As his tenure at Fox News winds to close, Glenn Beck's Messianic delusions are escalating beyond imagination.
Beck has long seen himself as the Lord's messenger. After visiting the Vatican last year he returned with a story of a mysterious man who told him that "we know who you are. What you're doing is wildly important." He later told his radio congregation that "God is giving a plan, I think, to me that is not really a plan." Whatever that means.
Today Beck revealed another encounter with the Almighty:
"I'm going to invite you to join me on a journey that will be recorded in the annals of history. It will be recorded and remembered. [...] You are going to see miracles in your lifetime. I believe I have seen the finger of God. I believe that in the coming days you will see the entire of arm of God."
The entire arm? All the way to the pit? Somehow I think it's more likely that God is going to reveal his foot to Beck's ass. However, I do believe that God has given Beck the finger. In fact, God has smited him mightily just as the Bible says. The signs are clear and cannot be ignored. God is pissed! He has said so unambiguously. Deuteronomy 28:27-29, describes the punishment from the Lord if you should fail to follow his laws:
27: The LORD will smite thee with the botch of Egypt, and with the emerods, and with the scab, and with the itch, whereof thou canst not be healed.
28: The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart.
29: And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness, and thou shalt not prosper in thy ways: and thou shalt be only oppressed and spoiled evermore, and no man shall save thee.
We hardly need to speak of Egypt and how badly Beck botched that. The emerods (or hemorrhoids) he has already had, and it nearly killed him. The potential blindness he announced tearfully last year. The madness is self evident. Even his prosperity is being plundered as his television program signs off and numerous radio stations have canceled his show.
Despite the Lord's pleading and obvious signs, Beck has persisted in his evil ways, forcing God to resort to a vulgarity that every human ought to understand. When God flips you the bird, you should take notice. But Beck is probably too blinded by his own divine Narcissism that this too will go right over his head.
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