Osama Bin Laden: Religious Leader, Military Commander, Antichrist?
Expert Reveals The Similarities!
Tony Scott Macauley, U.S. Army veteran turned Christian minister, has noticed the media talk shows hinting at references to Osama Bin Laden in biblical terms.
The former Army Ranger, who also taught at Ranger School, believes that there are plenty of reasons to make a comparison.
“Bin Laden fancied himself a military commander, religious leader, but he wasn’t a religious figurehead in a conventional way – unless you consider evil a religion,” said Macauley, author of A Dream Before Dying (www.adreambeforedying.com). “He had some basic similarities as the famed biblical villain, born with a silver spoon, not too hard on the eyes, but mainly he held the world captive through his fanatical religious practice based on fear, deceiving others into believing he was the savior of the world.”
Macauley’s point is that there are types of antichrist, surfacing every few years, but very rarely do they exceed global influence militarily and religiously as Bin Laden has, who by way of terror, held the world in a sort of fearful spiritual captivity.
“The media flirts with the idea, teasing us with sound bites such as, ‘the head of the snake has been crushed, they may have bruised us but we crushed the head of the snake,’” Macauley quoted. “Sound familiar? It comes from the first prophecy in the Bible; Genesis 3:15: And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. It’s the famous conversation between Satan, Adam and Eve and refers to the ongoing battle between good and evil, ending with Satan’s (the snake) head crushed. This comparison highlights a type of event that Christians believe will take place in the end times. It’s an event where a false Christ deceives the world and leads it away just prior to the return of the true Savior.”
Macauley says it’s a prophetic comparison fulfilled, as Osama Bin Laden has played the role of the antagonizing antichrist and President Obama the protagonist, savior of the world. Even the similarities of the two names seem to suggest more to the story, the imposter pretending to be savior to the world until defeated shortly after the appearance by the true savior.
“No, I don’t believe Bin Laden is the actual antichrist but he has certain similarities to Satan, once held in high favor by God, only to fall because of greed and pride,” he added. “He was given the top honor among the angels of God. He was the highest of all, but then decided not to play second fiddle, succeeding in turning favor the hearts and minds of the children of God toward himself. Satan uses religion, military power, and his knowledge of both to deceive the children of God, just as Bin Laden convinced his followers that their mission was to cleanse the world of its sinfully corrupt infidels.”
Macauley said we need to clearly define this victory, not only for what it is on the surface, the death of Bin Laden, but what if anything we learned from it.
“The Rangers have a creed,” he said. “It’s part of our training. One element of it states ‘readily will I display the intestinal fortitude to fight on to the Ranger objective and complete the mission, though I be the lone survivor.’ As a nation it is our mission to expose evil and crush its head for God and country.”
About Tony Scott Macauley
Tony Scott Macauley, an author and ordained non-denominational Christian minister, is a former US. Army Ranger, Veteran of Urgent Fury, Grenada, October 1983, serving with 1/75, 3/75 Ranger Battalions, and finally for the Department of the Army Ranger School as instructor/trainer.
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