Roswell UFO Pointed to Bigger Things
By Donna Anderson
RNU News Sr. Reporter

Erich von Daniken's hypothesis took America by storm in the 1960's with the proposition that mankind was possibly the offspring of an ancient, perhaps ongoing, extra-terrestrial experiment.

RNU.com – (Raiders News Update) - With the Sci Fi Channel pushing the government to be more forthcoming and aggressive in investigating UFO sightings, with Roswell celebrating "new evidence" of its infamous saucer crash, and with Christians conferring on what it all means, we thought it was time to remind readers of the growing doctrine within the New Age Movement which claims that the origin of the gods and the human race as we know it today is the direct result of extra-terrestrial "UFO" activity.

In the introduction to his bestselling book, CHARIOTS OF THE GODS?, Erich von Daniken, who, it might be argued, is one of the fathers of the New Age Movement as it relates to ufology, said:

I claim that our forefathers received visits from the universe in the remote past, even though I do not yet know who these extra-terrestrial intelligences were or from which planet they came. I nevertheless proclaim that these "strangers" annihilated part of mankind existing at the time and produced a new, perhaps the first, homo sapiens.

As was illustrated in the Hollywood films Contact, and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, Erich von Daniken's hypothesis took America by storm in the 1960's with the proposition that mankind was possibly the offspring of an ancient, perhaps ongoing, extra-terrestrial experiment.

New Age ufologists like Daniken assert that the Sphinx, the Pyramids, and the mythologies of ancient cultures may be evidence of an encounter with other-worldly beings. They claim that ancient men would have considered space travelers as gods and would have recorded their arrival, their experiments, and their departure, in hieroglyphs, megaliths, and stone tablets, as a "supernatural" encounter between gods and men.

Mr. Daniken continues:

While [the] spaceship disappears again into the mists of the universe our friends will talk about the miracle—"The gods were here!"....they will make a record of what happened: uncanny, weird, miraculas. Then their texts will relate—and drawings will show—that gods in golden clothes were there in a flying boat that landed with a tremendous din. They will write about chariots which the gods drove over land and sea, and of terrifying weapons that were like lightning, and they will recount that the gods promised to return. They will hammer and chisel in the rock pictures of what they had seen:

Von Daniken also claims that the odd appearance of some of the gods as depicted in various hieroglyphs (human-like creatures with falcon heads; lions with heads of bulls, etc) could be viewed as evidence that "aliens" conducted experiments of cloning and cross-mutating both ancient people and animals.

Some people accept this part of Daniken's hypothesis as a humanistic alternative to the Biblical account of creation. It's uncertain how many people believe such a theory, but a full eighty percent of Americans claim they believe in the possibility of extra-terrestrial life. Some, like the 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult that committed suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, California and believed they were being summoned by a UFO trailing the Hale-Bopp Comet, subscribe to an eerie amalgam of mysticism and conventional religion.

Not suprisingly, the growing interest in UFOs and the paranormal has given birth to a swelling campaign to persuade the government to be more forthcoming and aggressive in investigating UFO sightings.

IF THEY EXIST, WHO ARE THEY?

Some believe a portion of UFO activity is not only real, but demonic. 

Hal Lindsey states, "I have become thoroughly convinced that UFOs are real....I believe these beings are not only extraterrestrial but supernatural in origin. To be blunt, I think they are demons."

Author and researcher Lynn Marzulli depicts alien visitors as malevolent forces bent on enslaving the human race in his bestselling books Nephilim and The Unholy Deception.

In Angels Dark and Light, Gary Kinnaman says, "I am fairly convinced that....UFO sightings are the manifestations of angels of darkness. My main reason for thinking this is that UFO sightings have never, at least to my knowledge, led a person closer to God. In fact, most UFO experiences have just the opposite effect."

Associate professor of psychology Elizabeth L. Hillstrom agrees, pointing out the growing number of academics who support the conclusion that UFOnauts are synonymous with historical demons. 

In her informative book, Testing the Spirits, Hillstrom writes:

From a Christian perspective, Vallee’s explanation of UFOs is the most striking because of its parallels with demonic activity. UFO investigators have noticed these similarities. Vallee himself, drawing from extrabiblical literature on demonic activities, establishes a number of parallels between UFOnauts and demons....Pierre Guerin, a UFO researcher and a scientist associated with the French National Council for Scientific Research, is not so cautious: "The modern UFOnauts and the demons of past days are probably identical." Veteran researcher John Keel, who wrote UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse and other books on the subject, comes to the same conclusion: "The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon."

"It’s easy for me to believe that demons are sometimes involved with flying saucer activity," says researcher Thomas Horn. "Evil spirits can manipulate energy and matter, and the theological terms Transmogrification and Poltergeist [noisy ghost] imply that spirits can make lights go off and on, doors bang, icons bleed, and I suppose saucers fly."

But if a portion of "flying saucer" activity is demonic, what nefarious purpose is served by the stealthy nature of UFO phenomena?

The answer is diabolical. UFO-ism seems to be aimed at preparing the earth for an extraterrestrial "visitation of the gods," and, more importantly, at changing our religious beliefs. 

This occurs in two ways according to Horn: First, from a technological standpoint, UFO sightings challenge the claim of human superiority and dispute our unique role in the universe. We are made to feel shallow, undeveloped, unenlightened. 

Second, from a religious point of view, extraterrestrials bring a message (as reported in hundreds of abduction cases) of easy universalism and New Age mysticism including dialogue of humans "on the verge of extraordinary telepathic and technological growth."

Channeled messages from so called benevolent E.T.s claim they are watching over us and promise to appear at the appropriate time to assist in our next big evolutionary, spiritual, and technological step forward. To prepare us for their coming, popular movies like Mission to Mars, bestselling books, cultural trends, and religious ideas, are focusing the earths masses on "help from above" while New Agers smile and explain "It’s okay, they’ve been here before, so don’t worry, ancient men simply described flying saucers in terms of demons, angels, and gods, because they didn’t understand what they were seeing."

In other words, New Agers believe that space vehicles manipulating the laws of physics by suddenly appearing, disappearing, and operating anti-gravitationally, were assigned "god" or "angel" status by sincere but ignorant prophets and that Ezekiel’s living creatures will return in their wheels "in the middle of a wheel" someday to provide explanations of our origin and solutions to our problems.

WERE WE VISITED IN THE PAST?

Some believe such New Age claims of extraterrestrials visiting the earth in ancient times and interacting with men is biblically and historically true. Where believing Christians differ from New Agers on this issue is in the definition of who these creatures were and what they were doing.

In the Interlinear Hebrew Bible we read:

The benei Elohim saw the daughters of Adam, that they were fit extensions. And they took wives for themselves from all those that they chose...The Nephelim were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when the benei Elohim came in to the daughters of Adam, and they bore to them—they were Powerful Ones which existed from ancient times, the men of name. (Gen. 6:2,4)

The benei Elohim we are told were "extraterrestrial" angelic creatures also known as "watchers," "sons of God," and "rephiam." They visited the earth during antiquity and used the daughters of Adam as "fit extensions" or instruments through which they extended themselves into the physical world. They sought to corrupt the bloodline of Adam, to deceive the human race, and to prevent the birth of the Messiah. They represented themselves as "gods," and their offspring, the Nephilim ("fallen ones"), attempted to exterminate the people of Yahweh.

WHAT ARE "THEY" UP TO NOW?

Many evangelicals believe that an imminent rapture of the Church will be accompanied by "...fearful sights and great signs...from heaven" (Lk 21:11) and that Satan is contriving an "alien invasion" to explain the disappearance of these multitudes of people. With eighty percent of the population believing in the possibility of extra-terrestrial intelligence, these folks believe this would be a powerful form of deception. And since New Age theology is producing a growing belief among so many contemporary church groups that flying saucers will be the method "God" uses to retrieve the Christian community during the Rapture, the UFO sightings phenomenon could play a significant part in the great deception pervading the earth in the last days.

2 Thessalonians 2:8-12 says:

And then shall that Wicked [one] be revealed....whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders....And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness [emphasis added].

For those who don't believe in a Rapture, UFO’s are seen as potentially introducing the Great Tribulation. The Book of Second Thessalonians says when the Antichrist is revealed he will be accompanied by ‘lying wonders.’ Is this talking about UFO’s? The prophecies of Daniel are pointed to as supporting this possibility. Daniel says the Antichrist will be a worshiper of Baal, and Baal was originally the lord of the sky. As Baalbamoth he was the lord of the aerial regions. As Baalzebub he was the lord of those that 'fly' or that 'flit about in the sky.' In the New Testament, Satan himself is referenced as the prince of the powers of the air. The obscure aerial phenomena interpreted as UFO activity could therefore be part of an end time delusion—something to deceive humanity concerning a Rapture...or man’s origins...or even the appearance of Antichrist.

If the government comes forward with disclosure of such intelligent aliens, Christians on both sides of the issue believe it may signal the beginning of the end.

© 2004 Raiders News Update

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