What Does The Bible Say About Life on Other
Planets?
Part 7
I've
found over the years that whether or not God could
have created life on other planets is not the
question that usually needs to be asked. The real
question is, "Are the entities that people are
reporting communication with and torment at the
hands of in this modern era, authentic
extra-terrestrials, or not?"
But that being said, there's one more point to be
made pertaining to how contact with, or a passionate
belief in, extra-terrestrials affects people who are
Christians... which I'm offering largely as a
warning to those of you who might be opening the
door to belief systems involving aliens, and
especially for those of you with children who are
being bombarded with ET messages on television, in
movies, etc...
What I know from dealing with this topic for well
over a decade, is that you may well be convinced
from this information we have covered so far that
SOME aliens are fallen angels, or demonic
messengers. But most people will quickly find
themselves thinking,
"Well there could still be good aliens out there as
well..."
or
"Just because some demons pretend to be aliens,
that doesn't automatically mean there's no life on
other planets,
"DOES IT?"
I think most of us remember that the Carl Sagan
movie "Contact" left everyone thinking, "Well if
there's no life out there, that's a pretty big waste
of space.." right? Anybody remember that?
And maybe you've gone to a pastor or church leader
with this very question, and the answer you got was
less than satisfactory - and less than biblical, I'd
dare say. Maybe you've heard someone say, "Well God
can do anything he wants to, I suppose..." or maybe,
"Well the Bible doesn't really say one way or the
other…it would seem pretty self-centered to think
that WE'RE THE ONLY LIFE God created right?" I'm
sure many of you have heard things just like this,
right? Maybe some of you have even said things like
this...
So I want to take a stab at honestly equipping you
on what The Bible actually does say on this topic.
Because if you're grounded in what The Bible
does
say, you won't be shaken by what it doesn't say - or
by what it doesn't necessarily spell out so plainly
for us. I'm
going to submit to you that Bible does indeed
thoroughly equip us for this topic.
And I can say this with confidence because of 1 Tim
3:16-17.
All scripture [is] given by inspiration of God, and
[is] profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness: That
the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished
unto all good works.
1 Timothy 3:16-17
Through movies and TV, contactees and cults, and
through BAD religious teachings, millions of people
are falling for a lie.
"...and for this cause, God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a
lie;
That they all might be damned who believed not
the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
1 Thes 2:11-12
My belief is that God says that the scriptures are
profitable for doctrine, so that we can be
thoroughly equipped to minister absolute truth on
this topic, before the
strong delusion takes center stage on world events,
and the prophetic timetable.
It's easy I think for all of us in our own
imaginations to perceive that God could have created
life on other planets.. in our own understanding
it's quite reasonable in fact. And unfortunately I
think most of us just rest there, as if that’s a
final answer to the question. But you know what God
says about our own imaginations:
"Casting down vain imaginations, and every high
thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of
God"
2 Corinthians 10:5
We are to cast them down, and not let what we can
imagine exalt itself against the knowledge of God,
and His word. Romans 1:21 says,
that our imaginations can cause us to become vain,
and hearts to become darkened.
"... but became vain in their imaginations and their
foolish heart was darkened."
Hosea 4:6 says God's people are "destroyed for lack
of knowledge". And if we don't have - or worse,
reject - the knowledge of God, we can actually
become the very people who refuse to love the truth,
and are taken in by the lie, of strong delusion. As
I said, in our own understanding, it's quite
reasonable to believe that maybe God did create life
on other planets, and so many people in this world
do believe as such. But this is what God says about
our own understanding and worldly thinking:
"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and
lean not unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct
thy paths."
Psalm 3:5-6
And
be not conformed to this world:
but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind,
that ye may prove what [is] that good, and
acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
Romans 12:2
So I want to invite you to suspend what your own
imagination, your own understanding, and what the
spirit of this age and this world are actively
suggesting to you about life on other planets. There
does SEEM to some to be a void in the Bible on this
issue - it doesn't seem to say, I know, I've heard
it all before. But I believe that if we acknowledge
what God's Word does say, trust that it is
profitable for doctrine, and let Him renew our mind
on this topic, then hopefully He can direct your
path. I hope to equip you with the ability to speak
from a truly sound understanding of what the Bible
says on whether there's life on other planets or
not.
I'm going to suggest to you something I'm calling
"The Principle of Stated Intent" - I made this term
up by the way, maybe it's inspired, maybe not. But I
think you'll agree that just every now and then, we
read a passage in the Bible where it seems like God
goes out of His way to make sure we "get something"
He's trying to say. Occasionally, it's as if the
Holy Spirit, through the human author, goes out of
His way to explain something really important.
As one example, I think of Paul, who wrote 2/3rds of
the New Testament. And only once in all of his
writings and the entire Old and New Testaments
combined, Paul, inspired of the Holy Spirit,
actually plainly state to us what in the entire
Bible is of first importance.
“For
what I received I passed on to you as
of first importance:
that Christ died for our sins according to the
Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised
on the third day
according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to
Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he
appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers
at the same time,
most of whom are still living, though some have
fallen asleep."
1 Corinthians 15:3-6
No matter what else you do or don't get out of
reading the Bible, God wants you to know, and Paul
is quick to say,
'I delivered unto you FIRST OF ALL that Christ died
for sins, resurrected from the dead, and there's
over 500 witnesses to that fact.' First of all, of
first importance, God's Spirit goes out of His way
with a "stated intent" that this is the most
important information you need to know about the
entire Bible; the message of the good news of Jesus
Christ.
There's a couple of other places where I think God
goes out of His way to state for us His intent.
"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven to
divide the
day from the night;
and let
them be for
signs, and
for seasons, and for days, and years:
And let them be for lights in
the firmament of the heaven to
give light upon the earth: and it was so.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to
rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the
night: [he made] the stars also. And God set them in
the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth, And to
rule over
the day and over the night, and to
divide the
light from the darkness: and God saw that [it was]
good."
Genesis 1:14-18
God says the stated intent of the stars and lights
in the heavens, are to provide light on the earth,
and to divide the seasons and the years. That
doesn't mean automatically they can't be
“inhabited,” I realize that, but biblically
speaking, that's not their stated intent.
Notice, I use the word "inhabited". This is on
purpose, as there is a scripture that uses that very
word, and I would ask you to contrast the stated
intent above, with this stated intent about the
earth:
"For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens;
God himself that formed the
earth
and made it; he hath established it,
he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited:
I [am] the LORD; and [there is] none else."
"He who fashioned and made the earth, He founded it;
He did not create it to be empty, but formed it to
be inhabited" (NIV)
Isaiah 45:18
God states of the earth... throughout the Bible God
states
*only*
of the earth… that He created it to be inhabited.
When He tells of the creation and the
purpose of
the stars, "to be inhabited" doesn't even make the
list. And you saw it, there is a list!
If even part of God’s purpose for creating the stars
(and any other lights in the heavens) was to give
light or warmth to people on other planets, or to be
inhabited by other biological life, then while God
was actually giving us a list of reasons why the
stars were created, you’d think these purposes would
have at least made the list.
God says plainly and simply though that He “formed
the earth to be inhabited" - all the other stars and
heavenly lights' biblically stated purpose is to
"mark the seasons and to give light to the earth"
- to it's "inhabitants" - and "to the earth" is also
specified. The Bible says that they exist for us.
I know that nobody can ever point to an exact
passage in the Bible that says there's NOT life on
other planets... I'm simply asking you to let your
faith rest entirely on what God
does
say to settle this for you doctrinally.
I'm asking you to add 2 and 2, to take what is said
in two different places, contrast them, and draw the
most likely conclusion, based solely on what God's
word states IS true. The stars and planets and other
heavenly bodies were all made for God's stated
intent of them giving light to the earth and to be
used by us to mark seasons here on earth, but only
the earth was made for God's stated intent of it
being inhabited. That being said,
The Bible does in fact speak on non-terrestrial
life!
At the end of the 6th day in Genesis, the Bible
says,
"Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and
all the
host of them."
Gen 2:1
This verse shows God finished making all the host of
the earth, AND all the host of heaven, by the end of
the 6th day.
Now, if there were no life other than on earth, this
verse could have been written to read, 'Thus the
heavens and the earth were finished, and all the
host of
the earth.'
But that is not what this verse says. This verse
says "(the host of) them", indicating BOTH
the host of the earth, AND the host of the
heavens. So, who are the host of the heavens? Who
are the life in the heavens?
The Bible does tell us about the "host of heaven".
"I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all
the host of heaven standing
by him on his right hand and on his left...
And there came forth
a spirit,
and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade
him."
1 Kings 22:21-23
From this we know that the host of heaven can talk,
are of the spiritual realm, and at times were at
God's throne.
"Thou, [even] thou, [art] LORD alone; thou hast
made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all
their host,
the earth, and all [things] that [are] therein, the
seas, and all that [is] therein,
and thou preservest them all; and
the host of heaven worshippeth thee."
Neh 9:6
Here we see the host of heaven can worship God. And
we see a confirmation that they are alive, in the
parallel - that heaven has hosts, just like the
earth and seas have hosts, or life. The verse that
most clearly defines the host of heaven is in Luke
2, in the story of the shepherds and Jesus' birth.
"And
suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly host praising God, and saying, Glory to God
in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward
men. And it came to pass, as the angels were gone
away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one
to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and
see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord
hath made known unto us."
Luke 2:8-15
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"…And suddenly there was with the angel...
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"...a
multitude of the heavenly
host praising
God, and saying,
"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good will toward men."
And it came to pass, as
the
angels were
gone away from them into heaven..."
Luke 2:8-15
The "angels" here are described just prior, as a
"multitude of the heavenly host", showing these
terms are synonymous, and both refer to the same
beings, the angels. This is also made clear in the
Greek and Hebrew used throughout the Bible.
![](https://www.alienstranger.com/2010-85-hostofheaven.jpg)
In the Greek, the
term in Luke 2 for “host of heaven” is “stratia
ouranou”, and this is the same term used in 1 Kings
and Nehemiah, in the Greek Septuagint, corresponding
to the Hebrew term “tsaba shamayim”, or the "host of
heaven".
This is the same terminology used in Genesis
2:1, When God created the heavens and the earth and
all the host of them.
So who are the host of heaven? They are angels.
They are the only life in the heavens that the Bible
defines.
It is NOT that the Bible does not speak of sentient,
intelligent life in the heavens, as some say... It
is NOT that the Bible is totally silent, as some
say. The Bible does speak to the fact that God did
indeed create life in the heavens - the host of the
heavens - and the Bible specifically defines that
life as being angels, and nothing else - not
biological lifeforms like us.
As Jesus said to His disciples after His
resurrection,
"Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself:
handle me, and see;
for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me
have."
Luke 24:39
Humans have flesh and bone. Apparently resurrected
humans do too. But Jesus taught that spirits do not.
And the Bible says that angels are ministering spirits,
flames of fire, as is recorded in Hebrews,
"And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels
spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.
Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to
minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?"
Hebrews 1:7,14
Unfortunately, we know that some of these angels are
"fallen." Duet 4:19 and 2 Kings 23:5 mention the
hosts of heaven negatively, with God warning certain
idolatrous people not to worship them, and rebuking
the priests who offer incense to Baal, and to the
host of heaven. Revelation 12 also tells us:
"And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule
all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was
caught up unto God, and [to] his throne... And there
was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought
against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his
angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place
found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was
cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and
Satan, which deceiveth the whole world:
he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were
cast out with him…
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 12:5,7-9, 12-13
Revelation 12 makes clear that the current location
of the fallen angels is in the locality of Earth -
they are no longer in the higher heavens. They are
now located here on Earth, not on other planets, not
in other galaxies, they are here.
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This is also seen in Ephesians 6:12 - the powers and
principalities that we wrestle with are the dark
rulers of THIS world.
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.
Ephesians 6:12
And I’m submitting to you that they are today
claiming to be aliens.
But whether you're a Christian pastor, a Christian
teacher, or just a Christian who might get asked
what THE BIBLE SAYS about life on other planets, I'm
imploring you to teach sound doctrine, without
letting your imagination take you beyond what is
written. As Christians, I simply think we have a
responsibility to teach only what God's Word does
say, and nothing more. God can do anything yes,
"nothing is too hard for God", that's biblical. But
when it comes to teaching, we are compelled and
constricted to impart God's word alone.
The Bible does say that God created life other than
what's on the earth. He populated, or inhabited, the
earth with biological life forms, and he populated
the heavens with angelic life forms.
But my point is, contrary to what you've heard,
thought, or perhaps even taught, the Bible is not
silent on this issue. You may not immediately agree
with the full implications of what it says, but this
is indeed what it says. It goes against the spirit
and the wisdom of this age, I know, but God calls
our wisdom foolishness (1 Cor 3:19). I know it goes
against our natural understanding of how things
should be, but the things of God almost always do.
Remember, just the price of admission to this ride
is believing that a man rose from the dead - you
think it's supposed to start making MORE sense once
you're in all the way? No - it makes less sense;
"Give if you want to receive," "Don't return evil
for evil," "Bless those that curse you..." Remember
He says, His thoughts are not our thoughts, and His
ways are higher than our ways. That's Isaiah 55, the
passage that ends by saying His Word will not go out
and return void - and that's what I'm hoping to send
you out with today - what His Word says.
And
here's what The Bible does say is absolutely true,
no conjecture required:
1. The only stated purpose of the stars is to give
light to the Earth and to mark the seasons. (Gen
1:14-28)
2. Only the Earth is stated as "created to be
inhabited".
This is not said of any other planet, star,
or heavenly body. (Isa 45:18)
3. The Bible states that God populated the heavens
with angels (hosts of heaven), and angels are not
biological entities. (Gen 2:1, Luke 2, 24)
Those are all true statements, and they are all
sound doctrine. The Bible exhorts us to speak sound
doctrine, even though in the latter times many
people will not endure sound doctrine.
As individuals, you and I can believe whatever we
want; it’s arguably true that we’re all entitled to
have our own personal opinions on some things. But I
want to point out, if you’re maintaining the
open-minded opinion that there IS life on other
planets based solely on that fact that God
could
have created life on other planets, if He so chose –
well, you’re going from what may be true, to
accepting it as truth in your everyday walk. And I
just caution those of you that are Christians, that
you might be letting your own private interpretation
come out of your mouth at times.
My goal is that you might be equipped for ministry,
and therefore I feel it's important for me to try
and help you close the door to thinking like most of
the world today already does, according to polls,
and to encourage you to believe and teach what the
Bible does say on this topic. I feel it’s especially
incumbent on Christian leadership – pastors, elders,
teachers – to do so, because of what the New
Testament warns about will be the extra-tough
judgment on teachers. And remember, Jesus said that
we would ALL be judged by every idle word that comes
out of our mouths. I think it’s more in line with
what God HAS expressed in scripture on this topic to
at minimum say that “there’s nothing in the Bible
that indicates there is life on other planets” than
to say “well maybe, because God can do anything” –
that’s just natural thinking that doesn’t reflect
anything The Bible states about the purposes of the
stars, planets and other lights in the heavens. Nor
does it reflect the only thing the Bible does say
about life God created in the heavens - that the
host of heaven are angels.
There is a bigger picture of why the Church's answer
to this question is so important. The expert,
majority opinion of Christians who have studied the
alien phenomenon extensively, is that what the world
popularly calls "aliens" today, is in fact deceiving
spirits, teaching doctrines of devils. And also that
they are setting the world up for a strong delusion
that will embrace the New World Order, one-world
government, anti-christ ruler when he appears.
To the point, other than going against our natural
thinking, what God's word says on this topic goes
against the coming Strong Delusion. The reason this
strong delusion is going to be effective to deceive
the world is precisely because it makes so much
sense - to worldy thinking. Polls from 50 years ago,
did not even reflect that 1 in 10 people believed in
life on other planets, much less that it was
visiting us. Now polls reflect that 6 in 10 people
do, with the 17-24 year old crowd having 7 in 10 who
believe in life on other planets. And 4 in 10 people
believe that ET life has visited earth or is
visiting it! Something’s definitely happened. It’s a
Strong Delusion.
John says that the spirit of the antichrist is
already at work in the world. And I believe that God
has not left us defenseless in what Welsh minister
IDE Thomas referred to in his UFO book as "Satan's
last great assault on humanity."
And when you allow these doctrinally sound
statements about what God has done to rule your
thinking - you don't HAVE to dogmatically say that
God didn't create life on other planets, but you can
make the points above right from the Bible, and
honestly say, "Everything I read in the Bible seems
to indicate that He did not.”
That would be sound doctrine. That would be the
words coming out of your mouth being in agreement
with God’s word.
The smaller picture as to why your answer to this
question is so important, is that just because
you're a Christian, sooner or later it's very likely
that some lost soul is going to come to you with
their questions about UFOs and aliens, and you may
have no idea how important your ready answer to
their question is to them personally, or even to
their eternal destiny.
I can tell you as a former abductee, that when I was
22 years old, lost as all get out and nearly
suicidal from the madness these entities had
inflicted in my life, that the way a Christian
answered me when I brought my question about aliens
to him, is why I'm here today. He didn't know that I
was a closet abductee when I asked him, but his
answer made all the difference in my life. I'd be in
a cult, or much worse off, if my Christian friend
Leon had shied away from the truth, and given me the
culturally popular answer that’s based on
imagination and human reasoning, and simply told me
he supposed God could do anything if he wanted.
But not every person out there in need of truth has
received a solid answer of Biblical teaching from
Christians and the Christian Church on this topic.
For example, an abductee named Ann Brooke wasn't so
lucky.
"Ann
Brooke experienced some strange events, which …
caused her much distress. She is a bright,
attractive, and perceptive person…
raised in a family that valued… Christian
fundamentalist beliefs...
"She was unable to talk to her family about her UFO
experience, which included: out-of-the body
experience; near-death experience; abduction; bodily
and sexual examination; and mental communication
with UFO entities..."
I've been researching and teaching on this material
for 13 concentrated years, and I just want to you to
know that leaving the door open for a belief in
extra-terrestrial biological life always leads to
bad fruit, and New Age cult thinking.
Ann Brooke described the effects of her UFO
experience as follows:![](images.jpg)
"After my experience I knew that I had been
privileged with
a glimpse at something infinitely wondrous and
profound...
My inner consciousness had undergone a complete and
staggering metamorphosis...
Those truths I had been taught through the years by
my church, family, parents, and teachers
no longer were valid to me..."
-
Leo
Sprinkle, quoted in Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial
Encounters pg 136-140, Ronald D. Story, Editor
Folks, Ann Brooke is a casualty of a cosmic
spiritual war, of which there are eternal
ramifications and losses.
We at Alien Resistance are here to report to you
from the front lines of that war.
Continue to Part 8:
The Strong Delusion and End
Times Prophecy
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