PART II STRONG CITY Finally, the prophecy of Revelation ends: And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ. Rev. 12:17. That is to say, And the devil was very angry with this woman in the wilderness, and tried everything in his power to hurt those who were left in her, who always obey Fathers instructions, and have the testimony that Jesus Christ had concerning His Father and Himself. I am Michael, and I was born out of the woman who fled into the wilderness. I come, and the woman comes, as the fulfiller of prophecy. This event, portends the end of the world. I come at the time of the Antichrist, which is the spirit of anyone who denies that Christ has come in My flesh, for this is Antichrist, according to the Scriptures. Necessarily, Christ and Antichrist come at the same time. There can be no anti if there is nothing to be anti against. There can be no Antichrist, if there is no Christ. I say unto you, Oh earth, that the devil has now come down unto you. You and your churches are decreed void, for there is no other voice than Mine. Since you categorize Me, I shall categorize you. Your many religious clubs under thousands of different names, I shall class all as Babylon the great, the mother of whores. I have called all of My children out of you, and into My fold. Here in this land, they shall find the deliverance, so long sought after. But you can offer no deliverance to your people, for they can only be delivered in Me. You have rejected Me, so there will be no way out for you. Source: Christs Second Coming: Messianic Prophecies Literally Fulfilledoffsite, by Michael Travesser. Accessed, June 22, 2003 Back To Top Update, +/- June 24, 2003: Michael Travesser Family Weblog On or about June 24, 2003, travesser sported a new design, featuring the Michael Travesser Family weblog. The site now also includes an article by Michael titled, WHO IS MICHAEL TRAVESSER (Wayne Bent)?offsite, which includes links to his online books. Michael again states his believe that he is the second coming of Christ: Shortly after arriving in Travesser, Wayne stated, that God spoke the full appearing of His Son into him, and gave him His Sons name and identity, anointing Wayne for the work of Michael referred to in Daniel 12 and Revelation 12. [...] This second coming of Christ, was not in accordance with the modern order of things, and current ideas of this event, and Michael was charged with being a false Christ and a deceiver, as Jesus was charged in his own generation. Michael makes the point that all who believe in him will receive what he has received, but those who reject his testimony will be left in their sins, and lost at last. This exclusiveness is greatly offensive to the religious minded man who thinks he is doing quite alright by himself, and cannot see that when Gods Son came in Jesus, He spoke just as exclusively then, offending the self-righteous religionists of that day, as well. Many religious professors seem ready to accept a man who will appear in the clouds someday, but not this man who has appeared in those clouds not seen by the naked eye, but by the eye of the anointed heart and mind. Michael states that he is not doing away with the Scriptures in regards to Christs coming, but fulfilling them. He states that he is the natural revealing of the very things Christians say they believe in. The only difference is that Christians believe it is someday, and Michael believes it is today. Source: WHO IS MICHAEL TRAVESSER (Wayne Bent)?offsite Regarding the groups web site, Michael says: The group has a web site which is available for general public viewing, but a private site is available only to those who profess faith in him. On that private site is published Michaels almost daily personal reflections. His dreams and visions are only published privately, since when they were posted publically, the reaction was most often one of unbelief and criticism. Michael stated that his Father had instructed him not to cast his pearls before swine, for they would only stomp them into the mud, but the believers may freely eat at his table. Source: WHO IS MICHAEL TRAVESSER (Wayne Bent)?offsite Again, it is clear from Michaels writings that his theology places him and his group well outside the Christian Church, thus marking this movement as, theologically, a cult of Christianity. Back To Top Update, Nov. 28, 2003: The Conclusion Over the past few months, Michael has continued to ramble on about his claims of being the Second Coming of Christ. He states that he knows he is because the Father told him so, and basically takes a who-are-you-to-tell-me-that-is-not-true approach. Michael also claims that thousands of people visit his web site each day. On Nov. 28, 2003, he wrote abot a trip into the earth to complete the testimony: Back To Top The Conclusion Our trip is nearly finished. Going into the earth to complete the testimony seemed excruciating. The spirit of each place was discernible and very antagonistic to the truth. I cannot reach those in the earth, for they are sealed in their own way. The Witnesses and myself, along with Benjamin and Christianna, spoke of the spirit that was in the earth. Truly, there was great confusion, and the roads were always packed to the hilt with autos day and night; but it was more than that. We felt the extremely hard and cold atmosphere, that was prevalent everywhere. The inhabitants of the earth were all quite satisfied with their lives, and whoever we talked to had no questions to ask, even if they had some knowledge of us. They just put all their energies into building their ghost towns and living in their mammonish kingdoms, saying, “God smiles on me, I am His favorite.” There was much building, with whole mountains being flattened in order to build houses upon them. I have never seen anything like it. There was building everywhere, and a great haste to go here and to go there. It is no wonder that America seized Iraqi oil, for without it, everything would come to a standstill. All of Southern California, Yuma, and most of the rest of Arizona was just like this. Everything was merchandised from the church to the zoo. This spirit was identical with that of Sandpoint, when we were driven to leave that place. It was a ghost town when we left, not in the sense of there being no people there, but that there were only the dead remaining. How else could they enjoy their kingdom, except that a kindred spirit resided there? I began to see what would translate us out of this world. It would be the tidal wave of this world’s grossness, and the sweet drawing of our Father’s kingdom to our hearts, both happening at the same time. Oil and water have been mixed and shaken together for generations, but now the oil is rising to the top. [...] One Seventh-day Adventist church we visited was fenced and locked. A member of the church just happened to arrive for some errand and went into the church. We approached the gate, and then the door where she had entered. When she exited the building, we were waiting at the door and I told her I had come to visit, and that I had previously pastored in that church. [...] Years ago, when I had pastored that church, I had baptized a man who painted a picture of our church. The church was being held in Jesus’ hands and He was weeping as if to feel the pain of letting go of it. Now I know the rest of the story. The church truly has been let go. I came when she was not looking for me, and now her opportunity is past. One is taken, and the other is left desolate. [...] This trip has been a great agony for me, I have witnessed and documented all of these things, and now I am nearly finished. I will go out into the earth no more. I will make no more appeal to them, for they are not of my Father’s kingdom, but the kingdom of their own making. They rest in peace, and I will leave them there. We all felt that we were the angels visiting Sodom before its final destruction. We did not find five righteous men. All true Sons will flee, for the hour of this earth’s destruction has come. Source: The Conclusionoffsite by Michael Travesser, Nov 28, 2003 Back To Top Lord Our Righteousness - The Roots of Michaels Theology and Practices An article at sdadefend - a huge site dedicated to the defense of Seventh-day Adventism - provides much background information about the theology and practices that have shaped Wayne Bents (Michael Travessers) theology: Representatives of this new off-shoot, the Lord Our Righteousness Church (formerly called Life Supports) are traveling all over North America. They have already sent missionaries overseas. Their sole targets are Seventh-day Adventist believers. Wherever they go, the agents of LOR amass the wealth of captured Adventists and train new converts to be additional Lorite group leaders. You will learn in this study how they are devastating Seventh-day Adventist homes, as they take away with them wives, husbands, and children. Read these brief Information sheets carefully. Any day now, they may come to your local community, and you or several of your loved ones may be next. This is the closest thing to Adventist Moonyism to enter among us. Although it is the sheerest fanaticism, faithful Advent believers are routinely caught in the net during the very first meeting they attend. Captivated, brainwashed, they then submit to orders by men who brazenly call themselves god. Originally entitled Life Supports, this organization recently officially adopted the name, The Church, the Lord Our Righteousness. Therefore, throughout this study, we will refer to their organization as LOR, and to them as Lorites, since, as you will learn later in this study, they have very little to do with our precious Lord. [...] Wayne Bent was an Adventist minister for 12 years. All or most of his pastorates were in the Southeastern California Conference. At some point in his work, he obtained a masters degree in religion from Loma Linda University. While pastoring in Colton, California, he developed a seminar which he called Life Supports. After his wife left him, Bent left the Adventist ministry and began working full time on his seminars. Eventually, church leaders in Southeastern California Conference asked him to stop holding seminars in their churches. Something about what he was doing bothered them. Later recalling the incident, Bent comments, The rejection of Bents message is the rejection of God. Therefore God has rejected the denomination. Those who know him well, say that Wayne Bent has been strongly influenced by certain associates to carry his original messages to their present most terrible extremes. The first influential one was David Mead, and he has worked closely with him for the past several years. At first, Bent conducted all of the seminars, and then David Mead joined him and began holding them also. At some point in their work, we now know that Bent and Mead took special New Age courses with a focus on EST. Then, John Whitcomb joined them. Even down to the present time, it is recognized that Wayne Bent is at the top of LOR, with David Mead second in command, and John Whitcomb in third place. Ranking close behind them is Richard Roos. Roos, with his wife Bonny, were formerly Adventist missionaries in Africa. Among the top leaders only Bent and Roos, to our knowledge, were ever in denominational ministerial work. Bent first met Mead and Whitcomb while at the Colton Church. Later, when refused permission by the Southeastern California Conference to continue to hold life Supports Seminars under their auspices (and therefore in their church buildings), the group started holding separate meetings at High Grove. This was a United Methodist Church that they rented in that area. From the beginning, David Mead had the concept of Follow me or get out, and gradually this pressure-tactic took control of the entire group. Still later, after John Whitcomb and Richard Roos joined their teaching staff, they moved their headquarters to Sand point, Idaho, where they are today. One of the first concepts taught was that of the gift. (Would you like to have victory? You can have it right now. Christ offers you total sinlessness forever more through me, beginning at this moment, if you will but accept it and acknowledge me, and my group as your spiritual master. You will never again sin, and never again need Christ, or the Inspired Word for any guidance or help. ) The gift of instantaneous sinlessness continues to remain the must fundamental of points in their first-night presentation, during which they entrap innocent Adventists. Hand-in-hand with this early concept of Waynes, is a parallel one that works closely with it. This is the concept of self-created environments. Books on New Age concepts and EST regularly teach this heathen principle. Bents theory of it is like this: We each create our own environment If we want to get rich, we will do it; if we become fearful of something, it will happen; if we become sick it is our own fault and we can easily eliminate it by force of will. And with that goes a second parallel point that LOR obtained from the New Age: Absolute cause and effect. As Wayne interprets this one, it goes like this: Whatever happens to you - was caused by you. If you are driving down the road and a drunk comes over the line and hits you, injuring someone in the car with you, it was your fault. And this negative effect was entirely your fault! Well, you say, how can those people live with themselves if they think such things as that? They do it by continual denial. Wayne Bent has been known to come to the podium of a study session so sick he is feverish and should be in bed, but he denies the fact that he is sick. Later he leaves so he can study”, but really to go to bed secretly and get well. Sickness is always sin in their thinking, so they deny its presence in themselves and treat any loved ones who becomes sick as though they were lepers to be shunned, derided, and cursed. Their official teaching that anyone who becomes sick or diseased is back in their sins. Is that the kind of church of perfect people you would like to be united with? Yet people are initially entrapped while thinking that these people are so very loving, that surely they must be right and to live with such people would be such a wonderful thing. Regarding their idea of healing and death, they quote the text, My God shall supply all your need, therefore theres always enough supply. So you will always be healthy and never sick, you will always have life and never death. Sick people get sick because they want to, and they are not instantly healed-only because they dont want to be. And good Christians never die. This is what the leaders at Sandpoint teach. With the passing of time, more doctrinal concepts emerged. It was not long before they developed their idea of leavening. The Adventist Church is leavening you; you will lose the gift if you stay with them, for they have sinners in their ranks. The only way you can retain the gift is to stay with us. This concept led to their Adventist church is Babylon concept. The Seventh-day Adventist denomination is Babylon because it has sinners in it, and you must immediately leave it or be lost forever. We are the only truly Christian organization in the entire world. Only by submitting to us, worshiping with us [worshiping us], and obeying us, can you be saved. Those who have met with the group at that time tell us of the peculiar peace and joy that the their captured adherents claim to have. Yet, at the same time, they manifest extreme fearfulness, intolerance, and hate toward those who refused to unite with them. They appear to have overcome some of their more minor sins, such as losing their temper, but it was later discovered that, after feeling certain that he had them locked in, Satan would then bring into their lives deeper, more terrible sins, which they may have earlier conquered. These will help to effectively hold them to their new masters. These followers appear to have a strange tranquility and calmness, and a different personality. The best way to describe it is that they seem to be possessed by another power. But at the same time, they are extremely fearful even terrorized-at the thought of being out of harmony with their leaders, or be rejected by them. Along with this, whatever the leaders expressed convictions or concern about, the followers must mirror it. Those that the leaders say are dangerous or bad people, they instantly accepted it and shunned them in fear. They could no longer be themselves. They had come into the most abject servitude. [...] Wayne and his associates claim to be god, the son of god, and jesus christ. With authority such as that comes a sense of power and grandeur to the deluded minds that imagine they are divinity. They say they are the three angels of Revelation 14, and the destroying angels of Ezekiel 9, which slay the sinful Christians. They not only claim deity, but also infallibility, eternity, and immortality as well. Wayne says that because he is sinless, he cannot become sick and can never die. He maintains that it is impossible for sinless people to die. We consider these individuals to be deceived, but they base their ideas on the theory that sinless people automatically become god, and god cannot die. This, in turn, is derived from New Age, which in turn comes from ancient Hinduism: the soul cannot die, and everyone is god. Interestingly enough, although the leaders are divine and infinite and Infallible in wisdom, -for some strange reason their followers are not. This is an obvious flaw in their theory that we would think their followers would recognize, but once locked into hypnotic submission to their superiors, they do not do much independent thinking. They are told that they share in the sinlessness of the leaders, so it would seem that they should also share in that immense god-wisdom that they claim to have. But, instead, they are considered by the leaders to be ignorant dupes that cannot think for themselves. They are treated as indentured servants. Everything must be decided for them. They are kept in a country location and are refused permission to leave it unaccompanied by a leader or subsidiary speaker. And this condition does not change until they have had enough advance training to be considered safe.
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