We’ve been tracing the false religions of mankind from their origin on the plains of Shinar through forms ancient and modern. It’s now time to start winding that part of the story to a close. Perhaps a good way to think about the coming End Times Religion of the False Prophet is to remember that it will be a synthesis of all the religions of the world. We have already seen how the Cult of Mary is beginning to serve that unifying role for Catholics, Muslims, Hindus, and even pagan believers in goddess / earth worship such as Wiccans, etc. The biggest obstacle to this unity is the Biblically based Faiths of Christianity and Judaism. But Satan’s armies of the New Age are confronting the problem head on.
The Enemy has launched his attack from many angles, all aimed at undermining the credibility of Christianity, thereby destroying the faith of many. One example of Satan’s strategic attack is the unrelenting assault on the divinity of Jesus being waged through such vehicles as The Da Vinci Code, (movie, book & movement), and the hoax of finding Christ’s bones, – perpetrated on the public in 2007 with the purpose of destroying the viability of Christianity by denying the Resurrection of Jesus. This latter attempt was quickly dismissed by a consensus of independent archaeologists, – but their attempts to undermine the Faith will not stop there.
That reported finding of Christ’s remains buried with a woman they presented as his wife, was just an attempt to confirm the hypothesis of the Da Vinci Code and the philosophy behind it: That Jesus survived the Cross, went on to marry Mary Magdalene, subsequently fathered a child. Christ’s line is then traceable to the Merovingian kings of France and further to the royal houses of Britain, Russia and Europe. It might sound crazy to you, but the Da Vinci Code managed to convince millions in England that it was true.[i]
Using the vehicle of fiction, author Dan Brown has launched an effective attack against Christianity and offered in its stead a creation myth rooted in feminist tinted paganism. Brown tells us that “…chivalric quests for the Holy Grail were in fact stories of forbidden quests to find the lost sacred feminine.” The search for The Grail was just a code. The searchers were just trying to circumvent a Church which “…subjugated women, banished the Goddess, burned non-believers and [forbade] the pagan reverence for the sacred feminine.”[ii] What Dan Brown is espousing is nothing less than full blown Gnostic / Paganism of the Earth-Goddess variety. He is promoting a view of Jesus as merely human with a historical past, unsupported by the evidence. The symbol and center of this view is Mary Magdalene of Gospel fame, who, according to Dan and the modern-day neo-Gnostics, was the wife of that solely and very human Jesus. The quest of the Grail was to “kneel before the bones of Mary Magdalene.”[iii]
It is no idle coincidence that in some very liberal feminist areas of the church, there exists today a movement to raise Mary Magdalene to a status of equal theological significance with the Church’s founding Apostles. This is not unrelated to other developments such as the fact that some outposts of even the Church of England have gone farther, adopting the practices and beliefs of Hindu mysticism. All of this has its origin in something called “higher criticism,” a philosophy that developed in the 18th & 19th centuries in which man would sit in judgment of Scripture rather than be subject to it. Anything then becomes possible; – even for example, the acceptance of homosexuality against the clear dictates of Scripture. Outside the church we see Goddess worship flourishing and growing. There is a clear relationship here. Mr. Brown presents what he portrays as the ‘real story.’ Here’s his version: The Church in a shameless play to concentrate and solidify its power suppresses the role of Mary Magdalene, the feminine nature of God expressed through the ages in Goddess Worship, and the fact that Jesus was merely human. In declaring Jesus “God,” they scheme to inherit His authority as His earthly heirs. To Brown, it is the Gnostic Gospels that tell the real truth about Jesus, and the New Testament that is the lie.[iv] There are millions around the globe that have bought into that lie.
New Age writings have openly revealed that they have a plan to ‘produce’ a New Age Christ. They have even revealed many of the details of their plans to deceive the world into accepting a One World Government under this New Christ. In his 1981 best seller, The Armageddon Script, Peter Lemesurier declares, “If the Messiah is to appear, then he must be produced.” He then goes on to detail some of the actions that might be taken: Steps that would mimic the fulfillment of Scripture, thereby adding authenticity to artificial claims of Messiahship. He is to “appear on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives at the time of a great earthquake,” – fulfilling Zechariah 14:4. This imposter is to “enter Jerusalem from the east,” riding a donkey, – in a replay of Palm Sunday. Lemesurier talks of using smoke and special effects to serve as a “terrifying reminder of the Divine power and wrath.” Now here’s where it gets very interesting. He is to appear wearing the original burial cloth, (shroud of Turin perhaps?), and produce original artifacts and very old bones, – supposedly those of Jesus.[v]
They know the ramifications. Producing the remains of Jesus would of course mean that the Resurrection was a lie. Jesus did not conquer death after all. The Bible is not without error. Christ would have neither paid the debt for sin with His death, nor vanquished death and Satan with His Resurrection. Fundamental Christianity would be discredited. The faith of many would be irrevocably shaken.
Of course, the ultimate aim of all of this is to destroy the True Church, The Bride of Christ, – and substitute in its place a man-produced messiah-figure that will present himself as a (false) Jesus & Mohammed & Buddha & Krishna & the Mahdi, – all rolled into one. All ways will lead to God, they will tell you. [Again, Pope Francis says that now!] It will bring in the One World Government and the One World Religion laid out in Revelation.
[i] Most Da Vinci Code readers…UK Telegraph, May 17, 2006
[ii] The Da Vinci Code, pg 238-239
[iii] Sandra Miesel, Dismantling The Da Vinci Code, Crisis Magazine, September 1, 2003
[iv] Charles Colson, The Da Vinci Conspiracy, BreakPoint, January 20, 2004
[v] Peter Lemesurier, The Armageddon Script, 1981, – Read pages 222 and forward for a revealing expose of the New Age / Illuminatti plan.
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