Aliens and the Antichrist: Unveiling the End Times Deception (11 page)

•   I was sucked into a whirlpool during a camping trip—three people formed a chain to pull me out.

•   I almost went over a waterfall during another camping trip—my brother saved my life.

•   I was buried alive with my brother when we were digging a tunnel in the side of the riverbank near my house. Fortunately, my left arm was close enough to the surface for me to dig my own head out and breath! I then dug my brother out part way, but he was pinned by a massive boulder. I flagged a car down at a nearby road, and four muscular men pulled the boulder off my brother. (The same boulder rolled right over the top of me before landing on my brother, but the sand somehow cushioned me from its crushing weight.)

•   I nearly fell off a cliff while climbing down a rope to get inside a cave. I don’t know how I made it, but I did.

•   I was nearly bit by a water moccasin in the pond by my house in Arkansas.

•   I almost stepped on a rattlesnake during a camping trip in California, and almost stepped on a copperhead during another excursion in the woods in Arkansas. Both snakes were extremely large.

•   I survived double pneumonia and bacterial meningitis. (Bacterial meningitis is the bad one that can cripple a person for life, but I recovered unscathed.)

Strangely, these brushes with death didn’t end with my childhood, though that’s where I encountered most of them. I was a few inches from driving off a bridge and landing in a river a few years ago, and just last year, I was a few inches away from becoming someone’s hood ornament while riding my bike home from work. Someone ran a red light, and missed me by less than an inch; I physically touched the car as it passed me.

After reviewing this list, which is not all-inclusive, I feel as if someone wants me dead, but someone else who is more powerful wants me alive! I’d be a fool if I didn’t think angels were helping me.

Angels intervene for the inhabitants of Earth as a whole, for nations, cities, families, and individuals. They almost never identify themselves, preferring to defer the glory to God, and they’re usually gone before anyone realizes something out of the ordinary just occurred. Clearly, they don’t solve all of our problems the way we might sometimes think they should, because the Earth is rife with turmoil. However, in all cases of interspecies interaction, angels who are faithful to God are conducting their actions in strict accord with the will of God.

PART II 

THE HEAVENS OF THE PAST

Scripture states in Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth.” Scientists speculate that this occurred anywhere from 4.5 to 17.5 billion years ago, depending on a number of variables.
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When I wrote
Aliens in the Bible,
I had various contentions with the old-Earth theory. I hadn’t fully studied all of the scriptural support behind it because I thought that proponents of this theory were trying to make the theory of evolution jive with the Bible. Some do, but not all.

I also couldn’t conceive of a logical explanation for creatures like dinosaurs, which could only exist in a world that had sin and death—to my knowledge, it was Adam and Eve who brought sin and death into the world. I have since discovered that there is an explanation as to how sin and death could have entered the world prior to the creation of Adam and Eve. Now that I am familiar with the scriptural arguments of the old-Earth theory (which includes the existence of a pre-Adamite, partially angelic civilization, which I will discuss shortly), I have actually flip-flopped on my interpretation of the creation account in Genesis. Some may think I am hurting my own credibility by admitting that I have changed my views on previously researched material, but these same people may also take note that I am in accordance with my own admission. As I have said in the past, I proclaim once again: in anything I write, if someone can produce an effective scriptural rebuttal to persuade me otherwise, I am willing to recant my position.

Continuing with the dialogue of creation, after creating the heavens and the Earth, God filled the heavens with life (the host of heaven). This was the age known as the dispensation of angels; it began a long time ago, before humanity existed. For a very long time, all the host of heaven were obedient to God, and the universe dwelled in perfect harmony (Job 38:4-7).

Job 38:4-7

Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding. Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou know? Or who hath stretched the line upon it? Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? Or who laid the corner stone thereof; when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

As a side note, when God created life in the universe, I suspect he created all the species to reproduce after their own kind, just as he did with all the species he created on Earth. Some people might disagree with me on this point, but I think scripture provides evidence to support this possibility. First of all, all the species of Earth bear this reproductive trademark, including humans, some of which will eventually be translated into angels (Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:35; and Revelation 21:16, which I will explain more about later). Why would angels who were formerly human be any different in this respect from angels who come from another species?

Second, the account of Genesis 6 documents the fact that angels are capable of reproduction. I’m not alone in this interpretation. Finis Jennings Dake, author of
Dake’s Annotated Reference Bible, Revelation Expounded, Bible Truths Unmasked,
and
God’s Plan for Man,
pastor of several churches, founder of a Bible school, lecturer, and radio broadcast host for thirteen years, understood with exceptional clarity that the sons of God documented in Genesis 6 were of unearthly origin. Other authors, such as Chuck Missler (former CEO of Western Digital Corporation, Branch Chief of the Department of Guided Missiles, and currently the president of Koinonia House Ministries) and Dr. Mark Eastman, MD, both Christians devoted to ministry, understand who the Nephilim are as well. I highly recommend Chuck’s tape series,
Return of the Nephilim,
and the book that Chuck and Dr. Eastman wrote together,
Alien Encounters: The Secret Behind the UFO Phenomenon.

While it may be possible for angels to assume a reproductive form, I consider it an unlikely scenario for a being who would be foreign to such activities. The fallen angels of Genesis 6 were beings committing acts of sensual lusts, which I think would be extremely odd, had they not been reverting to a former nature with which they were familiar. There would simply be no motive to partake of such deeds. I only digress in this matter because knowing and understanding this aspect of angels may help people to understand their past and possible future interactions with humanity.

I’ve heard it said that angels are only male, but I consider this argument weak because it is an argument from silence: angels are never referred to in scripture as being female, so the absence of said references makes the argument. But their existence is not disproved simply because they aren’t mentioned in the female gender. Jesus indicated that humans will one day be angels (Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:35), and many humans are female! These facts put together means that there will be female angels.

Matthew 22:30

For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.

Mark 12:25

For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.

Luke 20:35

But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die any more: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection.

Scripture was also influenced by the culture of the times in which it was written; literature of biblical times always defaulted to the male gender. Most languages in the world are still this way today. According to the Wikipedia Encyclopedia, “In Indo-European and Afro-Asiatic languages, male pronouns have traditionally been used when referring to both genders or to a person or people of an unknown gender.”
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In the male-dominated society of biblical times, it would have been natural for the authors of the Bible to refer to the beings who were “greater than men” as being male rather than female (Psalms 8:5; Hebrews 2:7-9). Galatians 3:26-28 is a prime example of the influence of culture in literature; this scripture calls all Christians “sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus,” in the English Standard Version of the Bible, and this includes women because it states immediately afterward that there is “neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” Such an admission was extremely liberal for the day in which it was written, yet even with this bold statement of equality between men and women, all are referred to as sons. Scripture is scattered with numerous examples like this that document the simple fact that the literature of biblical times (and even today), frequently defaults to the male gender when speaking in general terminology.

So God created the universe and filled it with life. Then after some time had passed, various species advanced greatly (advanced, not evolved). These species completely populated their planets, then spread to other planets. God translated many of these advanced species into new natures that no longer reproduced, just as he will do for humanity in the future (Matthew 22:30; Mark 12:25; Luke 20:35; Revelation 21:16, 22:8-9). This new nature differentiates angels from the larger group I’ve been referring to as the host of heaven. Mortal humans, for example, are considered hosts in scripture (Exodus 12:41), whereas glorified, translated humans are called angels (Revelation 22:8-9).

Exodus 12:41

And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

Revelation 22:8—9
(bold emphasis added)

And I John saw these things, and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel which showed me these things. Then said he unto me, See thou do it not: for
I am thy fellow servant,
and
of thy brethren the prophets
and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.

There are various classes of angels throughout the universe (Ephesians 6:12; Colossians 1:15—16); the most powerful among them are called archangels (Daniel 12:1; Revelation 12:7—9—Michael is the archangel who defeated Lucifer and cast him out of the highest heaven, which means that Lucifer was probably an archangel as well). In the Old Testament, archangels are called
gods
in several places, but the ancient Israelites clearly understood the distinction between these less powerful, finite, created beings, and their Creator, the eternal God, who has unique attributes (all powerful, all knowing, no beginning or ending, the Creator, and so forth) that no created being will ever have.

Ephesians 6:12
(bold emphasis added)

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
principalities,
against
powers,
against the
rulers
of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places.

Colossians 1:15—16
(bold emphasis added)

Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be
thrones,
or
dominions,
or
principalities,
or
powers:
all things were created by him, and for him.

Daniel 12:1
(bold emphasis added)

And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which stands for

the children of thy people:
and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.

Revelation 12:7-9
(bold emphasis added)

And there was war in heaven:
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon;
and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceives the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Lucifer once held the title of “son of the morning” or “Day Star” in the English Standard Version (Isaiah 14:12). He was given dominion over the Earth long before humanity ever existed (Isaiah 14:12-14; Ezekiel 28:11-17; Luke 10:18; 2 Peter 3:4-8; Jeremiah 4:23-26; as well as many other passages that I will discuss later in this book). He had access to many other worlds: in Ezekiel 28:1416, “stones of fire” most likely represent solar systems in the second heaven (heavens), because Satan being restricted from them is linked to the overthrow of his kingdom. I will now discuss these concepts in detail.