The Death of Christianity

The remains of a church

According to biblical prophecy, the decline and fall of Christianity will be one of the prophetic events that will occur in the end times. Here’s what Jesus Christ predicted concerning the last days directly proceeding His return: “At that time many will turn away from the faith and will betray and hate each other, and many false prophets will appear and deceive many people.” (Matthew 24:10-11)

With that statement, Christ revealed that not only will many abandon true Christianity, but that many others will be led astray by false prophets. Who are these false prophets and what sort of deception will they promote? Christ continued: “At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect--if that were possible. See, I have told you ahead to time.” (Matthew 24:23-25)

And so, Christ revealed that many will abandon the true faith for a counterfeit faith based upon supernatural events and religious experiences. The second half of Christ’s prophecy clearly reveals that there is going to be a religious revival that will spread across the world and be fueled by demonic power under the guise of a Christian revival. But before all this happens, the influence of true Christianity is going to decline and millions are going to abandon the faith.

Is this prophecy being fulfilled? In fact it began its fulfillment in the 19^th century when many European Christian seminaries and theology schools began integrating liberal secularism into their curriculums. That was a direct result of the influence that the French Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment had throughout Europe that caused many to question whether God really existed and if he did, then why did he allow evil to flourish? Liberal theologians began to ask those questions and they began to cast doubt on the authenticity of the Bible as the inerrant word of God and such historical scriptural teachings as the virgin birth of Christ, his divinity, sinless life, miracles and his resurrection from the dead.

The logical result of secularism’s influence on the weak minds of European theologians produced a universal, powerless gospel that emptied the cross of its power and reduced Christ to an ancient Gandhi. Christianity lost its power; Christ became just another religious figure and within a century, the church began losing members by the millions. If Christianity was seen as just one of many world religions, then it was reduced to a Sunday morning cultural expression. Today, most European churches are empty on Sundays except for a few hardy old souls that have remained faithful to the end. But many Europeans under the age of 50 either no longer believe in God, or they believe that he’s some impersonal energy source that exists billions of miles off somewhere in outer space. As such, they view Christianity as an outdated religion that’s no longer relevant to the world.

Europe’s secular influence began contaminating American seminaries by the late 19^th century. Like their European counterparts, American churchmen and theologians began to question and doubt the Bible and the divinity of Christ. By the 20^th century, much of Christendom had lost its focus and was promoting social justice and positive, possibility thinking over the lifesaving gospel of Jesus Christ. In fact, one of the biggest false prophets that became one of the patriarchs of the human potential movement was a man named Norman Vincent Peale who taught that man’s greatest sin was poor self-esteem.

When American denominations began ignoring Christ and denied the miracle-working power of His Holy Spirit, American churches quickly died and lost millions of members. According to Mark Noll’s A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, the membership of America’s mainline denominations declined from 31 million in 1960 to 25 million in 1988. Furthermore, according to Ellen Lindner, (Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches 2009) America’s mainline membership dropped to 21 million by the year 2005. If Noll’s and Lindner’s numbers are correct, America’s mainline denominations lost a whopping 10 million members from 1960 to 2005. And furthermore, according to Barna Research, the total number of American churches declined from approximately 80,000 in the 1950’s to 72,000 by 2008.

While America is still considered to be the most Christian nation on earth, Christianity is waning in the United States, albeit at a slower pace than it declined in Europe. The reason for Christianity’s decline in America is simple and easy to understand; fewer people today believe in the historic, prophetic evidence for Christ as the Son of God and the uniqueness of His Gospel. Thus, the early First Century Church grew on its faith in the absolute truth of God’s word that manifested in signs, wonders and miracle-working power. The early 21^st Century Church declines because it no longer trusts in God’s word and has lost its faith in His power to perform great miracles.

Certainly, of the myriad of reasons why Christianity is in a steep decline in America and throughout most of the world is because the church has lost its love for Christ and has stopped contending for the faith against the spiritual forces of darkness. Biblical Christianity degenerated into religious churchianity and the prevailing fallen culture overtook the cross. When Christ appeared to the apostle John who was in exile from Rome on the island of Patmos, he critiqued seven churches that were located in Asia Minor. He revealed that five of them had compromised their faith and were in jeopardy of being cutoff from God. One of the churches was located in Ephesus and Christ revealed that it had lost its love for God and was just going through the proverbial motions. Christ stated: “You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first! If you do not repent, I will come and remove your lamp-stand from its place.” (Revelation 2:4-5)

Another prophetic event that Jesus revealed will prevail in the end-time world will be the increase of wickedness. (Matthew 24:12) The apostle Paul also prophesied that wickedness would increase exponentially across the world in the last days. (2Timothy 3) There is a direct correlation between the increase in wickedness throughout the world and the decline of Christianity’s influence. And when we speak of wickedness, we also include moral wickedness such as sexual perversion (homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, transgenderism) fornication, adultery, drug and alcohol abuse, idolatry, occultism etc.

Certainly, crime, violence and moral depravity are fractional in many Islamic nations that are ruled by the iron fist of Sharia Law. But Sharia Law restrains by the fear of persecution, torture and death for those who violate Islamic law. Unlike Islam, true Christianity ultimately restrains by changing the human heart through the fear of God and the knowledge of his laws that everyone is accountable to. And unlike Islam, Christianity offers God’s grace to everyone through the eternal pardon for sin in Christ’s death on Calvary’s cross.

The regeneration that the Holy Spirit provides to those who are born into eternal life through Christ is what restrains evil by creating a new person into the image of God through Christ. The Christian church forgot about that a long time ago and it’s been fighting a losing battle ever since. If the empty pews don’t provide a strong clue, then nothing will.

Where You Go, When You Go

                              

Death is one of the great mysteries of life. Since the beginning of time, man has wondered whether life exists beyond the grave. Atheists believe that no life exists beyond the physical realm while many religions teach that life continues on after the physical body expires.

So who's right? The Bible, which has a flawless, evidential, historical-prophetic track record, tells us that "man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment", (Hebrews 9:27) which means that life indeed goes on after physical death. If it doesn't, then that scripture recorded in the Book of Hebrews makes no sense. If there is no life beyond the physical realm, then there isn't any judgment and thus, a despicable mass-murderer such as Adolf Hitler fares no worse in death than Pope John Paul II.

But life indeed exists beyond the grave. Where then do the spirits of the deceased go when they leave their mortal bodies? According to the Bible, they go to one of two destinations; heaven for those who have been born again in Jesus Christ and hell for those who rejected Christ and have died in their sins. But how do we know this? By over 300 specific prophecies recorded in the Bible's Old Testament that revealed Jesus Christ as the Jewish Messiah hundreds and thousands of years before he came. Those prophecies, such as the virgin birth of Christ, (Isaiah 7:14, Eighth Century B.C.) his birthplace in Bethlehem (Micah 5:2, Sixth Century B.C.) and his resurrection from the dead (Psalm 16:10, 1,000 B.C.) all verify Christ's teachings on the absolute reality of heaven and hell.

Interestingly, Christ taught more about the awful reality of hell than he did about heaven. Why? Because hell is a horrible place of damnation and eternal torment. If you've ever experienced a terrible nightmare, hell is far worse than your worst nightmare. It is such a horrible place that a group of demons that Christ drove out of a demoniac one day begged him not to send them there. (Luke 8:30-31) It is a place, according to Christ, of eternal fire and intense pain and suffering. (Mark 9:48) In fact, Christ gave us a glimpse of the horrible reality of hell with his account of a greedy rich man who mocked God and lived a selfish life on earth before he died and was thrown into hell. (Luke 16:19-31)

What is important to understand about Christ's account of the rich man who was thrown into hell is the fact that the man retained all of his mental faculties and physical senses that he possessed while he lived on earth. Oh yes, he also experienced the intense pain of torture from the heat of hell's never-ending fire.

Have you thought about your own mortality? Where do you believe you'll go after you die? Do you believe you'll go to heaven because you've done more good things in your life than bad things? How can you be sure that will get you into heaven? Do you believe you'll go to heaven because you're devoutly religious and faithfully attend a church, mosque or synagogue every week? Again, how does that guarantee you eternal life? Where's the evidence for that?

In fact, no amount of good deeds, charity, or devotion to a religious system will earn you a trip to heaven. If you die in your sins outside of Jesus Christ, you'll spend eternity in the same place where that rich man that Christ spoke of is spending eternity. Heaven isn't about religion--it's about faith in Jesus Christ as the Son of God who died for your sins on Calvary's Cross to keep you out of a horrible place called hell. All you need to do is believe that Christ came into this world to die for your sins; confess that with your mouth and believe that God raised Christ from the dead and you'll be saved. (Romans 10:9-11) It's that easy.

Don't put off that decision, for tomorrow is promised to no one. Make that decision right now and be assured that you'll be spending eternity in the most beautiful place in the universe--a place called heaven. As Christ famously stated: "For God so loved the world that he gave his One and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16) Make that decision right now while you still have the time. You won't regret it.

The Road to Global Government

Gazprom: Russia's plan for global dominance

When the pipe dream of green energy fails to deliver on its promises to rid the world of its dependence on fossil energy, then what happens? This is what happens; the nations that have refused to buy into the Global Warming-Climate Change canard will be in a position to control the world.

Consider Russia, for example. While the Russians are very adept at telling people what they want to hear, they're also adept at doing what's best for themselves. Russian President Vladimir Putin may be a ruthless thug in the eyes of many, but he's also a shrewd man who can quickly size up an opponent and determine just what his opponent is made of. In U.S. President Barack Obama, Putin discovered a political puppet of America's far left who will dance to the left's musical agenda of radical environmentalism, nuclear disarmament and big-centralized government. 

While America's 44th President has dumped several hundred million taxpayer dollars into failed green energy projects such as Solyndra, Beacon Power and Ener1 in an effort to ween America off of fossil energy, Putin has been instrumental in opening up doors for Russian energy giant Gazprom to spread its energy influence across the world. Gazprom is currently the largest supplier of crude oil and natural gas to Eastern Europe and has signed several energy agreements in recent years with nations such as Bolivia, Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, Syria, Vietnam, Brazil, Algeria and Libya.

Gazprom's agreement with Libya was signed in 2008, three years before the so-called "Arab Spring" toppled Libyan dictator Moammar Ghadafi. What's so significant about Libya? Libya is the largest supplier of crude oil to Western Europe. Had the Russians gained control over Libya's oilfields via Gazprom, they would've been in position to control Europe's energy. Perhaps that could explain why Ghadafi was toppled by NATO; to keep the Russians from gaining control of Libya's oil. 

Former President Ronald Reagan warned that the Russians should never be allowed to build their oil pipelines throughout Europe, and he understood why. Energy equals political power, especially when those who supply the energy can use that energy as a weapon for political and economic blackmail. For example, in 2009 when the Ukrainians complained about the price that the Russians were charging them for natural gas, Putin promptly turned off the spigots and plunged the Ukraine into the deep freeze. If the Russians used economic extortion to force the Ukraine to pay its inflated price for gas, they can and will use energy as a political weapon to force nations that rely on Russia for energy to do what Russia demands. And that could very well include forcing NATO member nations to choose between NATO and oil and natural gas.

While the United States currently remains economically and militarily superior to Russia, the Russians are quickly closing the gap. And ominously, the Russians own a significant amount of America's huge $16 trillion debt. And according to the Institute For Energy Research, (IER) the U.S. possesses approximately 1.4 trillion barrels of crude oil beneath its soil and underneath its waters surrounding its coastlines. http://www.prophecyreviewonline.org/apps/articles/default.asp?articleid=79085&columnid=  That crude oil potentially becomes collateral for those U.S. Treasury Bonds the Russians have purchased to finance America's debt.

Nearly 2,600 years ago, two ancient Hebrew prophets named Daniel and Ezekiel prophesied that a powerful nation would arise in the last days that would ultimately lead a world government. Ezekiel named this nation Gog which is an ancient moniker for modern Russia. (Ezekiel 38-39) Daniel described this nation as the kingdom of the North. (Daniel 11) Keep in mind that the Bible's geographical map always places Israel at its center, so a northern nation would be located directly north of Israel. What nation is located north of Israel that is rising rapidly as a world power? It's Russia. Is this a coincidence? Hardly--it's the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. And fossil energy is the fuel that's powering Russia's rise to become the world's next superpower.

A Mormon or an Atheist?

Mitt Romney and Barack Obama

Who would you rather vote for? A man who's a member of a religious organization that's considered one of the largest cults in the world? Or a man who's an atheist who feigns belief in God for political purposes?

America's Marxist media believes that if you consider yourself a Christian, i.e. Protestant, Catholic, Evangelical, non-denominational etc., then you'd prefer to vote for an atheist such as Barack Obama rather than a Mormon such as Mitt Romney. Oh sure, Obama claims to be a Christian and he attempts to back that up with his 20-year membership in the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church which is located on Chicago's South Side. But Trinity United Church is also a cult; an epicenter of racist, separatist Black Liberation theology spewed by the arch-racist Rev. Wright. 

Obama became a member of Wright's church not because he was seeking eternal life through a close relationship with Jesus Christ, but rather because he was seeking a place to justify and encourage his own bigotry and racism. Trinity United and its incendiary pastor Rev. Wright became the perfect fit for the ambitious young politician who was looking to build himself a constituency of angry people who would embrace his class warfare rhetoric. It was Adolf Hitler who famously stated that people unite around hatred instead of love, and in the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama found the perfect mentor to teach him just how to accomplish that. Wright's virulently racist, anti-Semitic and anti-American venom schooled Obama on just who to blame for the failure of many blacks to climb America's social-economic ladder.

Some believe that Obama's a closet Muslim who hopes to supersede the U.S. Constitution with Shariah Law someday in America. They base that belief upon Obama's childhood in Indonesia and his virulent hatred of Israel. But Obama's professed support for abortion, homosexuality and gay marriage rules him out as a Muslim. And his contempt for true Christians who have a biblical worldview rules him out as a Christian. He is an atheist who embraces a Darwinian-Marxist worldview behind a "Christian" facade.

The American media doesn't want you to know that. They believe that true Christians won't support a Mormon for the U.S. presidency. And certainly, some won't. But John F. Kennedy's Roman Catholicism didn't prevent him from being elected to the presidency in 1960, and the Roman Catholic Church is every bit a religious cult as Romney's Church of Latter Day Saints. The U.S. media have planned an information blitz on Mormonism in the upcoming weeks to discourage true Christians from voting for Romney. They believe that if mainstream Christians learn about Mormonism, they'll reject Romney and vote to reelect Obama for a second term in November.

However, the majority of Christians already know what Mormonism is all about. A media information blitz on Mormonism will amount to a complete waste of time. Mitt Romney is a candidate for the U.S. presidency rather than the Living Prophet of the LDS Church. Though Mormonism promotes a counterfeit Christ with a different gospel that can't save anyone, it also promotes traditional Judeo-Christian values such as honesty, integrity, hard work, traditional marriage, the sanctity of life and respect for all human beings regardless of race, creed, religion or ethnicity. These are the values that are critically important for a president to have and these are the values that Americans will consider when they evaluate both Romney and Obama as presidential candidates for the upcoming election.

As for myself, I'm voting for Mitt Romney because I'm voting for a president rather than an American pope or an archbishop. It was Jesus Christ who stated: "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's." (Matthew 22:21) Mitt Romney isn't Caesar and he certainly isn't God either. But he is the most qualified man running for the U.S. presidency and we should give our votes to him rather than to someone such as Obama who has governed like Caesar and considers himself as great as God.

A New World Order

Although I'm not particularly fond of conspiracy theories that promote shadow governments with hidden agendas, I believe that Mitt Romney is going to be elected as the next president of the United States. How do I know this? I don't, but when a major news magazine such as Newsweek has suddenly thrown Barack Obama under the proverbial bus, then something's up.

Like most of the American print and electronic news media, Newsweek has been Obama's best friend until recently. Since 2008 when he was elected as the 44th president of the United States, Obama has enjoyed a free ride on the backs of the U.S. media, being shielded from virtually all criticism of his policies and all scrutiny of his murky past. And that past includes some rather unsavory characters such as the arch-racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright, communist Frank Marshall Davis, terrorist Bill Ayers and political-fixer, con man-bag man extraordinaire Tony Rezko.

In reality, Barack Obama is a political puppet of the radical far left who dazzled liberals and progressives with his keynote address at the Democratic Party's 2004 convention. That speech convinced an extremely wealthy radical leftist named George Soros that Obama was the man who could eventually win back the White House from the Republican Party and unleash the radical left's Marxist agenda upon America. That agenda includes the complete economic destruction of America's middle class; the rape of the U.S. Constitution via executive fiat, the radical downsizing of the U.S. military, the expansion of the welfare state via confiscatory taxes on the wealthy and subsequent redistribution of their wealth, and the creation of new political constituency groups beholden to the Democratic Party such as illegal aliens, gays, lesbians, trangenders, bisexuals and young, unmarried, sexually promiscuous women.

No matter what his personal beliefs are, Barack Obama is too intelligent of a man to have truly believed that he could transform a center-right, socially conservative and predominantly Christian nation such as the United States into a socialist, post-Christian entity like many western European nations. Most Americans abhor Obama's agenda and despite the current polling numbers that indicate a tight race between Obama and Romney, the majority of Americans are prepared to dispose of Obama in November.

I'm convinced that Obama was talked into running for the U.S. presidency in 2008 and became a political front man for an evil cabal of radical leftists such as George Soros who truly believes that he is God incarnate. Had he been left on his own, Obama probably would've governed more like Bill Clinton; stubborn but pragmatic; loyal to his personal beliefs but willing to listen and consider the beliefs of others. And America would have been a much better nation because of that.

We don't know whether Mitt Romney is anyone's political puppet as Barack Obama is. Perhaps Romney is beholden to someone such as the extremely wealthy Sheldon Adelson who is the conservative counterpart to George Soros. Perhaps not. On thing's for sure; when America's mainstream news media begins turning against someone they once treated as a messianic figure, then something's up. And that usually means that change is coming.

We don't know what a Mitt Romney presidency will look like. Certainly, there will be an economic recovery, but for how long? Certainly, America will regain some of her respect among the world nations again, but for how long? And certainly, religious freedoms and those who promote traditional values won't be persecuted and maligned as they have been under Obama, but for how long? Only time will answer that question if Obama loses in November.

But we do know one thing for certain; the United States will not be a major player in end-time world events. Biblical prophecy reveals that two powerful nations are going to vie for world power and supremacy in the last days leading up to the return of Jesus Christ and I believe that those nations are Russia and China. (Daniel 11) Furthermore, biblical prophecy reveals that the dreaded Antichrist is going to come from one of these two nations. And that nation will likely be Russia. (Ezekiel 38-39) And so, keep your eyes on the Russian Bear.

Merchants of Evil

The Random House Dictionary defines hate this way: "To dislike intensely or passionately; detest. An intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility."  According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, (SPLC) any person or organization that believes strictly in the Judeo-Christian view of marriage between one man and one woman is a hater.

Thus, the Family Research Council, (FRC) an American conservative Christian group founded in 1981 by James Dobson, is a hate group, according to the SPLC. The FRC promotes biblical Judeo-Christian values such as traditional marriage, marital fidelity and abstinence from sexual relations until marriage. For nearly 2,000 years, those values formed the bedrock of western civilization until recently when the rise of godless secularism, coupled with the declining influence of Judeo-Christianity made such moral abominations as homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality, transgenderism and gay marriage socially acceptable.

Certainly, the increasing acceptance of homosexuality throughout the western world has largely been the result of powerful gay rights organizations that have forced many to embrace their lifestyle through political lobbying to outright intimidation of those who resisted. For example, the American Psychiatric Association considered homosexuality an emotional disorder until the early 1970s when gay lobbyists used their economic and political clout to coerce the APA to change its view of homosexuality and redefine that lifestyle as normal.

Gay rights groups have also bullied and intimidated media organizations and educational institutions into promoting their lifestyle and they have even recruited civil rights organizations such as the SPLC to do their bidding. The SPLC was originally founded in 1971 by Morris Dees and Joseph Levin Jr. as a nonprofit legal organization to combat white supremacist groups that persecuted blacks and other minorities. While the SPLC did heavy financial damage to such groups as the Ku Klux Klan by filing numerous lawsuits against them, they were eventually persuaded by gay activists to take up their cause and condemn those who opposed the homosexual lifestyle and gay marriage.

Such as the Family Research Council. The FRC is on the SPLC's list of hate groups and it's no surprise that the FRC was recently targeted by a militant homosexual named Floyd Corkins II who planned to commit mass murder at the FRC's headquarters in Washington D.C. before he was stopped by Security Guard Leo Johnson who was shot by Corkins. Fortunately, Corkins was a bad shot and merely wounded Johnson in the arm before Johnson managed to wrestle him to the ground and prevent what could have been a disaster.

But the SPLC has become the very antithesis of what it was originally created for. Instead of combating hatred and bigotry, the SPLC promotes evil behind the facade of civil rights and tolerance. Floyd Corkins II is a product of the SPLC's venomous rhetoric against bible-believing Christians who are guilty of nothing more than holding to a biblical worldview that has sustained western civilization for thousands of years.

But that biblical worldview is now being threatened by the new merchants of evil such as the SPLC. If you speak up for traditional biblical values, even if those values are protected by the First Amendment, you run the risk of being marginalized, ostracized, humiliated and being labeled a bigot by such groups as the SPLC. And you run the risk of being targeted for murder by their armed stooges such as Floyd Corkins II.

Over 2,700 years ago, the Lord spoke this to the ancient prophet Isaiah concerning those who inverted good and evil: "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight." (Isaiah 5:20-21) The Lord pronounced a curse upon those who promote evil as good and threaten evil to those who do good. Woe indeed to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Bad Russia Rising

A Russian Akula Nuclear Submarine

Biblical prophecy clearly reveals that Russia is going to become a dominant world superpower in the last days directly preceding the return of Jesus Christ. (Daniel 11, Ezekiel 38-39)  Many prophecy experts believed that Russia was finished forever as a world power after the collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago.

But after several years of economic destitution that resulted from the failed economic policies of communism, Russia is once again on the rise as a world political, economic and military superpower. However, unlike the old Soviet Union that was content to control Eastern Europe, the new Russia under President Vladimir Putin aims to control the entire world. And that's a very bad thing. Vladimir Putin may be a thug, but he's also a brilliant man who can quickly size up an opponent and determine just how strong or weak he is.

Putin has struck gold with U.S. President Barack Obama who will go down as one of the weakest, if not most inept presidents in American history. In 2009, Putin discovered just how weak Obama was when he bullied America's 44th president into canceling a planned missile shield for Eastern Europe. Putin was Russia's "Prime Minister" at the time under President Dmitry Medvedev, and he threatened to destroy the missile sites if the U.S. implemented them. Then in 2010, Putin coerced Obama into signing a terrible strategic nuclear arms reduction treaty (START) that not only ensured the Russians would gain a huge advantage over the U.S. in strategic nuclear weapons, but didn't mandate any third party oversight to guarantee that the Russians would obey the terms of the treaty.

And recently, the U.S. Navy discovered that a Russian Akula nuclear submarine had been cruising undetected for weeks in the Gulf of Mexico. According to Navy officials, the Akula is a literal killing machine that carries cruise missiles such as the SSN-21 and the SSN-27 that can travel up to 1,900 miles and deliver several nuclear warheads. That nuclear submarine was in a strategic position where it could have launched a missile attack against any major U.S. city before it was detected. That's frightening. Furthermore, that oversight followed incursions made by Russian strategic bombers that invaded American airspace near Alaska and California in June and July. (Washington Free Beacon, 8/14/2012) And those incursions followed a 2009 incursion into the Gulf of Mexico by a Russian Akula.

Certainly, the Russians had no plans to launch an attack against the U.S. with their latest incursion into the Gulf of Mexico. This incursion was merely designed to test the United States for a response. Since there wasn't any response, the Russians now know they can push the United States around militarily. If Obama is reelected in November, look for the Russians to turn up the heat on America even more because they know that Obama is a weak president who is beholden to his radical antiwar base.

The Bible not only reveals Russia's rise as a global superpower in the end times, but it also reveals that the dreaded Antichrist is going to come from that nation. And biblical prophecy also reveals that he will be an extremely violent man who will murder hundreds of millions: "He will become very strong, but not by his own power. He will cause astounding devastation and will succeed in whatever he does." (Daniel 8:24) 

Vladimir Putin isn't the Antichrist. But he has the spirit of the Antichrist living in him. His Deputy Premier Dmitri Rogozin recently announced that Russia plans to build 10 new attack submarines and 10 new missile submarines by 2030 along with new aircraft carriers. Those military vessels have one purpose; to kill and destroy. With the United States rapidly disarming under Obama, the Russians are soon going to be the baddest military players on the world stage. That's prophetic. And when the Antichrist appears, he will have an arsenal of mass-murder weapons to threaten the world into doing his bidding.