Obama coronated Messiah

100 days in office, coronated Messiah
Arms outstretched, he wears crown of thorns on his brow.

Depending upon your social/political/religious view-point, this will be warmly welcomed or extremely offensive. This link and accompanying article are found @ World Net Daily. We may or may not be aware of the scope and ramifications of the things that are transpiring in this hour, both nationally and around the world. On the one hand, I do not believe that we can simply hide our heads in the sand so to speak, and refuse to even look at what is taking place, while on the other, we must remain mindful of the FACT that these things must come to pass, disagreeable though they may be. What is taking place is happening on a global scale, and not limited to any one nation or people. It affects everyone, whether we like it or not.

We already know that the enemy of us all is the 'prince of the power of the air,' Ephesians 2:2-3 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. We should be cognizant of the fact that we are living according to one power or the other... God or the devil. If we are just going along with the course of this world, then we are living our lives according to the prince of the world. The only alternative is to commit to the death of self, (our flesh), and live by the power of the Spirit of God... in this world but not of it.

In previous posts, I have shared where the battleground lies, why we need to die to our flesh, and what the religious community is offering the masses. Placebos and entertainment, rather than requiring repentance and humility before a HOLY GOD.

Matthew 24:4-8 Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows. The rest of the signs given by Jesus are visible as well. What are we going to do, how are we going to respond?

For starters.... Psalms 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

200 years ago Wm. Law said... "The enemies to man’s rising out of the fall of Adam, through the Spirit and power of Christ, are many. But the one great dragon enemy, called antichrist, is self-exaltation. This is his
birth, his pomp, his power, and his throne; when self-exaltation ceases, the last enemy is destroyed, and all that came from the pride and death of Adam is swallowed up in victory.

There has been much sharp looking out, to see where and what antichrist is, or by what marks he may be known. Some say he has been in the Christian world almost ever since the gospel times, nay, that he was even then beginning to appear and show himself. Others say he came in with this or that pope; others that he is not yet come, but near at hand. Others will have it, that he has been here, and there, but driven from one place to another by several new risen Protestant sects.

But to know with certainty, where and what antichrist is, and who is with him, and who against him, you need only read this short description which Christ gives of Himself.
“(1) I can do nothing of Myself.
(2) I came not to do My own will.
(3) I seek not My own glory.
(4) I am meek and lowly of heart.”

Now if this is Christ, then self-ability or self-exaltation, being the highest and fullest contrariety to all this,
must be alone the one great antichrist, that opposes and withstands the whole nature and Spirit of Christ.
What therefore has everyone so much to fear, to renounce and abhor, as every inward sensibility of self-exaltation, and every outward work that proceeds from it."

I pray that we can grasp hold of and come to understand, that the battle-ground lies first and foremost, within our own hearts... who will sit on the throne? The world is going to follow its own course... right up to the consummation of all things. It really doesn't matter whether or not we figure out 'who' the 'anti-christ' is. It matters greatly whether or not we enter in to the 'new life in Christ Jesus' that He is calling us to. Romans 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. (read entire chapter).

Our strength lies in our relationship with the triune Godhead...Isaiah 26:3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

"So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors" Matthew 24:33 . We are seeing the signs Jesus warned us to look for today. We have to make the choice, will we look to men and believe according to the world's ways... or will we believe the first begotten Son of God, and follow Him to the death of self and the new life in Christ? May we choose wisely.