What I told someone who was insinuating that Obama is the Antichrist...
This is what I told a gentleman with a popular mailing list who seems to be promoting the video suggesting that President Obama is the Antichrist:
Dear ____________,
The word "bamah" means high places in the sense of high places of idolatry or elevated physical places such as mountainous areas.
A 5-minute word study would show anyone that the only place "bamah" is used to refer to the sky is in the Isa.14 passage, and he speaks about the high places of the clouds. There is no other place in the Hebrew Bible where "bamah" has any reference to the sky. The word "shemayim" is used to refer to the heavens. This video is not helpful as it makes all of us who are premillenial look like cranks and can serve to inoculate people against seeing the actual signs of the real Antichrist.
This teaching can indeed be shot down even in five minutes by someone like myself who has no formal Hebrew education. All we need to do is simply refer to the wealth of Bible study materials available for free in 2009 on the Web.
In a world full of antichrists with a small "a," this is a supremely unhelpful video which Christians have no business helping "go viral." All you are doing is engendering additional ill will against a segment of society that has already become marginalized and mistrusted - us!
