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Revelations was written down a few decades after Nero's famously-poor rule of the Roman Empire, and there had been plenty of poor leaders in living memory. There have been plenty of boastful liars who gained power in history, and so many of them have had similar comparisons drawn.
And the antichrist characteristics they describe are a selection of the ones he fits, without including those he doesn't. He hasn't (pretended to) come back from the dead, and isn't connected obviously to the number 666, for example.
That he fits into some of the classic descriptions of dangerously bad leaders doesn't seem eerie to me, but unsurprising. He's a classic con man.
The article actually specifically mentions both coming back from the dead (Covid) and 666 (Kushner).
Dont get me wrong, I'm not saying they aren't tenuous and I'm 100% not saying he is the literal antichrist. But its not accurate to say they dont include that stuff
Oh you're totally right, but yeah it is still cherry picked, and some of the connections are tenuous at best
The 666 connection isn't far off
He's an archetype.
No president has ever won an election to become president again after losing once. This is about as close to political resurrection as one can imagine.
Grover Cleveland did.
I stand corrected. Thanks.
What about Grover Cleveland?
I did not know about him. I stand corrected.
Actually, there is a Trump/666 connection
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/12/jared-kushner-666-fifth-avenue-qatar-investigation
Yes he is, specifically 666 Fifth Avenue
“Papyrus 115 (which is the oldest preserved manuscript of the Revelation as of 2017), as well as other ancient sources like Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus, give the number of the beast as χιϛ or χιϲ, transliterable in Arabic numerals as 616 (χιϛ), not 666”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast
Who do you expect me to believe? Some old piece of paper or Iron Maiden?
Bruce Dickinson knows how to fly planes, can the bible fly planes? I think not.
I’m sure if I divide the numbers of bottles of tanner he uses on his face by the number 45, and multiple it by 13… it would end up 666! CHECKMATE… somebody.
Just watch Trump have a heart attack and be brought back after being dead for 2 minutes at 6pm on June 6th.
He did survive COVID.