Dear Rev. Londa Picard, on May 18, 2009. Prophecy Pitfall #5 -- American Antichrist Guess who the newest candidate for Antichrist is these days? Ever since he gained attention for his run for the US Presidency, Barack Obama has been speculated about. Not surprisingly, leaders of the most powerful nation in the world have always been candidates. John F. Kennedy, Ronald Wilson Reagan (six letters per name...666!), and Bill Clinton have all captured the imagination of Antichrist sleuths. When you see how easy it is to rule out such candidates you will be amazed. All it takes is a single verse from arguably the most famous prophecy in the Bible, Daniel's 70 Weeks: Daniel 9:26 (HCSB) -- After those 62 weeks the Messiah will be cut off and will have nothing. The people of the coming prince will destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end will come with a flood, and until the end there will be war; desolations are decreed. Who is the prince referred to here? You may have heard the idea that the prince is the Messiah. But the next verse says this prince stops the sacrifices and causes the Abomination of Desolation. If you think the Messiah accomplished this (on the cross), you only need check Daniel 11:28-32 for more details about the culprit. That passage shows that a wicked, corrupting man called the future King of the North does it. He is also commonly referred to as "the Antichrist". It says that this prince is of the people who came and destroyed the Second Temple. Every Bible student knows the Roman Empire destroyed the temple in 70 AD to fulfill this prophecy. In other words, the Antichrist must come out of one of those nations. While England was indeed one of them, America was not even a country yet. So America is ruled out. Some would say Barack Obama's mother was Scottish so that qualifies him. But having British or Roman Empire heritage is not what is specified here. It says the Antichrist is a prince or ruler of a Roman Empire nation. Barack Obama is a ruler of America and that disqualifies him as an Antichrist candidate. And this also disqualifies all American politicians as Antichrist candidates. Who is the Antichrist? I do not know. There is a candidate alive today that seems to fit. I have an article by Monte Judah who applied Revelation 13 literally to come up with him. You can read his article here to consider it yourself:http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/prince-charles-antichrist.htm Stay tuned for the next installment, where I cover Pitfall #4 of using the Parable of the Fig Tree to predict the year of the Second Coming... Tim McHyde Author of Know the Future http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/PO Box 120-2070, Sabanilla, San Jose 2070, COSTA RICA701-205-4168