue about the End Times. ***
If the Bible says it’s raining cats and dogs, they’ll cherry pick that sentence and open an animal clinic. The Bible must be taken as a whole, not just random sentences that suit someone’s need.
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