Well Rapture, I'm very happy to hear we're friends "of the same thinking". I hit the ground running in 2008, when I saw the Newsweek article, with the title "Belief Watch: Is Obama the Antichrist?" (you just Google those exact words) that said that Victoria Jackson of SNL fame said "Obama bears the traits of the Antichrist."
Belief Watch: Is Obama the Antichrist?
Belief Watch: Is Obama the Antichrist?
BY NEWSWEEK STAFF ON 11/14/08 (it's written by Senior Editor Lisa Miller - @lisaxmiller)
On Nov. 5, Todd Strandberg was at his desk, fielding E-mails from around the world. As the editor and founder of RaptureReady.com, his job is to track current events and link them to biblical prophecy in hopes of maintaining his status as "the eBay of prophecy," the best source online for predictions and calculations concerning the end of the world. Already Barack Obama had drawn the attention of apocalypse watchers after an anonymous e-mail circulated among conservative Christians in October implying that he was the Antichrist.
Former "Saturday Night Live" ingénue Victoria Jackson fueled the fire when, according to news reports, she wrote on her Web site that Obama "bears traits that resemble the anti-Christ." Now Strandberg was receiving up-to-the-minute news from his constituents in Illinois. One of the winning lottery numbers in the president-elect's home state was 666— which, as everyone knows, is the sign of the Beast (also known as the Antichrist). "It is very eerie, and I take it for a sign as to who he really is," wrote one of Strandberg's correspondents....
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I was a bit awed by that revelation, Rapture, and thought I'd not be able to carry that burden and be able to transmit it to people. And I wasn't. I've spread the message but have to be honest that I have failed each and every time I brought up the topic. People just brush it off and what I've come to the conclusion of is that, I think they close up like clams once they just hear the word Antichrist. I've actually become totally isolated because of it, even in my own home. Because my wife feels scared about it. People don't want to talk about the word Antichrist and even less about Obama because they feel they'll be committing a sin by calling a black man the Antichrist. They're panicked of being stigmatised as racists and fingers get pointed at them.
To backtrack a bit, I must just also explain that I was a birther before becoming (like you are Rapture) a Messenger of the Apocalypse (which is what revealing Obama is about: it's actually carrying out the Biblical mission of the Revelation).
It started back in February 2008 already, when Obama entered the race for the White House. I checked his pedigree on Internet and found an Indonesia school registration where he filled in his "religion" box as being "Muslim". My hair stood on end because islam is the worst thing existing in the world and I just imagined our beloved USA and White House having a Muslim sitting in it. But when I went to Internet to find a way to spread the warning against Obama, I bascially found only birthers there. They were busy saying his identification and birth certificate were fake. So fast forward, the story is that during that period from February to November (2008), I was just merely a birther and not yet into Messaging about the Antichrist. (Obama hadn't been revealed by heaven 666 curse in the lottery at that time....) And I was just an ordinary guy, active on anti-Obama forums and arguing with Obama fans. It was still pretty ordinary. Not this holy path of today juggling with Biblical prophecy and a glorious path of faith.
So that's just about me. Now about what I mentioned in my post, Prester John was a semi-mythological Christian kingdom, the Western Christians imagined was a Central Asian Christian Kingdom ruled by a Christian Savior-king. There's been much speculation what Mongol Kingdom that might be. And there's a king of the Mongols called Hulagu Khan (
Hulagu Khan - Wikipedia) who ticks all the boxes for being Prester John. He was Buddhist but did immeasurable service to Christianity (because he saved it from Islam, as simple as that!). I'll explain that to you in another post, because it's a deep topic, but just to say that Prester John has indeed been found. Now there's another topic which is that the Tibetans wanted to establish links to the Christians in the West so as to create a holy alliance against Islam. And that was realized in a glorious manner by Hulagu Khan. But this was occulted by Western Christians because many treated the Mongols as enemies, and that trend carry it all away. This was due to the following factor: in the Middle East, there were powerful Muslim kings like Saladin, for example. He allied with whatever Christians he could find. He'd corner them in some city in the Holy Land and force them to ally with him. Then they'd go to war against other factions. The Crusaders would always try to ally with the Mongols during many decades, so as get the better of the Muslims. But they managed to do that only a few times. The Mongols also later converted to Islam and found themselves opposed to the Western Christians. So Rapture, you see that the alliances and faiths of the Middle East moved like moving sands in a desert. So, to understand this, one has to really study it very precisely and closely ...and I'll go through the history of the alliances progressively if you like and can be interested. The historical chronology of the alliances with the Mongols is in Wiki under the words "Franco-Mongol Alliance."
Franco-Mongol alliance - Wikipedia
To further zero in on what happened in the Holy Land and why we're fractured from the Eastern Christians, well that can also be studied through the Wiki references at "The Crusades".
Crusades - Wikipedia
This is just a very brief overview of the topics. If you breeze through "Hulagu Khan" at Wiki you'll see all the topics I speak about and how he saved Christianity from the fatally death grip of Islam (in "
1258 Battle of Baghdad").
Now about the topics in your last post, it's very true in everything I'm speaking about here, that the losing of contact with other Christian brethren in the East, has cut off Christianity from it's (oriental) roots and it's own brothers and kin. How can one be one's self if one is no longer in contact with one's long-lost family? That's a very good question.
I've come in contact with countless Christians through trying to wake people up to Obama being the Antichrist. What a responsability it's been! Imagine that I should be shouldered with that duty, just because "people were asleep on their watches" and didn't stand up towake up when the Newsweek article came out. I feel I'm shouldered with taking out the garbage instead of people and that it's due to their cowardise and laziness. Like...people just mutter in their sleep: "Oh Christ! Obama's the Antichrist", and roll over to go back to sleep. Then next morning they've forgotten about it and Obama. I'm left with the problem and the burden to carry because no one even cares about the Bible anymore. How many times have I heard: "Everything in the Bible is lies...."
One person you may not approve of his Rev Carl Gallups. Gallups was an eye-opener for me, because he was active as a spokesperson for AZ Sheriff Joe Arpaio who was an outspoken birther.
But Gallups doubled as a preacher with a church in Florida and as such published videos on You Tube with the name of PPSimmons, and one of Gallups' videos that blew my mind was called:
Obama The Lottery and 666 You have GOT TO SEE THIS! What are the CHANCES Is he the Antichrist
Now Rapture, I envisage that we can go forward by contacting people about this. Victoria Jackson and Carl Gallup are celebs and they're on board this bandwagon. If we can just get one of them with us, we can roll. They've got massive fan-bases behind them. Just writing this thread is already a first step. this is our basic platform.
As I say, I'm from an immensely influential family in Norway and that can help. Norway is a strongly Lutheran base. My family are strong church people. What do you say.
P.S. I've got a few other videos like that one, I'll send them here for our readers and for you. And we can also contact those people that made the various videos.... and I'll fill in the empty spaces of that narrative I started above, about the lost Christians of Central Asia, (if that interests you and the readers of this thread) which is a tantalizing story and is about finding long lost brethren in the deserts of Asia. I have some very interesting well-written sources about that, from the most prominent university sources and scholars in the field of "Eastern Christians among the Mongols in the Middle Eastern regions" and the Holy Land/"the Levant Crescent" - Israel, Syria, Lebanon.
Best. Geir Smith.
