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May 2024

Antichrist, Aliens and UFOs

 Our society is deteriorating, and Bible-believing Christians are ill-prepared to face that deterioration.  The ministry of Today, The Bible and You is dedicated to preparing God’s people to meet the challenges of the day and to encourage obedience to the Word of God in being separated from worldliness and false doctrine.  It is written of those faithful. 

 “And of the children of Issachar, who were men that had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do.” (1st Chronicles 12:32)

 The end times in which we are living are well-documented in the Bible.  When we look at society through the eyes of God and the Bible, we can easily see why we are facing unprecedented troubles today. Helping others understand Bible prophecy is what the ministry of Today, the Bible, and You tries to do.

 We are hearing more and more about the phenomenon of UFOs and Aliens. We are witnessing shocking and illuminating developments.  This news is shocking and crazy — as crazy as the unsaved people felt about Noah as he was building the Ark for 120 years.  That crazy.

 The drumbeat continues to roll toward ever higher levels on the theme of UFOs and Aliens among Us.  This theme has been prevalent in New Age literature for many years and has developed into an article of religious faith for many people who have been caught in the lie of the New Age.  However, this theme is now becoming ever more prevalent in the mainstream media of TV and movies.  Consider some of the instances of TV shows and movies which carried the alien theme:  

• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
• Star Trek
• E.T.
• Alf
• Mork and Mindy
• Star Man
• TV UFO “documentaries” abound, including “Unsolved Mysteries”
• CBS Movie, “Intruders”, two-part series
• Battleship movie
• Alien: Romulus
• Dune
• Roswell, New Mexico series
• Cowboys and Aliens
• Independence Day
• Men in Black
• Rim of the World series

 Let us examine the time frame in which we are living and the applicable Biblical framework.  We are living in times when great changes are being made, the time which will see the snatching away of the born-again believers, the appearance of Anti-Christ, the Great Tribulation, and the Second Return of Jesus Christ. We have already demonstrated that THE hallmark characteristic of the End of the Age is prophesied to be unparalleled deception.  Let us examine this prophesied deception. 

 2nd Thessalonians 2:1-3 — In this section of Scripture, Paul addresses the misconception among the church at Thessalonica that the Day of the Lord has already occurred.  Paul emphatically states, “Let no one deceive…you”.  Jesus stated the same warning against deception in Matthew 24:4; He has just been asked  by His disciples what THE sign of the End of the Age would be.  Jesus gave them many more signs than just one, but His first response was, “Be careful that no one misleads you, deceiving you and leading you into error”.  Jesus repeats this this warning twice more, in verse 11 and 24.  In verse 24, Jesus adds that “False Christs and false prophets will arise…and will show great signs and wonders, to deceive and lead astray, if possible, the very elect” (God’s chosen ones).  In other words, the End Time deception will be unparalleled; it will be accompanied by truly extraordinary signs and wonders.  We are not to be deceived.  Truly, unparalleled spiritual deception is THE hallmark’s characteristic of the End Times.

 No one can understand the times in which we live, nor can anyone understand the New World Order, unless they understand Biblical prophecy and doctrine.

 Now let us return to our Scripture passage in 2nd Thessalonians 2:3, “Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition.” 

 This is the predicted great falling away of those who have professed to be Christians …”We are at this point in world history today, fulfilling this part of this prophecy.  Paul continues, “…and the man of lawlessness (sin) is revealed, …”  Of course, this man of lawlessness is the Biblical Antichrist, as predicted in Daniel 9:27 and confirmed by Jesus in Matthew 24:15. 

 The major point that we want you to grasp from this passage is that the end result of this unparalleled deception will be the appearance of Antichrist.  This is such a critical point.  The planned end result of this tremendous program of deception is belief in the Antichrist. 

 Paul continues, verse 9, “The coming of the lawless one, [the antichrist] is through the activity and working of Satan…”  This verse tells us that the source of this End-Time delusion will be Satan.  Make no mistake about it, Satan’s supernatural power will produce the most incredible deception the world will have ever witnessed.  This deception will seem so incredible, that people’s minds will literally be blown away.  At this point, we must remind our listeners that Satan and his angels, also known as demons, are capable of transforming themselves into human and non-human forms so as to deceive people.  As Paul stated so eloquently,  “… Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.”  Keep this fact in mind as we study UFOs and Aliens.

 Now back to Paul’s revelations.

 “… and will be attended with great power and with all sorts of pretended miracles and signs and delusive marvels… all of them lying wonders — And by unlimited seduction to evil and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing because they did not welcome the Truth, but refused to love it that they might be saved.” The only people who will be deceived will be the unsaved; this truth ties in perfectly with Jesus’ assertion in Matthew 24, where He says that the Elect, God’s chosen people, would not be deceived. This deception of the unsaved takes on tremendous significance because of the next verse, “Therefore, God sends upon them a misleading influence, a working of error and a strong delusion to make them believe what is false”.  This very frightening verse reveals that God Himself gets involved at this point, deliberately hardening the hearts and minds of those people who have rejected the Truth of the Gospel.  If this is your situation, you must resist the salvation call of the Holy Spirit no longer.  Turn now to Jesus Christ, while this world is still in the Age of Grace before God sends this tremendously-powerful delusion upon the unbelieving world.

 

 Finally, Paul reveals the final intention of this strong delusion, sent by God, “In order that all may be judged and condemned who did not believe in the Truth, but instead took pleasure in unrighteousness.” This strong deception will be part of God’s Judgment upon the wicked.

 Let us now examine this phenomenal buildup of UFOs and Aliens.  Alien’s are depicted in movies, TV shows, and science fiction novels as: 

• Just like us in many respects.
• More intelligent and more advanced technologically.
• Friendly beings that are able to live in peace, thus being able to teach us warring humans to live in peace.
• Having only our interests at heart.

 “…In 1982, Michael London of the L.A. Times gathered together a group of 8 people experienced in UFO and extraterrestrial encounters for a special screening of Steven Spielberg’s movie “E.T.”  London noted the following reactions of the group to the movie: 

 ‘This is a true movie, not a romance.  It’s part of a CONDITIONING PROCESS TO PREPARE US FOR THE ARRIVAL OF ALIEN BEINGS.’ 

 ‘The movie is a vehicle…It invites the audience to be less afraid of the so-called paranormal.  And what better place to start than with the children?’ Everything is being done through the children…”

 Everything is being done through our children and has been for over 20 years.  Thus, the first generation to be so conditioned is now having children, who are also being conditioned.  What is the purpose?  Also, remember that the #1 objective of the New Age is to successfully stage the appearance of Antichrist.

When the Antichrist stages his

appearances, he will claim to be an 

ascended master from another dimension,

i.e., an ALIEN BEING.  He is just as friendly 

as those aliens you have been seeing on

TV and movies.  He just has our best

interests at heart and wants to lead the

world into a new, peaceful existence.

 New Age leaders believe people will be much more inclined to accept the claims of Antichrist if they have been first conditioned to believe in the existence of friendly alien beings.  At this point, we need to stop once again to examine relevant Biblical passages.

 1st John 4:1, “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God.”  This statement, in Verse 2, states in the positive, that “every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh…”, but it also carries the negative connotation as well.  We can also accurately state that such spirits “seek to sever Him” from being God.

 Notice that the Apostle John does not question whether spirits actually exist; he knows demons exist and he knows that this Christian audience knows they exist.  John is saying, “Test the spirits [which will arise], to see if they are of God.”  Notice also that the time frame context of this passage is the Age of Antichrist; these spirits will be denying that Jesus Christ actually became a man and has come in the flesh; indeed, they will be seeking to sever the historical, fleshly Jesus from the Divine Jesus, Who was and is God.  This is precisely what this UFO-Alien deception is attempting to do.

 Remember the Apostle Paul’s prophetic warning in 2nd Corinthians 11:14, “…Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light.”  To condition people to believe in the concepts of the New World Order, Satan has caused his demons to physically manifest themselves as Aliens, traveling in UFOs, complete with highly technological machines.  Do not underestimate Satan; he is the Lord of this world, and he is now being allowed by the Holy Spirit to intervene in unparalleled ways in today’s world.  The results are going to be spectacular. 

 However, we believe the world has seen nothing yet.  Consider again Biblical teaching about Antichrist’s kingdom.

 Revelation 13:13, He performs great signs (startling miracles)…because of the miracles which he is allowed to perform…he deceives those who inhabit the earth commanding them to erect a statue in the likeness of the beast…”  

 These supernatural or seemingly supernatural miracles will lead men directly to the worship of Antichrist.  This is precisely the planned result of these UFOs and Aliens.

 

 Make no mistake about the fact that the vast majority of the world’s people are ready to be deceived. Christian author, David Lewis, states in his book, UFO: End-Time Delusion, that a Christian would “have a hard time getting [the idea of demons] across to an average, non-religious persons.  Most people in Christian circles…have very little consciousness of any supernatural type of activity.” 

 This has been Satan’s plan from the beginning.  Consider the concrete steps that Satan has carried out among the peoples of the world who were formerly sincere Bible-believing Christians, which have brought them to such a point of Biblical ignorance. 

 1.) For several generations, most people have been rejecting the Truth of Jesus Christ.

 2.) The inevitable end results of this rejection is that people then stop reading the Bible or applying it in any way to their lives.

 3.) Satan is then able to implant the idea that the Bible is not to be taken literally, that it is just a collection of myths and legends.

 4.) Once people begin to accept the idea that supernatural beings, either Godly or Satanic, do not exist, then Satan can begin to proceed to the next step.

 5.) Step #5 is to convince people that the only reality that can be accepted is that which can be observed through our five senses.  If man can sense something through one or more of his physical senses, then he will believe it exists. 

 6.) Satan then proceeds to the next step of convincing men that if something works, it must be true. Thus, men become susceptible to demonic activity, because their system “works” with great power. Further, such men are incapable of properly identifying this demonic power because they have already mentally ruled out the possibility that supernatural beings exist.

 7.) Finally, Satan begins to proceed, in stages of ever-increasing frequency and power, to his final alien deception.  Alien beings and UFO phenomena begin to appear with increasing frequency and contact. Since men disbelieve in the existence of Supernatural beings, they assume the reality of these demons accepting the lie that these demons are telling, that they are an Alien race from another world. This other world is supposedly more technologically and spiritually advanced than Planet Earth.  Therefore, when the Aliens of this more advanced world tell us their religion, we are expected to adopt it, rejecting our own ignorant, uninformed, and outmoded religions, especially Christianity.

 In ancient times, this story of deception continues, Aliens visited Earth and intervened in history to give man increased knowledge, from which he was able to build such ancient wonders as the pyramids.  Finally, this story teaches that Aliens carried out genetic experiments that changed humans from the Stone Age beings he was to the modern man of the last several thousand years.

 Now, the time has come, the Aliens say, for them to intervene again in world history. This time, they will intervene to save man from himself:  from his wars, hatred, spiritual illiteracy, and from his environmental damage.  These Aliens will accomplish all this by raising up a man who be imbued with a special level of consciousness, and who can lead the world into that same level of consciousness.  Of course, this man will be Maitreya the Christ, the Antichrist.

 The demons of Satan’s army will soon physically manifest themselves as Aliens, arriving in armadas of space ships which we have heretofore called UFOs.  The plan calls for them to suddenly appear at many places on Earth simultaneously.  Some will appear at the White House to confer with the President; some will appear at the United Nations; other aliens will appear at key governmental buildings all over the globe . Aliens will appear in some people’s homes or their front yards.  The world’s people will literally be shocked out of their minds.  This is the Plan.  This may occur before the worldwide Rapture of the Church; we must be prepared to deal wisely with this planned phenomenon.  

 Revelation 9, speaks of demons that are released from the bottomless pit of Hell, called the Abyss.  Resembling locust to the Apostle John, they will stream over the earth to afflict and torment unsaved people.  Their leader is called Abaddon or Apollyon.  Incredibly, the New Age writings refer to these beings constantly, by these names, as being “enlightened” leaders of the New Age.

 Everywhere the message will be the same. “We have come to help lead our Earth brothers into a new level of consciousness of which Maitreya the Christ is speaking.”  Aliens and UFOs will literally hover over and around Maitreya as he is staging his appearance.  This is the Plan.

 What will be the reaction of the vast majority of the peoples of the world?  They will be absolutely astounded beyond or imagination.  Since their minds have already rejected the concept of the physical existence of demons, and have been conditioned to accept as reality anything which they can observe through their physical senses, they will accept these Aliens and their incredible claims.  Alien conditioning through books, magazines, TV, movies, and even the trash magazines of the Enquirer variety, will have taken hold.  People will believe and allow themselves to be lad away into spiritual error.  They will accept the claims of Maitreya the Christ, the Antichrist, and will be doomed forever. 

 Those who have given themselves over to the occultic practice of meditation whereby they have communed with their ‘guiding spirits’ will be predisposed to believe.  Likewise, people who have given themselves over to occultic hypnosis, during which they have been preprogrammed to believe, will be deceived. People who have filled their minds with Science-fiction novels will be predisposed to believe.  And all mankind will believe because they are without the Truth of Jesus Christ.  Upon all such peoples, the Godly deception will fall, to permanently set their deception. 

 Biblical prophecy will have been fulfilled.  The Antichrist will deceive the entire unsaved population of the world.  He will proceed to sign the peace treaty with Israel and the Great Tribulation will begin. 

 

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