I happen to think that nothing God does is accidental. He has a purpose for everything. We just don’t always know what that purpose is.
>>I happen to think that nothing God does is accidental.<<
Exactly.
>>He has a purpose for everything. We just don’t always know what that purpose is.<<
Yes. Like when he “allowed” Judas to be one of the 12.
That said, the great deceiver is still in action and, in some ways, more than ever for “he knows his time is short”. I know God is in control. These “visions” may or may not be from God, but my salvation, my faith, my perspective of God does not need them. I see them as crop rings: something we do not understand. I consider it very dangerous to put too much belief in any one spiritual explanation, unless one get’s a message directly from God explaining them. I have not received such instruction so I still consider it a curiosity.
I think Satan is pretty darned smart and he has at his disposan weapons which we do not understand. The bible very strongly warns against false teachers and false teaching. It is one reason I am reticent to support any one explanation of this definitely real phenomenon.