"The experience of a close
encounter with a UFO is a shattering physical and mental ordeal. The
trauma has effects that go far beyond what the witness recalls
consciously. New types of behavior are conditioned, and new types of
beliefs are promoted. The social, political and religious consequences
of the experience are enormous...."[1]
Astrophysicist Dr.
Jacques Vallee
"Our generation won't be shocked
by the demonic invasion. They are actually anticipating that
extraterrestrial intelligent beings, who look very different from us, will
some day contact the earth and help us with ecological, monetary, and
political problems."[2]
Larry McLean
The invasion of monsters began decades ago, and it
quickly transformed the world of entertainment. With little resistance, an
army of cute-ugly creatures swept into toy stores, television and movies. They
now adorn children's clothes, bedding, wallpaper, lunchboxes and books.
And many have pushed their way into children's hearts on the backs of
seductive myths that mold their thoughts and manipulate their imagination.
Some of these monsters
are crude and cool like Stitch, Shrek and the serpentine aliens of Men in Black.
Others appear wise and honorable like Yoda in Star Wars. But the creatures that win the prize for thrills
and chills are the dark and deadly ones like Darth Maul, Tolkien's Orcs and the ominous
aliens in Signs.
They all serve a set of strategic social
and spiritual goals: They entertain.
They shift a person's attention from the real world to a more
titillating realm created by those who write the myths and steer the
imagination. They tempt Christians fans to re-imagine
both God and themselves in the new context -- thus bending the old realities to
fit the new myths. They desensitize their
fans to mystical images and symbols of evil. And they stir a craving for
more intense excitement of the same kind.
Eventually the real world of nature,
families, work and Biblical truth becomes too boring to be enjoyed. Who
cares about truth and facts when myths and fantasies seem far more
exiting?
"For the time will come," wrote the apostle Paul
almost two millennia ago, "when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to
their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves
teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to
fables. But you be watchful in all things...." (2 Timothy 4:3-5)
Today's postmodern world has little tolerance for Biblical
watchfulness. Instead, it embraces its mythical heroes with a driving passion
that often eclipses both family and reality. The more shocking, crude and ugly,
the more cool and captivating the product. Hollywood and toy makers know that well.
Perhaps you remember the
Madballs from the late eighties.
The grotesque bouncing heads bore matching names like Wolf Breath, Swine Sucker and
Screamin' Meenie. With shrewd foresight, their inventor, Ralph Shaffer,
suggested that his
successful minispheres would "take the world of cute-ugly into
a new direction."[3]
He was right. The ugly-ugly as well as the cute-ugly
was turning the corner and pulling Western culture
with them. Grotesque, demonic-looking creatures with fiery eyes invaded toy stores,
then stayed. Many were mutants - part animal and part human, or a mixture of various animals
and monster. And most could wield the kind of supernatural power prescribed by their built-in
myths and stories.
They won incredible popularity.
Children quickly overcame their natural aversion to scary images and learned to treasure these ugly, hybrid, mutant
supernaturals.
Few noticed their resemblance to the demonic creatures described in
the Bible.
One of
those early creatures of darkness, Black Star, would ride on a green horse with
huge bat-like wings and a long dragon tail. Its eyes were glowing
red and a long tongue dangled from its mouth. Another
popular invader, Dark Dragon, had
black wings and a huge tail with red scales along the sides. Hiding a skull in
its chest, it had a lion's mouth, teeth,
and claws. Its eyes were glowing red, and out of the center of its
forehead shone a large, green third eye.
In a lecture titled "The Rising
Interest in the Supernatural," Larry McLean, coauthor of The Early Earth, compares today's grotesque
toys to historical images representing ancient gods:
"These [creatures]
that show up in archeology and what we would call mythology were not just figments of the
imagination. They were... represented as part human and
part animal in their characteristics like this bird-human of the Assyrians. [They can be]
horse-and-human like centaurs. Or fish-and-human like the god Dagon of the Philistines ...
or part jaguar and part human.
"Notice that tongue
hanging out over the chin -- which is a universal symbol of demonic possession. ... One of
the most popular combinations
is human and serpent. ... It's not surprising that pagan
religions worshiped serpents and dragons, for the Bible tells us in Revelation 12 that the
old serpent, the dragon, is Satan the devil."[4]
Nor should today's growing popularity
of devilish images surprise us. The Bible prophesies that demonic activities will escalate
before and during the reign of the Antichrist. Could the multiplication of
demonic-looking, alien images be part of Satan's plan to prepare us for these awful future
events?
Don't laugh. There is plenty of
evidence that a sizable percentage of UFO sightings, alien abductions, crop circles and
other extraterrestrial manifestations fit into the realm of the supernatural. According to
John Ankerberg and John Weldon, "UFOs constitute a spiritistic
(demonic) phenomenon."[5]
In their book, The Facts on UFO's and other Supernatural Phenomena, they
tell us that -
"...few unbiased researchers can
logically deny that UFO experiences are of an occult nature. If we catalog the basic
characteristics of the occult and compare them to UFO phenomena, we discover an essential
similarity....
"After 20 years of research, we believe
that the demonic theory dovetails extremely well with the totality of UFO phenomena.
... In
fact, we know of no UFO contactee who is not basically a spiritistic medium. In addition,
we have read hundreds of articles from the oldest and most respected UFO journal, the
British Flying Saucer Review, that indicate the psychic and/or non-extraterrestrial
aspects of UFOs which, given their actions and messages, indicate probable demonic
origin."[6]
"The UFO phenomenon simply does not behave like extraterrestrial visitors. It
actually molds itself in order to fit a given culture.... [The] goal seems to be
psychological and social manipulation."[7]
These threats have not
escaped notice. According to "Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up"
by Timothy Good, "the ubiquitous UFO phenomenon... [is] a phenomenon that
has caused grave concern at high levels of many of the world's governments,
despite their statements to the contrary."[8]
Ankerberg and Weldon came
to the same conclusion. They found that "in
the U.S. alone, tens of millions of dollars have been spent in official UFO
investigations by the CIA, FBI, U.S. Army Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, and
other organizations." They quote astrophysicist Dr. Jacques Vallee
who describes the UFO event as "a bizarre, seductive, and often terrifying phenomenon
reported by many witnesses as contact with an alien form of intelligence."[9]
Naturally, many
UFO enthusiasts and New Age leaders would disagree. Some began to circulate a
far-out notion decades ago: A group of benevolent aliens or ascended masters
would suddenly appear on the earth and cleanse it from all who resist its
spiritual evolution toward global oneness. At the same time, they would
prepare humanity to receive the prophesied New Age "Christ."
[See
Star Wars & Theosophy, scroll down to the gray area]
To some New Age followers,
those expected aliens would illustrate "the beautiful
side of evil" rather than the grotesque images of occult idols. But either way,
these "masters"[10]
represent a hierarchy of warring demons that match the warning in Ephesians
6:12:
"...we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers
of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the
heavenly places." Ephesians 6:12
Different versions of those
seductive deceptions have spread around the world through the writings of
countless occultists. Their numbers include the infamous satanist Aleister
Crowley as well as Alice Bailey, whose channeled messages from spirit guide
Djwhal Khul inspired United Nations and education leaders such as
Robert Muller and
Dr. Shirley McCune.
But God's Word shows us the
truths behind those illusions. Revelation 9:1-11 foresees a day when
the Abyss (the bottomless pit where Satan will be cast) will open
with a burst of smoke and release an army of powerful, deadly creatures onto the earth.
They will look like a mixture of man, horse and locust with wings. They will
have stinging "tails like scorpions," and their commander will be Satan himself. Our
sovereign God will allow it; for man's
evil - as in the days of Noah - and God's eternal justice will call forth His judgment.
Though children are born
with a natural fear of hideous, shocking and evil-looking creatures, this God-given protection has been dulled by
America's massive media
marketing system. Children are being conditioned to embrace demonic
manifestations, whether they come as intelligent rescuers from outer space or as evolved
mutations from earth itself. Why wouldn’t they accept these lies?
Unless we teach them otherwise, today's
irrational beliefs in both physical and cosmic evolution lead most of them to trust
in deceptions. Of course -- they are told -- life would have evolved
on other planets! If there really is a God, He wouldn't
have created the whole universe just for earthlings, would He?.
Yes, He would. Why shouldn't our God, who sent
His own Son to die for us, create such a universe? Why not make it so vast that
man's ego would be humbled by such might? Maybe He did it to show
us the immeasurable greatness of His sovereign, creative powers and the infinite width,
length, height, and depth of His magnificent love. I believe He did.
"Oh, the depth of
the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!
How unsearchable
are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has become His counselor?"
Or who has first given to Him and it shall be repaid to him?"
For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things,
to whom be glory forever." Romans 11:33-36
For additional quotes and
research on UFOs and alien encounters, see
Aliens, UFOs and demonology,
http://www.steelmarkonline.com/glossary.htm
&
http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/ndxe200502.html
How can we encourage our
children to follow God and make wise choices in these challenging times?
Find practical suggestions in
The Invisible War,
Your Child and the New Age,
Bewitched by Harry Potter
& other
articles..
Endnotes:
1. Jacques Vallee,
Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults (Berkeley, CA: And Or
Press, 1979) pp. 9-10. Cited by John Ankerberg & John Weldon, The Facts on
UFO's and Other Supernatural Phenomena (Eugene, OR: Harvest House
Publishers, 1992), page 9.
2. Larry McLean, from tape of
lecture titled, "The Rising Interest in the Supernatural," given at the
Seventh Mid-America Prophecy Conference, Oklahoma City, 27 July 1988.
3.
Ralph Shaffer, the director of
new-product development at General Mills Toy Group (which included Kenner
and Parker Brothers back in the late seventies) worked with
Bernard
Loomis, who
conceived the idea of sets of action figures "with lots of characters and
a story tying them together." Promoted through television, these toys
required little personal imagination since they came with built in myths
and pre-designed personalities.
Read the interesting history by
David Owen, in
"Where Toys Come From,"
The Atlantic Monthly, October 1986.
4.Larry McLean,
from tape of lecture titled, "The Rising Interest in the Supernatural"
given at the Seventh Mid-America Prophecy Conference, Oklahoma City, 27
July 1988.
5. John Ankerberg & John
Weldon, The Facts on UFO's and Other Supernatural Phenomena
(Eugene, OR: Harvest House Publishers, 1992), page 6.
6. Ibid.,
page 14-15.
7.Ibid., page 10.
8.Timothy Good,
Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up (New York: Morrow, 1988),
page 12.
Cited by John Ankerberg & John Weldon,
The Facts on
UFO's and Other Supernatural Phenomena, page 6.
9. Ibid., page
5, 18.
10. Do a search for
"Theosophy" on this website using our search engine. Or find "Theosophy"
on these pages: Atlantis,
A Twist of Faith,
Chapter 10,
A
New Way of Thinking,
Conversations with [a] "god". You will find many other
influential Theosophists who twist the Bible and anticipate a New World
Order without Christianity.
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