Who Will Step Behind The Microphones?

It has been a daily specter during this Corona Crisis to watch a leader step up to a waiting bank of microphones flanked by authorities and task force members. At times, it has been a mayor who has stepped up to the microphones to address his city’s denizens. On many other occasions, it has been the governor who has stepped behind them to give further, more restrictive and drastic directives to the residents of his state. More frequently, it has been our president. He steps up to the waiting microphones to address and calm the citizens of our nation. Recently, the cameras were trained on the empty podium, its anterior bristling with the microphones of scores of news agencies. Eyes of reporters and viewers everywhere were riveted on the empty lectern waiting for the president to step up behind it to address the nation on the pandemic that is spreading fear and ravaging the market. All were waiting. Waiting for answers. Waiting for help. Waiting for calm. Waiting for a way forward. It was then that it became so presciently clear: One day in a moment of world crisis, like the present one, it will not be a mayor, governor, or president that will step behind the podium; it will be the prophesied Antichrist. The Antichrist will be the one who appears behind the waiting microphones and addresses, not only the inhabitants of a city, state, or nation, but the inhabitants of the world. He will mesmerize with calming words. He will amaze with solutions and answers. He will impress with unsurpassed intellect. Women will swoon with infatuation. Academics will stare with gaping mouths at the luminosity of his ideas. Politicians will concede the superbness of his plans. Reporters will rave at his brilliance. Stock markets will ascend, as he speaks, to unprecedented heights. Skies will appear to brighten with hope, peace, and prosperity. Muslims will shout their Al Mahdi has come; Jews, their Messiah; nominal, ecumenical Christians, their Jesus. It will happen. Perhaps not this pandemic. Maybe not a following crisis. But, soon, in the throes of world chaos that will make all previous crises pale, the cameras will be trained on the empty podium, the reporters, sitting silent their pencils poised over their pads—fingers hovering over their devices keypad--the crowd, silent, barely breathing. All waiting. Waiting for answers. Waiting for hope. Waiting for peace. Waiting for The One to speak to them. Then, the Antichrist will step behind the microphones. This is not disconcerting for we followers of Jesus Christ. We do not look for the one who will step up to the bank of microphones but for the One who will step down on a bank of clouds; not for the Antichrist, but for The true Christ. When He does appear, may we each be in that number flanking Him, coming with Him. He truly will bring peace.

Who Will Step Behind The Microphones?

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