Coming Soon to a Planet Near You

When the Antichrist comes will he be like the traditional Maitreya, the messiah expected by the Buddhists, who looks like an Asian with kinky African hair?* Or more like a Middle Eastern man as one would expect of the Imam Mahdi, the messiah figure expected by the Muslims and heralded by Ahmadinejad? Which is also what Benjamin Creme's long-heralded Maitreya more or less looks like, as well as a familiar false image of Christ.

Whatever, he's got to be just about to appear. I suppose he'll mostly be known by his occult powers rather than his looks, but his looks must figure in there somewhere.

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*The feature of kinky hair plus black skin, which is also a characteristic of many painted Maitreya images, links him to Krishna (which means "black") and most particularly links him all the way back to Nimrod, son of Cush, who was identified by Alexander Hislop in his Two Babylons as the first Antichrist and the type of all the gods of the world since then. Hislop brings it all down to the Roman Catholic Church as the channel for all the old pagan religions, Mystery Babylon. The "Virgin Mary" demon (who has appeared all over the world this last century) is his candidate for The Beast. And the Protestant Reformers identifed the papacy as the Antichrist system. So we have no shortage of sources for the final evil leader of the world, Satan's masterpiece. Whoever it is will no doubt have to be able to unite all the various messiah expectations under one banner somehow or other.

Some of my old posts at Faith's Corner on this general theme are here.

The Raelian Cult part of the plot to Discredit the Bible and Lead those who reject God into Demon Worship in the Last Days

Since I just made a comment at the evolution blog about Scott Johnson's confusion of the scientific idea of Intelligent Design with the occultic idea that an alien race from another planet were the designers of life on Earth, I thought I should go and listen to his earlier talks on this subject which I hadn't heard before. So here's one of them, The “Ancient Astronaut” Lie: The Shocking Origin of the “Intelligent Design” Theory from December 2007.

It's quite an interesting talk and fits right into my end times blog. This is his coverage of the doctrine of the Raelian cult, about which I've known a little, but this information is good to have. They are very much a typical cult, and this particular talk brings out the commonalities of these cults in what seems to me to be an even more pointed way than I was already aware of.

That is, these cults ALWAYS attack, what? the BIBLE! They ALL have a fascination with Jesus Christ and put out a great deal of energy denying what the Bible says about Him and giving their own version of who he is and what his mission was. You can bet they take pains to insist it had nothing to do with saving humanity from sin by dying for us. No, that, along with everything else we learn from the Bible, is just some way we "misunderstood" the truth about him, OR it's the result of a "mistranslation" of the Bible. Both are common ways the Biblical revelation is debunked these days, by the cults, by "science" and increasingly from many other directions in these last days.

Anyway, the Raelian cult is very much like all the others. Someone was "chosen" to be the recipient of a revelation from "celestial beings" of one sort or another -- all demons under various guises. Sometimes the chosen one is actively possessed by the being/demon, sometimes spoken to -- usually dictated to, some bombastic lying message being imparted as if it were revealed truth from a much higher place. There's always a religious teaching that contradicts the Bible and substitutes some other way of understanding it. The cult of Urantia which got started in the early part of the 20th century, has this pattern. So does A Course in Miracles which captivated Oprah Winfrey. The Seth Books are also similar, although in this case there's more of an occultic general spiritual teaching. But it includes the idea of "Christ Consciousness" which in itself denies the truth about Jesus Christ.

The older cults have the same pattern. Mormonism was created the same way, through a visitation of a chosen one, Joseph Smith in this case, by, in his case supposedly an angel, called Moroni, who revealed to him that Christianity has everything all wrong and gave Smith the Book of Mormon. Islam too is the same sort of cult, having been inaugurated by the visitation of Mohammed by what he believed was the angel Gabriel, who supposedly came to correct Christian misunderstandings and give a revelation that was to transcend the Bible. It's perhaps worth mentioning that one of Mohammed's relatives thought he was demon-possessed, an astute observation I'd say.

Now the Raelian revelation, also given to a chosen one, Rael, by in this case a supposed alien from another planet, goes on at length about the supposed errors in the Bible and gives a very detailed reinterpretation of a great deal of it. It's very much worth listening to this to get a sense of how the disinformation of these cults operates. Apparently this is a video that is viewable at the Raelian website, though we only hear it as Johnson goes through it.

Of course all this is going to come together when the End Times start rolling in earnest, and all the similarities are only going to convince those who reject the true God that it must be the truth and they will fall for it and be destroyed by it. Unless they wake up in time!

As for Scott Johnson's confusion of the Ancient Astronaut doctrine with the scientific version of "intelligent design", as his own title to his talk clearly says, yes, he certainly does confuse these. Because the Raelians use the term to describe their demon-originated doctrine of how visitors from space are the creators of life on earth, Johnson jumps to the false conclusion that this is the "origin" of the concept. Well, I don't know who used the term first but it doesn't matter, it's a mistake to confuse them -- although it probably serves the purposes of those demonic entities to do so. There is quite definitely a scientific theory called Intelligent Design that has a scientific basis and has absolutely nothing to do with the vaporings of demons. [Here's Wikipedia on Intelligent Design, and Wikipedia on Michael Behe, intelligent design theorist.]

UFOs, False Christs, discrediting Biblical Christianity, setting the stage for some kind of End Times Extravaganza

Again, the link to the 10-2 message mostly on UFOs from Heidi Swandell at Olive Tree Views.

And again the link to the 10-2 radio broadcast also on UFOs hosted by Brannon Howse though Olive Tree Views .

And here's Scott Johnson's PDF to his 10-3 teachings which also cover UFOs among other things.

Lotta stuff on UFOs this week, along with quite a bit on False Christs, which makes sense because the most likely purpose of the UFO demonic deception is to usher in the Antichrist. Could the Antichrist be nonhuman? Well, one major candidate is Maitreya who has claims to supernatural credentials of some sort. He's been more or less underwritten by the U.N. although that fact is played down these days. His website, run by his channeler Benjamin Creme is Share International.

Matthew 24:4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. 5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

(Does Antichrist get revealed before or after the Rapture? But that's another post.)

It ought to be recognized as a sign unto itself that False Christs love to talk in strange pompous religious language. It seems that anyone who is familiar with the straightforward authoritative style of Jesus Christ surely couldn't be deceived by these imposters if only for that reason alone, but apparently it happens. Many who aren't very Biblically knowledgeable certainly are already deceived by fake Christs, as evidenced by the followings of such doctrines of demons as A Course in Miracles, which Oprah Winfrey so strongly promoted a couple years ago, along with another "spiritual" leader whose name I forget, and other demon-imparted drivel such as the Seth Books which were also popular a few decades ago, and the Urantia cult, and now there's the Raelian cult, and might as well point out that the same method of impartation by angels demons was also the basis for the Book of Mormon and the Koran. I'm sure there are dozens more I'm leaving out. They all talk with this artificial bloated pseudospiritual wordiness, and an elitist snobbery that puts down "the ignorant masses" and that sort of thing (see example below), and they ALL try to discredit -- guess what? -- true Biblical Christianity. Imagine that. It's getting so the greatest testimony to the Truth is from its enemies -- if you have ears to hear, that is.

I got the following example of the vaporings of such a false Christ from Scott Johnson's PDF to his 10-3-10 teaching. He discusses it in Part 2 out of five parts.

It's a classic. This demon pretender puts himself above Christ by claiming to be Christ, preaches false doctrine, attacks the apostle Paul (what a glory to Paul that he is so frequently attacked by falsifiers), AND, interestingly, attacks -- all Bibles, but specifically the KING JAMES BIBLE (the "authorized" version.) Now, isn't that something to ponder? I point you to my blog The Great Bible Hoax for more, but you'll also find teachings on the KJV at Scott Johnson's site and at links I've listed at my blog.

(More Lies From Ascended Master Esu Immanuel Sananda AKA “Master Jesus”)

Greetings, precious little Druthea. I AM Sananda. I come in the service of Holy Creator Source, the ONE labeled GOD of Light. I AM the One Who walked your place some 2000 years past in your counting. I was human, as are you ones who now walk this place and journey towards ONENESS with God.

I guess addressing this to a "Druthea" is supposed to mimic some of the epistles of the Bible perhaps? Hm. Holy Creator Source. Hm. "Labeled" -- does that mean "falsely so-called?" Hm. But maybe there's a revelation of the truth here in that we know the devil comes as an "angel of light," and usurps the place of God whenever he can. And get that capitalized "I AM" he uses, the very Name of God claimed only by the God of the Bible and by Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

"who walked your place?" Odd language, what does that mean anyway? "In your counting." Aha, you're an alien, not of "our" system of things. But Jesus Christ never spoke in such a way. And you WERE human? Clever. People do seem to want to believe that Jesus wasn't what the Bible says He is. Let's make him an alien who just pretended to be what the Bible says He is. Oh, and there's your false theology too, that we're all just a-journeying to oneness with God, no rules to be judged by, no punishment for sin to worry about, just a journey. Well, Shirley MacLaine seems to have fallen for it.

I was known by many labels and most will recognize Me by the term Jesus Christ. Much of what you do read in your various editions of the so-called Holy Bible are the misperceptions of the one Pharisee born as Saul of Tarsus and who changed his name to Paul.

Always they demote Jesus Christ one way or another, usually by making him part -- a lesser part -- of a pantheon of enlightened ones. Here he's just one persona of this entity, and SO misunderstood too. Then there's the "so-called" Holy Bible. Yes, let's impugn its claim to that title right off the bat. Get them in a mood to doubt it. And there's that attack on Paul, no better evidence for his righteous authority than a demon impersonator of Christ debunk him for his "misperceptions." The sad thing is that ANYBODY could believe these droolings of Satan, but they do, they do.

Alas, My mission and My purpose for coming to your place in behalf of Our heavenly Father was not only misunderstood by true seekers of truth, but was also purposely altered to serve the needs of the religious zealots who "lead" the ignorant masses through fear and damnation.

This is SO not the personality of Jesus Christ, it's disgusting to think anyone could believe any of it. Oh those "ignorant masses," oh we wouldn't want to be one of THEM now would we? No, we are enlightened seekers of truth. No fear and damnation for us, that's just for the "ignorant" ones, not us superior ones, just happy happy journeys to oneness with God.

For you ones who work closely with The HOSTS of God who assist you at this time of great transition, please KNOW that I experienced the wrath and malicious actions by those who were threatened by the messages of Our Holy Father which I brought to the people.

Kind of a hint there of a horde of demonic "helpers" or "spirit guides" so many New Agers have put themselves in bondage to, "hosts of God" my foot. "Our Holy Father" can only be Satan himself whom Jesus called "the father of lies"

John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

And of course, always those who reject lies are characterized as malicious and "threatened" by their bogus "truth" instead. It's a formula that has been tried and apparently works to discredit true believers.

The adversary was nipping at my heals CONSTANTLY, chelas, as many of you are now experiencing as well. Paul, alias Saul of Tarsus, was NO apostle of Mine. HE elected himself authority to interpret My message and it was HE who taught the misteachings of salvation and put ME, Immanuel, ABOVE you, once calling Me the only Son of God to save you from your sins. THESE WERE NOT MY TEACHINGS, EVER, and in fact, if you study the first books which are included in most versions of the Christian Bibles (Mark, Matthew, Luke and John), there remains a REMNANT of the messages which I brought which do often contradict Paul's interpretations. Even still, those four books do not include many things I taught and were actually put to print between 70 and 200 years A.D.! And this is by calculation of YOUR own historical theologians.

"Chelas," hm, a term of endearment to his followers I guess. Something to make them feel special and different and elite and enlightened. Might be interesting to know the translation, if it has one. The whole paragraph is of course just a collection of familiar lies about the Bible to discredit it. It is the word of God, mustn't let THAT be known, must make it out to be the invention of evil men instead, must claim Jesus contradicts Paul etc. etc. etc.

And so on he goes attacking the Bible and its believers and offering a New Age version of God and religion:

So, precious chelas, you must ask yourselves, WHO decided what would be included in each "authorized" version of the Bible? I can assure you GOD was seldom present in those authorizations and decisions. Paul, the self-ordained apostle, corrupted my message and deceived MILLIONS of ignorant seekers over the centuries. I would venture to say he did his job well. For so many of you are transfixed in an illusion of dogma and human power, and the price has been YOUR SOUL.

We of THE HOSTS of GOD are come again to you ones WHO will hear the clarion call of TRUTH, for so many of you are weary of being lied to and used. So many are trapped and you are kept there by the adversary of fear. We come to shake you awake that you may find GOD within you and FREEDOM which only His Holy Presence, acknowledged and accepted, will bring you!

It is time to think for yourselves, for GOD gave you all that you are and you have mostly denied HIM and self. We are giving you a ticket to free your soul from the bondage of false human dogma and ritual which leaves you unfulfilled.

Does this mean I say to question your "beliefs" as you now hold them? YES. If you live a righteous and moral life putting others before self and seeking to give in more ways, then you can label yourself and atheist, Christian, Aborigine, Buddhist, or Muslim and it makes no difference whatsoever.

SOURCE:: The Phoenix Liberator, November 10, 1992, Volume 21, Number 4.
http://www.phoenixarchives.com/liberator/1992/1192/111092.pdf
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Right. Religion to the cults is just being-a-good-person. They have to deny in one form or another that we're all born sinners, since the Fall of the human race when our first parents disobeyed God and brought death into the world, putting all their descendants under the rule of Satan. They have to deny the reality of Hell although all cultures have affirmed the reality of some such place of punishment after death, where those who reject God and His Law end up. They deny that there is any sort of punishment for disobeying God, so they can deny our need of a perfectly righteous Savior, the merciful God Himself who came in human flesh to die for us, to take our own deserved punishment in our place. Their whole plan is to keep as many as possible from knowing the true way to God and the costly salvation He bought for us.

I also found the following from this same creepy entity elsewhere online:

I AM Sananda. I come in service to our Holy Father of LIGHT, God/Aton and to you, my brethren. Greetings little sister Druthea. Druthea has asked Our Father to please bring understanding and clarification on what is THE CREATION. Our Father God/Aton of Light has sent me to answer this challenge.

Hoo, let me guess, the Creation isn't anything like what is found in Genesis 1.

I call this a challenge because your language of communication has not the "words" for describing this concept of Creation. So in order to put upon you, my precious chela, MORE limitation, I will ask that you close your eyes, call forth THE GREAT SPIRIT OF ONE WITHIN YOU, "listen" and continue reading with The Presence of The Holy Divine ONE WITHIN.

Lemme see, translation: only if you get yourself good and demon-possessed can you poor inferior mortals begin to comprehend our superior language for our superior concepts.

Now imagine a GREAT CIRCLE OF INFINITY with no ending and no beginning in front of you. This will "represent" The Creation. Now image that this circle is a great movie film without ending and without beginning, but moving ever creatively on, constantly unfolding the unlimited potential of the creative "will". What we will do now is PAUSE a frame in the sequence of this ongoing "film" of no-time and no-space, no-ending and no-beginning...

The Creation represents fulfilled and yet unfulfilled Creative Potential. Creation is the Totality of ALL THAT IS, which in your human perspective is ALL THAT HAS BEEN and ALL THAT IS TO BE. Now, keep in mind, the Laws of Balance, of Nature, of God and of The Creation are THE SAME Universal Laws of Order and Logic.

Huh? Well, obviously my inferior "human perspective," my merely mortal intellect, just isn't up to processing this sort of gobbledygook sophisticated revelation. but it appears at least that he's claiming that God is part of Nature rather than outside it as its Creator as the Bible teaches.

So then HOW is the Creative Potential REALIZED and FULFILLED? Through the Great Spiritually Perfected Being, God/Aton, who is Great MIND and INTELLIGENCE which brings THE POTENTIAL of that which represents The Creation into coalescence of matter, such as planets, stars, animals, plants and minerals. Now, you have ONE GREAT SPIRITUALLY PERFECTED BEING which is THE MIND INTELLIGENCE OF YOUR GALAXY...that ONE which we call OUR FATHER/MOTHER CREATOR GOD/ATON. The reason that WE are ONE with, and therefore, called the "children" of God/Aton is that this Great Being has FRAGMENTED Himself, His Great Spirit, to allow HIS UNFOLDING CREATIVE POTENTIAL UNLIMITED varieties of experience. Thus each human, each Angel, each BEING which is created and fragmented of HIM, is a unique creative-potential filled reflection of aspect of THE ONE GREAT MIND INTELLIGENCE, GOD/ATON.

I see, God is one with everything and we're all part of God. The Hinduistic idea basically, the New Age God. Certainly not the God of the Bible. And as if it weren't clear enough already he goes on to emphasize that "God" is a part of the Creation and "we" are a part of God. I'm not sure where the name Aton comes from, which of the satanic false religions.

So, we have The Creation, which represents the Great Sacred Circle of Infinity, without end or beginning, which holds the fulfilled and unfulfilled Creative Potential of the Totality of ALL that is. Then we have God/Aton, which represents the MIND INTELLIGENCE OF THE CREATION FOR THIS GALAXY. God/Aton is as much a PART of The Creation as WE EACH are a PART of God/Aton. Hence the truth...WE ARE ALL ONE.

But we have to ACHIEVE this oneness somehow or other:

I, Sananda, have now reached my state of ONENESS with Our Father, which is the meaning of my name, "One With God". What does this mean to you, my brethren? This means that I am in the state of My Father, God/Aton's will. I am sent now, along with His Hosts of Light, of Our Father to reclaim YOU of his fragments who choose to move into higher realms of Creative Spiritual Awareness. Eventually, many of YOU ones will EARN, as have I, the state of Grace, of Oneness with Our Father of Light/Life Aton. I, and my Brothers of Light come to show the WAY toward ONENESS, which is the Love, the Peace, the Balance, and the Harmony of THE TOTALITY OF ALL THAT IS, THE CREATION. Why come we? Because we, the Hosts of God of Light, LOVE you as our brothers who are also precious beings created of Our Father. Since my will is HIS WILL, it is HIS WILL to bring you HOME and I am come to show you the way.

Oh how exciting. They LOVE us, they come to HELP us realize our true nature. I hate to think how many can be sucked into this kind of delusion. (And a side note, what's with this odd phrasing "you ones?" and the strange form "why come we?" Posturing of some sort, pompous language.)

Now what does it mean to be "Sananda", One With God? Much Responsibility, chelas! Only it is quite a JOYFUL responsibility in that I am AWARE of my Co-Creation with Our Father. I recognize that even the word "responsibility" makes many of you a bit uncomfortable inside, mostly because it is a symbol of discipline, and seriousness and ones even perceive it as "limiting" to their perceived "enjoyment" of life. Eventually, precious ones, "responsibility" will not pose a "threat" to you because you will have developed the INTEGRITY of YOUR SPIRIT WITHIN to the point that you will WELCOME the creative challenges of SELF-Responsibility.

Interesting. Mustn't come down too hard on this responsibility thing, might lose our audience, they feel "threatened" by such burdens on their blithe spirits. We've taught them not to tolerate the idea of Hell for a moment any more and responsibility is also just too much for the dears. Gotta make this FUN.

You see, since most of you (especially those of you who have believed various HUMAN doctrines in your "religious" institutions) have been "programmed" to be dependent and not take responsibility; and since you have also been programmed that you are somehow separate from your Creator, learning to take Personal Responsibility seems "unnatural" and "frightening" to you. WHY? Well, when you recognize the truth that YOU have created ALL within this manifested "illusion", it can be a bit overwhelming to your consciousness to realize that you have also contributed to the DIS-ease upon your plane and upon yourselves. There is NO ONE else to blame anymore.

There's a mouthful. I'm going to have to come back and try to unpack this later.

Personal Responsibility means taking action to balance the unbalance, to bring love where there is hatred, to bring harmony where there is chaos, to bring discipline where there is disorder and to bring peace where there is war. Each ONE of you will open your own door to the SPIRITUAL POWER OF LOVE WITHIN YOU WHEN you start taking Responsibility for ALL of your manifested reality, including your thoughts, words and deeds. Each ONE who harmonizes and balances within brings the LIGHT of Balance and Harmony to your "pool" of mass consciousness, so that it eventually will no longer be the "cesspool" of darkness and despair which it is now.

Ah well, our subject is The Creation and ITS relationship to God/Aton and to YOU. Please recognize, please remember, my precious ones, YOU each represent WITHIN YOU GOD/ATON'S MIND INTELLIGENCE for UNLIMITED SPIRITUAL CREATIVE POTENTIAL. THERE IS SO MUCH JOY TO BE A PART OF. LET GO of your ILLUSIONS of separation from THE ONE and attachment to the "physical" and "emotional" aspects of this LIMITED plane. BE responsible for what is YOUR JOB of clean-up before you, SPREAD THE WORD OF TRUTH written in The Journals about your Earthly circumstances and spread the JOY that GOD WINS in this final confrontation with evil. Will you JOIN GOD, MINESELF and MINE Brothers of LIGHT in this confrontation of evil? OR, will you remain ignorant and apathetic, and therefore, a PART OF THE EVIL ENERGY DESTRUCTIVE "WILL" upon this plane? In Love and Peace, I humbly request that YOU take MINE hand to the path of GOD and ONENESS...the ONLY logical choice is the choice of GOD'S WILL, and MAY GOD'S WILL BE DONE! So Be It.

I AM Sananda, One With God, in service to HIS HOLY PRESENCE, ATON and THE CREATION. Peace be with you. Salu.

More to say about this when I'm up to it.

Likely & unlikely Satanic scenarios for the last days. How about a fake rapture -- or a true rapture falsely explained?

I have lots of objections to the stuff about HUMAN conspiracy, the Illuminati and the like, but I think there's a lot to recent teachings that concern SATAN's conspiracies, and that includes all sorts of possible dazzling signs and wonders that could become reality in the time of the Antichrist, which has GOT to be very very close. Including supposed "extra-terrestrials" that are really demons or fallen angels, some of which look alien and some more or less human, or the descent of Ascended Masters who are also able to appear human, who come as "friends" and "saviors" of our benighted race, or some variation on these scenarios. If any of these things should happen, sadly huge numbers of people will believe them, and Christians who have scoffed at such ideas could even lose their faith, certainly at least be rendered incapable of answering them or protecting anyone from them.

The likelihood of a human conspiracy being as successful as is claimed for some of them is just not that great. They attribute far too much perfection to mere human beings. Human beings always blow it at some point, either by conflict with the clan or a foolish nature or whatnot. One of them becomes conscience-stricken perhaps and gets the story out. SOMETHING like that just about always happens among human beings. So somewhere in the stories of these conspiring clans of the richest people on earth you should find this sort of happening now and then -- or, of course, untimely deaths.

Now, of course, if you want to claim that these aren't really human beings but some sort of human-demon hybrid, all bets are off. But I'm not going there. Satan can influence people without their knowing the influence comes from him. There can be various levels of indulgence in witchcraft too, in the form of alternative religions, not even recognizable as witchcraft. A family that trusts in astrology or has members who get psychic readings or any of that is already in Satan's thrall. This is commonplace stuff these days. We don't need to postulate a single-mind type conspiracy (although I'm not going to say they don't exist) in order to recognize that there are human beings in this world who oppose God and in effect align with Satan whether consciously or not. I think that's probably as far as I'm going to go on this Illuminati thing.

There's plenty to think about concerning the illusional effects of Satan without getting into all that, or for that matter Satan's ability to deceive us on many planes without the special effects. If human beings are involved in any of it, that's just sad, they are of the race made in the image of God who are the subject of God's plan of salvation -- the angels and demons and spiritual creatures of every kind cannot be saved -- and we should pray for them.

There is one possible illusion I've been hearing about recently (put Grenada or just gren into the search box on Scott Johnson's site and listen to that whole series -- I think this comes up in part 2), which is the possibility of a fake rapture staged by one of the "Ascended Masters" which claims to be Jesus Christ by some other name, Sananda something. Some Christians believe this is a real possibility, that the disappearance of lots of New Age and witchcraft practitioners will be staged in imitation of the popular idea of the pre-tribulation Rapture of the church so many believe in these days. The idea would be that it would discourage Christians who believe in the Rapture and destroy their faith.

That makes a certain amount of sense, but another way of looking at it also occurred to me. In fact this idea of a fake rapture is the only thing I've ever heard that makes the Rapture idea seem more definitely possible to me, because Satan doesn't bother to imitate false ideas but true ones (unless maybe for the abovementioned effect -- but in that case if tribulation comes and there has been no Rapture that's already going to challenge Christians who believe too strongly in it.) Also, I can't think Satan would want to remove too many of his human followers from the scene that early on.

All this made me consider that they may be advertising this supposed rapture as something to be pulled off by their fake Jesus so that when the TRUE Rapture occurs they can just toss off this explanation -- oh our own servant Jesus Sananda or whatever did it --and nobody will worry that the true Christ has come and gone without them although that would in fact be the truth.

I don't know. Either scenario is a possibility. But as I said it got me giving more credence to the possibility of the pre-trib Rapture than before.

And I gotta tell you I'm torn. The part of me that is horrified about what's happening on this earth and what is probably coming, along with the part of me that is tired and in pain from arthritis and various other infirmities would just love to be given that rest from it all; but on the other hand what an exciting time to be called to the service of Christ. There are wonderful promises throughout scripture that I would love to have the faith to receive, and this one applies to my sense of physical weakness:

Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

A Candidate for Last Pope called Peter the Roman?

(Also moved from Faith's Corner). I found out recently that some believe there is a candidate for next Pope to fulfill the prophecy of Malachy I've mentioned before. Since the next and last Pope according to that prophecy is to be known as Peter the Roman, there is speculation that this candidate would assume the leadership without actually becoming Pope because he would retain his own name instead of taking a new name as Popes do. Here's the Wikipedia story on Pietro Parolin:

Msgr. Parolin achieved notoriety in 2006 via the internet as a possible future Pope. A note about the papal prophecies of the medieval Abbot Malachy speculated that Parolin might be "Petrus Romanus" ("Peter the Roman") whom Abbot Malachy predicts will be the last Pontiff before the end of the world; some have referred to this apocalyptic figure as Pope Peter II. The Wikipedia entry reads: "Because no number is assigned to Petrus Romanus (Malachy's 112th "Pope"), it is possible that (Peter the Roman) may take on the role of the Pope without putting on the robe of the Pope. Under this possible scenario, a catastrophe at the Vatican could wipe out the top leadership of the Church during either a consistory or a conclave of the College of Cardinals. As a result, with no viable College surviving to elect a new pontiff, this particular scenario would have a surviving official of the Roman Curia succeeding to the top leadership of the Church but not as Pope. As he would not rise to the papacy itself but instead would become, in effect, the top caretaker of the Church, he would not need to assume a new papal name such as Peter; thus he would keep the name he has had since his birth in Italy, and that name already would be Peter (or, in Italian, Pietro). Currently (that is, as of March 2006) there is only one such candidate for Petrus Romanus within the Roman Curia. His name is Pietro Parolin..."

We can't take such a prophecy as infallible of course but it's interestingly suggestive for anyone who believes as I do that we're right at the door of the revelation of the Antichrist:

2 Thessalonians 2:7-12 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 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.

The prophecy has a "Peter the Roman" as the last Pope, to come in difficult times. Antichrist himself? False Prophet? Time will tell.

I thought for some time the last Pope would have to be Jewish. There have been some Jewish Popes in history. But the last candidate I was aware of died two years ago.

Antichrist Candidate Maitreya Gearing Up for Appearance

Here's a talk by Scott Johnson at Sermon Audio, actually a series of three, he just did yesterday August 2, about a recent announcement from Benjamin Creme (pronounced Krem) about Maitreya's next move. Creme is the False Prophet for this Antichrist candidate. Maitreya's next move has been announced periodically since 1982 so one can't be sure exactly when any of it is going to happen, but surely it is very close, this talk is worth listening to if you have any interest in likely scenarios for the Grand Finale prophesied in the Bible.

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LATER: THIS SERIES IS ONE OF JOHNSON'S BEST. I'VE BEEN LISTENING AND WANT TO GIVE IT ANOTHER PLUG. ONE THING OF INTEREST IS THAT CREME/MAITREYA HATES THE U.S. (hmmm, we're still a threat to the devil? That's good news.) AND HATES ISRAEL, AND ACTUALLY SPEAKS OF THAT MERCIFULLY DECEASED DEMON-DRIVEN THUG ARAFAT AS A GREAT MAN. This comes at the end of the second of Johnson's talks. I haven't yet heard the third but he says he's going to elaborate on this there.

Surely anyone of any spiritual sensitivity already knows that Israel is being specifically targeted by the evil forces of this world, which ought to suggest that if the devil still hates her, God must still have plans for her. Somehow the alignment of this hatred with a claimant to be the universal messiah for all the religions of the world makes this even more real to me. Isn't it time that those who think God has completely abandoned Israel recognize that Israel, earthly Israel, the real living Jews, in all their current apostasy and sin, are still on God's agenda? Shouldn't you rethink those passages in scripture about God's plans for Israel in the last days you've spiritualized away?

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Here's Creme's website itself, Share International.

Here's Part One of the interview of Creme by George Noory of the program Coast to Coast.

His rationalization of why Maitreya isn't the Antichrist is interesting. Typical Satanic smooth-talking denial of the Truth, the one and only Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. You BET we're looking for Jesus Christ, and not "Maitreya." I wonder how many "Christians" are going to be deceived by this kind of nonsense. Unfortunately there are many who don't know the Word of God. Scripture tells us Even the true believers may be deceived -- at least for a time.

Here's Part Two of Noory's interview of Creme.

There are two more parts you can find at You Tube. Also many other talks by Creme.