If I'm going to be criticizing Scott Johnson so much (which I've been doing at Faith's Corner in connection with his talks on the Bohemian Grove), I do feel I ought to try to be more specific about what is good about his teachings. I already mentioned the recent teachings on Maitreya and the Hebrew Roots movement, and the older one on the tribe of Dan, and I just listened to an old one of his that is also very good, his discussion of the "ancient astronaut" teaching by the Raelian cult. It's a classic and definitely something we should know about as we get deeper into the end times.
This Raelian teaching is pretty far-out, based on an encounter between a Frenchman and a supposed extra-terrestrial who arrived on a typical UFO type space ship and gave him a series of teachings that are a particularly condensed version of the many Doctrines of Devils that are corrupting people's minds in these last days:
1Ti 4:1 ¶ Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;We've seen many quasi religious systems and doctrines come to us by similar means in fairly recent times, some sort of entity that either appears to a person or possesses the person and dictates teachings that always inevitably deny that Jesus Christ is God Himself come in human flesh to save us from sin, the central message of Biblical Christianity, usually claiming to have the TRUE understanding of what the Bible teaches, which is certainly not the gospel of Christ, and so on. "A Course in Miracles" that is so favored by Oprah Winfrey was transmitted to a woman by an entity possessing her and dictating to her for instance. Of course something similar is how Mormonism was transmitted to Joseph Smith -- the appearance of an "angel" that guided him -- so this isn't new, but there seem to be more of them occurring as we get closer to the very end. The appearances of "the virgin Mary" are another version of the same thing, as "she" appears to various people and gives messages of one sort or another to the Catholic faithful who cling to them as if they were messages from God Himself. Which of course is the whole point. People prefer these doctrines to God's own word and this is the foundation of the Strong Delusion that is coming on the earth to ensnare those who will worship the Antichrist:
2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.This Raelian doctrine is about the origins of humanity (these aliens say they created us in a laboratory - who'd a thunk?) and their supposed benevolence in wanting to help us improve our situation since we've messed things up. This is exactly the sort of thing that many people would dismiss as just another crazy religion UNTIL they encounter some of the phenomena, the "signs and wonders" that will seem to make it all make sense in the very last days as a one-world religion is formed, space ships "arrive" that suggest a highly advanced "scientific" technology although it will all be spiritistic illusions, a "star" appears to hover in the sky, "fire from heaven" comes down and the like. Along with this will come a world leader and probably many other powerful personalities as well, to "save" us all from whatever disasters we'll be facing at the time, world-wide economic collapse perhaps, world war perhaps, world-wide killer disease epidemics or all of the above.
It's all ultimately in God's hands, but the more people reject the true God and seek other kinds of solutions the more the human race is going to be receptive to the demon-inspired delusions that suit their prejudices. Scott Johnson is very good at spelling out such scenarios, and this one is particularly good because it's so condensed, as he also points out -- it seems to wrap up all the coming delusions into one neat little package. It has everything, including a plausible-sounding reinterpretation of many Bible passages calculated to deceive those who have rejected God's truth.
It's all a play on the idea of "Intelligent Design" -- in this case the idea that the human race was created by this other alien race. I think Dr. Johnson goes a little off in saying that this is the TRUE foundation of the very idea of Intelligent Design, however. It seems more likely it's the other way around -- ID was concocted by Christians who couldn't go with the radical Creationist view of a literal six-day Creation and a very young earth calculated from the ages of the patriarchs in Genesis 5, and answered the claims of Evolution by pointing to the evidence of intelligence in the design of living things -- and the aliens who claim to have created humanity took the term to themselves for their own purposes. Since ID is based on a rejection of what the Bible teaches to begin with, however, perhaps they have the better claim to it anyway.
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