The new Agers are looking for Maitreya. Maitreya is supposed to be the fifth reincarnation of Buddha. The world's Buddhists are already expecting Lord Maitreya to return to earth. So, the name was a very shrewd choice. In order to appeal to Christians, New Agers say Maitreya is the Christ. What is The Plan? • A universal credit card system. http://www.jesusisprecious.org/false_religion/new_age/maitreya.htm Thanks so much! Just what I was looking for. I have tried to make conversation with neighbors to warn them of what is coming. One couple, he was raised Catholic and she raised Jewish, they are very intelligent. She sent me this, and I really don't know where to go from here. I took it to mean that everyone has their own view: Fair Use Jesus was killed for claiming Godhood while in the form of man! That's what the AC will do 3 1/2 years later! Messiah's as men can be accepted apparently! Jews only know God as an unapproachable spirit! I'm a little confused about their understanding of messiah?! TR I read the first 7 pages. It seems this "teacher of Bible prophecy" seems to think Christianity, Judiasm and Islam all have there own opinions and they are all valid. This, of course, is rubbish. Especially when some of these opinions are diametrically opposed. They can't both be true. One of them has to be wrong. Jesus is either God or He is not. Thanks for taking the time to read some of this, Arthur. It is so long, I think maybe she just wanted to keep me busy for a while! While I love to teach children, I have no backbone to talk to unbelieving adults about my faith. But, after living next door to these people for 20 years, I couldn't stand the thought of it being my responsibility if they hadn't been warned. I told her that I saw that rabbis were saying that the Messiah was coming soon, and this was concerning to me because who the rabbis are expecting is who I believe is the AC. She thanked me for my concern and sent this. I am praying for opportunity to talk without offending. I will read more of it this weekend. If God has put them on your heart, then there must be a reason. May the Holy Spirit wake them up. Thanks for posting Blue, it is always useful to hear and know what the "academics" are saying about the end times. I mostly read the conclusion of the paper and I found the read to be a rather generic and elementary research type paper which used rather broad generalizations regarding the three Abrahamic faiths and their views on eschatology. One response that I would give to the neighbor is that the writer of that paper does not understand Christianity at all, mostly because our end times views and the Bible do not ever call on us to make war against anyone, unlike Islam. It was also never mentioned that Christianity is intimately intertwined with Judaism and that our end times beliefs will actually collide in the very near future, particularly after the Rapture. We are to stand for our faith obviously even if is means imprisonment and in certain situations I believe most Christian men would fight to physically protect their family from harm, but in our end times view, it is our Savior in whom the battle belongs to, and us with Him but not at our own direction are we to wage a Christian war (even though we would often like to!).. lol What's really scary is that this paper was written for a national security department by a writer for Johns Hopkins and really has very naive and ignorant conclusions about our faith and our Blessed Hope. I will join you in prayer for your neighbors, at the very least they might think about your words after we go up and it may lead them to salvation. Thanks for your comments and your prayers. My unsaved brother said to me once that these three faiths are all busy making war against each other while trying to make their end time prophesies come true, and if we could just get rid of religion completely, the world would be at peace. I have tried to share with him too, but he thinks I am nuts. Well, he is right in a sense. When all religion is removed, there will be peace on earth. God reached down to man to redeem mankind through His effort. That is the essence of Christianity. Therefore, Christianity is not a religion. It is a relationship. Christianity is not a Religion From the biblical perspective, unsaved people are marred by sin and cannot cleanse themselves (Rom. 5:6-10; Eph. 2:1-3). Human good and morality has no saving merit before God (Isa. 64:6; Rom. 4:1-5; Eph. 2:8-9; Tit. 3:5). Work is necessary for our salvation; however, it is not the works we do for God that save us, but rather, it is ONLY the work of Christ that saves. Only Jesus lived a perfectly righteous life in the sight of God (Heb. 4:15; 1 John 3:5) and then died a penal substitutionary death on our behalf, bearing the punishment that rightfully belongs to us (John 3:16; Mark 10:45; 1 Cor. 15:3-4; 2 Cor. 5:21). The death of Christ forever satisfied God’s righteous demands toward our sin (Rom. 3:25-26; 1 John 2:2). Salvation comes to us as a free gift (John 3:16; Eph. 2:8-9), paid in full by the Lord Jesus who bore our sin at the cross (1 Cor. 15:3-4; 1 Pet. 3:18), and who offers us eternal life (John 3:16; 10:28-30), and the gift of righteousness (Rom. 5:17; 2 Cor. 5:21; Phil. 3:9), by a simple act of faith in Jesus as our Savior (John 3:16; Acts 4:12). When the Philippian jailer asked Paul, “what must I do to be saved?” Paul replied, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved” (Acts 16:30-31). Believing in Jesus means we look to Christ as our Savior and accept His atoning work on the cross as sufficient to make us acceptable in the sight of God. Once saved, the Christian is called to a life of good works (Eph. 2:10; Tit. 2:11-14), but such works are the fruit of salvation and never the cause of it. Steven R. Cook, D.Min. https://thinkingonscripture.com/2016/12/03/christianity-is-not-a-religion/ 
For Moslems he is the Iman Mahdi.
For Hindus, he is Krishna.
Maitreya's followers are now in the last stage of the New Age scheme to take the world for Lucifer.
Lucis Trust — formerly “Lucifer Trust” — ran ads in the Reader's Digest, which displayed “The Great Invocation to Maitreya.”
The Great Invocation refers to 'The Plan.' It says, "Let Light and Love and Power restore The Plan on Earth."
It includes the installation of a New World “Messiah,” the implementation of a new world government and new world religion under Maitreya. They have numerous political, social and economic goals, including the following:
• A world food authority which would control the world's food supply.
• A universal tax.
• A universal draft.
But there is more to “The Plan” — they intend to utterly root out people who believe the Bible and worship God and to completely stamp out Christianity. Also see, BEWARE OF SPIRITUALITY WITHOUT THEOLOGY (Alice Bailey wanted to corrupt the churches).
Religion is man trying to reach God through his/her own efforts.
Posted on December 3, 2016 by Dr. Steven R. Cook
Religion is man, by his own efforts, seeking to win the approval of God. This is true of all religions (Islam, Judaism, Catholicism, etc.). Biblical Christianity is not a religion, but a relationship with God through the Person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Most think of Christians as people who seek to do good works for God in order to be saved; but this is wrong. Rather, a Christian is one for whom God has accomplished our salvation through the work of His Son, Jesus Christ.
