Thanks for this post. It's well written and, I hope, well taken by all who read it.

Hey Michael,

Interesting topic, but you're behind the times. Over at www.christandpopculture, we're all over it.(http://www.christandpopculture.com/featured/barack-obama-is-not-the-anti-christ/).

You'll be glad to note that three of the writers for this site (including the author of this article) are either members or former members of Third Avenue Baptist Church in Louisville, KY where Kurt Heath is pastor.

Thanks for your work!

Phew. The last thing we need over here across the pond is more cowboy attitude.

By the way, healthcare over there could certainly benefit from some socialising.

Amen. Well put.

From my understanding this began as e-mail rumor that then got posted online and then got carried in the mass media based on an incorrect quoting of scripture by people trying to manipulate both fear and the vote. Something I think runs contrary to the faith that means so much to me.

In addition, it seems easy to read current events and characters onto Revelation.

At the end of the day, the world is in his hands. Our faith should be in him no matter the circumstances.

Assentia, I think you've missed the point.

Well, I don't think he's quite the antichrist - but, personally, I think any man who supports partial birth abortion - where the child is taken from the womb intact and left to die - has something terribly wrong with him. I read a transcript of a conversation where Obama chastises a women who was asking about having these "children" given care and Obama's responses were chilling to read. I will try to find the site and post it so you all can read the exchanges yourself and draw your own conclusions. BTW, I'm pro-choice - but these late term abortions are definitely disgusting in my opinion.

Maybe it's me but it seems as though the tone of your comments is a little condesending towards christians that struggle with fear (as we all do from time to time) and christians that hold a view of an end times Antichrist (which is not difinitive in scripture)...just my impression.

Hey,
There's tons of non-Christian professional who do awesome job in their work field. When I go to a dentist, I don't care if he's a Christian. Same about an engineer who designed my car - it doesn't matter to me whether he is or is not a Christian.

And the fact that Obama graduated from an Ivy League school with a degree in Law says a lot about his work ethics and ability to think.
I respect that man for what he has achieved, no matter whether he is Christian or not. Looking at his past achievements, I think this man has prooved to be a very intelligent hard worker, and that's the main point.

P.S. Plus, no soul can get to know Jesus through any laws and regulations. Rulers can make people do something, but they can not keep people from getting to know Jesus, or to help them to know Jesus better. It's a personal decision and lots of prayer that bring people to God.

Depending on when you believe the rapture happens (pre-trib. here) this verse is significant at least to Pres. elect Obama is "The Anti-Christ", specifically verse 6&7

2Th 2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction,
2Th 2:4 who opposes and exalts himself against every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.
2Th 2:5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
2Th 2:6 And you know what is restraining him now so that he may be revealed in his time.
2Th 2:7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who now restrains it will do so until he is out of the way.
2Th 2:8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth and bring to nothing by the appearance of his coming.
2Th 2:9 The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders,
2Th 2:10 and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved.

http://electofgod.blogspot.com/2008/11/ahh-looks-like-your-time-is-running-out.html

You must be a Yankees fan...

It is no good to exchange one delusion (Obama=Anti Christ) for another (the Yankees are still a top tier team).

Go Sox!

al sends

(great post by the way)

sorry, my name is Al Stout, Providence Church Penscola, FL

Well, I guess "pish-posh" is a kind of an answer....

Antichrist fever is running amok. I have been fielding similar questions since last Tuesday. I bogged about it last week.
http://voyageministries.blogspot.com/2008/11/who-is-antichrist.html

Sorry for the shameless self promotion.

dm

This kind of end-of-world stuff is so prevalent and the internet has only let it go faster (to all our detriment). You have put up an good article and I'm glad to see others are starting to do the same. See
http://www.thechristianobserver.com/2008/11/13/do-christians-believe-in-a-sovereign-god-or-not/

Donovan McNabb...13 letters, an evil number. Add in "Jamal" as middle name you have 18, divide by 3 and get "6" - mmm, three 6's. Could it be?

Good work on your blogging, bro.

"But this guy wants to socialize our health care, and Jesus is supposed to be so enraged that he will come storming back to save us?"

I wonder what people who think like that make of the gospel story of Jesus healing the woman who had spent everything she had on mercenary doctors?

Saton is sly, The anti-christ may not be like hitler or stalin, but very subtle!!!

No reformer or early christian ever believed that obama will be/is the antichrist...is unlikely but possible that the signs of the man of lawlessness have already been fullfilled.