"CHRISTIAN" INTEREST IN UFOS
by Blessed Hieromonk Seraphim Rose
A second example of a new phenomenon,
which at first sight one doesn't know what to make of, is the now very common
phenomenon of UFOs, flying saucers.
There is a particular
Protestant evangelist, the above-mentioned Carl McIntire, who is extremely strict
and righteous and very Bible-believing. He has a radio program, the Twentieth-Century
Reformation, and a newspaper. He is absolutely upright—you have to separate
from all people who are in apostasy—and his ideas are very nice. He's anti-communist.
He calls Billy Graham an apostate, together with everyone who deviates from the
strict line of what he thinks is right. From this point of view he's very
strict, and yet you see the strangest things i his philosophy. For example,
he's building himself the Temple of Jerusalem, in Florida. He has a model
of the Temple, and he wants to build it so as to make it compete with Disneyworld.
People will come and pay to see the great Temple which is soon going to be built
for Christ to come to earth. This is supposed to provide a good opportunity
to witness Christianity.
He goes in for the flying saucers,
also. In every issue of his newspaper there's a little column called "UFO
Column," and there they talk, to one's great astonishment, about all the wonderful,
positive things which these flying saucers are doing. The give conferences
and make movies about them.
Just recently there have been
several Protestant books about UFOs, showing quite clearly that they're demons.
The person who writes the column in this newspaper got upset about this, and said
that some people say that these beings are demons, but we can prove they aren't.
He says that maybe a couple of them are demons, but most of them aren't.
He cites a recent case in which some family in the Midwest saw a flying saucer.
The flying saucer came down, landed, and the family saw inside little men—they're
usually four and half feet tall or so—and they sang "Hallelujah." They stopped
and looked and then they flew away; I guess they didn't talk to them any more.
And that set the family to thinking; they began to think "Hallelujah"; they began
to think about Christianity; they looked in their Bibles, and they finally ended
up going to a Fundamentalist church and being converted to Christianity.
Therefore, he says, these beings must be some kind of people who are helping God's
plan to make the world Christian because they said "Hallelujah."
Of course, if you read Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov, you will know about all
the deceptions which the demons perpetrate: the demons "pray" for you, the demons
make miracles, they produce the most wonderful phenomena, they bring people to
church, they do anything you want, as long as they keep you in this deception.
And when the time comes, they will suddenly pull their tricks on you. So
these people, who have been converted to some kind of Christianity by these so-called
outer-space beings, are waiting for the next time they will come; and the next
time their message may have to do with Christ coming to earth again soon, or something
of the sort. It's obvious that this is all the work of demons. That
is, where it's real. Sometimes it's just imagination, but when it's real
this kind of thing obviously comes form demons.
This is
very elementary. If you read any text of the early Fathers, any of the early
Lives of Saints or the Lausiac History, you find many cases where beings
suddenly appear. Nowadays they appear in spaceships because that's how the
demons have adapted themselves to the people of the times; but if you understand
how spiritual deception works and what kind of wiles the devil has, then you have
no problems in understanding what's going on with these flying saucers.
And yet this person who writes the UFO column is an absolutely strict Fundamentalist
Christian. He is looking, actually for new revelations to come from beings
from outer space.
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