After all, this subject matter does in fact deal with deceptions of Satan that began from the start of the rebellion, have been promulgated throughout time, and continues today. It’s our desire to “herald truth” and to expose the evil plans and deceptions of the enemy. And unless you are a born again, Bible believing Christian, you’ll not be able to appreciate all that this entails.
Due to the enormity of information on this subject and the amount of coverage I desire to address, this will more than likely be covered in a series of articles.
U.F.O.'s or UAP’s which has become the more popular term and E.B.E.'s (extraterrestrial biologic entities):
Are they real or contrived? Are they within the scope of reality or merely wishful thinking? If such beings do exist elsewhere in the universe, what are they like? What are their interests in us and our world? And why would they be visiting planet Earth? Are they benevolent, or inimical to the human race, or perhaps some of both?
CURIOSER AND CURIOSER
We as the people of Earth have asked such questions for a very long time. I believe we are approaching a day - soon to come - in which we will have these answers, but I'm also convinced that they will lead to a grand deception of epic proportions!
I believe that we are living in incredible days; the future holds such events that we quite frankly wouldn't believe them if we were told about them in advance.
How many of us would have believed on Sept. 10th, 2001 that on the following day, the WTC would be no more? Of course this scenario, while horrendous and dumbfounding as it was, at least fell within the realm of plausibility (it would be conceivable that a jetliner (or two, or three) could crash into some building(s) as a hostile means of attack). In fact those buildings were built in such a way because its architects knew this as a possibility.
And granted, what I am about to venture into here in this article is, as I said, highly conjectural, I believe it holds some merit and should be considered by all of us. It’s up to you the reader to determine for yourselves if I am correct regarding the merit of this conjecture.
In these articles I want to delve into Biblical texts that address these things, visit different websites and convey the informed research and opinions of scientists such as psychologist John Mack M.D. and Jacques Vallee, French astronomer. There will be documentation and video clips as well that unveil more about this phenomenon.
Two articles for your consideration:
ARE ALIENS REALLY ANGELS? And CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Of The DEMONIC KIND.
FROM LONG PAST TO THE PRESENT
Aliens from outer space have long been the subject of interest to those of us more modern humans. On the internet it’s the 2nd most popular subject of interest (the first, unfortunately being pornography).
Major Motion Pictures, television movies, docu-dramas as well as documentaries have drenched our society. As well as this, magazines about E.T.s and UFOs, and also publications of professional articles inundate institutions of learning, libraries and magazine racks and related topics for more than a century.
Do we have an interest in such things? The answer is obvious.
UFO's and aliens are mysterious and elusive, and our curious nature loves to explore (even just for fun) such notions. Our major media, particularly the movie and television industries have literally flooded our consciousness with these 'little green men' (or grays) and their ships, both friendly versions and villainous.
Take this one for example:
"V" was such a popular series in its day, that a new series was produced! Check out V: 2009 and note the novel that this series was based on and what THAT was all about (interesting!); also consider this synopsis. Several years earlier we saw the mini-series Taken (2002) produced by Steven Spielberg.
The HISTORY Channel reveals countless numbers of films, documentaries and information (945 links) that deals with this subject matter.
Yet our own modern media isn't the only source of information about UFO's and our potential initial encounters with them on a global scale. While this writer doesn't subscribe to the validity of the writings of Nostradamus as being inspired by God, he was influenced by ‘spiritual forces’ (close encounters of not the good kind!) and had much to say about UFO and USO vessels and their alien pilots.
Ancient Mayan culture believed as did Native American cultures, in previous visitations from beings of another world, as do many in the Hindu religion. More recently Islamic and Roman Catholic leadership have endorsed the belief in alien life with no apparent conflict to their own religious convictions.
There is for all intents and purposes a universal acknowledgement of alien life and visitations, and these all seem to be converging to an apex in time on our global horizon.
IDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS…
I rather like what Chuck Missler asked about these celestial creatures from another world:
"The question that should be asked is not, 'Are they real?' but rather 'What are they really?'"There are a few possibilities as to the nature of these things:
More with Dr. Missler later…
+ Either they are the product of our own imaginings, personally and, or collectively, based upon previous mythologies, legends and even yearnings for something greater than ourselves overseeing the affairs of mankind. Ancient man had his gods; so then, modern man has his E.T.'s?
+ These are actual aliens (E.B.E.’s) from another planet that have come to visit, study, and analyze our world as a kind of anthropological, sociological and biological scientific investigation.
+ They could be the product of 'Above Top Secret' Black Ops projects which would appear as alien craft to those of us ignorant of such heretofore publicly unknown technologies.
+ These beings could be quite real, but not extraterrestrial in origin as we would commonly use that term. They could be 'interdimensional' beings that are actually more mind or spirit than physical creatures (Dr. Jacques Vallee has some very interesting insights in this matter).
Sightings and stories re: beings from another world are not a modern phenomenon as I'm sure most of us are aware; legends from cultures as ancient as Sumerian, Egyptian and Babylonian have recorded in one form or another accounts of such visitations.
BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVES
Even the Bible has something to say about visitations from non-humans who've ventured into our earthly domain and conducted certain interactions with earlier generations of mankind. Many assume that these beings are, in fact, aliens from another planet.
As Christians we are certain of the Truth of God's Word, and we must judge all things on this basis. Therefore it would seem both prudent and necessary to look into the pages of Scriptures and see what God tells us regarding this issue:
Our first stop is in (of course) Genesis…
GENESIS 6:1-7
1 Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves of all whom they chose. 3 And the LORD said, "My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years." 4 There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown. 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And the LORD was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.
Now let's see what Chuck Missler can tell us about these bizarre circumstances and proceeding events:
"Mischievious Angels or Sethites?"
Here are a few excerpts from the above article:
"The strange events recorded in Genesis 6 were understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, as well as the Septuagint translators, as referring to fallen angels procreating weird hybrid offspring with human women-known as the "Nephilim." So it was also understood by the early church fathers. These bizarre events are also echoed in the legends and myths of every ancient culture upon the earth: the ancient Greeks, the Egyptians, the Hindus, the South Sea Islanders, the American Indians, and virtually all the others."Regarding those legends and myths of every ancient culture; we know them as the various renditions of the "pantheon of the gods", most popularly known in the Greek version, what with Zeus, Apollo, Athena, etc. which co-habitated with humans and procreated with them, creating the demi-gods such as Hercules and Achilles: half god/half humans who were proficient in martial arts and, or superior intelligence. Note that even in the Genesis account, it states that these were "mighty men of renown".
If in fact these were normal humans, there would have been no need to create a distinct designation for their offspring and yet they are referred to in the Word of God as "nephilim".Chuck continues:
The term translated "the Sons of God" is, in the Hebrew, B'nai HaElohim, "Sons of Elohim," which is a term consistently used in the Old Testament for angels,4 and it is never used of believers in the Old Testament. It was so understood by the ancient rabbinical sources, by the Septuagint translators in the 3rd century before Christ, and by the early church fathers. Attempts to apply this term to "godly leadership" is without Scriptural foundation.5
Beyond any textual doubt, these 'sons of God' were not a righteous lineage of man (the Sethite view) interbreeding with a morally and spiritually inferior family line. These were definitely angels, of the fallen kind.
Some would object to this idea due to the verse in Matthew which states that citizens of heaven, saved by the blood of the Lamb will be as the angels are, for they neither marry, nor are they given in marriage (MATT 22:30).
This seems to suggest that angels in heaven don't marry, but are they capable of such? Certainly not with each other, for this is the context of this verse (“they neither marry or given in marriage” – where? In heaven, and among themselves).
And they wouldn't rebel because these angels are holy, and obedient to God. But this says nothing however of the fallen angels who disregard God's will and could engage in such activities.
The Biblical term "Sons of Elohim" (that is, of the Creator Himself), is confined to the direct creation by the divine hand and not to those born to those of their own order.6 In Luke's genealogy of Jesus, only Adam is called a "son of God." The entire Biblical drama deals with the tragedy that humankind is a fallen race, with Adam's initial immortality forfeited. Christ uniquely gives them that receive Him the power to become the sons of God. Being born again of the Spirit of God, as an entirely new creation9 at their resurrection they alone will be clothed with a building of God and in every respect equal to the angels.11 The very term oiketerion, alluding to the heavenly body with which the believer longs to be clothed, is the precise term used for the heavenly bodies from which the fallen angels had disrobed.There was however one family line that did maintain their purity as Chuck states:
The proliferation of these unholy unions, and their resultant unnatural offspring was a primary reason for the Flood. Had these fallen angels corrupted the entire human race, the promise given to Adam and Eve in sending a Redeemer via "the seed of the woman" (GEN. 3:15) would not be able to be kept, as there would have been no 'entirely human' creatures on the Earth (they would have been corrupted by this interbreeding with the fallen angels).
The very absence of any such adulteration of the human genealogy in Noah's case is also documented in GENESIS 6:9For further exploration of this critical topic, see the following:
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Noah's family tree was distinctively unblemished or "perfect in his generations". The term used, tamiym, is used for physical blemishes.
There is New Testament confirmation regarding this 'foul play' between these fallen angels and human women recorded in 2 PETER 2:4-5 and in JUDE 1:6,7.
Even Peter's vocabulary is provocative. Peter uses the term Tartarus, here translated "hell." This is the only place that this Greek term appears in the Bible. Tartarus is a Greek term for "dark abode of woe"; "the pit of darkness in the unseen world." The allusions to "going after strange flesh," keeping "not their first estate," having "left their own habitation," and "giving themselves over to fornication," seem to clearly fit the alien intrusions of Genesis 6. (The term for habitation, oivkhth,rion, refers to their heavenly bodies from which they had disrobed.)
After the flood there were nephilim as well, most notably those that inhabited Canaan, prior to Israel's entering the land. The ten spies were sent out by Joshua to spy out the land, and eight of them came back with an evil report, stating that these inhabitants were so large that "we were as grasshoppers in their sight".
Whereas God judged the Earth at the first infraction of these fallen angels by wiping out their offspring and all rebellious mankind with a global flood; at this point at the onset of the conquest of Canaan, God used Israel as His Holy Gavel, shattering the inhabitants (who were given 400 yrs. to repent and refused) and the nephilim.
George Hawkins Pember, Earth's Earliest Ages, first published by Hodder and Stoughton in 1875, and presently available by Kregel Publications, Grand Rapids MI, 1975.
John Fleming, The Fallen Angels and the Heroes of Mythology, Hodges, Foster, and Figgis, Dublin, 1879.
Henry Morris, The Genesis Record, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids MI, 1976. .
Merrill F. Unger, Biblical Demonology, Scripture Press, Chicago IL, 1952.
Clarence Larkin, Spirit World, Rev. Clarence Larkin Estate, Philadelphia PA, 1921.
Another reason that an understanding of GENESIS 6 is so essential is that it’s also a prerequisite to understanding (and anticipating) Satan's devices and, in particular, the specific delusions to come upon the whole earth as a major feature of end-time prophecy.
"The RETURN of the NEPHILIM.")
THE DAYS OF NOAH
Perhaps the most direct prophetic reference involving these things was the peculiar warning of our Lord Jesus Himself:
LUKE 17:26
And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
What does that mean? He also warned:
LUKE 21:25,26 (emphasis added)
And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
It is interesting to note that one of the titles of Satan is "the prince of the power of the air" and that we wage spiritual warfare against those principalities in "heavenly places."
In these last days could it be that upon the coming of our LORD in the rapture of the church, part of His judgment in "shaking the heavens" will result in a casting down from the heavenlies, and a manifestation of these evil spiritual forces, but in the form of 'alien spacecraft'?
There are precedents as found in EZEK 1:13-16,19; 10:10-13
These were certainly not alien spacecraft, as its specifically stated that they are cherubim (the most mighty of the angelic host) similar, but not identical to those same cherubim that surround the throne of God in Revelation (REV 4:6; 5:11; 7:11).
Even so, the fact that these cherubim that Ezekiel saw seem to have a 'alien spacecraft-like' appearance what with their wheels within wheels and eyes round about, reveals that angels (whether holy OR evil) can manifest in such ways, is quite telling. More on the transmutational abilities of UFO's as witnessed in many sightings with Dr. Jacques Vallee later.
Chuck states –
Is it possible that the UFOs - and their occupants - are part of an end-time scenario?
The MIRY CLAY OF DANIEL
The famous dream of Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel Chapter 2 appears to lay out all of Gentile history until God ultimately intervenes and sets up His own kingdom.Chuck continues . . .
The various metals which make up the image in the dream are well known to serious students of prophecy.9 Even our common expression, "the idol has feet of clay," comes to us from this classic passage.
But what is represented by the "miry clay" in this image? It seems to be strangely mixed-but not completely-with the iron in the dream. The term "miry clay" refers to clay made from dust, a Biblical idiom which suggests death.)
When Daniel interprets this for us he makes an especially provocative allusion in verse 43:
DANIEL 2:43
As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay, they will mingle with the seed of men; but they will not adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix with clay.
As he switches to a personal pronoun, they, "shall mingle themselves with the seed of men..."
The Hebrew word for mingle here is very telling: "arab" meaning to co-mingle, to mix and it’s based on the root word "'arab" to braid, to traffic, meddle, engaged, occupiers." I don't know about you, but when I think about that word 'braid' I think of the double-helix of the genetic structures that make up our DNA codes!
This is extremely suggestive when viewed in light of the warning of our Lord in:
LUKE 17:26
And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
…ostensibly directing us to look more closely at GENESIS 6.
Just what (or who) are "mingling with the seed of men?" These would seem to refer to some beings who are not the seed of men themselves!
Could this be a hint of a return to the mischief of Genesis 6? It staggers the mind to consider the potential significance of Daniel's passage and its implications for the future global governance.
Are these "aliens" so prolific that they constitute a political constituency?
Will there be UFO incidents as part of a carefully orchestrated program to lead us toward a political agenda? Or has it started already? Are the UFOs, and the increasingly widespread abductions, part of the preparations for this scenario?
UFO ABDUCTIONS?
There seems to be a growing concern within the psychiatric community from the strange (and far too frequent) reports from people who claim to have been "abducted" by the occupants of UFOs. These reports are too bizarre to accept, and yet too frequent-and consistent-to ignore. What is particularly disturbing is the estimate from some national polls that as much as 3% of the population may be involved!~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~O~
Perhaps the most well-known researcher in this area is Dr. John E. Mack, (We will be watching some clips from Dr. Mack in subsequent articles in this series) who is professor of psychiatry at The Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School. A contributor to over 150 articles in professional (peer-reviewed) journals and a former Pulitzer Prize winner, he certainly appears to have impressive credentials.
He has been involved in almost a hundred of these cases personally and has shocked the professional community by declaring that he believes these beings may be real and that they appear to have an agenda to develop a hybrid race!
At a professional conference on abductions at M.I.T., Dr. Mack asked the provocative question, "If what these abductees (now referred to as 'experiencers') are saying is happening to them isn't happening, then what is?"
Could all this involve a return to the strange events of "the Days of Noah?"
PART TWO COMING SOON!
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