UFO’s in light of the Bible!

 UFO cults are founded on the same weakness in man’s spiritual condition that inspired

him in ancient times when he “changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things” (Rom. 1:23), and this rebellion remains strong today. Ideas and events that seem mysterious or unexplained are always fertile ground for all kinds of self-proclaimed religious revelators who take advantage of natural human curiosity. They stand ready to explain the unexplained through personal revelation, using clever semantics to reformulate God’s words into a recycled amalgam that resembles Christian terminology but lacks its true definition. Jesus called similar revisionists “blind guides” (Matt. 23:16), a description that unfortunately fits UFO religionists all too well.

A vital clue to the UFO mystery is this: UFO theology—gained from these so-called close encounters—is diametrically opposed to Christianity. The world of the occult and the people involved in it speak constantly of contact with UFOs and their occupants, and the theology derived from UFO contact is most revealing. Extraterrestrials (according to those who claim to have spoken to them) do not believe God is a personal being; they do not believe Jesus Christ is the only Savior, and they do not believe the Bible alone is God’s Word to the world. They do not believe in eternal punishment, and they do not believe in bodily resurrection. The reincarnation of the Hindus, Kabbalah, and New Age philosophies gains a new perspective when viewed through the eyes of extraterrestrials: it transforms into planetary reincarnation, where people evolve from planet to planet in order to reach perfection. It would be an amazing thing, from the world’s perspective, if an advanced technological civilization arrived upon the earth, claiming to be the savior of mankind and the creator of Homo sapiens. It is not beyond the realm of possibility that with all of the fanfare of scientific accomplishment, the ultimate deception could reveal itself at the end of the ages as our deliverer. In 2 Thessalonians 2:3–9, we are told that when Satan appears in human form, he appears as the Antichrist who leads men, through deceit, to destruction. Those who refuse the knowledge of the truth of Jesus Christ will believe him. If UFO religions were truly the revelations of alien races, then it would be logical to expect some basic consistency from them. For example, even though there are many denominations in Christianity, they hold specific elements of the faith in common—elements that unify and solidify the faith as expressed in the Bible and later reflected in the early Church creeds. God’s message is unique: it is consistent, coherent, and cohesive. The Bible is consistent in its creation; it had more than forty writers from different cultures, nations, continents, and ethnicity, who wrote for God over a period of fifteen hundred years, but their message testified to the same God and His story of redemption for mankind. The Bible is coherent in its logic; the things taught in God’s Word make sense; it is cohesive in its truth—thoughts from the one true God support one another, they are not self-contradictory, but they, in fact, adhere to the law of noncontradiction.49 This is not so among UFO religions.

CONCLUSION 

The God of the Bible, who warned us to beware of signs in the heavens, might indeed be telling us at the end of the ages to be very careful where we place our trust. It might just be that the UFO is very real, but if it is real, it is working through the influence of Satan “with all power, signs, and lying wonders” (2 Thess. 2:9). If Satan is the god of this age, there is no reason that at the end of the age he cannot appear to be its savior. He has always wanted to be the object of worship. God created male and female in his image and likeness, reserving their worship for Himself alone (Gen. 1:27). Jesus, when facing satanic temptation on this, quoted God the Father: “You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve” (Matt. 4:10). Mankind is innately rebellious when it comes to serving the true God, and seeks spiritual paths outside of Him. God forbids worship of anything in heaven above, which in our age includes the spiritual aspects of UFO religions: “You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth . . .” (Ex. 20:4–6).51 Long before any UFO-based religion was founded, God knew that sin would drive people to look to the heavens to worship anything they see, real or imagined. These religions are described as cults because most of them misinterpret the Bible to support their beliefs.52 Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, of Heaven’s Gate fame, did this by claiming to be the “two witnesses” of Revelation 11:3. UFO religions are occultic because their spiritual information is obtained through occult methods, whether it comes through specialized visions, dreams, trances, hypnotic regression, or imaginative imaginative sources. Messages received in this way misinterpret the Bible, God, Jesus Christ, mankind, the spiritual condition of the heart and mind, morality, and humanity’s future state. 

 If the UFO is real, then the evidence from occultic sources is that it is hostile to Christianity. The Church must take the position that our hope is not based upon those who would deliver us from other worlds, but upon Jesus Christ, who died once for all in this world to reconcile us to God. The message of the Church must not alter in the light of all the phenomena that may be revealed around us. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He said, “You believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also” (John 14:1–3). The Church of Jesus Christ is looking for that blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of the great God and of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who shall transform these bodies of our humiliation that they shall become like His glorious body through that power whereby He is able to subdue all things unto Himself. This is our hope, and we consider all UFO phenomena to be weighed and wanting in its light.