After nearly a century of wondering: The American UFO saga in reality and in fiction…
Extraterrestrials And UFOs
As we live through end time events, we see many articles in the news about the supernatural, about extraterrestrial events, UFOs, UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) spiritualists, exorcists, of the discovery of ancient civilisations that could reveal hidden knowledge that would help modern man solve all his problems.
The real source of the “knowledge” that would help mankind is hidden in plain sight. It is hidden in the several billion copies of the Bible, available worldwide. Unless people understand God’s plan for all of mankind, unless they understand that the “god of this world” is Satan the devil, they fall prey to Satan’s lies and deception.
Always keep in mind that when the disciples asked Christ about the end time situation, the very first thing Christ warned them about was not wars, famines, pestilences nor earthquakes, His first warning was about deception!
“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?
And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that NO MAN DECEIVE YOU.” (Matthew 24:3-4)
God’s end time apostle warned about supernatural events:
“Granted, there is trickery and deception. Yet not all spiritism is fraud or sleight of hand! When all the frauds, the tricks, the deceptions are carefully and scientifically sifted out, there remains something to be accounted for – some real SUPERNATURAL EVENTS that cannot be explained away!
Wicked Spirits In Control
Whether or not human beings like to admit it, the Bible plainly teaches that supernatural powers control and operate this world. The apostle Paul was inspired to write that human beings must struggle ‘against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against wicked spirits in high places’ (Ephesians 6:12, Authorized Version, marginal reading).
In His revelation to John, Jesus warns us of the growing influence of wicked spirits. The control of these wicked spirits, described in Revelation 16:13-16, will lead to ARMAGEDDON! The spirits who masquerade as human beings at spiritist seances pretend to bring LIGHT and KNOWLEDGE.” (The Good News – August 1984)
Our World Today
Reality and Truth … Out!
Fiction and Fantasy … In!
The Result?
Deception!
Let’s start by looking at the American UFO Saga, in Reality and in Fiction
Here's a brief history of UFO, or perhaps it should be UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) events…
“UFOs, or the notion of them, have been around a long time. Here’s a look at how the various iterations of the subject — from government investigations to sightings to movies and TV — have unfolded since World War II:
1947: First widely reported UFO (Unidentified Flying Objects) sighting in US. On July 2, A ranch foreman checking on sheep finds strange debris spread over a prairie near Roswell, New Mexico.
1948: Official government investigation begins. US Air Force launches Project Sign, an investigation into UFOs; renamed Project Blue Book in 1953.
1950: Hollywood jumps in. Release of the spy film ‘The Flying Saucer’.
1952: Unexplained objects above Washington. Radar operators, pilots and others pick up or see up to a dozen unexplained objects in the sky above Washington, DC in July.
1955: Area 51 construction starts. Construction begins for what would become the Area 51 site northwest of Las Vegas as an Air Force facility.
1957: Widespread Texas sightings. In November, dozens of people in Levelland, Texas, west of Lubbock, report strange lights in the sky that interfered with their vehicles and lights.
1966: The final frontier. In September, ‘Star Trek’ premieres on NBC, launching the most enduring space drama in history.
1969: Air Force says no ETs found. December 17: Air Force says it found no evidence of any UFO that was extraterrestrial in nature or that threatened national security; terminates Project Blue Book.
1977: Spielberg gets in on it. Steven Spielberg’s ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ released.
1980: Unexplained lights seen above London. US Air Force personnel stationed in Great Britain report seeing strange lights above Rendlesham Forest, northeast of London, in December.
1982: The iconic Gen-X alien emerges on film. Spielberg’s ‘ET: The Extraterrestrial’ is released.
1996: The epic cinematic ‘alien invasion’, Roland Emmerich’s ‘Independence Day’ is released.
1997: UFO reported in Arizona. Residents report seeing lights from a large flying object in the sky over or near Phoenix in March.
2015: ‘Unidentified blob’. ‘There’s a whole fleet of them,’ one naval aviator tells another, though only one indistinct object is shown.
2019: Declassified footage deemed unidentified. Navy acknowledges the three clips of declassified military footage as unidentified aerial phenomena.
2020: UAP team assembled. Pentagon announces a UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) Task Force.
2021: Big review of cases produces no definitive ET links.
2022: Governmental action on multiple fronts. Congress holds first hearing in 50 years on UFOs following reports of unexplained aerial phenomena by the military.
2023: Concealment alleged by former Air Force officer. Former Air Force intelligence officer David Grusch testifies before a House Oversight subcommittee in July that the US is concealing a longstanding program that retrieves and reverse-engineers unidentified flying objects. The Pentagon denies it’s concealing any such program.
2024: No evidence indicated. New Pentagon study that examined reported sightings of UFOs over nearly the last century finds no evidence of aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence.
2026: A flurry of government developments:
February 14: Former US President Barack Obama, answering a question about ‘are aliens real’ on a podcast, says, ‘They’re real. But I haven’t seen them.’ Obama later released this statement on social media: ‘Statistically, the universe is so vast that the odds are good there’s life out there.’
February 19: President Donald Trump announces on social media that he’s directing the Pentagon and other government agencies to identify and release files related to extraterrestrials and UFOs because of ‘tremendous interest.’
March 31: US Representative Anna Paulina Luna requests in a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the government release about four dozen videos related to UAP sightings to an oversight committee task force. ‘The presence of UAP’s in and around the sensitive airspaces of US military installations poses a threat to the security of the armed forces and their readiness,’ Luna writes.” (apnews.com)
Pentagon Declassifies First Batch Of UFO Files
“The Pentagon declassified a new batch of files on Friday about Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) - alien sightings.
Republican Anna Paulina Luna, a congresswoman from Florida, called it a ‘massive first step in the right direction,’ in a statement over the weekend. Other politicians were less than impressed with the release.
Marjorie Taylor Greene, the ex-congresswoman who has fallen out of favor with President Trump, said that THE RELEASE ONLY HAPPENED TO DISTRACT FROM BIGGER ISSUES, such as the war in Iran, adding, ‘I’m so sick of the “look at the shiny object” propaganda.’
Taylor Greene was not alone in this opinion, her sentiment was shared by former director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), Sean Kirkpatrick, who argued that the files ‘only serve to fuel more speculation, conspiracy and arm-chair pseudoscience.’” (jpost.com)
UFO Transparency Is Good But Biblical Discernment Is Required
Why? Why now? Mankind has always rejected God’s truth, but they know they need help - supernatural help - so they hope it will come from extraterrestrials, from aliens!
“The Trump administration on Friday released its first batch of declassified files documenting Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, opening a vault that previous administrations preferred to keep welded shut. The materials include never-before-seen Apollo mission photographs, transcripts of astronaut communications describing strange objects in space, and FBI imagery from a 1999 sighting alongside US military aircraft.
The full archive is being staged at war.gov/ufo, with Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, FBI Director Kash Patel, and NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman all signing on to the rolling declassification effort.
That a sitting administration is treating UAP transparency as a serious governance priority — rather than a punchline — is itself the news. But it is not the only news. Because while Washington pulls THE CURTAIN back, a quieter conversation has been gathering force in conservative and Christian circles about what, exactly, THE CURTAIN has been hiding. And it is NOT a conversation about little green men.
What Has ‘The Curtain’ Been Hiding?
Here is where the story gets more interesting than a press release. The cultural runway being paved for UAP disclosure is not neutral. Steven Spielberg’s documentary ‘Disclosure Day’ hits theaters June 12, with the director publicly stating he believes ‘we are not alone here on Earth right now.’
Hollywood has spent half a century conditioning audiences to greet the visitors as wise older siblings — bearers of higher consciousness, healers of our primitive divisions, post-religious mentors arrived to nudge a benighted humanity into its next evolutionary phase.
That framing is not science. It is theology — and it is theology that contradicts every word of the Christian gospel.
Reported ‘contactee’ messages, going back decades, have carried a remarkably consistent script:
… every religion is the same religion,
… Jesus was a teacher and not a savior,
… sin is a misunderstanding,
… and salvation comes through cooperation with benevolent intelligences from elsewhere.
That message is anti-biblical to its core. It does not deny the supernatural — it replaces it.” (https://basedunderground.com)
Greet The Visitors As Wise Older Siblings?
The vast majority of science fiction is centred around an alien invasion, and a war against supernatural invaders. This is very close to the facts, as revealed in the Bible.
Mankind has a propensity to destroy anything they don’t fully understand. In an attempt to destroy Christ, it would appear that the last dying act of mankind is to send a huge army against Christ at His return in Jerusalem - made up from “all nations”:
“And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.” (Revelation 16:12)
“And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” (Revelation 16:16)
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy ALL THE NATIONS that come against Jerusalem.” (Zechariah 12:9)
The Bible reveals how this great army is destroyed:
“And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet, and their eyes shall consume away in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.” (Zechariah 14:12)
Aliens Or Demons?
“Asked by podcaster Benny Johnson last month whether he had peeked at the UFO files, [Vice President] JD Vance replied that he had not yet — but offered something more pointed about his own view of the phenomenon.
‘I don’t think they’re aliens. I think they’re demons anyway, but that’s a longer discussion.’ Pressed for elaboration, Vance — a Catholic convert — went further. ‘I naturally go, when I hear about extra-natural phenomenon, that’s where I go to, to the Christian understanding that there’s a lot of good out there, but there’s also some evil out there. And I think that one of the devil’s great tricks is to convince people he never existed.’
Vance is not alone in his suspicion, and he is not the kookiest voice in the choir. Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke, the tenth human being to walk on the surface of the moon, has stated plainly that he believes UAPs are ‘demonic beings’, noting that ‘nothing human can make a 90-degree turn at 3,000 miles an hour and survive’ and arguing that the purpose of such displays is ‘to draw people away from the real God.’
Tucker Carlson has said something similar. Christian researchers like L A Marzulli have spent careers arguing that what intelligence officials now call ‘non-human intelligence’ is the same category of spiritual entity that Scripture has been describing the entire time, simply costumed for a scientific age.
Scripture is not silent on the subject of unseen powers operating in the heavenlies. Paul wrote to the church at Ephesus that ‘we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.’ (Ephesians 6:12) John warned the early church, in a verse that ought to be tattooed across every UAP enthusiast’s forehead before Disclosure Day arrives, to ‘believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God.’ (l John 4:1)
That instruction was not written for the seventeenth century. It was written for any moment in which compelling unseen forces present themselves and ask to be trusted. This moment qualifies.
Christians watching the sky should remember that not every revelation is a revelation from God. The lights in the Apollo footage may be exotic technology, atmospheric phenomena, or something else entirely. But the narrative being constructed around them — by Hollywood, by careerist mystics, by an emerging ‘UFO religion’ that promises spiritual ascent without a Savior — is not new at all.
IT IS THE OLDEST PITCH IN THE BOOK, given a new costume. The serpent in Eden also offered a path to enlightenment from a higher being. He also promised that the rules did not really apply. The files are open. That is good. What we do with them is the test. Watch the sky if you must. Watch the curtain more carefully.” (https://basedunderground.com)
Is It ‘The Oldest Pitch In The Book’?
As the articles say:
“The serpent also offered a path to enlightenment from a ‘higher being’.
He also promised that ‘the rules did not really apply’.”
Satan hasn’t changed.
The message hasn’t changed.
“This Summer Everything Will Become Clear”
ALL WILL BE DISCLOSED
Spielberg’s latest film, “Disclosure Day”, is claimed to be ‘Closer
To Truth Than Fiction’.
The question is asked:
“If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved
it to you, would that frighten you?
This summer, the truth belongs to eight billion people.
We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.”
(universalpictures.co.uk)
“That message is anti-biblical to its core. It does not deny the supernatural — it replaces it.”
“Disclosure Day”
“Steven Spielberg just made a brand-new sci-fi movie. That’s right: arguably the greatest director of our lifetime – the man who gave us Jaws, Jurassic Park, Schindler’s List and more – just returned to the genre he perfected back in 1982 with ET: The Extra Terrestrial.
Disclosure Day is an all-original story, with a script penned by industry legend and original Jurassic Park writer David Koepp. No wonder that CBR’s George Chrysostomou, for one, is confident it will raise the bar for the entire sci-fi genre.
‘Disclosure Day, much like ET before it, could usher in a new era of completely original science-fiction narratives. Fantasy has gone through a recent renaissance, and perhaps Spielberg is the one to show the true range of the genre.’
Strictly speaking, no aliens – or at least, no little green men – are sighted in the Disclosure Day trailer. But the recent Super Bowl trailer showed a flying saucer and Universal’s official synopsis definitely leaves us looking up: ‘If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people…’” (odeon.co.uk)
Take Heed That No Man Deceive YOU!
We are living in the last days… the end of this age.
As the apostle Paul warned Timothy: “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.” Paul describes this age as… “Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.” (II Timothy 3:1, 7) He explains: “But evil people and impostors will flourish. They will deceive others and will themselves be deceived.” (II Timothy 3:13, NLT)
Paul then reminds Timothy:
“And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:” (ll Timothy 3:15-16)
Beware: Another Dose Of Deception Coming
Disclosure Day: The announcement!
“The truth is coming”…
“Spielberg’s Disclosure Day Is “Closer To Truth Than Fiction”
Then - the big question:
“If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved
it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs
to eight billion people.
We are coming close to… Disclosure Day.” (universalpictures.co.uk)
Never has Christ’s warnings to His Church been more timely:
“Take heed that no man deceive you.”
(Matthew 24:4)
“Behold, I come quickly:
HOLD THAT FAST WHICH THOU HAST,
that no man take thy crown.”
(Revelation 3:11)
Children of Men - Part 1
"The Eternal looks from heaven, beholding all mankind; from where he sits, he scans all who inhabit the world; he who alone made their minds, he notes all they do" (Psalm 33:13-15, Moffatt)
Interesting Times
We certainly do live in interesting times today, as hardly a week goes by without a totally unexpected turn of events somewhere in the world ... another "black swan", as brought out in the News Review of May 8th. A prime recent example is this startling proclamation from the White House which will come into effect this Sabbath – today!:
For the first time in American history, a sitting president has called on the entire nation to observe Shabbat. In a White House proclamation signed May 4, 2026, as part of Jewish American Heritage Month, President Donald Trump designated the period from sundown Friday, May 15, through nightfall Saturday, May 16, as a national Shabbat, dubbed “Shabbat 250”, in honor of the 250th anniversary of American independence. (First US President To Call The Nation To Shabbat - israel365news.com - 10/05/2026)
You can only wonder what is being said behind closed doors in the Vatican, seeing it was under the Catholic church's instigation that today "Christendom" across the world keeps Sunday. (see Catholic Encyclopedia Vol.4, p153) Other "interesting" developments of late include: European nations pushing for their own army, rather than depend on NATO for defence; In Germany the AfD is the first far-right political party to win a state election since WWII; and according to the US Drought Monitor map (droughtmonitor.unl.edu) the vast majority of the US is suffering from drought – from "abnormally dry" right through to "extreme drought". And this dire situation from what was once the "breadbasket of the world"!
And how many of us – if questioned this time last year – would have been able to accurately pinpoint the location of the Strait of Hormuz, and more than that, could have foreseen the life-threatening impact its blockade is having around the world? It most certainly appears that we're witnessing the rapid increase of "birth pains" leading up to the climax at the end of this age. To most people in the world these incidents – although serious – would appear to be random, but God has given His church an overall understanding of end-time events through the prophecies in the Bible, and why the world is in the chaos it is.
From the Introduction to The United States and Britain in Prophecy, by Mr. Armstrong:
A staggering turn in world events is due to erupt in the next few years. It will involve violently the United States, Britain, Western Europe, the Middle East. It’s already rather late for the free world to come awake to the real meaning behind current world events! Why do not the world’s leaders see what is coming? Why are the world’s best minds unseeing – the heads of state, scientists, educators, editors, news analysts, bankers, industrialists, leaders in business and commerce? They are totally unaware! Why?
Because they have been falsely educated and deceived into closing their minds to the great causes behind world events and trends. This world has been falsely educated to ignore causes and deal with effects! Yet all the world’s problems and ills are simply a matter of cause and effect. There is a cause that has produced strife and war; poverty, wretchedness, inequality; crime, disease, mental ills. But the leaders do not know!
The world’s leaders are the educated of the world. But they were not educated in BASIC TRUTHS – the foundations of right knowledge. The most necessary knowledge is not being taught! They do not know WHAT man is – or WHY! They know nothing of the purpose or meaning of life! They were not taught to distinguish the true values from the false. They did not learn the real causes – the way to peace, to happiness, to universal abundance; nor the causes of war, unhappiness, inequality, world chaos.
They know nothing of the purpose being worked out here below. Consequently, they guide humanity on a course in conflict with that purpose, wreaking havoc upon a distressed, suffering, unhappy mankind. Lacking knowledge of the way to peace, the world does not have peace. Leaders talk of peace; they profess to work for peace; they cry out for peace – while they give approval and blind acceptance to the way that produces war!
This world has simply been going the wrong way. (US and Britain in Prophecy)
The Children of Men
Not only can we understand how these "random" events could fit into the jigsaw of God's overall Plan for all humanity, but with His Holy Spirit, God has also given us another dimension to aid our perception of world events ... a "heavenly perspective" as the apostle Paul mentions to the brethren in Ephesus (Ephesians 1:20,2:6) In the vernacular, we can "get behind God's eyeballs" and look at the world not merely from our brief human standpoint – but we can grasp a comprehension of the ideas, powers, peoples and nations that have been developing for millennia. Only then do we begin to gain the true perspective. Only then can we begin to see what is really happening in the diverse nations of the world.
What we have to keep in mind is that when we look at a nation, we're just seeing a family grown large. All of us have no doubt experienced how different from one another family members can be, even when they share the same mother and father. They have their own likes and dislikes, talents and personalities, and character traits, positive and negative. And right at the end of the first book in the Bible, and just prior to the death of Jacob (now named Israel) God prophesied in Genesis 49 how his progeny would develop over time as individual nations – discussing their strengths and weaknesses.
And considering Jacob's descendants originally sprang from four different women, it's not surprising they often differ so much, and also find it hard to get along! God also knew where in the world these nations would colonise and eventually settle, centuries or even millennia later. He mentions in the book of Amos that He has kept tabs on each individual Israelite and knows where he or she would live down through the ages ... a concept we cannot grasp in its scope!
- For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth. (Amos 9:9)
End Time Arabs
The Arab people, for example, did not come into this world as a ready-formed nation. They arose primarily from one man – Ishmael, the illegitimate son of Abraham by Sarah's handmaid Hagar. That individual gave rise to what has become the primary block of oil-rich Arab states found in the world today, via twelve princes (Genesis 17:20) whose nature God could see from the very beginning when He prophesied:
- ... I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.
- And the angel of the LORD also said unto her, You are now pregnant and you will give birth to a son. You shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard of your misery.
- And he will be a wild donkey of a man; his hand will be against everyone and everyone's hand against him; and he will live in hostility toward all his brothers. (Genesis 16:10-12 NIV)
So when God watches the current events taking place in the Middle East, He does not merely see the nations striving together over their own particular version of Islamic law and their opposition toward Israel, Iran and the west, but remembers His friend Abraham, and what gave rise to the above prophecy about his son Ishmael. God has watched the hostility of this "wild donkey of a man" towards his brethren, some of whom are children of Keturah, Abraham's second wife (Genesis 25:1-4), and certainly the nation of Persia – Iran today. Similarly, when He sees the confrontation between the Jewish nation of Israel and the Palestinians, He does not just see the present conflict in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, ISIS and Hezbollah, but He sees multiple wars fought over many years between what were then the Philistines and progressive generations of Israelites. Their present genocidal hostility against the nation of Judah is merely an extension of what went before, although the Philistine stock today has been diluted greatly through intermarriage with Arabs.
Financial Bombshells
For some time now we've been warned of the possibility of a major financial crisis to hit our interconnected "global village", and now, as a result of the USA's war with Iran and the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz – the only sea route for one-fifth of global oil production – the result is sky-rocketing energy prices and freight costs, leading to runaway inflation in a vast array of goods. The black horse of Revelation 6 practically sounds like tomorrow's newscast:
- And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
- And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. (Revelation 6:5,6)
This black horse is not merely a warning of food shortages, but that the actual cost will become out of the reach of many people. In fact, the One who, "hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, meted out the heavens with the span ... and the inhabitants are as a drop in a bucket" (Isaiah 40:12,15) does not look at the current worldwide financial crisis as some kind of "short term blip" in the system, but more to the point, the inevitable result of refusing to accept His Way of give versus get, and the basic financial Laws given at Sinai, such as usury and the Sabbatical and Jubilee years. As God warned Israel – Ephraim and Manasseh – through His prophet Hosea:
- Israel hath cast off the thing that is good: the enemy shall pursue him.
- They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off ...
- ... For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up. (Hosea 8:3,4,7)
Not that the European nations are faring any better, as according to numerous sources, the stability of the euro gives much cause for concern. God inspired Daniel to write ... "And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay." (Daniel 2:43) Thrown into the mix is the character exhibited by each nation involved, being the inevitable genetic progeny of their forefathers thousands of years before. He remembers Shem calling his son Asshur which means "strong" or "successful by being straight" (Genesis 10:22) and how that characteristic continued, through the Assyrian people to whom He sent His prophet Jonah, right down into the Germans of today. And from Javan – a white son of Japheth (Genesis 10:2) came the olive-skinned nations that spread across the southern Mediterranean (Genesis 10:4) And God can see this mixture of the iron and clay between the disciplined Germanic son of Shem and the easy-going blood of Japheth within Portugal, Southern Italy, Greece and Spain. So whatever solution men come up with – trying to stick such disparate nations together – it is simply not going to work long-term.
Babylon
Another aspect we need to keep in mind, is that as God looks at what is unfolding in Southern Europe today, He does not only see the progeny of Javan within these nations. Something else has also taken place over the years brought about due to the original nations' conquests in years gone by. A clear migration from East to West has taken place, greatly diluting the original national stock of these nations. Greece and Italy are no longer the powerful nations they were in their ascendency. Their genetic stock today are instead more the slaves of these original people who were brought across from the eastern lands they conquered. God has a clear view of this corruption. He even has a term for it – Babylon! The nations of the east – conquered first by the Medes and Persians, then by Greece, then by Rome – caused their own culture to then invade their invaders! In each case, not only did the Chaldean genetic stock move westward, but with them, so did the ideas and religious concepts they held as well, which were readily adopted by their conquerors.
So the Catholic ideas and religious beliefs about to be unleashed on modern-day Europe may look medieval to us in our sophisticated 21st century, but they are much older and much more eastern. To mere man they appear to come from a Europe of around 500 – 1000 AD, but God saw their true beginning thousands of years before in Babylon. The Eternal witnessed the same mindset in Nebuchadnezzar and his occult-practising magicians and astrologers within the "head of gold" (Daniel 2:38) that started what we are about to see concluded in Europe in the next few years. The world looks as far as the Middle Ages at the most. The Eternal looks to Nimrod mentioned in Genesis 10:8-9 and his evil wife Semiramis. And having appreciated that ancient source, we utterly reject the entire system, the mark and the modern Beast that is about to arise.
Children of GOD
But there is more – much more! Though God is fully aware of the human source of the powers, ideas, nations and peoples involved in the emerging end-game, that is not where His primary focus lies. At the forefront of His mind is the spiritual dimension. After all, what is this entire human experience all about? Ultimately it's all about the GOD FAMILY. And right now, God and Christ are in the throes of preparing people to become the teachers who will together train and encourage other human beings to reject Satan's way, choose God's way of life, and therefore increase His family into untold billions! No more just "children of men" but children of GOD.
With that understanding, we can view the confusion and misery in this present world in a different light. God's view – and the one that must therefore be ours – is all-encompassing and going right back to that rebellion by Satan the Devil and the unleashing of utter chaos throughout the Creation. For the true outcome of the ancient Babylonian system will be its eventual overthrow and the removal of the satanic mindset that spawned it. This profound and longed for conclusion will begin with the return of Jesus Christ as Lord of lords and King of kings to a world then ready to listen. A world "softened" by aversion therapy and at long last ready to be totally transformed into Utopia.
- I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
- I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
- And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. (Isaiah 42:14-16)
The Israel of God
But what about our racial background? Is that not important? We only have to look at the creation to understand that God is a God of variety. Clearly the races, with their array of various strengths and weaknesses, are there because God created them in that interesting way. Whatever race we may be physically, the ethnic qualities that have been given are there because God ultimately wants them – albeit in a Godly form – within His Family. It's far more what humanity is destined to become, rather than which branch of the initial family tree we're descended from!
- Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;...
- ... Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
- I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever. (Psalm 45:10,16,17)
God's view of those in His Church therefore, is that we all must be grafted into this entirely new nation – Spiritual Israel – the very Israel of God (Galatians 6:15-16). This process requires being hand-picked by God the Father (John 6:44, 45, 65) and then given to Christ, His FIRSTborn son, so that we can then be worked with; moulded and shaped by the Master Potter, (Isaiah 64:8) in order to take our place in the Family, or Nation, or Kingdom of God. That Family, and that nationality then becomes ours, to be fully realised as Sons of God by the resurrection:
- For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
- Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. (Romans 8:29,30)
God's Perspective
God's Church is a single NEW nation – a NEW family – spiritual Israel. It will form a NEW civilization, destined to replace every civilization and organisation of man (Daniel 2:44). Whether we are white, black, brown or yellow is not the point ... for "our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ" (Philippians 3:20 NKJV) or as the Moffat translation puts it: "We are a colony of heaven".
Each of us therefore needs to strive to keep this true Godly perspective on race, colour and nationality, both when we view the ancient nations of this earth with the historical depth required ... but even more importantly as we deal with those precious few destined to be Firstfruits in the soon coming Kingdom of God. For it is clear, from God's perspective, that in His Spiritual Family "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus." (Galatians 3:28)
- For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
- Even unto them will I give in mine house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off.
- Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
- Even them will I bring to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices shall be accepted upon mine altar; for mine house shall be called an house of prayer for all people. (Isaiah 56:4-7)
To be continued ...
Latest Audio - 2026-05-16
“Just what is an APOSTLE?”
Today we find the Church of God in a “wilderness of religious confusion!”
The confusion is not merely around the Church – within the religions of the world outside – but WITHIN the very heart of The True Church itself!
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