Barack Obama: The hope of the entire world?

by Michael G. Mickey
(2-25-08)

I've read many commentaries about Barack Obama wherein he's been hailed as Messiah-like, even documenting supporters of his fainting in the evangelistic-like atmosphere that apparently manifests itself at his campaign rallies. I've even seen video of the latter but nothing I've seen thus far concerns me more where this Democratic candidate for president may lead this nation if elected than what I read just this morning.

Fox News is reporting the following, in part (emphasis added mine):

In his first major public address since a cancer crisis, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan said that presidential candidate Barack Obama is the “hope of the entire world” that the U.S. will change for the better. The 74-year-old Farrakhan, former leader of the black Muslim group, never endorsed Obama outright, but spent much of his nearly two-hour speech Sunday to an estimated crowd of 20,000 people praising the Illinois senator.

“This young man is the hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better,” he said. “This young man is capturing audiences of black and brown and red and yellow. If you look at Barack Obama’s audiences and look at the effect of his words, those people are being transformed.”

Farrakhan compared Obama to the religion’s founder, Fard Muhammad, who also had a white mother and black father.

“A black man with a white mother became a savior to us,” he told the crowd of mostly followers. “A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.”

For those unfamiliar with the Nation of Islam and Farrakhan, I assure you that his endorsement of Obama is anything but a good sign for our nation if he should win the White House as the agenda of the Nation of Islam, under the direct leadership of Farrakhan until recently, is well known.

The Nation of Islam, according to the Southern Law Poverty Center for example, is listed as a black separatist hate group.

Here's how the Southern Law Poverty Center defines a black separatist hate group:

Black separatists typically oppose integration and racial intermarriage, and they want separate institutions — or even a separate nation — for blacks. Most forms of black separatism (or black nationalism) are strongly anti-white and anti-Semitic, and a number of religious versions assert that blacks — not Jews — are the Biblical "chosen people" of God.

Although the Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes that much black racism in America is, at least in part, a response to centuries of white racism, it believes racism must be exposed in all its forms. White groups espousing beliefs similar to black separatists would be considered clearly racist. The same criteria should be applied to all groups regardless of their color.

Louis Farrakhan has a record of bigotry and hatred that is well-established, as seen in the following excerpt from an Anti-Defamation League article:

Farrakhan’s bigoted and anti-Semitic rhetoric has included statements calling whites “blue eyed devils” and Jews “bloodsuckers” that controlled the slave trade, the government, the media and various Black individuals and organizations. In 2006, he blamed Jews and Israel for the war in Iraq, for controlling Hollywood and for promoting what he considers immorality during his February Saviours' Day address in Chicago.

Farrakhan's nod of approval to Obama should raise red flags for Christians because of all of the above, particularly at this hour in our nation's history when its support of the nation of Israel is beginning to waver.

If Louis Farrakhan thought for one second that Barack Obama would be a friend of Israel he never would've called him the "hope of the entire world." Am I off-base in suggesting that? Interestingly, today I read that Barack Obama's top adviser, Samantha Power, said the following in a 2002 interview concerning what needs to be done to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (emphasis added mine):

"[It will] mean sacrificing - or investing, I think, more than sacrificing - billions of dollars, not in servicing Israel's military, but actually investing in the new state of Palestine, in investing the billions of dollars it would probably take, also, to support what will have to be a mammoth protection force, not of the old Rwanda kind, but a meaningful military presence."

A Haaretz article documenting those comments credits Noah Pollack, a writer for Commentary magazine, with making sense of what Power is in favor of.

Pollack, according to Haaretz, very reasonably interpreted Power's words as "an expression of support for a "ground invasion of Israel and the Palestinian territories."" Pollack believes this to be the case because of the words mammoth protection force. Me, however? I think it's quite possible that Samantha Power is envisioning something taking place in the region very familiar to what Bible prophecy tells us is ultimately going to come to pass in the troubled Middle East - the advent of the Antichrist through a confirmation of peace in the region.

Daniel 9:26-27 tells us a prince (or leader) of Roman descent is going to confirm (or make strong) a seven-year covenant of peace in the Middle East between Israel and her enemies. He will do so "with many" assisting him, something which I think it's fair to say, based on Samantha Power's previous statements made on the topic, a Barack Obama Louis Farrakhan-endorsed White House may be willing to accommodate, particularly at this hour when, as I documented recently, Israel is considering creating a situation that would require a Daniel 9:26-27-style scenario to occur to end conflict there.

A day when Jerusalem will place its trust in someone it never should've is coming and Scripture, as plainly as I can tell, foretells a time in the Tribulation Period to come when what once may have been considered a "mammoth protection force" will be discovered to be anything but that!

Luke 21:20-24:

And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.

For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.

And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

That Barack Obama is being hailed as the "hope of the entire world" by purveyors of hate like Louis Farrakhan with women passing out right and left at his campaign rallies as some liken him to a savior of sorts doesn't sit well with me for all the obvious reasons. That someone who has an ideology that could lead an Obama-led White House to be among the "many" of Daniel 9:27 shakes me to the core because I would hate to think that the United States of America, in any scenario, might play a role in permitting the advent of the Antichrist to occur. What disturbs me most of all, however? It isn't any of the above.

What rattles my cage terribly is knowing where the real hope for the entire world lies, in the person of Jesus Christ our Lord, and watching as the world looks for answers everywhere other than Him, for the most part at least.

If by chance Barack Obama is elected president of the United States, I sincerely hope that my concerns will prove to be unwarranted and he will prove to be a fantastic leader. Right now, however, after hearing of Louis Farrakhan endorsing him? It's enough to make Hillary Clinton look a better option!

Even so, come quickly Lord Jesus!

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