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"Spiritual Warfare?"
Some look to Bible for answers to alien abductions
By Rita Elkins : Florida Today
Big Stretch: Imagine that alien abduction experiences and demons are
equally real.
Hey, we said it'd be tough. But you were halfway there watching the
recent movie, "Fire in the Sky," right? One more step and you're in
the strange and trendy world of UFOlogy theology, where
extraterrestrials could be even scarier than you think.
Odd as it sounds, the spiritual life of aliens is being taken
seriously in wide-ranging discussions among religious leaders.
Magazine articles, books and even evangelists are engaging in Bible-
based speculations about the nature and intention of entities that
allegedly kidnap, paralyze, physically abuse and sometimes sexually
molest victims - many of whom, more strangely still, come to believe
the experience was worthwhile.
Religious leaders are alarmed about a growing train of thought that
"wants us to reject traditional Judeo-Christian ideas about God" in
favor of benign "Space Brothers" who will save humanity from itself,
writes journalist William M. Alnor in his book, "UFOs in the New
Age" (Baker, Grand Rapids, Mich.)
Alnor concludes this new belief is a set-up for apocalyptic deceptions
predicted in the Bible's Book of Revelation.
He's not alone.
"The similarity between the abduction experience and demonic
possession is very, very close," says Joe Jordan of Cocoa, Brevard/
Volusia state director for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a widely
respected clearinghouse for UFO-related research.
"These (alien contact) experiences these people are having are real.
It does exist. But you just need to understand what's doing it."
Jordan and his partner, Wes Clark, have begun a research group called
CE-4 (close encounters of the fourth kind, i.e. abductions), dedicated
to studying alleged alien abductions.
Its 15 members also belong to MUFON, but "nothing we do is necessarily
sanctioned by them," says Clark, a quality control engineer at Kennedy
Space Center.
MUFON principals did not respond to inquiries about CE-4's unusual
hypothesis, summarized by Jordan:
"This whole thing is spiritual warfare. And the method the enemy's
using is deception. Strong deception."
In other words, entities really are abducting people against their
will. Only, they're not aliens from other planets. They're demons
from the pit of hell.
Joe Jordan is addressing a "New Millennium Symposium" in Titusville.
With his intense brown eyes and shoulder-length hair, he mingles
easily with New Age folks who paid $44 to study pyramids, Mayan
deamspells, Lakota prophesies, and to hear Jordan talk about "UFO
Abductions."
Jordan, who works in product development and engineering for Sea Ray
Boats, speaks calmly, his voice firm, with good grammar and diction.
Kooks don't get to be state directors with science-orientated MUFON,
for whom he has chased lights for seven years.
Last year he focused on CE-4 research, and encountered a Central
Florida abductee whose otherwise-typical experience had one unique
aspect. "They had stopped the experience while it was happenning. In
all the time I've been researching, I'd never heard that before."
Jordan punches buttons on a tape recorder. A nameless, 30-something
man with an intelligent-sounding voice, slightly southern, tells his
story. Calmly, at first.
There were strange lights in a nearby woods at bedtime, barking dogs.
He is up and down a few times, yelling at the dogs while his wife
sleeps soundly. Then, lying down again...
"I couldn't move... gray fog. I couldn't see anything, but it was
like someone was there." He felt himself lifted off the bed. I was
terrified, so helpless... screaming inside, but I couldn't get it
out."
The voice is less calm now, but still certain, not hesitant.
"I thought I was having a satanic experience, that the devil had
gotten hold of me and had shoved a pole up my rectum and was holding
me up in the air... so helpless. I couldn't do anything."
A non-religious person, he'd been to church with his wife a few times.
"I said, 'Jesus, Jesus, help me' or Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!' And when I
did, there was a feeling or a sound or something. That either my
words that I had thought, or the words that I had tried to say or
whatever, hurt whatever was holding me up in the air on this pole.
"And I felt like it was withdrawn, and I fell. I hit the bed, because
it was like I was thrown back in the bed. I really can't tell what it
was. But when I did, my wife woke up and asked why I was jumping on
the bed."
Yeah, but...
Relentless anonymity is a given in abduction research. Nobody in
their right mind wants family, friends and co-workers to know they've
had their personal space violated against their will by strange-
looking creatures whose existence isn't even proven.
So they can't give names. But Jordan and Clark swear they have three
verifiable cases in which apparent abduction experiences were halted
by believers who called on the name of Jesus. And Jordan says as many
as 400 cases may be documentable nationwide.
"It makes you wonder: if these beings are extra-terrestrial at all,
why would they respond to that name?" Jordan asks. "We think we
found the answer in the Bible, in Mark 16:17 where Jesus said, 'In my
name they shall cast out demons.' That seems to be exactly what we
came across."
Three major researchers told Jordan, off the record, that they had
similar cases. But "They were afraid for their credibility," he
says. "They felt they already had put their credentials out far
enough dealing with extra-terrestrials."
Other "so-called researchers (are) sitting on this information,"
Jordan says. "There's something wrong there. They're just as bad as
the people they say have conspiracies in other ways."
Why would anyone suppress such research findings? Jordan, who became
a Christian last year, says most UFOlogists share his former New Age
beliefs, which dismiss Christianity and Judaism. "These people go
from one thing to another looking for development of a higher
consciousness," he says. Anyplace but in traditional religion.
Stranger still...
An estimated 40 percent of Americans say they believe aliens have
visited Earth. More than a million people worldwide claim CE-4
experiences. Sitll, mainstream Christianity mostly side-stepped the
issue - until March's mass suicide at Heaven's Gate showed just how
misleading some alien link-thinking could be.
Suddenly, the religious press is full of articles about UFOs.
The May cover story in Central Florida's discovery Christian newspaper
focused on UFOlogy theology, interviewing Berkley-trained scientist
and Christian author, John Weldon. That was reprinted from Rutherford
Institute's nationally-distributed October newsletter.
Even Jewish believers are connecting UFO experiences with the Torah,
or Jewish Bible. "Many serious people who have been studying UFOs
around the world have reached the consensus that the Bible is a
convincing UFO story," said journalist Barry Charnish, quoted in a
chapter titled, "UFOs in the Holy Land" from sightings: UFOs, by
television writer Susan Michaels (Simon and Schuster, New York, due
out in September).
July's Charisma magazine, a 200,000-plus circulation monthly, featured
Christian evangelist and author Paul McGuire's article, "Alien
Invaders." McGuire cites the evolution of popular New Age author
Whitley Streiber's interests - from his first alien contacts in
Communion, Transformation and Breakthrough to his latest titles, The
Secret School: Preparations for Contact and Evenings with Demons - as
an example of a progressive deception.
Indeed, Streiber fans often comment - albeit positively - on their
favorite author's change. From experiencing his first alien
encounters as terrifying and torturous, he began to seek them out and
welcome them, finally advocating them as a religious experience.
That, say religious leaders, indicates a deceptive entity is at work.
"Both the seemingly benign and hostile entities... will play an
increasing role in preparing a segment of humanity for the reception
of the Antichrist," writes best selling author David Allen Lewis and
Robert Shreckhise in UFO: End-Time Delusion.
And the cover of The Agenda, The Real Reason They're Here gives this
premise: "In the near future, God will evacuate millions of people
from the horrors to follow. Aliens will take the credit" for the
Rapture (when Christians will be supernaturally airlifted to heaven),
writes B. Fox, a MUFON researcher who resides in - of all places-
Roswell, New Mexico. (Webmaster note - visit that site at www.uforanks.com)
Back in Titusville at the CE-4 office in Wes Clark's home, Joe Jordan
and Clark continue to study, research and solicit abductees through
the internet and with classified ads in MUFON's UFO Journal.
"The one thing we can offer people in this field, that nobody else
elsewhere is offering, is hope. Hope that they can stop this
experience," Jordan says.
"We're still researchers. It's not conclusive. But this is what we
have so far."
** NOTE: Wes Clark is no longer a member of CE4 Research Group,
although he was a co-founder and major part of our organization.