Tim Lahaye, Evangelical Christian Minister, Warns Obama Bringing Us Closer To 'The Apocalypse' (VIDEO)

Evangelical Christian minister Tim LaHaye says that the policy initiatives put forth by the Obama administration are bringing the country "closer to the apocalypse."

LaHaye issued the dire warning in an appearance this week on Mike Huckabee's talk show on Fox News.

"Our present president doesn't seem to get it," LaHaye explained. "He doesn't understand that some of the things he's introducing that many of us call 'raw socialism' -- it's a different name, but it's essentially government control and government domination of everything."

The evangelical voice said of the political platform maintained by the Obama administration, "It's going to work against our country and bringing us closer to the apocalypse."

Huckabee went on to prod LaHaye a bit further on his assertion. "Are we now living in the end times, from your perspective?" asked the former Arkansas Governor and possible 2012 White House contender.

LaHaye's response: "Very definitely, governor."


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Comments

[kadene]

10:41 AM on 09/16/2010

Wait a moment! I thought the Apocalypse was supposed to be the precursor to the return of the Messiah! I would think that Lahaye and the rest of his deluded followers would be in the cheering section since they would be anticipating an early rendezvous followed by eternity with their Lord.

Apparently this is not so. Fear-mongering trumps the prospect of celestial eternal bliss. But who could forget when the credit card was just being introduced, how the evangelicals sold fear of a one-world government and currency, and that the use of the card was carrying the "Mark of the Beast"? Millions bought "The Late Great Planet Earth" and digested the fear and terror spoon-fed to them from its pages. The New World Order would also herald the advent of the Antichrist.
Pure nonsense.

Many of these same pastors who raised the terror-alert because of the credit card, now ensure the ATM's are a fixture in the vestibules of their megachurches, encouraging you to pay your tithes, buy their annointing oils, water from the Holy Land and secure your healing handkerchiefs by credit card.

They should be ashamed of themselves, and the flocks that continue to support them deserve to be fleeced

[plcsail]

10:56 PM on 08/08/2010

After reading this and watching a movie tonight, called "The Cove" about the slaughter of dolphins in Japan, I wonder if there is any hope for, or good in, the human race.

[limulu]

04:08 AM on 08/08/2010

I am a little confused here I though Mr. Lahaye was waiting with open arms for the end of time the rapture. So it would seem to me that if he believes that President Obama's policies are leading us toward apocalypse he would be a supporter of the President. If he is complaining that the democratic agenda is leading us towards the end and the end is a good thing then at heart he is a democrat and the republicans must be the agents of the anti Christ. For if the democrats are leading us toward the rapture and the republicans oppose the democratic policy then they must be against the rapture. My head is spinning trying to get a logical thread on Mr. Lehaye's position.

[Aripottah]

11:47 AM on 07/31/2010

Lahaye -- whadda des pic able _dypp/ sch*tt. It is my fervent hope that this inventor of fairytales, hoseburn hunchbacks, demons, disaster-and-pestilence-laden unseen realms etc. be compelled to deal with all of this pure nonsense which many people find frightening, as he descends into the frightening abyss of madness and the depths of mental disorder.

[Frederic]

09:39 AM on 08/08/2010

Are there really so many idiots in America to actually BELIEVE this utter nonsense? I can't bring myself to assume such an atrocity.

[Perry Callas]

04:20 PM on 07/30/2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SL0UIJKl6xE

Commies everywhere!

[TedEjr]

09:42 AM on 07/30/2010

From the article--"He doesn't understand that some of the things he's introducing that many of us call 'raw socialism' -- it's a different name, but it's essentially government control and government domination of everything." (End Quote)

What programs would those be? Would Health Care be one of those? Health care, which was a proposal of both Nixon and Ford? Damn those Socialist Republicans. LMAO.

I know, there is freedom of speech, and all that. But, can't we find some way to outlaw inanity?

[Frederic]

09:41 AM on 08/08/2010

Good question: Remember, all the misery in the 20th century started with the permission of inanity!

[darchie]

07:52 AM on 07/30/2010

Maybe what they're sensing is the end of the GOP...to them that would be the End of Time.

[MCJanes]

03:55 PM on 07/29/2010

Christianity: Doing it wrong for 2000 years.

[ZeraLee]

03:47 PM on 07/29/2010

They sound so serious. And yet, I find it so hard to grasp that they truly believe what they say.

[Enroh Mot]

03:43 PM on 07/29/2010

Tim Lahaye and Ann Coulter were going to compete in Dancing With The Stars, but the producer canceled them, he was afraid they might cause the Rapture.

[Enroh Mot]

03:55 PM on 07/29/2010

I meant the Rupture.

[AlGionfriddo]

11:07 PM on 07/29/2010

I see why you have 800+ fans. Funny!

[Aripottah]

11:53 AM on 07/31/2010

Is there such a thing as the ruptured rapture?

[Enroh Mot]

07:56 PM on 07/31/2010

I've had a rapturous eruption : D

[gordspoetryetc]

03:10 PM on 07/29/2010

It's Obama's Fault??? Even the Biblical End-Times are now being blamed on president Obama. Well of course since the right blames Obama for the Wall Street crash, the subprime implosion , and he is personally responsible for all of the problems with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the BPoil spill, the Haitian Earthquake , illegal-immigration .
The former Republican Bush/Cheney Regime was of course perfect and never did anything wrong. For the GOP and the Christian Right Obama can't do anything right.
And so it goes, GORD.

[Frederic]

09:46 AM on 08/08/2010

Don't be surprised if the GOPsters blame the 30 years' war on Obama! Obama was the reason for the rise of the Nazis, Pearl Harbour, you name it, we have it etc.etc.
I wonder if there is an upper limit of stupidity: Einstein: There are two things eternal: The Universe and human stupidity. And I'm not so sure about the universe!

[godwithin]

03:00 PM on 07/29/2010

I find Mike Huckabee's fear mongering more dangerous, he is a foolish wolf in sheep's clothing.

[Matt Osborne]

02:55 PM on 07/29/2010

Actually, it's guys like Lahaye who continually invite apocalypse:

http://www.osborneink.com/2010/05/whats-wrong-with-wingnuts-in-a-nutshell.html

They're called authoritarians.

[kbatch]

02:46 PM on 07/29/2010

Isn't it interesting that Matthew 24 describes "The Apocalypse," then states that ‘But about that day and hour no one knows," not even angels or Jesus, only God, and before that warns everyone that, "For false messiahs and false prophets will appear and produce great signs and omens, to lead astray, if possible, even the elect." If Lahaye isn't a false prophet by this definition, I'll eat my copy of Left Behind. I don't have a copy, but I don't think I'll need to buy one.

[elkabong]

02:17 PM on 07/29/2010

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."

- Benjamin Franklin

"If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed persecution in the Romish Church, but practiced it upon the Puritans. They found it wrong in Bishops, but fell into the practice themselves both here (England) and in New England."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny of religion is the worst."

- Thomas Paine

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."

- Thomas Paine

"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit."

- Thomas Paine

"The Bible is not my book, nor Christianity my profession."

- Abraham Lincoln

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."

- John Adams”

[Timma]

09:24 PM on 07/29/2010

God senses with the heart not reason and from this in faith - God is sensitive to the heart not to reason - Blaise Pascal

[Enroh Mot]

08:02 PM on 07/31/2010

Was that part of Pascal's wager, he was a good mathematician, he covered his bets well, why take any chances : D