Biden to Aid Assyrian Rise?

Whatever you feel about Mr. Obama’s politics, probably the most annoying thing that will occur, at least in the first stages of Mr. Obama’s presidency, are the constant accusations that he is the Antichrist. Although he does have ties to European royalty through his mother (and is therefore possibly descended from the Danites), he does not conform to many of the other prerequisites for the Antichrist, several of which I mentioned in my post from August 8, 2008. Mr. Obama IS NOT THE ANTICHRIST! Get over it.

Now, there is a little interesting tidbit in the fact that a person tied to Mr. Obama’s presidency could produce a key characteristic for the Antichrist, Vice President-Elect Joe Biden. I have been reading a great deal about the possibility that Isaiah and Jeremiah were quite literal when they referred to the Antichrist as “the Assyrian.” Assyria ceased to exist as a nation more than 2,500 years ago when Nebuchadnezzar’s father conquered it and added it to Babylonia. However, the Assyrian people have continued with a unique culture that has managed to survive all these long years. Ever since the end of World War I, prominent members of the Assyrian community have been agitating for an independent Assyrian state with Nineveh (Mosul) as its capital.

Now, not long after things began to take a bad turn in Iraq, Senator Joe Biden offered up a plan to divide Iraq into three independent regions: Kurdish, Sunni, and Shia. Obviously, nothing ever came of this plan and Iraq has stabilized greatly since then. However, if the region becomes unstable again, especially in the light of a dramatic war involving Israel, Vice President Biden might be offered as a mediator and he might offer a variation on his divvying up Iraq plan.

If the Nineveh province is split off and given its own government as a homeland for the Assyrian people, it could become the homeland and vehicle that the Antichrist uses to gain power. We should remember that he is referred to as a little horn. This implies that he is the leader or a prominent official in a small nation, making his rise to world leader that much more dramatic. Being elected president or prime minister of a tiny nation risen from the ashes of history would create very humble beginnings for him.