Congresswoman Michele Bachmann seems to think the guy on the street corner with the sign that reads “the end is near” might be on to something. The Minnesota congresswoman told Christian radio host Jan Markell “we are in God’s End Times” in an interview that aired this past weekend.
“President Obama waived a ban on arming terrorists in order to allow weapons to go to the Syrian opposition,” she said, according to an audio clip posted by Right Wing Watch. Bachmann seemed to be referring to a recent decision by the Obama administration to allow “non-lethal assistance” into Syria, which the White House specifically described as ”part of longstanding and ongoing efforts to provide life-saving chemical weapons-related assistance to people in need in Syria.”
“As of today, the United States is willingly, knowingly, intentionally sending arms to terrorists,” Bachmann added. “Now what this says to me, as I’m a believer in Jesus Christ, as I look at the End Times scripture, this says to me that the leaf is on the fig tree and we are to understand the signs of the times, which is your ministry, we are to understand where we are in God’s End Times history.”
Bachmann, though, said we shouldn’t be too worried about that.
“Rather than seeing this as a negative, Jan, we need to rejoice, ‘Maranatha Come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand,’” she continued. “And so when we see up is down and right is called wrong, when this is happening, we were told this, that these days would be as the days of Noah. We are seeing that in our time.”
The host agreed, saying “We’re privileged to live [in these times].”