Thursday, June 2, 2016

Does the Bible mention anything about extraterrestrials?

It is a far stretch of the imagination for most people, especially Bible believing Christians, to remotely consider that the Scriptures contain anything about aliens from another planet or universe. The notion that the Earth was visited by advanced beings from outside our Solar System belongs to the genre of Sci-fi movies, comic books, or television shows, but not as real events that are included in the holy Scriptures; but is all the skepticism just a smokescreen for the fact that the inhabitants of the Mesopotamian Basin and across all the continents of Earth have had contact with scientifically advanced and/or godlike beings? This study will explore that possibility and determine if authors like Sitchin, Von Daniken, Leon, Hill, Blumrich, Bergier, Downing, Shellhorn, etal, have caught on to something profound that will dramatically alter the way we view the universe, God, and our place in the cosmic scheme of things. So, let’s begin the journey.

Genesis 32: 1
Jacob also went on his way, and the angels of God met him. When Jacob saw them he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named the place Manahaim (“two camps”).

NOTE: Was the place that Jacob came upon some kind of observation post for a small crew of alien astronauts, and contact with them was more or less routine?

Exodus 19: 9, 18
The Lord said to Moses, “I am going to come down to you in a dense (dark??) cloud. Mt. Sinai was covered with smoke because the Lord descended [not suddenly appeared] on it in fire. The smoke billowed up from it like the smoke from a furnace, and the whole mountain trembled violently.

NOTE: The cloud could be the ionized particles forming a vaporous cloud and the smoke could be exhaust fumes. The fire might be the igniting or firing of retro rockets to slow the descent of the cloaked landing craft setting down on the top of the mountain. The main thrusters would undoubtedly produce the effect of a loud thundering noise or roaring sound [trumpets/the sound of many waters??].

Exodus 24: 9-10
Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear as the sky itself.

NOTE: This would seem to be the description of some sort of spacecraft or celestial vehicle which had deployed landing gear (“feet”), and underneath was some type of material or substance which might be an energy field?? Whatever Moses and company saw, it does not appear to be that of an ethereal, incorporeal, transcendent, invisible, or conceptual being; or at least not in the usual way that God is thought of. In this instance what they saw was perhaps an inter-dimensional being of a nature that leaves very little to get a clear picture of.

2 Samuel 22: 10-12a
He parted the heavens and came down [landed/descended??]; dark clouds were under his feet [landing gear]. He mounted the cherubim and flew; he soared [lifted off??] on the wings of the wind. He made darkness (exhaust??) his canopy (covering) around.

NOTE: Again, this would appear to be a rocket or some kind of craft lifting off and the fuel source from the rockets igniting produce dark smoky vapors underneath retracting landing gear (feet??)

Ezekiel 10: 13-14a, 16
I heard the wheels being called the whirling (spinning/rotating??) wheels. Each of the cherubim had four faces. . .  When the cherubim moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the cherubim spread their wings to rise from the ground the wheels did not leave their side.

NOTE: If the two above texts are combined together it gives a picture of a type of flying craft, perhaps an inter-dimensional one where the ‘deity’ (God??) mounts (enters) the cherubim and then takes off. Could the whirling wheels be propeller blades or rotors? The cherubim could be part of the engine of a celestial transport craft of some kind??

Exodus 33: 18, 19a-21
Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.” And the Lord said, “I will cause all my goodness (glory??) to pass in front of you but you cannot see my face; for no one can see my face and live.” Then the Lord said, “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. When my glory passes by, I will place you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen [why??].

NOTE: This is most puzzling- why does God not want Moses to see his face as opposed to seeing the back of deity? Later on in the book of Deuteronomy, Moses reminds the Israelites that they heard the voice of God speaking out of the fire but there was no form thereof  (Cp. Deuteronomy 4: 12)

Exodus 33: 9
As Moses went into the tent, the pillar of cloud would come down (descend) and stay (hover) at the entrance while the Lord spoke [from the cloaked shuttle craft??] to Moses (Cp. Exodus 34: 5).

Exodus 23: 20, 21b
See, I am sending an angel ahead of you to guard you along the way. . . Do not rebel against him; he will not forgive your rebellion since my Name is in [not upon??] him.

NOTE: Could this “angel” be some kind of high tech protector robot, or maybe an alien probe with artificial intelligence (A.I.)? Interestingly, this angel has the “Name” in him (it) [like a set of preprogrammed instructions??] instead of ‘on’ him.

Exodus 40: 38
So, the cloud of the Lord was over the tabernacle by day, and the fire was in the cloud by night in the sight of all Israel during their travels.

NOTE: There is the possibility that instead of a small scout ship or shuttle, an unmanned aerial device (UAD) or drone with stealth technology and holographic capability could project the appearance of a cloud and/or a fire. Maybe the “burning bush” which did not consume itself that Moses saw was just a holographic projection- just saying!!

Now, let’s take a look at some other examples:

Genesis 28: 12-13a
Jacob had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on [not merely touching??] the earth, with its top reaching to heaven [up in the sky], and the angels of God ascending and descending on it. There above it stood the Lord, and he said, “I am the Lord, the God of your father Abraham and Isaac.” When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”

Genesis 11: 4
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, with a tower that reaches to the heavens [up in the sky], so that we may make a name {Shem??] for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the earth.

NOTE: If the two separate accounts are taken together it might indicate that a stairway [launch tower/ramp??] was securely in place where angels [“astronauts”??] were embarking and disembarking from up there in heaven [celestial spaceship??] and after the ship de-cloaked and the hatch or door was opened the Lord was seen standing there overhead-just saying!! Maybe the ‘stairway’ is like Bifrost, the rainbow bridge in Norse Mythology linking Midgard (Earth) to Asgard (Heaven), and instead of  seeing the lone guardian Heimdall, it is the All-Father Odin standing at the top-maybe/maybe not?? If one reads Zechariah Sitchin’s novels, he alleges the Hebrew word Shem usually translated as “Name” actually means rocket (ship). Well, I don’t know if one could build a ‘tower’ that reaches the heavens but a rocket ship could go that far. What the Genesis narrative above is describing might just be the ancient counterpart to NASA and Cape Canaveral in Florida- just saying..

Continuing further:

2 Kings 2: 1, 11, 15a-16
When the Lord was about to take up Elijah to heaven in a whirlwind, Elijah and Elisha were on their way from Gilgal. As they were walking along and talking together, suddenly a chariot of fire and horses appeared [materialized/de-cloaked??] and separated the two of them, and Elijah went up to heaven in a whirlwind. Elisha saw this and cried out, “My father! My father! The chariots and horsemen [not horses??] of Israel!” The company of the prophets from Jericho, who were watching, “Look, they said, “we your servants have fifty men, Let us go and look for your master. Perhaps the Spirit of the Lord has picked him up and set him down on some mountain or valley.”

NOTE: If the other prophets knew that the Lord would take Elijah to heaven, why would they expect Elijah would be sent back to earth? Also, Elisha saw chariots and horsemen [astronauts??] as opposed to the description of a fiery chariot [singular] and horses. The ‘whirlwind’ could be the atmospheric disturbance due to the effect of the powerful engines from the celestial craft?? This might be the most plausible example of what might be an alien abduction-or perhaps not to others.

Acts 8: 39b-40
The Spirit of the Lord took Philip away [beamed him up]. . . Philip, however appeared [he was beamed down] at Azotus.

NOTE: The narrative does not reveal the reason behind this brief snatching away [abduction] and returning of Philip, and I don’t have any good guesses, either.  

CONCLUSION: This study is not to suggest that the human race, starting with Adam and Eve and the Semitic Bedouin tribe who settled in the land of Canaan, descending from the lineage of the patriarch Abraham, progenitor of the Jewish people (Israelites), did not have contact with the eternal God and angels from the highest heaven. It is just as plausible, however, that Earth could have been visited by an advanced race of extraterrestrial astronauts and/or godlike inter-dimensional beings who manifest abilities, technology, and knowledge far exceeding the evolutionary development of the people they encountered untold millennia ago. If such events happened today as recorded in the Bible, would a moveable pillar of cloud and fire; thundering sound of a human [man’s] voice; angels [astronauts??] ascending/descending on a stairway; cherubim with retractable wings and whirling wheels; fiery chariot, the Spirit snatching someone up- would all of these situations be seen as the interaction in human affairs from the celestial realms of the Creator of the Universe or the effects of high-tech wizardry from advanced denizens from unknown worlds or universes? You can make that choice for yourself and as the old saying goes, “The proof is in the pudding.” Jesus said in John 5: 37, “No man has seen God at any time; you have neither heard his voice nor seen his form.”

 
Robert Randle
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June 2, 2016
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