Now that we have both a new US President and a new Pope, it seems like a good time to assess where we stand regarding the arrival of the biblical End Times. What follows is my crude effort to do so.
Chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation speaks of two beasts, one who rises up out of the sea and one who comes up out of the earth. Most people associate them with a political entity and a religious entity respectively, personified by a figure called the Antichrist and another called the False Prophet.
The United States of America is a political entity which rose up out of the sea. Prior to the age of air travel, almost every person who came to this nation of immigrants came by boat. To the natives we seemed literally to be a beast rising up from the sea, as suggested by this description given by Tenskwatawa, brother of Tecumseh:
"The Americans come from the slime of the sea, with mud and weeds in their claws, and they are a kind of crayfish serpent whose claws grab in our earth and take it from us."
This beast has a number, and it is the number of a man. It is commonly believed the name "America" is derived from a man's name, Amerigo Vespucci.
The number "666" is usually associated with this beast and his name, but the number contained in the earliest known papyrus is "616" (the letters which look like "XIC" in the third line of the figure below). It may be just coincidence, but if you add up the number of letters in the names of the persons (individuals and states) which appear at the bottom of the US Constitution, the number is exactly 616. Could that be the number of his (America's) name?
Chapter 17 of the Book of Revelation describes the Antichrist as a king "that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition". As I have written before, the Romans had a tradition of opening a symbolic Gate of Hell (the Mundus Cereris) three days every year, including November 8. The US Presidents who were elected on November 8 are the following:
- Abraham Lincoln (first term)
- Grover Cleveland
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (first term)
- John F. Kennedy
- George Herbert Walker Bush
- Donald J. Trump (first term)
Since Trump's two terms were not consecutive, he literally was, then was not, then became the eighth king, and is of the seven. Is this also just coincidence?
Chapter 13 also suggests the Antichrist will survive a deadly wound to the head, and this is something which could be said of Trump following the assassination attempt in Butler, PA.
At the time the US Constitution was signed, Benjamin Franklin was a political and scientific luminary who appears to have been playing the role of False Prophet. One of the things we all were taught about him was that he brought fire down from heaven in the sight of men (his experiments with electricity), similar to what it says in Chapter 13 of the Book of Revelation.
The person who seems to be playing a similar role today is Elon Musk, whose SpaceX launches huge rockets which are then brought back to earth in a fiery display and caught before they hit the ground.
And is it just a coincidence that both Trump and Musk have come to power in an era which seems to be witnessing the rise of an AI-Assisted Antichrist? I think not:
https://sainthoward.blogspot.com/2025/04/an-ai-assisted-antichrist.html
Another potential False Prophet is Peter Thiel, who has been giving lectures about the Antichrist, allegedly to forestall arrival of the evil one. What's he really doing? Hard to tell:
So ... have we entered the End Times, with the above mentioned persons (knowingly or unwittingly) playing key roles? It's up to all of us to decide for ourselves what to believe. But I urge everyone to at least entertain the possibility that what the Bible predicts can literally take place just as it is written.
The hardest part in the era of "deep fakes" is to determine what is real and what is fantasy. Satan is a real trickster, isn't he? He makes you believe evil is good, down is up, and G-d doesn't exist. Will you let him trick you, too?
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