Online magazine "The Christian Post" (CP) ran a hit piece recently in which they ran interview segments from Florida Pastor and PPSIMMONS contributor Carl Gallups and Chuck Swindoll's Dallas Theological Seminary New Testament Studies professor Daniel B. Wallace.
While Wallace's title may seem impressive, Gallups' credentials are stellar indeed. Carl Gallups is the long-time Senior Pastor of Hickory Hammock Baptist Church in Milton, Florida (Since 1987). He is a conference leader, evangelist, youth evangelist, talk radio host, (Freedom Friday With Carl Gallups) talk radio and television special guest commentator, newspaper columnist, video and voice-over specialist, radio program producer, documentary video producer and member of the Board of Regents for the University of Mobile in Mobile, Alabama. He is fluent in Greek, Hebrew, Spanish and, of course, English. With respect to contextual biblical comprehension he has few rivals.
Carl is also a former Florida law enforcement officer. He is a graduate of Florida State University and The New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary.
The CP article dealt with the accusation from White House shooting suspect Oscar Ramiro Ortega- Hernandez that Barack Hussein Obama is the "Antichrist". PPSIMMONS released a video in 2009 titled “Did Jesus Give Us the Name of the Antichrist?" in which we documented evidence which could be interpreted to mean that Jesus did in fact give us the name of the "Antichrist".
Carl Gallups shows how some have used the Bible verse Luke 10:18 and Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary to translate Jesus words, “I beheld Satan as lightning falling from the heavens” suggest that Jesus in fact said “I beheld Satan as Baraq ‘O’ Bam-Maw (or Baraq ‘U’ Bam-Maw.)”. However Gallups urged, “The important word is ‘correlation,” as in there is a very loose link between the Hebrew words and what Jesus said in the Bible. Now watch what happens as the interview proceeds.
In July 1994, Chuck Swindoll became the president of the Dallas Theological Seminary and now serves as its chancellor. Swindoll has been a staunch believer in emotion-based pre-trib rapture theory his entire life and is fond of telling how he longed for the rapture as a child - especially on report card day. Apparently he inherited this belief from his parents. The pre-trib theory is axiomatic for the entire DTS course platform on eschatology. They (Swindoll et al) have taught it for so long that now it is simply a matter of fact which must be defended at any cost - even attacking a brother and calling any contradicting theory "insanity". This is what happened in the CP article as we see unfold next.
Wallace, who teaches at Dallas Theological Seminary, affirmed that the English to Hebrew translations of the words “lightning” and “the heights” (or heaven) to baraq waw (which transliterated o/u) bamaw. Waw, he said, is simply a conjunction much like the English word “and.”
However, in spite of affirming the content, Wallace goes on to make a startling claim about those who documented this amazing correlation.
Wallace also concluded, “The linguistic torturing required to make the biblical evidence say this is beyond the pale of reason and, perhaps, sanity.”
Wait - what? Linguistic torturing? Sanity? So basically he confirmed the content of the video but because of the potential damage it, if true, does to his precious pre-trib rapture theory he essentially calls it unreasonable and possibly insane - even though he himself confirmed the content? Wouldn't THAT be considered insane?
Listen - PPSIMMONS has never said in any way, shape, or form that Obama is the Antichrist. We HAVE floated him as a viable candidate and provided SUBSTANTIAL evidence for this claim but we have NEVER said he IS the AC. Having said that, we HAVE said that these ARE the trumpet days of Revelation and the pre-trib rapture theory is a myth. We have proven this beyond any reasonable doubt folks. The "endtime" is not coming... the "endtime" is now!
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