The Antichrist Is Jewish, Moslem and
Christian
By
Richard Salbato
The idea that the Messiah is coming soon by Jews
and Moslems, and the idea that the Second Coming of Christ is coming soon by
Protestants and some Catholics is the major cause of this war which has become
World War III.
The Jew’s belief is that signs of the coming of
the Messiah are: 1. the return of the Jews to the Promised Land, 2. the
re-building of the city of
The Moslem’s belief is that the coming of the
Messiah, the Mahdi, the Lord of the Age, can
be brought about only if all Moslems force his coming by creating a world wide
war which he can take over and win.
According to their faith in the Mahdi, he will war with and win the
entire world for Allah. By the way, Allah is not a word for God as Moslems would have you believe
but an old word for the pagan belief in the Sun God back at the time of Nimrod.
A date to watch is August 22, 2006.
The Protestant Christians and some stupid
Catholics believe that the signs of Christ’s coming are the return of the Jews
to
The truth is that all three of these religions are
preparing for the coming of the Antichrist.
Thirty-years ago, I published an offer to all Protestant Ministers that
I would give any of them $1000.00 if they could show me anywhere in the bible
where Christ would ever set His foot on this earth again and in fact, I would
prove to them that He would not.
Only one Protestant Minister, my uncle, suggested
a bible passage out of context but I destroyed his argument. The truth is that Christ’s Second Coming and
the end of the world is one and the same thing. Christ will appear in the sky
and draw all those left on earth to Himself in the sky. From the shy He will then wipe away the
earth, the moon, the sun and the sky forever.
Acts 1:11, 1 Thess 4:13-17 & 5:1-3, 2 Thess
2:1-16, 2 Peter 3:10-13
Those who expect an earthly Messiah or Second
Coming of Christ are preparing the way for the Antichrist, who has to come
before the end of the world or the coming of the real Christ. All the prophesies of the Antichrist say he
will be of human birth, of the tribe of Dan, a Jew, have demonic power to
perform miracles, be accepted by the Jews first of all, preach the heresy of
Pluralism, that all religions are God’s religions, reconcile Jews, Moslems and
Christians into one faith. He will go to
war and defeat the entire world. He will
re-build the
Now that being the case, look closely at the belief
in the Messiah by Jews, Moslems and some Christians and you will see that this
World War III is a religious war preparing the way for the Antichrist. In spite of this, I do not believe that even
the Antichrist will come soon. I do not
even believe he will be born soon. I do
believe that more types of Antichrists will come, like Mohamed, Hitler, Julian,
the Apostate, and Maitreya.
If you do not believe that the Antichrist will be
accepted as the Messiah of Jews, Moslems and Christians look below at what they
teach on this subject and compare this with what Christ said;
“I am come in the name of my Father, and you
receive me not, but if another will come in his own name, him you will receive.” (John 6:43)
Jewish, Moslem and Christian Teachings of the Messiah
In Judaism and Jewish
eschatology, the Messiah (Hebrew: משיח;
Mashiah, Mashiach,
or Moshiach, "anointed
[one]") has traditionally referred to a future Jewish king from the
Davidic line who will be "anointed" (the meaning of the Hebrew word משיח) with holy anointing oil and
inducted to rule the Jewish people and bring about the Messianic Age. In
Standard Hebrew, the messiah is often referred to as מלך
המשיח, Méleḫ ha-Mašíaḥ
(in the Tiberian vocalization pronounced Méleḵ hamMāšîŞḥ), literally
meaning "the Anointed King."
Today, the various Jewish
denominations have sharp disagreements about the nature of the Messiah and the
Messianic Age, with some groups holding that the Messiah will be a person and
other groups holding that the Messiah is a representation of the Messianic Age
itself.
The predominant Jewish understanding of moshiach ("the messiah") is based on the
writings of Maimonides, (the Rambam).
"The anointed King is destined to stand up
and restore the Davidic Kingdom to its antiquity, to the first
sovereignty. He will build the Temple in Jerusalem and gather the strayed
ones of
"These words that are explicitly stated in
the Torah, encompass and include all the words spoken
by all the prophets. In the section of Torah referring to Bala'am,
too, it is stated, and there he prophesied about the two anointed ones: The
first anointed one is David,
who saved Israel from all their oppressors; and the last anointed one will
stand up from among his descendants and saves Israel in the end. This is what
he says (Numbers 24:17-18): "I see him but not
now" - this is David; "I behold him but not near" - this is the
Anointed King. "A star has shot forth from Jacob" - this is
David; "And a brand will rise up from
"And by the Towns of Refuge it states:
"And if the Lord your God will widen up your territory... you shall add on
for you another three towns" etc. (Deuteronomy
19:8-9). Now this thing never happened; and the Holy One does not command in
vain. But as for the words of the prophets, this matter needs no proof, as all
their books are full with this issue."
“If he succeeded {and won all nations surrounding
him. Old prints and mss.} and built a Holy Temple in its proper place and gathered
the strayed ones of Israel together, this is indeed the anointed one for certain,
and he will mend the entire world to worship the Lord together, as it is
stated: "For then I shall turn for the nations a clear tongue, to call all
in the Name of the Lord and to worship Him with one shoulder (Zephaniah
3:9)."
"As for Jesus of
Most of the textual
requirements concerning the messiah and what he will do are located within the Book
of Isaiah, although requirements are mentioned in other prophets as well.
·
The Sanhedrin will be re-established (Isaiah 1:26)
·
Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to
him for guidance. (Isaiah 2:4)
·
The whole world will worship the One God of Israel
(Isaiah 2:17)
·
He will be descended from King David (Isaiah
11:1) via King Solomon (1 Chron.
22:8-10)
·
The Moshiach will be a man of
this world, an observant Jew with "fear of God" (Isaiah 11:2)
·
Evil and tyranny will not be able to stand before his
leadership (Isaiah 11:4)
·
Knowledge of God will fill the world (Isaiah 11:9)
·
He will include and attract people from all cultures and
nations (Isaiah 11:10)
·
All Jews will be returned to their
homeland (Isaiah 11:12)
·
He will swallow up death forever (Isaiah 25:8)
·
There will be no more hunger or illness, and death will
cease (Isaiah 25:8)
·
All of the dead will rise again (Isaiah 26:19)
·
The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and
gladness (Isaiah 51:11)
·
He will be a messenger of peace (Isaiah 52:7)
·
Nations will end up recognizing the wrongs they did
·
For My House shall be called a house of prayer for all
nations (Isaiah 56:3-7)
·
The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for
spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23)
·
The ruined cities of
·
Weapons of war will be destroyed (Ezekiel 39:9)
·
The
·
He will then perfect the entire world to serve God
together, as it is written (Zephaniah
3:9)
·
Jews will know the Torah without Study (Jeremiah
31:33)
·
He will give you all the desires of your heart (Psalms 37:4)
·
He will take the barren land and make it abundant and
fruitful (Isaiah 51:3, Amos 9:13-15, Ezekiel 36:29-30, Isaiah 11:6-9)
Orthodox
Judaism maintains that Jews are obligated to accept 13 Principles of Faith which is based on the Prophets,
including an unwavering belief in the coming of the messiah. In Hebrew These are called the Ani Maamin (I believe). Number 12 is the main principle
relating to Mashiach. The Text is as follows in English:
I believe with full faith in the coming of the Messiah. And even though he
tarries, with all that, I await his arrival with every day.
"Since no one can say for certain what will
happen in the Messianic era each of us is free to fashion personal speculation.
Some of us accept these speculations are literally true, while others
understand them as elaborate metaphors... For the world community we dream of
an age when warfare
will be abolished, when justice and compassion will be axioms of all, as it is said
in Isaiah 11: "...the land shall be filled with the knowledge of the Lord
as the waters cover the sea." For our people, we dream of the ingathering
of all Jews to Zion
where we can again be masters of our own destiny and express our distinctive
genius in every area of our national life. We affirm Isaiah's prophecy (2:3)
that "...Torah shall come forth from
"We do not know when the Messiah will come,
nor whether he will be a charismatic human figure or is a symbol of the redemption of
humankind from the evils of the world. Through the doctrine of a Messianic
figure, Judaism teaches us that every individual human being must live as if he
or she, individually, has the responsibility to bring about the messianic age.
Beyond that, we echo the words of Maimonides based on
the prophet Habakkuk (2:3) that though he may tarry, yet do we wait for him
each day."
Reform
Judaism and Reconstructionist
Judaism generally do not accept the idea that there will be a messiah. Some
believe that there may be some sort of "messianic
age" (the World to Come) in
the sense of a "utopia," which all Jews are obligated to work
towards. "They shall not hurt or
destroy in all My holy mountain for the earth shall be
full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea."
Moslem
Messiah
The world is presently at its most
wicked. It is beyond human help. It requires only a nudge to implode and
prepare for the divine ruler, the Saheb-ul-Zaman
(the Mahdi,
the Lord of the Age) to come and set it aright. It is the sacred duty and privilege of every Muslim to do all he can to
hasten the death of the old world and the birth of the global Islamic Ummah.
Thus goes the thinking of
It seems like the old millennialism
thinking, a belief held, in one version or another by several major religions.
Indeed it is, with one terribly alarming difference. This time around, a group
of believers with tremendous resources is intent upon forcing the issue, making
the conditions so dire that the reluctant Saheb-ul-Zaman
is left no choice but to appear and assume his universal reign.
The belief in supernatural
intervention to set the world aright is scriptural to major religions,
including Islam. The Jews have been earnestly supplicating the Lord for the
Messiah to come; the Christians are impatiently awaiting the second coming of
Christ; and, the Zoroastrians are convinced that Saoshayant
is the one who shall come, defeat the trouble-making Ahriman-Satan-and
make the creatures again pure.
Up to this point millennialism was a
belief and a hope. No one ever aspired to or had the means of making the
anticipated events come about. The matter was in the hands of God. The Muslims'
perennial prayer recited every day, posted in mosques and even on bumpers of
vehicles has been, "O, Saheb-ul-Zaman, hasten
your coming." The prayer for the advent, thus far, has been limited to
passive supplications of the faithful.
It is a well-established fact that
beliefs are a potent impetus to action. If you believe your home is about to be
burglarized, you secure the house and take other precautions. If you, under the
influence of drugs, believe that a bug is burrowing into your skin, you may
take a knife to your own body and try to dig the imaginary bug out.
Hence, it is shortsighted to dismiss the mullahs as a bunch of lunatics who are
out of touch with reality and that they have no intention of doing catastrophic
mischief to compel the Mahdi's coming. Maybe some arming of the Iraqi
Shiites, a little support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Palestine-but
no, no major idiocy. After all, they are rational people and in touch with
reality. Any large scale troublemaking spells their doom as well. Thus goes the
rationalization-the greatest risky tranquilizer of the mind.
Rationalization,
compounded by complacency and denial, can be deadly, particularly when the
adversaries have different realities. To the fanatic mullahs ruling
It is
foolish for the non-Muslims to dismiss the mullahs and the Bin Ladens as a bunch of fringe lunatics who are going to go
away simply by wishing it. The Islamist reality is that the non-Muslims are the
ones who deserve to be done away with; they are the ones who have refused to
submit to the summons of Allah for much too long; and, it is time for the
faithful to get rid of them. This makes for a lopsided contest. The non-Muslims are passively
wishing that the nightmarish surge of Islamism is only a temporary fringe
phenomenon doomed to die on its own, while the other side is marshalling its
huge destructive power to accomplish its aim by eradicating the non-Muslims.
The cabal
of fanatical mullahs ruling
The question is:
What does prudence demand? Clearly
wishing the problem to go away is not a very effective solution in the same way
that wishing for the Saheb-ul-Zaman to come has not
been. Reasoning and negotiating with the mullahs and their ilk hold very
little, if any, lasting promise. There
are always the easy ways of denial and appeasement. We are very good at both
practices. No, the Muslims have been around for ages. They make some
troubles from time to time. But they really are not all that bad and dangerous.
We'll get along. If we have too, we'll even let them live by the Sharia-their stone-age laws- in our midst. We'll be
reasonable and they will come around. We'll just have to get along. So goes the
line.
One
problem:
The other
side doesn't think this way. The Islamofascists don't
believe in the notion of "Live and let live." They believe that the
earth is Allah's and it has been sullied by the heathens, the unbelievers and
the kafir for far too long. Now that they have the
means, they aim to make the world to their design and bring about the final
solution-a nasty reminder of not too long ago Nazism.
Is this alarmist, or even
hatemongering? You don't believe Muslims can be that intolerant and hostile
toward non-Muslims and that they'll never go to the extremes? You know Muslims
personally in your neighborhood or your work place and they are nice people?
The nice Muslims you personally know are presently small minorities in alien
lands. They have to be nice, and they may indeed be nice. Yet, when the main
force of Islamofascism surges forward, these nice
folks will either have to join it or be swept aside like the rest of the
resisters.
The concern is not with individual
Muslims who live as solid citizens in democratic societies. They may have
developed a taste for the freedom democracy bestows or have simply learned to
tolerate it. Our concern is with the gathering Islamofascist
storm from the heart of Islamdom. To truly appreciate
Islam, you must experience firsthand Islam in power. Take a quick trip to the
lands of the Muslims and find out for yourself how horribly they treat the
non-Muslims, even the, "People of the book," Jews and Christians. Try
to have a Bible study group or build a church in
The world
is a laboratory where the experiment with Islam shows irrefutable results. The
Islamic Republic of Iran represents the cutting edge for the newly
petrodollar-invigorated Islam. It is determined to complete its task of ending
the world of "Dar-ul-Harb"-the
non-Muslim world to be warred upon-and establishing the "Dar-ul-Solh,"
or "Dar-ul-Salam"-the
Muslim world of the Ummah under the rule of the Mahdi. If
achieving this aim hinges on the conflagration of the Third World War, the
mullahs are happy to make it happen.
Amil Imani is an Iranian born American citizen and pro-democracy
activist who resides in the
The mainstream Islamic view of the
second coming maintains that Jesus was replaced by a duplicate who looked like
Jesus, and that it was the duplicate who was crucified while the real Jesus was
lifted up to Heaven by God, where he is waiting to descend during the “last days”
when corruption and perversity are rife on Earth. He will then wage a battle
against the false Jesus or Dajjal, break the cross, kill swine and call all
humanity to Islam.
Some minority sects of
Muslims have different beliefs. The view of the Lahore Ahmadiyya
Movement and the Ahmadiyya Muslim
Community is based on an allegorical interpretation of the references to Jesus’s second coming in Islamic literature. They believe
that Jesus died a natural death and the "second coming" refers to Mirza Ghulam
Ahmad and his efforts to counter the threats to Islam from other religious
groups.
Christian
Messiah
The Second Coming or Second Advent refers to the Christian
belief in the return of Jesus to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy. Views about the Second
Coming vary among different Christian denominations, and have influenced other religions as
well. The term Parousia, Greek for "appearance
and subsequent presence with" (in the ancient world referring to official visits
by royalty) is also used to describe this event. The Second Coming is an
important component of Christian eschatology, the theology
concerning the final events and ultimate purposes of the world.
The Gospels
contain several apparent predictions of Jesus regarding his return at the end of the
world. These include the Olivet
discourse of Mark
13, Matthew
24-25, Luke
17:20-37,21:5-38; and Mark
8:34-9:1, Matthew
16:24-28, Luke
9:23-27; and Matthew
10:17-42; and John
6:39-40,14:3. Jesus says that the "Son of Man
is going to come in his Father's glory with his angels, and then he
will reward each person according to what he has done" (Matthew
16:27), and that this will occur in a sudden, non localised
fashion "like the lightning, which flashes and lights up the sky from one
end to the other" (Luke 17:24), and that "No one knows about that day
or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father" (Mark 13:32). (NIV)
The prophetic language of
the Book
of Daniel and the Book of Revelation are also considered to be
fruitful sources of study.
Also some verses from the
Gospels are often seen to imply that Jesus would return before the death of those
to whom he was talking. Both Matthew and Luke include the statement, "This
generation will not pass away until all these things have taken place" (Matthew
24:34, Luke 21:32)[1].
Indeed, C.S.
Lewis called this "the most embarrassing verse in the Bible" [2], though many Christians interpret the word generation from this verse in some
different manner. Another verse is more explicit: "Truly I say to you,
there are some of those who are standing here who shall not taste death until
they see the Son of Man coming in His
kingdom" (Matthew
16:28, Mark 9:1, Luke 9:27). This reference is related to the disciples who
saw Him transfigured on the Holy Mount.
Catholic Messiah
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia article on General Judgement[1]: "In the New
Testament the second Parusia, or coming of Christ
as Judge of the world, is an oft-repeated doctrine. The Saviour
Himself not only foretells the event but graphically portrays its circumstances
(Matthew
24:27 sqq.; 25:31 sqq.). The Apostles give a
most prominent place to this doctrine in their preaching (Acts
10:42,17:31) and writings (Romans
2:5-16,14:10; 1
Cor 4:5; 2
Cor 5:10; 2
Tim 4:1; 2
Thess 1:5; James
5:7). Besides the name Parusia (parousia), or Advent (1
Cor 15:23; 2
Thess 2:1-9), the Second Coming
[emphasis added] is also called Epiphany, epiphaneia,
or Appearance (2
Thess 2:8; 1
Tim 6:14; 2
Tim 4:1; Titus
2:13), and Apocalypse (apokalypsis), or
Revelation (2
Thess 2:7; 1
Peter 4:13). The time of the Second
Coming is spoken of as "that Day" (2
Tim 4:8), "the day of the Lord" (1
Thess 5:2), "the day of Christ" (Philemon
1:6), "the day of the Son of Man" (Luke
17:30), "the last day" (John
6:39-40)."
In the Esoteric Christian tradition, (considered to
be heresy among
orthodox Christians [2]),
Essenian and later Rosicrucian
[3],
there is a distinction to be made between Jesus and the Christ [4]. Jesus is considered a high Initiate of the human life
wave (which evolves under the cycle of rebirth)
and of a singularly pure type of mind, vastly superior to the great majority of
the present humanity. He was educated during his youth among the Essenes and thus prepared himself for the greatest honor
ever bestowed upon a human being: to deliver his pure, passionless, highly
evolved physical body and vital body (already attuned to the high vibrations of
the 'life spirit'), in the moment of the Baptism,
to the Christ being for His ministry in the physical world. Christ is described
as the highest Spiritual Being of the life wave called Archangels,
and has completed His union ("the Son") with the second aspect of God.
In this western
tradition, there is a clear distinction between the Cosmic Christ, or Christ
without, and the Christ Within: the Cosmic Christ, the 'Regent of the Earth' [5], aids each individual in the formation of the Christ
Within, the Golden Wedding Garment
(Matthew
22:2,11
KJV), also called
"Soul body", the correct translation of Paul
of Tarsus "soma psuchicon" (Greek
"soma" [body] and "psuchicon" [psu(y)che--soul], "It is
sown a soul body; it is raised a spiritual body ...": 1
Cor 15:44; distinction of "spirit and soul
and body": 1
Thess 5:23).
According to this
tradition, the Christ Within is regarded as the true Saviour
who needs to be born within each individual (Galatians
4:19) in order to evolve toward the future Sixth Epoch in
the Earth's etheric plane, that is,
toward the "new heavens and a new
earth" (2
Peter 3:13, 2
Peter 3:7): the New Galilee
[6].
The Second Coming or Advent of the Christ is not in a physical body (1
Cor 15:50, John
18:36), but in the new soul body
of each individual in the etheric region of the
planet (2
Cor 5:1-3, Greek "politeuma"
[commonwealth], "Our commonwealth is in heaven ...": Phil
3:20-21) where man "shall be
caught up IN THE CLOUDS to meet the Lord IN THE AIR" (Matthew
24:30, 1
Thess 4:17, Acts
1:10-11, 1
John 3:2). The "day and hour" when this event shall be, as
described in the Bible,
is not in the human knowledge domain (Matthew
24:36, 24:23-27).
The esoteric Christian tradition teaches that first there will be a preparatory
period as the Sun
enters Aquarius
by precession: the coming Age of Aquarius.
Pastor William Miller and the Millerite Movement
expected the second coming on October 22, 1844. The fact that this failed to happen was later referred to
as the Great Disappointment. Millerites
then predicted a date of October 22, 1845, which was later moved ahead to 1851. Some of his followers
went on to create the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Jehovah's Witnesses.
The interpretation of the Second Coming is
important in the doctrine of Jehovah's Witnesses, as these hold that it
occurred in 1914, and instead of an apocalyptic Second Coming it is to be
interpreted as an unseen presence, and the visible events of the final times will occur at a later
date.
Emanuel Swedenborg and
those in the New Church believe Jesus has already
made his second advent through the ideas revealed in Swedenborg's
theological works. They believe that the Last Judgement was completed in the spiritual world on June 19, 1770
The followers of Reverend Sun Myung Moon consider Rev. Moon to be the Lord of the
Second Advent called by Jesus Christ on Easter Sunday at the age of 15 on a
Korean Mountainside.
Renowned psychic Edgar Cayce
predicted that the Second Coming of Christ would be in 1998 . Though 1998 has
already passed, many of Cayce's followers maintain that Christ was simply
conceived in 1998 and thus would only be seven or eight years old presently.
Rudolf
Steiner described the physical incarnation of Christ as a unique event, but
predicted that Christ would reappear in the etheric,
or lowest spiritual, plane beginning in the 1930s. This would
manifest in various ways: as a new spiritual approach to community life and
between individuals; in more and more individuals discovering fully conscious
access to the etheric plane (clairvoyance); and in
Christ's appearance to groups of seekers gathered together. See a series of
his lectures on the subject.
Nostradamus predicted that
"from the sky will come a great King of Terror" in 1999 [8].
This was interpreted by some as a prophecy about the second coming of Jesus.
When this didn't occur, his followers and those of Edgar Cayce claimed that
Jesus was conceived in 1998, born in 1999, and is currently living on Earth as
a reincarnated person.
Followers of the Bahá'í Faith believe that
the second coming of Jesus,
as well as the prophecies of the 5th Buddha and many other religious prophecies
of a second coming, were fulfilled in Bahá'u'lláh. They commonly
compare Bahá'u'lláh's fulfillment of Christian
prophecies to Jesus' fulfillment of Jewish prophecies, where in both cases
people were expecting the literal fulfillment of apocalyptic statements.
The Rastafari movement
believes Haile Selassie
is the second coming (although he himself did not encourage this belief). He
both embodied this when he became Emperor of Ethiopia, but
is also expected to return a second time to initiate the apocalyptic
day of judgement. Haile Selassie, also called Jah rastafari, is considered to be still alive by some rastafarians.
Fundamentalist
preacher Jerry Falwell predicted in
1999 that the Second Coming would probably be within 10 years.[9]
False Messiahs of the Past
Jewish Messiah
claimants: Judas
of Galilee (Ezekias)(c.
4 BCE), Simon (c.
4 BCE), Athronges
(c. 4-2? BCE),Jesus of Nazareth (c. 4 BCE–c. 30CE) (placed here because
he was Jewish), Theudas (44-46) in
the Roman
province of Judea
, Menahem ben
Judah partook in a revolt against Agrippa II
in Judea (70 CE), Simon
bar Kokhba (died c. 135), defeated in the Second Jewish-Roman War ,Moses
of Crete (5th century), Isḥaḳ ben Ya'ḳub
Obadiah Abu 'Isa al-Isfahani
of Ispahan lived in Persia
during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph 'Abd al-Malik
ibn Marwan (684-705), Yudghan, lived and taught in Persia
in the early eighth century, Serene (c.
720), David
Alroy or Alrui (c. 1160), Abraham Abulafia (b.
1240), Nissim ben
Abraham (c. 1295),
Moses Botarel of Cisneros (c. 1413), Asher Lemmlein (1502) a German near Venice, David Reuveni and Solomon Molko early sixteenth
century , Sabbatai Zevi (1626-1676),
Barukhia Russo (Osman Baba),
succesor of Sabbatai Zevi, Miguel (Abraham) Cardoso (b. 1630), Mordecai
Mokiaḥ
("the Rebuker") of Eisenstadt
(active 1678-1683), Jacob Querido (d. 1690), said to be the reincarnation of Shabbetai
Zevi, Löbele Prossnitz (Joseph ben Jacob), early eighteenth century, Jacob
Joseph Frank (1726-1791), founder of the Frankist movement.
This list features people
who are said, either by themselves or their followers to be Jesus Christ, or a
Messiah under the umbrella of Christianity: Aldebert
(eighth
century), Tanchelm
of Antwerp (c. 1110),
Ann Lee (1736-1784) central figure to
the Shakers., John
Nichols Thom (1799-1838), Cornish tax rebel, Hong Xiuquan, China (1812-1864), claimed to be
the younger brother of Jesus, Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892),
claimed to be the promised one of all religions, and founded the Bahá'í Faith., Haile Selassie of Ethiopia (1892-1975), Messiah of the Rastafari movement., Georges-Emest Roux (1903-1981), the Christ de Montfavet, founder of the Eglise Chrétienne Universelle
, Abbott
"Vaughn" Meader (1936-2004), grammy-winning
comedian and impersonator, Vince Taylor (1939-1991), rock
and roller who ended his career by claiming to be Jesus, Michael
Travesser, born Wayne Bent (b. 1941). Claims to be the
beginning of the Second Coming of Jesus, Inri Cristo (b. 1948) a claimant to be
the second Jesus in Curitiba, Brazil , David Koresh (1959-1993),
Maria Devi Christos (born 1960), founder of the Great White Brotherhood , Sergei Torop (b. 1961) who started to
call himself "Vissarion," founder of the Church of the Last Testament
Islamic tradition has a prophecy
of the Mahdi, who
will come alongside the return of Jesus. The following people claimed to be the Mahdi, Syed Mohammad Jaunpuri (1443 - 1505) of Northeastern India, The Báb
in 1844 declared to
be the promised Mahdi in Shiraz, Iran, Bahá'u'lláh (1817-1892): Here
as well as he'd been born Shiite and relates to both Islam as well as Christianity, Mirza Ghulam
Ahmad (1835 - 1908) of Qadian, 'the Promised Messiah' return of Jesus, founder of
the Ahmadiyya religious movement in Islam, Muhammad
Ahmad in the late 19th century founded a short-lived empire in Sudan, Sayyid
Mohammed Abdullah Hassan of Somaliland
engaged in military conflicts from 1900 to 1920, Juhayman al-Otaibi seized the Grand
Mosque in Mecca
in November of 1979,
Ayatollah Seyyed Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran (1900-1989) was believed by a
number of followers to be the Mahdi. Upon his return to
This list features people
who are said, either by themselves or their followers to be some form of a
messiah outside of the sphere of Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Aradia de Toscano (b. 1313) active in Italy, said to be the
human incarnation of the Roman demigoddess Aradia, Jacob
Joseph Frank (1726-1791), founder of the Frankist movement, André
Matsoua (1899-1942), Congolese founder of Amicale,
proponents of which subsequently adopted him as Messiah, Maitreya ,
A messianic figure promoted by Benjamin
Creme through his organization, Share International., Meher Baba (1894-1969),
claimed to be the Avatar,
an incarnation of God, Rashad Khalifa
(1935 - 1990), claimed to be a
prophet after the Prophet Muhammad and even included his name in his
translation of the Quran, John
Nichols Thom(1799-1838) was a Cornish
self-declared Messiah in the 19th century, L.
Ron Hubbard (1911-1986) coined himself "Metteya"
(Maitreya) in the 1955 poem Hymn of Asia, In the
religion of Stregheria, Jesus is believed to have been a false messiah that appeared
before Aradia di
Toscano came to free the poor and oppressed from
the fetters of Christianity.