Obama Antichrist Question

Is Obama the Antichrist? Let’s see what the Bible says and decide for yourself. The Bible gives us some revelations regarding the Antichrist and his strategy for world domination. Many people believe that he will fight great wars like Napoleon or Hitler. They draw this conclusion from Rev. 13:3–4 which states that “all the world was amazed by the beast [Antichrist] … and they worshiped the beast, saying, ‘Who is like the beast? Who is able to make war with him?’” But this is not because the Antichrist just finished waging a brilliant campaign. It’s because he was just assassinated, suffered a deadly wound—but was healed (Rev. 13:3, 12). So the world wonders, “Who can fight someone like that?”

How does the Antichrist take over the world? Here is a probable scenario: he first rises to prominence on the world stage when he confirms a lasting and comprehensive peace treaty between Israel and the surrounding Arab nations—winning the Nobel Peace Prize in the process. The European Union, and indeed all nations, regards him as the key to peace on earth. He is the leading statesman on the planet, so when he requests his nation’s entry into the European Union (EU), its ten ruling members (the “ten horns” of Dan. 7:7) vote unanimously to allow him to join.

Then the world collapses in a severe economic catastrophe as deep as the Great Depression, and the EU, drafting emergency legislation, invests the office of president of the EU with real powers and elects the charismatic Antichrist as ruler. The rulers of three member states object, arguing against investing so much power in one man, but within days, a popular groundswell of demonstrators flood the streets of these three nations’ capitols, bringing down their governments.

    “I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast … and it had ten horns. I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots…. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be different from the first ones, and he shall subdue three kings” (Dan. 7:7–8, 24).

It is commonly believed that these ten horns are ten nations and that for the Antichrist to “pluck them up by the roots” and “subdue” them that he must invade and conquer them. The text does not say this. It doesn’t even say that the Antichrist was the one who plucked them up—simply that “three of the first horns were plucked up by the roots” and that the Antichrist subdued them. While we tend to think “subdue” must involve war, the actual Hebrew word shephal means “to make low or humble.”

Regarding the Antichrist’s strategy for takeover, Daniel also said that—

    “A vile person … shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by intrigue. He shall enter peaceably even upon the richest places of the province … by peace shall he destroy many” (Dan. 11:21, 24; 8:25).

With the three objecting rulers ousted peaceably and replaced by new leaders, all ten horns (nations) now agree to give their kingdom (the EU) to the Antichrist, urging him to quickly get on with the business of rescuing their floundering economies:

    “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.” (Rev. 17:12–13)

This all happens during the first 3 ½ years of the Last Seven Years of world history, and the Antichrist’s solution is to create the groundwork and technology for the Mark of the Beast—and in the middle of the Last Seven Years, he is ready to implement it throughout the EU. That’s when some zealous enemy, recognizing him as the Antichrist, attempts to assassinate him. When he “miraculously” recovers, the entire world is amazed and worships him (Rev. 13:3–4, 12).

The Antichrist already rules Europe, but now he takes over the world, a feat he could never have accomplished through war, but can accomplish through powerful persuasion and willing cooperation. The world has already taken note of his solution to the economic disaster and he now states that since the Depression is global in scope, the 666-solution must also be implemented worldwide. Is Obama going to do all that in his term as the president of the United States?