OBAMA SAID HE FULFILLED PROPHECY /NO JESUS DID

 obama has not healed any one

obama has not healed the blind

obama did not raise any one from the dead 

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Prophecy Fulfilled"

Street vendors across downtown Charlotte are selling posters and artwork depicting President Obama as Jesus Christ ...One poster features an image of the president in prayer with the headline, “Prophecy Fulfilled.”
“Barak is of Hebrew origin and its meaning is ‘flash of lightning,” the poster notes, referencing a passage in in the Old Testament book of Judges.
Hussein, they allege, is a Biblical word meaning “good and handsome.”
“So you see, Barak was destined to be a good and handsome man that would rise like a flash of lightning to win victory in a battle against overwhelming odds,” the poster read.
The posters were being sold outside security zones at the Democratic National Convention. The posters are not sanctioned by the DNC.

Source: Artwork likens Obama to Jesus Todd Stearnes. Fox News and Commentary. (9/4/12).

 

 (Matthew 11:2-6; Luke 7:18-23)

            Eventually news of Jesus’ raising of the widow’s son reached the ears of John, who was in prison. John sent his disciples to Jesus to ask, “Are you the Coming One, or do we look for another?”
            It seems to be a strange question coming from the man who prepared the way for Christ and declared him to be the Messiah at his baptism. Yet, we must remember that John was a man, like all the other prophets before him. Other prophets had their moments of doubt. Moses had to be convinced to go and free the Israelites (Exodus 4:1-17). Gideon asked for two miracles before he lead God’s people to war (Judges 6:36-40). Elijah gave up after Jezebel threatened his life (I Kings 19:1-10). Jeremiah cursed the day he was born (Jeremiah 20:14-18). Remember that John has been in prison for quite a while now. Perhaps he thought, as did so many Jews, that Jesus would lead Israel in triumph against the Romans. Yet in all this time, Jesus hasn’t declared himself, nor has there been any apparent move to re-establish the kingdom of Israel. And for John, there has been no rescue. Is it a wonder that John began to doubt himself?
            Jesus didn’t answer John’s disciples directly. Instead during that very hour that they asked, he performed numerous miracles before the disciples of John. Afterwards he told them to return to John and tell them what they witnessed. His reply back to John echoes the words of Isaiah 35:5-6 and Isaiah 61:1, but the hidden message is found in the verse before. “Say to those who are fearful-hearted, "Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God; He will come and save you"” (Isaiah 35:4). Jesus was telling John to take courage. Jesus warns John not to fall away because Jesus was not meeting John’s personal expectations.

Isaiah 61:1

New International Version (NIV)

The Year of the Lord’s Favor

61 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me,
    because the Lord has anointed me
    to proclaim good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
    to proclaim freedom for the captives
    and release from darkness for the prisoners,^[a]

Footnotes:

1. Isaiah 61:1 Hebrew; Septuagint the blind

Matthew 3:16-17 (King James Version)

 

Matthew 3:16-17

King James Version (KJV)

¹⁶ And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
¹⁷ And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

When John was in prison (sent there by Herod because he didn’t like John criticizing him for stealing his (Herod’s) brother’s wife and marrying her), he sent some of his disciples to ask Jesus, "Are you the one we should be looking for? Or must we wait for someone else?" (Matt 11:3). Yet, when he baptized his cousin, Jesus, John knew that Jesus was the Messiah (Matt 3:13-17). So why does he question him now? There have been different answers throughout history. Most of the early church leaders couldn't deal with the concept of a doubting John, so they argued that John just wanted to help his own disciples have faith that Jesus was the Messiah (Bruner 506). Others claim that John is just starting to believe in Jesus or that his faith in him was now growing (Morris 274, Barclay 3). But John knew Jesus' identity at the Jordan River. Still, others argue that being in prison could have depressed John and that he just needed reassurance. But John was a pretty strong character, so capitulating to depression seems unlikely (Morris 275). Some argue that John's question was one of "impatience" with Jesus "because he was not what he expected him to be" (Barclay 3). Others claim that John was "puzzled" because he had different expectations of the Messiah (Morris, 275). Some even say that John was "disappointed" in Jesus because he wasn't doing what John expected him to do -- overthrow Herod (Wright 125). These last three all deal with expectations. John's message was a strong, fiery call to the Jews to repent and change their ways because the Messiah was coming. They thought the Messiah would free the Jews from foreign (Roman) domination. But Jesus wasn't calling for political change. Jesus was spending time with the poor people, those who had been marginalized, those who were destitute. He was teaching them about God's love, preaching to them that the kingdom of heaven is here now, and healing them of whatever problems they had. He wasn't trying to claim political power. He wasn't confronting Herod. He certainly wasn't going up against Rome. Bruner points out that he wasn't even performing his miracles in the "strategic" Jerusalem. Rather, he was doing most of his work in Galilee, which was not considered to be prestigious by any accounts (Bruner 505). Jesus was being the Messiah of Isaiah 35 and 42, who would open the "eyes of the blind" and not break a "bruised reed." In other words, Jesus was a Messiah who would show his people how to obtain spiritual freedom -- a freedom ever more important than political freedom. And he would do so gently and firmly, with the spirit of Love. He came to show the Jews that God is a God of mercy, not of anger or destruction. Naturally, this must have concerned John. John the Baptist had been preparing the way for the Messiah, but Jesus didn't look like the Messiah John expected. In prison, probably knowing that he was going to die, isn't it possible that John needed reassurance that he had not spent his life pointing to the wrong Messiah? Jesus tried to reassure John by telling John's disciples to explain what they have seen and heard: "Go and tell John what you have heard and seen. The blind are now able to see, and the lame can walk. People with leprosy are being healed, and the deaf can hear. The dead are raised to life, and the poor are hearing the good news. God will bless everyone who doesn't reject me because of what I do." (Matt 11:4-6 CEV) We don't find out how John took Jesus' answer. But it would be wonderful to think that when John's disciples returned to him, John felt the presence of the Christ; that this gentle presence melted any concern John had, reassured him that his life's work had not been in vain, and eradicated John's concept of a judgmental and worldly powerful Messiah -- replacing it with a Messiah of peace, inner transformation, spiritual strength, and infinite Love.     -- MFE