BEWARE OF CHARLATANS!

BEWARE OF CHARLATANS!                                   Monday - August 30, 2010

“For certain men whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are godless men, who change the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.” – Jude 1:4

One night in 1973, José Luis de Jesús Miranda awoke and claims to have had a vision of two hulking men at his bedside that announced the arrival of the Lord, who, said Miranda, "came to me and integrated with me." 
In 1986, the Puerto Rican native founded the Growing in Grace International Ministry in Miami, Florida. In 2005, at Growing in Grace's world convention in Venezuela, Miranda declared himself Christ. He has now called himself the Antichrist and revealed a "666" tattooed on his forearm. Miranda’s explanation: that, as the second coming of Christ, he rejects the continued worship of Jesus of Nazareth.
Miranda preaches to followers in more than 35 nations, mostly in Latin America, and has nearly 300 radio programs and a 24-hour Spanish-language TV network. 
In interviews, comparing himself to Jesus Christ, Miranda has said: “I am greater than him . . . I teach better than him . . . I won’t die. Even if you tried to kill me! I will be president of the biggest government that this earth has experienced. I’m going to change the whole world.”

There is only one Lord Jesus Christ. Everyone else is an imposter leading people astray. Today in prayer, thank the Lord that as we study the Bible, we get to know better the only true God, Jesus Christ.  

“By entertaining of strange persons, men sometimes entertain angels unawares: but by entertaining strange doctrines, many have entertained devils unawares.” – John Flavel

God’s Word: “They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.” – Titus 1:16