Like most Americans, I was glued to the computer monitor (our family doesn’t have a television) watching live coverage of the presidential election returns until the election was called in favor of Barack Obama.
Okay, I’ll be honest. My flesh-man wanted Romney to win, since I felt that he’d be better for the economy and for my personal pocketbook. Conversely, my spirit man knew that this nation had done nothing to deserve a reprieve from the divine judgments that are coming against it for turning its back on YHVH. As a nation, we have largely rejected Elohim and biblical values. Remember the sound bite from the Democratic Convention where the crowd booed and rejected adding to its party platform “the idea of faith and belief in God” (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cncbOEoQbOg)? This nation has not repented of its apostasy. There has been no mass (or even minor) return to YHVH and to his Word as our guiding light and spiritual standard. No major leaders calling for true repentance. And so on. Only divine judgments will bring a nation to repentance. Show me any place in the Scriptures with the possible exception of Nineveh where revival came to a nation without judgments first occurring? To wit, just study the book of Judges! This being the case, I knew that we deserved four more years of a man that YHVH will use to spank America for its spitting in his face.
We must ask ourselves, what will bring America to its knees? Nine-eleven didn’t. Neither did Katrina, nor record droughts and floods, nor fires, nor, most recently, Superstorm Sandy. Only when the golden calf of our prosperity comes down in a major way (even worse than 2008) will proud America fall to its knees—at least as I see it. The economy is that one thing that affects us all. Terrorist events, storms, droughts and fires only affect some of us. It’s always the other guy. With the economy, it’s all of us equally (more or less). Obama is the man for the job! He’s all about destroying our economy: carbon sequestration and credits, increased taxation, socialized healthcare, destroying attempts to develop our vast energy reserves, deficit spending and so on. All these things, along with natural disasters and terrorist attacks and the like will help to lower the standard of living of this nation by destroying our economy and bringing an end to the easy life as we know it, which will cause us all great woe and cause—at least some of us—to cry out to our Creator for reason of our sufferings. A pessimistic outlook, you say? Yes, but this could actually be a good thing if it leads to spiritual revival, which is optimistic!
It is my opinion that Obama and his crew will be the ones to help bring YHVH’s judgments upon this nation. And, to be sure, we, as a nation, deserve a sound thrashing at the hands of the Holy One of Israel for soundly rejecting him and his rule over us!
When Obama was running for president against Hillary back in 2006 and 2007, it seemed certain that Hillary would win the Democratic Party’s nomination. After all, who was this Barack Obama, who had ever heard of him, and what were his credentials and what had he ever done to qualify to be the president? However, in 2007 at Sukkot Northwest in Gold Beach, Oregon before a crowd of about 100 people, I predicted that Obama would win, since it fit the biblical pattern for YHVH’s judgment against America. At that time, I was teaching on Edom, and showing how YHVH historically had used Edom and its friends to punish the Israelites to bring them back to him. In Jewish thought to this day, Edom is a metaphor for any nation that YHVH will use to punish the Israelite people for their apostasy. Well, Edom is another way of saying Islam. Need I say any more about the connections between Obama and Islam? (For more on this subject, read my article entitled, “Is America in End-Times Bible Prophecy” which I published in 2007 (http://www.hoshanarabbah.org/pdfs/america.pdf).
And now for the clincher that pretty well convinced me that Obama would be re-elected this time around.
Remember the famous Gog and Magog prophecy of Ezekiel 38 and 39? Many of us believe that this is an end-times Bible prophecy that is yet to be fulfilled, and which will occur just prior to the second coming. (For those astute prophecy students, another completely different Gog-Magog event occurs at the end of the Millennium, see Rev 20:7–10.) Well guess what? (drum role) In Ezekiel 38:2, the name Obama is spelled in Hebrew letters forward every seven letters starting with the Hebrew word n’sey, which ends in the letter aleph, which I assume in this case is silent. (If I am wrong on this, someone please correct me.) This last letter (ie., aleph) is the first letter of Obama’s name spelled in Hebrew (every seven letters) like this: aleph, vav, bet, aleph, mem, heh.
Is this a Bible prophecy that Obama will be president during the Gog-Magog event, which is one of the precursor events to the return of Yeshua? You tell me!
How do you know Rev 20:7-10 are a different Gog and Magog event? I know it’s because you think the millennium has not begun, but what in the Bible tells us Ezekiel’s prophecy is NOT after the thousand years too?
Thank you Steve for your excellent question.
For years, I believed that the two Gog-Magog events of Ezek 38 and 39 and that of Rev 20 were contemporaneous. However, a more careful study of the Ezek passage convinced me otherwise.
The Ezek Gog-Magog event occurs within the context of all the tribes of Israel being regathered to the Promised Land in the end times — something that has to occur for the promises of the Bible to be fully fulfilled including those of the Abrahamic Covenant, and something that is yet to occur. This event is referred to in Jewish thought as the Final Redemption, or some more recently have called it the Second or Final Exodus.
Several years ago, I studied every scripture of the Bible pertaining to this event and based on my findings, I found that the Second Exodus regathering of the tribes of Israel to their Promised land — though it has been an ongoing process going on for at least 100 years starting in 1917 with the Jews (Judah) — largely occurs just prior to, during and just after the second coming of Yeshua the Messiah. It stretches credulity to think that this process will take 1000 years, and will occur toward the end of the Millennium.
The Ezekiel Gog-Magog passages that speak of the Second Exodus are Ezek 38:8,12,14 and Ezek 39:25–29.
I hope that helps to answer the question.
Comparing the acrostic 22 of the OT to the 44th president of USA necessitates a position of seeing this country as a NEW ‘Promised Land’ with the Doubled Blessing! eh?
I wish I could believe that you were right, but my faith isn’t quite there yet. I’m thinking that the 22 and 44 are more coincidental than anything and entirely unrelated.
These ‘times’ get rather exciting, don’t they? I’ve been listening to the “4 blood moons” from NASA and Hagee,
besides still reflecting on The Harbinger and the G.W. bushes..
Don’t mean to beat a dead horse, but check this out…
http://www.cswnet.com/~duxrow/acrostic.htm#wh44
Interesting stuff.
Since you seem to know a lot about scriptures, I’d like your opinion on this http://artaxes.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/the-mystery-of-bagog-2/
I quickly read over your piece about Bagog and Magog. Thank you for sharing. You may be on to something here. You certainly have done a lot of thoughtful research and seem to be connecting some dots.
Although I’m not an expert on this subject, and have not done my own thorough study on it, there can be no doubt that Gog and Magog pertains to that region of the world to which you make reference. It’s also interesting that you identify Bagog and Magog to the that part of Turkey that is near or on the border with Syria and Iraq, each of which is a powder keg ready to be ignited that could launch the world into WWIII. What can we do but to watch and pray as Yeshua instructed?
Thank you, for your quick and kind response.
Based on the founding of Israel in 1948 many believe, that we are living in end times.
That may be true or not. But if it is true, then the things that are brewing in the Middle East now, make a lot of sense and are perfectly in alignment with prophecies like Ezekiel 38 and 39.
I believe, that this region is going to explode. The islamic world is fighting at the moment over who will lead them.
There are basically three contestants: Egypt, Turkey and Iran, all of them once great empires, all of them with great ambition to restore their former glory.
Many believe, that Magog is Russia but the arguments they make are not convincing to me.
Sorry for the multiple posts, but my browser had a problem.
There may be better arguments to support this theory and I have not nearly enough knowledge of the scriptures or of history to rule that out, but the arguments they bring forth so far are really weak.
Anyway, my intention was not to disprove this theory but to share what I have found by accident in the hope that people with knowledge would pursue it further.
All the countries mentioned by Ezekiel are today islamic countries. And all of them hate Israel and the Jews with a passion.
In contrast to the Russians they have the perfect motive to attack Israel.
So I expect Magog to be an islamic country which will lead the rest of them into battle.
Based on Ezekiel I would guess it will be Turkey (possibly with parts of Syria and Iraq).
What we can do is, repend, help our neighbours, do good works, fight for freedom and justice and search for the truth because the truth shall set us free.
But in the end, the future is not in our hand.
In the end my speculations might be just that: speculations.
There is only one who knows the future and it is He who created this world.
Again, I want to thank you for taking the time to read my article.
We don’t know whether King Hezekiah suspected that his illness would lead to his death, when Isaiah arrived to tell him, and then later to confirm the added fifteen years by the shadow of the changing time.. However, when 15 years are added to the Y2K period, it may signify a reason why the 2016 election won’t develop! You think?