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The  Rapture
According To New Age  Channelers
  
 
"The people who leave the planet  during  the time of Earth changes
do
 not fit in here any longer, and they  are stopping the harmony of 
Earth. When the time comes that  perhaps 20 million people leave the 
planet at one time there will be        a tremendous shift in 
consciousness for those who are  remaining."       
Barbara Marciniak, "Bringers of the  Dawn"
 
  
 The disappearance of  every  born-again Christian will be the first in a
 long line of miracles and  fulfillment of prophecy to occur in the last
 days. The strict  fulfillment of  events will be powerful evidence of 
who is in charge. All will know that  God is  in control but there will 
still be a great many rebellious souls who  refuse to  accept Jesus 
Christ and humbly repent. This is the dark side of Free  Choice.
   
      
   
    Many do not realize that  the end of this age does not entirely  
revolve around the human race. The end could have occurred long ago were
  it not  for God's desire to rescue humanity from Satan and his angels.
 It is  Satan who  is manipulating events here and that is why he is 
referred to as "the  god  of this world" in 2 Corinthians 4:4 and "the prince of this  world"
  in John 12:31 and 14:30. He rebelled long ago and it is at the  
conclusion of  this age that Satan will be imprisoned. And his angels, 
as well as all  men who  refuse the gift of Christ's sacrifice, will 
finally be entirely cut off  from  God's love and will not be allowed to
 continue to sabotage His creation.
   
      
   
     Satan is very restricted as to what course of action he may take 
but  this will  not stop him from deceiving many. In this task he is 
very active. In 2  Corinthians 11:14 Paul warns us that Satan 
masquerades as an angel  of  light and also remarks 
that it should not be surprising that  his  servants appear as servants 
of righteousness as well. One of their  favorite  tools is the tool of 
flattery. They tell us what we want to hear and  subtly  pervert the 
truth so that it conforms to our own self-centered and  self-serving  
human philosophies. This is being done on an unprecedented scale in the 
 powerful  New Age movement today.
   
      
   
    What follows are some  quotes from members of the  New Age movement 
who dabble in a practice called "channeling."  Channeling is a  process 
whereby you open your mind and soul through meditation and  relaxation 
to  the influence and direction of non-human beings. These beings claim 
to  be  "aliens" or "angels" or "Ascended Masters," and offer some very 
 interesting  advice and predictions concerning the future changes. They
 claim to be  angels,  and indeed they are, but the nature of their 
advice gives them away as  fallen angels because
 it conflicts violently  and  obviously with the saving message of Jesus
 Christ, His return in power  and  glory, as well as with the 
uncompromising truths that have been revealed  through  God's prophets.
   
      
  
Here is the Rapture according  to the  Bible,
Matthew 24:36-42
      "But
 of that day and hour no one knows, not even  the angels  of heaven, but
 My Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so  also will  the coming
 of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood,  they were  
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that
  Noah  entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took 
them all  away,  so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. Then two 
men will  be in the  field: one will be taken and the other left. Two 
women will   be grinding at the mill: one will be taken and the other 
left.  Watch  therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord is  
coming."
 
Luke 17:34-35
"I   tell you, on that night two
 people will be in one bed; one will be taken  and the  other left. Two 
women will be grinding grain together; one will be taken  and the  other
 left."
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17  reads,
     "For the Lord himself  will come   down
 from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the  archangel  and
 with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise  first. 
After  that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up 
together  with them  in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air..."    
The disappearance of millions of  people will be explained away using several different tactics. The first   explanation
 is that certain groups of people will have to be evacuated  by our  
extraterrestrial "space brothers" (UFOs) because of catastrophic earth  
changes:
 
Channeler Thelma Terrell,  who goes by  her spiritual name, "Tuella," wrote a book called Project World  Evacuation
 (1), these are some quotes from that  book. They  are messages 
channeled from a being who calls himself Ashtar, the leader  of an  
alien confederation,
    "Our rescue ships  will be  able to come in close enough in the twinkling of an eye
 to set the  lifting beams  in operation in a moment. And all over the 
globe where events warrant  it, this  will be the method of evacuation. 
Mankind will be lifted, levitated  shall we  say, by the beams from our 
smaller ships. These smaller craft will in  turn taxi  the persons to 
the larger ships overhead, higher in the atmosphere,  where there  is 
ample space and quarters and supplies for millions of people."
    "...We watch diligently, the threat of a  polar shift  for the planet in your generation. Such a development would create a  planetary
  situation through which none could survive. This would necessitate an  evacuation  such as I have referred to."
 
    "...Earth changes will be the primary factor  in mass  evacuation of this planet."
 
    "There is method and great organization in a  detailed  plan already
 near completion for the purpose of removing souls from this  planet,  
in the event of catastrophic events making a rescue necessary..."
 
   "The
 Great Evacuation will come upon the world  very  suddenly. The flash of
 emergency events will be as a lightning that  flashes in  the sky. So 
suddenly and so quick in its happening that it is over  almost before  
you are aware of its presence..."
 
    "Phase I of the Great Exodus of souls from  the planet  will take 
place at a moment's notice when it is determined that the  inhabitants  
are in danger."
    "Phase II... This second phase immediately  following the  first. 
The second phase is vital, as we return for the children of all  ages 
and  races. The child does not have the power of choice in understanding
 nor  personal  accountability."
 
    "Do not be concerned nor unduly upset if you  do not  participate in this first temporary lift-up of souls
 who serve with us.  This  merely means that your action in the plan is 
elsewhere, and you will be  taken  for your instructions or will receive
 them in some other manner. Do not  take any  personal affront if you are not alerted or are not a participant in this  first  phase of our plan. Your time will come later, and these instructions are  not  necessary for you at this time..." 
 
New Age author  Timothy Green  Beckley writes more words of encouragement for those who miss the  "evacuation"  in his book Psychic and UFO Revelations in the Last Days  (2),
   "...Many of the  New Age  workers and instructors who feel that they will be taken will not be  taken right  away, but left behind to help mankind survive through the cataclysmic  period.  That is their mission."  
Another explanation
 that will be offered  for the  disappearance of all the believers of 
Jesus Christ is one of an  evolutionary  purge. The basic concept is 
that as earth and humanity is evolving into a  higher  spiritual 
consciousness, those whose thought patterns are of the past,  and which  hinder the evolutionary path, will appear to vanish. It is explained  that these  souls will be taken elsewhere to evolve at their own rate and they will  miss  their chance to participate with the rest of the earth's  inhabitants:
 
 
New Age author Kay  Wheeler (known by  her spiritual name, Ozmana), 
who describes herself as a Pleiadian star  seed and  channeler, 
published an article entitled, The Time Is Now, in  the New  Age journal Connecting Link
 magazine (spring 1994) (3). She  presented  material that she had 
channeled from entities that called themselves the  "Souls  of Light," 
who claim to be ETs from the "Seventh Celestial Plane of  Life" who  are
 concerned with helping earth evolve to full consciousness. Here she  
writes  of the evolutionary purge,
   "The
 Mother [Earth] is  desperately  fighting for her life. Many of her 
vortexes have been drained. She is in   critical condition at this time 
and must turn her thoughts to herself if  she is  to survive. That is 
why you see the many crises in the world. many of  these you  do not 
hear about on your 'screen of lies.'"
 
    "There is much happening on your planet at  this time.  The Mother 
is cleansing. It is all she knows to do at this time to clear  herself  
of the pollution that exists within her body. But you as light bearers  
can help  your Mother cleanse in such a way that does not destroy all 
life on this   planet."
 
   "Much of this is necessary. Many of these  beings have  appointments to leave at this time.
 Earth's population needs to be  decreased to  bring forth the necessary
 changes upon this planet to move into the  fourth  dimension."
 
    "Your Earth is a fourth-dimensional being at  this time.  She has 
moved into this energy pattern, and those who plan to stay must  be of  
this vibration."
 
    "Many of these
 beings who are leaving this  planet at  this time have completed that 
which they came to do. It is a time of  great  rejoicing for them. Do 
not feel sad about their leaving. They are going  home.  Many are 
waiting to be with them again... Many beings must move on, for  
their  thought patterns are of the past. They hold on to these thoughts 
that  keep Earth  held back."
Earlyne Chaney channels an  ET  who calls himself "Kuthumi" and in Chaney's book, Revelations of  Things To  Come (4), this being speaks about the earth changes and  the need  for a "cleansing."
    "The Mother  Deva  (Mother Earth) realizes that her matter must be purified. Her  akashic  ethers must be cleansed of the dark thought forces."
 
Barbara Marciniak is a very  famous New  Age author and channeler. 
In her book she documents what she claims  extraterrestrials from the 
star system of the Pleiades have told her. In  her  book, Bringers of the Dawn: Teachings from the Pleiadians (5),  she also  mentions the removal of a great number of souls,
   "The people who  leave the  planet during the time of Earth changes do not fit in here any longer,
  and they  are stopping the harmony of Earth. When the time comes that 
perhaps 20  million  people leave the planet at one time there will be a
 tremendous shift in  consciousness for those who are remaining." 
 
Johanna Michaelson  is an  ex-New Ager who is now a Christian. She writes in one of her books, Like   Lambs to the Slaughter: Your Child and the Occult (6),
  about  famous New Age intellectual and promoter John Randolph Price, 
whose  spirit guide  says that the number of human beings taken will be 
significantly  higher,
   "...Asher,
 the  spirit guide  of John Randolph Price, a moving force behind the 
New Agers' 'World  Instant of  Cooperation' (on December 31, 1986, in 
which thousands of meditators  worldwide  simultaneously concentrated on
 world peace hoping to cause a critical  mass  launching into the New 
Age) told him that two billion 
people who didn't  go along  with the New Age would be wiped off the 
face of the Earth during the  coming  cleansing."
 
Barbara Marciniak,  in  Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library (7)  writes,
   "Some
 of you  want to pretend  that the earth changes are not occurring. 
However, they are occurring, and  there  is nothing to fear, for they 
are part of the process of the great  shift...  Whether you stay on the planet and alter your vibration, or you check  out and  sit in the bleachers to watch the show, doesn't really matter. On some  level, in  some avenue of existence, you will participate and you will  learn."
 
Marciniak, in Bringers  of  the Dawn, gives us a final warning,
    "If
 human  beings do not  change -- if they do not make the shift in values
 and realize that  without Earth  they could not be here -- then Earth, 
in its love for its own  initiation, is  reaching for a higher 
frequency, will bring about a cleansing that will  balance  it once 
again. There is the potential for many people to leave the  planet in an  afternoon."
 
(All of the above quotes were found in the book, Alien   Encounters, by
 Chuck Missler and Mark Eastman, Koinonia House,  Coeur  d'Alene, Idaho,
 1997, pp. 185-200. See the bibliography at bottom for  the  original 
sources.)
 
 
 
New Age Rapture  Explanations on the  Web
 
I
 have come across several web pages that offer the  same types  of bogus
 rapture explanations as the above quotes. Below, I summarize  what each
  page says, and also give a link so that the page can be read in 
context.
   
   
    [Note
 from  Carole: I have deleted the websites since I do not encourage 
people to  spend time in channeling websites. They are very seductive 
and deceptive, and can lead  Christians astray.]
This  page offers a subtle warning to those  who resist "unity:"
   "It is the time of the joining. It is the  time of  the choosing. And those who wish not to walk upon this path will be  transitioned, transferred to a different reality.
 The time is upon us.  The enemy  is at hand and is about to become one 
with us and will be the enemy no  longer.  No longer will be there dark 
or light, good or bad. Only will there be  unity and  those who wish not to operate in unity, will operate elsewhere in  another  universe."
   
    
  
Cristah
  the lightworker gets answers to her questions from a  being that calls
 itself Ashtar. Ashtar relates how the earth is moving  into the  4th 
dimension, and how only human beings who are of the right vibration  may
  enter it with earth. He says, "...those who do not believe, will be  left in  the 3rd dimension," "those that are not of the light must  stay and  learn here in the 3rd dimension." He says that the fate of earth's  inhabitants "will be handled on an individual basis." and
   
    
  
This
  page talks about how the earth  is "Ascending" into the next age. It 
is filled with a lot of boring New  Age  rubbish, but it mentions that 
there will be "three waves of  ascension,"  and how "...the second wave is the beginning of the evacuation."  Of  this wave it is said, "I cannot give you dates as it is not  permitted." [Plus
 ... no one knows, including Satan and his "lightworkers." Only God the 
Father knows the date of the Rapture and other end-time events, although
 we are told we will know when the end is near due to the signs.}
   
    
  
This
  is a site that is dedicated to preparing the world  for contact with 
our ET "brothers." Sheldan Nidle is the leader of this  organization and
 he is well known to late-night talk show host Art Bell.  Nidle  
publishes updates on his website about twice a week to encourage his  
"lightworkers" around the world.
Here are two pages which mention the   rapture:
This page  mentions how gigantic spaceships will be used to  evacuate certain people, who will then be taken "...to an  orientation  training on special mother ships in the fleet." Evidently
 there  will be  quite a few who don't swallow all of the feel-good New 
Age hogwash, and  these  people must go to school to be properly 
indoctrinated. It goes on to  say,  "After this training is completed, we can then move them to their  new  holographic residences."
 Nidle's
 disciples ask him if all  the rituals and meditation might possibly 
help the earth enough to make  an  "evacuation" unneccessary. Nidle 
replies that their work has been  "marvelous,"  but the Galactic 
Federation still plans to go through with the  evacuation.
   
   
This  page states the purpose of yet another New Age  cult which is trying to prepare the world for contact with ETs. There is  no  explicit reference to an "evacuation," but it does mention Lord  Maitreya, who  they claim is the "current planetary Christ." They directly  contradict  the Gospel when they say that "the belief in separation" is the   "father of all lies."
 One only has to look at the state of the  world to  realize how far 
apart humanity is from God at this time. We are born  into an  age-old 
rebellion against God and are the legal property of the fallen  angels. 
 Jesus Christ came and died in the flesh to offer us a way out. I pray  
that all  who read this understand and do not reject the free gift of 
eternal life  offered  through Jesus Christ. Without it we will suffer 
condemnation alongside  Satan and  his angels.
   
   
  
This
  article is a detailed account of the beliefs of one of  the original 
modern New Age organizations: the Theosophical Society.  This  
organization was founded by Helena Blavatsky near the turn of the  
[20th] century. She  was heavily into channeling and also wrote about 
the coming of a New Age  Christ  (Antichrist). This article documents 
how its' members are expecting a  good  portion of the earth's inhabitants to vanish, and how Maitreya will rise  to  power with the help of the Roman Catholic Pope. (The article is borrowed  from  the Cutting  Edge). [My favorite website for current events/prophecy connections.]
  
 
Hannah  Newman:
 This is a link to the article I have posted on my  site. It  also 
points to Maitreya as the New Age "Christ" (Antichrist), and here  is 
the  relevant quote dealing with the rapture,
    "4. Goal of the Plan -  Initiation: All who wish to enter the 
New Age 'on the physical plane'  [alive]  must undergo an 'energy 
activation' or 'rebirth' - usually marked by a  subjective 
trance-induced 'light experience' where one meets either a  'spirit  
guide' or one's 'higher self' (no difference since 'all is one'). This  
'altered  state of consciousness' will eventually lead to a 'Luciferic 
initiation'  into  the 'new humanity', or a vow of allegiance to Lucifer as god.  Those who cannot (no souls) or will not  ('not  sufficiently developed in their spiritual journey') will be sent  on to  their next life in a global 'cleansing action' (Alice
 Bailey,  'The Rays  and the Initiations' pp.754-755). [for more, see 
Doctrines on the Jews,  below]  By means of this 'initiation' all will 
continue on their journey to  'godhood' at  the new level, which 
includes 'personal experience of the knowledge of  good and  evil'. 
[sounds like Genesis 3:5, and it's meant to]."
 
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Bibliography
 
1. Tuella, Project World  Evacuation,  Inner Light Publications, 1993 edition.
2.  Timothy Green  Beckley, Psychic & UFO Revelations in the Last Days, Inner  Light  Publications, New Brunswick, NJ, 1989.
3. Yvonne Cole,   Connecting Link Magazine, Issue 23, 1994.
4.  Earlyne  Chaney, Revelations of Things to Come, Astara, Inc.,  1982.
5. Barbara Marciniak, Bringers of the Dawn:  Teachings from the Pleiadians, Bear and Co., 1992.
6.   Johanna Michaelson, Like Lambs to the Slaughter: Your Child and the  Occult,  Harvest House, Eugene, OR, 1989.
7. Barbara  Marciniak,  Earth: Pleiadian Keys to the Living Library, Bear &  Company, 1995.