( The
following article doesn’t mean that I believe in “little green men” or
“martians under the bed”. I don’t. It
is included simply because it is food for thought. The bible does say that in
the end times a great deception will come over mankind, so that a lie will be
believed my many people of otherwise reasonably sound minds. Given the
prominence TV programmes and movies having a supernatural/alien theme have
achieved in the last few decades, together with some polls indicating more
people believe in extra terrestrials than Jesus Christ, it’s an article worth
tucking away in the back of one’s brain, in case it one day becomes relevant to
events occurring in the world……. Keygar
)
THE GREAT DECEPTION
by Stephen Yulish PhD
The Apostle Paul wrote to the Church at Ephesus that "Our
struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the
powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces
of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Ephesians 6:12). He also wrote to
the Church at Corinth, "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war
according to the flesh, for the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh,
but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses. We are destroying
speculations and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and
we are taking every thought captive to the obedience of Christ" (2
Corinthians 10:3).
What rulers, what powers, what world forces, what fortresses,
what speculations, what lofty things, what spiritual forces of wickedness in
heavenly places, are we warring against? It is my firm belief that Satan and
all his demonic hordes are preparing to unleash one the greatest deceptions on
mankind that ever has been undertaken. This upcoming deception and wickedness
in the heavenly places will be as a result of Satan's signs and false wonders
for those who will perish because they did not receive the love of the truth so
as to saved ( 2Thess. 2:9-10). God will send on them a deluding spirit so that
they will believe what is false and will be judged (2Thess. 2:11).
What is this great deception? A deception so vast and sinister
that it will envelop the entire world in an instant when the last trumpet blows
and the Lord descends from the clouds to gather up all the righteous dead and
those of us who are alive and are His bride and we will ascend to be with Him
in the air (1Cor. 15:52, 1Thess. 4:16-17). Paul called this event the harpazo
(original Greek), the catching away (1Thess. 4:17). It became raptiere in the
Latin Vulgate and Rapture in English. It is my sincere belief that this
deception will be that those left behind will believe that we who were taken,
and millions will suddenly disappear, were actually abducted by UFOs rather
than have been caught up to be with the Lord in the air. Most people would
rather believe in aliens and UFO abductions than in the power of Jesus Christ
and in His word, the Bible. "The word of the cross is foolishness to those
who are perishing (1 Cor. 1:18). People love conspiracy theories and this
conspiracy of Satan and his minions is the mother of all conspiracies and is in
my humble opinion the truth. Could I be wrong? Absolutely, I could be wrong,
because only God knows what will happen, but after years of study and prayer, I
believe that this scenario is a very real possibility.
Military aviation historian Trevor James Constable once wrote
that the battle with UFOs is not for the planet of man but for the soul of man.
There are no more evolved super intelligent aliens out there. The Bible makes
it clear that man is the highest form of creation, created in the image of God
Himself (Genesis 1:26-27), that He created man for His own glory (Isaiah 43:7),
that man was wonderfully made (Psalm 139:14), that the heavens are the heavens
of the Lord but the earth He has given to the sons of man (Psalm 115:16). We
are told that all things were created by Christ both in heaven and on earth,
the visible and the invisible, thrones and dominions all were created by Him
and for Him (Colossians 1:16). We are told to praise the Lord as are the
angels, the sun and the moon, the stars, because He established all (Psalm
148), And finally we are told that there is only one God and only one mediator
between man and God and that is Jesus Christ (1Timothy 2:5).
Thus we do not need some ET to come and save us from the wrath to
come. We do not need some extraterrestrial savior to redeem a fallen mankind
when we have God's first begotten Son who came to earth and died for our sins
(John 3:16). If any more evolved aliens are ever discovered, than throw away
your Bible because it is false, but don't count on that ever happening. If
these beings ever appear, we will be deceived as to who they really are.
It is amazing that the Bible deals with this popular concept of
extraterrestrial entities interacting with mankind. These so called
extraterrestrial entities, however, are not from another galaxy but are
actually fallen angels from another spiritual dimension who have interacted
with mankind before as they went after the "strange flesh" of human
females and produced fallen offspring, the nephilim (Genesis 6:2-4). Doesn't
this sound similar to modern day accounts of alien impregnations of humans and
hybrid offspring? This is nothing new. This concept is 4000 years old. God
became angry with these rebellious angels and threw them into the pits of hell
forever chained (2Peter 2:4, Jude 6-7) and wiped out their corrupt DNA with the
flood (only Noah and his family were pure- Genesis 6:9). But other of these
fallen demonic angel spirits have reappeared over time (Numbers 13:33) and now
are preparing for Satan's great deception.
How else do you think that it will be explained to the left behind
masses that at the twinkling of an eye, suddenly millions of people have
disappeared, probably leaving their clothes, glasses, jewelry, hearing aides,
pacemakers, contact lenses, artificial hearts, hips, and knees, and even their
tattoos behind (1Cor. 15:53, 2Cor. 5:4). Why do you think that our modern
technological society is so enamored with aliens and UFOs and close encounters
of the third kind? Satan is preparing the masses left behind to believe that we
were taken by aliens in UFOs. Fallen angels have no need for spacecraft but it
is a modality that modern technological man will understand. Yes, there are
"UFOs", unidentified flying objects. Yes, there may have been some
abductions. But these are not aliens from another galaxy interacting with mankind
but fallen angels setting the trap for the one of greatest deceptions in
mankind's history. Satan is the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2)
and his dominions control the skies above us and fill our minds with delusions
and lies.
There is one more piece to this end time deception puzzle. It
also tells us why the harpazo, the Rapture, could not have happened a hundred
years ago. Not only were there no "UFOs" or advanced lighter than air
craft as we see today but there was no modern day Israel. Isn't it interesting
that the famous alleged crash of an alien spacecraft took place at Roswell, NM
in 1947 and Israel once more became a nation in May of 1948? When Israel became
a nation again, Satan knew that his time was short and the Lord would be returning
soon. The countdown to Armageddon had begun in earnest and Satan had to move
quickly to brainwash and deceive the masses to believe in aliens and UFOs. UFO
sightings increased rapidly in the 1950s as did UFO movies and books and
magazines. Project Blue Book was set up by the US air force to try and explain
the phenomena. While the government was trying to hide the truth from the
people to prevent panic, in reality, they were being deceived to believe that
these craft/beings were highly advanced aliens rather than fallen angels bent
on their demise.
Trevor James Constable again was correct that the battle with
UFOs was for the soul of man not the planet of man.
Satan hates the Jewish people because to them belongs the adoption
as sons and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the
temple service and the promises, and whose are the fathers and from whom is the
Christ according to the flesh, who is over all (Romans 9:4-5). God used His
first born chosen people, the Jews, through the Patriarchs, the Prophets and
the Temple, to bring His word and truth to this earth and then sent His Son in
a Jewish body to save the world from its sin and spread this through Jewish
disciples. Satan hates God and His word and thus hates Jews and Christians. I
thus believe that the Rapture (Harpazo) will begin first over Jerusalem and the
site of the Temple Mount. The skies will be filled with UFOs and unbelieving
Jews, Muslims and Gentiles will be deceived to believe that those who suddenly
disappear were abducted by these UFOs.
What a powerful witness it will be, however, when hundreds of
secret Jewish believers from the Israeli government and from Rabbinic,
Orthodox, and Hassidic groups suddenly disappear and leave their prayer shawls
behind. I am weeping as I write this because I know that it will happen. It
happened 2000 years ago and I know that it has happened in this age as well.
"A great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith"
(Acts 6:7).
Satan knows his time is short because Israel has returned to its
land. A land that God gave to Abraham. Isaac and Jacob and their descendants
for an everlasting covenant (Genesis 17:7-8. Judges 2:1, Psalm 105:6-11,
Jeremiah 31:35-37). From the word of God we know that Christ is to return in
His second coming to Israel and a rebuilt Temple (Zechariah 12:10, Daniel 9:27,
2Thess. 2:4). He is not coming to New York City and the UN, or to Rome and the
Vatican, or to Salt Lake City and the Mormons or to Belgium and the EU. Christ
is coming back to Jerusalem, and that is where He and Satan will face off at
the battle of Armageddon (Revelation 16:16). We furthermore know that Jesus
Christ alone will bring peace to that region and to the world (Isaiah 9:6) and
that He will rule and reign there for 1000 years from the rebuilt Temple
(Revelation 20:4). If Satan will be there, then so will his fallen angels and
thus the tie once again between UFOs and Israel.
Satan is currently using the fanatical Muslim jihadists (just as
he formerly used the Catholics of the Crusades and the Inquisition and the
Lutheran Nazis to kill Jews) to try and stop this from happening but he will
never succeed.
He is also bombarding Israel with UFO sightings to set them up
for his upcoming great rapture deception. Believe it or not it all fits
together. The current crisis in the Middle East is a sign that the Lord Jesus
is about to come (Luke 21:28), to catch away his people in the Rapture to
protect them from the wrath to come during the upcoming days of Jacob's Trouble
(Jeremiah 30:7) i.e. Tribulation (Psalm 27:5, Zephaniah 2:3, 1Thess, 1:10, 5:9,
Revelation 3:10). It is also a sign that Satan knows that his time is short and
that the Second Coming of the Lord will occur just seven years after the
Rapture (Daniel 9:27) and so he is trying to deceive as many people as possible
to follow him into the lake of fire for eternity (Revelation 20:10).
During the seven year tribulation period between the Rapture and
the Second Coming, the entire world will become a living hell and the man of
lawlessness (possibly an apostate homosexual Jew with Islamic leanings, (Daniel
11:37) will appear who will exalt himself above every so called god and takes
his seat in the temple of god with the assistance of the fallen angel ETs displaying
himself as being God (2 Thess. 2:3-4). Muslims will be deceived and think that
it is the return of the 12th Mahdi and Jews will think that is their real
Messiah (coming for the first time) but it will actually be the false Messiah,
the antichrist (1John 2:22). See my article Armilus: the Jewish Antichrist.
After the catching away into the clouds of the Christians in the
Rapture and before Christ returns, a confederation of Islamic nations led by
Iran (Persia) and Russia (Gog of Magog) will invade Israel (Ezekiel 38-39) with
a tank armada. America will have already been brought to her knees by terrorist
attacks with WMDs and will not be in a position to help. Isn't it amazing that
thousands of years ago the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel saw an alliance between Iran
and Russia which has only recently materialized?
Beware people of the coming deception. ET's are not aliens from
another galaxy but are fallen angels who will not save you from destruction but
will instead lead you smiling all the way to hell. After the disappearance of
the Christians, a false messiah will come and declare himself to be god, but he
will also lead all who follow him to hell as well.
In my end time novels The Great Harpazo Deception: the real story
of UFOs and Invasion: Israel, I tried to create believable stories of this
upcoming great deception concerning the sudden disappearance of millions of
Christians as well as the horrible period of Tribulation to follow including
earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, famine and the invasion of Israel by Muslim
tanks. While my novels are presently only fiction, I sincerely believe that one
day they may be non fiction truth.
If this does eventually turn out to be the case, then people need
to wake up now and consider seeking after the one and only true God and Savior
of mankind, Jesus Christ, before it is too late and they get left behind to
suffer through the days of wrath to come.
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