He’s not one who transcended but one who is Pretending!
King Obama Looks Down FROM ABOVE on His Erring Children,
Gazing down on all his poor little Lambs who have gone Astray,
While he presents to Israelites his master plan for their Slaughter,
But for us mortals Obama’s One of the World’s Historical Pretenders,
And one of the kings of the earth, not the king God set on his Holy Hill!
Obama is Currently Setting a Stage for the Following Sequence of Events,
That I Think Quite Likely to BEGIN at A Point in Time Between 2010 & 2015!
Psalm 2:1-6 – Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing
? [2] The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying, [3] Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. [4] He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have
them in derision. [5] THEN SHALL HE SPEAK UNTO THEM IN HIS WRATH, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
[6] YET HAVE I SET MY KING UPON MY HOLY HILL OF ZION.
I Thessalonians 5:3,4 – For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. [4] But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.
Zechariah 13:8 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein
shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Revelation 16:16 – And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
Psalm 2:5 – THEN SHALL HE SPEAK TO THEM IN HIS WRATH, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
Zechariah 13:9 – And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.
Psalm 2:6 – YET HAVE I SET MY KING UPON MY HOLY HILL OF ZION.
Zechariah 14:9 – And the Lord shall be king over all the earth: in that day shall there be one Lord, and his name one.
Romans 11:26,27 – And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, THEIR SHALL COME OUT OF SION THE DELIVERER, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob: [27] For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
Charles Krauthammer, Caroline Glick, and Barry Rubin are, in my opinion, the best three writers and analysts on political events as they affect Israel.
June 15, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Begin Excerpt from the Boston Herald
From above, Obama looks down on U.S.
By Charles Krauthammer
Sunday, June 14, 2009
http:www.bostonherald.com
Op-Ed
WASHINGTON – When President Obama returned from his first European trip, I observed that while over there he had been “acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray mediating” between America and the world.
Now that Obama has returned from his “Muslim world” pilgrimage, even the left agrees. “Obama’s standing above the country, above – above the world. He’s sort of God,” Newsweek’s Evan Thomas said to a concurring Chris Matthews, reflecting on Obama’s lofty perception of himself as the great transcender.
Not that Obama considers himself divine.
(He sees himself as merely messianic, or, at worst, apostolic.) But he does position himself as hovering above mere mortals, mere country, to gaze benignly upon t
he darkling plain beneath him where ignorant armies clash by night, blind to the common humanity that only he can see. Traveling the world, he brings the gospel of understanding and godly forbearance.
We have all sinned against each other.
We must now look beyond that and walk together to the sunny uplands of comity and understanding. He shall guide you.
Thus:
(A) He told Iran that, on the o
ne hand, America once helped overthrow an Iranian government, while on the other hand “Iran has played a role in acts of hostage-taking and violence against U.S. troops and civilians.” (Played a role?!) We have both sinned; let us bury the past and begin anew.
(B) On religious tolerance, he gently referenced the Christians of Lebanon and Egypt, then lamented that the “divisions between Sunni and Shia have led to tragic violence” (note the use of the passive voice). He then criticized (in the active voice) Western religious intolerance for regulating the wearing of the hijab – after citing America for making it difficult for Muslims to give to charity.
(C) Obama offered Muslims a careful admonition about women’s rights, noting how denying women education impoverishes a country – balanced, of course, with “meanwhile, the struggle for women’s equality continues in many aspects of American life.”
Well, yes. On the one hand, there certainly is some American university where the women’s softball team has received insufficient Title IX funds – while, on the other hand, Saudi women showing ankle are beaten in the street, Afghan school girls have acid thrown in their faces, and Iranian women are publicly stoned to death for adultery. (Gays, as well – but then again we have Prop 8.) We all have our shortcomings, our national foibles. Who’s to judg
e?
That’s the problem with Obama’s transcultural evenhandedness. It gives the veneer of professorial sophistication to the most simple-minded observation: Of course there are rights and wrongs in all human affairs. Our species is a fallen one.
But that doesn’t mean that these rights and wrongs are of equal weight.
Obama undoubtedly thinks he is demonstrating historical magnanimity with all these moral equivalencies and self-flagellating apologetics. On the contrary. He’s showing cheap condescension, an unseemly hunger for applause and a willingness to distort history for political effect.
Distorting history is not truth-telling, but the telling of soft lies. Creating false equivalencies is not moral leadership, but moral abdication. And hovering above it all, above country and history, is a sign not of transcendence but of a disturbing ambivalence toward one’s own country.
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