Reply #14: The anti-Christ is supposed to finish bringing the world to one religion.

[haele]

That's not Obama, even though he's "charismatic and popular". Heck, George Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr. were charismatic and popular. Jefferson Davis and George W. Bush were charismatic and popular. Sun Yat Sen and Robert Kennedy were charismatic and popular... That qualifier means nothing without all the other so-called signs of the book of the Revelator - who was sitting alone. half starving and in exile, on a small island in the Mediterranean complaing about his "brothers in Christ" who betrayed him to the Roman Emperor who put him there. (BTW, it's "The Book of St. John the Revelator", not "The Book of Revelations")
By all indications, the he was expecting the return of Christ in time to save him from exile and take him and his acolytes to Heaven - in spite of his co-religionists that he was having quarrels with.

As it is we aren't even close to having a "one world religion", no matter what the Opus Dei and the Dominionists plan. If your friend is serious about this, tell her it's far more plausible to claim that a future pope in a couple hundred years will be the anti-Christ, than it would to claim Obama would.
Oh, and Christ has to return and be known before the Anti-Christ takes power, so who does she think Christ is nowdays? Surely not George W? Maybe she thinks it's Sen. Tom Coburn or Li'l Kim of North Korea...both men certainly seem to have a messianic complex.

Haele
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