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                The Premise Of Spiritual Warfare  In Relation to Alien Abductions

                                   By Wesley M. Clark
 

                                  What's going on here?

           After 50 years of the modern UFO era, and nearly 40 years since the Betty and
    Barney Hill abduction case, UFOlogists and abduction researchers are in general
                       agreement on the following points:

          There is little debate that UFO phenomena is real.  The question today is, what is
  it?  There are as many theories floating around the UFO realm as there are people to
  imagine them, but an absolute, definitive answer is still up for grabs, at least until now.

          Millions of people all over the world from every walk of life have witnessed UFO
    phenomena at some point in their lives, including some of the most educated and
  responsible people on the planet.  The assumption that UFO sightings are confined to
   the most ignorant and uninformed levels of society is simply a myth.  Many surveys
  taken over the last several years show the higher an individual's level of education, the
                     more they are likely to believe in UFOs.

          Researchers are in general agreement that most sightings, possibly 95% or more,
   are ultimately explainable as either natural phenomena or man-made in origin.  The
  remaining unexplained sightings are assumed to be some kind of vehicles under some
  kind of intelligent control, based on their reported flight characteristics, ie, abrupt, high
  speed course changes resulting in hundreds of "Gs" that would kill a human pilot.  But
          who are these alleged "UFOnauts," and what are they doing here?

          There is general, but not complete agreement among researchers that UFOs are
                extraterrestrial in origin, but where are they from?

          By the 1970's, UFO sighting reports became so frequent and varied in description
    that a method of classification was established to sort them all out.  This method is
   known as the "CE," or "Close Encounter" method of classification and it works as
                                  follows:

          CE-1, or Close Encounter of the first kind - An unidentified object seen in daylight
            conditions or anomalous lights seen in conditions of darkness.

           CE-2, or Close Encounter of the second kind - An unidentified object that leaves
  some kind of physical evidence such as indentions or patterns on the ground, broken or
   burned tree limbs, etc.  Physical evidence may also be in the form of interference or
         disruption of electrical equipment in the vicinity of the sighting event.

         CE-3, or Close Encounter of the third kind - A sighting event in which some kind of
                  occupants are observed in or around the UFO.

          CE-4, or Close Encounter of the fourth kind - A sighting event in which the witness
         reports being abducted and taken aboard the UFO by its occupants.

         CE-5, or Close Encounter of the fifth kind - A sighting event in which the witness is
                either hurt or killed during the course of the event.

         There are further subdivisions of this classification system, but this is basically how
                                  it works.

           Over the years as the "CE" classification system was applied to UFO sightings,
         many patterns developed, however it still yielded no definite answers.

           One particular pattern that emerged was the observed ability of many UFOs to
  shapeshift and/or appear and disappear as opposed to flying in and out of the sighting
   area.  This ability absolutely transcends the physical or natural realm and enters the
    supernatural realm.  Researchers like Dr. Jacques Vallee and the late Dr. J. Allen
      Hynek discussed this characteristic in their book, "The Edge OF Reality."
 

          "If UFOs are, indeed, somebody else's "nuts and bolts hardware," then we must
  still explain how such tangible hardware can change shape before our eyes, vanish in a
   cheshire cat manner (not even leaving a grin), seemingly melt away in front of us, or
  apparently "materialize" mysteriously before us without apparent detection by persons
  nearby or in neighboring towns.  We must wonder, too, where UFOs are "hiding" when
                  not manifesting themselves to human eyes." (1)
 

           Mankind has accomplished many amazing feats, particularly in the last hundred
  years, through technology, but no amount of technological advancement can propel one
    from the natural realm into the supernatural realm, no matter how spectacular the
                       technological achievement may be.
 

                                     The Abductees

          The Betty and Barney Hill abduction incident in 1961 is considered to be the first
 abduction report to be extensively investigated by researchers brave enough to take on
    the task.  Considering the social standards of 1961, belief in "flying saucers" was
 considered fringy at best and UFO investigators were already pushing their credibility to
  the max.  To spend any length of time seriously investigating the claims of "little gray
   men" would pretty much take the cake.  This event was the first step toward social
   reconditioning by the enemy.  It would be several more years before the concept of
                  "Space Brothers" would be accepted in droves.
 

           "A majority of the public  and practically every scientist has thought UFOs were
  nonsense-and that is why there are few UFO detectives.  Now things are changing.  So
      many people have seen strange phenomena that a new belief has been born...
 Unfortunately once disturbed from its comfortable position of rest, the public will shift to
            the other extreme and start believing in space visitations."(2)
 

          There have been claims of contact with space aliens since probably the day after
    Kenneth Arnold reported his nine shiny discs skipping "like a saucer would if you
   skipped it across the water."(3)  But most contacts were considered to be benign in
    nature.  Abduction phenomena took a sinister turn with the Betty and Barney Hill
                                  incident.

          Since the early days of abduction research, tens of thousands of abduction cases
        have been reported.  They, too, began showing peculiar commonalities.

                                    We Smell A Rat!

            Interestingly, these alleged UFOnauts were not only abducting individuals at
  random for some kind of medical experimentation, they also seemed to come bearing a
 message.  This message seemed to be: "We are here to help you."  But help us how?  If
     they were extraterrestrial in nature, they were getting here by some astounding
   technological advancement, but once here, they were performing the most barbaric
  medical procedures ever envisioned by mankind, procedures that made Josef Mengele
                           look sickeningly humane.

           Abductees were commonly reporting rape and other forms of molestation.  They
   received probes of every orifice.  Males had sperm removed while females had eggs
    extracted.  Many abductees were impregnated or shown fetuses floating in vats of
  strange liquid, while others were shown alien-human hybrids that were supposedly the
  result of their involuntary donations.  When asked why, the aliens responded that lowly
            humans cannot comprehend the aliens lofty spiritual motives.

           The late Dr. Karla Turner came to some interesting conclusions based upon her
              personal experience and research of other experiencers:

                    from - "Aliens -Friends or Foes?" by Dr. Karla Turner:

                       - Aliens can alter our perceptions of our surroundings.

            - Aliens can control what we think we see. They can appear to us [in] any number
                             of guises and shapes.

            - Aliens can be present with us in an invisible state and can make themselves only
                               partially visible.

             - Abductees receive marks on their bodies other than the well-known scoops and
   straight-line scars.  These other marks include single punctures, multiple punctures,
  large bruises, three and four fingered claw marks, and triangles of every possible sort.

             - Female abductees often suffer serious gynecological problems after their alien
  encounters, and sometimes these problems lead to cysts, tumors, cancer of the breast
                       and uterus, and to hysterectomies.

             - A surprising number of abductees suffer from serious illnesses they didn't have
   before their encounters. These have led to surgery, debilitation, and even death from
                        causes the doctors can't identify.

           -  Abductees often encounter more than one sort of alien during an experience, not
    just the greys.  Every possible combination of grey, reptoid, insectoid, blond, and
  widow's peak have been seen during single abductions, aboard the same craft or in the
                                same facility.

               - Abductees report being scoffed at, jeered at, and threatened by their alien
   captors. Painful genital and anal probes are performed... Unknown fluids are injected
                             into some abductees.

             - Abductees-"virgin" cases- report being taken to underground facilities where
  they see grotesque hybrid creatures, nurseries of hybrid humanoid fetuses, and vats of
                  colored liquid filled with parts of human bodies.

            - Abductees report seeing other humans in these facilities being drained of blood,
   being mutilated, flayed, and dismembered, and stacked, lifeless like cords of wood.
 Some abductees have been threatened that they, too, will end up in this condition if they
                     don't co-operate with their alien captors.

            -  Aliens come into homes and temporarily remove young children, leaving their
   distraught parents paralyzed and helpless. In cases where a parent has been able to
              protest, the aliens insist that "The children belong to us."

            - Aliens have forced their human abductees to have sexual intercourse with aliens
   and even with other abductees while groups of aliens observe these performances. In
  such encounters, the aliens have sometimes disguised themselves in order to gain the
    cooperation of the abductee, appearing in such  forms as Jesus, the Pope, certain
              celebrities, and even the dead spouses of the abductees.

               - Aliens perform extremely painful experiments or procedures on abductees,
  saying that these acts are necessary but give no explanation why.....Painful genital and
              anal probes are performed, on children as well as adults.

             - Aliens make predictions of an imminent period of global chaos and destruction.
 They say that a certain number of humans...will be "rescued" from the planet in order to
  continue the species, either on another planet or back on earth after the destruction is
  over.  Many abductees report they don't believe their alien captors and foresee instead
                a much more sinister use of the "rescued" humans.

           "In every instance from this list, there are multiple reports from unrelated cases,
 confirming that such bizarre details are not the product of a single deranged mind. These
  details are convincing evidence that, contrary to the claims of many UFO researchers,
   the abduction experience isn't limited to uniform pattern of events. This phenomenon
  simply can't be explained in terms of cross-breeding experiments or scientific research
 into the human physiology...  Before we allow ourselves to believe in the benevolence of
 the alien interaction, we should ask, do enlightened beings need to use the cover of night
  to perform good deeds?  Do they need to paralyze us and render us helpless to resist?
 Do angels need to steal our fetuses? Do they need to manipulate our children's genitals
    and probe our rectums? Are fear, pain, and deception consistent with high spiritual
                                motives?" (4)

          These are indeed some fair questions, and ones that need to be honestly asked by
      anyone even remotely involved in the UFO/abduction realm, whether they are
               experiencers, researchers or even the mildly curious.

                           Meanwhile, back on the Space Coast...

          CE 4 is an alien abduction research group based in Titusville, Florida on the Space
    Coast.  Established in October, 1996, the group consists of about a dozen MUFON
    (Mutual UFO Network) Field Investigators and researchers.  Joe Jordan and Wes
  Clark are Field Investigators for  MUFON, with Jordan being a State Section Director
                          for Brevard County, Florida.

           In the course of performing the occasional sighting investigation, the MUFON
  presence became increasingly known throughout the Space Coast.  About half a dozen
  experiencers turned up throughout East Central Florida.  They approached Jordan and
   Clark assuming if they were specifically MUFON Field Investigators, they would be
   objective enough to listen to their accounts, which they were.  Unfortunately, most of
 them were asking for help, and the only thing these men could do was be good listeners.

          Jordan and Clark decided to independently study the abduction phenomenon, due
  largely to the fact there were so many experiencers in the local area.  CE 4 Research
     Group was established to separate their MUFON activities from their abduction
                                  research.

          After thoroughly interviewing the abductees, CE 4's findings mirrored that of most
    other researchers in the field.  The cases they studied had all the earmarks of the
  "usual" abduction experience.  It eventually became apparent their research, like that
  of the entire abduction field, was leading nowhere, yielding no answers.  For 40 years,
   abduction researchers have looked for patterns in the phenomenon, like what type of
    people have the abduction experience and what do they have in common.  They've
 looked at age, gender, race, education, location, social status, etc., but have established
  nothing.  Maybe they weren't asking the right questions?  It was clearly time for a new
                                 approach.

         After several weeks of intermittent brainstorming, one of CE 4's researchers finally
 put a new question to the group:  "Are Christians being abducted?"  A fair question, and
   one, as far as they knew, had never been addressed by the UFO/abduction research
                                 community.

          First, the question was addressed in the broader scope of religion in general.  The
    local abductees were reinterviewed, then they looked at the work of several other
               abduction researchers to see if any trends developed.

           At first, religious belief seemed not to be a factor.  Christians, Jews, Moslems,
   Buddhists, agnostics, all seemed to share the abduction experience equally.  But as
   more case studies were looked at, a puzzling trend began to emerge.  The Christians
  reporting the abduction experience tended to be people who intellectually espoused the
   existence of God, but didn't apply it personally.  But there seemed to be an obvious
 absence of devout, Bible believing, "walk the walk" Christians.  Where were they in this
                                 equation?

             Then, Jordan and Clark remembered an interview they had made with an
  experiencer a few months before.  He related an experience that made them stop and
    take a closer look.  The experience he related would eventually blow the lid off the
  mystery of alien abduction phenomena.  This man was able to stop his abduction cold,
   which, as far as they knew, had never been done before, and the way he did it is very
                               extraordinary.

            What follows is the case of Bill D.  Bill's experience took place in Christmas,
                               Florida in 1976.

          His abduction started out typically, ie., late at night, in bed.  Earlier in the evening
  he saw some anomalous lights through his living room window over a forest north of his
  house.  He assumed it was a police helicopter searching for drug runners or something.
 Whatever it was, it agitated his dogs for several hours thereafter.  He eventually went to
                                    bed.

          He was lying in bed, kept wide awake by the barking dogs, when paralysis set in.
   He was unable to cry out.  He could see nothing but a whitish gray, like a mist or fog,
 although he sensed someone or something was in his room.  His Wife didn't waken.  The
 next thing he knew, he was being levitated above his bed.  He then had the sensation he
  was being suspended by what felt like a pole inserted into his rectum.  By this time, he
                   was alive with terror, but he couldn't scream.

           Here is where the story becomes very interesting.  The following is an excerpt
              taken directly from the transcript of Mr. D.'s interview:
 

         "I thought I was having a Satanic experience; that the devil had gotten a hold of me
   and had shoved a pole up my rectum and was holding me up in the air... So helpless, I
  couldn't do anything.  I said, 'Jesus, Jesus, help me!' or 'Jesus, Jesus, Jesus!'  When I
  did, there was a feeling or a sound or something that either my words that I thought or
  the words that I had tried to say or whatever, had hurt whatever was holding me up in
  the air on this pole.  And I felt like it was withdrawn and I fell.  I hit the bed, because it
   was like I was thrown back in bed.  I really can't tell, but when I did, my wife woke up
                   and asked why I was jumping on the bed." (5)
 

           This man was able to stop his abduction.  Until this point, Jordan and Clark had
  assumed Abductees were taken, willingly or not.  To stop an abduction was something
  they had never heard of, and this gentleman did it by calling upon the name of Jesus.
 This particular case was astounding.  This case seemed to involve some kind of spiritual
   aspect.  The spiritual element of UFO/abduction phenomena was well recognized as a
 contributing factor by many researchers in the past, however to their knowledge, no one
   had ever done any specific research into the spiritual element itself.  Could there be
 other similar cases?  CE 4 began a systematic search of the UFO/abduction community,
  through the Internet, and the published findings of other researchers.  The premise of
                    spiritual warfare was beginning to develop.

           While CE 4 were researching the spiritual angle of abduction phenomena, Rita
   Elkins, a staff writer with Florida Today newspaper, began gathering material for an
     article entitled "Spiritual Warfare."(6)  As CE 4 Research Group was already
 developing a presence within the UFO/abduction community in East Central Florida, Ms.
          Elkins contacted Jordan and Clark, interviewing them extensively.

         The resulting article drew a large number of responses within the local area.  Many
  of those responding gave accounts of their own experiences, happy to have someone to
   relate them to.  Most of the respondents were Christians and the subject of spiritual
      warfare is not one organized religion prefers to deal with, and they didn't feel
   comfortable discussing their experiences with UFO investigators due to the New Age
  inclination of many UFOlogists.  As the number of cases mounted, the data showed that
  in every instance where the victim knew to invoke the name of Jesus Christ, the event
      stopped.  Period.  The evidence was becoming increasingly difficult to ignore.

         Someone had emailed Ms. Elkins' article to Michael Lindemann who reposted most
 of the article on his CNI News, an Internet news journal dealing with UFO and abduction
   research.(7)  Michael Lindemann's CNI article eventually made it's way to "Flying
 Saucer Review," the most prestigious journal of it's kind on the European continent.(8)

          Now CE 4 were receiving email responses from virtually all over the world; dozens
    of reports of similar experiences of people stopping a potential abduction event by
                       invoking the name of Jesus Christ.

           Incidentally, CE 4 Research Group placed an ad in the classified section of the
  MUFON UFO Journal soliciting experiences of "Christian abductees."(9)  Most of the
  responses were of the "I'm a Christian, and I'm abducted all the time, and I see Jesus
    on the ship." variety.  What this did illustrate however, is there were no "walk the
  walk," Bible believing Christians who had the abduction experience, at least not from
    this source.  As of this writing CE 4 Research Group has yet to find any evidence
    whatsoever of any Bible believing Christian abductees anywhere, and CE 4 is still
                           actively seeking them out.

          A key to understanding the premise of spiritual warfare is to understand there are
   generally two types of Christian; "talk the talk," and "walk the walk." The "talk the
   talk" Christian is carnally minded, nodding mental ascent to Christian concepts and
    principles, but either chooses not to, or has never learned how to apply them in his
   personal life, navigating his way through life his own way via the senses realm.  The
     "walk the walk" Christian on the other hand is a Spirit filled Christian who has
  developed a relationship with Jesus Christ on an individual level and applies Spiritual
    principles in his personal life and is led by the Spirit in every situation.  The data
     gathered so far indicates that each and every human being is potentially open to
   spiritual manipulation and deception by the enemy.  A "talk the talk" Christian can,
    knowingly or not, open up doors to the enemy, but a "walk the walk" Christian, if
    confronted by the enemy, knows the power of the Spirit and knows how to wield it
      against the enemy, so the enemy seldom waste their time on "walk the walk"
          Christians.  "Talk the talk" Christians make for an easier target.

         Bill D.'s case is typical of many examples where the individual had recently become
 a Christian and hadn't yet learned to develop their Spiritual walk, or establish fellowship
  with Christ.  In this case, when Bill had come under the spiritual attack, he resorted to
   the only thing he knew to do, which was to cry out for Jesus Christ.  CE 4 Research
  Group has many cases on file where Christians have invoked the name and authority of
  Jesus Christ and it worked, every single time without exception, but they (the Christian
                      believers) don't know why it worked.

          It should be noted here that CE 4 Research Group has no data to confirm or deny
   the existence of extraterrestrial life elsewhere in the universe.  The research to date
 suggests the UFO/abduction phenomenon is spiritual in nature.   This better explains the
  illusive nature of the UFO phenomenon all through recorded history.  After 50 years of
   the modern UFO era we have literally millions of eyewitness accounts, hundreds of
  photographs and in recent years many examples of video documentation, but we still do
  not have one single piece of hard physical evidence, in spite of thousands of eyewitness
        reports over the years.  This suggests they are not physical, but spiritual
 manifestations.  Even physical landing traces can be explained as a type of "counterfeit
  creation," or manipulation of mass and energy, not to mention shapeshifting and many
  UFO's ability to make 90 degree turns and other maneuvers that are considered to be
                        impossible in the physical realm.
 

         "Another peculiarity is the alleged ability of certain UFOs to dematerialize... There
   are quite a few reported instances where two distinctly different UFOs hovering in a
   clear sky will converge and eventually merge into one object.  These are the types of
         psychic phenomena that are confronting us in the UFO mystery." (10)
 

                       One author had this to say about the ETI theory:

           "In the first place, it assumes the existence of extraterrestrial beings for which
                      there is no hard evidence whatsoever.

            In the second place... If only one UFO is to visit the earth each year, we can
 calculate what mean launch rate is required at each of these million worlds.  The number
  turns out to be 10,000 launches per year per civilization...  This seems excessive."(11)

          "...The extraterrestrial theory draws conclusions of a profoundly 'spiritual' nature
   while conveniently avoiding that controversial label.  Entities that operate with total
  disregard for the inviolate laws of physics, travelling at the speed of light or faster and
   having 'solved all their problems,' would have to be classified as 'spiritual,' semantic
                        arguments notwithstanding." (12)
 

              The evidence further shows the phenomenon is highly deceptive as well:
 

          "Because they are now appearing in a new, modern guise should tell us something
  about their purposes.  Man was not so ignorant in the past that he could not accurately
  describe a "flying saucer."  Rather, the "flying saucers" appeared in different forms in
 the past.  The fact that they have appeared in different forms over the centuries reveals
 their purpose: deceiving men in the historical context of the day in which they appeared.
    Real aliens from a far away world would not need to trick people by appearing in
       different guises.  Deceptive demonic entities would certainly do this!"(13)
 

             The counterfeit is so good that a spiritually undiscerning mind can't tell the
  difference.  Not so long ago, people believed the stories of encounters with little elves
 and leprechauns; the "wee folk" who spirited people away in the night.  Since the age of
 enlightenment and the industrial revolution, most people are too smart to believe in such
  things.  During the UFO flap of 1896/97 in the Western  and Midwestern United States,
  these entities came in vehicles resembling "airships".  In his book, "UFOs In The New
                   Age,"(14) William Alnor says the following:
 

           "Of course, part of the tail-chasing phenomenon is that we can never get to the
   bottom of what these signs in the sky are.  In many cases people began seeing UFOs
 after they became interested in the topic.  And often UFOs will come in a form somewhat
    familiar to their frame of reference.  According to the 'Rain*Maker Newsletter,' a
   defunct publication that explored UFOs and strange events from a Native American
  point of view, the late famed contactee Chief Frank Buckshot claimed his grandmother
 almost two hundred years ago saw a 'flying canoe.'  'She saw people in it,' the newsletter
                    states.  'As it flew low, it had colors.'"(15)
 

            In these days of space flight and nuclear propulsion, they come in the form of
   "flying Saucers" from outer space.  Throughout recorded history they've shown up
   fitting the technology of the time; something people of a particular era could relate to
                               and believe in.
 

          "I cannot help questioning whether the Space Brothers might not be angels, spirit
   guides, and other messengers hiding themselves in more contemporary, and thereby
                        more acceptable, personae."(16)
 

                                Did you say, "Conspiracy?"

          Joe Jordan contacted several of the leading abduction researchers in the country
  regarding the data CE 4 was uncovering.  Perhaps others were seeing these trends as
  well.  They all requested anonymity but off the record, every single one said they, too,
   had  similar cases in their files of abductees stopping their abductions by the name of
   Jesus Christ.  But they didn't know how to deal with that knowledge, so they simply
   disregarded it.  Besides, many of them made their living primarily through abduction
  research and subsequent booksales.  It would not do much for their credibility with the
  UFO/abduction community to reveal the evident authority in the name of Jesus Christ,
  since for the most part, the UFO/abduction community tend to have New Age leanings
 and are therefore trying desperately to kill off Jesus Christ and replace Him with "christ
   consciousness."  Literally hundreds of cases where abductions have been stopped by
    the authority of the name of Jesus Christ, and they're sitting on the information.
  Abundant evidence that belief in Jesus Christ yields results, and they haven't released
  that information to the abduction community.  They dare not because for the most part,
  the abduction community wants "Space Brothers," and they will settle for nothing less,
                            whether it's true or not.

          It's absolutely true there is, in deed, a "UFO cover-up conspiracy," however the
    conspirators are not the United States Government or military establishment.  The
    conspiracy lies within the UFO/abduction community itself.  There are two primary
  factions involved in the cover-up conspiracy. One faction are the researchers who are
 withholding key evidence from those who are trusting them to tell them the truth of their
 research findings. The other are those most vocal in the UFO/abduction community who
   give lip service to "truth," but attack it with such a vengeance, preferring instead to
   believe the "Space Brother" lie.  They attack reality with such open hostility that it
 makes it impossible for the researchers to freely distribute the objective results of their
   research efforts.  "We want truth, only as long as it's 'Space Brothers.'"  "Give us
 'Space Brothers' or else!"  These researchers don't dare release their data and who can
   blame them?  For if they did, a multitude of the UFO/abduction community would eat
    them alive and spit out the bones.  The U.S. Government may be held suspect for
   various other dirty tricks, and assorted scams, but in the case of UFOs, the greatest
    threat to the UFO/abduction community is the UFO/abduction community.  Still the
  abductions continue.  And with every rape, every probed rectum, every sinus crushing
  implant, every nosebleed, every egg or semen extraction, every trauma, and every lie
  the abductee is told, the UFO/abduction community frantically digs for truth where no
                            truth will ever be found.

          The time has come for those of us in the UFO/abduction realm to dump the "Space
 Brother" lie into the cesspool where it belongs, right along with the "white supremacy,"
  "the Earth is flat," and "We are God" lies.  And those of us who sincerely want truth,
 whatever it may be, must demand nothing less from our peers within the UFO/abduction
                                 community.

         CE 4 Research Group is in it for the long haul.  They will release their data as they
 acquire it.  Those in the UFO/abduction community can either rejoice in it or whine about
                           it, however they are led.

                                 A researching we will go...

           Bill D. successfully stopped his potential abduction and did it by calling upon the
 name of Jesus.  The data revealed there is definite authority in the name of Jesus Christ
  that these entities respond to, so Jordan and Clark decided to take a look at the Bible
    from a research perspective to see if it could shed any light on this phenomenon.
  Neither Jordan nor Clark were particularly familiar with the Scriptures, so they took a
  Bible study course that was made available to them.  This course didn't teach doctrine
 per se, but rather, taught how to study the Bible, how to use a concordance, how to use a
   Greek lexicon, etc.  First they learned how to research the Bible, then the research
                                   began.

           When taken in its proper context, the Bible paints a pretty clear picture of what
   we're actually dealing with in the UFO/abduction realm.  What CE 4 Research Group
  promotes are the findings so far in the ongoing Biblical research.  It is a premise called
   "spiritual warfare."  Spiritual, because the data leads to the conclusion of a spiritual
   reality of the phenomenon.  Warfare, because it is indeed a war we are engaged in; a
  war that effects each and every one of us as individuals.  The best available evidence
   suggests the entire UFO/abduction phenomenon is a deception; a counterfeit.  It is a
    scam so utterly cosmic in magnitude that the eternal future of the Human Race is
  threatened.  However, it is a war we can win and is, in fact, already won, if we are brave
         enough to allow ourselves to accept the terms of the enemy's defeat.
 

          "Man will win or lose the battle for the earth itself, for he is at once the goal of the
 battle and the battle ground... The stakes in this battle are not the territory, commercial
     advantages, or political leverage of ordinary wars, but the mind and destiny of
                                 man."(17)
 

                                The mother of all con jobs.

         There is a message being borne by the UFOnauts.  The message being delivered to
  the abductees and channelled by New Age contactees is a lie that has plagued mankind
   since the dawn of Human civilization, and unfortunately, people are still falling for it.

                In virtually case after case, the general message is basically this:

           "We love you and want to help you attain the next evolutionary step to a higher
                                 'density.'"

         "You have been chosen to help your fellow man to see the light.  You are divine but
      we need to help you ignite that spark of divinity that's hidden in all of you."

         "You must throw away your current Biblical teachings as this is hindering you from
                      attaining your higher divine purpose."

         "That which is written in your 'Holy Scriptures' is not what the writers really meant
                                  to say."

                           "Jesus' intentions were misunderstood."

                                       And so on.

               Brad Steiger, a New Age researcher and author, says the following:
 

             "In my Aquarian revelations I presented a distillation of the Outer Space
 Apocrypha that would seem to contain the basic ideas presented to the world by all those
           whom the Space Brothers selected to preach the Cosmic Gospel:

          * Man is not alone in the solar system.  He has "Space Brothers" and they have
                    come to Earth to reach him and teach him.

          * The Space Brothers have advanced information that they wish to impart to their
    weaker brethren.  The Space Brothers want man to join an intergalactic spiritual
                                 federation.

         * The Space Brothers are here to teach, to help awaken man's spirit, to help man to
   rise to higher levels of vibration so that he may be ready to enter new dimensions...

          * Man stands now in the transitional period before the dawn of a New Age.  With
  peace, love, understanding, and brotherhood on man's part, he will see a great new era
                               begin to dawn.

         * If man should not raise his vibratory rate within a set period of time, severe Earth
 changes and major cataclysms will take place.  Such disasters will not end the world, but
    shall serve as cataclysmic crucibles to burn off the dross of unreceptive humanity.
  Those who die in such dreadful purgings will be allowed to reincarnate on higher levels
     of development so that their salvation will be more readily accomplished."(18)
 

         The implication is this.  There's a new "Cosmic Gospel," a new spiritual plan of the
 ages that the "New Age" are gobbling down as fast as these entities can feed it to them,
  however in nearly every case, what they are being told is diametrically apposed to what
   we are told in the Biblical record.  This "truth" they are being fed is a lie of literally
    cosmic proportion.  But according to CE 4 Research Group's study of the Biblical
  record, the alien's "truth" becomes recognizable for the lie it really is, which is a scam,
 and not a very original scam at that.  In fact it's the same lie Satan scammed Eve with in
                             the Garden of Eden.

                                Okay, who are they, really?

          The purpose of the scam is simple.   The intentions of the "Space Brothers" are to
  destroy mankind, and the easiest way to accomplish this task is to hit them where they
    are most vulnerable: their inability to discern spirit.  What they are presenting to
   mankind is a "Counterfeit Gospel," and what is a counterfeit?  Something that looks
    almost exactly like the real thing, but isn't the real thing.  You have never seen a
  counterfeit $23 bill.  That's because there are no real $23 bills.  There are counterfeit
 $20 bills because there are real $20 bills.  Only reality gets counterfeited.  Furthermore,
   if you were to be given a counterfeit $20, it better look an awful lot like a real $20, or
   you'd never accept it.  And so it goes with the abduction phenomenon and the alien's
                          so-called "Cosmic Gospel."

             The New Age and the UFO/abduction phenomenon go hand in hand as the
  principles of New Age philosophy, as taught by the gurus, come to us largely from the
     "Space Brothers" and "Spirit Guides."  One of these principles is, there are no
  absolute truths.  There is no good and evil.  Now, the actions of Mother Theresa are no
 longer distinguishable from the actions of Charles Manson.  Once the enemy got enough
  people to believe that lie, the next step was easy.  If there is no good and evil, then the
  atrocities they commit against their victims are neither good or evil.  When abductees
   respond with fear and terror, it's merely indicative of their spiritually primitive state.
  Jordan and Clark are willing to go out on a limb and suggest that love is love, peace is
  peace, rape is rape, murder is murder and coercion is coercion, no matter where in the
    entire universe one goes.  Fortunately, not everyone has forgotten the concept of
                                  dignity.

            To a spiritually undiscerning mind, the "Space Brother" scam looks awfully
   convincing, because it is "almost" just like reality.  Jordan and Clark are acquainted
   with a Pleidian Channeller who asserts the entities whom she channels are ultimately
 "messengers from God."  When asked how she knew they were of God, she responded,
                          "Because they told me so."

          This is reminiscent of a segment broadcast on CBS News "48 Hrs" the evening of
  May 1, 1997.  The subject of this particular program was child kidnapping.  A test was
  conducted in a toy store in a small New Jersey town.  With the Mother's consent, a guy
  on the film crew approached the child while Mom was away on the pretense of being in
   another store right next door.  Then she returned through the back door and watched
 from a two-way mirror.  The gentleman conducting the test was a middle aged, next door
  neighbor type of fellow.  The children he approached were generally 8 - 12 years old.
  He gave each child some kind of a pitch and in every single case, off each child would
   go, most of them in under a minute.  Each mother's reaction ranged from surprise to
     shocked horror.  Each Mother said, "I've always told my child never to talk to
     strangers!"  And rightly so.  However, when the child thought 'stranger' he/she
    perceived a dark, sinister looking character; not a friendly, unassuming, average
   looking guy approaching them in a crowded toy store in the middle of the day.  They
 repeated this experiment several times and every single time each child walked off with
             the man, not having the slightest sense of possible danger.

            The implication here is blatantly obvious.  When it comes to spiritual matters,
   adults are as undiscerning as the children in the above mentioned case.  We need to
  become fully aware of who we're talking to.  Not all that glitters is gold, and these alien
  entities, or "Ascended Masters," or whatever it is they happen to call themselves may
   not necessarily be what they appear to be.  There seems to be a tendency within the
   abduction community to assume if an event occurs within the spiritual realm, then the
   rules of reason and logic normally applied in the physical realm no longer apply.  The
    evidence suggests the rules of reason and logic are universal in nature and always
   apply, in any situation.  These entities  imply to their followers That they are highly
 advanced spiritual beings, and because humans are mere mortals, it is simply impossible
  for them to understand their lofty spiritual motives.  In their warped little way, they are
    actually telling one of their few truths.  They really are advanced spiritual beings,
  however what they're not telling them is they are highly advanced evil spiritual beings.
   History has borne out that the worst, most devastating lies are the ones that contain
  some element of truth. The Biblical research demonstrates that we can know exactly,
  without a shadow of doubt, what their motives are.  We just have to be willing to take a
                               look at the data.

           Donna Higbee is an abduction researcher, writer, and hypnotherapist in Santa
 Barbara, California.  She is also the director of CEIT (Contact Encounters Investigation
 Team).  After extensive research into abduction phenomena, Higbee became suspicious
 of the alien's message after witnessing firsthand a virtual overnight change in attitude in
  many of the experiencers she had been researching over a period of several months.
 

            "I noticed a drastic change earlier this year in the attitudes of several of the
 abductees from one meeting to the next. People who had been traumatized all their lives
  by ongoing abductions and had only anger and mistrust for their non-human abductors
  suddenly started saying they had been told/shown that everything that has happened to
    them was for their own good, that the abductors are highly spiritual beings and are
   helping them (the abductee) to evolve spiritually.  By accepting this information, the
 abductees stopped fighting abduction and instead became passive and controlled. When
   I checked with other researchers, I found that this was a pattern that was repeating
  itself over and over again around the country. I became concerned that abductees were
   accepting these explanations from entities that we know can be deceitful, use screen
  memories to mask real memories, use virtual reality scenarios to implant images into
  abductees' heads, and manipulate and abuse. I wrote an article for the MUFON UFO
  Journal (September 1995) (19) and encouraged abductees to seriously think about what
  they were accepting as their truth, in light of the evidence, not the explanations offered
                      them by these non-human entities.(20)
 

          The enemy tells their victims they are from "god."  Again, it's what they don't tell
  you that is the key to their identity.  It's true that they are from "god," but which one?
  There is one spiritual realm, but like the physical realm, it is composed of elements of
 both good and evil (at least at the moment).  There is God the almighty, righteous, wise,
 omnipotent, Creator, Father of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, then there is the "god
   of this world," otherwise known as Satan, aka, Lucifer, the deceiver.  Jesus himself
                        called him a liar and a murderer.
 

          "Ye [the Pharisees, or religious leaders in Jerusalem] are of your father the devil,
    and the lusts of your father ye will do.  He was a murderer from the beginning, and
   abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.  When he speaketh a lie, he
  speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it."
                                  John 8:44

                     The Apostle Peter tells us something very interesting:
 

           "Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt
 you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.  Be sober [or of a
 sound mind], be vigilant [or watchful, knowing what the deal is]; because your adversary
  the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour."        I Peter
                                    5:6-8
 

                            Here's what Paul has to say about it:

          "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the
   apostles of Christ.  And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of
  light.  Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers [these so-called spiritually advanced
  "Space Brothers" for example] also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness;
     whose end shall be according to their works."                                                     II
                             Corinthians 11:13-15
 

                   John tells us to test the spirits, and the test is pretty simple:
 

          "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try [or test] the spirits whether they are of
   God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.  Hereby know ye the
   Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of
 God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of
 God: And this is that spirit of anti-christ, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and
   even now already is it in the world.  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome
      them [the enemy]: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the
                          world."               I John 4:1-4
 

                                       And also:
 

          "Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ?  He is antichrist [or in
  opposition to Christ], that denieth the Father and the Son."                          I John 2:22
 

          These entities try to pass themselves off as being so spiritual, but when we know
  what the deal is, their scam is laughably simple.  But the deceived victims aren't asking
   the question!  Because they have rejected what God has made available to them, or
      didn't know what was available to begin with!  Instead, they let themselves be
  razzle/dazzled by the enemy and fall for the big con job, hook, line and sinker!  And all
                     because they just don't know any better.

                                  Here's something else:
 

          "And in the sixth month [of Elisabeth's pregnancy with her son John, or John the
  Baptist, who came before Jesus, announcing His arrival as Israel's Messiah] the angel
  Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, to a virgin espoused
 to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house [or family line] of David; and the virgin's
  name was Mary.  And the angel came unto her and said, Hail, thou art highly favored,
  the Lord is with thee: Blessed art thou among women.  And when she saw him, she was
  troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be."
  [Even Mary 2000 years ago recognized not only the spiritual realm, but that there were
   good and evil elements of it, as she wondered what type this one was.]  And the angel
  said unto her, fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favor with God.  And behold, though
   shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shall call his name JESUS.  He
  shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: And the Lord God shall give
 unto him the throne of his father David [or the throne of Israel]: And he shall reign over
   the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.  [By the way,
  Mary of course gave birth, but the establishment of His kingdom is still future as Jesus
   was rejected by Israel, and Salvation was offered to the Gentile, the mystery as was
  revealed to Paul, hence this 2000 year age of Grace which we may very well be seeing
 the end of.  This can get a little confusing to someone not familiar with it, but everything
  is still right on schedule.  This is an example where time and place become important to
  the context.]  Then Mary said unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not [or
   have not had sexual intercourse with] a man?  And the angel answered and said unto
      her, The Holy Spirit shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall
   overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be
   called the Son of God."
                                Luke 1:26-35
 

         By the way, notice here Jesus is the Son of God, conceived through the Holy Spirit,
    not impregnated by aliens or "Space Brothers" - another lie brought to you by the
  enemy.  Furthermore, here's an encounter with Gabriel, a "spiritual entity" if you will,
    and he left Mary with absolutely no doubt as to who he was or the meaning of his
               message, not a big question mark like the enemy does.

                    Later in the Gospel of Luke we find the following record:

          "And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch
  over their flock by night.  And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory
   of the Lord shone round about them; and they were sore [extremely] afraid.  And the
  angel said unto them, Fear not; for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which
  shall be to all people.  For onto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is
   Christ the Lord.  And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in
 swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.  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 onto Bethlehem, and see this thing
   which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us."           Luke 2:8-15
 

          There is an amazing contrast between the above mentioned record and the typical
   fare served up by the "Space Brothers."  Here we have a record of spiritual entities
  who came with a specific message, said, 'Fear not...', delivered their message, then left,
  leaving these shepherds a clear idea of the information they were just given and what
  they were going to do next.  They were given the "Who, What, When, Where, Why and
 How" of modern journalism. If these entities our current day abductees and channellers
  are dealing with were truly divine, their message would be crystal clear and there would
  be absolutely no doubt what the meaning of it was, unlike the big brouhaha researchers
                  in this realm have been dealing with for years.

           In 1969, Lynn E. Catoe, then-Senior Bibliographer for the Library of congress
  wrote a document that was compiled for the United States Air Force called, "UFOs And
  Related Subjects - An Annotated Bibliography."  In that work, she noted the following:
 

          "A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked with mysticism and
   the metaphysical.  It deals with subjects like mental telepathy, automatic writing and
 invisible entities as well as phenomenon like poltergeist manifestations and possession.
   Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged
 incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic possession and psychic phenomenon that
          have long been known to theologians and parapsychologists."(21)
 

            More recently, A. Cyril Marystone, a contributing writer for "Flying Saucer
    Review," wrote an extensive work outlining the similarities between the abduction
 phenomenon and demonic possession which will soon be available on the CE 4 Research
                             Group Website.(22)

          These entities are not "Space Brothers" from Zeta Reticuli or God knows where,
 but they are demons who come from right here and have been with us since the creation
   of Man.  They understand that people can be made to perform amazingly well when
  terrified.  They also know that by nature, if you tell people a lie often enough and long
  enough, people tend to start believing and accepting it.  Hitler's propaganda minister,
  Joseph Goebbels demonstrated that quite well.  They know our foibles and weaknesses
   intimately, but they also know our strengths, even better than we do; hence the term,
    "familiar spirits."  They know we have defeated them and they will do everything
                 possible to keep their victims ignorant of that fact.
 

           "Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them [the enemy]: because
 greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world."                                                    I
                                  John 1:4
 

          Notice here the Apostle John says, "and have overcome them..."  Past tense.  We
 have already done it!  Now we just have to understand how it is done and believe it!  The
                       overwhelming evidence supports it.
 

                             What does the Bible say, anyway?

            To a great degree, organized religion is largely responsible for the potential
 catastrophe as "religion" has its own agenda.  As physical warfare involves components
 of one side infiltrating behind the others' lines to create subterfuge and confusion, so we
   see the same elements in spiritual warfare.  In countless cases, the enemy is firmly
 entrenched behind the pulpits of "religion."  "Religion" has beaten up so many Spiritual
  seekers over the centuries and sent them over to the enemy's camp.  Many adherents
            to New Age philosophy come right out of organized "religion."
 

           "Very often UFO contactees are, by their own admission, individuals who have
    become disillusioned with the existing religious institutions.  (In the Western world
                     probably Judaism or Christianity.)"(23)
 

           Having been beaten up by the enemy in the name of "God," they were "shown
  something" by the enemy that to a spiritually undescerning mind looked so good.  For
    centuries, people have been falling for the scam and people within the "religious"
       establishment who should have known better stood back and let it happen.

           Words such as "Bible," "Jesus," "Holy," etc. often suggests distasteful mental
    images of ranting raving televangelists and perhaps the last spiritual beating one
   received in church before they bailed out.  One key to understanding the abduction
   phenomenon is to realize there is a vast gulf of difference between Christianity and
 "religion," "religion" being nothing more than a cheap counterfeit of reality.  The scope
        and detail of CE 4's        research is Christianity and the Word of God.

         In the course of their research, Jordan and Clark have run across people who claim
  to be Christians, but they don't believe the Bible is God's Word.  Well, is it or isn't it?
   During the last year they've spent hundreds of hours in the Word and have found the
       integrity of the Word speaks for itself.  Many people say the Bible is full of
 contradictions and errors.  Jordan and Clark have found this to be untrue.  If the Bible is
    God's Word to mankind as it claims to be, then it must be perfect because God is
   perfect.  There are definitely translational errors in the King James version, but the
    original sense is perfect and error free as seen in the original Hebrew, Greek and
                     Aramaic in which the Word was written.

         The key to understanding the Word is, one must always be aware of time and place;
  when was it written and to whom was it addressed.  The nature and personality of God
  never changes, but man's situation does, and because of that, God has dealt differently
  with man in different dispensations throughout the millennia.  There are predominantly
  three groups of people referred to in the Bible; the Jews, the Gentiles and the Body of
  Christian believers who are comprised of both Jews and Gentiles.  God's dealings with
 all three are recorded in the pages of  the Old and New Testaments.  If we assume what
 applied to one group at one time in history applies to all mankind for all time, we wind up
  with more contradictions than one can imagine.  However, if one approaches the Word
        with the awareness of time and place, the contradictions evaporate.(24)

         The Word generates a great deal of fear with many people.  It is somehow assumed
    to be some kind of "mystery document," the keys to which are only possessed by
 seminary trained Doctors of Theology, and few of them can agree on the interpretation.
    The fact is, the Word was written for the most part by common people for common
  people.  It's simplicity is confounding to the wise and its integrity speaks for itself.  The
    problem lies in the fact that many people who claim the Word don't believe what's
  recorded in it.  "Here is what they wrote, but they must have meant something else."

          Recently, Wes Clark spoke with an individual who told him referencing the Bible
   was fine, but one must first separate "the wheat from the chaff."  Okay then, what's
     wheat and what's chaff?  And according to who's authority?  The Word tells us:
 

            "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for
   reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness [or 'rightness']: That the man
  [and woman!] of God may be perfect, throughly [or 'thoroughly'] furnished unto all good
                     works."                    II Timothy 3:16-17

                       All means all, with no exception.  The whole thing.

                                         Also:
 

          "Knowing this first, that no prophesy [or profession] of scripture is of any private
 interpretation.  For the prophesy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of
 God spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit."                                 II Peter 1:20-21
 

           The entire Word of God is literally, "God breathed."  So the Word wasn't "just
   written by men" after all.  That's why, after 66 books and 44 authors over a period of
   1600 years, it all fits like a hand in a glove, because it was essentially written by the
  same author, the Holy Spirit.  Also, there goes the argument for "It all depends on how
  you interpret it."  There is no private interpretation.  It says what it means and means
  what it says.  If something doesn't seem to make sense, it's due to a problem with the
 English translation or our understanding of it.  The Bible contains an astronomic amount
 of data, some of which can be tested for validity, some cannot.  That which can be tested
    for validity turns out to be true and correct every single time.  So, from a research
   prospective only, it would stand to reason that in an entire document or record, if it is
 true every time otherwise, it will probably (but not definitely) be true throughout.  Based
   upon their research findings, CE 4 Research Group stands upon the premise that the
                       Word is true, from cover to cover.

             So if the Bible contains truth, it needs to be looked at and factored into the
 abduction equation, no matter how some may feel about it.  Truth is truth is truth, even if
  that truth turns out to be something other than what we thought it was or even hoped it
 might be.  CE 4 Research group's position is to take a look at the data and see how well
  it stacks with reality.  This is what they have done and this is what they continue to do,
 and for the first time in the realm of abduction research there are answers available that
                                make sense.

 
                             "In the beginning..."

            The Biblical record alludes to an age or existence before creation but doesn't
    reveal a great deal about it, probably because as far as Mankind is concerned, it's
  actually neither here nor there and has no real bearing on us directly, but what it does
                           tell us is very interesting.

           The Word shows us there was no beginning and will be no end of time, as in the
  spiritual realm there is no such thing as time because Spirit is eternal.  Man uses time
  as a measure because in the physical realm his existence is finite.  But in the spiritual
                          realm, time is meaningless.

           Of the "time" before creation, we see a general picture of a universe populated
     with some huge but finite number of Spiritual beings.  There were three of these
   Spiritual beings, or archangels, who were in God's inner circle.  The Word identifies
  them as Michael, Gabriel and Lucifer.  They are truly glorious beings of light.  They all
  had freedom of will and freedom of will is a fundamental feature of God's nature as we
                               will see later on.

                   In the Old Testament book of Isaiah, we find the following:
 

         "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!  How art thou cut
  down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!  For thou hast said in thine heart, I
 will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon
   the mount of the congregation [or Divine assembly of judgement], in the sides of the
 north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most high.  Yet thou
  shalt be brought down to hell [the Hebrew word is "sheol" which translates out to "the
          grave."], to the sides of the pit."                               Isaiah 14:12-15
 

            So Lucifer developed an attitude and, using his freedom of will, rebelled in an
   attempt to dethrone God.  But ultimately, God will destroy him.  What follows next is
                            pretty noteworthy too:
 

           "They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is
   this the man who made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; that made the
 world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his
                prisoners?"                                        Isaiah 14:16-17
 

         In modern vernacular, when Satan is finally seen for what he is, people are going to
   say, "Is this the guy  who caused all the problems?"  It's also interesting that these
   same "Space Brothers" who have supposedly come to "help" us are the very same
             folks responsible for getting us into this mess to begin with!

                               In Ezekiel we find this record:
 

             "Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy
   covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the
  sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets [or
 drums] and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.  Thou art
   the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: Thou wast upon the holy
 mountain of God; thou hast walketh up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.  Thou
   wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in
    thee.  By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with
  violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain
  of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
   Thine heart was lifted up because of thine beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by
  reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that
                   they may behold thee.          Ezekiel 28:13-17
 

           The context of this record is the Word of the Lord as it came upon the prophet
 Ezekiel concerning the King of Tyre as being a type, or comparison of Satan.  However,
          it paints a pretty interesting picture of Lucifer before the rebellion.

                Also, we find this record in the tiny New Testament book of Jude:
 

          And the angels [demons] which kept not their first estate [the heavenly realm], but
  left their own habitation, He [God] hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness
         unto the judgement of the great day [of the Lord].                     Jude 6
 

         So there was war in heaven and Lucifer/Satan and a third of the heavenly host were
 beaten in a cataclysmic defeat at the hands of the forces of God.  This heavenly war was
 of a magnitude that rocked the entire universe.  Radio astronomers tell us that there is a
 background noise that is found everywhere in the universe in every direction from earth
 they look.  The assumption is, these are echoes from the "big bang" event still bouncing
 across the universe.  Could this background noise be remnant echoes of this cataclysmic
                               war in heaven?

         Satan and his minions, the third of the heavenly host cast out of heaven, made their
  abode, among other places, on and in the earth, awaiting their eventual judgement and
                                 destruction.

                           The Bible starts out with Genesis 1:1 -
 

                   "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
 

                 Then, right away we find something pretty interesting in verse 2:
 

          "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the
           deep.  And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
 

          If we go back to the original Hebrew, we find that the nearest English equivalent is
                   not "was" but "became."  So now we have:

                       "And the earth became without form, and void..."

            So if the earth became without form, that implies there must have been form
     sometime before.  The context of the creation account suggests that God spoke
      everything into being, as in creating order out of chaos after some universally
                              catastrophic event.
 

          "And God said, 'Let Us make man in our image, after Our likeness: and let them
  have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle,
  and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.'  So
    God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and
               female created He them."                   Genesis 1:26-27
 

          We are nobody's lab rats.  God created us to be the hallmark of His creation.  The
  Word tells us that God created the heavens and the earth and all that is in them.  And
  lastly, God created Mankind, man and woman, in His Spiritual image.  As God is love,
  we have the capacity to love.  As God is intellectual, we have the capacity for intellect,
            etc.  Mankind was created perfect in mind, body and SPIRIT.

         In the Hebrew, "God" is translated from "Elohim," which is a word used to express
   God as a creator.  There are several different words used in the Hebrew to express
   different characteristics of God.  Other examples are Jehovah, the God of covenant,
 Elyon, God the most high, Shaddai, God the Almighty, and Adonai, God in relation to the
  Earth of His creation, to name just a few.  Suggesting the "Elohim" are an ancient race
  of "Space Brothers" who genetically engineered Mankind is another lie propagated by
                         the enemy and it just isn't true.

                             We were created perfect in mind -

         People who insist on clinging to the theory of evolution tell us we originally came as
 a result of some amino acids who randomly decided to get together and make living cells
  in some primordial ooze.  Those who are of the "Space Brother" persuasion prefer to
     think that mankind was developed in a test tube in someone's highly advanced
 laboratory on some other planet.  Others like to believe life drifted here via an asteroid,
    like the Mars rock.  Either way, ancient man was just too stupid to have built the
    pyramids, etc.  They had to have had extraterrestrial help.  The evidence seems to
  indicate otherwise.  For example, Mankind built magnificent cities in the ancient world.
                          Nineveh is a good example.
 

           "Out of that land went forth Asshur [a son of Shem who was a son of Noah from
  whom we get Assyria], and builded Nineveh (and the city of Rehoboth) and Calah: the
              same is a great city."                                   Genesis 10:11
 

             These cities supported populations of thousands of people, so the secular
   archaeologists tell us.  The logistics involved with day to day living must have been
  tremendous.  Nineveh would have been similar in scope to New York or Los Angeles,
     but the Word says it was utterly and completely destroyed.  For centuries it was
 assumed to be a mythological city because no ruins of such a huge city were ever found,
    but an archaeologist positively identified the ruins in 1845.  Alexander the Great
   marched his armies across the top of it around 350 BC and never knew it.  The point
         being, these ancient urban wonders weren't achieved by being stupid.

                   We were created perfect in mind, but something happened...

                             We were created perfect in body -

         We were designed to never die.  Modern science tells us the cells in our organs and
   tissues continually regenerate themselves.  Our hearts are such strong muscles that
    they should theoretically never wear out.  Yet, each and every one of us reaches a
    certain age and something triggers the aging process and we eventually die; some
 sooner, some later.  Science is now trying to understand what that triggering mechanism
                                    is.

            In the book of Genesis, we see genealogies of people who lived 700, 800, 900
     years.  Scientific evidence shows that ante-deluvian, or pre-flood environmental
             conditions would easily support lifespans of such duration.

                   We were created perfect in body, but something happened...

          We were also created perfect in Spirit.  God is Spirit, therefore, Adam had Spirit.
  The record in Genesis tells us God created Adam, then He created a garden, a virtual
                paradise, and put Adam in it, with Eve soon to follow.
 

           "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his
 nostrils the breath of life [the Hebrew word is 'nephesh,' or 'soul life.']; and man became
  a living soul.  And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there He put
               the man whom He had formed."              Genesis 2:7-8
 

            The Biblical record is a little sketchy here, but it seems to suggest Eden was
 located near the Tigres and Euphrates River valley in what is now modern day Iraq.  It's
  interesting to note that secular anthropologists will tell you the cradle of modern human
                civilization seems to have been in that same region.
 

               "And God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very
                      good..."                        Genesis 1:31a

 
         So God put Adam and Eve in the garden and gave them dominion over all creation.
     The mission was to be fruitful, multiply, and make it all work.  There was direct
          communication between God and man, but something happened...

          As  mentioned earlier, one of God's characteristics is that He holds freedom of will
  in extremely high regard.  He gave free will to the angels of heaven and He gave free
     will to man.  God could just as easily have created an entire universe filled with
 automatons who would obediently show love and reverence to Him on command, but this
   isn't what God wanted. God created Man to be like Himself, with a free will so that
            Mankind might love and honor Him because they wanted to.

          God set Adam and Eve in the garden and gave them everything they needed and
  wanted because He loved them.  They were perfect in mind, body and Spirit and had no
     concept whatsoever of evil.  Adam and Eve could do whatever they wanted.  All
   dominion was given to them.  There was only one thing they were to never do.  They
            must never eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil:
 

          "And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, 'Of every tree in the garden thou
 mayest freely eat: but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shall not eat of
  it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die.'"                      Genesis
                                  2:16-17
 

          God didn't say, "If you disobey me I will punish you."  It was simply an IF-THEN
  statement - IF you eat of this tree, THEN you will surely die.  "IF you stick your hand
                   on the hot stove, THEN you will get burned."

         Why would God have put them in such close proximity to potential disaster?  If God
    hadn't done that, they wouldn't have had the option to disobey.  With this potential
 threat in their midst, they had the option to disobey God if they willed, but obey God and
   stay away from it, there would be no threat at all.  This tree wasn't going to reach out
                and grab them.  All they had to do was don't eat of it.

           Satan shows up in the picture fairly early on.  Everything about Satan is totally
 anti-God.  Everything God is, Satan is not.  Satan hates us simply because God loves us,
     and because Man was God's hallmark of creation, Satan launched an attack on
                           Mankind to destroy him.

         For some reason, King James' scribes translated the original Hebrew description of
  Satan as "serpent," when actually, the original Hebrew uses the word "nachash" which
    in English can be rendered a description of a rather attractive, enticing, loving and
  caring being of light.  Sounds a little familiar, doesn't it?  Eve was not approached by a
    mean, ugly, fearful snake, but by a shining "light being."  Those who do accept the
 reality of a Satanic realm need to get rid of the mental image of Satan as being "a mean
  little man in a red suit with horns and a pitchfork."  The Word tells us that Jesus claims
   to be the Light.  It also tells us Satan claims to be the light.  In fact, the name Lucifer
    means "light bearer."  A spiritually undecerning mind cannot tell the difference.

            It's interesting that Satan didn't approach Adam, but Eve instead.  It's also
      interesting that the first words Satan utters in the entire Bible is a Question:
 

          "Now the serpent [read loving, caring light being] was more subtle than any beast
  of the field which the Lord God had made.  And he said unto the woman, 'yea, hath God
    said, 'Ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden?'"                            Genesis 3:1
 

          And Eve told him the instructions from God as she understood them.  Then comes
  the bald-faced lie which is the same lie still being propounded by the enemy today, and
                          people are still falling for it.
 

          "And the serpent said unto the woman, 'Ye shall not surely die [in essence calling
   God a liar]: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes will be
   opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.'"                               Genesis
                                   3:4-5
 

         So Adam and Eve ate.  Get ready!  Here come the "S" word!  They SINNED!  It is
  important that the reader understand the following point.  "Religion" likes to throw the
    "sin" word around rather indiscriminately, however, "sin," by direct definition, is
 "missing the mark," or "falling short of the target."  Sin can be perceived as a terminal
   disease, genetically passed through the blood from generation to generation with an
  infection rate of exactly 100%.  Mankind's inclination toward evil is a symptom of this
       disease.  As almost everyone is well aware, the world is in a state of virtual
   self-destruction at man's own hand.  This is the physical manifestation of mankind's
   fallen Spiritual condition, otherwise known as man's "sin nature."  Not every human
 being is an axe murderer or serial killer, but every human being suffers from the effects
  of sin.  Every human being is prone to failure.  This is a deadly serious situation, not a
   game to be played like "religion" does, using "sin" as a tool to measure themselves
  against one another, or to play a game of spiritual "one-upmanship" with their peers.
 

           "For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus
                Christ our Lord."                                     Romans 6:23
 

          Adam and Eve's transgression threw a wrench in God's finely designed machine of
   creation.  One of the results was mankind became intimately acquainted with death.
 Man was never meant to die, but was now a slave to death.  The record states, "...In the
  day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die."  But how could that be?  The Word
   also says Adam begat sons and daughters and lived to be 930 years old!  They died
 Spiritually!  And because God is Spirit, Mankind was now cut off from God and dominion
 was legally passed from Adam to Satan.  In fact, if we jump ahead in time to when Satan
          was tempting Jesus in the wilderness, he says an interesting thing:
 

          "And the devil, taking Him [Jesus] up into a high mountain, shewed unto Him all
  the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.  [How do you like that for an abduction
   case?]  And the devil said unto Him, 'All this power will I give thee, and the glory of
 them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whom-soever I will I give it.  If thou therefore
        wilt worship me, all shall be thine.'"                                         Luke 4:5-7
 

         "For that is delivered unto me..."  Who delivered it to him?  Adam did!  And here's
                             what Jesus told him:
 

            "And Jesus answered and said unto him, 'Get thee behind me, Satan: for it is
         written, 'Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou
                          serve.'"                 Luke 4:8
 

         "For it is written..."  Every attack Jesus received from Satan in the wilderness, He
   answered with, "It is written..."  Everything Jesus quoted happens to come from the
  Word of God.  If Jesus thought the Word was important, Then maybe we should, too.

         But back in the garden, Man was now in some real big spiritual trouble!  This writer
  can't express strongly enough that what happened was NOT punishment from God.  It
 was a direct result.  For example, if you shoot yourself in the head, your likely death is a
                             result, not a penalty.

          The Word tells us that God was absolutely livid in righteous anger!  Not at Adam
  and Eve so much, for  God no doubt grieved at the Spiritual loss.  God loves Mankind
      tremendously!  He saw the hallmark of His creation just go down the tubes.
 

          "And the Lord God said unto the woman, 'What is this that thou hast done?'  And
  the woman said, 'The serpent [Satan, the friendly, loving light being] beguiled me and I
 did eat.'  And the Lord God said unto the serpent [friendly, loving light being], 'Because
  thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field;
   upon thy belly thou shalt go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:"
                               Genesis 3:13-14
 

                      And Satan has been assaulting humanity ever since.
 

          "And I will put enmity between thee [Satan] and