Aliens and the Antichrist: Unveiling the End Times Deception (5 page)

According to the apostle Paul in Romans 1:20, the invisible things in heaven are like the visible things on Earth. Paul, speaking of the third heaven (though the first heaven and other glorified worlds in the second heaven can be given similar descriptions), describes a glorified planet where God’s throne is. It is a real, physical place, with natural terrain features, such as mountains (Revelation 21:10; Hebrews 12:22-23; Zechariah 6:1; Micah 4:1), rivers (Revelation 22:13), fountains of water (Revelation 7:17), and trees (Revelation 7:9; 22:1-3). There is a sky, just as on Earth, because of the presence of clouds, thunder, lightning, and hail (Revelation 3-8; 10:1-7; 11:19; take note of 11:19 in particular, which depicts thunder, lightning, and hail, all of which are weather conditions requiring an atmosphere. These were all witnessed by John while in the third heaven).

Revelation 21:10
(bold emphasis added)

And he carried me away in the spirit to
a great and high mountain,
and shewed me that
great city, the holy Jerusalem,
descending out of heaven from God…

Hebrews 12:22-241
(bold emphasis added)

But ye are come unto, and unto the city of the living God, the
heavenly Jerusalem,
and to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.

* The heavenly Jerusalem is in heaven, obviously, and is located on top of a mountain called Mount Zion.

Revelation 22:1-3
* (bold emphasis added)

And he shewed me a pure
river of water
of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the
street
of it, and on either side of the river, was there the
tree of life,
which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him.

*While the description of New Jerusalem given here is in the future tense, this physical
city with streets, rivers, and fruit-bearing trees with edible leaves currently exists, and is located in the highest heaven.

Revelation 11:19* (bold emphasis added)

And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were
lightning
, and voices, and
thunder
, and an
earthquake
, and great
hail
.

* Aside from the elements of nature—lightning, thunder, and hail—other clearly physical objects are also mentioned, such as a temple, and “the ark of His testament.” The event of an earthquake also reveals that this place is a planet, because earthquakes only occur on planets.

In addition to the descriptions of nature in heaven, cities (Revelation 21), mansions (John 14:1—3), and streets (Revelation 12:21) are also present.

Revelation 21:2
(bold emphasis added)

And I John saw the holy
city,
New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

John 14:1—3
(bold emphasis added)

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many
mansions:
if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

As for the inhabitants of the highest heaven, animals such as horses (Revelation 19:11—14; Zechariah 1:8—11), wolves, lambs, lions, cattle, and oxen (Isaiah 11:6—8, 65:25) live there. People and angelic beings live there as well.

Zechariah 1:8

I saw by night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle trees that were in the bottom; and behind him were there red horses, speckled, and white. Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will show thee what these are. And the man that stood among the myrtle trees answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth. And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sits still, and is at rest.

Revelation 19:11—14

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and He that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness He doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but him himself. And He was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of

God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

Isaiah 11:6-8

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den.

Isaiah 65:25
*

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says the LORD.

*Both references to animals in Isaiah are ofthe kingdom ofGod on Earth in the future, but because horses are clearly present in New Jerusalem in the third heaven now as depicted in Zechariah and Revelation, it can be derived that other animals are currently present in the third heaven as well.

What’s more, a vast collection of miscellaneous items are mentioned, such as food, furniture, altars, fire and coals, incense and smoke, musical instruments, clothes, stones, books, bowls, crowns, lamps, doors and posts, girdles, banquets, walls, gates, precious jewels—the list goes on. Simply look up all references to visions of heaven, and these, as well as many other real, tangible things, will be described. Real, physical people have even been taken there, such as Enoch (Genesis 5:24) and Elijah (2 Kings 2:1). Some of the things in heaven are described as being somewhat beyond the glory of Earth, such as a “sea of glass” (Revelation 4:6, 15:2), “brass mountains” (Zechariah 6:1), “transparent gold,” and pearls of immense proportions (Revelation 21:21), among others. Most of the things mentioned, however, can clearly be understood by things we already know.

Revelation 4:6

And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

Revelation 21:21

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls; every several gate was of one pearl: and the street of the city was pure gold, as it were transparent glass.

How could this place not be a glorified planet? Since the invisible things of heaven are like the visible things on Earth, then it isn’t much of a stretch to conclude that the invisible things in and surrounding Earth are also like the visible things on Earth. Earth’s coexisting realms are exactly like the Earth we all know and understand, with the exception that there are extremely awful places and extremely beautiful places of higher glory.

To make an analogy of how multiple realms can coexist in a layered fashion, and how their geographic locations can be the inner Earth, and the upper atmosphere of Earth, relative to our current dimension, consider the concept of frequency. A television is capable of receiving a bunch of different channels, all with the same cable. Each channel operates at a slightly different frequency than the other channels. In a similar fashion, Earth contains multiple levels of existence that appear much the same as the Earth we know, containing land, water, a sky, terrain features, and so on. As for the geographic correlation of these regions, the lower geographic regions contain the worse terrain (a great deal of fire, no water, extreme darkness), and the higher regions contain more glorious terrain. The full spectrum of the Earth, therefore, can be construed as a kind of onion, full of various layers of lithospheres (solid portion of the Earth). The lowest, inner layers contain the more degenerative degrees of the curse that God has cast upon Earth, and the upper regions in the sky still contain more glory than the Earth we currently live on. Being in the middle layer, the Earth we currently live on is actually the sky of the lower levels, and at the same time, it’s the inside of the Earth of the first heaven.

Many people think of heaven as a formless cloud where people will have a kind of blind, blissful awareness. Or they think of heaven as a vast plane with a ground and a sky, but their thinking doesn’t go beyond this. It’s also common for people to give up on pondering what heaven is like because they label it as incom- prehensible—but scripture clearly states that this is not the case. Heaven is composed of three realms: the sky, outer space, and a glorified planet where God’s throne is. Each of these locations contains places much like the visible Earth. There are numerous descriptions of all the unseen realms in scripture. Romans 1:20 explains that these realms can be understood with precision, using descriptions of the visible things on Earth, and there’s nothing confusing about them at all. In fact, in today’s age of so many technological wonders and creative science fiction writers, we most likely can have a clearer picture of what heaven is really like more than any generation preceding us—without actually seeing it in person.

A great deal of science fiction actually comes from various theories postulated in the field of quantum physics. The concept of a multiverse, dubbed
string theory,
is taken seriously by many mainstream scientists.
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David Deutsch, premier scientist and winner of the Paul Dirac Medal and Prize, describes the concept of a multiverse in depth in his book,
The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes and Its Implications.
(Deutsch also contains a link to “
Seti@Home
” on his Web site, with a blurb stating, “My contribution to the UFO debate,” indicating his belief in the existence of extraterrestrial life.)
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While I certainly don’t agree with his ideas espousing evolution, his concept of a multiverse is biblically accurate.

To many, the field of quantum physics is nothing more than gibberish, but to the Department of Defense and Department of Energy, practical applications for such
gibberish
are at the heart of their latest research and development projects. On the Defense Tech Web site, a controversial paper was recently published that outlines information about a motor that will propel a craft through
another dimension
at incredible speeds!
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That’s right—another dimension, and I read this on a respected science Web site. Professor Jochem Hauser, one of the scientists involved with this new technology, is currently coordinating with NASA and the Air Force over the matter. He hopes to build a test device within the next five years. The science and technology section of Scotsman.com states the following about this proposed hyperspace drive:

The hypothetical device, which has been outlined in principle but is based on a controversial theory about the fabric of the universe, could potentially allow a spacecraft to travel to Mars in three hours and journey to a star 11 light years away in just 80 days, according to a report in today’s New Scientist

magazine.
¹¹

The Z machine, an X-ray generator of enormous power developed by Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico (and funded by the Department of Energy), might be used to test some of the basic science behind the functionality of the proposed hyperspace drive.
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As for the Z machine, it’s somewhat of an enigma as well. It generates an X-ray that lasts only for billionths of a second, but equates to 210 trillion watts, which is estimated at eighty times the entire world’s output of electricity.
¹³

The multidimensional nature of the universe is a biblical reality, and science is getting to the point of discovering this reality with physical proof. I don’t need scientific proof like this, however. I feel as if I’ve always known that the heavens are close enough to see with my own eyes. I live with the knowledge that my ability to see into the first heaven is but the mere tuning of a dial that any angel is capable of adjusting. Nevertheless, even without an alteration of glory, or special technology, everyone has the opportunity to look through the first heaven and at the second heaven directly, every single night, just by gazing at the night sky. Any one of the stars in the night sky may be a sun with inhabited, orbiting planets.