Prophecies of Barack Obama?

by COGwriter

Is Barack Obama in prophecy? Are there Bible prophecies that Barack Obama may have helped hfulfill? What about Barack Obama and the predictions of Nostradamus? Are we close to the end of the world? Are there end time prophecies that Barack Obama seems to fit? Will Barack Obama cause the end of the world? Has Barack Obama fulfilled any prophecies or other predictions?

Many have seen how crowds used to react to his speaking and have wondered "Is Barack Obama Antichrist?"

Did you know that there are at least seventeen biblical reasons why Barack Obama has helped lead the United States to fulfill the predictions in the Apocalypse (also known as the Book of Revelation; watch also the YouTube Barack Obama and the State of the Apocalypse)? And that there are many older writings that indicate that Barack Hussein Obama may have set the United States up for utter destruction?

This article (which was originally written in 2008 with later updates) will attempt to address external and biblical prophecies that may apply to Barack Hussein Obama (he and his Administration have already fulfilled at least a dozen I have had published).

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Barack Obama: His Background, Birth, and Kenyan Prophecies

Barack Hussein Obama had a father who was a Luo Kenyan and a mother who was part Caucasian and part American Indian.

As few in the USA would be highly familiar with the Luo, here is some information on the Luo:

Luo… Throughout the nineteenth century AD , the Luo migrated into the area they now occupy in Kenya. They left lower savanna grasslands for higher and cooler regions with reliable rainfall…

LOCATION According to the last national population census conducted in 1989, the Luo number over 3 million people, or about 13 percent of Kenya’s total population…

For example, the Nomiya Luo Church, which started in 1912, was the first independent church in Kenya. The founder of this church, Johanwa Owalo, is believed to be a prophet similar to Jesus Christ and Muhammad. Owalo later teamed up with a Catholic priest and began teaching a new theology that rejected both the Pope and the doctrine of the trinity (Luo. Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cultures, 1999, article pages 1 & 3. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_gx5217/is_1999/ai_n19133319/pg_1?tag=artBody;col1 viewed 11/04/08 )

Hence, there apparently is a Luo religion in Kenya, and there was one associated with it named Johanwa Owalo who made some prophecies. And Barack Obama is considered to be a Luo. Interestingly, the Continuing Church of God has many members who are Luo Kenyan, who of course, are opposed to Barack Obama's positions on abortion, homosexuality, and certain other moral issues as I personally verified during my visits with them.

His first name, however, is Hebrew:

The meaning of the name Barak is Lightning, Spark

The origin of the name Barak is Hebrew (http://www.babynames.com/name/BARAK)

His middle name is Arabic:

The meaning of the name Hussein is Handsome One

The origin of the name Hussein is Arabic (http://www.babynames.com/name/HUSSEIN)

His last name seems to mean “slightly bent”:

The meaning of the name Obama is Slightly Bent

The origin of the name Obama is African

Notes: From a rare Luo (Kenyan) name, meaning a baby born with bent arm or leg or possibly a breech birth. (http://www.babynames.com/name/OBAMA)

While Obama is apparently a Luo Kenyan word, if it originally came from Hebrew, it most likely would have come from the word "Bama" (I have read, but not verified, that the Latin "O" is sometimes used in Hebrew as a conjunction such as meaning "and"):

The meaning of the name Bama is: Son of prophecy (http://www.babyhold.com/list/Hebrew_Baby_Names/Bama/details/ viewed 11/16/08).

So, combining the definitions above, the name Baraq Hussein Bama would essentially mean the Handsome Spark and Son of Prophecy.

Now, there is claimed to be a 1912 prophecy by Johanwa Owalo, the founder of Kenya’s Nomiya Luo Church, about the United States:

“So far have they [the United States] strayed into wickedness in those [future] times that their destruction has been sealed by my [father]. Their great cities will burn, their crops and cattle will suffer disease and death, their children will perish from diseases never seen upon this Earth, and I reveal to you the greatest [mystery] of all as I have been allowed to see that their [the United States] destruction will come about through the vengeful hands of one of our very own sons.” (for more details, please see Barack Obama, Prophecy, and the Destruction of the United States).

Since Barack Obama's father is ethnically a Luo of Kenya (see Kenya Rejoices as Obama Wins), Barack Obama seems to meet the criteria above as being "one of our our very sons." Some think this is contains specific Barack Obama predictions--but while the destruction of the USA is not yet, it does seem that Barack Obama has taken steps that will set the USA up for destruction. He does promote wickedness according to the Bible (Romans 1:18-32).

Even in 2015, notice that:

Obama...is fondly referred to as a son of Kenya (Okumu E. Kenya: Obama Thrills Crowd With Sauti Sol's Lipala Dance at State Dinner. The Star. July 26, 2015. http://allafrica.com/stories/201507260255.html)

Never before has a son of a Kenyan had as much power as Barack Obama.  And of course, his positions on abortion and homosexuality are wicked.  Barack Obama’s practices related to debt are leading to the eventual destruction of the USA (cf. Habakkuk 2:6-8).  Barack Obama’s practices and policies related to Europe will lead to destructive warfare, that the USA will lose (Daniel 11:39).  In many ways, the USA has strayed into wickedness.

Therefore, in a several senses, Barack Obama may be at least a "son of prophecy." Thus, even the name Barack Obama and prophecy seem to be linked to a degree (more on that is later in this article, see also Barack Obama in Islamic Prophecy?).

In 2015, Barack Obama promoted his homosexual agenda in Kenya:

July 25, 2015

President Obama publicly disagreed with his Kenyan counterpart over gay rights today as he urged African nations not to discriminate against individuals based on sexual orientation.

The president made the remarks at a news conference he held with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, who called gay rights in his country a “non-issue.” Obama discussed the subject on his first full day in Kenya while drawing on his own background as an African-American in the U.S.

“If somebody is a law-abiding citizen who is going about their business and working in a job and obeying the traffic signs and doing all the other things that good citizens are supposed to do and not harming anybody, the idea that they are going to be treated differently or abused because of who they love is wrong,” Obama said.

Shortly after, Kenyatta said while the U.S. and Kenya share many values, gay rights is an issue on which the two countries disagree.

“There are some things that we must agree we don’t share,” he said. “Our culture, our societies don’t accept [homosexuality].”

Kenyatta added it was difficult to impose beliefs on the Kenyan people that they “do not accept.”

“This issue is not really an issue that is on the foremost mind of Kenyans and that is a fact,” he said.

While the U.S. has made strides on gay rights issues, most recently with the Supreme Court‘s decision on same-sex marriage, many countries in Africa, including Kenya, hold more conservative views. Same sex relations are still illegal in Kenya and Ethiopia, where the president will travel on Sunday.

Ahead of the trip, several Kenyan political and religious leaders had warned President Obama not to discuss gay rights while in the country. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/agreements-president-obama-kenyan-president-differ-gay-rights/story?id=32681790

People from various churches in Kenya demonstrating that they did not want US President Obama to bring up his homosexual agenda when he visited. He obviously ignored their pleas. He was only in Kenya a couple of days, and one would think he could have respected the culture there enough to not bring it up. Many Kenyans, inside and outside of the Church of God, have serious concerns about Barack Obama’s position on many issues of morality. They consider some of his positions wicked, immoral, and wrong.

It is a shame to all in the USA when a president thinks he must promote something that the Bible condemns.

Anyway, as mentioned before, Barack Obama’s father was a Luo Kenyan. The Luo number in the millions are most live in the poorer western region of Kenya (some in Uganda and Tanzania as well). A significant number of members in the Continuing Church of God are Luo.  Because of that, we also produce literature in their native language (see, for example, Wheche Manyien Mokor E Muma; see also our Luo language page: Dholuo).

While I originally believed that Barack Obama was basically sincere and that he believed he is a well-meaning individual, I have doubted aspects of his honesty. I also believe that he has taken actions that align with the fulfillment of certain end time prophecies.

Barack Obama, Isaiah, and Bible Prophecy

What about Barack Obama and biblical prophecy?

Well, by virtue of his timing, Barack Obama fulfilled many biblical prophecies, or at least implemented policies for many prophecies to be fulfilled.

Irrespective of possible Kenyan prophecies, the Bible itself warns that if the descendants of Israel sinned and did not repent, the following would happen:

43 The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower (Deuteronomy 28:43).

12 As for My people, children are their oppressors, And women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, And destroy the way of your paths.” (Isaiah 3:12)

10 'The bricks have fallen down, But we will rebuild with hewn stones; The sycamores are cut down, But we will replace them with cedars." (Isaiah 9:10)

16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err, And those who are led by them are destroyed (Isaiah 9:16).

Since multiple millions of the physical descendants of reside in the United States (see Anglo - America in Prophecy & the Lost Tribes of Israel) and we are getting close to the end (Does God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End?), the above prophecies have been, fulfilled, to a degree, during Barack Obama's presidency. Many who place their trust in politicians will be disappointed. As far as Isaiah 9:10 goes, Barack Obama and other US politicians have seemingly defiantly claimed that the USA will rebuild, even as they have taken steps to turn the USA more away from biblical morality (more on Isaiah 9:10 is in the article Protestant and Church of God views of the United States in Bible Prophecy).

And while I do not doubt that Barack Obama is an American citizen (see Obama’s Citizenship?), because Barack Obama's father is Luo Kenyan, his mother is at least part Native American, AND because he was partially raised in Indonesia (a Muslim nation), in several ways he could be perceived as an alien. Hence, the biblical prophecy in Deuteronomy 28:43 MIGHT apply to Barack Obama (and it does also have multiple applications). But, because of his timing, I believe that the last two prophecies above will be partially fulfilled by him and as well as other end time leaders.

The end of the 6000 years God has granted humanity to rule itself will likely be over in the next decade or so (see Does God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End?) and Barack Obama took actions leading to the end.

As far as the prophecy for leaders causing people to err (Isaiah 9:16), in addition to his strong pro-abortion positions, Barack Obama's administration claimed the following about him and homosexuality:

"The President has long believed that gay and lesbian couples deserve the same rights and legal protections as straight couples," White House spokesman Shin Inouye said. "That's why he has called for repeal of the so-called 'Defense of Marriage Act' and determined that his Administration would no longer defend the constitutionality of DOMA in the courts. (President Obama Says NY Gay Marriage Vote Is Process Working 'As It Should'. ABC News. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-obama-ny-gay-marriage-vote-process-working/story?id=13930863)

In nod to gay rights, Obama backs repeal of DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act), which defines marriage as between one man and one woman and withholds federal benefits from gay married couples. (Richey W. Obama, in stand for gay rights, calls for repeal of DOMA. Christian Science Monitor, July 19, 2011. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2011/0719/Obama-in-stand-for-gay-rights-calls-for-repeal-of-DOMA)

In his State of the Union address in 2014, Barack Obama said the following:

Across the country, we’re partnering with mayors, governors, and state legislatures on issues from homelessness to marriage equality…

'Marriage equality' is a code term meaning the promotion of same-sex/homosexual marriages. For more on the 2104 State of the Union and certain apocalyptic positions and actions of Barack Obama, watch also the YouTube Barack Obama and the State of the Apocalypse.

In his State of the Union address in 2013, Barack Obama said the following:

We will ensure equal treatment for all service members, and equal benefits for their families, gay and straight. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/12/transcript-obama-state-union-speech/#ixzz2KnGCU4Vj

He also made various statements promoting abortion in 2013:

President Barack Obama vowed Friday to fight with Planned Parenthood against what he said were efforts across the country to turn women’s health back to the 1950s… Mr. Obama asserted that “an assault on women’s rights” is underway across the country, with bills being introduced in nearly every state legislature to limit or ban abortion or restrict access to birth control… Mr. Obama says he fought for his health care law to ensure individuals have the right to make their own medical choices. He’s asking medical providers and abortion rights supporters to “get the word out” about the law’s benefits. He encouraged those gathered to continue fighting for abortion rights. “You’ve also got a president who is going to be right there with you, fighting every step of the way,” Mr. Obama said. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57581613/abortion-foes-want-to-turn-back-the-clock-obama-says/

President Barack Obama said Thursday he was comfortable with his administration's decision to allow over-the-counter purchases of a morning-after pill for anyone 15 and older. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/obama-new-morning-after-pill-limit-article-1.1334023

Notice the following from the Bible:

22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man — and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.  (Romans 1:22-32)

Does not Barack Obama endorse biblically prohibited behavior that God indicates is deserving of punishment?

And that is not all. He has issued various executive orders, etc. related encouraging abortions. and also supports homosexual marriage (see also Obama Administration pleads that the Supreme Court should overturn DOMA and California’s anti-homosexual marriage law and Obama, Supreme Court, and homosexual ‘marriage’).

The Bible teaches:

15 He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord. (Proverbs 17:15)

No one should be trying to justify homosexuality nor nor abortion, nor condemn those of us who condemn what the Bible condemns.

Notice something from the Old Testament:

19 For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel, for he had encouraged moral decline in Judah and had been continually unfaithful to the Lord. (2 Chronicles 28:19)

Might leaders like Barack Obama who seem to be encouraging biblically-moral declines cause the USA to be brought low?

One of the better known things that Barack Obama did as USA president early into his presidency, was signing into to a law a bill that greatly increased the debt of the USA. He has also indicated that he would need to pursue policies that will increase that debt during at least his first administration--and this has happened. I actually started to warn in 2008, prior to him taking office, that Barack Obama would increase debt (and also put that in a book that was published in 2009), and he has.

Notice also the following:

Debt Under Obama Up $9,000,000,000,000

(CNSNews.com) – The federal government passed a fiscal milestone on the first business day of fiscal 2017—which was Monday, Oct. 3—when the total federal debt accumulated during the presidency of Barack Obama topped $9,000,000,000,000 for the first time.

On Jan. 20, 2009, when Obama was inaugurated, the total debt of the federal government was $10,626,877,048,913.08, according to data published by the U.S. Treasury. ...

On Monday, Oct. 3, the first business day of fiscal 2017, the total federal debt closed at $19,642,949,742,561.51. At that point, the debt had increased under Obama by $9,016,072,693,648.43 from the $10,626,877,048,913.08 it stood at on the day of Obama’s inauguration. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/debt-under-obama-9000000000000

The Bible warns about a nation that will increase its debt in the end time:

3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry...
6 "Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases
What is not his--how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges'? 7 Will not your creditors rise up suddenly? Will they not awaken who oppress you? And you will become their booty. 8 Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you (Habakkuk 2:3,6-8).

Hence, Barack Obama did help fulfill the part of that prophecy of increasing pledges/debt.

Furthermore, the Bible predicts the rise at the appointed time of the end of a King of the North and a King of the South. Years ago, I warned that various statements that Barack Obama has made suggest that he will implement policies that will likely help lead to their formations (see also Barack Obama in Islamic Prophecy?)--and he has done so.

Perhaps it should be mentioned that while many American evangelicals believe that they will be part of a pre-tribulation rapture (and presumably miss the punishments that this world will experience in the end), this is not what the Bible teaches (Is There A Secret Rapture for the Church? When and Where is the Church Protected?).

There are many Bible prophecies that show what appears to be the destruction of the United States and its Anglo-allies (see Anglo - America in Prophecy). And as the USA increases debt and strains its military, the destructive end time prophecies are getting closer to final fulfillment.

While Philadelphia Christians are promised protection from the hour of trial," that protection is on the earth (please see There is a Place of Safety for the Philadelphians. Why it May Be Petra). Thus, Barack Obama's likely impact on apocalyptic matters is likely to affect everyone living at the end. More on that is covered in the book Barack Obama, Prophecy, and the Destruction of the United States-Second Edition for Second Obama Term.

Is Barack Obama the Antichrist?

No, as I have written since 2009, Barack Obama is not the final prophesied Antichrist. The Bible shows that the final Antichrist is a religious leader as opposed to a primarily political one (2 John 7, 1 John 2:18, 1 John 2:22, and 1 John 4:3). This would indicate that Barack Obama is not, and could not be, the final Antichrist.

However, many on the Internet have given a variety of reasons why they believe that he is actually the Antichrist.

Here are seven claims that supposedly indicate that Barack Obama is the Antichrist, along with brief explanations as to why each of them is in error. 

CLAIM 1. The Beast is 666.  6+6+6=18, the number of letters in Barack Hussein Obama, whose Chicago power base includes the 60606 zip code.  On November 5 —the day after the election —in Obama's home state of Illinois—the evening “Pick 3” lottery number was 6-6-6.

The Bible says that the number is six hundred, and sixty-six (Revelation 13:18), rather than three sixes.  Thus, nothing in  that claim ties Barack Obama to 666.

CLAIM 2. False Prophets Will Precede.  Antichrist will be heralded by false prophets.  Jeremiah Wright and Father Pfleger, who claim to be in the prophetic tradition, compared Barack to Jesus.  Louis Farrakhan called Barack "the Messiah.

Actually, the Bible teaches that one called the false prophet will do miracles and cause people to worship the image of the Beast (Revelation 16:13-14; 13:12-15).  Neither Jeremiah Wright nor the other two mentioned above have thus far qualified according to the Bible.

CLAIM 3. Satanic Palindrome.  Sasha is only the nickname of Obama's oldest daughter.  Her legal name is NATASHA—the reverse of AH SATAN.
Natasha is the Russian version of the name Natalie.  It is a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “birthday.” 

Those who claim that putting his daughter's name backwards has something to do with him being Antichrist is a low blow. She has enough concerns as a president’s daughter.  She does not need to be picked on because of her name.  His daughter’s name is simply not relevant.

CLAIM 4. Antichrist is a Charismatic Speaker Worshipped By The Masses.  The Book of Daniel says the Beast will arise in a country made up of "diverse" people from "all kingdoms" [which could describe the USA] … The charismatic Barack is conceited and is worshipped throughout the world, including in the European Union—the successor to the Roman Empire.  

The Beast is not the final Antichrist (see www.ccog.org). The Beast will be the King of the North and  a European. The United States is not the heir to the ancient Roman Empire—Europe is (Revelation 13).

CLAIM 5. New Nostradamus Quatrains  Scholars for the Smithsonian Institute have uncovered new interpretations that may relate to Barack Obama … Professor Eugene Randell, Deputy Director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives has released information pertaining to the up and coming US elections. The Institute which holds some very rare Nostradamus manuscripts, believes that some of the quatrains written by the 16th century soothsayer are very close to describing the fight for the White House that is happening now...
243 The great empire will be torn from limb, The all-powerful one for more than four hundred years: Great power given to the dark one from slaves come, The Aryana will not be satisfied thereby.

The above story (though initially popular on the Internet) is apparently a satirical hoax. There does not appear to have ever been a Professor Eugene Randell who was Deputy Director of the Smithsonian Institution Archives; nor is this new Quatrain 243 legitimate. The publisher of the above (The Daily Squib) also would not verify, nor respond at all, concerning its story, even after two requests were made to it by me years ago.

CLAIM 6. Mayan 2012 Calendar.  The Beast/Antichrist will rule for 42 months of relative peace and prosperity…in the middle of the fourth year of his reign…{is the} the Battle of Armageddon.  The fourth year of Barack's presidency will be 2012, the year the Mayan calendar comes to an end, the year of a rare planetary alignment...

While Barack Obama’s first term as president included the year 2012, the end did not come then as some believed that the Mayan 2012 prophecies indicated (for more details, please see my book 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect). 

As the seven-year deal in Daniel 9:27 has not happened yet, as I wrote years ago, it was not possible that the so-called “Battle of Armageddon” could begin in Barack Obama’s first term (Armageddon is the place where troops are staged per Revelation 16:12-16 for a later battle).  And at this stage it is impossible for this battle to occur in the second Obama term.

The next claim was based upon someone’s “personal vision”:

CLAIM 7. Fulfilled Daniel 9:27. Very early in the morning, on Thanksgiving Day, I could not get back to sleep...I was very, very confident that the Lord was giving me a BRAND NEW REVELATION, further confirmation that on OCT. 29, 2008, OBAMA CONFIRMED THE COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27, thrusting the world into the Final Seven Years...The Lord had called me to be a watchman many years ago...We have in circulation almost 10,000,000 tracts...2520 days (360 days X 7 Jewish years), after the 30 MINUTES OF SILENCE IN HEAVEN on Oct. 29, 2008, is Feast of Atonement. This is by divine design, not happenstance, or coincidence...There may be a peace treaty with Israel and the Antichrist in the near future, but it will NOT be 7 years in length and it will NOT be the fulfillment of Daniel 9:27. THE FULFILLMENT OF DANIEL 9:27 HAS ALREADY HAPPENED ON OCT. 29, 2008, WITH THE CONFIRMING OF THE COVENANT. TRY CONVINCING ALL OF THAT AWESTRUCK AUDIENCE IN HEAVEN, WHO WERE COMPLETELY SILENT FOR EXACTLY 30 MINUTES AS OBAMA GAVE HIS HISTORIC SPEECH that this was not the confirming of the covenant of Daniel 9:27…

Contrary to claims and visions, as of the date of this update the deal in Daniel 9:27 has not been made (Barack Obama was not even elected president in October 2008). The deal will be confirmed by a European as even many Protestant commentators recognize. This deal still needs to be made (see also The 'Peace Deal' of Daniel 9:27). It should also be noted that the Day of Atonement in 2015 will be on September 23rd, and therefore not 2520 days after October 29 as the above “personal vision“ claimed.  Hence, I never accepted his vision as coming from God.

Barack Obama, contrary to various posts and emails floating around on the Internet, is not, and will not be, the Antichrist. 

However, because of his timing and his stated policies years ago (in 2009) I wrote, "it is likely that he will (most likely inadvertently) support the rise of the prophesied King of the North, the King of the South, and (most likely indirectly) the final Antichrist" and at least for the first two he has.

Also, part of his charismatic style may very well be copied by the future final Beast leader of Revelation 13, who is the final King of the North of Daniel 11.  And Barack Obama may help enable the rise of him as well as the future King of the South. And he has already taken steps to do so (for some details, please get the book Barack Obama, Prophecy, and the Destruction of the United States-Second Edition for Second Obama Term and it is also available electronically Barack Obama, Prophecy, and the Destruction of the United States-Second Term-Amazon Kindle edition).

One Claimed that Barack Obama Supposedly Was to Be Converted in the Spring of 2010

One named Kim Clement allegedly prophesied the following in Memphis, Tennessee on October 26, 2009:

"For there has been a scheme and a plan against the President of this nation, to suffocate him." God says, "The enemy has planned in 2010 to bring shame to the first African President. So that they will say, 'Never again shall an African American be the President of the United States.' This will not happen," says the Lord. "This will not happen. This will not happen.

"There shall come a change in the early part of 2010 and many will say, 'Look, things are not quite as bad as what it seemed,' and those who have murmured and those who have spoken evil, those who have spread words out to bring shame to this race will not be satisfied."...

God says, "Your President shall have a great conversion in 2010 which will bring about changes to this nation and because I have spoken.

"Your prayers and your praise shall bring about a change in the atmosphere; your praise and your shouts bring about a change, for you don't understand the significance of these sounds. I'm not listening to the journalists or the prognosticators. I'm not listening to CBS or NBC or ABC or FOX." God says, "I'm not listening!...

God says, "I will honor the prayer in the Easter of 2010. I will break the cycle.

"For they have predicted another one shall die in office. It shall not be so. For this President shall leave this office bringing honor to the African American people."  Source: http://www.elijahlist.com/words/display_word/8184

I absolutely did not accept the aforementioned "prophecy" as true when I first denounced this in November 2009 as I did not believe that the one who made this claim was God's prophet (see also How To Determine If Someone is a True Prophet of God and Why Be Concerned About False and Heretical Leaders?).

Perhaps I should also mention that Barack Obama already claims to be a "Christian" of the Greco-Roman sort and that he already was "converted." Though I have never believed that he was a real Christian.

Barack Obama and the Shiite Prediction of a Black Leader Leading to the Rise of the Mahdi

There is an amazing old Shiite prophecy that seems to fit Barack Hussein Obama personally. Notice what Forbes' writer Amir Taheri reported:

Is Barack Obama the “promised warrior” coming to help the Hidden Imam of Shiite Muslims conquer the world?

…a pro-government Web site published a Hadith (or tradition) from a Shiite text of the 17th century. The tradition comes from Bahar al-Anvar (meaning Oceans of Light) by Mullah Majlisi, a magnum opus in 132 volumes and the basis of modern Shiite Islam.

According to the tradition, Imam Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (the prophet’s cousin and son-in-law) prophesied that at the End of Times and just before the return of the Mahdi, the Ultimate Saviour, a “tall black man will assume the reins of government in the West.” Commanding “the strongest army on earth,” the new ruler in the West will carry “a clear sign” from the third imam, whose name was Hussein Ibn Ali. The tradition concludes: “Shiites should have no doubt that he is with us.”

In a curious coincidence Obama’s first and second names–Barack Hussein–mean “the blessing of Hussein” in Arabic and Persian. His family name, Obama, written in the Persian alphabet, reads O Ba Ma, which means “he is with us,” the magic formula in Majlisi’s tradition (for more details, please see Barack Obama in Islamic Prophecy?).

Information on this prophecy was also in another article in Arabic that was translated into English:

According to the text that is the foundation of modern Shiite Islam, a prophecy that a tall black man would rule the West portends the coming of the Islamic redeemer.

Ali Ibn Abi-Talib—the prophet's cousin and son-in-law and the most revered figure in Shiite Islam—prophesied that before the return of the Mahdi, the ultimate redeemer in Islam, a tall black man will rule the West and will carry a "clear sign" from the Third Imam,Hussein Ibn Ali, according to the report by Iranian-born, London-based journalist Amir Taheri...

The Mahdi (Arabic for "the guided one"), is supposed to return before Judgment Day to eliminate injustice and tyranny. The appearance of the Mahdi is not mentioned in the Quran or the Sunnah (Prophet's teachings), and many Sunni scholars view it as a Shiite invention...in the 132-volume work by Shiite scholar Mullah Majlisi (Nayouf, Hayyan. Translated from Arabic by Sonia Farid. Shiite scholar denies Obama link to Muslim savior. Dubai. November 4, 2008. http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/11/04/59490.html viewed 05/19/09).

Regardless of where it came from, is that a specific Barack Obama prophecy?

That is difficult to know for certain, other than to say that some Shiites seem to believe that their writings have Barack Hussein Obama in prophecy (others have challenged the integrity of Amir Taheri's writings).

What religion is Barack Obama?

Barack Obama seems to be a supporter of a Constantinian religion (comes out of the Greco-Roman tradition, not the genuine Church of God) which claims Christ. Yet, he does not seem to be highly involved with it. For example, in the first few weeks after the election, he did not attend any church service according to an AP story (Obama skips church, heads to gym. November 23, 2008). He ended up not joining any church, but makes public church appearances on occasion (a couple times a year). Whether he makes the public appearances to give the impression he is Christian or this is what he believes is not clear to me.

However, because his religion is of the Constantinian variety, Barack Obama will likely not understand end-time prophecies and this will lead him to be more accommodating to the rise of the Beast than one who understands end-time prophecy would likely be.

Here is a listing of a dozen reasons that thinking, biblically-oriented Catholics and Protestants, may conclude Barack Obama is not a real Christian:

  1. He stopped regularly attending outside church services after becoming elected President of the United States (except for some public events; cf. Matthew 23:6-7)–so his sincerity is doubted.

  2. He has pushed the homosexual agenda. “Though President Obama opposed gay marriage during the 2008 election” (http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/02/five-best-tuesday-columns/48958/) he now supports and advocates it (see also Obama Announces He Wants to Repeal Defense of Marriage Act and Increase Debt).

  3. One of his first acts after taking office was to increase international funding for abortions.  He makes various public statements supporting abortion (notice, for example, last month Obama’s Latest Defense of Abortion).

  4. On an international trip, he referred to the Muslim book as “the Holy Quran.”  Real Christians do not consider the Quran as holy.

  5. While in office, he attended the first “feeding” for Ramadan at least one year. Christians are not supposed to observe holy days of other religions.

  6. He has been found to carry a Hindu monkey god (see Barack Obama Carries Hindu Monkey God).  No Christian intentionally carries around pagan idols.

  7. His US Supreme Court appointees are believed to be supporters of on-demand abortion.

  8. He seems to support “freedom of worship” as opposed to “freedom of religion” (Obama Administration Changing Freedom of Religion?).  This has carried forward in his stance on forcing the paying for various forms of contraception, including abortive pills, as he seems to feel that his form of morality should trump those who have religious beliefs to the contrary.  And even though the beliefs of the Philadelphia remnant of the Church of God on family planning are closer to those held by the Eastern Orthodox, than Roman, Catholics, I believe that the President has crossed a line that should concern all who profess Christ.

  9. He seems to claim that political forms of covetousness are consistent with his “Christian Faith” values (see Obama Claims His Economic Policies are Linked to His ‘Christian Faith’).

  10. He seems to advocate class warfare (see Obama: ‘You Can Call this Class Warfare).

  11. He has increased the regulatory burden on some Americans excessively (cf. Jesus’ warnings Matthew 23:4-5).

I have always had questions about Barack Obama's real faith and beliefs. And do not believe that he should truly be considered to be a real Christian.

Is Barack Obama Muslim?

Many have wondered, "Is Barack Obama Muslim?"

No, not if one needs to proclaim Islam to be one. Barack Obama's personal religion is not Islam. He does not pray five times per day at the prescribed times or do many of the things that Muslims actually do.

Notice what his old "Fight the Smears" website claimed:

The Truth About Barack’s Faith

Barack Obama is a committed Christian. He was sworn into the Senate on his family Bible. He has regularly attended church with his wife and daughters for years.

But shameful, shadowy attackers have been lying about Barack’s religion, claiming he is a Muslim instead of a committed Christian.(http://fightthesmears.com/articles/3/baracksfaith viewed 11/29/08)

While I do not believe that he is committed to true Christianity, Barack Obama does not seem to be a secret Muslim (a real Muslim prays five times per day in a manner that Barack Obama is not known for doing). Hence, in that sense I do not believe he will fit prophecies that indicate that a committed Muslim will do anything. Yet, however, some have argued that since his father was considered as a Muslim, that Barack Obama is considered to be one too by birth, even if he never embraced Islam. Thus, in that sense he may be considered as some as a Muslim.

Furthermore, notice the following report:

Barack Obama joined Muslim prayers at school, teacher says

 

The Australian - Nov 8, 2010

 

AS a schoolboy in Jakarta, Barack Obama attended Muslim prayer sessions with his classmates against the wishes of his mother.

The US President's former grade three teacher said that Mr Obama - who was known as "Barry" when he attended the Menteng One school in Jakarta - studied the Koran and went to classes on Islam, despite the objections of Ann Dunham, a Catholic. (The Times.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/barack-obama-joined-muslim-prayers-at-school-teacher-says/story-e6frg6so-1225949239614)

Whether he attended prayer sessions to learn about Islam or to fit in, apparently Barack Obama was more involved in Islam that his mother wanted him to be.

Is Barack Obama a Muslim sympathizer?

The answer to that question is yes as he seems to be. Since he did grow up in Muslim Indonesia and had more early Muslim contacts than anyone else ever elected as President of the United States, he would probably have more reasons than most U.S. presidents to have sympathy for Muslim perspectives. Here is some of what Barack Obama's "Fight the Smears" website quotes about this:

Newsweek...Obama’s only personal contact with Islam came as a boy when he moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, with a stepfather who mixed his Islam with Hindu and Animist traditions...

Boston Globe...His Kenyan paternal grandfather and Indonesian stepfather were Muslim...

Thus, while the selected quot seem to have been intended by the Obama campaign to minimize his ties to Islam, Barack Obama had more early ties to Islam than any ever elected to becoming President of the United States. He also repeated his full name, Barack Hussein Obama, the 2 times I heard him on his inauguration as USA president (seemingly emphasizing the common Islamic name "Hussein").

President Obama's support of the Muslim Brotherhood (see Obama Administration supporting objectives of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt) is a major concern as the goal of that group is to have an Islamic caliphate from Spain to Indonesia.  This is not something a real Christian would think should be supported. I am not saying that he is a Muslim, but his approach towards them differs than all past USA presidents.

While some may say that the Muslim Brotherhood is gone and that the Obama Administration is no longer supporting it, that is not what certain news sources have concluded:

Obama Aligns With Muslim Brotherhood In Islamic Reform Debate

January 12, 2015

The president of the United States has somehow put himself on the opposite side of an Islamic theological debate from the Muslim president of Egypt.

President Obama has aligned himself with revivalist groups — including the Muslim Brotherhood — that are trying to promote traditionalist Islam, while Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has begun championing Islamic modernizers. ...

The administration’s current policy recruits Brotherhood-aligned groups in the United States to identify and re-educate potential jihadis living in semi-segregated Muslim communities in the United States. http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/12/obama-sides-with-muslim-brotherhood-in-islamic-reform-debate-video/

January 16, 2015

White House support of Muslim Brotherhood leaves some in Middle East puzzled

Last month, the White House, in response to an online petition signed by more than 213,000 people calling for the Muslim Brotherhood to be designated a terrorist organization, issued a brief statement that simply stated, “We have not seen credible evidence that the Muslim Brotherhood has renounced its decades-long commitment to non-violence.” ...

In a January 2009 speech, Qaradawi - banned by the Clinton administration from entering the United States since 1999 yet, according to last week’s White House statement his organization has a “decades-long commitment to non-violence”, implored his followers to rise up against Israel and against Jews. “Oh Allah” he said, “Do not spare a single one of them. Oh Allah, count their numbers, and kill them, down to the very last one.”

“Despite the ban, Qaradawi's message still reaches the American public via satellite television and the Internet,” ADL, the Anti-Defamation League notes.  He continues to write “articles and religious rulings which support violence against non-Muslims, as well as anti-Semitic, anti-Israel and anti-American content.” ...

Egypt labelled the Muslim Brotherhood a “terrorist” group in December 2013, a matter of months after the U.S.-supported government led by the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohammed Morsi, had been forced out of power after only a year. ...

And as the U.S. and others continue to pin their hopes on the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (SOC) fighting disgraced President Bashar el-Assad’s Iranian, Hezbollah, and Russian-supported regime, only last week, in a report titled ‘The destructive ascendancy of Syria’s Muslim Brotherhood’, Now website’s Ayman Sharrouf observed, “Over the last 10 years the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood has consistently shown that its only desire is to dominate all other opposition forces, regardless of the consequences.” Sharrouf reported a senior SOC member as stating, “[The Brotherhood] showed no respect for the opposition’s plurality.”

While on the one hand U.S. forces attempt to stem the march of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, regional leaders warn that not appreciating the essential ties that bind the many extreme Sunni Islamist organizations together – including the Muslim Brotherhood – is a grave error.

“The Muslim Brotherhood has maneuvered itself into a position of power in Libya's fractious General National Congress despite only enjoying minority support among the electorate. Its militias are among the most powerful in Libya,” the International Institute for Strategic Studies stated in June this year. The Muslim Brotherhood is alleged to have plundered Libyan oil revenues to further its agenda in Libya and across the region. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/16/white-house-support-muslim-brotherhood-leaves-some-in-middle-east-puzzled/

And of course, Barack Obama has made public gestures supportive of Islam (like participating in Ramadan-related activities) and the Hindu faith (he carries and monkey-god charm and in November 2010 danced at a Diwali celebration). This suggests that he is neither Muslim or Christian as one true to either of those faiths would not carry a pagan deity as a good-luck charm (see also Barack Obama Carries Hindu Monkey God).

But irrespective of what faith he may actually hold, it seems that some of his policies may lead to greater cooperation between the Arabic and non-Arabic Muslim nations which at some point in time must end up with a leader (which the Shiites call a Mahdi) that the Bible shows will be the Future King of the South.

Notice the following reports which confirm his international involvement with Islam:

Obama plans major address in Islamic capital

AFP - Dec 10, 2008 WASHINGTON, (AFP) –

President-elect Barack Obama plans to give "a major address" in an Islamic capital soon after taking office as he seeks to mend America's image in the Muslim world, a Chicago Tribune interview said.

"I think we've got a unique opportunity to reboot America's image around the world and also in the Muslim world in particular," Obama said in the interview published late Tuesday on the Tribune's website.

Obama promised an "unrelenting" desire to "create a relationship of mutual respect and partnership in countries and with peoples of good will who want their citizens and ours to prosper together."

The world "is ready for that message." ...

Obama also said he would be sworn on January 20 using his full name, Barack Hussein Obama. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081210/pl_afp/uspoliticsobamadiplomacyislam_081210083044

'Building bridges': Obama courts Muslims

In Indonesia, president says that he can't 'completely eliminate some of the ... mistrust'

JAKARTA, Indonesia — President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that Washington's effort to reach out to the Muslim world was earnest...

Obama arrived in Indonesia  — his home for four years of his youth...using the most populous Muslim nation to reach out to the Islamic world.

Obama called his administration's efforts to repair relations with Muslims "earnest, sustained."...

Obama's stepfather was Muslim, and during his time in Indonesia Obama occasionally studied the Quran and visited a local mosque. Although Obama is Christian, that background helped foster enduring rumors in the U.S. about the president's religion.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40082730/ns/politics-white_house/

So from early on, Barack Obama has often signaled that he is taking a somewhat more inclusive approach with Islamic peoples than any prior US president. And he basically continued to do so throughout his presidency.

And this has continued:

Obama: Muslims Built 'The Very Fabric of Our Nation'
 
July 28, 2014
 
On Sunday, President Obama and First Lady Michelle released a statement thanking Muslim Americans for their many “achievements and contributions… to building the very fabric of our nation and strengthening the core of our democracy.”

The comments were made to mark the celebration of Eid-al-Fitr, a time of spiritual renewal for Muslims which comes at the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan. The Obamas said in their statement that Eid “celebrates the common values that unite us in our humanity” and “welcomed their commitment to giving back to their communities.” The International Business Times reports that during Eid, Muslims join in Islamic prayer, while saying "Allahu Akbar," or "God is Great," and feasting.

The statement further reads that the administration “wishes Muslims in the United States and around the world a blessed and joyous celebration.” The letter ended with salutation of “Eid Mubarak,” which roughly means “blessed celebration.”http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/28/Obama-Celebrates-Muslim-Contributions-to-the-USA

This is different than any previous USA president.

Notice also:

November 19, 2015

Born to a Muslim father and raised in his early childhood by a Muslim stepfather in a Muslim nation, where he was registered in school as Muslim, Barack Obama has many ties to Islam that have caused some to doubt his profession of Christian faith.

Obama, who as president has supported the Muslim Brotherhood, even referred in a television interview to “my Muslim faith.”

Apparently, he’s done it again.

The headline on C-SPAN following a recent Obama speech in Turkey read: “Did President Obama Just Admit He was Muslim?”

“I think on one hand non-Muslims cannot stereotype,” Obama said, “but I also think the Muslim community has to think about how we make sure that children are not being affected with this twisted notion that somehow they can kill innocent people.”

He even appeared to emphasize the word “we.”

C-SPAN said, "Pay attention to when he uses the word 'we.'" http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/did-obama-just-say-hes-a-muslim-again/#HzdOl23EppYfHyQw.99

Barack Obama, himself, claims to be a 'Christian,' which he truly is not.  Some have wondered if his approach to the Islamic State is related to various Muslim sympathies that he is believed to have.

Much more on his affiliation with Islam is found in the book Barack Obama, Prophecy, and the Destruction of the United States-Second Edition for Second Obama Term.

Is Barack Obama an Imperial President?

The January 27, 2014 edition of Christian Science Monitor Weekly reports the following about the presidency of Barack Obama:

Is Barack Obama an imperial president?…

Obama, a former constitutional law professor, was once skeptical of the aggressive use of presidential power. During the 2008 campaign, he accused President George W. Bush of regularly circumventing Congress. Yet as president, Obama has grown increasingly bold in his own use of executive action, at times to controversial effect.

The president (or his administration) has unilaterally changed elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA); declared an anti-gay-rights law unconstitutional; lifted the threat of deportation for an entire class of undocumented immigrants; bypassed Senate confirmation of controversial nominees; waived compliance requirements in education law; and altered the work requirements under welfare reform. This month, the Obama administration took the highly unusual step of announcing that it will recognize gay marriages performed in Utah – even though Utah itself says it will not recognize them while the issue is pending in court.

Early in his presidency, Obama also expanded presidential warmaking powers, surveillance of the American public, and extrajudicial drone strikes on alleged terrorists outside the United States, including Americans – going beyond Mr. Bush’s own global war on terror following 9/11. But more recently, he has flexed his executive muscle more on domestic policy.

In the process, Obama’s claims of executive authority have infuriated opponents, while emboldening supporters to demand more on a range of issues, from immigration and gay rights to the minimum wage and Guantánamo Bay prison camp.

To critics, Obama is the ultimate “imperial president,” willfully violating the Constitution to further his goals, having failed to convince Congress of the merits of his arguments.  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2014/0126/Is-Barack-Obama-an-imperial-president

The above article is actually fairly long, and there are more examples in it.

Let me simply state that, overall, US Presidents have tended to take more power to themselves and rarely are they stopped by Congress or the Supreme Court (both of which could intervene according to the Constitution of the USA).  In my view, the presidents have, though they take an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution, tend to look for ways around it to suit their agendas.

While the USA is supposed to have a lot of checks and balances, and brags to the world about them, in reality many no longer seem to work as the framers of the US Constitution seemingly intended.  And this is another reason why the USA comes across as a hypocritical nation.  That will be deadly to the USA in the future:

5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.

6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.  (Isaiah 10:5-6, KJV)

The Bible shows that a European/Assyrian power will rise up and be used to punish the USA and its Anglo-Saxon allies.

The Bible itself also warns against pushing the homosexual agenda (Romans 1:18-32) and as the article Christian Science Monitor Weekly indicates, Barack Obama has dones this in new and not particularly constitutional ways.

Seven Reasons Why Barack Obama is Apocalyptic

Apparently because of his stance on abortion and cultural issues, in November 2008, a Catholic Cardinal claimed that Barack Obama was "aggressive, disruptive and apocalyptic" (see Cardinal: Obama Apocalyptic).

How may Barack Obama be “apocalyptic”?  Here are 7 possible ways, seven reasons why:

  1. The timing of his election as we are getting closer to the Great Tribulation (Does God Have a 6,000 Year Plan? What Year Does the 6,000 Years End?) and the fulfillment of related prophecies in the Book of Revelation (called the Apocalypse by most Catholics).  Barack Obama’s very presence (as well as his planned and unplanned actions) should be enough to enable the fulfillment of various end-time prophecies.

  2. As one with a Luo Kenyan father, Barack Obama (see also Kenya Rejoices as Obama Wins) may be part of the fulfillment of Deuteronomy 28:43.

  3. Since the Roe vs. Wade pro-abortion decision, the USA has became the greatest debtor nation in the history of humankind.  Since the USA owes alien nations trillions of dollars, it appears that the curse in Deuteronomy 28:44 of having to borrow from aliens is happening to it now. President Barack Obama has put forth economic policies that greatly increased that debt (see President Obama Forgot the Bible). Yet, the Bible specifically warns that increasing national debt like this will lead to destruction at the appointed time of the end in Habakkuk 2:3,6-8 (see also Anglo - America in Prophecy).

  4. One of the first actual changes that Barack Obama implemented was reversing one or more executive orders that will likely lead to more abortions (see Obama’s Abortion Changes). Yet, abortion is wrong (see Abortion, the Bible, and a Woman’s Right to Choose) and a terrible national sin. And on March 9, 2009 lifted a ban on embryonic stem cell research (see Stem Cells) another morally wrong sin. He stopped defending the "Defense of Marriage Act" and took other steps to increase the homosexual agenda in the US military and elsewhere. Leaders who contribute to moral decline risk getting their nation being brought low (1 Chronicles 28:19)

  5. To a great degree, women put him in power (see Women Chose Barack Obama). The Bible specifically warns about women ruling over a nation (Isaiah 3:12).  The highest cabinet post in Barack Obama’s administration went to Hillary Clinton. Two of his top economic advisors were also women (see Obama Picks Two More Women). Barack Obama also often needed to heed the advice of Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of the US House of Representatives (who has been criticized for her pro-abortion stance, see Vatican Official Says No to Biden and Pelosi, But Not to Palin). The only person in the Bible named "Barak" relied to heavily upon women (cf. Judges 4:4-9).

  6. In a policy shift from past administrations, Barack Obama has pledged increased cooperation with the Europeans, including pushng for the strengthening their defense (see Obama Proving Apocalyptic). This pushing is likely to lead to the rise of the prophesied King of the North, who is to be the final leader of the Beast of Revelation.

  7. Barack Obama has called for increased dialogue with those considered as enemies of the USA. Even some Shiite Muslims believe that his presidency may lead to the rise of their Mahdi (see Barack Obama in Islamic Prophecy?), who seems to be the same person that the Bible calls the King of the South. His Administration has given support to the Muslim Brotherhood, a group working for a multi-national Islamic empire called a caliphate (see also The Arab and Islamic World In the Bible, History, and Prophecy).

Barack Obama has also promoted what I consider to be 'soft-porn.' Notice what he said in 2012:

"Beyonce could not be a better role model for my girls."http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/president-barack-obama-beyonce-could-not-be-a-better-role-model-for-my-girls-2012189#ixzz3ph3wtK7k

If you go to that link, you will see how Beyonce was even promoting soft-pornography even there. Women who do this are NOT proper role models for Christian daughters (cf. 1 Timothy 2:9; see also Pornography: A scourge on society).

Although Barack Obama personally will not cause the end of the world, he has taken steps that will help lead to the end of the world as we know it--he is taking steps that will help lead to the Great Tribulation. And that will not be good for the United States.

In my book Barack Obama, Prophecy, and the Destruction of the United States-Second Edition for Second Obama Term I have more than doubled the reasons (17 are specifically shown) that Barack Obama is apocalyptic (as compared to my 2009 book on 2012) as his actions and statements have provided additional proofs as to why he is apocalyptic. In his second term he will fulfill various predictions in Barack Obama, Prophecy, and the Destruction of the United States-Second Edition for Second Obama Term , and he has already (since his re-election) made statements that align with predictions in that book.

Furthermore, the Bible specifically warns of problems for those who support violating biblical morality and endorsing homosexuality even if they do not participate in such acts themselves (Romans 1:18-32)--Barack Obama has been doing this. Despite its military power, the destruction of the USA is prophesied (Daniel 11:39; Habakkuk 2:6-8).

The debt situation that Barack Obama was partially encouraged for the USA is putting it at risk of being unable to recover should it be hit by weather problems, terrorist acts, war, riots, solar flares, severe earthquakes, civil unrest, devastation of their genetically-modified food supplies, food shortages, and/or various pestilences–an intensity of “sorrows” such as Jesus discussed in Matthew 24:4-8 leading up to the time of the Great Tribulation.   Disasters such as pestilences, especially if there is an ElectroMagnetic Pulse (emp) attack or a severe solar flare storm, could be part of a so-called “perfect storm” of events that could set the USA for destruction.

Notice the following prophecy which shows that destruction comes after pestilence:

4 What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.

5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
For it has been cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a fierce lion. (Joel 1:4-6)

Many sorrows that the U.S.A. will face, like severe weather problems, diseases and earthquakes, will happen irrespective of who is in the White House (Amos 4:7-10; Luke 21:11).  Bible prophecy shows that no matter who is the next U.S.A. president (or possible successors), the King of the North and King of the South will rise up and the U.S.A. will be ultimately destroyed unless national repentance happens.  Barack Obama, and some others however, may hasten the day of destruction.

Is Barack Obama Delusional or Worse?

Is Barack Obama delusional?

Many think that he is that or worse after the Paris terrorist attacks:

November 17, 2015

“Is Barack Obama delusional?”

That’s how Bill O’Reilly led his Fox News show last night, addressing Obama’s press conference in Turkey in which the president defended his disastrously ineffective policies for dealing with the rapidly metastasizing terror army ISIS which, after last week’s hellish Paris attacks, vows Washington, D.C., is next.

After the commercial break, O’Reilly started in again: “Is President Barack Obama delusional about ISIS? Joining us now from Washington, Charles Krauthammer. Is he?”

Responded Krauthammer, a Pulitzer-winning columnist and former psychiatrist: “Judging from the press conference, there are several explanations for that appalling performance; the kindest is that he’s delusional.”

Krauthammer explained: “He said on Friday that ISIS was not gaining in strength, [though] even his own Dianne Feinstein said essentially it’s a delusion. Of course it’s gaining in strength. … But the reason that ‘delusion’ is the kindest [explanation], is I think the more likely explanation is, he knows that opposition is weakening, he knows that ISIS is strong and that it’s a threat, but in the end, he doesn’t think it matters. He’s never thought the war on terror was important or existential. …”

O’Reilly: “But how can you say that he doesn’t understand that millions of people – millions of people – are either dying, being dislocated, being tortured, being wounded … and you still, Charles Krauthammer, say he doesn’t care? It doesn’t mean anything to him?”

Krauthammer: “There’s a difference between millions of people suffering and an existential threat to the West, which is what it is, and which is what he denies.”

A little later in Fox’s primetime lineup, former CIA operative Mike Baker, a guest on “Hannity,” described Obama’s actions and attitude with regard to radical Islam as “surreal.”

Then Hannity, in an exchange with psychology expert Dr. Gina Loudon about the Paris terror attacks, observed: “Some good people have a hard time grasping that these people could go into a crowded theater and start shooting innocent men, women and children. That’s just evil, in our time. This president’s not recognizing, won’t recognize – it’s pathological that he won’t recognize radical Islam.”

“It’s absolutely pathological,” responded Loudon. “And it’s not just pathological; it’s stupid and it’s dangerous.”

“Delusional.” “Surreal.” “Doesn’t care.” “Pathological.” “Stupid.” “Dangerous.” That’s America’s 44th president they’re talking about.

For the past seven years, sane Americans have been trying to explain Obama, evoking various hypotheses – including the possibility that he’s a genuine sociopath, that is, without conscience.

Fox pundit, long-time ABC News personality and Pulitzer-winning columnist George Will described “Barack Obama’s intellectual sociopathy – his often breezy and sometimes loutish indifference to truth.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/11/obama-delusional-or-something-worse/#hHt9BlJ2YfVRyJll.99

In my view he is not only delusional, but has NOT had the best interests of the USA at heart. Much of what he has done seems to be intentional to hurt US influence in the world, including debt increases. His pro-LGBT positions are also leading to the end of the USA (see also Obama called ‘hero’ and named LGBT ‘Ally of the Year’).

Barack Obama's Administration is Leading to World War III

Believe it or not, since Barack Obama has become USA president, the USA has taken numerous steps to push the Germans and other Europeans to be able to start WIII (and this has continued, in slightly differ ways, since he left office).

Back in the Summer of 2009, I had a book published that warned:

Barack Obama has pledged increased cooperation with the Europeans.  And while cooperation is normally a good thing, this particular cooperation is likely to lead to the rise of the prophesied King of the North, who is to be the final leader of the Beast of Revelation (Revelation 13:1).  Unlike previous U.S. administrations, President Obama’s administration has declared that it will encourage and support increases in Europe’s own military, far beyond what Presidents Bush or Clinton were willing to consider. (Thiel B. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect. Nazarene Books, 2009, pp. 131-132, 147)

Has that been happening?

Here is a list of ten steps that the Obama Administration has taken that is leading to the rise of the Beast of the sea, the final King of the North of Bible prophecy:

  1. Encouraged the Final Approval of the Lisbon Treaty. On October 15, 2009 it was reported that Czech President Vaclav Klaus was the lone EU leader still opposed to the Lisbon Treaty (Waterfield B. Czech President Vaclav Klaus ‘to continue’ lone resistance to Lisbon Treaty.  Telegraph, October 15, 2009.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepublic/6329690/Czech-President-Vaclav-Klaus-to-continue-lone-resistance-to-Lisbon-Treaty.html).

    The Obama administration worked to get the Lisbon Treaty approved as President Obama “wants a strong and united Europe” (Source: Baldwin T, Reid T., Coates S. Obama Administration worried about Cameron effect in Europe.  The Times, October 21, 2009. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6883075.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093).

    On October 23, 2009, the USA sent Vice President Joseph Biden to the Czech Republic in order to apply provide secutiry assurances as well as to apply pressure to the Czech government to sign the agreement for a European empire to form (U.S. foreign policy aware of threats – Havel after meeting Biden.  CTK, October 23, 2009. http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/u-s-foreign-policy-aware-of-threats-havel-after-meeting-biden/404375).  This could have had some limited influence on some of the Czech leadership.

    Once its then President Klaus signed it, he announced with disappointment that he had just signed away the sovereignty of the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic was the only hold-out for the agreement and if the Czech Republic had not then signed it, the agreement would have expired. Instead the USA applied pressure to form a more complete European government that will ultimately change and become the Beast power of Revelation 13:1-10 and will take over the USA as prophesied in Daniel 11:39.

    On November 3, 2009, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported that USA President Barack Obama publicly expressed his support for the Czech President’s signing of the Lisbon Treaty and for now having a  ’strengthened’ EU (Obama welcomes ‘strengthened’ EU. AFP, November 3, 2009.  http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hJ8OzJSh0xfKow8z47RGCYQu1nsg).

    The European nations became part of the new empire called for the European Union on December 1, 2009 with Herman Von Rompuy as its “first permanent president” (EU Constitution Comes into Force.  Voice of America,  December 1, 2009. http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/europe/EU-Constitution-78224062-01DEC09-.html).  

  2. Encouraged German Funding of Greece. When the new agreement was a risk of falling apart because of problems with Greece. The New York Times reported that on May 10, 2010, President Obama called German Chancellor Merkel and told her that Europe needed an overwhelming financial rescue for the sake of its unity, and she apparently heeded that suggestion. (Erlanger S, Benhold K, Sanger D. Debt Aid Package for Europe Took Nudge From Washington. The New York Times, May 10, 2010.   (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/business/global/11reconstruct.html). This kept the union of Europeans, dominated by Germany, together.

    On November 10, 2010, EU President Herman van Rompuy declared that in Europe the "time of the homogeneous nation state is over" (Johnson D. The end of Britain as a nation state? Not on your life, Mr Van Rompuy.  Daily Mail, November 11, 2010. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1328579/Herman-Van-Rompuy-The-end-Britain-nation-state.html).  Full political union is expected in the next decade by many leaders (Willis A.  Germany predicts EU 'political union' in 10 years.  EU Observer, December 13, 2010.  http://euobserver.com/9/31485) and some want it much  sooner (Czuczka T. Parker B.  Merkel Risks EU Clash Over Political Union Push.  Blommberg, November 14, 2011.  http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-14/merkel-risks-eu-clash-over-political-union-push-to-end-europe-debt-crisis.html).  It has been reported that the “EU is an empire” (Baudet T.  The EU is an empire, and empires mean war. NRC Handelsblad, Press Europ, July 9, 2012.  http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/2300601-eu-empire-and-empires-mean-war).

    This is an empire the Barack Obama has been supporting.

    In December 2010, it was announced USA made “an extra commitment of money” to support the EU and it was also reported that the “United States, has committed 250 billion euros to the EFSF” (European Financial Stability Facility) to support the euro and economic structure of the European Union (US Ready to Back Bigger EU Stability Fund: Official.  Reuters, December 1, 2010.  http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/12/01/eu-us-efsf-idUSLDE6B023Z20101201).  "US believes it’s time Germany stepped up and started acting like a regional and even a global leader" and Barack Obama publicly stated, "The world today does not fear a strong Germany"  (DJW.  Media roundup: Barack gives Angie a push.  The Local, June 8, 2011 http://www.thelocal.de/opinion/20110608-35537.html).

  3. To Rely on Europe's GPS for Defense. Back in 2009, I warned that the USA was having problems with its GPS system and may decide it needed to rely on Europe's upcoming Galileo system for its own military defense:

    "the Europeans are planning on having their own global positioning system (GPS), called Galileo, available for military applications. This will allow the Europeans to track the world and attack others without relying on the U.S.A.’s GPS. This will be the first time in the 21st century that Europeans will be able to have that type of independent military capability. Furthermore, according to a 2009 report from the U.S. government, the U.S. Air Force may have to start relying on the European Galileo system (at least to a degree) beginning in 2013, as the U.S. GPS capabilities are expected to deteriorate by then (other problems are also appearing in the newer U.S. satellites). Because the Europeans will be able to control Galileo, they will also likely be capable of derailing certain sophisticated U.S. military applications.  This will give the Europeans a unique defensive (as well as offensive) capability that no others on the planet will have.  (Thiel B. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect. Nazarene Books, 2009, p. 85)

    Because of concerns about China, Reuters reported on February 4, 2010, “The U.S. Defense Department is linking its Global Positioning System with Europe’s Galileo, another space-based global navigation satellite system. GPS will feature a new military signal called M-code to boost anti-jamming, facilitate secure access and increase the local signal strength.” (Wolf J. US, wary of China, mulls satellite substitutes.  Reuters, February 4, 2010. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0411054720100205).

    This linking will essentially guarantee that the USA will have a portion of their military response ability controlled by the Europeans.  Galileo initially had critics as there were “early objections from the Americans who thought a rival system to GPS might be used to attack its armed forces” (Amos J. EU awards Galileo satellite-navigation contracts.  BBC, Jan 7, 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi /science/nature/8442090.stm). 

    The “brain” of the Galileo satellite system was shipped to Rome on April 26, 2010 (First EU Navigation Satellite Payload Shipped.  Red Orbit, 26 April 2010. http://www.redorbit.com/news/space/1855166/first_eu_ navigation_satellite_payload_shipped/ /science/nature/8442090.stm).  On July 31, 2010, it was announced that the USA would, indeed, do this (see USA GPS and EU Galileo linking was expected ). This is all the more astounding because the USA was initially opposed to Europe developing Galileo because it felt this could be used against the USA. Now, the USA is partially-dependent upon it, and in the event of war with Europe, the USA will not be able to effectively communicate or counter-strike because of this.

  4. Pivoting Away from Defending Europe. The 'pivot' that the USA and its ally Canada have been doing towards defending Asia as it has been called since at least 2012 (see Canadian and USA Shifting Military Power to Asia), has resulted in a pivot away from Europe. The Germans and others in Europe are realizing that the USA is not intending to defend them as before, hence the USA is pushing them to arm themselves.

  5. Pushing the Europeans to Develop Their Military. In 2012, US Defense Secretary Panetta made public calls for the Europeans to increase their military strength and spending (Carmichael L. Europe Needs To Invest In Defense, Too: U.S..  Defense News, February 4, 2012. http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120204/DEFREG02/302040001/Europe-Needs-Invest-Defense-Too-U-S-?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p).  In the Spring of 2014, the Obama Administration again called for Europe (meaning to a great degree Germany) to increase their military spending (see Obama tries to provide assurances to Europe while pushing for increased European military spending). Increasing military spending will turn out to be the destructive to the USA (cf. Daniel 11:39). Donald Trump has done this pushing as well, and the Europeans are going that way (see PESCO: The making of a European Defence Union). This is very dangerous.

  6. Removal of Tanks from Germany. In 2013, the USA removed the last of its tanks from Germany (see There are no longer USA tanks in Germany: Do Americans understand this is a serious risk?). By having no tanks on the ground, this means that the USA will not have the ground-force power to fight against Germany in the event of a war against the USA, should some elements of the US Army attempt to do that.

  7. Agreement to Share Espionage and Techniques. Because of the Snowden leaks in 2013, US President Barack Obama promised to turn over to Germany all of its espionage techiques etc., as well as to reduce espionage against Germany (see Germany most upset by USA espionage). This will give the Germans a major advantage over the USA. If you know how your enemy spies and what it spies on, you can take steps to protect secrets.

  8. Cessation of Chancellor Merkel's Cellular Telephone Conversations. Barack Obama agreed to no longer allow listening in on the cell phone of German Chancellor Angela Merkel after she complained (Merkel angered by USA allegedly listening in on her cell phone and EU summit to discuss USA spying), and presumably will not do this for her replacement (s). This will reduce the ability of the USA to understand what is going on when Germany is coordinating an attack in the future. While this may not seem to be important, it could prove disastrous.

  9. Allowing the Loss of Crimea. While Barack Obama did make stronger statements than some European leaders related to Crimea (e.g. Russia controls Crimea; Obama talks to Putin–Putin defiant; Obama dissed by many), the reality is that they did not stop Russia. Although Barack Obama and Germany's Angela Merkel called the annexation "unacceptable" (Merkel, Obama call Crimea grab 'unacceptable' Agence France-Presse, March 18, 2014. http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140318/merkel-obama-call-crimea-grab-unacceptable) it is clear to the Germans that the USA has accepted it (Germany still wants Crimea back). Europe and the Germans are concluding that they will need their own military deterrents to Russia to stop further incursions into territories that they want to be part of the European Union. The Europeans are moving ahead with military technology (see European Technology and the Beast of Revelation ), and this will give them further motivation.

  10. Giving Europeans Control Over More of the USA Military. As far as control of the military, the first non-American, French General  Stéphane Abrial became the “Commander of the Allied Command Transformation” of NATO in Europe in September, 2009 (French General Takes Over Key NATO Command In U.S.  RTT News, September 10, 2009.http://www.rttnews.com/ArticleView. aspx?Id=1062869; http://www.nato.int/cps/
    en/natolive/topics_50114.htm
    ). He was replaced by another French General, Jean-Paul Paloméros. So, this is another part of the military no longer under USA control.In the Summer of 2014, the Obama Administration placed a German general over the entire US Army in Europe (see German general now commands the US Army in Europe).

    In August 2014, the Obama Administration placed a German general, Brig. Gen. Markus Laubenthal (formerly commander of the 12th Armored Brigade in Amberg and chief of staff for the international security assistance force regional command north in Afghanistan), the chief of staff for U.S. Army Europe. This means that the Europeans will have much more control over the military over the USA than most have imagined.

And the above are steps that are publicly known. These steps will help Europe when it finally decides to start WWIII; watch also the video 10 Steps Obama Has Taken Leading to the Rise of the Beast. There may also be other steps that have not been publicly revealed. This will not end well for the USA. See also World War III: Steps in Progress.

'King of the South' Steps

Back in 2009, I wrote the following in a book:

...the Bible predicts that at the appointed time, a King of the North and a King of the South with rise. Various statements that Barack Obama has made suggest that he will implement policies that will likely help lead to the multi-national formations that will ultimately have these kings.

Islamic Prophecy: Barack Obama to Aid the Rise of the King of the South?

According to a commentary by Amir Taheri in Forbes, there is an amazing old Shi’ite prophecy that some in Iran believe seems to fit Barack Hussein Obama personally...

Now without seeing the actual Shi’ite prophecy that Forbes reported about (which would have been in either read Persian or Arabic), it is not certain that Barack Obama will meet all of the criteria of that prophecy (or if reports on it are entirely accurate).  However, if Barack Hussein Obama is the President of the United States until 2013-2017, his administration will help (most likely inadvertently) lead to the rise of the future King of the South who is mentioned in end time Bible prophecy. ...

As mentioned earlier, even some Shi’ite Muslims believe that his presidency may lead to the rise of their Mahdi who seems to be the same person that the Bible calls the King of the South.

(Thiel B. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect. Nazarene Books, 2009)

When world events started to quickly align with many documented, biblically-understood, predictions in that book, not too much at first seemed to be happening related to the formation of the King of the South.

But that changed. From promoting the Muslim Brotherhood to promoting 'regional cooperation,' Barack Obama has encourged the formation of an Islamic confederation or caliphate.

Notice how US President Barack Obama and his advisors were promoting this in September 2014:

September 5, 2014

“Our goal is to act with urgency but also make sure that we're doing it right, that we have the right targets, that there's support on the ground … that we have a strong political coalition,” Obama said at a news conference...

One major piece of the strategy for weakening the threat from Islamic State, Obama and aides said, will be the support and participation of the neighbors of Syria and Iraq.

“It is absolutely critical that we have Arab states, and specifically Sunni-majority states, that are rejecting the kind of extremist nihilism that we're seeing out of ISIL, that say, ‘That is not what Islam is about,' and are prepared to join us actively in the fight,” Obama said, using one of the acronyms for Islamic State. http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-obama-islamic-state-20140905-story.html

September 13, 2014

Egypt has a key role to play in countering Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on a visit to Cairo. He met Arab League chief Nabil al-Arabi and Egypt's President Sisi as part of his campaign to form a broad coalition to tackle IS militants. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29186686

September 24, 2014

President Barack Obama on Wednesday called on the world “to join him in an effort to degrade and ultimately destroy” Islamic State militants.

Addressing the U.N. General Assembly in New York, he highlighted efforts to build an international coalition to combat the group that has taken over large areas in Syria and Iraq (full text of speech here).

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 69th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, Sept. 24, 2014.

“This group has terrorized all who they come across in Iraq and Syria,” he said. “Mothers, sisters and daughters have been subjected to rape as a weapon of war. Innocent children have been gunned down. Bodies have been dumped in mass graves. Religious minorities have been starved to death. In the most horrific crimes imaginable, innocent human beings have been beheaded, with videos of the atrocity distributed to shock the conscience of the world.

“In this effort, we do not act alone. Nor do we intend to send U.S. troops to occupy foreign lands,” he added, noting that more than 40 nations have offered to join U.S.-led efforts to conduct airstrikes against militant strongholds in Syria and Iraq.

“We will train and equip forces fighting against these terrorists on the ground,” he said. “We will work to cut off their financing, and to stop the flow of fighters into and out of the region.” http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-islamic-state-un-speech/2460446.html

September 12, 2014

JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) – Key Arab allies promised Thursday to “do their share” to fight Islamic State militants…

The 10 Mideast allies announced their backing for a strategy to “destroy” the group “wherever it is, including in both Iraq and Syria,” following a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the Red Sea coastal city of Jiddah.

Kerry’s visit, on the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, was aimed at pinning down how much support regional allies are willing to give to the U.S. plan to beat back the Islamic State group…

Thursday’s meeting in Jiddah ended with Saudi Arabia, other Gulf states, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon pledging to stand against terrorism. They promised steps including stopping fighters and funding, repudiating the Islamic State group’s ideology, providing humanitarian aid and “as appropriate, joining in the many aspects of a coordinated military campaign.”

They also agreed to boost support for the new Iraqi government as it tries to unite its citizens in the fight against the militants. Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said coalition members agreed to share responsibilities for fighting the Islamic State group, as well as to “be serious and continuous in our action to eliminate and wipe out all these terrorist organizations.”  http://www.aol.com/article/2014/09/12/arab-allies-pledge-to-fight-islamic-state-group/20961334/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl5%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D528358

September 20, 2014

President Obama on Saturday said the United States will lead the fight against Islamic militants in the Middle East, but the struggle is one for all the world.

“Going forward, we won’t hesitate to take action against these terrorists in Iraq or in Syria. But this is not America’s fight alone,” Obama said in his weekly radio address. “This isn’t America vs. ISIL. This is the people of that region vs. ISIL. It’s the world vs. ISIL.” http://thehill.com/policy/international/218409-obama-its-the-world-vs-isis

Barack Obama pushed for the Sunni Muslim nations in the Middle East and North Africa to be more directly involved in the fight against the Islamic State. The US Army Chief of Staff says that the policies of the Obama Administration led to the rise of the Islamic State terrorists:

July 22, 2015

Army chief blames Obama-Hillary policy for ISIS

Says rise could have been ‘prevented’ by U.S.

The top officer of the U.S. Army, who’s leaving his post in the coming weeks, said during his exit interview the Middle East tensions and tragedies due to ISIS could very well have been stopped if the United States had only been more engaged. …

“It’s frustrating to watch it,” Odierno said, of the rise of ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Fox News reported. “I go back to the work we did in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and we got it to a place that was really good. Violence was low, the economy was growing, politics looked like it was heading in the right direction.”

He then said the fall of certain spots in Iraq was hardly inevitable, and that America could have done a lot to stop that from happening.

“If we had stayed a little more engaged, I think maybe it might have been prevented,” Odierno said, to Fox News. “I’ve always believed the United States played the role of honest broker between all the groups and when we pulled ourselves out, we lost that role.”

Odierno had actually recommended the stay of up to 35,000 U.S. troops in 2011, at a time when President Obama was ordering them home.

“I think it would have been good for us to stay,” he said.

He also said, speaking of what he called the unnecessary and dangerous cuts in the military: “Two years ago, we didn’t think we had a problem in Europe. … Now Russia is reasserting themselves. We didn’t think we’d have a problem again in Iraq and ISIS has emerged. So, with Russia becoming more of a threat, with ISIS becoming more of a threat, in my mind, we are on a dangerous balancing act right now with capability. When we go to [450,000 troops] we are going to have to stop doing something.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/exiting-army-chief-u-s-couldve-stopped-isis/#Tj7BvhDq3JMzI5tO.99

Before the General made his comments, I had a similar view when I heard Barack Obama on the radio yesterday indicating that those who criticize his policies with Iraq are the same ones criticizing his policies towards Iran. While I am not advocating military roles for the USA, I will state that since the USA often uses military force, the way the US politicians (both parties) managed Iraq has certainly not led to peace.

Because of the rise of the Islamic State, this is encouraging the Arab nations, US politicians, and others to consider forming a lasting confederation, consistent with those that the Bible warns of in Ezekiel 30:2-9 and Daniel 11:40-43–the one led by the final King of the South.  When such a confederation is brought together many will claim it will lead to peace in the Middle East and North Africa. And while a temporal peace will come to that region (cf. Daniel 9:27; see also The ‘Peace Deal’ of Daniel 9:27), it will not be a lasting peace.

Also, the confederation of Middle Eastern and Northern African nations that will form will not last nor turn out well for its participants according to the Bible.  Notice the following:

2 “Son of man, prophesy, and say, Thus says the Lord God:

“Wail, ‘Alas for the day!’
3 For the day is near,
the day of the Lord is near;
it will be a day of clouds,
a time of doom fora the nations.
4 A sword shall come upon Egypt,
and anguish shall be in Cush,
when the slain fall in Egypt,
and her wealth is carried away,
and her foundations are torn down.

5 Cush, and Put, and Lud, and all Arabia, and Libya,and the people of the land that is in league, shall fall with them by the sword.

6 “Thus says the Lord:
Those who support Egypt shall fall,
and her proud might shall come down;
from Migdol to Syene
they shall fall within her by the sword,
declares the Lord God.
And they shall be desolated in the midst of desolated countries,
and their cities shall be in the midst of cities that are laid waste.
8 Then they will know that I am the Lord,
when I have set fire to Egypt,
and all her helpers are broken.

9 “On that day messengers shall go out from me in ships to terrify the unsuspecting people of Cush, and anguish shall come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom;e for, behold, it comes! (Ezekiel 30:2-9, ESV)

However, since the Islamic world does not interpret those passages like we in the Continuing Church of God do, many Muslims are determined to form such a group. Many Muslims would like the group to be an Islamic caliphate–just with a less extreme interpretation of Islam than ISIS has.  But again, the Bible shows that this will end in disaster.

It should be understood that prior to the destruction of the final King of the South of biblical prophecy, the Bible shows that the USA itself will be eliminated (Daniel 11:39).  Steps leading towards that continue to happen.

I believe that many will point to groups such as the Islamic State, al-Qaeda, Hamas, Boko Haram, etc. as extremists and claim that a ‘moderate’ Arabic-Turkish Islamic confederation is the best way to control ‘extremism.’  The West, including probably the UK and USA, will go along with that, as Barack Obama has encouraged this.

Yet, once there is a certain confederation, it may not be too long before destruction will come to many of the participants.  I still maintain that more terrorism and violence will affect the USA and UK and will come from some associated with one or more forms of Islam.

The Bible shows that the areas that are currently Sunni-majority states in the Middle East and North Africa will compose the final King of the South, and that is something that Barack Obama and his administration is advocating (watch also Obama Administration Pushing for an Islamic Empire?).

I believe that the Bible shows that King of the North will invade the USA (Daniel 11:39) and in conjunction with the terrorism from King of the South (Psalm 83:3-8) will cause the end of the USA. Notice also the following:

25 The sword shall destroy outside; There shall be terror within (Deuteronomy 32:25).

12 “Cry and wail, son of man; For it will be against My people, Against all the princes of Israel. Terrors including the sword will be against My people; Therefore strike your thigh. (Ezekiel 21:12)

Deuteronomy 32:25 talks about a time of destruction that comes from an outside invasion and internal.  That is also consistent with what Ezekiel warned. Because of much terrorism involves people in the lands that are prophesied to be associated with the King of the South, these prophesies are consistent with terroristic actions from those regions in the future.

Barack Obama and his Administration took many steps that are helping to bring this about as they did not understand properly explained biblical prophecy.

Does Barack Obama have the Most Open or Hypocritical Administration?

When originally campaigning to become US president, Barack Obama pledged to have a different, more open, adminstration. After becoming US President, Barack Obama wrote:

My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government.  We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government. (Obama B. Transparency and Open Government. Federal Register. As shown at http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment on July 6, 2013)

Yet, with all the scandals and coverups since 2009, this seems quite inaccurate and hypocritical.

The Bible actually warns that God will send a European-based power against a hypocritical nation:

5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. 8 For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? (Isaiah 10:5-11)

Notice that the above says that while the Assyrian (European) power does not think it wants to be warlike, that it really is internally, and will act that way (a video of related interest may be Can You Prove that the Beast to Come is European?).

With the revelations of USA spying on the Europeans and others, many are noticing this aspect of hypocrisy by the Obama Administration (see the news post Germany most upset by USA espionage and also the video Will USA Spying Help the Beast Power?). This does not bode well for the USA.

Face the Nation

On July 14, 2013, on the CBS television program Face the Nation, the host, Bob Schieffer, raised various issues.

Bob Schieffer “fears the messes made by Washington are damaging our brand worldwide.” He also “reflects that “America has always led best when we led by example,” but it’s struggling to do that now.”

That is true and the Obama Administration played a major role in this since 2009.

Between the IRS scandals (see Scandals in the US government), espionage scandals (see It’s not paranoia: The USA government is engaged in massive surveillance on its citizens and others; Germany applauds Snowden.), Benghazi (see Scandals in the US government), debt crisis (see USA ‘budget deal’ problems and ramifications), being repeatedly involved in military conflicts around the world, promoting violence in sports and entertainment (see Is American Football Evil?), exporting pornography (see Celebrity Porn: AOL Please Stop Featuring It and Entertainment has a growing pornography problem and British and American Moral Decay), trying to promote and fund abortion internationally (Obama’s First 100 Days), trying promoting homosexuality internationally (USA government promoting homosexual pride parades internationally and Corruption reportedly up worldwide; Obama’s immoral views denounced in Kenya), etc., the USA is not setting the right example.

Yet, historically, the big names at CBS have supported the Obama Administration. Apparently some had doubts and noticed some hypocrisy.

Many outside the USA also consider that the USA is hypocritical because of some of these and other matters. This does not bode well for the USA (see. Isaiah 10:5-11).

Barack Obama himself has a serious credibility problem. Notice:

July 13, 2014

Mr Obama shares one problem that could cripple what remains of his presidency – most people no longer trust him. The sentiment spans foreign allies as well as domestic critics. When trust goes, respect is seldom far behind.

The most surprising example is Germany. It was in Berlin in 2008 that then Senator Obama unveiled his global promise – an America that could once again be trusted. Germans no longer believe it. In the wake of the “friendly spying” ring allegations, less than 40 per cent of Germans consider the US a trustworthy partner, according to one survey. ...

Senior German figures cannot agree whether Mr Obama was unaware of Washington’s double agents, or dissembling. Either way, when Mr Obama spoke to Angela Merkel the day before the initial revelations he did not raise it. It was enough to make you want to cry, said Wolfgang Schäuble, the finance minister. Never before has a close US ally expelled a CIA station chief.,,,

Mr Obama promises something will happen – say a tightening of data surveillance safeguards, or a drive to overhaul US immigration policy – people are no longer inclined to take him at his word. They may believe he means what he says. But they do not trust his ability to deliver. ...

Most Americans say they no longer personally trust Mr Obama. And fewer than 30 per cent express trust in the office of the presidency. ...

According to Mark Knoller, who chronicles the habits of US presidents, Mr Obama has now played golf 179 times – considerably more than George W Bush, his golf-loving predecessor. Mr Obama dislikes spending time with fellow politicians. But he seems happy to attend endless fundraisers. He has now clocked up 393 fundraising events since becoming president, almost double that of Mr Bush.

If you seek an explanation for why Mr Obama riles so many voters, the perception of double standards is at the root of the problem.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f0776136-08ee-11e4-9d3c-00144feab7de.html

The German-American breakup

July 14, 2014

In trampling on German civil liberties, the Obama administration is besmirching America's image and allowing Germans to feel morally superior to their former conqueror.

If Obama is unable to rein in spying on Germany, he may discover that he is helping to convert it from an ally into an adversary. For Obama to say auf Wiedersehen to a longtime ally would deliver a blow to American national security that no amount of secret information could possibly justify. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-heilbrunn-u-s--germany-relations-20140711-story.html

Barack Obama's apparent hypocrisy and duplicity are problems. This is and the espionage are serious problems. This will not simply be forgotten by the Germans because there is another USA president (see also Germany in Biblical and Catholic Prophecy). Ultimately it will help lead to World War III (see also World War III: Steps in Progress).

Ecumenical Barack Obama?

Barack Obama supports an ecumenical agenda. As mentioned before, he admits to carrying a Hindu monkey god in his pocket (see (see Barack Obama Carries Hindu Monkey God).

He also has made ecumenical public statements (e.g. Barack Obama makes an ecumenical appeal). He also visited the Pope as he and Pope Francis share certain economic and ecumenical objectives (see Barack Obama meets Pope Francis at Vatican: mutual interest in a new world economic order).

Such ecumenical plans are dangerous for everyone (watch the YouTube video video Should you be concerned about the ecumenical movement?), including Protestants (read Beware: Protestants Going Towards Ecumenical Destruction! and/or watch the video Charismatic Kenneth Copeland and Anglican Tony Palmer: Protestants Beware!) and Catholics (read Why Should American Catholics Fear Unity with the Orthodox?).

While Barack Obama seems ecumenical, his popularly has dropped in the USA:

July 2, 2014

A third of voters think Barack Obama is the worst president since World War II, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday. George W. Bush came in second, with 28 percent naming him as the worst recent president, followed by Richard Nixon with 13 percent. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/02/obama-rating-presidents_n_5551102.html?&icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D496694)

The USA media tends to support Barack Obama, yet many there have doubts and concerns that they seldom broadcast/publish.

Iran and the United Nations

Barack Obama got a deal with Iran which does not seem to place long-term limitations on its nuclear ambitions:

July 14, 2015

WHITE HOUSE— Months of international negotiations and years of sanctions targeting Iran’s nuclear program led up to this one moment. In the early hours of July 14, U.S. President Barack Obama made his way down a long red-carpeted hallway in the White House to announce a historic agreement.

“The United States, together with our international partners, has achieved something that decades of animosity has not – a comprehensive long-term deal with Iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Obama said. …

“Today because America negotiated from position of strength and principal, we have stopped the spread of nuclear weapons in this region,” Obama said.

Agreement details

Key Points

  • Iran will reduce stockpile of low-enriched uranium by 98 percent to 300 kg for 15 years
  • Iran will reduce by two-thirds the number of centrifuges operating to enrich uranium at its main processing center
  • Iran is prevented from designing warheads or conducting experiments on nuclear weapons-related technology.
  • Arms embargo on Iran will be eased, as long as IAEA judges Iran’s nuclear program to be peaceful.
  • International sanctions on Iran will be lifted, enabling it to export oil.
  • If an international panel finds Iran is not honoring the accord, it can vote to restore sanctions.

President Obama laid out the key points of the deal, noting that “every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off.”  Under the agreement, he said Iran would no longer produce highly enriched uranium and weapons-grade plutonium that are necessary to make a nuclear bomb. Iran will remove two-thirds of its installed centrifuges, and will not use its advanced centrifuges to produce enriched uranium for the next decade. Iran will also get rid of 98 percent of its stockpiled enriched uranium and modify its core reactor. …

“If Iran violates the deal, all the sanctions will snap back,” Obama said. ...

“History shows that America must lead not just with our might, but with our principals. It shows we are stronger not when we are alone but when we bring the world together,” Obama said. “Today’s announcement marks one more chapter in this pursuit of a safer, and more helpful, more hopeful world.”  http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-iran-nuclear-deal-makes-world-safer/2860882.html

This deal, according to certain experts, will encourage the spread of nuclear weapons in the Middle East, not stop it as Barack Obama just claimed.  Notice that Saudi Arabia now indicates it will to take nuclear and/or actions:

July 14, 2105

Saudi Arabia, Iran’s chief adversary in the region, has been one of the strongest critics of a deal that offers a gradual lifting of international sanctions in return for curbs on Tehran’s nuclear program.

One Saudi diplomat described the agreement as “extremely dangerous” and said it would give a green light to his own government to start a nuclear energy program.  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/arab-states-fear-dangerous-iranian-nuclear-deal-will-shake-up-region/2015/07/14/96d68ff3-7fce-4bf5-9170-6bcc9dfe46aa_story.html

July 14, 2015

The news anchor on state-run Saudi Channel 1, Mohammed al-Mohya, told Reuters on Tuesday that the deal should cause Sunni nations to seek partnerships with countries other than America.

“Iran made chaos in the Arab world and will extend further after the agreement,” he said. “And the [Gulf Cooperation Council] countries should reduce their confidence in America and turn their focus to Russia and China.”  http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/07/14/from-neocon-nut-jobs-to-partners-iranian-language-towards-us-changes-after-deal/

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the deal:

July 14, 2015

The news that major world powers and Iran reached a historic deal aimed at ensuring that Iran does not obtain the nuclear bomb was met with condemnation by Israel but hailed by the United Nations and Russia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Tuesday’s nuclear deal with Iran “a bad mistake of historic proportions” and vowed to keep up efforts to block the Islamic Republic from obtaining an atomic bomb.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon congratulated negotiators in Vienna on finalizing an agreement in a statement Tuesday.

“I warmly welcome the historic agreement in Vienna today and congratulate the P5+1 and Iran for reaching this agreement. This is testament to the value of dialogue,” Ban said in the statement.

“I hope – and indeed believe – that this agreement will lead to greater mutual understanding and cooperation on the many serious security challenges in the Middle East. As such it could serve as a vital contribution to peace and stability both in the region and beyond,” the statement said.

In Russia, President Vladimir Putin said, with the nuclear agreement, the world can breathe a sigh of relief, and that the negotiating countries made hard choices for stability and cooperation.

The European Union hailed it as a new chapter of hope for the world.

Regional governments

The Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan governments released statements welcoming the nuclear agreement.   …

Widely criticized in Israel

However, reaction was critical across the political spectrum in Israel, where concern is high the country’s arch enemy has duped the world and will acquire nuclear weapons to use against Israel.

Iran already backs militant groups that attack Israel and its leaders frequently have referred to Israel’s destruction in the past.

Netanyahu has been at the forefront of global opposition to the deal and has openly clashed with the Obama administration and other Western powers that have been pushing for an easing of sanctions in return for greater restrictions on its nuclear program.

Netanyahu showed no signs of tempering his criticism Tuesday and added a veiled threat of his own.

“One cannot prevent an agreement when the negotiators are willing to make more and more concessions to those who, even during the talks, keep chanting: ‘Death to America,’ ” he said, before meeting with Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders.

‘A short path to nuclear weapons’

Speaking in Jerusalem, he said Israel’s “concern is that the militant Islamic state of Iran is going to receive a short path to nuclear weapons. Many of the restrictions that were supposed to prevent it from getting there will be lifted. And in addition Iran will get a jackpot, a cash bonanza, of hundreds of billions of dollars, which will enable it to continue to pursue its aggression and terror in the region and in the world.”

He concluded by saying Israel would continue to have to defend its way of life, freedoms and security.

Israel received an official copy of the Iran nuclear agreement Tuesday, according to the Haaretz website.

On Monday, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon criticized the potential nuclear agreement.

Ya’alon told Israeli officials that “even if there are some last-minute improvements, the agreement as we understand it is bad, allowing Iran to legitimately become a nuclear threshold state. The bottom line is, a bad deal is coming, and after it, we will have to be prepared to defend ourselves on our own.”

On Tuesday, Ya’alon told The Jerusalem Post that the agreement was built on “lies and deceit.”

Lobbying effort

Israel’s first course of action looks to be an intense lobbying effort in the U.S. Congress to oppose the deal.

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely said Israel “will employ all diplomatic means to prevent confirmation of the agreement.”

Netanyahu’s coalition partners angrily criticized Tuesday’s agreement. Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who heads the hawkish Jewish Home party, said July 14 will be remembered a “dark day for the free world.” Cabinet Minister Miri Regev said the agreement gave Iran a “license to kill.”

The cascade of criticism crossed party lines, reflecting the widespread opposition to the deal in Israel.

“This is a regime based in deceit, and now they are going to do what they did for the last 20 years, which is trying to get themselves nuclear weapons behind the back of the world,” Yair Lapid, the head of the opposition Yesh Atid Party, told The Associated Press. “Now they are going to do it with the help of the international community.”

Netanyahu called on all sides to “put petty politics aside” and unite behind opposing Iran.

At Tel Aviv’s Institute for National Security Studies, Emily Landau, the head of its arms control and regional security program said Tuesday that “if there’s a sense in the region that the international actors … have not provided mechanisms for preventing [Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons], then definitely there will be additional motivation in the region to go down the nuclear route.”

Noting that acquiring nuclear weapons capability is “irreversible,” she added that the “sunset provision” allowing the agreement to expire after some years would allow Iran eventually to pursue legally a nuclear weapons program.

Finally, Landau said the accord “does not change the Iranian narrative,” which is to expand its status and influence across and beyond the Middle East.  http://www.voanews.com/content/israel-most-vocal-in-reaction-against-nuclear-deal/2860807.html

Perhaps it should be added that I heard on the radio that some believe that the result of a deal with Iran will mean that Pakistan will be selling/providing nuclear weapons to Saudi Arabia and perhaps others in the Arab world.

ABC News reported the following on July 14, 2015:

WINS FOR IRAN:

The selling points in Tehran could be the points of derailment in Washington. While Congress has 60 days to review the agreement, it has no authority to amend it. If Congress were to create legislation to stifle the agreement it would need a two-thirds majority vote to avoid a presidential veto. Secretary of State John Kerry said in Vienna today he doesn’t think they’ll try it, but look for Congressional Republicans to use each one of the following points to argue this is a bad deal.

Sanctions

Iran is most pleased with the impending relief of economic sanctions. Once it has been verified that Iran has committed to dismantling its centrifuges and diluting or selling its stockpile of enriched uranium, all economic sanctions will be lifted, effectively releasing over $100 billion in frozen Iranian assets. Economic relief was the driving incentive for Iran.

Inspections Military Sites

Most observers are likely to interpret the inspection, as it applies specifically to military sites, as a victory for Iran. UN inspectors can demand access to nuclear facilities on Iran military sites, but they aren’t immediate or even guaranteed. Any inspections at those sites would need to be approved by a joint commission composed of one member from each of the negotiating parties. The process for approving those inspections could take as many as 24 days, which critics will claim is enough time for Iran to cover up any non-compliance.

Arms Embargo

The final win for Iran is the gradual lifting of an international arms embargo. The accord states that Iran will be permitted to buy and sell conventional arms on the international market in five years; and in eight years they’ll be able to do the same with ballistic missiles. The embargo was a major sticking point throughout the talks, with Iran demanding it be lifted.

Research and Development

Iran gets to continue to conduct research and development related to its nuclear program. There will be certain limitations, but essentially they will be allowed research enrichment activities, as long as it is for peaceful purposes.  http://abcnews.go.com/International/iran-nuclear-deal-winners-losers/story?id=32437227

As far as centrifuges go, it is my understanding that Iran will get rid of its older, less technologically advanced centrifuges which it perhaps could not have really used for nuclear bombs, while keeping those that are better for that.  Nuclear centrifuges basically help enrich uranium to the point that it can be used to develop nuclear energy or nuclear bombs.  While Iran is publicly claiming the former, many believe that its real goal is to produce nuclear weapons, so getting rid of older ones does not really hurt its nuclear ambitions.  I would disagree with ABC that this is a ‘win’ for powers like the USA.

The time may well come when Iran ‘overplays its hand.’  Since Iran is NOT the prophesied King of the South (Daniel 11:40-43), it may well be neutralized (cf. (Jeremiah 49:34-39) before that leader fully rises up.

Because leaders like Iran’s past and current presidents credit a non-existent Imam Mahdi for various events and its Supreme Leader has claimed to actually speak to him, the regime in Iran must be considered unstable and capable of taking steps that would seem illogical to outsiders.

This makes Iran dangerous. Iran may well damage Israel (Isaiah 22:1-14) and even the USA. But that will not end well for Iran (cf. Jeremiah 49:34-38).

The United Nations, however, approved the deal for Ira (see UN approves Iran deal, US tells Israel it may need to agree to disagree).

Barack Obama and the United Nations have had similar agendas in certain areas (see also United Nations: Humankind’s Last Hope or New World Order?).

It should perhaps also be pointed out that Barack Obama seems to have paid Iran $400,000,000 to release American hostages:

August 3, 2016

The Obama administration is vigorously denying that the shipment if $400 million to Iran was a ransom payment for the release of American hostages earlier this year, but the former chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence says the timing and the secrecy make it clear the U.S. clearly bought off the Iranian captors.

The Wall Street Journal broke the story Tuesday, detailing what happened back in January while most Americans were focused on the release of the prisoners.

“The Obama administration secretly organized an airlift of $400 million worth of cash to Iran that coincided with the January release of four Americans detained in Tehran, according to U.S. and European officials and congressional staff briefed on the operation afterward,” the story reads.

“Wooden pallets stacked with euros, Swiss francs and other currencies were flown into Iran on an unmarked cargo plane, according to these officials. The U.S. procured the money from the central banks of the Netherlands and Switzerland,” wrote reporters Jay Solomon and Carol E. Lee.

“The money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement the Obama administration reached with Iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal signed just before the 1979 fall of Iran’s last monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,” they wrote.

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Early Tuesday morning, State Department spokesman, John Kirby denied any connection between the massive money transfer and the freeing of the hostages.

“We just don’t pay ransom. It is our policy. This was not ransom. Any suggestion that it had anything to do with ransom is absolutely and utterly false. These were two separate processes run by two separate teams. Yes, they were done simultaneously, so I understand the coincidental nature of the timing. But it had absolutely nothing to do with ransom. We do not and will not pay ransom,” said Kirby on the Fox news Channel.

Former House Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., isn’t buying that explanation one bit.

“Absolutely it’s a ransom payment,” Hoekstra told WND and Radio America. “This is a president that has all along been willing to negotiate and make a deal, and if the deal included ransom he has been open to it.”

“If it walks like a duck, if it talks like a duck, it’s a duck. This is a ransom payment,” he said. http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/confirmed-obamas-400-million-to-iran-was-absolutely-ransom-payment/#7qT8xZRHJ9j6gbyW.99

Readers can come to their own conclusions as to the motives of the Obama Administration.

A Failed Presidency?

Noticed the following article by Eric Zuesse via Strategic-Culture.org,:

December 31, 2016

I’m a former lifelong Democrat, stating here a clear and incontestable fact: Barack Obama is a failed President.

It’s true not just because of the sad realities such as that «Top Ex-White House Economist Admits 94 % Of All New Jobs Under Obama Were Part-Time» — or, as the economists Alan Krueger and Lawrence Katz wrote in the original of that study: «94 percent of the net employment growth in the U.S. economy from 2005 to 2015 appears to have occurred in alternative work arrangements». («Alternative work arrangements» referred there to Americans who were involuntarily working only part-time jobs — they simply couldn’t find full-time, though that’s what they wanted.) In other words: Obama’s failure isn’t just because of America’s increasingly sales-clerk, and burger-flipping, workforce.

And Obama’s failure is also not just because «Poverty Rose In 96 % Of U.S. House Districts, During Obama’s Presidency». (However, that reality turned out to be decisive in Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump on November 8th, as Nate Cohn pointed out in The New York Times on December 23rd, headlining, «How the Obama Coalition Crumbled, Leaving an Opening for Trump». Hillary was running on Obama’s poor record.)

Obama’s failure is also because of other important reasons. Among them is the uncounted thousands of people who were killed in, and the uncounted millions of people who became refugees from, the places where Obama (or else his installed regimes) bombed and caused the residents to either die or flee. George W. Bush’s destructions of Iraq and even Afghanistan were now being followed by the destructions of Libya by Obama and Sarkozy, and of Syria by Obama and Saud and Thani and Erdogan, who armed the tens of thousands of jihadists and sent them into Syria to overthrow and replace Assad — and Bush’s destructions were followed also by Obama’s keeping in power the barbaric junta-regime that replaced the democratically elected Honduran Presiden Manuel Zelaya on 28 June 2009 shortly after Obama entered the White House (and this junta-regime, in turn, caused Honduras’s murder-rate to soar 50% to become the world’s highest, which then caused hundreds of thousands of Hondurans to flee and become undocumented U.S. immigrants, against which Donald Trump campaigned).

The Obama regime has thus created far more misery outside America, than inside it. Failures such as those didn’t cost Hillary Clinton many (if any) votes (because most voters didn’t even know about these foreign-affairs matters), but those failures were actually even bigger than Obama’s failures in purely domestic U.S. policy matters (which voters do know about). Trump campaigned against ‘illegal immigrants’, but he never even called attention to those people’s fleeing the hells that the U.S. regime had created in not only Honduras but earlier in Guatemala and El Salvador — coups and U.S.-trained death squads. ...

Obama’s failure was all his own — it’s not because of the good things that Republicans had blocked him from doing; it is instead because of the horrible things (such as his failed TPP, TTIP and TISA trade-treaties, and his successful 2011 killing of Gaddafi, and 2014 coup in Ukraine) that were central to his actual agenda — a conservative, even reactionary, agenda, which favored the interests of the hundreds of billionaires who control U.S.-based international corporations, above the interests of the 300+ million American people, whom the U.S. President is supposed to be serving.

I voted for Barack Obama both times ... I never expected Barack Obama to turn out to have been, quite possibly, even a worse President than Bush. Nobody expected that — except Republicans ...

Obama came into power immediately after an economic crash that was loaded especially with financial-institution frauds. He protected the banksters. So, financial-executive-fraud prosecutions didn’t soar, like they should have; instead they plunged. Like Obama told the Wall Street bigs, near the start of his regime, on 27 March 2009, in private, inside the White House: «My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks. … I’m not out there to go after you. I’m protecting you… I’m going to shield you». And that’s what he did. And, on 20 September 2016, Dave Johnson of the Campaign for America’s Future, headlined «Banks Used Low Wages, Job Insecurity To Force Employees To Commit Fraud», so there was no way that the employees could keep their jobs except to do the crimes that they were being virtually forced by their bosses to do.

The criminality was actually at the very top — where Obama had promised «I’m protecting you». So, the TARP’s Inspector General urged, on 26 October 2016 (since the President was refusing to prosecute those people), «that Congress remove the insulation around Wall Street CEOs and other high-level officials by requiring the CEO, CFO and certain other senior executives to sign an annual certification that they have conducted due diligence within their organization and can certify that that there is no criminal conduct or civil fraud in their organization». The Special Inspector General of TARP, Christy Goldsmith Romero, was proposing this, as being the way to make prosecutions, of these top-level fraud-executives, so easy that the Obama Administration’s claims — that there was no top-level fraud that could be prosecuted — would be an even more blatant, absurdly false, lie, than it had been.

If this country were Ukraine, or even Russia, then Americans (trained by decades of a CIA-controlled ‘free press’) would say «Oh, of course those countries are corrupt, but America isn’t like that». But, at least under Barack Obama, ‘we’ were that. This was America — and ‘our’ President was protecting the elite fraudsters, instead of prosecuting them. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-31/former-lifelong-democrat-admits-obama-failed-president

The above does not mention Barack Obama's pushing of the LGBT agenda, which was one of his biggest failures.

Releasing Criminals and Statements about Donald Trump

Barack Obama has released a lot of criminals:

Obama springs more prisoners than 9 presidents combined

August 3, 2016

President Obama on Wednesday commuted the sentences of another 214 convicted drug felons, mostly dealers, bringing his total to 562 inmates who he has freed under his executive power to end punishments.

And the White House says there are many more reprieves to come.

“Today’s 214 grants of commutation also represent the most grants in a single day since at least 1900,” wrote White House lawyer Neil Eggleston on the White House website. “That being said, our work is far from finished. I expect the president will continue to grant clemency in a historic and inspiring fashion.”

Eggleston boasted that Obama already – with nearly six months left in office – has commuted the sentences of more convicts than all the presidents combined dating back to John F. Kennedy, who released about 100. ...

It’s not the only way Obama has worked to free convicts, with his Justice Department changing drug sentencing guidelines retroactively in 2014, freeing about 6,100 federal inmates. http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/obama-springs-more-prisoners-than-9-presidents-combined/#ySA1BHFcU8T6Oo2Z.99

He also released more in December 2016.

Barack Obama has made some very strong statements against Donald Trump. Enough so, that some wonder if Barack Obama will try to remain in office:

August 3, 2016

Barack Obama is a president known for unprecedented statements and behavior.

He lived up to that reputation this week when he asserted that GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump is “unfit to serve” as his successor.

It’s important to listen to the words he uttered and measure their implications carefully.

It’s clear Obama has no use for Donald Trump. But that’s not really the point here.

Like it or not, and I don’t like it, Obama is the sitting president of the United States until Jan. 20, 2017.

The question this harsh, unprecedented attack by a sitting president on a major-party nominee to succeed him raises should be obvious: What happens if Donald Trump wins the election in November?

Given what Obama has said about Trump, would he not have an obligation to prevent Trump from assuming office? And what would that mean to the peaceful process America has enjoyed for more than two centuries of transitions of power? http://www.wnd.com/2016/08/the-obvious-question-no-ones-asking-obama/#4PFiKI7wM6uOBPFa.99

Barack Obama has made several brash and critical statements about Donald Trump.

Throughout the years, many have wondered if Barack Obama would remain in the presidency when his current term ended--but that did not happen.

Sadly, we have seen more and more ‘unconstitutional’ behavior in the USA under the Barack Obama Administration.

All that being said, there are also issues with the Donld Trump Administration (see also Donald Trump in Prophecy).

No Scandals or at least 25 Scandals?

Barack Obama's Administration liked to portray itself as being scandal-free:

January 2, 2017

“The president prides himself on the fact that his administration hasn’t had a scandal,” Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s close friends and longtime adviser said during a Sunday interview on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.” http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/what-me-scandals/#jXPeQvppuiwrmB57.99

Notice the following:

Squeaky clean, huh? Obama forgot about these 25 scandals

  1. Obama’s Iran nuke deal
  2. Obama knew about Hillary’s private email server
  3. Obama IRS targets conservatives
  4. Obama’s DOJ spies on AP reporters
  5. Obamacare & Obama’s false promises
  6. Illegal-alien amnesty by executive order
  7. Benghazi-gate
  8. Operation Fast & Furious
  9. 5 Taliban leaders for Bergdahl
  10. Extortion 17
  11. ‘Recess ‘ appointments – when Senate was in session
  12. Appointment of ‘czars’ without Senate approval
  13. Suing Arizona for enforcing federal law
  14. Refusal to defend Defense of Marriage Act
  15. Illegally conducting war against Libya
  16. NSA: Spying on Americans
  17. Muslim Brotherhood ties
  18. Miriam Carey
  19. Birth certificate
  20. Executive orders
  21. Solyndra and the lost $535 million
  22. Egypt
  23. Cap & Trade: When in doubt, bypass Congress
  24. Refusal to prosecute New Black Panthers
  25. Obama’s U.S. citizen ‘hit list’

Details about each of those is in the link: http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/what-me-scandals/#jXPeQvppuiwrmB57.99

And then there is the international promotion of abortion, support of baby-sellng Planned Parenthood, the near doubling of national debt, the disaster in Syria, and the bias towards taking Islamic refugees.

Barack Obama's Administration was not scandal-free.

(From 2018, see also Did the FBI fear that they were involved in their own ‘Watergate’ with the FISA request related to Donald Trump’s campaign?)

Predictions About Barack Obama Began to Come to Pass

Chapter 8 of my other book 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect is titled Barack Obama, Islam, and the End of America. Since my book came out in 2009, at least 12 predictions related to the Barack Obama Administration have already come to pass (you can watch the following YouTube for more details on some of them 2012 - Ten Fulfilled Barack Obama Prophecies).

1.  2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect warned that the U.S. dollar would ultimately be worthless with another currency (with European involvement and/or control) taking its place in the world.

The Wall Street Journal reported that on September 7, 2009 a committee of the United Nations advised dropping the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency (Goldstein S. U.N. Panel Calls For Dollar Reserve Role To Be Eliminated.  Wall Street Journal Online, September 8, 2009).  While there had been scattered discussions of this before, this was the first time such an important multi-national panel specifically called for the elimination of the role of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency.

“Gulf Arabs are planning—along with China, Russia, Japan and France—to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency… The current deadline for the currency transition is 2018” (Fisk R.  The demise of the dollar. The Independent, 6 October 2009; see also (Evans-Pritchard A. Gulf petro-powers to launch currency in latest threat to dollar hegemony.  Telegraph, December 16, 2009).

In October 2010, Simon Derrick at Bank of New York Mellon claimed, “The euro is the only real alternative to the dollar as a reserve currency” (Graham P, Oliver C. Currency race that everyone is trying to lose.  Financial Times, October 12, 2010).   In November 2010, Russia and China announced that they were dropping the use of the US dollar for bilateral trade (Qiang S and Xiaokun L.  China, Russia quit dollar.  China News, November 24, 2010).
Forbes reported that “central banks around the world” are “dumping the greenback” as “The US dollar’s role as the world’s reserve currency has been called into question” (Central Banks Dump Treasuries As Dollar’s Reserve Currency Status Fades. Forbes, March 16, 2011).  In May 2011, “Chuck Butler, president of EverBank World Markets and a 35-year currency analyst” stated:  “The U.S. dollar will lose its reserve currency status sometime between 2014 and 2020. There will be no trumpet; it will just happen” (Clark J.  If the Dollar Goes, What Happens to Your Portfolio?  Casey Research, June 21, 2011).  US policies seem to be leading to the end of the dollar (Powell SS. How US debt risks dollar doomsday.  New York Post, April 30, 2012).

Events are lining up for the U.S. dollar to be dropped as the world’s reserve currency.

2. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect warned that U.S. President Obama would encourage the rise of a European power to the ultimate peril of the U.S.A.

In October 2009, it was reported that Czech President Vaclav

Klaus was the lone EU leader still opposed to the Lisbon Treaty (Waterfield B. Czech President Vaclav Klaus 'to continue' lone resistance to Lisbon Treaty.  Telegraph, October 15, 2009).  The Obama administration worked to get the Lisbon Treaty approved as President Obama “wants a strong and united Europe” (Source: Baldwin T, Reid T., Coates S. Obama Administration worried about Cameron effect in Europe.  The Times, October 21, 2009).  On October 23, 2009, US Vice President Joseph Biden visited the Czech Republic and gave it security reassurances (U.S. foreign policy aware of threats - Havel after meeting Biden.  CTK, October 23, 2009).  This could have possibly had some limited influence on some of the Czech leadership, as the Lisbon Treaty was signed two weeks after that visit.  On November 3, 2009, Agence France Presse (AFP) reported that USA President Barack Obama publicly expressed his support for the Czech President’s signing of the Lisbon Treaty and for now having a 'strengthened' EU (Obama welcomes 'strengthened' EU. AFP, November 3, 2009).

The New York Times reported that on May 10, 2010, President Obama called German Chancellor Merkel and told her that Europe needed an overwhelming financial rescue for the sake of its unity, and she heeded that suggestion. (Erlanger S, Benhold K, Sanger D. Debt Aid Package for Europe Took Nudge From Washington. New York Times, May 10, 2010).

In December 2010, it was announced USA made “an extra commitment of money” to support the EU and it was also reported that the “United States, has committed 250 billion Euros to the EFSF” (European Financial Stability Facility) to support the euro and economic structure of the European Union (US Ready to Back Bigger EU Stability Fund: Official.  Reuters, December 1, 2010).  In 2012, US Defense Secretary Panetta made public calls for the Europeans to increase their military strength and spending (Carmichael L. Europe Needs To Invest In Defense, Too: U.S..  Defense News, February 4, 2012).  This is very dangerous.

The Obama Administration clearly was supporting the rise of the European power. 

3. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect warned that the Obama Administration would continue to greatly increase the debt of the USA.

On February 12, 2010, President Obama signed a bill raising the USA debt ceiling to $14.3 trillion (Obama signs law lifting debt ceiling. AFP, February 12, 2010).

The total government debt went up $9 trillion or so under the Obama Administration.

4. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect warned that, “Because of domestic economic concerns and international pressures, Barack Obama is shifting priorities away from defense spending…This will help lead to the destruction of the United States, when the Europeans are ready and the U.S.A. is not.”

On April 8, 2010, President Obama signed a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Russia which will reduce the total nuclear weapons of the USA by about a third (Loven J. Obama In Prague: Russia Nuclear Arms Deal Signed With Medvedev. The Huffington Post, April 8, 2010).  The treaty was partially based on apparently flawed and overly optimistic assessment of the USA’s missile intercept abilities (Broad W, Sanger D. Review Cites Flaws in U.S. Antimissile Program.  New York Time, May 17, 2010).

Interestingly, the U.S.A.’s major military partner, the United Kingdom, has also seriously cut its defense spending (LaFranci H. Big British defense cuts weaken Pentagon's top military partner.  Christian Science Monitor, October 20, 2010).

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff declared that certain “automatic” defense cuts would “break” the U.S. military, while the Defense Secretary stated they would be “catastrophic” (Munoz C.  Chairman of Joint Chiefs Says Doomsday Cut Would 'Break' Military.  AOL News, September 23, 2011). Barack Obama has proposed cutting the U.S. nuclear arsenal to none (Obama for 'world without nuclear weapons'.  Al Jazeera, March 26, 2012); the closer to zero it is, the less the U.S.A. is ahead of all nations on earth, other than Russia.

Having less military power means that other powers (like Europe) gain strength relative to the U.S.A.

5. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect warned that there would likely be gaps in the U.S. G.P.S. system and this may require the U.S. military to rely on the upcoming European Galileo system (essentially an upgraded and European developed version of G.P.S) to meet that gap.

The U.S. Air Force itself disputed the idea of gaps in military satellite communications (Air Force Official Disputes GAO Report on Projected GPS Failure.  Satellite Today, May 26, 2009), when that portion of the book was written.

But, on November 10, 2009, Aviation Week reported that the leader of U.S. Strategic Command, Air Force Gen. Kevin Chilton, “says so few satellites are in queue now for launch for critical missions–such as weather observation satcom or ballistic missile warning–that there is a risk of service gaps that could impede the military’s ability to do its job” (Butler A.  U.S. Satellite Coverage Gaps Loom.  Aviation Week,  November 10, 2009).

Furthermore, because of concerns about China, Reuters reported on February 4, 2010, “The U.S. Defense Department is linking its Global Positioning System with Europe’s Galileo, another space-based global navigation satellite system. GPS will feature a new military signal called M-code to boost anti-jamming, facilitate secure access and increase the local signal strength.” (Wolf J. US, wary of China, mulls satellite substitutes.  Reuters, February 4, 2010).  This linking will essentially guarantee that the U.S.A. will have a portion of their military response ability controlled by the Europeans. 

Galileo initially had critics as there were “early objections from the Americans who thought a rival system to GPS might be used to attack its armed forces” (Amos J. EU awards Galileo satellite-navigation contracts.  BBC, Jan 7, 2010). But this warning has been discounted to the peril of the United States.

The “brain” of the Galileo satellite system was shipped to Rome on April 26, 2010 (First EU Navigation Satellite Payload Shipped.  Red Orbit, 26 April 2010).

The Wall Street Journal reported on June 28, 2010 that the Obama Administration hopes to persuade the American people that having to rely on Europe’s Galileo “to augment” for part of our GPS needs is in the interest of global cooperation (Pasztor A.  New Space Calls for Global Cooperation. Wall Street Journal, June 28, 2010).  This became official on July 30, 2010 (U.S. and the EU to collaborate on usage of Global Navigation Satellite Systems.  BNO News, July 31, 2010).

The USA has even agreed to let Germany in on a new secret spy satellite program (US and Germany in joint spy satellite project: cable. AFP - Jan 3, 2011).  Galileo satellites are expected to be launched in 2011 (European Space Agency predicts European space revolution.  Defence Web, January 18, 2011).

It is expected that Galileo will be fully operational in the decade of the 2020s (Milner G. Behind the Master Controls of GPS. Science Friday, May 6, 2016).

The problems with GPS combined with Galileo, revealing spy satellite technology, and the fact that the first non-American, French General Stéphane Abrial became the “Commander of the Allied Command Transformation” of NATO in Europe in September, 2009 (French General Takes Over Key NATO Command In U.S.  RTT News, September 10, 2009) means Europeans will have much more control over the military of the USA than most have imagined.

6. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect warned that there may be sorrows and “squatter rebellions” in the USA by the end 2012.

The “Occupy Wall Street” movement, which began in 2011 partially fulfilled some of that (Lavin T. Can Occupy Wall Street Replace the Labor Movement?  Bloomberg, May 1, 2012). This type of action was predicted to start during the Obama Administration. Much worse civil unrest is coming.

7. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect warned (through quoting Habakkuk 2:7) that foreign creditors “will rise up suddenly” against the USA—and the beginning signs of this have appeared during the Obama Administration.

On November 8, 2010 German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble publicly warned, “The United States lived on borrowed money for too long” (Interview With German Finance Minister Schäuble: ‘The US Has Lived on Borrowed Money for Too Long’.  Spiegel, November 8, 2010).  Der Spiegel reported, "Americans have lived beyond their means for decades...Everything was paid for with borrowed money" (A Superpower in Decline: Is the American Dream Over? Der Spiegel, November 1, 2010).

On November 9, 2010, a major Chinese rating service dropped the credit rating of the bonds of the U.S. Treasury (Fellman J, Xie Y.  China’s Dagong Cuts U.S. Credit Rating to A+ on Fed’s Quantitative Easing Bloomberg, November 9, 2010).

At some point, foreign holders will refuse to accept greater amounts of U.S. debt or the dollar as reserve currency,” Mr. Hummel said in a note to investors (Cui C.  World Is Bitten by the Gold Bug.  Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2011).  Asian nations are holding meetings to try to figure out what to do with their dollar reserves (Adam S. Asia Seeks to Diversify Record Reserves as U.S. Dollar Declines.  Bloomberg, May 2, 2011). 

A June 22, 2011 report issued by the US Congressional Budget Office warned of a possible “sudden fiscal crisis” with foreigners reacting to US debt practices (Taylor A.  CBO: Debt Crisis Looms Absent Major Policy Changes.   Associated Press, June 24, 2011).  On August 5, 2011, Standard & Poors downgraded the credit worthiness of the US government (Arnall D.  S&P Drops US Credit Rating to AA+.  ABC, August 5, 2011).

And while foreign creditors have not fulfilled the entire prediction in Habakkuk 2 yet, they have taken steps that indicate that they will fulfill it, and this will not be good for the United States.

8. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect warned that Barack Obama will cause people to err and not discourage, but instead encourage, biblical sin.  He and his Administration has done so.

On February 18, 2011, the Obama Administration issued a ruling that pharmacists must supply abortive medication even if they have religious or other objections to doing so (Rovner J. New Contraception Rules Spark 'Conscience Clause' Debate. NPR, February 18, 2011).

Also, in 2011, Barack Obama publicly turned against the Defense of Marriage Act (Richey W. Obama, in stand for gay rights, calls for repeal of DOMA.  Christian Science Monitor, July 19, 2011).  Furthermore, at the United Nations he publicly advocated policies against biblical morality (Munro N. Obama delivers campaign stump speech at the UN. Daily Caller, September 21, 2011).

9. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect warns that Barack Obama will help enable the rise of a multi-national leader of an Islamic confederation, like an Imam, that the Bible refers to as the King of the South.

Many believed that how Barack Obama has handled the matter in Egypt would lead to some religious leaders arising in the Middle East/North Africa (Region incredulous at speed with which U.S. betrayed Mubarak.  World Tribune, February 2, 2011; Worth RF.  Unrest Encircles Saudis, Stoking Sense of Unease.  New York Times, February 19, 2011)—and it has.

The Obama Administration’s involvement in Libya also changed matters there (Taylor A. Obama Orders Air Strike On Qhadafi’s Forces.  U.S. Election News, March 20, 2011). As Hillary Clinton was considered the architect of the foreign policy of the Obama Administration, she had involvement in this and other matters--and would be expected to again if she become U.S.A. president.

The goal of many Muslims is for a multi-national Muslim empire called a caliphate like the Islamic confederation that (based upon biblical prophecies) 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect predicted. And Barack Obama and his Administration have provided support for this.

10. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect warns that China may end up with at least part of Australia.

On November 10, 2011, the author of 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect posted that the decision by Australia to accept US Marines in northern Australia as proposed by the Obama Administration may be used as part of justification for China to eventually  attack the land of Australia and perhaps end up with it (Thiel B.  Obama Putting ‘Permanent’ Troops in Australia Because of China, But…Church of God News, November 10, 2011).  On November 18, 2011, it was reported that a Chinese-state newspaper claimed that Australia was risking putting itself in the “cross-fire” and hinted that China might now feel compelled to attack Australia (Calmes J. Obama Addresses Troops at Final Stop in Australia.  New York Times, November 17, 2011). 

In  2012, China provided more information suggesting that it might take action against Australia because of US troops there (Kwong R.  China Doesn’t Think The US Is That Awesome.  Forbes, April 4, 2102).

So, while the actual taking over of Australian lands by China has not yet happened, events aligning with that possibility that the Obama Administration has been involved with are happening.

11. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect warns about the U.S.A. losing out technologically, because of spending cuts and focus to Europe’s Large Hadron Collider. 

The U.S. Tevatron collider is now in moth balls.  The U.S.A. is down to only one particle collider. The funding for the remaining one (Brookhaven) has sometimes been cut, and it may actually have to shut down (Matson J. Nuclear Decelerator: Last U.S. Particle Collider is on Chopping Block.  Scientific American, August 24, 2012). 

This technological prowess is being lost by the U.S.A.

12. 2012 and the Rise of the Secret Sect warned that during 2012 some would likely declare that a new age of peace is dawning. On May 23, 2012, US President Obama essentially declared that since certain wars were about over a new age of peace was dawning on the horizon (Nakamura D. Obama touts American exceptionalism, end of wars in Air Force graduation speech. Washington Post, May 23, 2012). 

I also made other warnings about him at www.cogwriter.com that came to pass.

Barack Obama needs our prayers.  The Apostle Paul wrote:

1 Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth (1 Timothy 2:1-4).

Without national repentance, the United States is doomed for destruction--and it may now be too late for that.  The focus needs to be on turning to the God of the Bible and not simply on the hope that some politician will somehow stave off economic disaster for any number of years while ignoring the nation’s sins.

But irrespective of what he does or does not do, because of the timing of his presidency, it appeared to me years ago that (probably inadvertently) Barack Obama would help set the stage for the ecumenical King of the North, the Muslim King of the South, and even (though more indirectly) the final ecumenical one known as Antichrist. And for those first two, and in other ways, he has definitely done that.

In many ways, Barack Obama is prophetic--but he is not the final Antichrist.

You obviously already have concerns about the USA, if you can handle the truth about what is coming, please get Barack Obama, Prophecy, and the Destruction of the United States-Second Edition for Second Obama Term.

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