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==America as the Seat of Antichrist==
==America as the Seat of Antichrist==
America as the "Seat of Antichrist" ''ipso facto'' the leader of the West, namely, the President of the United States, as the Antichrist, with his nation as the ultimate Beast Nation or Babylon the Great - the great end times' commercial citadel spoken of in Revelation 18, has increasingly become the topic of conversation around the prophetic tables, not only in America, but increasingly throughout the world. A simple search for "Obama as the Antichrist" will generate scores of blogs, books, magazine articles, etc. America's fascination of this elusive, but ever-forecasted personage to appear in the "Latter Days" (according to Christians who hold to a Futurism eschatolog}<ref>{{cite web| title=Futurism (Christian eschatology)| url=http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Futurism_(Christian_eschatology)| publisher=Absolute Astronomy.com}}</ref> appears to be an integral part of Americana.
America as the "Seat of Antichrist" ''ipso facto'' the leader of the West, namely, the President of the United States, as the Antichrist, with his nation as the ultimate Beast Nation or Babylon the Great - the great end times' commercial citadel spoken of in Revelation 18, has increasingly become the topic of conversation around the prophetic tables, not only in America, but increasingly throughout the world. A simple search for "Obama as the Antichrist" will generate scores of blogs, books, magazine articles, etc. America's fascination of this elusive, but ever-forecasted personage to appear in the "Latter Days" (according to Christians who hold to a Futurism eschatolog)<ref>{{cite web| title=Futurism (Christian eschatology)| url=http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Futurism_(Christian_eschatology)| publisher=Absolute Astronomy.com}}</ref> appears to be an integral part of Americana.
The seat of Antichrist as the USA is not a new interpretation among Christians, even among those who profess no faith. The United States in Bible Prophecy as the two-horned beast in Revelation 13:11-17 (i.e., the second beast of Revelation 13:1 who supports ''the Beast'' (i.e., the Antichrist) was propounded in 1859 by Frances Rolleston who authored a work titled ''Notes on the Apocalypse, as Explained by the Hebrew Scriptures: The Place in Prophecy of America and Australia Being Pointed Out''.<ref>{{cite web| title=Notes on the Apocalypse, as Explained by the Hebrew Scriptures: the Place in Prophecy of America and Australia Being Pointed Outurl| url=http://www.books.google.com/books?id=IXoaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1293&lpg=PA1293&dq=Frances+Rolleston+The+Place+in+Prophecy+of+America+and+Australia+Being+Pointed+Out&source=bl&ots=ziK45_MuIm&sig=qG5DgNL7ag6fMQ4K5IHBaC4h94U&hl=en&ei=KKrFScveGZmMsQPi9dkk&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA1294,M1| publisher=Rivingtons, London 1858}}</ref> [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]] expositor Uriah Smith in 1884 authored a text entitled ''The United States in the Light of Prophecy; or, An Exposition of Rev. 13:11-17''<ref>{{cite web| title=The United States in the Light of Prophecy; or, An Exposition of Rev. 13:11-17| url=http://www.books.google.com/books?id=0dziN9QI3SgC&dq=The+United+States+in+the+Light+of+Prophecy%3B+or,+An+Exposition+of+Rev.+13:11-17&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=6-CGmRJvUX&sig=iD-5yIDPNhHfMz9trznrpc2W9AI&hl=en&ei=POHFSeOwDIKqsAPK18X9Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result| author|Uriah Smith}}</ref> Smith was insistent that America was the beast of Revelation 13:11-17. However, it was not until 1968 when Dr. S. Franklin Logsdon, Sr. Pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago, Illinois, who suggested that the USA was Babylon the Great.<ref>{{cite web| title=U.S. in Bible Prophecy| url=http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:tN8J-JOJDS8J:www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/specol/news/fundamentalism/+U.S.+in+Bible+Prophecy+Logsdon+Armageddon+Books&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us| author=S. Franklin Logsdon, Sr. Pastor, Moody Church, Chicago, Illinois| publisher=Zondervan, 1968, pp. 59-60, ISBN-10:0974476498}}</ref> Jack Van Impe<ref>{{cite web| title=Jack Van Impe Ministries International| url=http://www.jvim.com/}}</ref> in ''The Great Escape''<ref>{{cite web| title=The Great Escape| url=http://www.e316.com/Great-Escape-Jack-Van-Impe/0849940737.htm| author=Jack Van Impe| publisher=Word, Nashville: Nashville, 1998, pp. 206-7, ISBN: 0849940737}}</ref> indicts America as the fulfillment of Jeremiah 50-51<ref>{{cite web| title=Jeremiah 50-51| url=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050-51%20;&version=50;| publisher=New King James Bible}}</ref> and Revelation 18:1-24. In one of the more exhaustive indictments against America as the seat of Antichrist, R. A. Coombes, in ''America, the Babylon: America’s Destiny Foretold in Biblical Prophecy''<ref>{{cite web| title=America the Babylon| url=http://www.americathebabylon.com/| author=R. A. Coombes| publisher=Real Publishing, Liberty, 1998; especially pp. 55-58 and 182-86, ISBN 1-890622-33-8}}</ref> presents thirty-three identifying markers which he claims identify America as the Babylon of the End Times, the seat of Antichrist; also, Coombes lists sixty-six points in another segment of his text (pp. 182-86) in which New York City is the perfect bastion of Babylon the Great.
The seat of Antichrist as the USA is not a new interpretation among Christians, even among those who profess no faith. The United States in Bible Prophecy as the two-horned beast in Revelation 13:11-17 (i.e., the second beast of Revelation 13:1 who supports ''the Beast'' (i.e., the Antichrist) was propounded in 1859 by Frances Rolleston who authored a work titled ''Notes on the Apocalypse, as Explained by the Hebrew Scriptures: The Place in Prophecy of America and Australia Being Pointed Out''.<ref>{{cite web| title=Notes on the Apocalypse, as Explained by the Hebrew Scriptures: the Place in Prophecy of America and Australia Being Pointed Outurl| url=http://www.books.google.com/books?id=IXoaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1293&lpg=PA1293&dq=Frances+Rolleston+The+Place+in+Prophecy+of+America+and+Australia+Being+Pointed+Out&source=bl&ots=ziK45_MuIm&sig=qG5DgNL7ag6fMQ4K5IHBaC4h94U&hl=en&ei=KKrFScveGZmMsQPi9dkk&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA1294,M1| publisher=Rivingtons, London 1858}}</ref> [[Seventh-day Adventist Church]] expositor Uriah Smith in 1884 authored a text entitled ''The United States in the Light of Prophecy; or, An Exposition of Rev. 13:11-17''<ref>{{cite web| title=The United States in the Light of Prophecy; or, An Exposition of Rev. 13:11-17| url=http://www.books.google.com/books?id=0dziN9QI3SgC&dq=The+United+States+in+the+Light+of+Prophecy%3B+or,+An+Exposition+of+Rev.+13:11-17&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=6-CGmRJvUX&sig=iD-5yIDPNhHfMz9trznrpc2W9AI&hl=en&ei=POHFSeOwDIKqsAPK18X9Bg&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result| author|Uriah Smith}}</ref> Smith was insistent that America was the beast of Revelation 13:11-17. However, it was not until 1968 when Dr. S. Franklin Logsdon, Sr. Pastor of the Moody Church in Chicago, Illinois, who suggested that the USA was Babylon the Great.<ref>{{cite web| title=U.S. in Bible Prophecy| url=http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:tN8J-JOJDS8J:www.lib.ucdavis.edu/dept/specol/news/fundamentalism/+U.S.+in+Bible+Prophecy+Logsdon+Armageddon+Books&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us| author=S. Franklin Logsdon, Sr. Pastor, Moody Church, Chicago, Illinois| publisher=Zondervan, 1968, pp. 59-60, ISBN-10:0974476498}}</ref> Jack Van Impe<ref>{{cite web| title=Jack Van Impe Ministries International| url=http://www.jvim.com/}}</ref> in ''The Great Escape''<ref>{{cite web| title=The Great Escape| url=http://www.e316.com/Great-Escape-Jack-Van-Impe/0849940737.htm| author=Jack Van Impe| publisher=Word, Nashville: Nashville, 1998, pp. 206-7, ISBN: 0849940737}}</ref> indicts America as the fulfillment of Jeremiah 50-51<ref>{{cite web| title=Jeremiah 50-51| url=http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Jeremiah%2050-51%20;&version=50;| publisher=New King James Bible}}</ref> and Revelation 18:1-24. In one of the more exhaustive indictments against America as the seat of Antichrist, R. A. Coombes, in ''America, the Babylon: America’s Destiny Foretold in Biblical Prophecy''<ref>{{cite web| title=America the Babylon| url=http://www.americathebabylon.com/| author=R. A. Coombes| publisher=Real Publishing, Liberty, 1998; especially pp. 55-58 and 182-86, ISBN 1-890622-33-8}}</ref> presents thirty-three identifying markers which he claims identify America as the Babylon of the End Times, the seat of Antichrist; also, Coombes lists sixty-six points in another segment of his text (pp. 182-86) in which New York City is the perfect bastion of Babylon the Great.