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The next time we see a panhandler standing on a street corner
soliciting for money or employment,
the following Bible verse should come to mind:

Psalm 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his children begging bread.

Some predictions are conditional, but others are not conditional.

Some predictions are not pleasant, nor necessarily what the predictor wants.

According to what yours truly presently perceives, Republicans (as a political party) will lose not only the Presidency in the election of 2012, but perhaps even the House also.

Of course, there are reasons for that.

First of all, feminist-chauvenist, pornographically-mopheaded Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Michelle Bachmann, and even Sarah Palin cannot hold a candle in comparison to feminist-sexist shortcut-hairstyled clownfaces-displaying Rachel Maddow in terms of decent public presentability.

Secondly, was it not chauvenistically-deluded and wrongly-presumptive GOP hierarchy who imposed inferior-gender Sarah Palin as VP-candidate running mate with to-feminists-acquiescing John McCain in 2008....and lost....while maybe-Kenyan-born-or-fathered Barack Hussein Obama shrewdly (and in non-admitted accord with either males-in-charge-advocating Qur'an or the Biblical premises of Numbers chapter 30, Ecclesiastes 7:27-28, Isaiah 3:12, Nahum 3:13, First Corinthians 11:1-16 (KJV/KJ21/NKJV - not RSV), First Corinthians 14:33-38, First Timothy 2:12-15, and First Peter 3:7) rejected Hillary Clinton and instead selected superior-gender Joe Biden as his VP running mate...and won?

Was it not otherwise-quite-respected big-tenting, moralist-Republican Ronald Reagan who got the first inferior-gender [woman] on the High Court (i.e. Sandra Day O'Connor)...even though Barack Hussein Obama force-fed largely-complacent americans the two female feminists Sotomayor and Kagan sitting for life terms in the U.S. Supreme Court?

Obama's network media, directed by savvy Obama-nation operatives, has let concerned Republicans "blow off some steam" in complaining about the huge and growing deficit, and the intolerable forced-health-insurance-purchase and forced-insuring-those-with-preexisting-conditions wrinkles in Pelosi-Reid Obamascare. Besides Obama's media blaming corporations for giving large contributions to republican candidates, the same media blames those corporations for relocating resources overseas and thus depriving American unionistas of high-wage jobs.

Much publicity the media is giving to anti-abortion (and to a lesser extent: anti-homosexual) voices generally associated with the present Republican Party will probably result in nothing substantial nor concrete when pro-choice-against-abortion legislators actually attempt in vain and futile failure to bypass the Democrat-controlled Senate and veto pen of Barack Hussein Obama.

Barack Hussein Obama will most likely not have to mess that much with compromising republican RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) who subtly or openly but relentlessly declare: "The huge budget deficit and out-of-control spending is FAR more important than [sexual] social issues at this time."

Mere lip service will inevitably be given to recently identified-by-pink-concentration-camp-triangles-reminiscent, 'Don't-Ask-Don't-Tell' abolished, now-open-target, diehard homoperverts....who want to pollute, defile, and destroy nationwide heterosexuality-based families.....is easily though rather counter-productively compensated for by Obamination simply adding a "Significant Other" option to federal forms (such as Form 1040) requiring gender specification.

Thirdly, concerning foreign policy, has not Barack Hussein Obama [wisely?] avoided especially American-military entanglement with recent Mideast insurrectionist disruptions having occurred in Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Syria, Iran, and thereabouts...which is exactly what "grassroots" Ron Paul and followers, PLUS those of the Constitution Party, PLUS Obama's own democrat anti-war activists want -- which non-admitted antisemites not only applaud withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan (let alone Pakistan, which even the Soviets could not conquer) but are absolutely delighted that Netanyahu-avoiding Obama is not flexing Bush-like muscles in dangerous foreign situations, especially those which would be of survival-assistance benefit to Israel?

Fourthly, Obama is quite sympathetic and perhaps more with multi-state vicious, willing-to-strike, eager-to-trespass unionistas (as Rush Limbaugh calls them) on his side. If the governor of Wisconsin cannot get Madison police unionists to enforce curfews and expulsion decrees, would the National Guard (along with federal marshals, Marines, etc.) obey (or instead override) either the silence or suggestions of their Commander-in-Chief, to whom they are obligated to give required allegiance unless The Chief Executive becomes unreasonably and unconstitutionally dictatorial and/or incompetent to rule?

Fifthly, the ultimate "dagger in the heart" against a Republican takeover of the White House in the Election of 2012 will be something practically every other high-visibility RINO insists upon, which is to get voters in general to stop their dependency upon government-bestowed-and-depletable Social Security and Medicare, plus Raising the Retirement Age (to 70 and beyond) and initiating Means Testing as to who should and should not get Social Security checks, and how much should be eliminated to supposedly save the sinking ship of America's trillion-plus-dollar deficit .....all of which wrongheaded premises are diametrically opposed to:

Leviticus 27:1 The LORD said to Moses,
2 Say to the people of Israel, "When a man makes a special vow of persons to the LORD at your valuation,
3 then your valuation of a male from twenty years old up to sixty years old shall be fifty shekels of silver, according to the shekel of the sanctuary.
4 If the person is a female, your valuation shall be thirty shekels.
5 If the person is from five years old up to twenty years old, your valuation shall be for a male twenty shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
6 If the person is from a month old up to five years old, your valuation shall be for a male five shekels of silver, and for a female your valuation shall be three shekels of silver.
7 And if the person is sixty years old and upward, then your valuation for a male shall be fifteen shekels, and for a female ten shekels.
8 And if a man is too poor to pay your valuation, then he shall bring the person before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to the ability of him who vowed the priest shall value him."

Certainly, the vast horde of Democrat voters - both elderly and younger wage earners - will soundly reject that when they are in the voting booths for the Election of November 2012! Even more devastating is that many Republican voters will also be adverse to that needless and irresponsible tinkering against Social Security funding so desperately needed and depended upon by impoverished seniors.

Social-Security-check monies to seniors who previously paid into such (to varying extents) through FICA deductions from their payroll paychecks are unique benefit-"income," in that such is not taxable, and seniors can save or spend it as they (not agenda-driven bureaucrats and activists) see fit according to their own individual and freedom-based needs, interests, innovative hobbies and inventions, etc. Not being taxable, none of it is involuntarily siphoned off by godless bureaucrats and deviant activists to non-wanted pro-feminist, pro-homosexual, pro-abortion, pro-atheist, pro-evolution, pro-cultic persons or groups -- and thus, not wasted on detrimental boondoggles nor revisionist and satanic antisocial experimentation.

GOPers, with their demonic and devilish pie-in-the-sky-by-and-by hallucinations of strike-it-rich gambling grandeur with self-employment schemes and/or ups-then-downs Stock-Market investing involving Madoff-destroyable stocks (of which 'All Principle Is At Risk,' and which are 'Not FDIC Insured'), who promote the heartlessly diabolical idea of depriving needy babyboomers and others of [vital-for-financial-survival] Social-Security checks, are the damnably-accursed ones who will be Divinely held most responsible for unrealistically and insidiously violating:

Ecclesiastes 8:7 For he does not know what is to be, for who can tell him how it will be?
10:14 A fool multiplies words, though no man knows what is to be, and who can tell him what will be after him?

Ecclesiastes 11:1 Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
2 Give a portion to seven, or even to eight, for you know not what evil may happen on earth.
3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves on the earth; and if a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.
4 He who observes the wind will not plant; and he who regards the clouds will not reap.
5 As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
6 In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand; for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

Haggai 1:6 You have planted much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.

Luke 3:14 Soldiers also asked him, "And we, what shall we do?" And he said to them, "Rob no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your wages."

Hebrews 13:5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, "I will never fail you nor reject you."

James 4:13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and get gain";
14 whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
15 Instead you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and we shall do this or that."
16 As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

The influential GOP-associated names I previously mentioned presume that children should not be dependent upon their parents, nor personally care for them in their old age, but turn them over to "Visiting Angels" and other impersonal eldercare/nursing-home imprisoners-in-effect:

THAT "get-out-and-earn-your-own-apart-from-parents" heresy certainly does NOT jive with:

Leviticus 19:32 "You shall rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of an old man, and you shall fear your God: I am the LORD."

Proverbs 16:31 A hoary head is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life.

Matthew 15:5 But you say, 'If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.'

Mark 7:10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die';
11 but you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is Corban' (that is, given to God)...
12 then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or mother,
13 thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do."

First Timothy 5:8 If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is worse than an disbeliever.

....and the needy-parents-deserting mindless brain farts of such despicably-subversive RINOs is instead an out-of-context, warped and twisted mis-application and mis-appropriation against the following Bible verses:

Mark 10:7 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife...."

Ephesians 5:31 "For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

First Thessalonians 4:9 But concerning love of the brethren you have no need to have any one write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;
10 and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to do so more and more,
11 to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;
12 so that you may command the respect of outsiders, and be dependent on nobody.

"Be dependent upon nobody?" Can THAT ever be twisted to misrepresent what the Author originally intended! Don't depend upon pension-subsidized parents so you don't live long upon the land which the Lord your God gives you, so throw the money-supplying aging parents out with the trash? Presume (not "assume") that we are not interdependent upon police, firefighters, grocery and hardware store plus water and sewer and lights utility providers? It behooves heads-up-their-rectums RINOs to 'wake up and smell the coffee, ' 'Get Real!' and 'Get with the Program!'

Who ARE those anti-Social-Security RINOs trying to please, by preaching their false gospel of depriving the poor of crucial Social Security checks so they cannot pay residual monthly bills?

If they speak loud and long enough, Obama - who has already withheld Cost-of-Living increases from Social Security checks - might take them up on the idea of dismantling Social Security against his political enemies, overseen and enforced by his Nazi-Mengele-like, rational-health-care, death-panel bureaucrats against more than non-born fetal babes and hospiced seniors!

Are senile, sickly, feeble, crippled, handicapped seniors expected to start a thriving corporate business or become rent-and-lease-prices-raising real-estate tycoons to support themselves without dependable monthly Social Security checks?

How about those elderly Christians repeatedly discriminated against into perpetual blacklisted-reputation joblessless because of them adhering to anti-feminist-twit-submission, anti-homogay-sensitivity-inclusiveness, and anti-evolutionist-mythology/pseudoscience-blatter fundamentalist-orthodox Scriptural beliefs and practices?

Are "don't-become-dependent-upon-FDR/Johnson-legacy-government" seniors supposed to be involuntarily taxed and thus cultically donate to earth-worship whackjob Interior Department and Environmental Protection Agency "Save-A-Whale" and "Protect-a-Polar-Bear" nutcases destabilizing national security by locking out vast areas of drillable-for-oil Alaska land causing America to dangerously remain dependent upon foreign anti-Israel Saudi and Libyan oil suppliers....resulting in the economically-draining inordinate jacking up of gas-pump fuel prices across America...for the sake of a few randomly-deified species which (not "who") would in NO way would be endangered by a few pipelines here and there? Was it not Jesus who stated that humans are worth MUCH more than many sparrows? Priorities among the irrationally insane have to be readjusted!

Will all the above quotations from Holy Writ change the mind of talking-mopheads-imposing Hannity, self-confident Ryan, arrogant-naysayer Michael Medved, egocentrically-pontificating Prager, and others, about NOT conveying to the general voting public the horrific wickedness of misnaming Social Security "entitlements" and/or "welfare" -- then emasculating Social Security by proposing to Raise the Retirement Age and cut people's nest egg's short by Means Testing?

Isaiah 30:1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the LORD, "who carry out a plan, but not Mine; and who make a league, but not of My spirit, that they may add sin to sin;
9 For they are a rebellious people, lying sons, sons who will not hear the instruction of the LORD.

Isaiah 65:2 I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices.

Jeremiah 5:23 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.
Jeremiah 6:28 They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron, all of them act corruptly.

Jeremiah 13:23 Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.

Ezekiel 2:5 And whether they hear or refuse to hear (for they are a rebellious house) they will know that there has been a prophet among them.
6 And you, son of man, be not afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you and you sit upon scorpions; be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.
7 And you shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or refuse to hear; for they are a rebellious house.
8 "But you, son of man, hear what I say to you; be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth, and eat what I give you."

Ezekiel 3:9 Like adamant harder than flint have I made your forehead; fear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house."
27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, 'Thus says the Lord GOD'; he that will hear, let him hear; and he that will refuse to hear, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 12:2 "Son of man, you reside in the middle of a rebellious house, who have eyes to see, but see not, who have ears to hear, but hear not...

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WILL Barry Soetoro (a.k.a. "BHO") succeed in winning the Election of 2012?

As of this writing, neither the Ryan Republicans nor the Obama/Pelosi/Mendez/Reid/Hoyer/Durbin/Schumer democrats are agreeing on how much of and when Paul Ryan's Debit-Reduction Budget Proposal should be utilized...and so a "government shutdown" is imminent if no resolution is reached.

That would mean that some government services funded by the government would be shut down or slowed down, such as the processing of passports, admission to federal museums and monuments, entrance to national parks, delay of checks issues to our military soldiers, and perhaps even the issuing and mailing out of IRS tax refund checks, and a lot more.

Such stoppage and slowdown might make purportedly-mandatory and allegedly-crucial government funding to the National Endowment for the Crucifix-in-Urine Arts, Sesame-Street-Big-Bird series of PBS, A.A.R.P., Planned Parentlessness (a.k.a. Planned Promiscuity) so dear to now-thankfully-brain-dead subversive TFK, pre-school-aged Head-Start and Pell-Grant pro-feminist/pro-homogay/pro-evolution/anti-Bible pseudo-"education" indoctrination, dependence on wind-power research (for when winds frequently die down) and solar-cells-power research (useless at night when the Sun doesn't shine)....FAR less vital and important in terms of government waste which can and obviously should be trimmed.

But why should Obama/Pelosi/Mendez/Reid/Hoyer/Durbin/Schumer be concerned about that? The old folk are dying off and generally did not vote for Obamination in the last election anyway. Fat-cat demoncrat senators mentioned have their own lavish government-legislator salaries and guaranteed pensions, and are merely amused by the recent media-frenzy publicizing of budget compromise and implementation impasse...because all they have to do is raise the debt ceiling and print more money.

Besides, they correctly guess that, if push came to shove, most demoncrats would re-elect BHO rather than have Sarah Palin or Michelle Bachmann relocate into the Oval Office (as would this webpage author - IF those were the only choices!).

Should the American people in general react against government slowdown or shutdown, any one of the following can be done to the main man (i.e. BHO) responsible for it:

(1) Hillary "Vince Foster" Clinton can be implored to talk BHO into playing Russian roulette with a loaded Smith-and-Wesson six-shot revolver...with his right (and not left) hand.
(2) Biden, Reid, and Boehner can determine that BHO is unfit for command, and initiate impeachment proceedings against BHO.
(3) Everyone can let BHO declare National Marshal Law (hopefully not during any San-Andreas-Fault shufflings) and force everyone to do everything his way.

Do you believe that the economic stimulus of BHO is working? Suspicious that BHO has done a magnificent job in the past two years since he has been in office doubling the National Debt?

Gut feeling has it that Obamination will ultimately engrain and deploy as many parts of the Ryan Budget to their own advantage as they can....while taking all the credit and bestowing it on Barry Soetoro (a.k.a. BHO) but giving none to the GOP.

Soetorobama has had two full years to come up with a reasonable cost-cutting budget, but has not done so. He reminds me of his birth-mother Ann Dunham, who acted first and thought later when she married then divorced two different black men when BS/BHO was a boy. Then did what it took to expire with ovarian cancer.

Do you believe that unemployment will diminish under BHO? Do you believe that BHO is The One, and are you a "loyal patriotic" worshipper of intellectually-suave-and-dominantly-persuasive but significantly-incompetent BHO?

Is there not complete unity in the demoncratic party, with no democrat opposing BHO as a Presidential-candidate contender....while Sarah Palin [God forbid!], Michelle Bachmann [God forbid again!], Mitt Romney, Gingrich, Rubio, Trump, Pawlenty, etc. divisively and expensively waste money fighting it out among themselves?

Will the American people be confused with numerous Republican presidential debates among five bickering antagonists repeatedly slandering each other on TV? Will the finally-decided-upon Republican presidential and vice-presidential candidates get their lawn signs and bumper stickers out to America in time before the November Election?

Are you happy that BHO selected a couple of chauvenistically-sexist inferior-gender feminists to reign on The High Court?

Are you indifferent that BHO lets so-called "non-profit" but actually for-profit AARP divert the meager contributions of poor elderly (who largely, because of their seasoned and old-fashioned common-sense, did not vote for BHO) for nefarious political-action purposes?

Are you satisfied that BHO has publicly declared his support for abortion-homicides-committing Planned Parentlessnes (a.k.a. Planned Promiscuity)?

Have you been exempted (because of, in effect, bowing before BHO) having obtained waivers for you to bypass the Bamacare Individual Mandate? Do you run a health insurance company and have (because of, in effect, brown-nosing the negroid BHO) obtained Bamacare exemptions to set limitation caps against those new insured claiming "pre-existing conditions" -- without which you would financially be drained dry and go belly up?

Are big Bamabanks ready to deviously and/or covertly dole out lottery-winner-like subsidies for those who go to their nearest HHS Bamacare clinic to receive a 666 Bamachip on their foreheads or right hands? Perhaps significant monetary reductions in the costs of Bama-run goods and services await the BHO "faithful" - such as experiencing their gas-pump and vehicle-repair prices cut in half, grocery and housing rental and mortgage payments halved, utility bills greatly discounted, etc.?

Bamamedia is ready to seriously puff Nobel-"peace"-prize "conquering-war-hero-against-Egyptian/Libyan-dictators" BHO for the 2012 campaign. Are you going to "cooperate" with black-reparations diversity and inclusiveness to unify with NATO and the United Nations who has gotten control of them...or instead be an "outsider-like renegade?"

As of the time of this writing (which is approximately one day before the scheduled Friday Government Shutdown), the Obama As of the time of this writing (which is approximately one day before the scheduled Friday Government Shutdown), the Obama Administration as bullyboy aggressors is in the lamentable process of "playing chicken" against defensive GOP-House leaders and their constituents. Which one will swerve at the last minute to avoid a disasterous collision...and, if both do collide....which vehicle is intrinsically stronger to accrue less damage?

The impasse essentially boils down to what the religious right have wanted to "come to a head" for a long time: a referendum-equivalent of whether or not Roe-v-Wade should be maintained or instead overturned.

Obama is ordering his democrat Senate and Senate Majority Leader to hold out against GOP Speaker of the House John Boehner and his noble financially-sensible associates, and although some might presume that BHO is the final umpire in the non-resolved dispute, BHO is not so. Instead, the Judeo-Christian Creator God of the Sacred-66-books Judeo-Christian Holy Bible is The Ultimate Referee.

Either the LORD supports Planned Parentlessness (a.k.a. Planned Promiscuity)....or in stark contrast, He does not. In other words, either the true and living God supports the so-called "family-planning services" of the weaselword-misnamed Planned "Parenthood" -- which ridiculously-purported "reproductive" "services" in effect are actually family-prevention and family-disrupting "reproductive services" roughly equivalent to the atrocities of genocidally murdering six million Jews by concentration-camp-oven cremation -- or instead He does not.

IF the Lord does not support the weaselword-satanspeak criminally-sinful shenanigans of Planned "Parenthood", there will be FAR-reaching consequences against BHO, Harry Reid, Planned "Parenthood", and possibly even who and which political party wins the Election of 2012.

IF American voters - in general - detect that the essential one-and-only basic reason for the full-effects-not-yet-fully-experienced looming federal-government-services shutdown (adversely and immediately putting nearly 1,000,000 federal workers and the services they normally provide to millions of Americans for all sorts of things)....is the refusal of demoncrats to sign a government-shutdown-avoiding budget-cut proposal including eradication of federal funding for Planned Promiscuity, political heads will roll at and perhaps even before the Election of 2012.

IF the continuous "reproductive family-planning" and "woman's/baby's healthcare" mangling of abortion-victim mothers plus murder against non-born womb babies [study the Greek New-Testament Text for Luke 1:41 and Luke 2:16 as to the exactly-identical word: brephos used for both a PRE-born womb baby and an ALREADY-born mangered baby] by the continuing government funding of Planned-"Parenthood" abortion-homicide agenda is THAT important to Americans at large to retain....well...let's see IF that will be the case, in view of the full extent of the resultant consequences!

IF such mangling and murder is NOT that important to fund with government monies, yet Obamination stubbornly holds on to retaining such (against the will of most American voters), I predict that a serious party rift is going to develop between Libyan-war-monguering feminist-sexists-subservient BHO and Reid and his demoncrat abortion-homicide supporters. True, the impact will definitely be completely neutralized if feminist-sexist campaign hierarchy of the GOP makes the same phenomenally-stupid mistake of running Palin or Bachmann for Prez or VP in 2012.

But the general voting public - despite desperate attempts to alleviate the damage by BHO-sympathetic network-news media - is VERY likely to so seriously sour against not only hung-up-to-preserve-abortive "Planned Parenthood" BHO but his demoncrat conspirators (Schumer, Pelosi, Hoyer, Durbin, Reid, even Biden) that they and many of their demoncrat party members will have to look for another job in the near future.

Remember what happened to democrat Bill Clinton when the Republicans controlled both houses of Congress in the mid-1990s: Bill Clinton was impeached by the House Impeachment Managers, though somehow retained the Presidency. Perhaps BHO presumes that he can follow the same escape path, and get away with it.

The blame for a no-paychecks-for-our-military-soldiers government shutdown is squarely placed on both BHO and Harry Reid for insisting that the government HAS to continue to specifically fund Planned "Parenthood" because they not only provide abortion-homicide "services" (if you'll pardon the degradation of that word) with "private" funding (a matter of shady internal bookkeeping manipulations)....but also cloak their abortion-murder deviance with questionably-useful, certainly-NOT-mandatory-for-women's health, cancer-screening mammograms (abusing the teets), blood tests (which, as Senator Kyl pointed out, could be obtained from many other sources other than Planned "Parenthood"), etc.

In view of what BHO has said and done so far, is he presently not the prime candidate to be or become "The False Prophet" (a.k.a. The Ultimate Pseudo-Clergy antichrist) spoken of in Revelation chapters 13-20? Remember, Adolf Hitler did not pop on the scene out of nowhere all at once, but was seen ascending to supremacy all along the way.