Countdown: The Return Of Man's Creator
Earliest histories from around the world speak of significant involvement by "super-intelligences" involved in the origin of the species with promises by this Creator to return someday. Secular and religious Ufologists point to the universal documentation of such as a record of "heavenly beings" visiting earth and engaging in a process leading to hominid creation and the first civilizations. When the Sumerians first appeared, following the event described above, they brought with them a pantheon of sky deities, the first written language, and a superior knowledge of the cosmos.
Post Sumerian myth held that powerful beings with names like "Zeus" and "Apollo"
visited the earth, intermarried with women, and fathered half-human children. In 1986, Christian college professor IDE Thomas combined this mythos with modern Ufology, claiming that a race of anti-God warriors were approaching the earth from
"out there" and were bringing with them end-times delusion and Armageddon.
Evangelical apologists since have flooded the marketplace with dire warnings of a
false Messiah who, they say, will appear "in the heavens" in the last days to set about deceiving the world.
Whereas Ufologists of various creed disagree on the meaning of particular ET phenomenon, both assert language that define UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence in angeological and demonological terms including promises by the Creator to return through heaven's "gates" at the end of time.
Some believe, therefore, religious and non-religious Ufologists are saying the same thing from different points of view. Most religions have at least one apocalyptic myth describing the end of the world accompanied by a "savior" who appears in the sky at the last minute to rescue the "chosen" from annihilation or wrath.
Sumerians, Mayans, Assyrians, Egyptians and Greeks held similar beliefs. Hopi prophecy talks of a time of great destruction, when their lands will be preserved when
"a blue star, far off and invisible, makes its appearance." Even factions of the modern New Age look for a techno-savior to appear in the clouds to save mankind from itself.
Yet if man's Creator is about to return and the available evidence--including universal historical records--is interpreted differently by separate schools of thought, it is important to summarize the interpretive difference of the two main bodies of belief--the Biblical (Christian) and Extra-Biblical (Secular).
Predominant among some church scholars is the idea that coupled with any heavenly appearing will be the materialization of a false Christ or "man of sin." This is a line in the sand for many Christians, dividing them from persons of different faith who also look to the skies for redemption. Whereas Hopi see a blue star, and others see returning ancient astronauts, Christians worry that any belief not consistent with their own might open a door for Antichrist to assume the role of end times false Messiah by mimicking the return of Christ.
Nowhere is the conflict regarding the imminent appearing of a descending savior more glaring than among Christian and secular Ufologists. While some on both sides resist combining religious and cosmological significance with Extraterrestrial intelligence (Vatican officials have gone so far recently as to release a series of calculated responses meant to reassure Catholics that evidence of ET or sudden visitation by such would not prove "everything we believe in is wrong," rather, "we're going to find out that everything is truer in ways we couldn't even yet have imagined,"
[VATICAN LETTER Nov-4-2005)] others hold to the opposite position, esoterically and biblically.
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."
In Angels Dark and Light, Gary Kinnaman agrees:
"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."
To men such as these, it's easy to believe that demons are involved with "flying saucers." According to such theology, "evil spirits" can manipulate energy and matter, and the theological terms, "Transmogrification" and "Poltergeist" ("noisy ghost"), imply that spirits make lights go off and on, doors bang, and saucers fly. Yet if a portion of "flying saucer" activity is demonic, what nefarious purpose is served by the stealthy nature of UFO phenomena? The answer, they say, is diabolical.
UFO-ism according to many Christian's seems to be aimed at preparing the earth for an extraterrestrial "visitation of the gods," and, more importantly, at changing the world's religious beliefs. This would occur in two ways:
First, from a technological standpoint, UFO sightings challenge the claim of human superiority and dispute man's unique role in the universe. We are made to feel shallow, undeveloped, unenlightened in our world and cosmological view when it is Christian.
Second, extraterrestrials offer 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."
These benevolent ETs profess to watch over us and promise to appear at the appropriate time to assist us in our next big evolutionary, spiritual, and technological step forward. To prepare us for their coming, popular movies, bestselling books, cultural trends, and religious ideas, focus the earths masses on "help from above,"
while supporters smile and explain "It’s okay, they’ve been here before" and "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, space vehicles manipulating known laws of physics (suddenly appearing and disappearing, operating anti-gravitationally, etc) were assigned "god"
or "angel" status by sincere but ignorant prophets, and Ezekiel’s living creatures will return soon in their wheels "in the middle of a wheel" providing true explanations of our origin and solutions to our problems.
Such claims of extraterrestrials visiting the earth in ancient times and interacting with men is biblically and historically accurate. Where Christians differ from others 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)