

He even made a video declaring this delusional claim. Aside from that, he also strongly believed that he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ whose mission was to stop the Antichrist from ruling the world. So, why did this man try to kill the President? Apparently, Ortega-Hernandez believed that Obama was the Antichrist. Five days after the failed assassination, Ortega-Hernandez was caught in western Pennsylvania. Fortunately, no one got hurt-Obama and his wife were at San Diego at the time.

In 2011, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez tried to assassinate President Obama by firing nine shots at the White House. Also, one fundamental aspect of the Church of the Last Testament is their belief in the “outer space mind” or aliens. It’s interesting to note that the teachings of Vissarion borrow some principles from Hinduism, Buddhism, paganism, collectivism, apocalypticism, and the Russian Orthodox Church. Following this event, he received the divine revelation that led him to claim that he is the Christ. The disintegration of the Soviet Union caused him to lose his job. Petropavlovka is a self-sufficient community that surprisingly doesn’t use money for survival.īefore Sergey became Vissarion, he worked as a traffic cop for the USSR. Vissarion and 4,000 of his devoted followers live in Petropavlovka-a man-made utopia where consuming meat, drinking, smoking, and cursing is prohibited. Also known as Vissarion or the Teacher, Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop claims to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ and has founded his own church called the Church of the Last Testament. On August 18, 1990, a certain man named Sergey Anatolyevitch Torop received a revelation from God, a revelation that changed his life and the 10,000 people who believe in his teachings.
