Yesterday’s hijacking of Aeromexico flight 576 shows how wildly inaccurate initial media reports can be. Some media reported seven bolivians with explosives strapped on their bodies were demanding to speak to Mexican president Calderón. But, the truth is so bizzarre, it beats any of the media’s guesses by far.

The suspect, Josmar Flores Pereira, a Bolivian minister. His motive: to warn Mexico of an impending earthquake. Why? Because yesterday was the ninth day of the ninth month of the ninth year of the second millennium in our calendar system (09-09-09). He said that is you turned the date upside down, it would become 666 (06-06-06), and signified the great earthquake of Revelation 16:18. Why he didn’t hijack a plane on June 6, 2006 is anyone’s guess. I guess we’ll have to ground all flights for the Maya calendar’s end on December 23, 2012.

The “bomb” was nothing more than a can of soda rigged up with lights. How this man could smuggle such an object on board is troubling. More troubling is the portrayal of Christians as ignorant and potentially dangerous psychotics.

The song in the background was composed and recorded by Flores, and speaks of when he was arrested and was converted to Christianity while in prison. I have friends who have been converted to Christ while in prison; what a disservice to them this act has made! Let me say this carefully: it is a very public and embarrassing exposure of the widespread fraud committed by many sincere but deluded “prophets” in the Latin American pentecostal movement.

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