La Iglesia Israelita del
Nuevo Pacto Universal (The Israelite Church of the Universal New
Covenant) started in Peru and is growing rapidly throughout South
America. As you read through the doctrine of this bizarre cult, you
will see similarities with other cults such as the Mormons, Seventh
Day Adventists, Jehovah Witnesses, and various others. This is one
of the most bizarre cults in South America.
Doctrine
The
Isrealitas believe that when the Catholic church abandoned the truth,
the true church has been dead and in darkness until 1955 when
Ezequiel received his revelation. They believe that the church is
only alive in their movement.
Ezekiel
claimed to be the patron saint through his predecessors Moses and
Jesus. He declared that Peru was the “chosen nation”, and the
place where the New Jerusalem would descend to at the end of the
world. According to Isrealita beliefs, the Incas were not pagans,
but prophets of God.
Ezekiel
is referred to as the Messiah and boasts of the titles “My Lord”,
“The Man”, “The Pastor of pastors”, “The Son of Man”,
“The Only Begotten of God”, “Israel”, “The New Inca”, and
“The New Moses”. Ezekiel claimed to be the reincarnation of
Christ and is called the Christ of the West, while Jesus is called
the Christ of the East. Ezekiel even claimed to be above Jesus by
being the fleshly form of the Holy Spirit.
According
to the followers, there are four generations of judgment. The first
generation was with Noah and the flood; the second generation was
with Lot and Sodom and Gomorrah; the third generation is the
Isralitias today. This generation will last 2000 years and after the
years are ended there will be seven years of punishment. In the
1990's the Peruvian Israelitas believed the end of the 2000 years
were coming to an end.
The
Israelitas hoped that Ezekiel would put on the famous red tunic and
begin to preach. Ezekiel predicted that at the end of the third
generation, he would put on the red tunic and preach for 1260 days.
At the end of these days he would be crucified by the Catholic
church. The antichrist would rise to power soon after his death.
Ezekiel's body would remain unburied for three days and then the Holy
Spirit would come to carry him away.
Since
the time of Ezekiel's death and the succession of Jonás,
it is believed that Jonás
will fulfill the role of Ezekiel at the end
of the third generation. After he is carried away by the Spirit,
Jesus Christ will supposedly descend from Heaven with countless angels
with chariots of fire to rescue the true Israelitas, who will be all
gathered in a specific place. White clouds will descend from the
chariots to determine the thoughts of the people. Only those who
think of only God will be taken in the chariots to Canaan, the
promised land, for 1000 years.
The
life in Canaan will be different. There will be no commerce,
marriage, or procreation during the thousand years. Everyone will
speak Arabic. Everyone will be like angels and never age. They
spend their time farming and no one can enter the land. The wicked
generation that cannot enter Canaan will be vampires.
The Israelitas that never made the cut to enter Canaan are counseled
to flee for the jungle during the thousand years and build their own
“promised land” to escape judgment.
At the
end of the thousand years the chariots of fire return and take the
Isrealitas to other planets.
The
Israelite cult bases their beliefs on the Bible, but this “special”
interpretation can only be made know to the person by the Holy Spirit
when they first believe.
Other Strange beliefs
- God is Peruvian.
- God took on the form of various Inca kings over time and eventually became Ezekiel.
- The ten commandments of the Incas are hidden in Machu Picchu and have not yet been discovered.
- Peru is holy ground.
- Ezekiel is the vicar of the Holy Spirit and infallible.
- The world would be destroyed in the year 2000 with exception to the Amazon jungle. Obviously this did not happen but the Israelitas claim it did happen, but you must see it spiritually.
- Ezekiel would be the president of Peru. Of course, this did not happen either. The Israelitas claim it did happen, but you must see it spiritually.
- Ezekiel would die and then raise from the dead three days later. Never happened. the Israelitas claim it did happen, but you must see it spiritually.
- Ezekiel will return to the earth again in 2000 years and take his followers with him in mototaxis.
- The Israelitas evangelize throughout Peru and South America by preaching in plazas dressed in sack cloth and always with a beard.
Advancement
This
may seem like a joke, but hundreds of thousands of people are being
deceived into following this cult. It may not be surprising today,
but even some “evangelicals” are calling this cult a branch of
Protestantism. The Israelita cult is advancing rapidly through South
America by targeting uneducated and isolated people in the jungles
and mountains. I have seen the Israelitas preaching in the plazas of
small towns outside of Cusco, and I know people who are part of the
cult.
Please
pray that the light of the glorious gospel of Christ will demolish
the strongholds of the devil in Peru.
7 comments:
Haha. I liked that the wicked will be like vampires. The cult shows it's age when it has mototaxis in it's prophecies. I can only imagine someone asking Ezekiel how they will get to Heaven and him saying "mototaxis"
I have been very curious about this group. Thanks for shedding more light on the subject A big need for prayer!
Ezequiel actually ran for President of Peru in 1990, the election that brought Alberto Fujimori to power. I was 10 years old at the time and thus couldn't vote, but I was very interested in politics because the guy who was President at the time nearly ruined the economy... They originally used the initials FIA (Frente... I don't remember what the other letters meant) and for the 1990 election they used the initials FREPAP (for FREnte Popular Agrícola FIA del Perú, Agricultural Popular FIA Front of Peru). They ran a pseudo-socialist platform on pro-God slogans. As expected they got little votes and Ezequiel went back into political obscurity. The party is still active today but from what I can tell they are so small they aren't even registered with the Election Board!
From what I remember they did have some large retreat facility in Cieneguilla Ward, Lima, which at the time was a rural area (I don't know what it looks like now but the Lima sprawl must have advanced into it. I have lived in New York City for 21 years now and it was here where I became born-again). At its peak one supporter, speaking to Caretas magazine around 1995 or so estimated following at up to 6,000 coming to their retreats and events. (No idea if they were believers or just political supporters. His political platform was too off-the-wall.)
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I grew up an mk in Peru, with my parents working on the Ampiyacu River near Pebas/Pevas with the Murui Huitoto indigenous group. They told my dad of the Israelitos coming to the Ampiyacu and trying to squat on land there, but they were promptly told to get out of there since it was titled indigenous land. So they went about 20 miles south of Pebas, where they found land available and founded Nuevo Pevas. Dad had a few conversations with them. They were definitely strange and had twisted doctrines. The indigenous people didn't want anything to do with them, recognizing them as people who were not teaching the truth. I went on a trip in 2003 with my dad back to that area, and we saw a dozen or so of them on the boat with us going down the Amazon.
Romans 8:3 (KJV) For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
Romans 8:8 (KJV) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
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