Please scroll to the end of the article for a 12/31/08 update.
I guess this is what happens when you read about this self-proclaimed false prophet’s coming out party and a titillating article about his possible connection to Pastor Rick Warren and then some serious background info on this demon.
I am speaking about this Maitreya character, a very real unclean spirit and his enslaved followers (self-delusion and the avid eating of “unclean food” will do that). I first heard about this deceptive spirit some months ago in Warren Smith’s “Reinventing Jesus Christ” (a free read). This character supposedly appeared in public knowingly in Africa somewhere a couple decades ago — so his people claim. Anyway, according to this weird press release published in the formerly respectable WSJ, he is about to make another public emergence, in a TV interview of all things on a high-profile network. The thing is, though, he will be presented by a different name (the deception might not work otherwise) and he thinks he’s GOD’s gift to the planet — and he thinks he’s GOD, too (sounds like Lucifer in Isaiah 14:12-21, doesn’t it?)
This demonic spirit, under the guise of peace by any means necessary (“share or die,” he apparently has said) wants to present himself as “the one we have all been waiting for” to folks of every religion… and (if it even makes any sense) to those who quote unquote don’t do religion. But getting unbelievers to believe won’t be a problem, because this unclean spirit is all-inclusive — he supposedly doesn’t want you to worship him (although he’s presenting himself as a christ and GOD). Instead, he wants you to find the divine within. Good luck. You can read more about his nonsense here (briefly) or here (thoroughly).
But his whole thing is peace:
… I shall send My Disciples to You, and they will show you the way, but you must act and follow our plan. “(Messages from Maitreya the Christ p.30 Tara center) There is an ominous note to all his teachings. “Already the leaders gather and seek to implement this Principle… My Teaching is, as ever, simple indeed. Men must share or die.” Read the rest of this entry »