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The Bible. A sacred text filled with fantastic tales of an awesome supernatural force. But

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what if that force wasn't God? What if it was a UFO? In Ezekiel, what was that gaining

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wheel within a wheel that descended on the Prophet? In the Sodom and Gomorrah of Genesis,

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where did the devastating fire and brimstone come from? In Exodus, what was that presence in

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the sky that led Moses through the desert? Were these the actions of God? Or might these mysterious

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forces in the skies have been UFOs in the Bible? Throughout the Bible, mysterious aerial phenomena

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appear and alter the course of human history. To religious scholars, these stories are an

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infallible record of God's presence and godly events. But some modern-day researchers offer a

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different theory. Perhaps these stories really describe alien visitations. Is it possible that

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extraterrestrials have been involved in human history for thousands of years and if so, did they

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have contact with the biblical people? And as you look in the Bible, there are many reports of UFOs

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that contact biblical people. A chariot of fire that abducts Elijah and takes him off into the sky.

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Elijah was one of the most revered Jewish prophets of his day. According to ufologists,

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the biblical account of his encounter with chariots of fire is a detailed description of what might

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be turned a UFO. This encounter took place as Elijah traveled along the Jordan River,

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accompanied by his successor, Elijah. Elijah knew his life was in danger because he had upset many

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powerful religious figures. Elijah hauled out for God to help him. There was a young man with him,

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Elijah, and he didn't see it. But suddenly there were a number of chariots of fire around him.

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Behold, a chariot of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them, and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.

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In the Old Testament, Elisha tells a story about being caught up or swept away by a chariot of fire,

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or conveyance that was going brightly hot. According to this passage, Elijah was spirited up into the sky,

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never to be seen again by mortal man. The concept of Elijah being taken up into a chariot of fire is an abduction.

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Certainly modern UFOs are reported to take humans on board and take them away.

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So I think we've got in modern UFO reports something that could have functioned very well to carry Elijah

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into the sky. If we were to take what Elisha was describing and compare it to events of people

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being taken aboard unidentified flying objects or flying saucers, it may very well be the same type of

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event occurring in those days compared to what they could compare to.

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What we think of as a chariot and what we think of as a flying saucer may seem worlds apart,

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but some contend that perhaps they aren't so different after all.

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Chariots is actually a word that means some form of conveyance and back in those days,

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the closest thing they could compare these moving objects to was a chariot.

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So therefore they were a conveyance that was glowing or bright or had a fiery appearance.

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And that was probably the closest association they could make to these conveyances in the sky.

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Some speculate that the traditional interpretation of biblical passages is haphard,

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not only by the ancient lack of technical references,

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but also by inaccuracies in the Bible's translation into English by the court of King James,

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which was completed in 1611.

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The English that was used in the court of England in the 17th century

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was different than the English that was used by the common people and for specific purpose.

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Because the court of England wanted to keep themselves separated from the commoners.

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To better understand the original meaning of biblical texts,

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researchers refer to Strong's exhaustive concordance.

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This book, completed in 1890, is an alphabetical index of every word used in the Bible,

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listing each occurrence of that word and the context in which it is used.

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By doing this, some researchers believe they have discovered another connection between Elijah's story

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and UFOs. In the King James version, Elijah tells of being whisked up into heaven,

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but some now believe that perhaps he wasn't talking about the godly realm.

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When it comes to the word heaven, in the court of King James, the word heaven literally meant sky.

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So in the hundreds of places in the Bible that heaven is used, it actually means sky.

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It is never described as a place that you go to for a particular reward.

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Biblical stories about mysterious events in the sky may not be the only ancient sources hinting at UFOs.

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As far as the religious beliefs concerning UFOs, they're found throughout every culture.

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If you go into the most ancient of texts, the Old Sumerian texts, they're in there,

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they're painted on Egyptian walls in ancient tombs. The yogis and llamas in the Eastern

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thought call them the manas and they call them the chariots of the gods.

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Thousands of years ago, in an amazing feat of precision, the Nazca people of Peru created

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perfectly straight lines stretching across their landscape, a plane 37 miles long and a mile wide.

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Some ufologists wondered whether the design, resembling a modern airport, was used as a runway

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for alien spaceships. The lines intersect, forming enormous geometric shapes

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and include drawings of insects, mammals and a mysterious humanoid being

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which some say resembles a man in a spacesuit.

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You can only see them from the sky and so you have to wonder if these lines weren't drawn to impress

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beings that were flying in the skies and therefore the cultures that drew these were

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trying to at least get the attention of the sky people that they knew were there.

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Other ancient civilizations also believed that they were visited by extraterrestrial beings.

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Kulkul Khan, a patron god of the Mayans, is said to have descended from the sky

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and bestowed upon them complex technological and mathematical principles.

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One of the ways we can show this is a distinct possibility is by the advanced mathematical

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capabilities of the Mayans. For instance, addressed in codex where they're showing very advanced

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astronomical tables where they can chart the solar eclipses, the lunar eclipses.

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When you talk about the Mayans receiving knowledge from ancient gods who came from the sky,

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their mathematics, their astronomy, I believe that's entirely rooted in fact

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because that same story is echoed everywhere. Native Americans, South American Indians,

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China, all the Orient, India. That story or some version of it that gods came from the sky

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and gave technology to mankind.

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Stories repeating over time and across cultures.

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Irrelease similar themes that appear again and again,

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raising new questions. I think that we've had UFOs around for centuries and I think they've

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surveyed the earth and even landed on earth and made contact.

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There have been some things they've done that will say have shaped our development

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very radically and I think the biblical religion is an example of how they've shaped our development.

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Coming up. Moses led the Hebrews out of Egypt. But what led Moses?

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It was a pivotal moment in the development of the Judeo-Christian religion.

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The great exodus of the Jews out of Egypt.

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At the head of this mass migration was Moses, who was in turn guided by a mysterious aerial phenomenon.

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And the Lord would before them, by day, in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way.

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And by night, in a pillar of fire to give them light. That they might travel by day and by night.

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It is this element of the story that is especially intriguing to modern UFO researchers.

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Just who or what was this protector?

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I think it was a very large UFO that was dark during the day and then at night it glowed

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and provided light for the encampment below them. And at times it would hover for months,

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for weeks and months at a time.

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The pillar cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night started leading the exodus.

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This was clearly an object in the sky.

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It apparently contained some type of intelligent reality.

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It was a voice communication with Moses during the whole of the exodus.

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UFOs are basically playing a game of follow the leader. UFO is the leader.

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Though the Pharaoh initially allowed the exodus of the Jews,

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he changed his mind and charged after them with all the chariots of Egypt

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and hundreds of his men.

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It was a chase that led to one of the most spectacular events in the Bible.

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As the Pharaoh's armies caught up to the Israelites by the banks of the Red Sea.

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I believe this reality hovered over the Red Sea and caused the parting of the Red Sea.

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The theory goes that the object's extraterrestrial propulsion system was what physically pushed the

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waters aside, allowing Moses and his followers safe passage.

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Then the Lord said to Moses,

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stretch out your hand over the sea,

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that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen.

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If the parting of the Red Sea was done, as I believe it was, by some type of

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anti-gravitational force, the biblical people wouldn't have understood how to explain that,

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even if they saw it happening. But I think if modern people had been there to see the same

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thing occur, they might have given a technical review of what was going on, rather than a supernatural review.

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Even after escaping the Egyptians, the biblical Israelites faced an arduous journey

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toward their promised land of milk and honey.

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Along the way, the pillar of cloud shadowed the Israelites every move,

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protecting them as well as guiding them.

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The pillar of a cloud during the day is actually providing a canopy.

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In the area that they were moving, it's a wilderness area, and the temperatures can

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reach up to 120 degrees, and this went on for 40 years.

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I believe the pillar dropped a manna from it.

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On to the ground to feed the Jewish people during the 40 years of their exodus,

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to keep them alive in the wilderness, while what I would call a huge religious conditioning

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project was going on in the hands of this extra-stressual reality.

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In some modern interpretations, this UFO provided much more than shelter and food.

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As the Israelites approached the slopes of Mount Sinai, the pillar of cloud again communicated with Moses.

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The Lord said to Moses, be ready in the morning, and come up in the morning to Mount Sinai.

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And present yourself there to me, on top of the mountain.

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When Jehovah landed on the mountain, he gave a specific to go in, and Moses went up into the mountain.

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Then Moses went up. Now the appearance of the glory of the Lord was like a devouring fire

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on top of the mountain in the sight of the people of Israel.

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And Moses entered the cloud.

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Modern theorists speculate that this time on the mount was spent inside a UFO.

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And when he came back down the mountain, his face shone or glowed.

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The implication is that there's some type of energy transfer going on between...

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When Moses descended from Mount Sinai, in his hands were the Ten Commandments,

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the supreme guidelines for his people.

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And afterward, all the people of Israel came near.

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And he gave them in commandment all of the Lord had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.

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But if this enormous pillar in the sky was truly a UFO,

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and gave the Israelite work for their society, just make of it.

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According to Moses, the individual that was inside the pillar of fire and the pillar of a cloud

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was Jehovah. Jehovah is the name of the national God of Israel.

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Their God was a God of the sky, a God of the heavens, a God who made heavens on earth.

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I don't think it's hard for the Hebrew people to believe God is in the pillar of cloud and fire.

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God is the one in the UFO there.

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Some believe the influence of UFOs is not limited to the Jewish Bible.

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Christian faith as well.

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Thousands of years after the Exodus, the New Testament records the Jesus.

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And he was transfigured before them.

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His conquerors could beat them.

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They repute to them, Elijah and Moses.

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And they were talking to Jesus.

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Elijah on the Mount of Jesus because Moses had been dead for hundreds of years.

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And Elijah, although he never died on earth, was taken off into the sky in a chariot of fire.

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And was never seen again until now.

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Were Elijah loud that met Moses on Mount Sinai?

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And did that same cloud or UFO transport Elijah and Moses to Jesus' transfiguration?

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We have a pattern that's very much part of the biblical pattern.

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That is, some strange object shows up in the sky and a voice comes from it.

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You get this during the Exodus with the pillar of cloud and a voice coming to Moses.

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You can see the transfiguration story.

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So whenever you then look at the biblical prophets who are saying strange things,

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the issue is, is the extra-trustee reality informing their minds to say the things they're saying.

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Of an ancient prophet.

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More than half a millennium before the birth of Christ.

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A group of Jewish exiles was held captive along the banks of the Chebar River.

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A righteous Israelite named Ezekiel.

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Predicting the fall of Jerusalem.

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Later, he also preached a message of hope and salvation.

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But first, Ezekiel was enraptured by something in the sky.

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As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the North.

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And a great cloud with brightened fire flashing forth continually.

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And in the midst of the fire, as it were gleaming the bronze.

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Ezekiel believed.

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But UFO researchers wonder if it might have been something else.

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More than any other passage in the Bible.

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Ezekiel's detailed account of this sighting is continually studied and analyzed by UFologists.

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Who argue that it is a biblical alien encounter.

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I saw a wheel upon the earth.

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As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction, this was like the gleaming of a chrysalite.

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Ezekiel is metallic object.

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That ascends and lands in front of him.

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Each what we see are glowing spinning metallic objects.

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That ascend and descend just like the objects that are described in the Bible.

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It's not a nidological conclusion to assume that these craft that we see today

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may be the exact same craft that they're describing in the Bible in ancient times.

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Their construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel.

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When they went.

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Without turning as they went.

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You can tell he was struggling with them.

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Now that's also true UFO experiences that people have.

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They're having diffidence description that we see in the Bible.

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The four wheels have rims and they had spokes.

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And the rims were full of eyes.

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Roundabout.

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What I believe he's talking.

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And in the time that he was discussing this, there was nothing mechanical.

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The wheel was about the the most sophisticated device that they had.

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When the wheels of Ezekiel hovered above him, he may have thought he was seeing a supernatural

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reality, but what if it was simply a high tech reality?

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How do you tell the difference between the supernatural and the super technological?

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The more highly technical a reality becomes the more supernatural it seems.

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And from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures.

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Wherever their spirit would go, they went along with them.

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For the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

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It describes an object that comes from the mountainside

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and actually disgorges some type of intelligent beings from its interior.

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As for the likenesses, each had the face of a man in front

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or had the face of a great saint.

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The forehead the face of an unforeseen the eagle and the bag.

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In his day and time, quite literally there's nothing unnatural in the sky.

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There are no planes.

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There are no helicopters.

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There are kites.

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There aren't even any balloons.

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And in him was moving it.

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Of living creatures.

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Over the heads of the living creatures, there was the likeness of affirmament shining like crystal.

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And when they went, I heard the sound of their wings.

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Like the sound of many waters.

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Thunder of the old.

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So many of the engineers that have looked at this verse believe that what he's talking about is

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actually landing gear.

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He describes lights running up and down them.

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He describes rings of flashing lights around them.

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And he speaks of a being.

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And speaking to it.

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This were extraterrestrial in nature.

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Why did they appear to Ezekiel?

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Did this initial encounter with Ezekiel lead to some form of mind control,

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which led him to write this very long book of prophecy about the future of Israel

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and about the military and political consequences of what was going to happen in the future.

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I didn't know about concepts that theologians would have to explore

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once the UFO reality were admitted to be real.

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Coming up, Angels.

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Angels.

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God's divine messengers.

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Their ethereal images appear in art and architecture across the millennia.

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And around the globe.

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Mentioned hundreds of times in the Bible, Angels were present at some of the most significant.

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But what are Angels?

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Some U.F. liens are one in the same.

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I would speculate that the Angels of the end of the Quran would possess the same powers and have

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the same capabilities in a supernatural sense as what we would call these occupants of the UFO or

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the extraterrestrials today.

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According to the Bible, Saint Peter, the patriarch of the Catholic Church,

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was saved by an Angel with mysterious abilities.

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To make sure that he stayed where he is supposed to be, he was put in chains in his jail cell.

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And behold, an Angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone.

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And he struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, Get up quickly.

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And the chains fell off his hands.

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Past the unconscious guards.

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When the Angel and Peter left the jail, the gate to the jail then opened on its own accord.

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And they went out and passed on through one street and immediately the Angel.

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Angel got in the jail in the first place.

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The answer might be that the Angel has the ability to go through solid walls.

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And this is sometimes reported in modern UFO cases.

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Terrorists have also looked at other Angelic accounts in the multiple connections to extra

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They found that much like descriptions of alien encounters, Angels are often depicted conveying

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their message through visions and dreams.

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Wood aliens, wood space aliens, use our unconscious mind, our dream life,

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to inform us of their real forms. That's what happens in Matthew 2, certainly.

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Behold, an Angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream.

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Rise, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt.

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Joseph is warned in a dream that he should get out of town quickly because

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Herod is going to try to kill off Jesus.

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Joseph hurried his infant son out of harm's way and Jesus' life was spared.

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A big part of the Judeo-Christian psychic life.

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How much of this is due to the direct intervention of the aliens? We don't know.

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Going back to Abraham in the Old Testament, there's a passage in Genesis and in this deep sleep

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God communicated things to Abraham that he wanted to communicate.

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Though understood to be superhuman, these heavenly creatures were often mistaken to be mere mortals.

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Where three beings come to meet him, he does not know that they are different from any other humans.

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And he does the Middle East thing. He's a very good host. He invites them to stay for food

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and he asks his wife, Sarah, to help with the preparation of this food.

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His visitors see laid some strange abilities.

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Eventually, through conversation, the men say to Abraham that his wife, Sarah, is going to conceive and bear a son.

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Abraham finds this almost impossible to believe.

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His wife, Sarah, who's kind of hanging out around the tent, starts laughing inside herself, not out loud.

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And the three men accuse her of laughing. She denies it.

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But in any case, this implies that they could hear her mind telepathically.

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The question of telepathy is a big issue.

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Telepathy is also a trait often associated with modern UFO expertise.

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But they go away and sure enough, she becomes pregnant.

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And now in retrospect, Abraham realizes he's had what he calls a divine encounter.

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But I think we might now call it an extraterrestrial encounter.

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Within a year, Sarah gave birth to their son, through which the Jewish nation was established.

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One of the things that UFO abduction cases now,

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is that very often the alien beings seem to be interested in the human reproductive process.

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Right here in the story of Abraham and Sarah, we have the Ponson Bald in the reproductive process

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of Abraham and Sarah. And that Isaac is here due to some extraterrestrial intervention.

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So that some of the what you would call extraterrestrial stories in the human race.

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So things are saying.

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Coming up, was it God? Or was it aliens? When Sodom and Gomorrah met their fiery destruction.

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Most of the events in the Bible that UFOlogists ascribe to extraterrestrial intelligence

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have effects that run from the benign, the case as destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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As told in the Bible, the inhabitants of these two sister cities were so debauched

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and sinful that they're earning back their evil ways.

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The only solution, total extermination.

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Then the Lord rained on Sodom and out of heaven.

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And he overthrew those cities.

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Eric Vondanikin presented a different theory about the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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Eric Vondanikin had speculated that Sodom and Gomorrah might have been destroyed by

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extraterrestrials using nuclear weapons. The reason he came to this conclusion is the

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description that Fire and Grimstone came down from the sky.

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It certainly would get the attention of planet Earth pretty fast if we really concluded that

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extraterrestrials had destroyed whole cities because they didn't like them.

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However, there are other theories about the destruction of these cities.

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Some believe the story may have been used as a mythological warning.

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A little reinforce the importance of piety.

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God removed these Sodomites and the citizens of Gomorrah from existence.

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And that's what the text talks about. Fire rained down from heavens and wiped them all out.

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The text tells us that when a human civilization becomes reprobate, they can't be saved.

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The other way to look at Sodom and Gomorrah is that if the towns ever actually existed

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and if those towns were destroyed were almost certainly destroyed by some natural means.

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It's such a metaphor for a religious idea that is man was evil and deserved to be punished for

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his iniquity. Archaeological evidence has emerged that shed some scientific light upon this ancient

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story. Archaeologists in looking at the southeastern plain of the Dead Sea have located approximately

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the right place where we would expect to see cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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The names of these cities called Babadra and Numeria a proof part of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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In Babadra we see that there was broad destruction across the mound.

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Next we find at Numera that there is a layer of ash which can suggest that the city was burnt.

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But the cause of their destruction still cannot be scientifically proven

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and therefore what or who caused it remains open to speculation.

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The bigger issue is whether or not extraterrestrials are so much involved in the development of life

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on earth that they in fact would destroy a whole city or perhaps a whole group of people.

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That the biblical god from another planet may be a radical idea

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but it's possible that modern day theorists aren't the first ones to suppose this extraterrestrial

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angle. In the 15th century artwork portraying biblical see with mysterious saucer shaped objects

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seeming to hover in the sky. I find that the Renaissance artwork itself is very intriguing

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just all by itself. You've got these images of UFOs with the Madonna image and scenes of Jesus

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on the cross and in the background you've got a little black dot or a saucer shaped UFO with

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a dome on it and what these were done 1500 years after the fact.

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Attributes onto those paintings and drawings and artwork they may be hats they may be crockery or

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saucers or other things of that shape but not necessarily flying saucers.

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But more and more people seem to believe that UFOs are real and are alien.

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Even organized religion hasn't completely closed the book on the extraterrestrial possibility.

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Not to be feared and not to be demonized.

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Monsignor Corrado Balducci who's a consultant to the Vatican

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has been on Italian television several times saying that he believes UFOs are real and that

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they are extraterrestrial. If these theories are proven true what might the future hold for western

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religion? Western religion would change completely if extraterrestrials were proved to be real.

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It would change all the stories in the bible and it would change how we thought about the bible

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because a highly technological extraterrestrial may provide some explanations for some of the

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miracles that happen in the bible. Art evidence that either proves or disproves the existence of UFOs.

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Belief in the UFO phenomenon is based mostly on faith much the same basis as a belief in God.

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Giant balls of ice hurtling around the sun, frat house, not my house. For a whole week all will

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be answered as well as the most profound question of all did I really change the world? No really did I?

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