From Newsweek:
On Nov. 5, Todd Strandberg was at his desk, fielding E-mails from around the world. As the editor and founder of RaptureReady.com, his job is to track current events and link them to biblical prophecy in hopes of maintaining his status as “the eBay of prophecy,” the best source online for predictions and calculations concerning the end of the world. Already Barack Obama had drawn the attention of apocalypse watchers after an anonymous e-mail circulated among conservative Christians in October implying that he was the Antichrist. Former “Saturday Night Live” ingénue Victoria Jackson fueled the fire when, according to news reports, she wrote on her Web site that Obama “bears traits that resemble the anti-Christ.” Now Strandberg was receiving up-to-the-minute news from his constituents in Illinois. One of the winning lottery numbers in the president-elect’s home state was 666— which, as everyone knows, is the sign of the Beast (also known as the Antichrist). “It is very eerie, and I take it for a sign as to who he really is,” wrote one of Strandberg’s correspondents.
I need to find one of these rapture believing Christians that is so confident that Obama is the anti-christ they are willing to make a wager on it. It would work like this:
- Find someone that is certain the “end times” are upon us now that Obama has been elected and the rapture will happen within his first term in office
- Make the wager that after his 4 years in office the rapture will not have happened.
- Offer them $10,000 today in return that if the rapture hasn’t happened by the end of Obama’s 4 year term, they pay me back 4 times that amount: $40,000.
- Profit.