Remember the book “Chariots of the Gods” by Erich von Daniken? It was a book that explored the idea that Elijah was whisked away in a spaceship, never to be seen again. The writer also posited the idea that space beings also built many of the monolithic structures throughout the world, including the great pyramids and Machu Pichu on the mountains in Peru. He wrote that lines on the Nazca plain in Cusco were also put there by space aliens, a kind of landing field for their spacecraft.

Being of an inquisitive nature, I have read many accounts of ancient beings coming to earth at different stages of our societal development. However, before you jump the gun in judging me, I much prefer and believe the biblical account of the creation and development of mankind. (I was well into learning scripture at the time the controversial book came out.)

At the time, it all seemed plausible since there are still things we don’t understand about our world. For me, the book wasn’t contradicting the scriptures, only re-enforcing them. After all, Elijah was taken away in a fiery chariot.

Even Jesus said, “I saw Satan fall from the sky like lightning….” If an armada of spaceships were cast to the earth, they, from a distance, would appear to be a falling star or lightning. But I don’t want to open up a can of worms with that statement.

Now, some would say that angels are spiritual and space aliens are physical. Who am I to argue? If that were so, it would only serve to expand the debate over which is which?

Nevertheless (and this is a contentious subject to explore), new series of documentaries on that subject are made strictly for monetary gain and not to inform the sheeple, who will follow anything and everything so long as they don’t have to deal with the God of the Bible, even though it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of God.

This UFO phenomenon will soon be a thing of the past, with more serious and pressing problems cropping up in the future. Scary stuff like more violent earthquakes, more virulent diseases, manmade and not. Worldwide famine is another thing coming in the near future. God said these things would happen, and God doesn’t lie.

These so-called space aliens are unable to destroy us even with their advanced technology, simply because God has stayed their hand like he stayed Satan’s hand when he told Lucifer not to kill Job. He is and has the ultimate power over life and death over all His created beings. Just the mention of Jesus’ name sends Satan fleeing. It will be a new revelation to many that these demonic entities exist and are able to disguise themselves as angels of light, even going so far as to invade our educational and political systems as well as our churches with doctrines of demons.

Nevertheless, there does seem to be something flying around in our atmosphere that we don’t fully understand. They seem to be able to appear and disappear at will in great bursts of speed, and some appeared to help the Israelis in time of war.

But this poses another problem. Is this to say that Michael and the “good guy angels” are still at work in the realms of space as well? Elisha called on God to open the eyes of his terrified companions, who feared the hordes of the Syrian army surrounding Israel. “And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.”

In my testimonial manuscript I wrote while living in Davie, Florida, a close Christian friend called me on my cell and asked me excitedly to come to his house. He said he had something to show me. With nothing better to do, I went right over and found him standing on the porch of a close neighbor in the cul de sac. I stopped and went over to him, and he led me into the house to the young woman who lived there. He said, “Show Jim the video you took of the UFOs.” She led me to the computer and brought up the video she had taken just minutes earlier. Her grandmother sat in a rocking chair nearby, rocking nervously and near to tears, as her frail hands shook.

As I watched the video, the young lady explained that she and her children and grandmother were out on the porch watching the children play with the neighbors’ kids. It was a clear sunny day with few clouds in the azure blue sky. Just above the tree line that included a couple of palm trees, the objects of our attention began to appear. They were wheel-shaped objects that paraded one after another in an arc above the houses across the street. They were almost translucent and had the form of chariot wheels about the size of a big car, and they flew about fifty feet in the air. On occasion, one would turn on its side and appear to take on a different shape, not unlike a boomerang.

It was all astonishing, to say the least.

The grandmother sat there, still shaken and terrified. “Grandma was the first to see them, and she nearly had a heart attack,” the young mother said. I turned to face the old woman and felt so sorry for her that I felt compelled to go and hold her hand. “Do you want me to pray for you?” I asked. “Would you please? …I never ever, in all my life, saw anything like that!” she said. Not knowing what else to say, I uttered, “The Bible says that signs will appear in the heavens in the last days.” At this, she shuddered, and I felt I had said the wrong thing. But I recovered and asked if she was saved, and she replied that she had been to church. Then I prayed for her salvation and recovery from the obvious shock she had undergone.

As time goes on, we will undoubtedly hear more about this phenomenon. But one good thing about being a “born again” Christian is that we need not fear anything. “If we fear God, we have nothing else to fear.” After all, God created everything and is in complete control. As for UFO sightings, if they are extra-terrestrial beings, they may be setting the stage for the tribulation period.

As for me, I’ll stick with what the Bible says every time – since the Word of God has always proved to be true no matter who questions it.

YBIC

Jim Towers You can write me at jt.filmmaker@yahoo.com or visit me at www.dropzonedelta.com or visit my website www.propheticsignsandwonders.com.

I went to see one of my heart specialists today. I hadn’t seen him for over two years and remembered him as a personable being with a sarcastic sense of humor. I liked him immediately. As we talked about my condition at that time, I learned that he was born and raised in Turkey. Later he lived in France during his medical school training.

Today, after initial tests and evaluation by a nurse, the doctor and I nearly bumped into one another in the short hallway. The first thing he said was, “Purple is my favorite color.” (I was wearing a deep purple T-shirt.) “Come have a cup of coffee with me,” he implored. And before I could answer, he led me into a small lunchroom with a coffee bar across from where we met.

“How do you like your coffee?” he asked.

Again, before I could answer, He was brewing me a singular cup of delicious Latte. His own cup of coffee was already made and sitting on the small table in the center of the room. While the coffee was brewing, thoughts of our first meeting about three years ago came flooding back from that first encounter. I had been impressed by this man in his mid-sixties. He had an easy-going way about him, and I had correctly assumed he had been a carefree hippy during his younger years – at least a free spirit not unlike myself. He affirmed that I was right as we continued to talk.

I’m not sure he remembered me or if he is just an affable person by nature, again like me. In any case, we talked while the coffee brewed, and remembering his birthplace, I asked if he had visited Turkey lately. He said he hadn’t since he barely had any remaining relatives there anymore. Then I asked if he knew of Mt. Ararat, and he answered, “yes.” So, knowing his good nature, I went on to ask if he was an ancestor of Noah – jokingly. He went on to ask, “Do you know who Noah’s grandfather was?” As I searched for the answer in the deep recesses of my mind, he answered his own question. “Methuselah who lived to be 969 years old, and Noah lived 950 years!” in the Quran.

I steered the conversation back to the flood, and again – instead of answering directly, he began a treatise on how the deluge was a flood and not a worldwide deluge. “Did you know that fossils found in the middle strata of the soil would have us believe that the living organisms indicate that the biblical deluge was nothing more than the Black Sea emptying into the Mediterranean and that, scientifically, the supposed deluge was only a flood that took place in that part of the world?” he surmised.

“Then why is a great deluge recorded in all parts of the world?”

The question made him hesitate for a bit.

Then I told him that I was a Bible-believing Christian and loved archaeology. (I had been on an archaeological dig in the late 1900s involving the first Spanish settlement in the continental United States – and NO, it’s not St. Augustine.)

“Jesus often spoke of the worldwide deluge,” I replied.

“Jesus!… What does He know?” he asked, discounting my words.

“Well, since He was Co-creator with God, He should know.”

Touché: I had him where I wanted him. Then I quoted scripture as I always do when dealing with unsaved men. I began, ‘The Bible says in the book of John, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…. Without Him there was not anything made that was made. In Him was life, and this life was the light of men….”’ (Although I know the verses verbatim, I stopped there so as not to confuse him and also because we were talking about the reality of God, the Bible, and Jesus Christ Himself – and that said it all.)

The doctor then turned and walked away, leaving his coffee behind and not even bothering to say goodbye. After a minute or two, his secretary came to fetch his coffee, and I was left in the hallway alone. Obviously, he had heard enough, and our conversation was now over. I thought he was being rude.

Only after I got home and thought things through did I remember that he was Muslim! No wonder he responded the way he did. But knowing God the way I do, I could only surmise that the Lord had been working in his life and had sent me there to put a nail in his coffin. I can almost guarantee he isn’t going to sleep tonight, dwelling on John 1:1-4.

Let me wrap this article with the fact that my next-door neighbor talked to me over the fence after I arrived home, telling me that he had almost died the other day from an infection inside his body, and he would have done so if he hadn’t gone to the emergency room that night. The infection was beginning to spread precariously. I wasn’t even aware that he was in the hospital because he likes to keep his neighbors at arm’s distance, especially “religious” ones like me.

Although my neighbor was raised Roman Catholic, he doesn’t practice his faith like his grown son who is a regular church-going Protestant like me. But not having anyone else to confide in, he shared this near-death story with me, knowing about my relationship with God from previous conversations we’ve had. I even bought him a Bible for his birthday a couple of years ago, and he never invited me to a family gathering again, although I’ve invited him and his wife for dinner at least twice. He always came up with an excuse not to take me up on the offer.

Just as I was about to share the Gospel with him, he interjected that he wanted to live to be 100 and wanted nothing to do with religion. At that point, I dropped the subject when I felt God telling me to let it go for another time.

In the vernacular, “You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make them drink.”

YBIC

Jim Towers

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