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Title: Pastor Hagee: The Antichrist Is Gay, "Partially Jewish, As Was Adolph Hitler" (Paging Joe Lieberman!)
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URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-b ... gee-the-antichri_b_104608.html
Published: Jun 2, 2008
Author: Max Blumenthal
Post Date: 2008-06-02 23:12:19 by PoliticallyIncorrect
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Views: 440
Comments: 15
On March 16, 2003, on the eve of the United States' invasion of Iraq, Pastor John Hagee took to the pulpit to warn of the coming Antichrist. In his sermon, "The Final Dictator," Hagee described the Antichrist as a seductive figure with "fierce features." He will be "a blasphemer and a homosexual," the pastor announced. Then, Hagee boomed, "There's a phrase in Scripture used solely to identify the Jewish people. It suggests that this man [the Antichrist] is at least going to be partially Jewish, as was Adolph Hitler, as was Karl Marx." This "fierce" gay Jew, according to Hagee, would "slaughter one-third of the Earth's population" and "make Adolph Hitler look like a choirboy." Exposed here for the first time, Hagee's comments identifying the Antichrist as a partly Jewish homosexual arrive in the wake of a furor the pastor provoked by describing the Holocaust as an act of God. Hagee's chilling sermon about the Holocaust prompted Sen. John McCain to reject the preacher's support, an unexpected turnabout after McCain spent over a year soliciting his endorsement. Days after McCain's rejection, I reported that a key McCain ally, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, planned to deliver the keynote speech at Hagee's upcoming Christians United For Israel (CUFI) summit. As the story exploded into the mainstream press, pressure mounted on Lieberman to withdraw. But Lieberman stayed the course, declaring in a prepared statement, "Pastor Hagee has devoted much of his life to fighting anti-Semitism and building bridges between Christians and Jews... I will go to the CUFI Summit in July and speak to the people who have come to Washington from all over our country to express their support of America and Israel, based on our shared eternal values and our shared contemporary challenges in the war against terrorism." Lieberman will be joined at CUFI's conference by Rep. Elliot Engel, a Democratic congressman from New York with a fairly progressive voting record. On Thursday, May 29, I asked Engel's press secretary, Joseph O'Brien, if Engel still planned to attend Hagee's gathering in light of his remarks about the Holocaust. O'Brien told me Engel would respond shortly. So far, Engel has said nothing. Engel is slated to speak on CUFI's "Middle East Briefing" panel this July. He will be joined on the panel by Republican Rep. Mike Pence, Weekly Standard editor and New York Times columnist Bill Kristol, and Christian right activist Gary Bauer. Perhaps these Hagee allies could not fathom that a zealous "supporter" of Israel like Hagee could also be an anti-Semite. They may have believed, as conservative Jewish columnist Jeff Jacoby apparently did, that Hagee's remarks on the Holocaust, as jarring as they were, were theologically correct, and therefore excusable. "As anyone even fleetingly familiar with the Hebrew Bible knows," Jacoby wrote, "it is not 'crazy,' let alone anti-Semitic, to believe that Jewish suffering can be a punishment from God." But now... But now that Hagee's political allies have listened to the preacher's sermon identifying the Antichrist as a homosexual Jew, how can they still share a stage with him? Is attributing Jewish ancestry to the Man of Sin not anti-Semitism in its most classical form? Are the conspiratorial screeds of Nesta Webster,Henry Ford, and David Duke not replete with passages disturbingly similar to this most recently revealed jeremiad of Hagee and to many of his past sermons? Hagee's allies must ask themselves what price they are willing to pay for the backing of his political empire. All of them diminish themselves by standing by side. But those who are Jewish like Lieberman, and who have highlighted their faith to enhance their moral authority, must know now that the price of entering Hagee's kingdom is their soul. No more excuses. All elected officials must withdraw from Hagee's upcoming summit. Hagee hears voices.
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#6. To: PoliticallyIncorrect (#0)
Will the Antichrist be a homosexual? This question arises from the following Scripture about Antichrist: “Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all” (Dan. 11:37). Many Bible scholars believe that the phrase “desire of women” here means that Antichrist, the world’s last and most terrible tyrant, will be homosexual. Other scholars believe that the “desire of women” mentioned here refers to Jesus Christ, the Messiah, as longed for among Jewish women who desire that the prophesied Christ be born to them. Another opinion might be more accurate. That is, this man will be so arrogant that nothing and no one can deter him from loving himself above all else. He will, much like Adolf Hitler, consider himself far too important to give much regard to women –especially to one woman. As far as the Antichrist being a homosexual, Hagee hasn't said anything that many Bible scholars haven't said.
#7. To: James Deffenbach (#6)
I guess it all depends on which bible those "Bible Scholars" are reading from!
This question arises from the following Scripture about Antichrist: “Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all” (Dan. 11:37). Many Bible scholars believe that the phrase “desire of women” here means that Antichrist, the world’s last and most terrible tyrant, will be homosexual. Other scholars believe that the “desire of women” mentioned here refers to Jesus Christ, the Messiah, as longed for among Jewish women who desire that the prophesied Christ be born to them. Another opinion might be more accurate. That is, this man will be so arrogant that nothing and no one can deter him from loving himself above all else. He will, much like Adolf Hitler, consider himself far too important to give much regard to women –especially to one woman. I was of the same opinion back when I first read this, and was going to comment on it, but my computer crashed and I lost track of it. I happened upon it again today, and since last night I also happened on the subject I think it may refer to, I thought I'd link them: Zionists prepare to draft young women: judicial-inc.biz/Draft_Girls.htm http://www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/1Sa/1Sa008.html#7 In 1 Samuel 8, it is said that tyrant kings would take the young women to be "confectioners and cooks and bakers". This is right after the declaration about taking the young men for war. Whether the confectioners are taken for war is not stated, but at any rate, this final tyrant will be a step "above" [or rather, below] anything preceding him. The women serving today are not supposed to be in combat, but very often find themselves there. I see this last tyrant completely heartless to the idea of women wanting to fulfill their God-given nature as women. Somewhere in the Bible, it even says women are not to dress as men, so putting on combat fatigues would definitely be contrary to the word of God, let alone shouldering a gun or piloting a plane to kill other mothers and their children. I could see George Bush signing a law to draft women to "protect our homeland" and for the sake of "Israel", particularly since "Israel" has given him his marching orders as "Gog": Send your troops to protect "Israel", whereas the secret plan is for "Israel" to destroy US troops once there, to fulfill the Zionist Armageddon Plot. George Bush Jr wailing at wall in Israel Luciferian Communist Nazi Jew George Bush Jr wailing at wall in Israel
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Replies to Comment # 6. As far as the Antichrist being a homosexual, Hagee hasn't said anything that many Bible scholars haven't said.
#14. To: James Deffenbach, PoliticallyIncorrect (#6)
Will the Antichrist be a homosexual?
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