"Alien Abductions" Compared to the False Visions and
Terrifying Dreams Caused by Fallen Angels
Part 5
Excerpted
from
"The Bible, Physics
and the Abilities of Fallen Angels: the Alien
Abduction Phenomenon"
by Paradox Brown
Before we get started,
I want to point out that this book is on what I call
“fallen angels” and not on what I would call
“demons”. I
make a distinction between the two, as I think there
is a hierarchy of evil spirits, and some are more
powerful than others.
We see this in
scripture:
Eph 6:12 “For
we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities,
against powers,
against the rulers
of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual
wickedness in
high [places].”
Rom 8:38-39 For I
am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities,
nor powers,
nor things present, nor things to come, Nor
height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall
be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Evil spirit beings are
regularly divided up into types in the Bible.
Some types of evil spirits are more powerful than
others. I am defining “demons” as the less powerful
evil spirits that require gaining influence or
control over a person or animal in order to have any
physical presence. The evil spirits that Jesus and
the disciples cast out of people in New Testament
are the only spirits referred to as “demons”
biblically.
What about the demonic
hierarchy of evil spirits?
I do think that demons
can affect dreams, and it is this kind of dream
which can sometimes cause one to believe they have
experienced an “alien abduction” although there is
no physical evidence left from the experience, as is
the case in other “alien abduction” accounts. These
dreams I would attribute as being caused by evil
spirits of the demon level, or sometimes fallen
angels as well.
Demons also cause
waking oppression. Some contactees and abductees
while awake practice channeling of what they call
“aliens”. This could also be attributed to demons.
Finally, demons, once they have a physical influence
or control over a person’s body, can cause seizures,
illnesses, ailments, and madness, as seen in the
Bible. Some things related to the “alien abduction”
phenomenon may be attributable to demons in this
way.
However, besides these
few things, there are many other parts of the “alien
abduction” experience that simply do not match the
physicality level or powers of demons. They would
require a higher physicality and power, as fallen
angels have.
Dan 10:13 But the
prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one
and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the
chief princes, came to help me; and I remained
there with the kings of Persia.
And I am defining
“fallen angels” as being the more powerful evil
spirits that can have a physical presence that is
not dependant on inhabiting a person or animal’s
body. These are more comparable in abilities to Holy
angels, or to Satan, having comparable abilities,
and of the same or a similar class or as him.
Fallen angels are of
the class referred to in Daniel as the “prince of
the kingdom of Persia”. We read that Gabriel could
not overcome the “Prince of Persia” by himself, but
needed Michael’s assistance. So, in Daniel it is
made clear that some spirits are more powerful than
others.
The distinction having
been made, this book is mainly on fallen angels and
not on demons.
However, I do want to
make a note. I once asked Joe Jordan, the president
of the CE4Research
Group (which
undoubtedly has worked with more alien abductee
cases than any other Christian organization that I
can think of, some 500 cases) what abductees
typically reported to their research group. He
responded that the vast majority, even over 90% of
abductees, usually started out recounting their
experiences with, "I've had these dreams..." And
so the research indicates that there is reason to
think the vast majority of "alien abduction"
experiences have a more dreamlike, and less
physically-real-seeming, quality to them. Of course,
this leaves less than about 10%, of "alien
abduction" experiences in which the abductees have
reported a physically-real-seeming quality to the
experience. Any thorough explanation of the
mechanics of "alien abduction" must of course cover
both types of "alien abduction" experiences. What
follows attempts to be such an explanation, covering
all the many aspects of what has been reported.
There perhaps may be more of an emphasis in this
study of explanation of the more
physically-real-seeming experiences, which is
necessary for a thorough explanation. But please do
make note that the attention given to experiences
with this physically-real-seeming quality in no way
negates that this type of experience is reported by
the research to be the less common sort of
experience.
The
Abilities of Fallen Angels as Described in the Bible
Chapter 1 - Visions and Dreams
To better understand
what these fallen angels can do, we are going to
take a look at the abilities demonstrated by angels
in the Bible. Then
we will compare the abilities of fallen angels as
described in the Bible to modern alien abduction
accounts.
It would make sense that the abilities of fallen
angels would be the same as the abilities of Holy
angels, as God originally made all of them to be
Holy angels, who were capable of carrying out
certain tasks for God. These tasks include giving
messages, through dreams and visions, or delivering
a message while appearing as a man. Though they
usually remain invisible, angels protect people from
harm (Psa 91:11-12). They function as the army of
God (Rev 19:19): they destroyed Sodom (Gen 19),
brought down the wall of Jericho (Josh 5-6), and
smite people (1 Ch 21). God created angels to be
able to do things like these.
Angels can do
miraculous supernatural things, and unfortunately
fallen angels can still do many of these same
things, as they were created with these abilities.
But they use them for evil and deception. As such
we’re going to be looking at examples found in the
Bible of both Holy angels and fallen angels, to
establish what the Bible says are the abilities of
angels in general. In
this we can have a better idea of what fallen angels
can do in general. And also a foundation for better
understanding the activities that fallen angels are
engaged in today, which seems to include “alien
abduction” experiences.
Visions caused by
Angels
Angels can cause what
the Bible refers to as “Visions”.
Dan 10: 1-12 In
the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing
was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called
Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the
time appointed was long: and he understood the
thing, and had understanding of the vision. In
those days I Daniel was mourning three full
weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came
flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint
myself at all, till three whole weeks were
fulfilled. And in the four and twentieth day of
the first month, as I was by the side of the
great river, which is Hiddekel; Then
I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a
certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were
girded with fine gold of Uphaz: His body also
was like the beryl, and his face as the
appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps
of fire, and his arms and his feet like in
colour to polished brass, and the voice of his
words like the voice of a multitude. And I
Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that
were with me saw not the vision; but a great
quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to
hide themselves. Therefore
I was left alone, and saw this great
vision, and there remained no strength
in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into
corruption, and I retained no strength.
Yet heard
I the voice of his words: and when I heard
the voice of his words, then was I in a deep
sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground.
And, behold, an
hand touched me, which
set me
upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands.
And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly
beloved, understand the words that I speak unto
thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now
sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me,
I stood trembling. Then said he unto me,
Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that
thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to
chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were
heard, and I am come for thy words.
What can we observe
from this passage? Daniel calls what he experienced
a “great vision” (Daniel 10:8) which was caused by
an angel. While having this vision:
-
It was real to the bodily
senses: Daniel was in his body, he saw with his
eyes, he heard with his ears, he felt a hand of
an angel touch his body, felt being on his hands
and knees and later standing up, and he felt
bodily trembling
-
The vision Daniel saw was
overlaid on top of the reality everyone else
could see, but others could not see the vision.
(Dan10:7)
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What Daniel saw was unusual,
and even impossible-seeming, such as a face with
the “appearance of lightning”. Also the voice of
the singular being he was seeing sounded like a
multitude of voices.
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Daniel was awake, and not
dreaming, nor in a trance.
Daniel’s body was
still surrounded by objective reality, the river,
the landscape, and the men fleeing from something
they couldn’t see but felt emotionally. The men
could see the river and the landscape. However,
Daniel’s mind was also seeing a vision from an angel
overlaid onto this objective reality, and this
vision that he interacted with felt completely real
to his bodily senses. He saw it, he heard it, and
felt it, yet no one around him could even see it,
though they felt fear.
The Bible confirms that Visions caused by angels are
experienced with the senses, seen with the eyes,
heard with the ears, felt tactilely in the body,
stating it plainly in Eze 40 and 44.
In the visions of
God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set
me upon
a very high mountain, by which [was] as the
frame of a city on the south. And
he brought me thither, and, behold, [there was]
a man, whose appearance [was] like the
appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his
hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the
gate. [angel]
And the man said unto me, Son of man,behold
with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and
set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee;
for to the intent that I might shew [them] unto
thee [art] thou brought hither: declare all that
thou seest to the house of Israel. Eze
40:2-4
Then brought he me the way of the north gate
before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the
glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD:
and I
fell upon my face. And
the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and
behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all
that I say unto thee concerning all the
ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the
laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of
the house, with every going forth of the
sanctuary. Eze
44:3-4
Before going any further, I think it is important to
be able to conceptualize what a Vision is. What
would an experience like this be called in the
present-day world? If a man today claimed to have
seen an angel, which he saw with his eyes, heard
with his ears, touched, and who no one else with him
could see… There are many today who would say he
must have had a “hallucination”. Not only that, but
also a “visual, audio, and tactile hallucination”.
And there are many people today who would say such a
man should see a psychologist or psychiatrist for
help. This would only be more likely if the man
started claiming he was a prophet, and writing down
his experiences, because he thought these
“hallucinations” were important enough that God
wanted them recorded to be shared with posterity.
Then he might really be labeled as “crazy” and
locked away. But this would all be the case only
because much of the world today rejects that God
exists, that angels exist, and rejects that angels
have supernatural abilities and can interact with
mankind.
A hallucination is defined as:
“a sensory
experience of something that does not exist
outside the mind, caused by various physical and
mental disorders, or by reaction to certain
toxic substances, and usually manifested as
visual or auditory images.”
-Dictionary.com
“a sensory
perception that does not result from an external
stimulus and that occurs in the waking state. It
can occur in any of the senses and is classified
accordingly as auditory, gustatory, olfactory,
tactile, or visual. It is a symptom of psychotic
behavior, often noted during schizophrenia, as
well as of other mental or organic disorders and
conditions.”
–Mosby’s
Medical Dictionary
Inherit in the
definition of a “hallucination” is the forgone
conclusion that it is “not a result of external
stimulus” (like an angel), it “does not exist
outside the mind” objectively (like angels or the
spiritual side to reality itself), and it is “caused
by various physical and mental disorders” and is a
“symptom of psychotic behavior”.
The difference between a Vision and a hallucination
is that a Vision IS a result of external stimulus,
namely angels, who are an external stimulus that do
exist outside of the mind, and a Vision is not
caused by a physical or mental disorder, nor is it a
symptom of psychotic behavior.
But like a hallucination, a Vision is a sensory
experience, like Daniel is described to have had.
Of course, differentiating between a “hallucination”
and a “Vision” is entirely a matter of if one can
prove as to whether the sensory experience was
caused by an angel or not caused by one. It is hard
to prove that a “hallucination” was not caused by
external stimulus when that external stimulus could
be an angel, who stays invisible and does not
declare their presence. In
fact, one could just as easily assume that all
“hallucinations” are actually caused by angels (holy
or fallen) and are therefore Visions, as one could
assume that all Visions are not caused by any
external stimuli (but rather from some physical or
mental disorder) and are therefore “hallucinations”.
As to which is which, the deciding factor is all a
matter of personal spiritual beliefs, bias, and very
subjective personal interpretation of the
experience.
But for Christians, the Bible is full of many
examples of Visions caused by angels. And Visions in
the Bible have quite a bit of variety to them, for
instance some happen while awake, and some happen
while in a trance state. An example of a Vision had
during a trance is in Acts 10:9-17.
On the morrow, as
they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto
the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to
pray about the sixth hour: And he became very
hungry, and would have eaten: but while they
made ready, he fell
into a trance, And saw heaven
opened, and a certain vessel descending upon
him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the
four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein
were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the
earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and
fowls of the air. And there
came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and
eat. But Peter
said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten
any thing that is common or unclean. And the
voice spake unto him again the
second time, What God hath cleansed, that call
not thou common. This was done thrice: and the
vessel was received up again into heaven. Now
while Peter doubted in himself what thisvision which
he had seen should
mean, behold, the men which were sent from
Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house,
and stood before the gate.
Observations on this
passage:
-
Peter had this “vision” in a
“trance”, while awake, and not asleep. The
“trance” is not described as “dreaming”. It
seems likely that those preparing for lunch who
were with Peter saw Peter in this trance state.
However, this trance state is not described as
“dreaming”. Peter was awake, and not asleep,
though in a trance state.
-
Peter observed being in his
body - this is implied by him being able to
optionally “rise, kill, and eat”. Peter also is
seeing with his eyes, and hearing with his ears.
-
Peter, like Daniel, sees
unusual or impossible-seeming things.
During this trance
Peter experiences what the Bible calls a ‘vision’ (“horama”
Strong’s 3705). Earlier in Acts 10:3, Cornelius also
receives a “horama” vision, specified to be caused
by an angel. Later, in Acts 12, Peter is unsure
whether or not he is having another vision, when an
angel is present: “Peter
followed him (an angel) out of the prison, but he
had no idea that what the angel was doing was really
happening; he thought he was seeing a vision” Acts
10:9 NIV
These Visions (which
communicate a message) are Biblically associated as
being caused by angels, as Holy angels are God’s
messengers; the Greek word aggelos meaning
“messenger”. Many times angels give messages from
God by causing dreams or visions.
The word above in Acts
10 for ‘trance’ is “ekstasis” (1611 in the
Strong’s). The second definition is “a throwing of
the mind out of its normal state, alienation of
mind, whether such as makes a lunatic or that of a
man who by some sudden emotion is transported as it
were out of himself, so that in this rapt condition,
although he is awake, his mind is drawn off from all
surrounding objects and wholly fixed on things
divine that he sees nothing but the forms and images
lying within, and thinks that he perceives with his
bodily eyes and ears realities shown him by God.”
So, even the Strong’s
Concordance defines this trance as an experience in
the mind, which is perceived with “bodily eyes and
ears”, or in other words is real to the bodily
senses. In Peter’s case, he describes that he
perceived hearing with his ears, seeing with his
eyes, and speaking with his mouth. This indicates he
perceived himself as being in his body, experiencing
something which seemed real to all the bodily
senses. However, it is implied that those around
Peter perceived him as being in a trance state.
Peter might not have known he had been in a trance,
but may have just thought he had been awake, if
there had not been other people around that saw him
in a trance.
Another instance of a
vision, which was also likely facilitated by a Holy
angel messenger (Se Rev 1, 1:1) happened to Paul and
the men with him in Acts 9 (related again in Acts
22).
And as he
journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly
there shined round about him a light from
heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a
voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou,
Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou
persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against
the pricks. And he trembling and astonished
said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And
the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the
city, and it shall be told thee what thou must
do. And the men which journeyed with him stood
speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.
And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes
were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by
the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
-Acts 9:3-8
And it came to
pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come
nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there
shone from heaven a great light round about me.
And I fell unto the ground, and heard a voice
saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou
me? And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he
said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou
persecutest. And they that were with me saw
indeed the light, and were afraid; but they
understood not the voice of him that spake to
me. And I said, What shall I do, LORD? And the
Lord said unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus;
and there it shall be told thee of all things
which are appointed for thee to do. And when I
could not see for the glory of that light, being
led by the hand of them that were with me, I
came into Damascus.
-Acts 22:6-11
Observations on these
passages:
-
Paul and the men saw the
light, though no one saw to whom the voice which
was speaking belonged.
-
Paul saw the glory of the
light, and it was so intense he was blinded by
it, but the men with him did not even see it in
the same intense way he did.
-
Paul heard and understood the
voice that was speaking
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The men heard the voice that
was speaking, but did not understand it
In this case the
vision was waking. What is most interesting is that
the vision was experienced in one way by Paul, and
in another, more limited way, by the men with him.
This implies that it is possible for a group of
people to experience the same vision. Yet, this case
also shows that one person can see A but another
person can see B, even while they are both having a
shared Vision.
So it seems an angel could cause several people to
have a Vision at the same time, but each person
might see something different, still experiencing it
with their bodily senses, but differently for each
person.
Dreams Caused by
Angels
Besides Visions, the Bible teaches that angels can
also cause dreams, such as seeing an angel in a
dream, as is in the case of Joseph the husband of
Mary, surrogate father of Jesus Christ:
Matt 1:20 But
while he thought on these things, behold, the
angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream,
saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to
take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is
conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Matt 2:13 And
when they were departed, behold, the
angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream,
saying, Arise, and take the young child and his
mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there
until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the
young child to destroy him.
The Bible also gives
an example that some experiences may be a mix
between a dream and a vision, but happen when one is
asleep in one’s bed. “In
a dream,
in a vision of
the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in
slumberings upon the bed” Job
33:15
The
Abilities of Fallen Angels as Described in the Bible
Chapter 2 - Physical Manifestations, and Physical
Interactions During Visions
Physical Interactions with Angels
Besides Dreams and Visions, the Bible teaches that
angels can also interact with people physically, in
ways that leave physical effects afterwards.
Acts 12:5-12,
18-19
Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer
was made without ceasing of the church unto God
for him. And when Herod would have brought him
forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between
two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the
keepers before the door kept the prison. And,
behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and
a light shined in the prison: and he smote
Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying,
Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from
his hands. And the angel said unto him, Gird
thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And so he did.
And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about
thee, and follow me. And he went out, and
followed him; and
wist not that it was true which was done by the
angel; but thought he saw a vision. When
they were past the first and the second ward,
they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto
the city; which opened to them of his own
accord: and they went out, and passed on through
one street; and forthwith the angel departed
from him. And when Peter was come to himself, he
said,
Now I know of a surety, that the LORD hath
sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the
hand of Herod, and from all the expectation
of the people of the Jews. And when he had
considered the thing, he came to the house of
Mary the mother of John, whose surname was Mark;
where many were gathered together praying. ….
Now as soon as it was day, there was no small
stir among the soldiers, what was become of
Peter. And when Herod had sought for him, and
found him not, he examined the keepers, and
commanded that they should be put to death. And
he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there
abode.
In this case an angel
is sent to free Peter from Herod’s prison. At first
Peter thinks he is experiencing a vision, but soon
realizes these events have truly taken place. Peter
had visions before, and his confusion proves the
point that visions
are real to the bodily senses - as real as objective
reality - which
is why Peter was not sure if what was happening was
a vision or not.
But the events were physically real and did take
place in objective reality.
The angel materialized
in a physical way and caused lasting physical
changes in objective reality. Other people, such as
the guards, Herod, and Peter’s friends, were all
affected by these lasting physical changes to
objective reality, in the angel rescuing Peter from
prison.
Not only that, but the
angel was able to defy physics in objective reality,
or seem to have supernatural powers, by doing things
such as causing a light to shine, chains to fall
off, likely opening what was a locked gate, and
moving a very heavy door with apparently
supernatural strength, as well as appearing and
disappearing seemingly out of nowhere.
Another example of
angels appearing physically and leaving physical
effects is Gen 19:
Gen 19:1-7, 10-13,
24-28
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and
Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing
them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself
with his face toward the ground; And he said,
Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into
your servant's house, and tarry all night, and
wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and
go on your ways.
And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the
street all night. And he pressed upon them
greatly; and they turned in unto him, and
entered into his house; and he made them a
feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they
did eat. But before they lay down, the men of
the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the
house round, both old and young, all the people
from every quarter: And they called unto Lot,
and said unto him, Where are the men which came
in to thee this night? bring them out unto us,
that we may know them. And Lot went out at the
door unto them, and shut the door after him, And
said, I pray you, brethren, do not so
wickedly….But the men put forth their hand, and
pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to
the door. And they smote the men that were at
the door of the house with blindness, both small
and great: so that they wearied themselves to
find the door. And the men said unto Lot, Hast
thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons,
and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in
the city, bring them out of this place: For
we will destroy this place, because the cry
of them is waxen great before the face of the
LORD; and
the LORD hath sent us to destroy it…Then the
LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
And he overthrew those cities, and all the
plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities,
and that which grew upon the ground. But his
wife looked back from behind him, and she became
a pillar of salt. And Abraham gat up early in
the morning to the place where he stood before
the LORD: And he looked toward Sodom and
Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain,
and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country
went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Some observations: All
of the men of the city could see the angels, not
just Lot. The angels caused all the men who were
harassing Lot to become blind. The angels likely
turned Lot’s wife into a pillar of salt. The angels
also destroyed the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, and
Abraham was able to observe the smoke from the
city’s destruction from far away. Today some people
(see arkdiscovery.com) say they have found the
destroyed city, and no doubt some evidence of this
angelic event remains to this day, somewhere.
In the case of Sodom
and Gomorrah the angels were seen by men and
interacted with them. These angels appeared looking
as human men. However, angels can also interact with
objective reality without being seen, and remaining
invisible, as is seen in Job.
Job 1:12-19 And
the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he
hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not
forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the
presence of the LORD. And
there was a day when his sons and his daughters
were eating and drinking wine in their eldest
brother's house: And there came a messenger unto
Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the
asses feeding beside them: And the Sabeans fell
upon them, and took them away; yea, they have
slain the servants with the edge of the sword;
and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While
he was yet speaking, there came also another,
and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven,
and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants,
and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone
to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there
came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made
out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and
have carried them away, yea, and slain the
servants with the edge of the sword; and I only
am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet
speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy
sons and thy daughters were eating and drinking
wine in their eldest brother's house: And,
behold, there came a great wind from the
wilderness, and smote the four corners of the
house, and it fell upon the young men, and they
are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell
thee.
In this case God
effectively removed a “hedge of protection” around
Job and allowed everything but Job’s life to be put
“into Satan’s hands” (Job 1:12). Satan then inspired
people to kill Job’s servants, caused a fire from
heaven to come down and kill his sheep and servants,
and caused a great wind to demolish a house on top
of Job’s children, killing them all. Though Satan
was invisible in all of these events, nevertheless
the events Satan caused occurred in objective
reality, and there were multiple witnesses to the
physical effects of what had occurred.
Another lasting effect
angels can cause is physical illness or injury, is
seen in Acts and in Job:
Acts 12:21-23 And
upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel,
sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto
them. And the people gave a shout, saying, It is
the voice of a god, and not of a man. And
immediately the angel of the Lord smote him,
because he gave not God the glory: and he was
eaten of worms, and died.
In this case in Acts
the angel was invisible, at least his public
appearance to the crowd is not recorded, and the
angel caused a physical ailment resulting in death
to the body of a person.
Job 2:6-7 And the
LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine
hand; but save his life. So went Satan forth
from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job
with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto
his crown.
In Job, the angel
Satan was invisible, but in objective reality he
caused real and visible injury/disease to Job’s
body, and Job was ill for some time, until God set
things right.
In the case of fallen
angels, such as the fallen cherubim Satan, we also
know that they can appear looking like holy angels
(who look like men).
And no marvel; for
Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
light. 2
Cor 11:13
Holy angels are of the
messenger-type of angel, who look like men, though
sometimes glowing with light. Satan who is a
cherubim (with 4 faces, 3 of animals, and 4 wings)
can transform himself to appear as looking like a
Holy messenger-type angel, like a man and glowing
with light. And of course fallen messenger-type
angels, who already look like men, can do this all
the more easily.
Observations on
Physical Interactions with angels:
1. There can be multiple witnesses of angels who
appear looking like men
2. There can be multiple witnesses to lasting
physical effects caused by angels, including
illnesses, injury, and death
3. There can be supernatural occurrences that seem
to defy physics, in objective reality
4. Generally reality follows normal physical laws,
except for the actions of the angels
5. Physical effects can also be caused by angels
that, though present, remain invisible
6. Fallen angels can appear looking like holy
angels, who look like men, sometimes glowing
So far we have covered
that the Bible teaches that angels can interact with
people by the methods of Visions, Dreams, and can
interact with people physically either while
appearing as men, or while remaining invisible. The
Bible also teaches that there can be limited
physical interactions during a Vision that seem to
combine or merge with the Vision experience itself.
These limited physical interactions can leave
physical effects that remain after the Vision is
over.
Visions Caused by Angels Can Include Limited
Physical Interactions Which Can Leave Physical
Aftereffects
Let’s look at an example from the book of
Revelation. The entire book of Revelation contains a
very long and detailed Vision given to John by a
Holy angel, even though some of the terminology
seems a little different at first glance,
Rev 17:3 So he
carried me away in the spirit into
the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a
scarlet coloured beast, full of names of
blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 21:10 And he
carried me away in the spirit to
a great and high mountain, and shewed me that
great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out
of heaven from God,
In these examples John
says that “he carried me away in the spirit”. The
“he” that is referenced here is an angel of the
Lord, a messenger of Jesus Christ, and
this is
established in Rev 22:8-9
And I John saw
these things, and heard [them]. And when I had
heard and seen, I fell down to worship before
the feet of the
angel which shewed me these things. Then
saith he unto me, See [thou do it] not: for I am
thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the
prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of
this book: worship God.
From these passages,
we know that all the things John experienced in the
Vision were caused by a Holy angel. An angel can
“carry someone away in the spirit”, but this term is
synonymous with someone having a Vision caused by an
angel. We can know the term is synonymous because
John also makes clear that all of this was a Vision:
And thus I saw
the horses in
the vision, and them that sat on them,
having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and
brimstone: and the heads of the horses [were] as
the heads of lions; and out of their mouths
issued fire and smoke and brimstone. Rev
9:17
Altogether, the entire
imagery John recorded in the book of Revelation was
caused by an angel of the Lord showing John these
things in a Vision. Also, the
same phrases are used in Eze 11:24,
"Afterwards the
spirit took me up, and brought
me in a vision by the Spirit of
God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So
the vision that
I had seen went up from me."
And so if one is "in
the spirit", then the Bible indicates that one is
having a Vision.
What John experienced
was real to all the bodily senses, even including
taste, and internal feeling in his stomach, as John
perceived he was experiencing all this bodily. John
ate a scroll which was part of the vision, tasted
it, and it was “bitter to his stomach”.
And I took the
little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it
up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and
as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. Rev
10:10
In this Vision caused
by a Holy angel, John was writing down what he saw
and heard throughout his entire experience on a
piece of paper.
Saying, I am Alpha
and Omega, the first and the last: and, What
thou seest, write in a book, and send [it]
unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto
Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and
unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto
Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea…Write the
things which thou hast seen, and the things
which are, and the things which shall be
hereafter; Rev
1:11,19
And when the seven thunders had uttered their
voices, I was about to write: and I heard
a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up
those things which the seven thunders uttered, and
write them not. Rev
10:4
John did not write
down the Vision experience after it had ended, but
while it was ongoing. What is astounding is that
this paper remained with him after the experience
had ended. Whether John was given the paper to write
on and the writing instrument during the Vision, or
if John carried these things into the experience and
out of the experience later, is unknown. But in
either case, John took the paper out of the Vision
with him, which he had written on during the Vision,
and so a greater level of lasting physical effects
is shown here than in most Visions.
This example establishes that the Bible teaches an
angel can cause a person to have a Vision which
leaves minor physical effects or traces, like the
scroll John recorded the Vision on, or even bodily
effects, even internal bodily effects like his
stomach becoming bitter. The Bible also teaches that
angels can have physical interactions with people
that can include causing people bodily injuries or
illness. As Visions can include limited physical
interactions with angels that leave physical
aftereffects, it makes sense that Visions could
possibly include physical aftereffects of injuries
or illness as well.
The Abilities of Fallen Angels as Described in the
Bible Chapter 3 – Visions: Time Perception
Manipulation, Extreme Realness, and Wide Variety of
Possible Content
Visions Caused by Angels Can
Manipulate a Person’s Perception of Time
A Vision also may include elements of a fallen angel
manipulating a person’s perception of time. Another
angelic encounter in a passage with similar
terminology to “carried me away” uses the phrase
“took him up”. These may be synonymous terms. This
experience caused by an angel (Satan) was likely
also a Vision experience.
And the
devil took him up, to a high mountain, and
showed him all the kingdoms of the world in
a moment of time. Luke
4:5
Compare
And he carried me away in the spirit, to
a great and high mountain, and shewed me that
great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out
of heaven from God. Rev
21:10
The Greek word here
for ‘moment’ is “stigme” (4743) which literally
means a “point” of time. This word is used only once
in the New Testament, but is used in the Greek Old
Testament, the Septuagint, in Isaiah 29:5. The word
that is translated as “stigme” is “petha`” (6621) in
Hebrew. According to Thayer’s Lexicon, “petha” means
“the opening of the eyes”, hence the meaning “a
moment of time”. The amount of time referenced to
here is the amount of time it takes to open your
eyes. This is no more than the time it would take to
blink. It takes a human about 300 to 400
milliseconds to blink; that is 3/10ths to 4/10ths of
1 second.
How could Jesus see
“all the kingdoms of the world” in the time it takes
to blink? Or even in one full second? It would seem
that to be shown all the kingdoms of the world
should take at least a couple hours, if not days, if
a thorough tour was done. But even snapshot pictures
in quick succession would take a couple minutes, and
this without any time to really think about what one
was seeing. And so the necessary amount of time to
be shown all the kingdoms of the world is still
incredibly more than 3/10ths of a second, or even
one full second.
This passage implies
that one second passed in time, but Jesus
experienced subjectively a much longer period of
time than one second during that one second. And so
it’s possible that there can be time perception
manipulation in a Vision caused (in particular) by a
fallen angel. There is another example in the Bible
of something similar on a greater scale, during
Joshua’s Long Day.
Then spake Joshua
to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered
up the Amorites before the children of Israel,
and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand
thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the
valley of Ajalon. And the sun stood still, and
the moon stayed, until the people had avenged
themselves upon their enemies. Is not this
written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood
still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to
go down about a whole day. And there was no day
like that before it or after it, that the LORD
hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD
fought for Israel. Josh
10:12-14
This passage could be
interpreted as to mean that God can pause the
progress of time forward, that the clock is paused,
but people still can do things while forward-moving
time is paused. God seemed to be able to do this to
the whole world, a large scale, as the sun stood
still in the sky. Because the sun stood still in the
sky, if time was being manipulated here (not the
earth’s rotation), then this was a case of
forward-moving time being paused, and not a case of
time travel. Yet while forward-moving time was
paused, in that moment time in substance still
seemed present, and in a way that still allowed
people to interact and do things.
The angels are called “sons of God” or “gods” at
times, and in this it seems they may be able to
cause someone to perceive something similar on a
very limited scale. The effect is that of a longer
period of time being experienced during a much
shorter period of time. But the only Biblical
example of an angel doing this seems to be the
fallen angel Satan doing this to Jesus alone, during
what was very likely a Vision that Satan was causing
Jesus to have. As a Vision, this was a spiritual
experience that only affected the person having the
Vision, and not everyone else in physical reality.
The only Biblical example of a fallen angel being
able to add time like this, is during a Vision the
fallen angel is causing someone to have. But there
is no indication or Biblical example that angels can
do this on a larger scale like God Himself can do.
This makes sense as God made time (Gen 1:1), and is
outside of it eternally. Only He is “the alpha and
the omega the beginning and the end” (Rev 21:6,
22:13) and only God knows the end from the beginning
(showing that angels cannot time travel):
Remember the
former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there
is] none else; [I am] God, and [there is]
none like me, Declaring the end from the
beginning, and from ancient times [the things]
that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel
shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: Isa
46:9-10
Angels and Fallen
angels are still only created beings who experience
linear time as we do, caught in the flow of time
moving forward.
But the
prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one
and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of
the chief princes, came to help me; and I
remained there with the kings of Persia. Dan
10:13
Therefore rejoice, [ye] heavens, and ye that
dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the
earth and of the sea! for the
devil is
come down unto you, having great wrath, because he
knoweth that he hath but a short time. Rev
12:12
And so while a fallen
angel may be able to cause a person to perceive
extra time in a Vision, while linear time seems to
be paused, there is no indication that fallen angels
can do this on a larger scale like God can. He is
God who made time, and angels are just created
beings who exist caught in the flow of time. And as
this could be confusing, I hope that it has been
made clear that this does not have anything to do
with the science fiction concept of time travel,
which in fact the Bible indicates that fallen angels
cannot do, and is not possible.
However, the Bible does seem to indicate that a
longer time can be condensed into a shorter time,
like time itself has a second aspect or dimension to
it.
But, beloved, be
not ignorant of this one thing, that one day
[is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a
thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise, as some men count
slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not
willing that any should perish, but that all
should come to repentance. 2
Pet 3:8-9
A thousand of our
years can seem a short time to God, who is eternal.
A thousand years for us doesn’t seem like a long
time to Him, but rather a thousand of our years
seems to Him like a day would for us. But also, just
one of our days, as perceived by Him, would seem to
us to stretch on and on like it was taking a
thousand years, from our perspective. This may be as
in a single one of our days, the Lord is so busy and
with so much to do, that it would take us a thousand
years to get as much done. It might take us a
thousand years to get as much done as He does in a
day. This may refer to what it is like, that He
hears all of our prayers, and intercedes for all of
us,
"Who [is] he that
condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea
rather, that is risen again, who is even at the
right hand of God, who
also maketh intercession for us." Rom
8:34
All over the world,
Jesus Christ intercedes for, and hears the prayers
of millions of people, a multi-tasking of an
incomprehensible sort. A solution in understanding
this may be that a longer period of time can be
condensed down into a shorter period. Time itself is
a thing that was created by God, and may have been
designed in such a way as to allow for this. But
again, this is another Biblical example that a
longer period of time can seem to be condensed into
a shorter period of time. Time perception
manipulation caused by the fallen angel Satan
followed along these lines in the Vision he seemed
to cause Jesus to have in Luke 4:5. And so the only
sort of time manipulation that there is any Biblical
precedent for is: time perception manipulation of
adding time into a paused moment. Fallen angels seem
to be able to do this in a limited way, and by the
only example of this in the Bible, it seems they
only can do this in a Vision they cause a person to
experience.
A Vision
Caused by an Angel Can Seem So Real As to be
Indistinguishable from Reality
Peter couldn’t tell if
something was real or a Vision, and so in Acts
mistook reality for a Vision, because Visions can
seem so indistinguishably real.
Peter followed him
(an angel) out of the prison, but he had no idea
that what the angel was doing was really
happening; he thought he was seeing a vision” Acts
10:9
There is a second
witness to this by Paul. I believe in this example
the Bible speaks on the difficulty of the confusion
in telling one from the other, with guidance on how
we should handle that difficulty.
It is not
expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come
to visions and
revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ
above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body,
I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I
cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught
up to
the third heaven. And I knew such a man,
(whether in the body, or out of the body, I
cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught
up into
paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it
is not lawful for a man to utter. 2
Corinthians 12:1-4
The word here for
"caught up" is "harpazo", and the same word is used
in Acts 8:39 when "the Spirit of the Lord caught
away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more". And
so being "caught up" does happen to be a term that
can refer to the Holy Spirit moving someone to a new
place, bodily. It is used in reference to Jesus'
ascension (Rev 12:5) and to believers being caught
up into the air to be with the Lord (1 Thes 4:17).
And so this word seems to reference more to people
being transported by God bodily.
But on the other hand, Paul also makes it very clear
that he cannot tell if the man was caught up ‘in his
body’ to the third heaven, or caught up ‘out of his
body’ to the third heaven. To understand what Paul
means here by “out of the body”, we have to look to
earlier in this same book, in 2 Cor 5:4-9, where
Paul says,
"We are confident,
[I say], and willing rather to be absent from
the body, and to be present with the Lord." In
this case Paul references to one whose body is
dead, and so their spirit is with the Lord. Paul
defines the term "out of the body" to mean one
is "in spirit".
And so in 2 Cor 12
Paul references back to 2 Cor 5, saying he did not
know if the man was "out of his body" which is
another way to say "in spirit". Putting this
together what Paul says is that he doesn't know if
the man was caught up to the third heaven in his
body, or in his spirit. The
word “harpazo” and term “caught up” is rather
synonymous with “carried away” or “taken up”, and
these are terms which are both used of Visions
caused by angels. And indeed, in this passage Paul
is referencing to “visions and
revelations of the Lord”.
In 2 Cor 5 Paul is saying that he doesn’t know if
this man was caught up bodily to the third heaven,
or if the man was caught up in the spirit to the
third heaven in a Vision caused by a Holy angel.
Many people think Paul was referring to himself in
this passage, though this also may have been a story
he heard in detail from whoever experience it. In
any case, Paul couldn’t figure out if the experience
happened bodily, or was a Vision in the spirit. The
reason why Paul couldn’t figure out which was the
case is because a Vision experience seems so real
that it can be indistinguishable from reality.
2 Cor 12 is telling us that it can be impossible to
tell by the bodily senses if something was a
physical bodily experience, or if it just seemed to
be and was a Vision in the spirit. However, as much
as Paul admits he does not know if this man was
caught up to the third heaven in his body or in his
spirit, Paul also makes it very clear that God
knows. This means only God has the answers, for
instance in His Word, and through His Holy Spirit.
We cannot tell with our bodily senses alone whether
an experience was in the body, or a Vision, but God
can tell. While people sometimes can’t figure out
whether an experience was real or a Vision, God can
reveal the truth about an experience to those who
ask Him.
If a person is
“carried away in the spirit” while having a vision
caused by an angel,
does this mean that a person's spirit leaves their
body?
No. The
Bible indicates that a person who is having a
Vision, taken in the spirit, actually never leaves
their body. Daniel had "visions
of his head upon his bed" and
in the middle of the vision "was
grieved in my spirit in the midst of [my] body, and
the visions of my head troubled me." (Dan
7:1,15) And so we can see that while Daniel had
Visions, in his spirit, that this was all in the
midst of his own body (no matter where he seemed to
be, or what he saw) and that the Visions he
experienced were of his head, which is part of his
body. Not only that, but all of these Visions Daniel
had took place while he
never left his bed. Note that part of this
vision included Daniel seeing the "Ancient of Days",
likely on His throne, which would be in the third
heaven.
Even though a person may seem to be somewhere else,
they actually are only "carried in the spirit" in
the "midst of their body”. The Visions are of their
head, in their spirit, which is in their body. So
the Bible indicates their spirit never leaves their
body, but they have the Vision experience in their
spirit, and their spirit remains inside of their
body.
Visions
Caused by Angels Can Contain Just About Anything
Visions can include
settings or landscapes of just about any place, be
about anything, and can include anyone or anything
as a character in the Vision, and can include
perception of travel.
Daniel had a Vision that occurred where he stood by
the River Chaldea. Peter had a Vision while on the
housetop where he was, of the housetop, though he
was in a trance. So Visions can be of places that
are a person’s normal surroundings. John had a
Vision where he saw heaven, as did Isaiah (Isa 6)
and Daniel (Dan 7), and so a Vision could be of
Heaven.
Ezekiel saw a Vision of Jerusalem, of the temple,
which was a real place. Ezekiel also had a Vision of
a valley full of bones, and when the bones came to
life into an army, this was not of something taking
place in an actual valley somewhere (Eze 37). And so
Visions can be of real places or invented places.
Even if the valley was a real valley somewhere, what
Ezekiel saw was not actually taking place in that
valley. Though, what Ezekiel saw in Jerusalem was
taking place there. So Visions can be of things that
are happening somewhere, or of things that are not
actually happening somewhere (but are symbolic, and
of truth being taught only in the case of visions
from Holy angels).
Ezekiel experienced the perception of travel in a
Vision (Eze 8, Eze 40), and Daniel seemed to be near
a great sea in his Vision (Dan 7) and so Visions can
seem to include travel or being in a different
location. But Daniel makes clear he didn’t go
anywhere during his Visions, but was in his bed
while he had them.
Ezekiel saw people in the Vision of the valley of
bones. John saw people in his Vision of Revelation,
as well as strange looking locust creatures, angels,
a dragon, a strange beast with seven heads and the
body parts of various animals. The characters in a
Vision could be in the forms of people, real or not,
angels, animals that exist, and strange creatures
that don’t exist. But like an artist can draw a
cartoon of about anything, or any place, so can an
angel cause a Vision to contain just about any
landscape or characters.
What is
seen in a Vision can vary wildly and be of just
about anything. During a Vision a person may see
angels, people, entities, living creatures,
landscapes of strange places, or of familiar ones,
as well as perceiving they experience travel to
various places. Yet all of this is just part of the
Vision caused by the angel, and the Bible teaches,
like Daniel, that people don’t actually go anywhere,
regardless of what they perceive during a Vision.
The
Abilities of Fallen Angels as Described in the Bible
Chapter 4 -
Summary of Visions, and False Visions Caused by
Fallen Angels
The Bible summarily teaches several things about
Visions caused by angels:
1. A Vision can seem totally real to a single bodily
sense (like sight) or to all of the bodily senses,
and a person’s self-perception is usually that they
are in their body.
2. A Vision can affect one person or multiple
people, though they may perceive it differently
3. A Vision can occur in a waking state, or in a
trance state
4. A Vision can be causes by a visible angel, or an
invisible angel
5. A Vision can involve some physical effects that
remain afterwards, such as objects that remain with
a person, and bodily effects, even internal ones.
6. A Vision can involve manipulation of a person’s
perception of time, like an hour in a minute.
7. A Vision can contain just about any landscape, or
any sort of characters, and can seem to involve
travel, even though the person doesn’t actually go
anywhere
8. A Vision can seem so real to the bodily senses
that it is indistinguishable from reality, even in
the case of people who are experienced with Visions,
though God knows and can reveal the truth
This level of power in the hands of fallen angels is
staggering to conceptualize. I thank God that they
are limited in what they can do, and who they can do
it to, by God’s laws of spiritual authority grounds.
A fallen angel can only attack someone if they have
spiritual authority grounds and rights to do so. God
places a “hedge of protection” around people,
limiting whom the fallen angels can harass and harm,
and limiting the level of harassment and the extent
of the harm that they can do to a person. (See Job 1
and 2, also the New Testament is full of this
concept. This also involves the concept of spiritual
warfare, see Resources at end for further
information.) It is also a relief to know that for
every fallen angel, there are 2 Holy angels working
for God and Jesus; and so the fallen angels are
outnumbered two to one. Additionally Jesus Christ
assures believers in Him:
Behold, I give
unto you power to tread on serpents and
scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy:
and nothing shall by any means hurt you. Luke
10:19
False Dreams and False Visions caused by Fallen
Angels
We have covered
Visions that were had by people who were prophets,
or those with the gift of the Holy Spirit of
prophecy, such as Daniel, John, Ezekiel, Peter and
Paul. Even in the case of Joseph having a dream of
an angel, telling him to flee to Egypt, this also
was a prophetic warning given by a Holy angel. When
Holy angels cause people to have a dream or a Vision
they are delivering a message, but often these
messages are classified by the Bible as "prophecy"
and those who have them as "prophets".
In the Bible, prophecy is heavily associated with a
person having dreams or Visions. And as we have
established, dreams and Visions can be caused by
Holy angels, who are God's messengers.
“And it shall come
to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour
out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons
and your daughters shall prophesy,
and your young men shall see visions,
and your old men shall dream dreams” Acts
2:17
“And he said, Hear
now my words: If there be a prophet among
you, [I] the LORD will make myself known unto
him in a vision,
[and] will speak unto him in a dream.” Num
12:6
And so a person who
has a dream or a Vision caused by a Holy angel is
classified by the Bible as a prophet. And while an
angel delivers a message to the prophet, the prophet
in turn delivers the message on to other people. The
Strong's definition of prophet is a "spokesman,
speaker", and to prophesy is to " a) be under the
influence of a divine spirit" or to be "b) a false
prophet".
The Bible also
mentions false prophets. True prophets have true
Visions that are caused by Holy angels sent by God.
But the Bible teaches that false prophets have False
Visions and Vain Visions.
“Have ye not seen
a vain
vision, and have ye not spoken a lying
divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith
[it]; albeit I have not spoken? Therefore thus
saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken
vanity, and seen lies, therefore, behold, I [am]
against you, saith the Lord GOD. And mine hand
shall be upon the
prophets that see vanity, and that divine
lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my
people, neither shall they be written in the
writing of the house of Israel, neither shall
they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall
know that I [am] the Lord GOD.” Eze
13:7-9
Then the LORD said
unto me, The
prophets prophesy lies in
my name: I sent them not, neither have I
commanded them, neither spake unto them: they
prophesy unto you a false
vision and divination, and a thing of nought,
and the deceit of their heart. Jer
14:14
False prophets have
False Visions, and these are caused by Fallen angels
who lie and deceive.
And he saith,
`Therefore, hear a word of the Lord; I have seen
the Lord sitting on His throne, and all the
host of the heavens [angels] standing
by Him, on His right and on His left; and the
Lord saith, Who doth entice Ahab, and he doth go
up and fall in Ramoth-Gilead? and this one saith
thus, and that one is saying thus. `And a spirit
came out, and stood before the Lord, and saith,
I -- I do entice him; and the Lord saith unto
him, By what? and he saith, I go out, and have
been a
spirit of falsehood in the mouth of all his
prophets; and He saith, Thou dost entice,
and also thou art able; go out and do so. 1
Kin 22:19-22
In this passage the
angels were around God's throne, and an angel admits
to having been communicating deception or lies to
the false prophets. God permissively allows this
deceptive angel to continue to do what the falling
angel himself is able to do, and chooses to do. And
so the Bible teaches that fallen angels do
communicate lies and deception to false prophets.
And this is by the method of false dreams and False
Visions, which false prophets are reported to have.
Beyond false messages which fallen angels can
communicate in False Visions or dreams, they can
also use False Visions and dreams to simply harass
and frighten people, to a terrible extent. While Job
was under a series of attacks caused by Satan, a
fallen angel, Job records:
When I say, My bed
shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my
complaint; Then you scare
me with dreams and terrify
me with visions so that I would choose
strangling and death rather than my bones.
Job 7:13-15
And so the Bible
teaches that fallen angels can victimize people with
their ability to cause dreams and Visions, using
these to scare and terrify, even to the point of
severe traumatization from them. Job here
experiences severe depression, longing to die rather
than deal with these terrifying dreams and Visions.
It seems various other psychological symptoms
besides severe depression could result from these
experiences as well, as Job's account here shows
they can be very traumatic, and different people
handle trauma in different ways.
Along with this, fallen angels can also cause False
Dreams and False Visions to communicate a lying or
deceptive message, false information, to a person
with the intent that the person might become a false
prophet, who shares the false message as truth.
This is part of why
the Bible warns that people must test spirits, not
just believe them, as these fallen angels are at war
against all of humanity, to
deceive us:
"Beloved, believe
not every spirit, but try the spirits whether
they are of God: because many false prophets are
gone out into the world." (1
Jn 4:1) and as Jesus said, ″Many
false prophets will arise, and will mislead
many.” (Matt
24:11)
But even in the midst
of this war followers of Jesus Christ can have God's
reassurance,
Yet in all these
things we are more than conquerors through Him
who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither
death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities
nor powers [fallen angels], nor things present
nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor
any other created thing, shall be able to
separate us from the love of God which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord. Rom
8:37-39
Chapter 5 - Alien Abduction Experiences False
Visions and Terrifying Dreams
Next we will compare
modern alien abduction accounts to the Biblically
based abilities of Fallen angels. The Bible teaches
that Fallen angels can cause False dreams and False
Visions.
In False Visions causes by Fallen angels:
1. A Vision can seem totally real to a single bodily
sense (like sight) or to all of the bodily senses,
and a person’s self-perception is usually that they
are in their body.
2. A Vision can affect one person or multiple
people, though they may perceive it differently
3. A Vision can occur in a waking state, or in a
trance state
4. A Vision can be causes by a visible angel, or an
invisible angel
5. A Vision can involve some physical effects that
remain afterwards, such as objects that remain with
a person, and bodily effects, even internal ones.
6. A Vision can involve manipulation of a person’s
perception of time, like an hour in a minute.
7. A Vision can contain just about any landscape, or
any sort of characters, and can seem to involve
travel, even though the person doesn’t actually go
anywhere
8. A Vision can seem so real to the bodily senses
that it is indistinguishable from reality, even in
the case of people who are experienced with Visions,
though God knows and can reveal the truth
What is experienced in
“alien abduction” accounts?
Abductees report in
their experiences that in some cases the experience
feels completely real to the bodily senses, sight,
hearing, touch, taste, smell, and time perception.
Abductees can be adamant that some of these
experiences were NOT dreams, but occurred in a
waking state. Here are some common events in
abductee accounts:
Seeing aliens of a
wide variety of types
Walking through walls (themselves or seeing aliens
do so)
Defying gravity (flying or floating themselves, or
seeing aliens/spacecraft do so)
Travel to outer-space, other planets, and other
galaxies, with no suit or spacecraft, and Travel to
outerspace in spacecraft
Impossible scenarios, like breathing underwater or
in viscous liquid, without drowning
Not breathing for a half hour or more in air,
without suffocating or dying
Electromagnetic disturbances, electronic
malfunctions
Alice in wonderland sorts of landscapes
Aliens’ bodies shape-shifting into new forms
Injuries that only last until the end of the
experience
Injuries that remain after the experience, sometimes
mostly healed and leaving scars
Strange or rare illnesses
Medical-like examinations and procedures including
needles and drills
Time perception disturbances and manipulation, time
loss, time gain
Sexual molestation, assault and rape
Miscarriages and false pregnancies with supernatural
aspects
Physical pain and torture
Partial or complete paralysis during experience
As you can see, these
experiences are often highly confusing, painful, and
violating.
Now let’s look at some individual alien abductee
accounts.
The case of
"Robert" summarized from CE4 Research Group’s
case files:
On a Monday, Joe and Robert had a conversation.
Robert said he had been having abduction
experiences with colorful light beings for a
year. Each being was a different color, and
looked much like the light-people in the movie
Cocoon. He described that it felt real to his
bodily senses, and he seemed in his body,
however he did not need to breathe during his
experiences.
Later that week, on Thursday, Robert was in a
car with his girlfriend. Robert slumped over
like he passed out unconscious while in the car,
and his girlfriend was with him. Robert
experienced a long period of conscious time
during what he later recounted as being like a
vision with the beings. He felt he seemed to
have gone somewhere else. However, to Robert’s
girlfriend, he was in a trance state that only
lasted a minute or so. But he experienced
several hours’ worth of experiences, during the
minute he was passed out. As his girlfriend was
there with him, she saw he did not go anywhere,
his body did not leave. Just in that week, since
first talking to Joe, the experiences had turned
very bad, and the light-beings were being very
nasty to him, and Robert wanted the experiences
to stop. Robert could somehow feel that an
experience was about to happen, before it
happened, precipitating the entities attacks on
him. Telling his girlfriend beforehand, Robert
had a second experience the same evening.
-Joe Jordan, CE4Research, Unholy Communion: The
Unwanted Piece of the UFO Puzzle www.ce4research.com
Robert said he had
been having abduction experiences with colorful
light beings much like the light-people in the movie
Cocoon. He described that it felt real to his bodily
senses, and that he seemed to be in his body;
however he did not need to breathe during his
experiences.
Robert had 2
experiences while seeming to pass out in a trance,
which seemed to last hours for him, but his
girlfriend said he was only in this state for a few
minutes.
Afterwards, Robert
called Joe, telling him what had been happening to
him that day. While on the phone, Robert could feel
another attack coming on. This was the third
experience that day, and he was again in a trance
state, for a couple of minutes. His girlfriend,
present, saw this, and talked to Joe on the phone
while this was ongoing. When Robert’s experience
ended, he got back on the phone and related to Joe
that the beings who were attacking Robert told
Robert that they “hated Joe” because he understood
what was happening to Robert.
The next morning
Joe and a Christian co-worker went to Robert’s
house and met with him and his girlfriend. While
there, Robert felt another attack coming on, but
before he was forced into a trance again, they
rebuked the entities in the name and authority
of Jesus Christ, and Robert said he could feel
the entities disappear, stopping the attack.
-Joe Jordan, CE4Research, Unholy Communion: The
Unwanted Piece of the UFO Puzzle
www.ce4research.com
As I mentioned
earlier, time manipulation seems to occur in the
Bible during False Visions caused by fallen angels.
In this case, the experience could have been a False
Vision, and matches the Biblical description very
well. Robert experienced time manipulation, and the
experiences were real to his bodily senses, and at
the same time during his experiences he did not
breathe for impossibly long periods of time (that
is, his subjective time).
The case of Robert was
of a False Vision which was real to the bodily
senses, it fully overlaid objective reality,
happened in a waking trance state, to one person.
But there was a witness with Robert that saw him go
into a trance state, and remained with him
throughout. This shows, as is recorded in Daniel,
that he did not go anywhere, but rather had these
False Visions in his spirit, in his body, while
remaining where he was.
This next case from an “alien abductee” is from
“Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda” by
the late Dr. Karla Turner PhD.
“Lisa had some conscious memories of encounters
with the typical Grays, as well as missing-time
episodes, multiple-witnessed UFO sightings,
unexplained body marks, telepathic
communications from unseen sources, and many
dream-memories of ambiguous reality - except in
those instances where other evidence pointed to
an actual event. While the details of Lisa's
life-long involvement are certainly very
typical, the alien intrusions are clearly more
intense and frequent than in many such cases…
In 1980, however,
Lisa did see something very different from the
shadows, in a terrifying event. "A being
appeared to me," she recalled, "when I was a
couple of weeks pregnant. We had just got into
bed and Neal already seemed 'out of it,' and the
being appeared on the end of the bed, squatting,
telling me mentally the child I was carrying was
special and it would be a boy. I almost had a
fainting spell. I threw the covers over my head
as the being was leaping toward me, I believe,
and said, 'In Jesus' name, take it away!' It
disappeared, and I fell quickly asleep. It was
about three feet tall, dark-skinned, leathery
looking. I don't remember anything else."
-Karla Turner PhD, Taken: Inside the Alien-Human
Abduction Agenda, Pg. 36-37
I would also say this
case was a False Vision, partially overlaying
objective reality, in a waking state, and happening
to one person. When rebuked in Jesus’ name the False
Vision ended, and what she was seeing disappeared.
Transcribed from the Cursed Net internet radio show,
the next case describes multiple witnesses seeing a
UFO over a populated area.
“Byron:
That beings me to the question of when did you
first see a UFO? And how did it affect you?
Kathy: The first UFO I saw I was probably
in my very early 20s, there were three other
people with me and we all saw it, only one of
them remembers seeing it, and none of us
remember what we did the rest of the day…
Byron: How could you forget such a
strange instance, and its also puzzling to me
how you could not remember what you did for the
rest of the day, after an event like that, could
that indicate this expression called “missing
time”, may have taken place right at that time?
Kathy: That’s what I’m taking for granted
now… I mean we had a long drive home, a couple
of hours from where we were at the time, and
none of us remember, we don’t even remember that
weekend, I mean the next few days we all went,
“What did we do Saturday? I don’t remember.” You
know, but it gets fuzzier and fuzzier as the
years go on…
Byron: What did it look like?
Kathy: It was huge, we were on a street
with houses on both sides that backed up to a
beach, and we were walking to our vehicles, and
it came over us, and the reason I think we
looked up is because it got dark, it was like
the sun went away, and you could see the bottom
of a … the starship enterprise, it was like
mechanical looking stuff on the bottom, but you
couldn’t see the beginning or the end of it, you
could see it went past the houses on that side
of the street, it went past the houses on [the
other] that side of the street, as far as you
could see in both directions, up and down, its
like we were seeing just a teeny piece of the
bottom of a huge spaceship… And there was
virtually no sound either, that’s something one
of the other people who was with me said about
it, because I remember us saying that “It’s not
making any sound at all” while we were looking
up.”
-Byron LeBeau, Richard Stout and Greg Messina ,
www.thecursednet.com
www.blogtalkradio.com/cursednet with
guest Kathy Land (1/5/09)
Happening in a
populated area, in which a huge sun-blocking UFO
would be arguably noticed by the residents, local
police, and local news, this event seems more likely
to be a False Vision than any sort of Physical
Manifestation. This was a False Vision shared by a
group of people, who were all under a deceptive
attack with False Visions at the same time. This
waking False Vision seemed to only partially overlay
objective reality, in that the UFO was seen but not
heard to make any sound at all, while hovering over
the neighborhood. But there were multiple victims
which saw the vision, and missing time was noted by
all involved. Missing time is can be described as a
type of time perception manipulation. All of this
matches what the Bible teaches is possible with
False Visions caused by Fallen angels.
Once an abductee,
Kathy is now a former abductee, and a Christian,
whose experiences have been terminated from
happening in her life, by the name and authority of
Jesus Christ.
The next case is of Maureen:
“Arriving at the
nominated spot, all 3 people then sat in
Maureen’s car. She saw the same “man” had
appeared just outside the vehicle. Neither of
the other 2, Judith Magee or Paul Norman, could
see anything unusual present. Maureen says that
the “man” was beckoning her to join him outside
the vehicle. She refused to get out of the car.
Suddenly,
according to the others present, Maureen
“fainted”. She began a verbal description to
them whilst she was in this apparent state of
unconsciousness. She related she was in a round
room somewhere, which was lit, but there was no
visible source of illumination. This scene was
indistinguishable from the consensus reality
that we call “real life”.
The “man” just
appeared in the room, in which there was also a
mushroom shaped object rising up from the floor.
This was stemmed, with a broad domed top. There
appeared to be an inner hemisphere, wobbling
around, and it was covered with what looked to
be hieroglyphics on it. The “man” told her to
describe what she could see, and this she did,
to be heard by the 2 in the car. She could see
no doors, or windows in this room, and so began
to be scared. She started to cry, then woke,
still in the car, with tears in her eyes, saying
she could not remember anything that had just
occurred. The 2 in the car filled her in on what
had transpired.”
-Keith Basterfield, “Maureen Puddy: An
Australian Abductee Physically Present During An
Abduction”, 1992, As presented at the 1992
Abduction Study Conference at M.I.T
Two different aspects
of False Visions are distinctly represented here.
The first, like that of Kathy, was a partial
overlaying onto objective reality in a waking state.
However, unlike Kathy’s case in which all the people
saw the UFO, in this case only Maureen saw the
entity outside the car, while two people with her
did not see it. Maureen alone was having a False
Vision, while those with her were not. I would like
to point out the same pattern occurs with “ghost
encounters” in which someone with supposedly
“special sight or powers” can see the ghosts but
others with them cannot.
The second False
Vision seen here was a full overlaying of objective
reality, in a trance state. This is very similar to
the case of Robert. The experiences were real to the
bodily senses for Maureen, and she seemed to be
somewhere else. But in this case Maureen was
speaking to people with her while in the trance
state, and in her case the passage of time seemed
normal. Although she perceived herself in her body
in another location in a way that felt real to all
of her bodily senses, she never left the car and the
two people with her. Maureen also spoke out loud to
the people with her during this False Vision
experience.
The next case may be
of an extreme case of time perception manipulation,
or there may be some other explanation for the
experience. But we are going to cover this case
assuming the time perception manipulation is factual
as is recounted with insistence by the abductee. And
time perception manipulation as we have covered
occurs in False Visions.
“The Mars Records” and
“The Mars Records 2” detail probably the most
extreme case of time perception manipulation I have
read about in a False Vision, which is said to have
lasted for a subjective period of 20 years. The
entirety of the books by Stephanie Relfe, is about
the experiences of her husband Michael, with many
details.
To summarize, Michael
was a childhood abductee, who in the 70s enlisted in
the US military. In 1976 Michael had a very unusual
experience. He remembered enlisting in a special
military program. He
then experienced traveling through a “portal” to
Mars.
He experienced what
seemed to be 20 years of time, which he spent on
Mars, and afterwards he perceived his body was made
younger and he perceived he traveled back through
the “portal” to 1976. Then he was back on Earth, and
the time was about a week after he remembers leaving
to Mars. During those perceived 20 years he
remembers being stationed on the planet Mars on a US
military base, working in a Top Secret military
operation. He remembers having a wife on Mars, who
died on Mars. There were many aliens throughout his
experiences, Grays and Reptilians, as well as a
Martian population of millions of human people.
In several incidents
in the books, the fallen angels include in the False
vision a piece of technology, a “portal”, which is
portrayed as a time travel machine. As seen in other
cases, time can seem to be gained subjectively
during abductions, in time perception manipulation.
However, in the case of Robert mentioned earlier,
while he experienced hours during a minute, his body
did not actually go anywhere. This is known as a
witness remained with his body for those objective
minutes during his subjectively hours-long
experiences. As
such, actual physical time travel did not take place
in either of these cases, but rather the False
Vision enabled subjective time perception
manipulation.
I would describe this
20-year experience of Michael as a False Vision, of
extreme subjective duration in time perception
manipulation. Other experiences in the book seem to
involve Physical manifestation along with the False
Visions.
It is important to
note that sometimes fallen angels do cause abductees
to see “humans” during a False Vision; however these
are not real humans, but instead are part of the
vision caused by the fallen angel (exceptions being
cases of a group of people attacked together by
fallen angels).
In many cases in which
fallen angels cause False Visions of humans, the
humans are military personnel, and advanced
technology appears to be present, these kinds of
abductions are called “Mil-abs” for “military
abductions”. Except in rare cases of actual
government investigation of abductions and
interviews with abductees, these Mi-labs are caused
by fallen angels, and are just a subset variety of
more typical “alien abduction” experiences. The
entire experience, like other False visions, is a
vision, including the military personnel and
advanced technology the person sees.
Remember, these
experiences are real to the bodily senses, and the
perception of time passage seems normal to the
abductee during the experience. Fallen angels
sometimes do display technology in False visions,
technology which (deceptively) seems to work time
travel, which adds a new layer of confusion for the
abductee. Fallen angels have expansive supernatural
abilities, which they were originally created with
by God, and the technology seen is just part of the
False vision, which is a deception.
About 2 years after
this 20-subjective-year False vision of Mars, in the
late 1970s, Michael became a Christian. In the book
he gives God and the Lord Jesus Christ credit for
his deliverance from the enemy.
“This book is
dedicated to God and the Lord Jesus Christ, for
without them this book would never have been
written… I want to thank the LORD JESUS CHRIST,
my saviour for His mercy and blessings and for
removing me from the hands of the enemy. It is
only by His love and grace that I am on the road
to recovery from the effects of mind control and
manipulation…
“I also know that
the enemy cannot do anything to me unless God
allows it and that God has given me weapons to
fight back (see the section on deliverance). I
will use those weapons without hesitation…
“I believe that
only God has the answer for what is happening to
the world at this times and that spiritual
warfare is a vital part of His ministry for
these end times. It is clear that spiritual
warfare and deliverance is the only thing that
has not been used against these projects and
that God’s weapons are superior to the weapons
of the enemy.”
-The Mars Records, www.metatech.org Dedication,
Thank You pgs. 262
According to their
website, Michael and Stephanie Relfe, both
abductees, have been completely free from abductions
for over 7 years now. They say this is from using
spiritual warfare and deliverance methods, and
through the name and authority of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
In reference to being
set free from abductions, Michael writes in The Mars
Records 2, pg. 205:
“You can do the
exact same things as I have if you have a
personal relationship with The Lord Jesus Christ
and if you have faith and follow the warfare
prayers in this document. Prayer does not rely
on metaphysical abilities or training. I myself
do NOTHING. God performs the miracles.”
So far we have covered
a variety of False visions, but the next case of
Howard, from CE4 Research Group, is one of
terrifying dreams.
"…I was not a
Christian at this time either. The next
experiences I had with the Greys was several
years after that when they decided to ‘contact’
me personally. I remember having a strange dream
about them; it wasn’t anything bad but just
strange, strange enough for me to remember it. I
remember laughing about it to someone I knew.
The very next night was absolutely terrifying
and it left me in no doubt that I was under
attack. In my dream I was running away from a
UFO and it kept swooping down and buzzing me
with its energy. Its energy was one of
indescribable terror and malevolence.
Anyway the next day I was quite alarmed because
I knew these weren’t just dreams and that I was
dealing with something quite evil and dangerous.
Things got worse and worse because they kept at
me every night. It got to the point where I
became too afraid to go to sleep because I knew
they were waiting for me. Have you ever seen
the film nightmare on Elm Street? Well I was
living that. I do remember in my dreams that I
used violence on them, but this did not harm
them not even in the slightest. To be honest
with you, I think they quite enjoyed it; it was
like a game for them. I was getting extremely
desperate; I couldn’t work or think because I
was too afraid to sleep so I was tired all the
time.”
-CE4 Research Group, the Testimony of Howard,
www.alienresistance.org/ce4testimonies.htm
This case described
UFOs and “gray aliens” appearing in nightmares,
which were so terrible they were causing him to be
afraid to go to sleep. This is like the terrifying
dreams and visions Job describes in the Bible, which
he experienced while under attacks from Satan.
Howard later describes
turning to the Bible for answers, and soon being set
free from having these dreams which were destroying
his life. He credits Jesus Christ and God with
having freed him from these dreams.
Chapter 6 - Alien Abduction Experiences
Physical Manifestations
I am only going to be
including one case example of the Physical
Manifestation of a fallen angel, known as the
Malmstrom UFO Incident. I think many Physical
manifestations do take place today, in minor ways.
Many of these could arguably be found on TV shows
such as “Ghost Hunters” and similar paranormal
shows, which record “voices of ghosts”, and things
like that. Also, there are supposedly many real
photos or videos of orbs, ghosts, and even UFOs and
aliens on the internet. This seems to be physical
manifestation, perhaps directly onto film. And this
is besides the injuries which abductees get during
False Vision experiences. These all seem to be minor
physical manifestations which go along with False
Vision experiences. But I am only going to be
including one case of physical manifestation, which
seems to be a major incident, and shows more of the
extreme line that fallen angels seem to be crossing
today.
There are many
declassified military reports, documenting military
encounters with UFOs. I hope these have a level of
credibility that is acceptable. I only am personally
aware of one such documented military reporting that
fits the supernatural requirements to clearly show
it was a Physical Manifestation of fallen angels.
This is due to a supernaturally caused electronic
malfunction that is otherwise unexplainable.
March 16, 1967
“Early in the morning on the sixteenth, at
Malmstrom AFB in Montana, one of the most
extraordinary events in the history of
military-UFO encounters took place. Under a
clear and dark Montana sky, an airman with the
Oscar Flight Launch Control Center (LCC) saw a
starlike object zigzagging high above him. Soon,
a larger and closer light also appeared and
acted in similar fashion. He called his NCO, and
the two men watched inawe as the lights streaked
through the sky, maneuvering in impossible ways.
The NCO phoned his commander, Robert Salas, who
was below ground in the launch control center.
Salas was dubious. “Great,” he said. “You just
keep watching them and let me know if they get
any closer.”
A few minutes later, the NCO called Salas again.
As Salas later wrote, this time he was clearly
frightened and shouted that a red, glowing UFO
was hovering outside the front gate. “What do
you want us to do?” asked the NCO. Salas told
him to make sure the site was secure while he
phoned the command post. “Sir,” replied the NCO,
“I have to go now, one of the guys just got
injured.” Before Salas could ask about the
injury, the NCO was off the line. The man, who
was not seriously injured, was evacuated by
helicopter to the base. Meanwhile, Salas woke
his commander, Lt. Fred Meiwald. As he briefed
Meiwald, an alarm rang through the small
capsule, and both men saw a “No-Go” light turn
on for one of the missiles. Within seconds,
several more missiles went down in succession.
Twenty miles away, at the Echo-Flight launch
facilities, the same scenario was taking place.
First Lt. Walter Figel, the deputy crew
commander of the Missile Combat Crew, was at his
station when one of the Minuteman missiles went
into “No-Go” status. He immediately called the
missile site to determine the cause of the
problem. Was it because of the scheduled missile
maintenance, he asked the security guard? No,
came the response, as the maintenance had not
yet taken place. However, continued the guard, a
UFO had been hovering over the site. Like Salas,
Figel doubted the story. Before he had any time
to reflect on this, however, ten more ICBMs in
rapid succession reported a “No-Go” condition.
Within seconds, the entire flight was down.
Strike teams were dispatched to two of the
E-flight launch facilities, where maintenance
crews were already at work. Figel had not told
the strike teams about the UFO report. Upon
their arrival, however, the teams reported back
to him that all of the maintenance and security
personnel had been watching UFOs hover over each
of the sites.
The missiles were down for the greater part of a
day. The air force investigation included
full-scale tests on-site, as well as laboratory
tests at the Boeing Company’s Seattle plant. No
cause for the shutdown could be found. The
Boeing engineering chief said, “there was no
technical explanation that could explain the
event.”
-Richard M. Dolan, UFOs and the National
Security State, Pgs. 322-323
In the Malmstrom UFO
incident, UFOs are associated with the supernatural
electronic malfunction of at least 15 nuclear ICBMs.
Scientists and engineers examined what had happened,
and concluded “there was no technical explanation
that could explain the event”. As such I would say
these UFOs were caused by a fallen angel causing a
large group to have a False Vision of the form of a
UFO. But at the same time, fallen angels also
physically manifested, so as to cause supernatural
electronic malfunctions to several nuclear missiles
in the immediate vicinity. This technological
malfunction is a more major documented event of
physical manifestation of fallen angels, which left
behind documented military records as evidence that
this event occurred, as well as some military
personnel who claim to have witnessed this event.
Chapter 7 - Alien Abduction Experiences False
Visions Combined with Partial Physical Manifestation
The next cases of
Fallen Angelic Attacks are of False Visions which
are combined with Partial Physical Manifestation.
The Valdes Case
“On April 25, 1977, Valdés, along with five
members of an army patrol, saw two bright
objects descending from the sky. Valdés set out
alone to investigate and, according to the men,
simply vanished. Fifteen minutes later, they
said, he reappeared, tried to speak and passed
out. The date on his watch had been advanced
five days, and he had about a week's growth of
beard.”
-Cate Setterfield, Armed Forces Reveal UFO
Presence in Chile,
The Valparaiso Times 2/11/07
“The corporal
moved toward the object. He disappeared for some
15 minutes. When he reappeared, he was shaking
and his voice seemed different. The light had
been illuminating the whole area…He then became
unconscious and was attended by his fellow men
till he awoke some two hours later. The UFO also
disappeared about this time. While the
unconscious Corporal Valdes was assisted by his
patrol, his men made another strange
observation. They saw that Valdes had a beard
growth equivalent to several days without
shaving. He had been well shaven before the
incident. As Valdes awoke he exclaimed, "I don't
remember anything from the moment I left you."
He then ordered,
"Get ready to leave because it's 4:30 in the
morning. It was actually about 7 AM. His
calendar watch had stopped at 4:30 but the date
was five days advanced - to the 30th instead of
the 25th.”
-Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO),
1977
Much like the Biblical
account of Jesus tempted by Satan seen in Luke 4, in
which Jesus experienced a far longer period of time
in less than a second, the Valdes case shows time
perception manipulation. In principle, this is the
same thing.
In the Valdes case,
the time manipulation seems very physical instead of
perceptual, because his watch was moved ahead by 5
days, and he had 5 days growth of a beard, after
only 15 minutes of time passing in objective
reality. It also seems very physical because he
disappeared for 15 minutes and his men could not see
him. As such, this seems to be a case of a False
Vision couple with powerful Physical Manifestation
seen in the effects on Valdes’ body.
One way to look at
this is that, like the boils of Job described in
Biblical Physical Manifestations onto the body, a
fallen angel was able to supernaturally cause rapid
hair growth, and also alter Valdes’ watch. The men
might have been blocked with a group False Vision,
from being able to see Valdes, even if he was nearby
within normal sight distance. This is similar to the
case of Peter escaping from prison in that no one
could see him. There is nothing in this case that
necessitates that Valdez went anywhere, merely that
those with him could no longer see him. And there is
nothing here that proves his body experienced 5 days
worth of time in 15 minutes, but the simplest
explanation would be that fallen angels affected his
body supernaturally to grow hair very quickly, and
altered his watch.
And so there is
nothing in this case which “must” indicate the
science fiction concept of “time travel”. Nothing in
this case shows that Valdes traveled backwards in
time, or that he traveled forward in time more than
anyone else did (that being 15 minutes). Valdes’
experiences during the abduction are unknown, but
even if he had reported he subjectively experienced
5 days worth of time in 15 minutes, this would have
been time perception manipulation in a False Vision.
This is a separate matter from the hair growth, and
his watch changing, and other people not being able
to see him. The simplest explanation is that this
entire event was staged with the goal in mind of
deception, it being caused by fallen angels whose
goal is to deceive.
In a cases like this
one, and as in the case of Michael Relfe, it becomes
apparent that fallen angels want people to believe
that they can time travel – which in itself is a
good reason to not believe such – but there are
alternate explanations for everything which occurred
in this case which match Biblical teaching on what
fallen angels are known to be able to do. However,
there is nothing in the Bible which teaches that
angels can time travel, and in opposition, the Bible
does teach that God has absolute authority over
time, and appoints things to happen at certain
times, which fallen angels cannot interfere with, or
alter. Jesus Christ is “the alpha and omega, the
beginning and the end”.
The next case of Anita
is a good overview of physical injuries that many
abductees have after fallen angelic attacks:
“Anita has been
consciously aware of UFO activity since
childhood, and her brothers and sisters have
also had recurrent UFO events throughout their
lives. So, perhaps, may have some of Anita's
children and grandchildren…
So are the various
marks and injuries she has discovered on her
body. "Lots of mornings," Anita said, "I
have gotten up feeling
like someone beat me up in my sleep." This
is another common abductee report, waking up
with sore, damaged-feeling muscles and joints. "I
have waked up with bruises on my arms,
shoulders, and legs," she continued, "with
no idea where they came from. I have found
scratches that I could not remember having
gotten the day before."
The evidence for vigorous physical activity
during the night, although unremembered, comes
from more than just Anita's sore or scarred
body, however. In one incident, she woke up in
the morning and felt an unfamiliar pain in her
right hand. "I sat up in bed," she explained,
"and found that sometime
during the night my ring had been squashed on my
finger." She managed with effort to remove
the ring, but neither
her husband nor a jeweler could completely
restore its original shape.
On another occasion, Anita got
out of bed one morning and found the crucifix
from her necklace lying on the floor. "It
had been on my neck the night before," she said,
"and the chain was still on [me]. But the only
way to remove the crucifix is to remove the
necklace and take it off the chain."
She has also awakened several mornings to
discover that something had happened to her
clothing, a report frequently echoed by other
abductees. In one instance, she
woke up with her nightie on backward,
although she was certain she had not taken it
off, turned it around, and put it back on. And
on a different occasion she found that the
nightie was not only backward but had also been
turned inside-out. In the night during one
of these events, she had an altered-state
experience in which she recalled a group of Tan
aliens observing her as she was "free-falling,"
an event which did not feel unduly upsetting for
some reason…. Anita had quite a severe reaction
to another similar event, however, venting much
more emotion than the situation seemed to call
for. It was in the winter, during the Christmas
holidays one night, and she had worn
socks to bed for
extra warmth. When she woke up the next day and found
that one of her socks was missing,…Anita was
also physically upset that morning, suffering
from a violent headache and nausea which caused
her to vomit, yet there was no illness to
account for the symptoms. Still,
she might not have been overly concerned about
the vanished sock and her physical problems, if
her young granddaughter hadn't made a disturbing
comment…The seven-year-old
child told her grandmother that some "mean men"
had come in and taken her away during the night.
When Anita asked her to describe the "mean men," the
little girl called them "the mushroom men."
"What are the mushroom men?" Anita asked, and
her granddaughter then found the book MISSING
TIME by Budd Hopkins and pointed to the drawing
on the cover.
…The girl said the creatures were about a foot
tall, gray-skinned and had four fingers rather
than five-a detail not apparent in the cover
picture. There were quite a few of these
entities present, she said. Anita remembered
nothing strange that night herself, but the
physical symptoms, the missing sock, and her
granddaughter's story were indicative enough of
an intrusive incident to be of great concern.”
-Karla Turner PhD, Taken: Inside the Alien-Human
Abduction Agenda, Pgs. 46, 50-51
As for Physical
Manifestation, there were physical aftereffects that
remained and were seen by others, such as her bent
ring. The case of Anita is a good overview of
physical injuries that many abductees have after
this type of fallen angelic attack.
In this case there was
another person involved, her 7 year old
granddaughter that saw part of the experience, and
this part was a case of a False Vision seen by
multiple people. As in the Valdes case, part of the
False Vision on the child was her grandmother seemed
to be missing, in that she was unseen and not
visible for a period of time. And the child in the
False Vision also saw her grandmother be taken,
deceiving her into thinking her grandmother has went
somewhere. But the simplest explanation is that
Anita did not go anywhere, but that her and her
granddaughter both experienced False Visions that
night. And this along with various degrees of
Physical manifestation throughout Anita’s
experiences, including objects moved, and injuries,
and physical illness.
It is important to
note that innocent children can be attacked by
fallen angels, as in this case, and this is a type
of generational curse. While on that topic, another
case from Karla Turner’s book Taken is of a child
(though this case does not involve Physical
manifestation):
"When I was seven
or eight years old," Beth related, "my father
gave us permission, my sister and me, to go
outside and play with the other children, who
were playing hide-and-seek. It was close to six
in the evening. I remember that I went to hide
between some bushes, and then I heard a sound,
somebody else. And as I turned, I saw what I
thought at that moment was one of the other
kids.
"The next thing I know," she continued, "it was
dark, and I was very surprised. When I got home,
my father was very mad at me and my mother was
very upset. My father told me that they had been
calling me and looking for me for hours. But I
couldn't understand it," she said. "The place
where I was hiding was less than a hundred feet
from the front of the house. I was hiding there,
and it was daylight, and then the next thing I
know it was dark-and I was scared.
"Recently I had another memory about that," she
added. "That kid I thought was there, he was an
alien, one of the Grays. He took me to a ship,
but I don't remember what happened after that."
-Karla Turner PhD, Taken: Inside the Alien-Human
Abduction Agenda, Pg. 56
I think the most
efficient way to explain this case is that first the
child Beth had a False Vision of an “alien”
approaching her, which overlaid onto objective
reality. Then Beth was effectively hidden from her
parents by fallen angels by a False Vision her
parents were caused to have, which kept them from
seeing their daughter as they looked for her. While
this was going on, the child Beth experienced a
False Vision of being with Grays on a ship. A
combination of various aspects of False Visions
would suffice to explain this experience.
This case is somewhat
reminiscent of the abduction case of Travis Walton,
who was missing for 5 days, and remembered only 2
hours. I do feel that the explanation for the case
of Beth is also an adequate explanation for the
Walton case. He was present, but all those involved
in searching for him were prevented from seeing him.
The main difference is that he was made unconscious
for the majority of the 5 days, except for the 2
hours in which he experienced a False Vision.
In conclusion, after
looking at several “alien abduction” cases it seems
that the abilities of Fallen angels to cause False
Visions (and all that entails) and terrifying
dreams, as well as elements of Physical
manifestation, are sufficient to explain what
abductees experience.
Continue to Part 6:
The Deceptive Anti-biblical
Messages of "Aliens" as Reported by Abductees and
Contactees
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