You know, I grew up around a lot of Christian fundies and cultists. I was adjacent to what I call a “culty cult,” and my college boyfriend’s mom used to speak in tongues when she would pray.
Among most Christians, talk of the “End Days” was common. At one point, my church’s youth group would barge in on kids with a video camera while they were sleeping in their homes with a message of “Jesus is Coming,” just to nail down that the Book of Revelations would happen at any time.
(For the record, they were smarter than to try that with me. I famously and autistically mentioned that I sleep naked, which would have made this a very bad idea. I digress.)
Author’s edit: Apparently, Benjamin L. Corey is a devout Christian—and a cool dude at that. Thanks for the keen eye, readers!
Lately, I have noticed an alarming series of events that really sounds like the Christian idea of the end of the world.
Most of us left-leaning people have read that one article written by an athiest about Trump being an antichrist — and Evangelicals being blind to it. Well, there are several. Many pointed out some uncanny resemblances.
The Antichrist is known for lying and dividing others to gain loyalty. Hmmm.
He’s also described as a tyrannical world leader capable of commanding an army capable of destroying the world. He is described as an arrogant man who is “prone to giving boastful speeches,” and no one gives better speeches than Trump. He’s yuuuuge on it.
The Antichrist will also be known for making public threats against people. I mean, it seems to be correct. Oh, and he’s also mentioned as being obsessed with conquest.
He has been described as a political outsider who would still win despite having a lack of votes. I’m not kidding, that’s actually in the article.
At the time of the article’s writing, there was a Trump plaza for each of the Beast’s heads, too. I think there’s an eighth now?
Oh, and it also mentions him trying to reset laws and “appointed times.” Didn’t he say something about getting rid of Daylight Savings or something like that? It even mentioned the real estate deals and his fights with “a Southern nation” like Mexico.
There is also something about the Antichrist having an alliance with Israel. And Israel’s cities will become “desolate” due to war, just like Gaza is right now.
I’ve heard others call MAGA hats the “Mark of the Beast” a little facetiously. I mean, obviously, Trump can’t be a mythical creature that comes at theEnd of Days, right?
Right…?
The stranger thing is the way the world has been behaving.
Traditionally, it’s not just one Antichrist, per se. It’s multiple. An “antichrist” is allegedly anyone who doesn’t stand for the teachings of Jesus. It’s just that the “Beast” antichrist tends to be the topic of discussion these days.
And one of the things that the Beast does so well is “turn good men wicked,” which we’ve definitely been seeing. So many people I know — people who were once good — became foam-at-the-mouth racists, sexists, and homophobes after hitting the right wing rabbit hole.
Much like what’s written in the Book of Revelations, the people who follow Trump see him as a miracle-wielding God. The truth is that they’re being deceived.
“The arise in power of the lawless one will be in accordance with how Satan works. He will use all sorts of displays of power through signs and wonders that serve the lie.” — 2 Thess. 2:9
I mean, it really sometimes feels like Trump just changed people. Sometimes, it’s hard to even recognize the person they once were.
The Bible also warns that Christians will hold the vast majority of power in the land during his rule, but they ain’t good.
By now, it’s no secret that America is starting to turn into a theocracy. Christian doctrine — or rather, warped Christian doctrine — is starting to become the source of laws, the excuse to harm others, and more.
The goal, verbatim, is for “the will of the Holy People” to be broken. So who would that be? Well, Christians and anyone else who believes in God, love, and goodness.
“In the last days… they will be unloving, unforgiving, they will slander others and have no self-control, they will be cruel and hate what is good… they will act religious but reject the power that could make them godly.” — I Timothy 3
In a time of food shortages, pandemics, people having nightmares, and all this stuff, it’s starting to feel like the end of the world.
Like, we’re witnessing a mass disappearance of our farm workers. Our food prices are spiking. People are going missing. Gaza is burning. If I were a Christian, I would absolutely believe that this is the end times.
Hell, I’m not sure that I don’t believe it anymore.
What I can say, though, is that the resemblance is uncanny. If I were a Christian, I’d really wonder how so many similarities happened without anyone in the Evangelical world trying to hit the pause button.
In a weird way, I find the end of the bible comforting, considering everything. It shows people from the sky coming to help us sort out our shit as well as the end of the tribulations here.
Believe it or not, I’m not actually trying to evangelize.
Rather, I’m trying to understand. How can so many allegedly religious people worship a man who has hurt so many as the second coming of Jesus? How do they not see the warnings in their own holy book about someone like him?
All I can say is that a lot of Christians really need to read about how Jesus treated foreigners and how Jesus helped the poor. Maybe it’ll help them realize they’ve lost their way in their own religion.
