{"id":2231,"date":"2009-08-03T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/08\/barack-obama-the-antichrist-shedding-some-lightning-on-the-subject\/"},"modified":"2009-08-03T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-03T20:31:00","slug":"barack-obama-the-antichrist-shedding-some-lightning-on-the-subject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2009\/08\/barack-obama-the-antichrist-shedding-some-lightning-on-the-subject.html","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama the Antichrist? Shedding Some Lightning On The Subject"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/aramaicdesigns.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/did-yeshua-give-us-name-of-anti-christ.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">claim<\/a> has been <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelsheiser.com\/PaleoBabble\/2009\/07\/more-pulpit-paleobabble-president-obama-is-the-antichrist-the-bible-tells-us-so\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">circulating<\/a> that Jesus referred to Barack Obama and singled him out as the antichrist, when he said he saw \u201cSatan fall as lightning (baraq) from heaven\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=49&amp;chapter=10&amp;verse=18&amp;version=31&amp;context=verse\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Luke 10:18<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Obviously this misunderstands Jesus\u2019 meaning. His point was not that Satan <i>descends<\/i> from heaven <i>as<\/i> Barack Obama (which would involve using different words). The point was simply that he could think of no more meteoric fall with which to compare Satan\u2019s than Barack Obama\u2019s own lightning-fast (pun intended) decline in popularity in recent days, as economic turmoils continue to envelop the nation and the world.<\/p>\n<p>But we can be quite certain, once again on the basis of the Bible, that Barack Obama will make a comeback, and his fame will in the end completely overshadow his brief decline in popularity. That\u2019s why Jesus <em>compared<\/em> <i>himself<\/i> to Barack Obama when he said that \u201cFor the Son of Man in his day will be like the lightning (baraq), which flashes and lights up the sky from one end to the other\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=49&amp;chapter=17&amp;verse=24&amp;version=31&amp;context=verse\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Luke 17:24<\/a>). And in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=49&amp;chapter=9&amp;verse=29&amp;version=31&amp;context=verse\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Luke 9:29<\/a> we are told that Jesus\u2019 clothes shone like lightning \u2013 i.e. his clothes in the transfiguration were as fine as Barack Obama\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>If Jesus compared himself to Barack Obama, then we can be sure that Barack Obama is not the antichrist. But if you are not convinced, note as well that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=73&amp;chapter=4&amp;verse=5&amp;version=31&amp;context=verse\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Revelation 4:5<\/a> says lightning (presumably still Barack Obama) came from God\u2019s throne, while both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=30&amp;chapter=10&amp;verse=13&amp;version=31&amp;context=verse\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeremiah 10:13<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=30&amp;chapter=51&amp;verse=16&amp;version=31&amp;context=verse\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeremiah 51:16<\/a> say that God himself sent Barack, and <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.cc\/psalms\/148-8.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Psalm 148:8<\/a> says Barack does God\u2019s bidding. You can\u2019t just pick and choose, people!<\/p>\n<p>Do note as well that the person claiming that Jesus said <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/08\/obama_is_the_anti-christ_again.php\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201clightning and high place\u201d<\/a> (baraq ubamah) is claiming that the Greek New Testament, the \u201coriginal texts\u201d from which English translations are made, were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.energionpubs.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/incredibly-irresponsible-youtube-video\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrong<\/a>, that they mistranslated what Jesus said. And so it would be absolutely incoherent for anyone who believes in the Bible\u2019s inerrancy to buy into this sort of claim.<\/p>\n<p>Now that you all understand the Bible a bit better, we return you to your <a href=\"http:\/\/exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\/2008\/06\/how-i-know-barack-obama-is-not.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">regularly scheduled programming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-8269764213777720658?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The claim has been circulating that Jesus referred to Barack Obama and singled him out as the antichrist, when he said he saw \u201cSatan fall as lightning (baraq) from heaven\u201d (Luke 10:18). Obviously this misunderstands Jesus\u2019 meaning. His point was not that Satan descends from heaven as Barack Obama (which would involve using different words). [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Barack Obama the Antichrist? 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