Obama...The Antichrist? Isn't that a little far fetched?

You will have to excuse the length of this post. I tried to break it up into 3 separate posts but it messed up the formatting. So feel free to let your attention wander and come back when you're ready. :-)

It has been interesting for me over the last 2 months to hear all of the divides that are now happening in our society, particularly over Barak Obama. I have heard stories and scriptures quoted from people who believe Barak Obama to be the Antichrist. I have thought long and hard about what to think of him. I'm sure that he is trying to be a good husband and father. I'm sure that in his own mind, he probably has the best interest of the American People at heart, even though his methods may be critically flawed. But the Antichrist? Isn't that a stretch...Well...I have come to the conclusion that he IS an Antichrist....not THE Antichrist but yes, an Antichrist. Let me explain...

Webster's Dictionary has 2 definitions of Antichrist:

1. One who denies or opposes Christ.

2. A great antagonist expected to fill the world with wickedness but to be conquered forever by Christ at his second coming.

As far as I know, we as members of the church do not believe in one, specific Antichrist that will appear in the last days and spread wickedness abroad until Christ comes. There are many people who spread dis chord, chaos and confusion that we can call Antichrists. If we look back in the scriptures, there are many...

Sherem (Jacob 7): Declared that there should be no Christ. He was learned, used flattery and much power of speech.

Nehor (Alma 1): Was large and strong. He preached that every priest ought to become popular. He convinced many to pay and support him for his teachings. He was prideful, wore expensive clothing and started his own church.

Korihor (Alma 30) Probably the best known Antichrist. He taught that there is no Christ and called belief in Christ "foolish traditions". He lead the way into wickedness and sin and then taught that there is no sin. He used lying and flattering words to bring "many souls down to destruction.

It is comforting to know that none of these Antichrists prospered in the end. The power of God came over Sherem and he confessed his deceit and lies to the people just before dying. Nehor suffered a shameful death, admitting that he taught words contrary to God. Korihor admitted he was deceived by the devil and was struck dumb, resorting to begging from house to house for food.

We know that in the latter days, things are going to get bad...really, really bad before the second coming of Christ. Sometimes, I think we are concerned about it but don't know what to do. Sometimes I think we gradually get acclimated to wickedness as a survival method...just another abused child or murder on the news, just another bill to get gay marriage legalized, just another Supreme Court ruling in favor of Roe vs Wade. It freaks us out (ok, it freaks ME out) to think of the world my children are living in and the "not for the better" changes that are occurring all around us. So I try not to think about it. I think Satan knows that. It's the frog in the hot water thing. Let's warm the people up and then sock it to them when they're not looking. How much will they put up with before coming to their senses and acting (jumping out of the pot).

After several long and very controversial wars, I think it was "the right time" for the "hope and change" methodology. Obama appeared, the perfect example of a well-spoken soothe-say er who lulls the people to his side and to his support. He takes the disheartened and downtrodden and "gives them hope" by telling them what they want to hear and making promises that "his way" will be better. Statements and promises...such as...

Quote #1: I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.

Reality: See the Glenn Beck clip below to see the graph depicting the staggering amounts of money President Obama has spent since taking office 2 months ago. We're printing money like we had it!



Quote #2: I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

Reality: Um...unfortunately, this is the reality. He is ALL for gay marriage. Morality, gospel teachings and my own feelings aside....Most people believe in evolution right? Even in the animal world, evolution did not create a single sex species. You don't get babies without both a male and female. It is the same among mammals, reptiles, fish, insects, etc. Ok...maybe not in worms but I don't think they even have brains. So teaching that evolution is correct and normal and then teaching that gay marriage is normal...seems like a contradiction to me. So if President Obama vows to uphold gay marriage for our entire country, I'll bet Satan is doing the happy dance. After all, there is no better way to ruin the sacred family unit than resorting to surrogacy, sperm donors, test tubes, and petrie dishes to create a family and then calling it "normal". Very romantic isn't it? Obama is supporting the agenda to blur gender lines, gender roles and then make it mandatory to teach my children that this "new family unit" is not only ok, but normal. I don't think so.

Quote #3: I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

Reality: I have no problem spreading the wealth around, as long as the people that I'm sharing it with are trying their best to pull their weight to the best of their personal ability. This is why the church's welfare system works so well. In November 1995, Bill Clinton met with President Hinckley to discuss why we were so successful. As a result, Clinton made great changes to the welfare system and overall, made those utilizing government welfare service more accountable. Obama is now making it easier for people to have "idle hands" because those that have "working hands" will take care of it for you. Unbelievable! So, how accurate are all of these statements? Is this what Obama really thinks about redistribution of wealth? Just ask Joe the Plumber.

What do our church leaders tell us about redistribution of wealth by taxation? President David O. McKay said:

Men and women who live in America, "the land of Zion," have a responsibility greater than that yet borne by any other people. Theirs the duty, the obligation to preserve not only the Constitution of the land but the Christian principles from which sprang that immortal document. The Church does not interfere, and has no intention of trying to interfere, with the fullest and freest exercise of the political franchise of its members, under and within our Constitution. But Communism is not a political party nor a political plan under the Constitution; it is a system of government that is the opposite of our Constitutional government, and it would be necessary to destroy our government before Communism could be set up in the United States. . . . . .[Communism] even reaches its hand into the sanctity of the family circle itself, disrupting the normal relationship of parent and child, all in a manner unknown and unsanctioned under the Constitutional guarantees under which we in America live.

David O. McKay also quoted Thomas Jefferson:

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must take our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and in our comforts, in our labors and in our amusements. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under pretense of caring for them, they will be happy. The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the disposition of public money. We are endeavoring to reduce the government to the practice of rigid economy to avoid burdening the people and arming the magistrate with a patronage of money which might be used to corrupt the principles of our government. . . .

Finally, David O. McKay ended by saying:

Let us, by exercising our privileges under the Constitution—

(1) Preserve our right to worship God according to the dictates of our conscience,

(2) Preserve the right to work when and where we choose. . . .

(3) Feel free to plan and to reap without the handicap of bureaucratic interference.

(4) Devote our time, means, and life if necessary, to hold inviolate those laws which will secure to each individual the free exercise of conscience, the right and control of property, and the protection of life.

This is an excerpt from the Glenn Beck radio program. In it, he plays a small clip from a talk given by Ezra Taft Benson. In it, he talks about meeting with Khrushchev (communist dictator). Pay attention to the timing. Our parents (and some of us) are in the "grandchildren time frame" that Khrushchev speaks of.



Communism is Socialism in practice. How close are we getting? How long will we sit and enjoy our warm bath in the pot before we will realize we're being cooked to death.

Quote #4: I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach the first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake...

You've just got to see this one to believe it!!

What?!?!?! I'm sorry...did he use the phrase "punished with a baby"?!! This is wrong on so many levels. I have known way to many people that would gladly be "punished with a baby". So President Obama is going to teach his daughters about values and morals but not choices, consequences and accountability for those choices? This just shows his absolute disrespect for human life. Ironically, he then later in his speech goes on to say..."No one is pro-abortion". Really? He sounds pretty pro-abortion to me. Someone who can talk so lightly of terminating a human life so as not to "punish" another is not a great person to be charged with taking care of the people of the United States, especially the geriatric and disabled population. What a great thing for Satan to play up on. Again, no better way to attack the family unit than teach that it doesn't matter if you get pregnant...that can be taken care of...no problem. Why be punished? It was just a mistake...an accident. Just get rid of it!...Speaking as one that had to have a "doctor/church approved" termination of a 2nd trimester pregnancy, his attitude offends me more than I can convey in words. His fundamental lack of respect for human life in all capacities is appalling to me.

Quote #5: We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.

On March 11th 2009, he signed the 450 billion dollar omnibus package containing 9000 earmarks. President Obama gave this statement: "Done right, earmarks have given legislators the opportunity to direct federal money to worthy projects that benefit people in their districts. And that's why I've opposed their outright elimination." Yet, when Congress passed off on these 9000 earmarks, he signed it anyway going back on his word. Incidentally, these earmarks included:

$335 million for condoms and sex education but only $24,000 for abstinence programs.

$1.7 million dollars to study pig odors.

$1 Billion for Amtrak when they haven't turned a profit in over 40 years.

$32.8 million to fund projects that promote and maintain the "Kennedy Legacy".

(As a side note, I'm upset about this one mostly because we've had to fork out almost $300 at my daughter's school this year for basics, field work and text books because the funding to her charter school was cut. In my opinion, "why pigs smell" can wait.)

Quote #5: We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.

Great! He's not using the criteria that the judge is honest, fair, will uphold and defend the constitution, will acknowledge the sanctity of life, etc....He's making sure he/she is sympathetic to a unwed teen mother (who obviously isn't making correct choices), African Americans like himself (but not Asians, Latinos, Russians, Germans, Brits, etc.), gays (making GREAT choices left and right I'm sure), disabled or old. He's obviously addressing people that he thinks are having a hard time. But think....What about someone who will help a young woman who finds out she's pregnant and wants adoption counseling from Planned Parenthood but is only getting referral after referral for abortion clinics. (This happened to me.) What about the single dad on welfare who wants a job but is only being given a check and food stamps each month? We need judges who value life, love, education, industry, thrift, charity, hard work and will uphold the founding father's values because he/she knows that those founding fathers AND their ideas were Divinely inspired by our loving Heavenly Father. Then, then rest fits into the mold. Not the other way around.

So do we really think that there are people who want us to be a socialist country? Other countries have used us as an example of how democracy and government should be. Well, on March 6th, 2009 Hugo Chavez said this, "Come with us, align yourself, come with us on the road to socialism. This is the only path. Imagine a socialist revolution in the United States,". Surely, he jests! The Lord's people, join a ruthless dictator who oppresses his own people? I think he's huffed to many gas fumes.

So what do our prophets say about the socialist direction in which we are heading? What is their opinion on the consequences that will follow? Prophet Ezra Taft Benson gave a talk in 1977. It is about 14 minutes long, so listen when you have time. But it is well worth the time.

Part 1 of 2



Part 2 of 2 - You need only listen to the first 50 seconds but the rest is very interesting too.





I think it is important to remember a couple of things. Satan was a very smooth eloquent talker. He advertised his plan as one that would ensure our return to God. After all, this is something we all wanted, right? We would reap the benefits of being told what, when and how to do the things that would ensure our return to our Heavenly Father. He was so smooth in fact, he led 1/3 of our brothers and sisters away with him. He was so persuasive that not even the physical presence of our Father could deter them. Being compelled, forced, coerced is NOT the Lord's way. It is Satan's way. Liberty and agency are the Lord's way.

The path that we are on currently in our country is NOT the Lord's way. As long as we sit idly by and let it happen, we will reap the fruits of Satan's plan. We may "all become equal" but do we really want to be equal with those who chose to wallow in the mire? Do we want to forcefully steal from another to give ourselves increase, as though it is some kind of "right"? Prosperity comes through hard work, thrift, education and industry. These are celestial laws. These are the values that our founding fathers built upon to ensure our basic freedom from tyranny, freedom to worship our own God and help us aspire to be greater. To lift ourselves up by our own boots straps and work hard and by doing this, we will be greater individuals and greater as a people, greater as a nation.

Something also to remember is that the law of consecration and the redistribution of wealth is not the same thing. The United Order is not the same thing as what President Obama is trying to sell us. The United Order is voluntary, not mandatory. We have always tried to take care of our poor and needy because it is the right thing to do. But in order for it to work, EVERYONE must participate willingly. It is fundamentally wrong to imagine someone saying, "You have worked too hard and made too much money. You're just too rich. So I'm going to take some of it and give it to this woman over here to has 6 kids and just had another 8. What? You were going to send your children/grandchildren to college? Well too bad. You have too much and she has 14 children, living with her mom and no way to support herself or those kids. What? No, she doesn't have a job but why should that matter? She's in need and you have too much."

So...now that I have wriled you all up :-) . . . Bringing it home, an antichrist is someone who fights again Christ and what he stands for. Stealing, killing and lying are not things that Christ condoned, but the ideas that are coming forward now, not just from Obama but also some members of Congress, are anti-christ in nature. Therefore, in my opinion, President Barak Obama is an antichrist. So what do we do? I have my own theories but I think sometimes it's more beneficial to come up with a support network, a sounding board that we can bounce ideas off each other. You may post them in the comments, or you can email me at corinne@fugalfamily.com. My next post will be a collage of all of your ideas.

In the meantime....PRAY PRAY PRAY that President Obama will be the kind of leader that we can be proud to associate ourselves with. He is an elected servant, pray that he remembers that.