1. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & THE SEARCH FOR EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE

2. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE Every day you are being lied to, manipulated, tricked, and deceived. You need to be aware that there is a massive conspiracy against Christ in this world and it is being orchestrated by Satan, the father of lies. He is masterfully carrying out a campaign of mass deception by which he subtly convinces everyone to pledge allegiance to him. Sounds crazy, right? But its true. How is it that Christians can spot Satan’s work in government and political affairs, the rising crime and drug problems, the growing pandemic of evil within our society, but still refuse to acknowledge what is obvious – the Devil is mounting attacks upon us within our entertainment; He is turning our entertainment into venues for his anti-Christ propaganda. Yet survey the viewing and reading habits of most Christians today and you will discover that there is no difference between them and their unchristian counterparts. We are perhaps the most duped and deceived generation to have ever lived. Never before has a more gullible generation ever lived; it is almost as if they want to believe in the delusion.

3. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE According to a National Geographic survey, 77% of all Americans "believe there are signs that aliens have visited Earth", and according to a recent Harris poll only 68% of all Americans believe that Jesus is God or the Son of God. That means that the number of Americans that believe that UFOs have visited us is now greater than the number of Americans that believe what the Bible has to say about Jesus Christ.

4. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE Are we alone in the universe? Is there anyone else out there? Has our government been lying to us and covering up incidents of alien encounters? Anywhere to 1/3 to more than ½ of people surveyed said they believed in the existence of alien life and that they believe that aliens have visited our planet. This is no small fringe of society. Even politicians have gone on record admitting to have witnessed alien spacecraft or encounters with other-worldly visitors. But what good is the word of a politician, right? There are literally thousands of testimonials of sightings and unexplainable events that have taken place and men and women with nothing to gain and nothing to hide have gone on record with their eyewitness accounts. Can we just dismiss ALL of them as unreliable?

5. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE The ongoing search for alien life in the cosmos consume a giant portion of NASA’s budget. In July of 2014, they announced that the discovery of alien life was imminent – within 20 years, in fact. This led to a firestorm over what this revelation means to “organized religion” and whether NASA would actually unveil the theological bunker buster.

6. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE Does the prospect of alien life do any harm to the claims of the Bible and Christianity? Is the existence of extra-terrestrials addressed anywhere in Scripture? How is a Christian to understand all these sightings and eyewitness accounts? If there really are aliens out there, what kind of nature do they have? Are they evil or good? Are they friendly or adversarial? Recognize that we are living in a world that no longer wants verifiable facts; we prefer our own subjective fantasies. The news is no longer about what happened; its about analysis and opinion – shaping the story and spinning the issues in a particular frame of thinking. Science, education, politics, religion, etc… all prefer to spin and speculate upon very little evidence and build sand palaces with scant foundations. Let’s just stick with the facts!

7. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE There are so many wild speculations about Aliens bandied about (Egyptian pyramids, Aztec crop circles, etc.), but even some have suggested that the Bible describes alien activity. Examples often mustered in support are the nephilim passage (Gen. 6) and Ezekiel’s vision (Ezek. 1).

8. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE Private pilot Ken Arnold’s historic sighting ignited the public’s cult-like curiosity, imagination and fascination with other-worldly visitors. The “Flying Saucer” story began on June 24 th, 1947. Arnold, while searching for a missing transport aircraft, saw 9 disc- like objects flying parallel to him while over the Mr. Rainer, Washington area. The media dubbed these objects “flying saucers.”

9. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE One week later, a reported flying saucer crashed on a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico. This incident has been absolutely muddled in conspiracy. There are only four pictures like this one that show everything we have ever seen of that particular crash.

10. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE THE FACTS: Little concrete data Their existence is real. They are intelligently controlled. No government knows what they are, where they are from, or why they are here.

11. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE TO THE SCRIPTURES & CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE

12. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE “And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.” ~ Revelation 9:3-10 ~

13. Popular Occulture #5 THE BIBLE & THE SEARCH FOR EXTRA_TERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE