The Abomination of Desolation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

180 IS ANTICHRIST ALREADY IN THE WORLD?
Maitreya’s “sermons” are collected in a book that people can buy on
the Net titled: “Messages from Maitreya the Christ”
HIS MIRACLES:
No one who is familiar with the scriptural passages concerning
Antichrist will be ignorant of the fact that his coming will be
accompanied by great false miracles wrought by Satan. People who
promote Maitreya, list many miracles that they attribute to him,
complete with very impressive pictures on the Internet.
Weeping and bleeding statues; healing crosses of light and springs of
water; divine messages inscribed by the seeds within fruits and
vegetables; bronze and stone sacred statues that appear to drink milk
-- through such steadily increasing signs and manifestations, now widely
reported in the media, he has touched the hearts of millions, preparing
them for his imminent emergence.
The age of miracles has no end. Miracles? What sort of miracles?
And why do we need them? Why? Because Maitreya hopes, by means
of these ‘miracles’, to strengthen the climate of hope and expectancy
in to which he can emerge as the Teacher for all humanity. And
indeed, over the last couple of years the world has seen thousands of
them. So many, in fact, that Life editor Peter Bonventre, in a cover
article wrote: “I started investigating and it would seem that there is a
real flood of spiritual phenomena taking place all over the world.”
CROSSES OF LIGHT:
Before 1988, no one had heard of them. Today, they dazzle people on
every continent: crosses of light suddenly appearing in windows. Even
science has taken an interest. In a tiny church in Knoxville, Tennessee,
they seemed to be 30 or 40 feet high. Weeks before the first one
appeared, Benjamin Creme announced that Maitreya was going to
amaze the world through a highly unusual light phenomenon.
Up to the present day, new crosses continue to be discovered from
Canada to New Zealand, Slovenia to the Philippines, Japan to
Germany. “Hundreds of people have visited the home of Carlos and
Ines Alvarez in Bakersfield, California, since the couple discovered a
large cross of light in their bathroom window on 7 March,” the
Bakersfield Californian wrote in 1996. “A lot of people think it’s a
message God is trying to send us because we’re in the last days,” said
Mrs Alvarez. According to the article, the family said a priest told
them the cross was a sign of the Second Coming.