Jeremy Thompson Catholic PhD in Biblical Languages, Programmer, Runner

HERE is online article about how swine flu is in the Bible.  You’ll have to read it for yourself to see the sheer brilliance, but the logic goes something like this:

1. The Bible talks about pestilences;
2. Swine flu is a pestilence;
3. Therefore, swine flu is in the Bible.

Well, there you have it folks proof that the Bible is inspired and inerrant.  It predicted swine flu 2,000 years in advance.  And, not only that.  Since end time passages are ones that talk about pestilences the world is probably going to end.

PS – If you can’t see the faultiness of the logic here you may want to check out:

Yesterday there was a post on the Desiring God blog about “boring” passages in the Bible (why they put boring in quotes I don’t know; I would just call them boring), especially the Pentateuch.  There is so much wrong with the particular details of this post that it is difficult to really know where to go with this.  Do you deal with the fundamentalism or the anachronism or both?  I’ll try both.  I’ll just say a brief word about the fundamentalism.  Moses wrote the Pentateuch?  Really?  I’ll provide two quotes from the post, though there are a number:

For example, when listing out the instructions for how to build the tabernacle, Moses goes into great detail about all the materials and measurements. Did he intend for the reader of Exodus to actually build a tabernacle? No! That was Bezalel and Oholiab’s job (Exodus 31:1-11).

Rather, it appears that Moses included the full set of blueprints in order to convey to us, as we literally labor to read them, a greater sense of the weight and worth of God.

I thought that even the most conservative scholars that I respect were past this.  If you still think this, I recommend you read all of  Introduction to Reading the Pentateuch by Jean-Louis Ska.    Or, you should at the very, very least read chapter 3 of the book free HERE (or as much as you can free it’s probably my favorite book on the Pentateuch).  This is the best advice that I can give since most people who still believe Moses wrote the Pentateuch may take a lot of convincing otherwise.

Okay. Now, for anachronism.  How about this quote:

Consider this: Why does the Pentateuch contain so much material that describes the old covenant and its laws? One reason is that Moses wanted to increase our anticipation and appreciation of a new covenant.

Really?  Moses wanted to do that.  The covenant wasn’t even “old” yet; It was just the covenant.  Unless “Moses” was going 007, I really, really doubt this is what was going on.  “Okay I’m going to write down these laws, so that these people will think they are for them.  But, what I’m really doing is writing them to increase the anticipation and appreciation of some people over 3000 years from now.”  Maybe that’s being a little unfair, but that is literally what the post says is one thing that “Moses” wanted to do.  Do you truly think that “Moses” had anything to do with a “new” covenant in mind before the covenant was even “old.”

There has been a lot of controversy lately about whether or not Barack Obama is the Antichrist.  Here are a few links to  blogs that have dealt with the issue in recent days: Anumma -Brooke Lester (the post I originally linked to), Ecce Homo – Mike Whitenton, Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth –  Nick Norelli, among others who have linked to these posts.  I wanted to put all of this to rest today.  Barack Obama is definitely not the antichrist … I am.  I became convinced of this only recently, but let’s look at the evidence:

My name is Jeremy Paul Thompson.  Don’t worry.  I know there’s a lot there, but we’ll take this piece by piece.

1. My first name is Jeremy, which is related to the Hebrew word rum.  This word means “be high, exalted.”  But, notice that my parents conveniently omitted the divine element in my name by God’s foreordination.  In other words, it is not “Jerem-iah,” which would mean that God exalted me.  Who exalts me then? Obviously, I exalt myself because I am the antichrist.  Can my first name be a coincidence?  I think not.  But, if you require more proof please read on.
2. My middle name is Paul.  This should be obvious.  Paul knew about the antichrist.  And, God ordained that my middle name would be Paul in order to warn you and remind you to read the writings of the apostle Paul.  Especially, he wanted to remind you to read places like 2 Thes. 2.3, which reads “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;” could it possibly be any clearer.  Why else would my middle name be Paul?  Let’s keep going.
3. The first three consonants in my last name are t-h-m, just like the consonants in the Hebrew word tehom meaning “deep” or “abyss.”  This reflects that my everlasting home will be in a “lake” (i.e. “deep”) of fire.  At this point, I’m not sure that I must go one, but I will.
4. The final part of my name is “son,” which signals God’s shift to a preference for the English of the King James Version.  So, we can just work from the English here.  And, I think the meaning becomes readily apparent.  We are talking here of God’s son who will put me in my place in the everlasting “deep.”  With that the case is rock solid.
5. Let’s recap.  My name reflects that I exalt myself, the apostle Paul warned you all about me, my abode will be an everlasting deep, and Jesus the divine son of God will put me there.

If there was any doubt, rest assured that Barack Obama is not the antichrist.  I am.  I have only recently begun to dig into all of this myself.  It wasn’t until I watched the Obama – Antichrist video that I began wondering whether I myself might be the antichrist.  And to be honest, I have not really come to grips with all that it means to be the antichrist yet.  I have normally considered myself a decent person, but there is certainly no denying the Biblical evidence.  Please forward this blog post along, tweet it, facebook it, whatever you need to do so that your friends and family can be safe if they ever meet me, Jeremy Paul Thompson.

I am not sure where to go from here.  But, if you would, please give me a week or so before you contact me for interviews.  I am sure that a lot of people have a lot of questions about what the devil and I are planning for the tribulation and so forth.

All the best to you and your families.
Yours,
The Antichrist (AKA Jeremy Paul Thompson)