By Jan Markell
www.olivetreeviews.org
December 15, 2009

The Bible is clear that there is coming a one-world leader at the end of days. Most just call him the antichrist; however, there are many other names for the man.

He is called "The Little Horn" (Daniel 7:8); "The King of Fierce Countenance" (Daniel 8:23); The Man of Sin (2 Thessalonians 2:3); The Son of Perdition (2 Thessalonians 2:3); The Lawless One (2 Thessalonians 2:8);The Beast (Revelation 11:7).

There is much floating over the Internet that Barack Obama is the antichrist. He is not. He simply doesn't qualify. However, in 2009, he fooled the world into believing that he was a world leader. Many Web sites called him "The President of the world," "the messiah," "the world leader," and much more along those lines. He persuaded the masses that he could unite the world, but to do that, America would have to be reduced from a superpower to the same level as Portugal or Brazil.

Eventually the antichrist will accomplish this, so Obama's efforts are a run-up to it. During the campaign, he mesmerized the world. Not everyone was fooled, but the world is so longing for a "man with a plan," a "Mr. Fix-it," that they bought his redistribution of wealth statements and overlooked a dozen dangerous associations and said they just didn't matter because this was the closest the world had come in modern history to this so-called "President of the world." Shortly after the 2008 election, Tunisia was just one country of several that headlined the story, "Today America elects 'the president of the world.' "

On David Horowitz's FrontPageMagazine, David Gutmann makes an interesting case for all of this "Mr. Unity" longing. Gutmann suggests Obama is already wearying of being President of the United States and suggests he is planning a bigger role in the world.

Gutmann says, "I am now betting even more money that our president is not particularly concerned about his own re-election in 2012 and that he will enact as many of his programs in health reform, energy conservation, arms reduction, and income redistribution as he can before his current term expires. He will then try for higher goals. My hunch is that he is already getting restless in his present job, and that he seeks a promotion to an ever greater status."

Gutmann continues, "Observers of his presidency have been puzzled by the continuing pattern: Obama is still in campaign mode, spending a good deal of time giving major policy speeches, not only in the states but around the globe. What office is he running for now?"

Gutmann concludes, "If this is indeed Obama's fantasy, then it is shared by a sizable portion of the world's population. A poll taken in September of 2009 by the BBC indicated, at that time, that a large proportion of the global sample favored Obama as world president; and my Google search of 'Obama, world President,' turns up more than 120,000 posts."

The stars have aligned for radical liberals worldwide. America's Barack Obama is positioning himself to become the world's first de facto president. Just a short time ago he was a mere college professor opining on important issues such as health care, education, and poverty. Now, he is taking on more daunting issues such as a "new world order" in the form of foreign appeasement and the surrender of the U.S. currency to foreign dictators. It is terribly emperor-esque.

The German newspaper Der Spiegel stated, "America has voted, and the world has voted along with it. Germany, Europe, every continent on earth has finally discovered the America that is an idea and not just a superpower. In only three countries -- Israel, Georgia, and the the Philippines -- did a majority prefer John McCain. The rest of the world was Obama country."

They continue, "There were parties in cities on all continents, and they even celebrated in the Gaza Strip where, normally, the only good Americans are considered dead Americans. Obama is the world's president, at least for a while."

Someone wrote on their blog the sentiment below:

You get the drift of this. Obama is paving the way for the antichrist but at this point is too low in opinion/popularity polls to qualify. There are other reasons he is not qualified for this ungodly title. He still has the worship of some people, but he is no friend of God.

There is coming that "single leader." Could it be that the world is turning into such a mess so that he -- the antichrist -- will soon come along and say, "I have the answer to solve all these problems"? Obama's "messiahship" can't come close to that of the antichrist who will be demonically-appointed to pull a million rabbits out of hats. So what we see now is just a microcosm of what will really happen.

To better understand such issues, visit the category at my Web site called "Prophecy Watch."

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Awaiting His return,
Jan Markell