False Priests and Anti-Christs

This man, Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda, is certainly one of the more interesting kooks to come along in a long time. In addition to claiming to be the resurrected Savior, he has also decided to label himself the "Anti-Christ," which in his mind is not the negative thing portrayed in the Bible:

The Antichrist is not the devil, de Jesus tells his congregation; he's the being who replaces Jesus on Earth.

"Antichrist is the best person in the world," he says. "Antichrist means don't put your eyes on Jesus because Jesus of Nazareth wasn't a Christian. Antichrist means do not put your eyes on Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Put it on Jesus after the cross."

And de Jesus says that means him.

He even has the numbers "666" tattooed on his body, and has gone so far as to encourage his followers to do the same.

Among his more Christ-like attributes:

He says he has a church-paid salary of $136,000 but lives more lavishly than that. During an interview, he showed off a diamond-encrusted Rolex to a CNN crew and said he has three just like them. He travels in armored Lexuses and BMWs, he says, for his safety.

We've been warned that many people would appear in the Last Days claiming to be Christ. Luckily, most of us won't be fooled by people like this guy. It's the ones who don't sound so crazy that we should be worried about. People who, in the name of religion or government, seek to overthrow the freedom and agency of man. They're usually harder to identify, and have a greater ability to lead large amounts of people astray.