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.]

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.

As the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

I've been listening quite a bit lately to Scott Johnson's* talks at Sermon Audio, going back into his older talks mostly.

He is the one who introduced me to the implications of Genesis 6 in the last days, and I'm very grateful because I'd often wondered about that passage.

Genesis 6:1-7 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

The unfortunately popular idea that it was the men of the holy line of Seth that took wives of the unholy line of Cain just never made sense, starting with the fact that it would no longer have BEEN a holy lineage after that. For another thing, why would such a union produce giants? And for yet another thing, it says it was the "sons of God" who took wives of the "daughters of men," which certainly implies the "sons of God" are NOT men, and that obvious fact's having been ignored by so many great exegetes of the scriptures such as Matthew Henry is a sad testimony to the power of human prejudice to trump what God's word actually says. There are only five places in the Old Testament the phrase "sons of God" is used and it is clear in context that it refers to angels:

Ge 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Ge 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.
Job 2:1 Again there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them to present himself before the LORD.
Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy

The idea that angelic beings or "watchers" actually procreated with human women offends us, and from many points of view too (can angels actually DO that for starters), but the testimony of scripture nevertheless appears to be that it did in fact happen and we are to submit to scripture no matter what.

The reason for exploring this passage is that Jesus said the very last days would "be like the days of Noah." I think it's worth quoting the entire passage:

Matthew 24:32-51 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken, and the other left. Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh. Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season? Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Of course it's not clear just HOW similar to the days of Noah we can expect the last days to be, but it may be that we could expect a similar encounter between the Watchers and humanity, even possibly the birth of Nephilim or giants. That's a pretty far-out idea I grant you, but Johnson has shown how there are many signs all around us that some such scenario is actually being promoted, in TV shows and movies, most of which I'd never heard of, also in UFO appearances and reports, and genetic experiments that would bring about hybrids of the same sort as occurred in the days before Noah. Such experiments are going on these days as we know, even disgusting efforts to combine human and animal DNA. I just listened to this oldie of his which covers an amazing breadth of information about such possibilities.

In this talk he also suggests the meaning of the ten toes of the statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream in Daniel 2:33, 41-43, in terms of such genetic hybrids, which is another passage I've always found hard to understand:

Daniel 2:38-45 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever. Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

"They" shall "mingle themselves with the seed of men." This must refer to beings which are NOT "men" who shall "mingle themselves with" not merely "men" as mingling in a crowd or as members of a group, but "with the SEED of men," obviously referring to a genetic combination. Again, most exegetes just sort of slur over this passage, don't they? They deny its obvious import. Well, it IS hard to digest, but again, scripture is a REVELATION of things outside our own experience, things we wouldn't normally think of ourselves, and our job is to SUBMIT to it no matter how it contradicts our expectations.

Along with this strange theme, the growth of popular exposure to the occult is a related theme in Johnson's teachings, something I've been quite aware of myself, and he documents that too, as a lead-up to what will most likely be the world religion of the Antichrist, a dazzling display of the powers of witchcraft.

I say all of the above only to lead up to this:

This morning as I logged on to my home page, I was hit with this ad for "Avatar", a movie to come out in December, and it sounds like it fits in beautifully with all the end times stuff I've been getting from Scott Johnson, so I went and looked at the trailer. Sure enough, it's right down the end times alley, a large step closer to the scenarios Johnson has been spelling out about strange hybrid creatures that may show up in the nearish future. Gigantic humanoid creatures with tails and faintly striped blue skin. A VERY creepy movie, even the first frame of it.

How close are we? How long would it take for something like this to be in place? I know a great deal of it IS already in place, but all this genetic stuff? Have such things been going on behind the scenes to the point that they are ready to be exposed to the world?

Don't tell me you won't be shocked if even half the stuff I'm talking about here becomes actuality in the near future. We need to know this stuff or we won't know how to respond to it. Much of it is so ugly and depressing I don't want to be around for any of it for that reason. Fear doesn't even enter into it.

What horrors may soon be coming on this earth!

Maranatha, Lord, come quickly.

Luke 21:36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Scott Johnson on Raelian Revelations of Human Origins for the End Game

This is another post I moved from Faith's Corner because it fits here better.

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.