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It’s all a person can do to keep up with the madness that passes for “pop prophecy” these days. Stomaching The Da Vinci Code and trying to discern the motivations for a team of editors, researchers and ghostwriters to write a novel which makes wholly unsubstantiated claims in an effort to smear Jesus has been bad enough. (The Last Supper, having apparently been vandalized as the floating hand with a dagger shows, was grossly under-researched and misinterpreted.) Now there are these two guys — Thomas Horn and David Flynn — who efficiently but very questionably have managed to do what Dan Brown and company do not do in The Lost Symbol, which is tie the Great Seal of the United States to the date December 21, 2012 and the Mayan long-count calendar, which has been discussed and debated ad nauseam online and on the tube.

Horn, whose still-unpublished book Apollyon Rising 2012 is all the rage, has taken the unfinished pyramid on the back of the one-dollar bill and identified its 13 levels of bricks with the 13 baktun cycles in the Mayan calendar. Starting with the date 1776 which appears in Roman numerals at the bottom of the Great Seal, Horn finally arrives at the uncompleted top of the pyramid, which he says corresponds to the year 2012. From there he makes the claim that the destiny of the United States of America is and has always been the destiny of the world, which, in Horn’s opinion, ain’t good. And he says it ain’t good because America is going to give us and the world the Antichrist.

It’s not been easy working our way through Daniel and Revelation in recent months. We frankly did it somewhat reluctantly, not wishing to delve into highly symbolic, apocalyptic material that scholars and kooks have tried and often failed to interpret since the 2nd century. But it is Holy Writ, we believe (written by an obscured author?), and we believe Daniel does stand up as divine. Where Revelation is concerned, who’s to know whether someone has failed or not, since interpretations of bowl and woe judgments and the sounding of trumpets and the breaking of seals are largely left up to the individual imaginations and strained hermeneutics of anyone who wants to have a go. The only real link between Daniel and Revelation, that we can see, is the description of the Son of Man, who has hair “like pure wool,” interestingly, and that of the arrogant “horn” or “beast,” who, according to some online commentators, will lead the New World Order’s effort to reduce the world’s population by 1 to 3 billion people. The leg that people like Horn and Flynn have to stand on stems from their claim that there exists an occult elite which has infiltrated government and secret fraternal organizations for whom Jesus is anathema. The reality that such Gnostic leanings are present among the ranks of the powerful and the rich cannot be disputed. So, what do the occult elite have to do with 2012?

Will the powerful and rich occult elite do the bidding of some evil voice which has been whispering in their ears to kill off the useless eaters in an attempt to save the world for themselves? Is this what 2012 will be, a self-fulfilled prophecy, involving manmade catastrophes, which evil has been plotting since the origins of America if not the origins of humanity? Ludicrous.

But, there is the matter of the Islamic prophecy from three or four centuries ago that describes “a tall black man” rising in the West and commanding the world’s largest army, who will lead a final Islamic world revolution as Islam’s Imam or Mahdi, i.e. messiah. Unless the Muslims who claim to possess this prophecy are lying, this is rather stunning. But does this mean that Barack Obama is the so-called Antichrist, who will be the brutal tyrant inhabited by the spirit of Satan as Antiochus IV Epiphanes, King Herod, Nero and Hitler arguably were? Does this mean Obama will be the man who possesses supernatural gifts, enabling him to perform signs and wonders, after having been raised from the dead? Present reality says no. It says hell, no. Even though Obama requested that Christian symbols during his address at Georgetown University be covered to make the setting more secular, even though he may be a Muslim in Christian’s clothing, even though he was photographed recently standing with Russia’s president reportedly in front of a golden all-seeing eye of Horus, which adorns the one-dollar bill … Obama is confronted with not supernatural challenges but political ones, like health care and Iran. No magic wands have been whipped out yet, as far as we can tell, and no ouija boards or mediums or astrologers have been consulted, presumably, in the tradition of Nancy Reagan.  And can anyone see Obama, a leftist and socialist, leading an army to nuke anyone who stands in his way, most particularly Israel? 

Something new and dramatic will have to happen first for any of this to begin to play out. Horn says something is happening and will really begin to happen when a demonic force rises from the pit, “the abyss,” to empower the AC (a.k.a. Apollo, Nimrod, Gilgamesh, Osiris) and presumably the rest of the First Family. Imagine those little girls with the devil in their eyes or them and Michelle holding daddy by the edge of his coat, begging him not to go out anymore on a militaristic rampage to satisfy his lust for innocent blood. What a great idea for a novel. It could happen, if evil has been holding back or has been held back and is on the verge of making its grand entrance. For now, it’s all ludicrous. It all depends on God, as everything else does, and how angry he is that the people who are supposed to be leading us are actually plotting to kill and eat us. We do believe in hell and demons … and weird shit living underground which isn’t human. So who knows?

Since we’re on the subject of 2012, the AC and the like, we thought we would offer some questions which seem to us to be interesting ones: 

If the Great Tribulation begins when the Antichrist facilitates a peace treaty between Israel and her enemies, will that peace treaty be signed on December 21, 2012?

Is it significant that the death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a forerunner of the Antichrist, initiated Hanukkah, and that Hanukkah will fall on December 21 in the year 2011?

If the New Agers are talking up 2012, will the God of Israel in his wrath have any role in anything which might destructively occur in 2012? Or will man kill, maim and pillage the world’s most expendable … and blame it on God?

Does 2012 have anything to do with what the Hebrew prophets call the Day of the Lord?

Will the Day of the Lord have anything to do with 2012?

Whom do we trust … the Maya or the Hebrew prophets?

To restate a previous question, do the occult elite intend to try to fulfill biblical prophecy by bringing wrath upon the earth, either in 2012 or sometime thereafter?

Will the occult elite and the fallen angels, i.e. demons, combine to make sure that something destructively happens on December 21, 2012?

Will God punish the occult elite for trying to play God?

Are 2012, the Antichrist and America linked?

If 888 is the number for Jesus … and if 888 is the number for Apollo … is it significant that 888 plus 888 equals 1776?

Is it significant that 1948 plus Daniel’s 70 years equals 2008, the year Obama was elected?

Did the American forefathers believe that America was a New Eden, as Christopher Columbus did, as the Puritans did? And did they believe that America’s destiny was the destiny of the world?

Will the occult elite be surprised by the Rapture, if there is to be one?

Will the Antichrist be a vicious warmonger … or a moron who unintentionally triggers World War III?

Is 2012 bullshit?