Many Will Come

The Shroud of Turin, Image of the RESURRECTION
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It’s been 2000 years since St. Paul wrote his letters to fellow believers encouraging them with the hope the Jesus would be returning soon.  Though St. Paul seemed convinced it would be in his lifetime, here we are still waiting.  Still hopeful and expecting.  All the signs that we see in recent times it is becoming more and more evident that we are the generation who will see Him return.
In our Postmodern world, where even churches and their leaders have lost sight of truth and all things spiritual, folks are not prepared for His return and likely would not even recognize Him when arrives.  Just as the Jews before us, we have built our own ideas and opinions of who God is and how He should present himself.  Humankind has been grown fat, lazy and arrogant.  Shaping God into their own image, and even convincing themselves that they are God or at least His replacement.
As in all things, this is no surprise to GOD.  He knew it would happen.  And, as in all things, he warned us ahead of time.  It his desire that we not be deceived.  Take heed to the warning.
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Matthew 24

20 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

23Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.

24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

25Behold, I have told you before.

This warning is repeated nearly word for word in the book of Mark.  

Mark 13

For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

21And then if any man shall say to you, Lo, here is Christ; or, lo, he is there; believe him not:

22For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

23But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

  • Dositheos the Samaritan (mid 1st century), he wished to persuade the Samaritans that he himself was the Messiah who was prophesied by Moses.[16] Dositheus pretended to be the Christ (Messiah), applying Deuteronomy 18:15 to himself, and he compares him with Theudas and Judas the Galilean.[16][17]
  • Sabbatai Zevi (alternative spellings: Shabbetai, Sabbetai, Shabbesai; Zvi, Tzvi) (b. at Smyrna 1626;[12] d. at Dulcigno (present day Ulcinj) 1676), a Sephardic ordained rabbi from Smyrna (now İzmir, Turkey), who was active throughout the Ottoman Empire and claimed to be the long-awaited Messiah. He was the founder of the Sabbatean movement, whose followers subsequently were to be known as Dönmeh “converts” or crypto-Jews.[13] One of the most important messianic movements, and whose influence was widespread throughout Jewry. His influence is felt even today. After his death, Sabbatai was followed by a line of putative followers who declared themselves Messiahs and are sometimes grouped as the “Sabbethaian Messiahs”.[14

18th century

19th century

  • John Nichols Thom (1799–1838), a Cornish tax rebel who claimed to be the “saviour of the world” and the reincarnation of Jesus Christ in 1834. He was killed by British soldiers at the Battle of Bossenden Wood, on 31 May 1838 in Kent, England.[3]
  • Arnold Potter (1804–1872), Schismatic Latter Day Saint leader; he claimed the spirit of Jesus Christ entered into his body and he became “Potter Christ” Son of the living God. He died in an attempt to “ascend into heaven” by jumping off a cliff. His body was later retrieved and buried by his followers.[4]
  • Jones Very (1813–1880), American essayist, poet, literary scholar, and Greek tutor at Harvard who befriended several prominent American Transcendentalists and suffered a nervous breakdown in 1837 after which he claimed to have become the Second Coming of Jesus.
  • Bahá’u’lláh (1817–1892), born Shiite, adopted Bábism later in 1844,[5] he claimed to be the prophesied fulfillment and Promised One of major religions including Hinduism, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam. He founded the Baháʼí Faith in 1863.[6] The Baháʼís believe that the fulfillment of the prophecies of the second coming of Jesus, as well as the prophecies of the 5th Buddha Maitreya and many other religious prophecies, were begun by the Báb in 1844 and then by Bahá’u’lláh. They commonly compare the fulfillment of Christian prophecies to Jesus’ fulfillment of Jewish prophecies, where in both cases people were expecting the literal fulfillment of apocalyptic statements.[7]
  • William W. Davies (1833–1906), leader of a Latter Day Saint schismatic group called the Kingdom of Heaven located in Walla Walla, Washington from 1867 to 1881. He taught his followers that he was the archangel Michael, who had previously lived as the biblical AdamAbraham, and David. When his son Arthur was born on 11 February 1868, Davies declared that the infant was the reincarnated Jesus Christ.[8][9] When Davies’s second son, David, was born in 1869, he was declared to be God the Father.[8]
  • Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of QadianIndia (1835–1908), claimed to be the awaited Mahdi as well as the Second Coming and likeness of Jesus, the promised Messiah at the end of time. He claimed to be Jesus in the metaphorical sense; in character. He founded the Ahmadiyya Movement in 1889, envisioning it to be the rejuvenation of Islam, and claimed to be commissioned by God for the reformation of mankind.
  • Cyrus Teed (1839–1908), American physician, claimed to be the incarnation of Jesus Christ and to have obtained knowledge regarding the Hollow Earth theory, presenting a cosmological model having the Earth as an inverted sphere and the remaining universe located within it.[10]
  • Carl Browne (1849–1914), American activist and leader of the Coxey’s Army protest movement, claimed to be the partial reincarnation of Jesus.[11]

20th century

  • John Hugh Smyth-Pigott (1852–1927). Around 1890 Smyth-Pigott started leading meetings of the Agapemonite community and recruited 50 young female followers to supplement its aging population. He took Ruth Anne Preece as his second wife and she had three children named Glory, Power and Hallelujah.[12] The house which may have belonged to Smyth-Pigott in St John’s Wood was visited by John Betjeman in his film Metro-Land. It is built in the neo-gothic style. It is currently the home of the television presenter Vanessa Feltz and was previously the home of Charles Saatchi.[13] Smyth-Pigott died in 1927 and the sect gradually declined until the last member, sister Ruth, died in 1956.[14] Her funeral in 1956 was the only time when outsiders were admitted to the chapel.[15]
  • Krishna Venta (1911–1958), born Francis Herman Pencovic in San Francisco, founded the WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love) Fountain of the World cult in Simi ValleyCalifornia in the late 1940s. In 1948 he stated that he was Christ, the new messiah and claimed to have led a convoy of rocket ships to Earth from the extinct planet Neophrates. He died on 10 December 1958 after being suicide bombed by two disgruntled former followers who accused Venta of mishandling cult funds and having been intimate with their wives.
  • Jesu Oyingbo (1915–1988), a Nigerian man who proclaimed himself to be Jesus Christ returned.[19][20]
  • Ahn Sahng-hong (1918–1985), a South Korean who founded the World Mission Society Church of God in 1964, who recognize him as the Second Coming of Jesus. The World Mission Society Church of God teach that Zahng Gil-jah is “God the Mother”, who they explain is referred to in the Bible as the New Jerusalem Mother (Galatians 4:26), and that Ahn Sahng-Hong is God the Father.[21]
  • Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012), believed by members of the Unification Church to be the Messiah and the Second Coming of Christ, fulfilling Jesus’ unfinished mission. Church members (“Unificationists”) consider Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, to be the True Parents of humankind as the restored Adam and Eve.[22][23]
  • Douglas Metcalf (1921–1968), leader of the Full Gospel Mission aka Camp David aka The God Squad, a community based in Waipara in North Canterbury New Zealand. Referred to by the group as Lord Jeheshua.[24]
  • Clyde Benson, Joseph Cassel and Leon Gabor, all pseudonyms for psychiatric patients. In 1959, Milton Rokeach conducted an experiment by having the three patients who believed they were Jesus Christ share a room at a psychiatric hospital, and published his results in the book The Three Christs of Ypsilanti.
  • Jim Jones (1931–1978), founder of Peoples Temple, which started off as an offshoot of a mainstream Protestant sect before becoming a personality cult as time went on. He claimed to be the reincarnation of Jesus, Akhenaten, the BuddhaVladimir Lenin and Father Divine in the 1970s.[25] He organized a mass murder suicide at JonestownGuyana on November 18, 1978.[26] He shot himself after the murders were done.
  • Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997), an American who posted a Usenet message declaring, “I, Jesus—Son of God—acknowledge on this date of September 25/26, 1995: …”[27] Applewhite and his Heaven’s Gate religious group committed mass suicide on March 26, 1997 to rendezvous with what they thought was a spaceship hiding behind Comet Hale–Bopp.[28]
  • Charles Manson (1934–2017), American criminal, cult leader, and songwriter.[29]
  • Yahweh ben Yahweh (1935–2007), born as Hulon Mitchell Jr., a black nationalist and separatist who created the Nation of Yahweh in 1979 in Liberty CityFlorida. His self-proclaimed name means “God, Son of God”. He could have only been deeming himself to be “son of God”, not God, but many of his followers clearly deem him to be God Incarnate.[30][31] In 1992, he was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and sentenced to 18 years in prison.[32]
  • Laszlo Toth (1938–2012), Hungarian-born Australian who claimed he was Jesus Christ as he vandalized Michelangelo’s Pietà with a geologist’s hammer in 1972.[33][34]
  • Wayne Bent (1941–), also known as Michael Travesser of the Lord Our Righteousness Church. He claims: “I am the embodiment of God. I am divinity and humanity combined.”[35] He was convicted on 15 December 2008 of one count of criminal sexual contact of a minor and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor in 2008.[36]
  • Ariffin Mohammed (1943–2016), also known as “Ayah Pin”, the founder of the banned Sky Kingdom in Malaysia in 1975. He claimed to have direct contact with the heavens and is believed by his followers to have been the incarnation of Jesus, as well as Shiva, and the Buddha, and Muhammad.[37]
  • Mitsuo Matayoshi (1944–2018) was a conservative Japanese politician, who in 1997 established the World Economic Community Party based on his conviction that he is God and Christ, renaming himself Iesu Matayoshi. According to his program he will do the Last Judgment as Christ but within the current political system.[38][39]
  • Tony Quinn (1944–), an Irish businessman, whose followers believed him to be Jesus Christ.[40][41]
  • Hogen Fukunaga (1945–) founded Ho No Hana Sanpogyo, often called the “foot reading cult”, in Japan in 1987 after an alleged spiritual event where he claimed to have realized he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha.[42]
  • José Luis de Jesús (1946–2013), Puerto Rican founder, leader and organizer of Growing in Grace based in MiamiFlorida, who claimed that the resurrected Christ “integrated himself within me” in 2007.[43]
  • Inri Cristo (1948–), a Brazilian who claims to be the second Jesus reincarnated in 1969.[44] Brasília is considered by Inri Cristo and his disciples as the New Jerusalem of the Apocalypse.
  • INRI are the initials that Pontius Pilate had written on top of Jesus’s cross, which translates from Latin to “Jesus Christ, King of the Jews.”Left: Inri Cristo rides a bike around his compound outside of Brasília, Brazil, known as the New Jerusalem. Right: Inri Cristo preaches to his followers from the top of the compound guardhouse. The disciples live a quiet and secluded life inside the compound, growing most of their own food and focusing on Inri’s mission.  Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photos / The Last Testament (Aperture, 2017)
  • Thomas Harrison Provenzano[45] (1949–2000), an American convicted murderer who was possibly mentally ill. He compared his execution with Jesus Christ’s crucifixion.[46]
  • Shoko Asahara (1955–2018) founded the terrorist Japanese religious group Aum Shinrikyo in 1984. He declared himself Christ, Japan’s only fully enlightened master and the Lamb of God. His purported mission was to take upon himself the sins of the world. He outlined a doomsday prophecy, which included a Third World War, and described a final conflict culminating in a nuclear Armageddon, borrowing the term from the Book of Revelation 16:16.[47] Humanity would end, except for the elite few who joined Aum.[47] The group gained international notoriety on March 20, 1995, when it carried out the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. He was sentenced to death, and was executed on 6 July 2018.
  • Stuart Walker (born 1957), leader of a group called “The Pod” in Mona Vale, Sydney, Australia. He also claimed to be Tutankhamun and various other deities. He also claimed to converse with whales. He was eventually imprisoned for drug offences.[48]
  • David Koresh (1959–1993), born Vernon Wayne Howell, was the leader of a Branch Davidian religious sect in Waco, Texas, though never directly claiming to be Jesus himself, proclaimed that he was the final prophet and “the Son of God, the Lamb” in 1983. In 1993, a raid by the U.S. BATF, and the subsequent siege by the FBI ended with Branch Davidian ranch burning to the ground. Koresh, 54 adults and 21 children were found dead after the fire extinguished itself.[49]
  • Marina Tsvigun (1960–), or Maria Devi Christos, is the leader of the Great White Brotherhood.[50] In 1990 she met Yuri Krivonogov, the Great White Brotherhood founder, who recognized Marina as a new messiah and later married her, assuming in the sect the role of John the Baptist, subordinate to Tsvigun.
  • Sergey Torop (1961–), a Russian former traffic cop who claims to be “reborn” as Vissarion, Jesus Christ returned, which makes him not “God” but the “Word of God“. Also known as “Jesus of Siberia,” Torop has an appearance similar to depictions of Jesus. He dresses in all white flowing robes and has long brown hair and a beard. Before claiming to be the Vissarion, Torop worked as a traffic policeman until he was fired in 1990. He founded the Church of the Last Testament and the spiritual community Ecopolis Tiberkul in Southern Siberia in 1990. The Church of the Last Testament has been described as being a mixture of beliefs from the Russian Orthodox Church, Buddhism, apocalypticism, collectivism, and with ecological values. The church currently resides on the largest religious reservation in the world in Siberian Taiga.[51][52]
  • Apollo Quiboloy (1950–) is the founder and leader of a Philippines-based Restorationist church, the Kingdom of Jesus Christ, The Name Above Every Name, Inc. He has made claims that he is the “Appointed Son of God”.[53]
  • Hasan Mezarcı (1954–) is a former politician and member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (1991–1995) who was expelled from the Welfare Party and imprisoned for his extreme view against secularism. He claimed to be Isa after his imprisonment.
  • Ante Pavlović (1957–2020), Croatian chiropractor.[54]
  • Alan John Miller (1962–), more commonly known as A.J. Miller, a former Jehovah’s Witness elder and current leader of the Australia-based Divine Truth movement.[55] Miller claims to be Jesus Christ reincarnated with others in the 20th century to spread messages that he calls the “Divine Truth”. He delivers these messages in seminars and various forms of media along with his current partner Mary Suzanne Luck, who identifies herself as the returned Mary Magdalene.[56]
  • David Shayler (1965–) is a former MI5 agent and whistleblower who, in the summer of 2007, proclaimed himself to be the Messiah. He has released a series of videos on YouTube claiming to be Jesus, although he has not built up any noticeable following since his claims.[57][58]
  • Photo Left  – David Shayler

David Shayler gives a sermon as his cross-dressing alter ego, Dolores. David says his partial identity as a woman gives the Messiah practical insight into the world from a female perspective.   Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photos / The Last Testament (Aperture, 2017)

Vissarion of Siberia addresses his disciples on his birthday, Jan. 14, otherwise known as Christmas to his followers. Formerly a traffic policeman in the 1980s, Vissarion got his first revelation that he was Jesus Christ at the same time as the breakup of the Soviet Union. Since then he has gathered a following of 5,000 to 10,000 disciples in the Siberian forest. There they live in separate villages with their own infrastructure and social systems.  Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photos / The Last Testament (Aperture, 2017)
  • Maurice Clemmons (1972–2009), an American felon responsible for the 2009 murder of four police officers in Washington state, referred to himself in May 2009 as Jesus.[59]
  • Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez (1990–). In November 2011, he fired nine shots with a Romanian Cugir SA semi-automatic rifle at the White House in Washington D.C., believing himself to be Jesus Christ sent to kill U.S. President Barack Obama, whom he believed to be the antichrist.[60][61]
  • Todd Kincannon (1981–), former head of the South Carolina Republican Party, was arrested in 2018 for killing and mutilating his mother’s dog. He claimed to police he was the second coming of Jesus Christ and that God had told him to do it, because “every 1,000 years there needs to be a sacrifice and blood must be spilt.”[62]
  • Oliver Brecht (1963-), Swiss esoteric sect cult leader, calls himself “Geistheiler Sananda” or simply Sananda, claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus of Nazareth
Moses Hlongwane otherwise known simply as Jesus. In Moses’s theology, his wedding day is the start of the end of days.of South Africa on the day of his wedding to one of his disciples. Right: The hat of Moses Hlongwane, the Jesus of South Africa. Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Photos / The Last Testament (Aperture, 2017)

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10 Surprising People Who Claim To Be Jesus Christ

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The famous rapper blew everyone’s mind when he declared that he was not only “MORE POPULAR THAN GOD” he IS JESUS CHRIST.   He even took on a new identity and YESUS, before he ended up in the psych ward under a doctor’s care.

RE: The Second Coming of Christ

Hi there!  I don’t know who you are but I hope you are well.

I just read a piece you did on the coming / revealing of the Messiah, and I’m here to tell you that whoever they have over there in Israel, they’ve got the wrong guy!  Guaranteed.

As it turns out, the guy everyone has been waiting for to return is me. And I am claiming it for a 3rd time now.

The New Jerusalem mentioned in Revelations is Los Angeles, California, also referred to as the city of lights or The City of Lost Angels.  The biggest clue that this is the city of the NEW Messiah is the name “Hollywood”.  Holly is derived directly from the word Holy making the sign MEAN Holy Wood.  As we all know, Holy Wood is a direct reference to the cross Jesus was crucified on.  And it’s plastered in GIANT letters on the side of the hills overlooking LA.  (CLUE!)

My given name, Louis Stephen, literally translates to “King” (Louis) and “Crowned One” (Stephen).  Put them together and you get “The Crowned King”.  Sound familiar?  It’s on my birth certificate, my driver’s license and my passport.  Both my father and my stepfather were named Joseph (what are the odds?) and my mother was diagnosed has being incapable of conceiving a child or carrying a child to term.  I was born to a barren woman.  Miracle birth ring any bells?  My own father said my birth was a miracle. My father’s names translate into King Joseph The
Chariot Maker and Joseph of The Reeds Who Carries.  My own mother said I looked like Jesus (about 20 years ago) and she said that she wished she had been named Julia instead of Julie.  Julia means “mother of God”. My mother’s maiden name is Aspden.  What’s an asp?  It’s a snake. Who is the keeper of the knowledge of good and evil in the holy bible?  The snake!  I wasn’t just born to a barren woman, I was born from the den of snakes.  (literally).

On February 9th, 1971, on my step-father Joseph’s birthday a 7.0 earthquake rocked Los Angeles.  But I suppose that’s just a “coincidence” too.

The Messiah’s NEW name, the name mentioned in Revelation that only the real Messiah would know is Lumhava.  That’s the new name. This is an important point because most of the fake Jesuses out there use the name
Jesus and don’t have a clue as to what the new name is, or what it means.  Just ask any of the fake Jesuses out there how they have tried to save the human race, and you’ll either get a blank stare back at you, meaning they don’t have a clue what you are talking about, or they have nothing to show for their efforts.

The reason I know that Lumhava is my name is that I met a total stranger back in 1993 (The angel Emmanuel specifically) who told me that “Lumhava” means “Bearer of Light and Fire Within, Keeper of God’s Love
and Defender of God’s Holy Truth.  You are The Messiah.  You’re Lord and Savior of the human race”.

That’s an exact quote from “The angel who walks with man”. (Emmanuel)

You want more?  I’ve got a lot more but didn’t want this email to turn into a book.

There’s a lot of fake Jesuses out there running around right now, but there is only ONE “chosen one” which is precisely why the Messiah is referred to as the chosen ONE.  There’s 2 parts to this:  You have to be chosen in order to become the chosen one, and there is precisely ONE chosen one.  Not 2, not 27, not 163! ONE!  If you’re looking out there for more saviors, you’ll find a lot of quacks and charlatans, but my mission was given to me by an angel sent by God.  When I confront the fake Jesuses out there, which I have MANY times, they fold like a house of cards when faced with the once and future KING.

Pope Francis doesn’t intimidate me at all.  He’s only responsible for 2.2 billion members of his flock.  I’m responsible for saving 7.8 BILLION souls on planet earth, so I’m sorry, but I outrank both the Pope and the Dalai Lama.

Just so we are clear on who we are talking about, here is every possible reference that can be used to refer to the SECOND coming of Christ:

The Messiah
The Chosen One
The Return of Jesus
Lumhava (see meaning above)
The New Born King
The King of Kings
King of The Jews
The Crowned King
The Once and Future King
Lord and Savior of The Human Race
The Second Coming of Christ
The Thief in The Night

(I hope I got all of them, maybe you can add some more titles/names to the list.)

ALL of them are referring to the same guy, and that guy is me.

Feel free to pass this on to your Jewish friends over there in Israel! Jerusalem is a “dead” holy city.  The last holy thing to happen in that town was Mohammad ascending to heaven about 1,400 years ago.

All of the NEW action centers around Seattle, WA and Los Angeles, CA. The new Roman Empire is the United States of America, and the new Tiberius is whoever we elect President.

The final battle between good and evil on this planet is taking place in the realm of “entertainment” which is centered in Los Angeles.  Everyone knows that there is an ugly, violent and seedy underbelly to the entertainment sector, especially among Satan worshipers and their pawns.

Almost every movie that has a “chosen one” character in it is a DIRECT reference to the Second Coming of Christ, and this includes movies like The Matrix trilogy, The original Star Wars trilogy, Kung Fu Panda, Finding Nemo and The Dark Crystal.  (And there are many, MANY others!) The prophets of today aren’t guys dressed in robes.  They are writers, directors and producers.

So that’s it!  Thank you for reading this email, and now it’s your turn:

JUDGE ME!  It’s what everyone else does.  But be warned that making the wrong choice might not cost you just your life, but your soul as well. (Tick tock!)

Best regards,

Louis aka The New Born King

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The Word of GOD warns us, not only that there would come FALSE CHRISTS, but there would come a false GOSPEL.  Something other than salvation through the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and the salvation provided through the covering of HIS BLOOD.  

This is the stumbling block.  Sadly most people throughout history failed to understand that it HAD TO BE HIS BLOOD.  There is no other blood by which we can be saved.  ALL humankind has blood that has been perverted by sin.  ONLY the SINLESS SON of GOD could pay the price for ALL HUMANITY.  

Corinthians 11

2I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him. But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunningyour minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes to you and preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it easily enough.

13 For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ. 14 And no wonder, for Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. 15 It is not surprising, then, if his servants also masquerade as servants of righteousness. Their end will be what their actions deserve.

This warning is repeated again in Galations 1

Galatians 1

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from Him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel; which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

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BECAUSE humanity fails to understand and/or refuses to acknowledge that the BLOOD OF JESUS is the ONLY WAY TO GOD, they look for other ways to eternal life.  Satan and his minions are always ready and waiting to offer their own solutions.  Trouble is, they do not present all the facts, until it is too late to matter.