[15] The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed.
Sounds like Elon’s recent AI generated video of Trump cleansing Gaza.
As well as the Mark of the Beast as a Neurolink microchip.
In the Left Behind series, you had to implant the chip in your forehead or right hand. They guillotined anyone who refused. If you get willingly chipped you are permanently unsaveable (so it must be the “blaspheming against the Holy Spirit” thing that Jesus was on about)
It’s amazing that I’m not seeing more Christians freak out about this. All of the church basement videos,the Hal Lindsey, … was I the only one who took that shit seriously? Chloe’s death in Left Behind traumatized me - like I don’t think any of the film adaptations have gotten that far but I can picture it like a movie. If they weren’t going to take the warning seriously, why did I wake up some mornings in a quiet house terrified that God had abandoned me?
She’s a character that seems to want to escape the story she’s in. She starts out as a stereotype of a college student who’s been corrupted by her studies at Yale because you need to be afraid of sending your kids to college, it turns them into liberals.
She converts with token resistance when her shitty cheating dad “finds” god and then is promptly married off to a guy more than a decade older than her.
The blog Slacktivist did/does a really long running breakdown of the series, and she was always a popular character in “fan”fiction in the comments.
You seem closer than I am, but my impression was that a lot of Left Behind Christians are excited for the end to come. They can’t wait to be raptured, and welcome any signs from Revelations.
They aren’t supposed to be cheering for the antichrist and his companions though! (And the dumbass premillennialism. Sola scriptura my left foot.)
I had a lot of dreams of standing up to Nicolai Carpathia - the antichrist who is clearly evil because he leads the UN and wants nuclear disarmament and world peace. (He was also conceived via surrogacy for a gay couple IIRC)
It just felt like the whole point of the series was how badass it was to stand up to the anti-Christ - like when Rayford Steele (author self insert) sneaks some kind of wooden gun to shoot Nicky, even though he know it has to fail through prophecy. Although I guess both main characters do work for the antichrist for the first few books - oh shit. (The token Asian side character gets the mark forced on to him by his parents who are very committed to him being able to get a prestigious career working for the Antichrist is also waived of the normal ramifications of the mark, while keeping its benefits as it benefits the plot)
IRL there definitely are accelerationists and a desire for the end of the world - those that cheer for events in Palestine and hope that Hamas will perhaps retaliate in a way that would destroy symbolic sites in Jerusalem. There are programs dedicated to breeding a specific red calf for prophecy.
Everything about Trump just seems like such an in your face deliberate insult to the tenants of the Protestant Christianities that these people claim to be following. Like it just sometimes seems like things are winding down, and that God is playing a joke on them to teach them some sort of lesson. To show that Christianity for many had in practice become a way to cover up a private revulsion/latent guilt related to homosexuality and transgender people. That Christian nationalists are more the latter than the former.
True, especially if you consider the line:
Sounds like Elon’s recent AI generated video of Trump cleansing Gaza.
As well as the Mark of the Beast as a Neurolink microchip.
In the Left Behind series, you had to implant the chip in your forehead or right hand. They guillotined anyone who refused. If you get willingly chipped you are permanently unsaveable (so it must be the “blaspheming against the Holy Spirit” thing that Jesus was on about)
It’s amazing that I’m not seeing more Christians freak out about this. All of the church basement videos,the Hal Lindsey, … was I the only one who took that shit seriously? Chloe’s death in Left Behind traumatized me - like I don’t think any of the film adaptations have gotten that far but I can picture it like a movie. If they weren’t going to take the warning seriously, why did I wake up some mornings in a quiet house terrified that God had abandoned me?
Dude spoilers! I didn’t know Chloe dies!
She’s a character that seems to want to escape the story she’s in. She starts out as a stereotype of a college student who’s been corrupted by her studies at Yale because you need to be afraid of sending your kids to college, it turns them into liberals.
She converts with token resistance when her shitty cheating dad “finds” god and then is promptly married off to a guy more than a decade older than her.
The blog Slacktivist did/does a really long running breakdown of the series, and she was always a popular character in “fan”fiction in the comments.
You seem closer than I am, but my impression was that a lot of Left Behind Christians are excited for the end to come. They can’t wait to be raptured, and welcome any signs from Revelations.
They aren’t supposed to be cheering for the antichrist and his companions though! (And the dumbass premillennialism. Sola scriptura my left foot.)
I had a lot of dreams of standing up to Nicolai Carpathia - the antichrist who is clearly evil because he leads the UN and wants nuclear disarmament and world peace. (He was also conceived via surrogacy for a gay couple IIRC)
It just felt like the whole point of the series was how badass it was to stand up to the anti-Christ - like when Rayford Steele (author self insert) sneaks some kind of wooden gun to shoot Nicky, even though he know it has to fail through prophecy. Although I guess both main characters do work for the antichrist for the first few books - oh shit. (The token Asian side character gets the mark forced on to him by his parents who are very committed to him being able to get a prestigious career working for the Antichrist is also waived of the normal ramifications of the mark, while keeping its benefits as it benefits the plot)
IRL there definitely are accelerationists and a desire for the end of the world - those that cheer for events in Palestine and hope that Hamas will perhaps retaliate in a way that would destroy symbolic sites in Jerusalem. There are programs dedicated to breeding a specific red calf for prophecy.
Everything about Trump just seems like such an in your face deliberate insult to the tenants of the Protestant Christianities that these people claim to be following. Like it just sometimes seems like things are winding down, and that God is playing a joke on them to teach them some sort of lesson. To show that Christianity for many had in practice become a way to cover up a private revulsion/latent guilt related to homosexuality and transgender people. That Christian nationalists are more the latter than the former.