Prominent evangelical "anoints" Sarah Palin as Biblical prophetThis election seems to have an unusually prophetic lineup.
A prominent evangelical figure in the U.S. this week said Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin is a modern-day incarnation of the Biblical prophet, Deborah - primed to miraculously slay her nation's enemies on the battlefield.
Writing in his influential magazine, Charisma, editor J. Lee Grady likened the 44-year-old Alaskan governor to Deborah, the Old Testament prophet "who rallied God’s people to victory at a time when ancient Israel was being terrorized by foreign invaders."
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
FIRST BARACK OBAMA – and now, Sarah Palin as prophet?