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For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am the
Christ,' and will deceive many Matthew 24:5
He replied: "Watch out that you are not deceived. For
many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and, 'The
time is near.' Do not follow them.
Luke 21:8
Jesus of Nazareth was the true and only Christ, the
anointed one, the Messiah, and our Lord and Savior. Jesus
is The Way, the Truth and Life. There never has been and
never will be any other Christ, Teacher, Lord, Savior, or
form of Consciousness whereby our eternal souls might be
saved. However, just as the Bible prophesied, there have
been - and will continue to be - an ever increasing number of powerful
and alluring false christs as we draw closer to the
appearance of the ultimate false Christ, the Antichrist.
More deceiving spirits will arrive on the scene as we near
the rapture of the Church, and the seven-year tribulation that
will precede the return of Jesus to set up his millennial
kingdom.
Mark 13:6; 21-22
Many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and
will deceive many. At that time if anyone says to you,
'Look, here is the Christ!' or, 'Look, there he is!' do
not believe it. For false Christs and false prophets will
appear and perform signs and miracles to deceive the
elect--if that were possible. So be on your guard; I have
told you everything ahead of time.
MAITREYA
People who believe Maitreya is the Great Teacher also
believe that Buddha, Messiah, Krishna, and the various
other future teachers taught by the religions of the world,
are different names for the same individual, that being Maitreya. They believe he is on the world scene now and
is waiting for the appropriate time to reveal himself and
lead the world in a global evolution of our collective
consciousness. They believe that Maitreya will inspire
humanity to see itself as one family, and usher in a new
civilization of sharing, economic and social justice, and
global cooperation. 1
According to Share International's website on Maitreya,
this world teacher does not intend to build a new
religion, but rather to teach humanity “the art of
self-realization”. Much like the serpent in the Garden of
Eden, he intends to deceive millions by convincing them
that they are gods themselves.
II Cor. 11:3,4; 13-15
“But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled
Eve through his subtlety, so your minds should be
corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. For if
he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not
preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have
not received, or another gospel which ye have not
accepted, ye might well bear with him. For such are false
apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into
the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself
is transformed into an angel of light. 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.”
In recent years, information about Maitreya’s emergence
has come primarily from Benjamin Crème. Crème, a British
artist and long-time student of esoteric philosophy, is
the mouthpiece for the self-appointed Christ Maitreya, and
has taken on the task of preparing the planet for his
arrival. He got his start in speaking for false christs
by studying the teachings of Helena Blavatsky and the
Theosophical Society, and more recently Alice A. Bailey, a
channeler of several demons, or as Crème would call them,
‘Masters of Wisdom’. Masters, according to those who
channel them and share their ‘wisdom’ with the world, are
a group of perfected individuals who are the custodians of
the Divine Plan for the planet.
1 Timothy 4:1
The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will
abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things
taught by demons.
In 1959 Crème claimed to have been personally contacted by
one of these Masters and was told that Maitreya, or the
World Teacher, would return in about 20 years. Crème was
to have a big role to play in the introduction of the
coming ‘World Teacher’ to a skeptical planet. Since 1975,
Crème has lectured throughout Europe, Japan, Australia,
New Zealand, Canada, Mexico and the US, and has been on
more than 300 radio and television programs proclaiming
the news that the 'Great Teacher', that every religion of
the world has been waiting for, is on the scene and will
soon make an appearance on what he calls the ‘Day of
Declaration’. Not only do Crème and his followers claim Maitreya is the long awaited Buddha, Mahdi, Muslim
Messiah, and Krishna, but he boldly claims Maitreya is the
prophesied Christ of the Bible whom the Christians are
waiting for!
According to Crème, Maitreya descended in July 1977 from
an ancient retreat in the Himalayas and took up residence
in the Indian-Pakistani community in London, where he has
been living and working as an ordinary man, his Christ
status known only to a few select people. The plan is for Maitreya to emerge gradually into public view so as not to
infringe on humanity’s free will. He’s more likely
waiting until he won’t be laughed out of town
for publicly announcing that he is the fulfillment of
every religion in the world and is here to save humanity.
His presence, however ridiculous it might seem, however,
shouldn’t be taken lightly, as tempting as it is. His
followers have deceived many, and the Bible tells us that
these false christs will have powers, to be sure. Even
the devil comes as an angel of light and so too will his
servants.
Crème credits the presence of the ‘energies of Maitreya'
in the world for the fall of communism in the Soviet
Union, the end of apartheid in South Africa, the
rapprochement between East and West, and the worldwide
focus on preserving the environment. This is a pretty
influential guy for someone no one has even heard of.
The Bible tells us that in the end-times these false
christs will perform great signs and wonders that will
deceive many.
Matthew 24:11
and many false prophets will appear and deceive many
people.
Matthew 24:24
For false Christs and false prophets will appear and
perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the
elect--if that were possible.
According to the Share International website, Maitreya has
been busy fulfilling these Bible prophesies and living up
to Satan’s plan for his false prophets. Those who have
denied Christ run the risk of having their hearts hardened
to the truth and opening themselves up to this powerful
deception. When the final battle between good and evil is
fought and won by our Lord Jesus Christ before he
establishes His Kingdom, they will find themselves on the
wrong side of the battle. Unless they hear the truth and
accept Christ first, it will be too late.
II Thessalonians 2:9-12
The coming of the lawless one is according to the
working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying
wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those
who perish, because they did not receive the love of the
truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason
God will send them strong delusion, that they should
believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did
not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Some of these signs and wonders detailed on the internet
and in the Share International magazine, border on the
ridiculous. Others should be a sign to believers
that the time of the lawless one is drawing near. Indeed
we should be looking up. Some of the more ridiculous
claims to miraculous signs consist of cross impressions
showing up on windows, patterns in the seeds of vegetables
or fruits, or bleeding statues. When asked, the
representatives of Maitreya are all too eager to say, “yes
this is the energy of Maitreya you are witnessing”. In
fact they will take credit for just about anything they
are asked about, including UFO’s and aliens. Some of the
more dramatic signs and wonders include Maitreya appearing
miraculously to a group of thousands in Kenya and other
orthodox religious groups throughout the world, where he
is reported to create pools of healing water that draw
millions of people. Just as the Bible prophesies,
followers of Maitreya predict that these signs will
increase as the day draws closer for Maitreya to announce
himself to the world.
They also predict that “as soon as possible, Maitreya will
demonstrate his true identity”1 on what they
call the “Day of Declaration”. Apparently, in response to
a growing demand from the public, Maitreya will be invited
to speak to the entire world via the linked television
satellite networks. You can bet he won’t be the only
one we’ll hear making these claims. It’s unlikely Maitreya is
waiting around to become the fulfillment of the prophesied
Antichrist, but only time will tell. Perhaps he’s the
false prophet in the making, or will work to bring about
the one-world religion of the end times. One thing is for
certain, what he speaks is in the spirit of antichrist
and he is a danger to the souls of those he deceives.
LUCIS TRUST
Another group that is anxiously awaiting the coming of
Antichrist, whom they call the Christ, is the Lucis
Trust. The Lucis Trust is a non-profit organization
closely associated with the United Nations that works as
the legal and financial agent for a number of globalist
organizations. The Trust also manages the revolving
Tibetan Book Fund for the perpetuation of the teachings of
the Tibetan Master Djwhal Khul and Alice A. Bailey.2
One such organization that is financed by Lucis Trust is
World Goodwill. World Goodwill teaches of the coming
reappearance of the Christ and a time of preparation not
only for a new civilization and culture in a new world
order, but also for the coming of a new spiritual
dispensation.3
Similar to the followers of Maitreya (in fact they
sometimes refer to him as that), they predict the
appearance of a great teacher and spiritual leader, the
Christ, that will fulfill the prophecies of every faith,
including Christians. They follow the New Age philosophy
that a new age is dawning, or as the Aquarian Age
Community and Benjamin Crème would say, we are evolving
spiritually to a higher plane of consciousness.
The goal of Goodwill is to re-educate all of us in
preparation for this Teacher's emergence on the scene.
Their website states that preparation is needed to
introduce new values for living, new standards of
behavior, new attitudes of non-separateness and
cooperation (interfaith movement), leading to right human
relations and world at peace. You can be sure these new
standards and values will not be compatible with those of
Bible-believing Christians, nor will those Christian
values be tolerated (all in the interest of tolerance of
course).
AQUARIAN AGE
COMMUNITY
The Aquarian Age Community website reads like a New Age
handbook and would undoubtedly put most “unenlightened”
people to sleep faster than a book written by Alice A.
Bailey herself. There is much about the oneness of life,
the divine potential of the individual, the destiny of the
collective, and a need to be resurrected from the matter
in which we are encased.
Their goals are very similar to other groups, as is to be
expected from a group that has the same union boss
(Satan). They are preparing the way for the "Christed One",
or the "Great Teacher", and the unveiling of the Spiritual
Mysteries (mystery Babylon). They promote the evolution
of human consciousness and are active in the work of the
United Nations as a participating NGO (non-governmental
organization). Their connection
to the UN is made obvious by the similarities in language
between the two groups (UN spiritual groups and the AAC).
Most of the spiritual groups that meet at the UN speak
their own language and the AAC specializes in it. At a
Roundtable Meeting in New York City, the AAC opened their
meeting with a speech on the “fiery and potent energies of
the constellation Aries and the Forces of Restoration and
Spirit of Resurrection”. The message was that the Great
Teacher they await will bring “a vortex of planetary and
cosmic energy that will be available to those who can
respond to it”. What?
The AAC website also teaches that this future age that
will be ushered in by the "Great Teacher" will help us to
realize our spiritual destinies. They preach the age-old
deception that we are all really gods ourselves.4
Through evolution we will finally realize what Satan tried
to convince Eve of in the beginning - the same lie that
led to the fall of man in the Garden of Eden. They refer
to this as the “birth of the Christ nature within the cave
of the human heart”.
The AAC also openly admits that their way is the occult
way and they seek to unlock the pagan mysteries of ancient
days. These are the same mysteries that are prophesied in
Revelation. Mystery Babylon will ride in on the Beast
during the tribulation and these mysteries represent the
global religion that will deceive millions before Christ
returns.
Revelation
17:4-6
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and was
glittering with gold, precious stones and pearls. She held
a golden cup in her hand, filled with abominable things
and the filth of her adulteries. This title was written on
her forehead: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF
PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. I saw
that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the
blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus.
The AAC article titled “The
Restoration of the Mysteries” emphasizes the “important
work to be done in familiarizing the general public with
the nature of the Mysteries". They say these mysteries
will be “restored through the Church and the Masonic
Fraternity when those groups leave off being organizations
with material purpose, and become organisms with living
objectives”. From their own mouths, their goal is to
change the Church and bring it into the fold of New Age
thought and the interfaith movement that willingly
abandons any claims to absolute truth. Sadly, in this
increasingly secularly society, they have had success in
doing just that. While an apostasy is prophesied to come
before the rapture of Christ’s Church, this information
should spur all of us to work harder toward informing our
congregations and contending for our faith in the only
savior that will save those lost in these false religions.
Their methods and plans for the future go further to
expose just how far along they are in re-educating our
children and re-engineering society. In “The Restoration
of the Mysteries”, steps are laid out on how to prepare
for “The Great Teacher”. First, they say, they must teach
the law of evolution and its inevitable corollary,
perfected men. You see, in order to accept the
Anti-Christ and his self-proclaimed deity status, we must
all be taught that such perfected people could exist.
They also state that organizations like theirs and others
mentioned in this article must be busily making the world
aware that this teacher is coming. This means as
Christians, we must also be busy letting people know he is
coming – coming to deceive them, and we need to be able
to show them this from the scriptures. Prophecy is a
powerful witnessing tool.
Secondly, the AAC tells their followers all disciples
waiting for their Teacher must be busy being peace
activists and recruiting more loving souls to the cause of
peace and harmony. We’ve seen this movement in force with
the recent Iraq war. Dying and tortured Iraqis, WMD, or
a psychotic ruler are not important. Only preparing for
the ruler who will finesse his way to power through
promises of global peace.
Thirdly, they believe work must be done to increase the
signs and wonders that the Bible prophesies will indeed
increase as the time of the end draws near. They
encourage more work in healing, exorcising, curing mental
and "astral" diseases, and demonstrating to the world that
the ancient power to heal still lies in the hands of those
who consistently follow the "Christ." They also hope to
lead the way in the development of higher psychic powers
and predict that many healers and miracle workers will
come forward in the near future. If they only knew how
right they are, and whose side they are on in this battle.
Many of these groups and followers of false christs will
use Christian terminology and even quote from the Bible to
support their beliefs. They usually do so while scoffing
at Christians however, or qualifying their statements
with claims that the Bible can’t be trusted. The Aquarian
Age Community, for example, states the following:
Ever since He left the earth, as related with approximate
accuracy in the Bible story (though with much error in
detail) has He stayed with the sons of men; never has He
really gone, but only in appearance, and in a physical
body.
They will even speak of Christ and His Church. However,
the Church they’re talking about is a very different one
from the true Church. Take the following quote from their
website for example: “When the few who are the true
esoteric students of the world know the difference between etheric and astral forms, mental clairaudience and
clairvoyance and their astral counterparts, and elementals
of thought and elementals of nature, then will the
Christ and His church have a real esoteric group on
the physical plane and the outer organizations receive the
needed stimulation.”4
They seek to deceive even the elect by using the very
scriptures given us by our Lord while debunking them at
the same time. Apparently, just like many false
religions, the Bible is correct only when it can be
twisted to fit their spirit evolution and oneness
philosophy, but must have been mistranslated and filled
with error since it exposes them for what they are when
taken as a whole.
The AAC takes this criticism of Christianity one step
further and actually blames it for stealing the sole of
humanity and implanting fear and death. In the same
paragraph that they make this statement about Christians
they go on to say that as we evolve, we will realize we
need not fear death any longer. Perhaps during the
tribulation period, when Christians are persecuted for
their faith, this line of thinking will be used to
eliminate the 'soul-stealing', 'death-causing' Christians.
This kind of deception is where the danger lies, and this
is why it is so important for Christians to know their
Bibles and know what Christ has warned us about. Prophecy
and Christ’s warnings to the church are very important and
are too often ignored for the feel-good sermon or the
Bible study that leaves everyone feeling happy or good
about their lives. This is not to say we shouldn’t take
encouragement from the scriptures. However, there needs
to be a balance. People will only be able to reject this
deception and Satan’s powerful lies if they know what they
believe and have been warned about what is coming.
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the
Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the
Son.
1 John 2:22
FOOTNOTES
1. “Who
is Maitreya”, from
Share International Website,
http://www.shareintl.org/introduction/introduction1.htm
2. “Financing
the Work of The Lucis Trust”, from
the
Lucis Trust website, http://www.lucistrust.org/finance/info.shtml
3. “The Reappearance of the
Christ”, from the
World Goodwill website,
http://www.lucistrust.org/goodwill/
4. “The
World of the World Teacher – The True Aquarian”,
from the
Aquarian Age Community website,
http://www.aquaac.org/about/teacher.html
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