Barack Obama "probably not the anti-Christ."

[HuskyFreeNorthwest]

On MSNBC Jerry Jenkins and Dr. Tim Lehay authors of the Left Behind book series are stating that view.

[PaloAltoCougar]

On MSNBC Jerry Jenkins and Dr. Tim Lehay authors of the Left Behind book series are stating that view.

Did they cite a specific probability? >50%, perhaps? I'd like to see the Vegas line on this, and see how the line rises and falls as we approach game day (Rapture).

[BoylenOver]

That's a relief, because I would look really stupid if I voted for the anti-Christ.

[Babs]

Did they cite a specific probability? >50%, perhaps?

I was wondering the same thing.

What I had been curious about last year:

If you're a literalist evangelical, and you believed Barack to be the antiChrist, then why WOULDN'T you want him to become President? Wouldn't you want him to ascend to power so we can get on with things and hasten the apocalypse and the subsequent coming of Christ?

[wuapinmon]

From my blog, November 6, 2008.

OBAMA IS NOT THE DAMNED ANTI-CHRIST

Obama is not the damned Anti-Christ. If you actually read the Bible instead of just talking about how much you love Jesus, you would know this. I challenge anyone who calls Obama the Anti-Christ to give me a Biblical definition of what it means, including the original meaning in the Greek. Hell, I challenge any of you to tell me where in the Bible the word antichrist even appears.

According to Paul, and maybe Daniel depending on how you read him, the antichrist will try and rebuild the temple, so unless Obama plans to raze the Dome of the Rock, get out Solomon's blueprints, rebuild the thing, go sit on his ass in the Holy of Holies while demanding we all go sacrifice sheep and doves to him for our sins, he's not the farking antichrist. Mindless sheep.

The Second Coming isn't going to happen in the next four years, or eight if he's re-elected; too much Scripture isn't fulfilled, which again, you'd know if you read them. Enough already. The Anti-Christ is real enough; it's anyone who puts himself in place of the Savior and works against him. I don't think Obama or any other president is the Anti-Christ. Isn't it a little presumptive of you to assume that he/they'll be from America? Why not The Gambia, Bhutan, the Maldives, or even Pitcairn Island? Clinton was the antichrist in 1992, Kennedy in 1960, I assume many a Southern lips slandered Lincoln with that moniker. You could fill libraries with lists (in many languages) with the names of election winners that people have called the antichrist.

Ignorance is my enemy.

[Babs]

OBAMA IS NOT THE DAMNED ANTI-CHRIST

Obama is not the damned Anti-Christ. If you actually read the Bible instead of just talking about how much you love Jesus, you would know this. I challenge anyone who calls Obama the Anti-Christ to give me a Biblical definition of what it means, including the original meaning in the Greek. Hell, I challenge any of you to tell me where in the Bible the word antichrist even appears.

According to Paul, and maybe Daniel depending on how you read him, the antichrist will try and rebuild the temple, so unless Obama plans to raze the Dome of the Rock, get out Solomon's blueprints, rebuild the thing, go sit on his ass in the Holy of Holies while demanding we all go sacrifice sheep and doves to him for our sins, he's not the farking antichrist. Mindless sheep.

The Second Coming isn't going to happen in the next four years, or eight if he's re-elected; too much Scripture isn't fulfilled, which again, you'd know if you read them. Enough already. The Anti-Christ is real enough; it's anyone who puts himself in place of the Savior and works against him. I don't think Obama or any other president is the Anti-Christ. Isn't it a little presumptive of you to assume that he/they'll be from America? Why not The Gambia, Bhutan, the Maldives, or even Pitcairn Island? Clinton was the antichrist in 1992, Kennedy in 1960, I assume many a Southern lips slandered Lincoln with that moniker. You could fill libraries with lists (in many languages) with the names of election winners that people have called the antichrist.

The idea of eschatology is fascinating to me. So much relevant Scripture is subject to myriad interpretations, yet men have spent lifetimes poring over verse after verse to develop detailed theories that many are convinced foretell our literal and collective future. When you think about it, any claim of that kind of foreknowledge seems awfully hubristic and presumptious, and almost absurd. Yet this is one of the most highly regarded fields in Christian scholarship. It's interesting what Christianity has turned into over the millennia.