Many
fervent Christians are praying
for the pro-life candidates for
President and Vice-President to
win in the US elections. God can
work wonders, even if McCain is
the underdog and is trailing Obama
in the polls. We indeed should
keep on praying, since the elections
are very much about spiritual
warfare in the world today.
But
then, God can certainly allow
Obama to win. And Obama can
proceed to totally promote the
culture of death in America,
and by extension, to the rest
of the world. If this is the
case, it might be the time of
chastisement and great persecution
for the Church. Now that in
itself is a blessing, as we
would be inevitably moving on
to the fulfillment of the end
times, and look to Christ's
second coming in glory.
So
whichever way the US elections
go, we can rejoice, because
(1) God's will is being accomplished,
and (2) we and many other Christians
and the institutional Church
have been jolted out of complacency
and ignorance, and should be,
from now on, aggressively battling
the scourge of abortion and
the culture of death. Trust
in Jesus, and work to establish
his reign.
God
bless America. God bless you
all.
frank
Many
have Asked: Is Obama the Anti-Christ?
- Famed Novelist Michael O'Brien
Answers
(Editor's
Note: The following are excerpts
from the latest newsletter of
Canadian Catholic novelist Michael
O'Brien best known for his apocalyptic
novel Father Elijah.)
November
3, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) -
I am receiving letters from
American subscribers and visitors
to my studio website asking
me some rather surprising questions
about Barack Obama, related
to one of my novels ...
Then,
a few weeks ago a German friend
called me immediately after
Obama's speech in Berlin, to
say that the presidential candidate
had mesmerized the crowds, and
that a commentator on German
television had said: "We
have just heard the next President
of the United States...and the
future President of the World."
My friend felt that Obama bore
an uncanny resemblance to the
fictional character of the President
in my novel Father Elijah. I
have received several other
letters saying the same thing
and asking what I thought about
it.
From
my own reading of Obama's declarations
and stated positions, I knew
he was an ultra-liberal, a social
revolutionary with visionary
pretensions. But the Antichrist?
No, not possible, I thought.
I felt that he was too shallow
a man to be the Son of Perdition,
the Man of Sin, the Beast of
the Book of Revelation. And
I still think so. Obama is a
crowd-pleaser with just the
right ethos of idealistic crusader.
That the crusade and the banners
under which it marches are evil
does not automatically prove
that he is the Antichrist.
But
now that I have seen the video
of the Berlin speech I think
there is more here than meets
the eye. He is indeed a powerful
manipulator of crowds, even
as he appears ever so humble
and wholesomely charming. I
doubt that he is the long-prophesied
ruler of the world, but I also
believe that he is a carrier
of a deadly moral virus, indeed
a kind of anti-apostle spreading
concepts and agendas that are
not only anti-Christ but anti-human
as well. In this sense he
is of the spirit of Antichrist
(perhaps without knowing it),
and probably is one of several
key figures in the world who
(knowingly or unknowingly) will
be instrumental in ushering
in the time of great trial for
the Church under its last and
worst persecution ...
Read
the full letter from Michael
O'Brien here:
"For
to me life is Christ, and death
is gain." (Phil 1:21)