Posted on 03/22/2009 12:23:13 PM PDT by Ping-Pong
Good work! Thx!
Watched Knowing this weekend?
Excuse me .. how about ... “rightly dividing the Word of God”.
If you don’t know the writer of the Bible, you will not be able to interpret what HE said.
That’s why we have all sorts of goofy translations and interpretations.
I say this seriously, without derision or disrespect of any kind. Please heed it:
If you believe that UFO phenomena are part of God’s plan for His people (and that seems to be what you’re implying by including Jesus’ army in the end times as a UFO account), you are way, way off in the rough away from reasonable theology and will be easily led astray when the time comes to choose sides.
I’d like to hear what role, if any, you guys think UFOs have in God’s plan for humanity, and if there is one, what accounts of abductions and alien craft following airplanes around has to do with that plan.
Real horses don’t fly! If real horses don’t fly then what does The King Of Kings return to earth on? Just wondering. I love horses, so I would really like to see Him on a beautiful Arabian (little irony there).
Uh, right. I don’t think so.
My suspicion is that the aliens that are mentioned in the many abduction accounts are fallen angels or demons.
UFO’s and/or “alien” beings have long been suspected by biblical scholars to be possibly real. A real work of the Devil, that is.
God says in the end days the devil will come up with all sorts of “signs and wonders” to fool people into believing he is all powerful. To turn them from God, or to disract them.
While I think there are many people out there who cry “UFO” just for attention, I don’t doubt that many have actually seen odd things.
They are not from God, though.
It talks about creatures called Nephilim in the Bible, Genesis chapter 6:
“The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.”
No...what is that?
I’d like to hear what role, if any, you guys think UFOs have in God’s plan for humanity, and if there is one, what accounts of abductions and alien craft following airplanes around has to do with that plan.
It isn't me that includes Him in this....His Word tells us the plan. My fear is that those that don't know about this will easily fall into Satan's trap when he arrives. They will not be prepared and will believe him to be Christ.
My thoughts on the alien abductions, etc. are that they are satanic. But, because they do those things doesn't negate the fact that God arrived in a "whirlwind" in Ezekiel. His throne was on board. God has His messengers and Satan is allowed his.
Psalms 79:2 the dead bodies of Thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven,
My understanding of that verse is...Some of God's servants are considered dead, spiritually dead. They are meat - food for Satan's crew...the fowls of the heaven.
Someone on this forum once thought...and I agree, that those that are filled with Christ are not bothered by these beings.
Horses, Chariots, Whirlwinds etc. are references to flying vehicles...so are clouds.
Thank you for your reply Heat Pipes.
Satan arrives first and then Christ. Both arrive the same way. Both use them as transportation apparently but the evil ones get the attention!
How true! The other day my husband was watching a program about the pyramids and temples built by the Maya and the Aztec. There was a suggestion that they proved UFO sightings and/or landings in ancient times. Then it hit me like a brick... all those temples built on top of high mountains in the Andes... Who loves to "ascend into heaven", who wants to "exalt his throne above the stars of God" and "be like the Most High"? Isaiah 14 has the answer: Lucifer! I believe that all this UFO activity is nothing more than demonic activity.
I’m not sure about any of this one way or another. I think if God wants a horse to fly, it will. I find it puzzling that you did not mention the most obvious comparison in your post. That would be New Jerusalem. Whenever I have read that, the different levels always paint a certain picture in my mind.
Certainly you must of heard of the 1968 best seller Chariots of the Gods, and its 1970 movie? This theory of a UFO in the Bible has been around for 41 years and the evidence is not any more convincing now than it was then.
When you read the passage and UNDERSTAND what it is saying you will KNOW there is NO REFERENCE to UFO’s in ANY part of the Bible - New or Old Testament. Sigh. Please stop using ignornace as an advertisement for UFO’s which you may want to believe in more than what the Bible is really talking about.
Ezekiel 1:1 describes them as “visions” of God. Which leads me to infer that they are “visions”— dreams, not UFO’s.
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