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Trump Freaks Out After Tucker Carlson Implies He’s the Antichrist (newrepublic.com)
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Once a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump, conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson has fully turned against him over the war in Iran, going as far as to liken Trump to the Antichrist on his eponymous podcast.

“Could there be a spiritual component to this?” Carlson said on The Tucker Carlson Show on Monday. “Is it just a conventional escalation ladder in a badly thought out war … [or] could it be something bigger? Is it possible what you’re watching is a very stealthy yet incredibly effective attack on what, from a Christian perspective, is the true faith: belief in Jesus?”

Carlson went on: “Is it possible that the president sees this in bigger terms? Sees this as the fulfillment of something? An elevation of some higher office beyond president of the United States?”

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[–] Cort@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah. To them it means Jesus is coming back and they get raptured.

Only thing they're forgetting is the thousand years of darkness that comes before Satan is defeated.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This is for the pre-millennial dispensationalists. For the pre-millennials, the rapture will occur at the start of the 1000 year tribulation (as depicted in Left Behind). So it's exciting if there's a sign it might happen soon.

(Let's just ignore the gospel passage about "ye shall know not the hour..." Etc etc.)

For the post-millenials, the rapture will occur after the 1000 years of tribulation, not before. So it's less exciting, because you'll probably die before then, so you won't be eligible for rapture.

And of course the amillennials don't necessarily think the 1000 years is a literal 1000 years, and they have various opinions about how figurative John of Patmos was, or just how many balls he was tripping.

[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 3 points 1 day ago

Ah, now here is someone who knows their eschatology! I grew up in a pre-millennial dispensationalist church but am now an Episcopalian (and probably amillennial, if we have to give it a label--I basically hold to the idea that Jesus' return will be what it will be). What was crazy to learn was that the whole Rapture concept was more or less invented at the end of the 1800s and only became super popular among American Evangelicals because of the Scofield Reference Bible. Saint John the Divine and Saint Paul would look at all of this with bewilderment, I think.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah its cool their kin will just ride that out in bunkers that may or may not be subject to social conditioning