by Michael G. Mickey
(10-9-09)

Do I even have to say what I think about President Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize, particularly in the aftermath of his recent speech at the United Nations General Assembly during which he threw the nation of Israel under the bus, which was being driven by the terrorist-loving, America-hating Palestinians? Probably not but I'm going to.

Soon after the president's speech was completed, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolten was interviewed on the Fox News Channel and said what a number of others have since, namely that Obama effectively gave the Muslim world precisely what it wanted when he told Israel to end its "occupation" of Palestinian lands, a move anyone with a pulse and a few living brain cells should've known would only embolden the Palestinians to sow strife and contention in the Middle East, hardly a move that encouraged peace or Obama receiving an award for promoting peace, but I'm going to leave that lie for now, at least for a few paragraphs.

The news of Obama's prize is both disgusting and laughable, all of this reveling in his greatness occurring in spite of the fact he has accomplished so little (of positive noteworthiness at least) that even Saturday Night Live, a show that appears on what I refer to as the president's official network (NBC), is beginning to crack jokes at his expense!

I'd probably be more irritated at the absolutely nonsensical notion that Barack Obama has made the world a more peaceful place were it not for the fact former president Jimmy Carter and terrorist Yasser Arafat each won the same honor in the past, proving that most any liberal (or terrorist apparently) qualifies to receive one. This is apparently especially true if one is an enemy of Israel, whether by spoken word or deed.

Has Obama encouraged peace or spawned conflict?

In the aftermath of Obama's recent UN General Assembly speech, I wondered how much harm he'd done to Israel, not how much more likely peace was to becoming a reality in the troubled Middle East and just look at what's gone on in Jerusalem since then. Rioting, rioting and more rioting!

WorldNetDaily's Aaron Klein posted the following on October 6, ironically a mere 72 hours before President Obama received a prize for promoting peace:

The riots actually began two weeks ago, immediately following a three-way meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Obama and the PA's Abbas. Obama had hoped the meeting would initiate Israeli-Palestinian negotiations aimed at creating a Palestinian state within two years.

During his speech to the U.N. General Assembly days before the Mount riots, Obama used strongly worded language to call for the creation of a "viable, independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967."

The term "occupation" routinely is used by the Palestinians as well as some countries hostile to the Jewish state in reference to Israel's presence in the West Bank and Jerusalem. It is unusual for U.S. presidents to use the term, although former President Jimmy Carter once famously called Israel's presence in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem "illegal."

Barack Obama, a Nobel Peace Prize winner! God help us!

World Reaction To Obama Prize

From The Christian Science Monitor:

"Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama only nine months into his term brought surprise and delight in many parts of the world – for those who see it as a broad marker of hope and future global harmony at a time when wars and rumors of wars are deeply troubling."

Matthew 24:6: 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.

Israel's Misplaced Trust

We all know, through Daniel 9:26-27, that the nation of Israel is someday going to misplace its trust by permitting the prophesied Antichrist to confirm (or make strong) a seven-year covenant of peace in the Middle East, the likelihood of which seems to be rising all the time based on the reaction Israeli president Shimon Peres had upon hearing of Obama's Nobel win. The Jerusalem Post is quoting Peres as writing the following in a congratulatory letter to President Obama:

"Very few leaders if at all were able to change the mood of the entire world in such a short while with such profound impact. You provided the entire humanity with fresh hope, with intellectual determination, and a feeling that there is a Lord in heaven and believers on earth."

I can only speak for myself on this matter, but I had a lot more than a "feeling" there was a Lord in heaven long before Barack Obama and his merry band of communists, fascists and perverts made their way to Washington.

As for Shimon Peres' comment posted above that Barack Obama provided him with a feeling that there are "believers on earth", I have to nod my head in agreement. I also got the feeling there were believers on earth but I was left wondering where in the heck they were on November 4th 2008 that a man with a past as sordid as Barack Obama's could be elected President of the United States of America!

Another notable response to President Obama's big moment came from Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak who said, "I believe the Nobel Prize will empower President Barack Obama in his efforts to bring regional peace to the Middle East, as well as to an agreement between ourselves and the Palestinians, resulting in peace and prosperity for all the nations in the region."

I hate to say it as a member of the Church trying to stand in opposition to the spiritual darkness of our times but it appears Israel's leadership is swiftly nearing the collective mentality necessary to receive the prophesied Antichrist, if it isn't there already.

About the Antichrist

Is there any chance that Barack Hussein Obama will play a role in bringing the prophesied 7-year covenant of peace to the Middle East detailed in Daniel 9:27? Sure, but the Quartet of the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations is still intact and a factor that can't be overlooked, the precise purpose of that group's creation having been to put the European Union, the revived Roman empire of bible prophecy, in the driver's seat where Middle East diplomacy is concerned, as highlighted in a Jerusalem Post commentary well worth reading:

The road map was issued in March 2003 by the Quartet, which was formed by the Bush administration to provide European states with a formal peacemaking role in exchange for gaining their support for the Iraq War.

The EU being granted a formal peacemaking role in the Middle East isn't a prize I expect the EU to surrender to President Obama, Nobel Peace Prize or no prize, especially not now when ratification of its Lisbon Treaty is so near, the result of which is going to be the creation of two powerful EU-wide positions which the European Union hopes is going to give it a far greater role in the world than it has ever had before, a foregone conclusion based on bible prophecy.

Will the prophesied Antichrist begin his rise to becoming a satanically-empowered global dictator from the office of President of the European Union or European Union Foreign Minister? Quite possibly as the new world order the Antichrist is ultimately going to head will be directly tied to the EU, but I'm not dogmatic in believing the Antichrist must hold (or have held) either of those positions as a prerequisite to fulfilling his prophetic role.

Conclusions

That President Obama, depending on one's perspective, has betrayed Israel, increasing rioting and conflict in Jerusalem, and emboldened radical terrorist elements of the Muslim faith worldwide through his policy of battling evil via appeasement and yet won the Nobel Peace Prize is prima facie evidence of how spiritually deluded the world we're living has become. Should the Lord delay His coming, we can expect to see more of the same.

Having said all of the above, if the issues commented on today make you physically ill as they sometimes do me, stock up on Pepto Bismol, Tums, Rolaids, Alka Seltzer and Zantac, but do so while bearing in mind "that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us" in due season. (Romans 8:18)

Keep your eyes on the skies, Church! While there are storm clouds on the horizon, we are someday going to arise above them --- in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye no less!