This book is
titled “The Bible, Physics, and the Abilities of Fallen Angels”. Before we get
started, I want to point out that this book is on what I call “fallen angels”
and not on what I would call “demons”.I
make a distinction between the two, as I think there is a hierarchy of evil
spirits, and some are more powerful than others.
We see this in
scripture:
Eph 6:12“For
we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but againstprincipalities,
againstpowers, against therulers
of the darknessof this world,
againstspiritual wickednessin
high [places].”
Rom 8:38-39
For I
am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, norangels,
norprincipalities, norpowers,
nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other
creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus our Lord.
Evil spirit beings are regularly divided up into types in the Bible.
Some types of evil spirits are more powerful than others. I am defining “demons”
as the less powerful evil spirits that require gaining influence or control over
a person or animal in order to have any physical presence. The evil spirits that
Jesus and the disciples cast out of people in New Testament are the only spirits
referred to as “demons” biblically.
What about the
demonic hierarchy of evil spirits?
I do think that
demons can affect dreams, and it is this kind of dream which can sometimes cause
one to believe they have experienced an “alien abduction” although there is no
physical evidence left from the experience, as is the case in other “alien
abduction” accounts. These dreams I would attribute as being caused by evil
spirits of the demon level, or sometimes fallen angels as well.
Demons also cause
waking oppression. Some contactees and abductees while awake practice channeling
of what they call “aliens”. This could also be attributed to demons. Finally,
demons, once they have a physical influence or control over a person’s body, can
cause seizures, illnesses, ailments, and madness, as seen in the Bible. Some
things related to the “alien abduction” phenomenon may be attributable to demons
in this way.
However, besides
these few things, there are many other parts of the “alien abduction” experience
that simply do not match the physicality level or powers of demons. They would
require a higher physicality and power, as fallen angels have.
Dan 10:13
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one
and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me;
and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
And I am defining
“fallen angels” as being the more powerful evil spirits that can have a physical
presence that is not dependant on inhabiting a person or animal’s body. These
are more comparable in abilities to Holy angels, or to Satan, having comparable
abilities, and of the same or a similar class or as him.
Fallen angels are
of the class referred to in Daniel as the “prince of the kingdom of Persia”. We
read that Gabriel could not overcome the “Prince of Persia” by himself, but
needed Michael’s assistance. So, in Daniel it is made clear that some spirits
are more powerful than others.
The distinction
having been made, this book is mainly on fallen angels and not on demons.
However, I do want to make a note. I once asked
Joe Jordan, the president of theCE4Research
Group(which
undoubtedly has worked with more alien abductee cases than any other Christian
organization that I can think of, some 500 cases) what abductees typically
reported to their research group. He responded that the vast majority, even over
90% of abductees, usually started out recounting their experiences with, "I've
had these dreams..." And so the research
indicates that there is reason to think the vast majority of "alien abduction"
experiences have a more dreamlike, and less physically-real-seeming, quality to
them. Of course, this leaves less than about 10%, of "alien abduction"
experiences in which the abductees have reported a physically-real-seeming
quality to the experience. Any thorough explanation of the mechanics of "alien
abduction" must of course cover both types of "alien abduction" experiences.
What follows attempts to be such an explanation, covering all the many aspects
of what has been reported. There perhaps may be more of an emphasis in this
study of explanation of the more physically-real-seeming experiences, which is
necessary for a thorough explanation. But please do make note that the attention
given to experiences with this physically-real-seeming quality in no way negates
that this type of experience is reported by the research to be the less common
sort of experience.
To better
understand what these fallen angels can do, we are going to take a look at the
abilities demonstrated by angels in the Bible. Then
we will compare the abilities of fallen angels as described in the Bible to
modern alien abduction accounts.
It would make sense that the abilities of fallen angels would be the same as the
abilities of Holy angels, as God originally made all of them to be Holy angels,
who were capable of carrying out certain tasks for God. These tasks include
giving messages, through dreams and visions, or delivering a message while
appearing as a man. Though they usually remain invisible, angels protect people
from harm (Psa 91:11-12). They function as the army of God (Rev 19:19): they
destroyed Sodom (Gen 19), brought down the wall of Jericho (Josh 5-6), and smite
people (1 Ch 21). God created angels to be able to do things like these.
Angels can do
miraculous supernatural things, and unfortunately fallen angels can still do
many of these same things, as they were created with these abilities. But they
use them for evil and deception. As such we’re going to be looking at examples
found in the Bible of both Holy angels and fallen angels, to establish what the
Bible says are the abilities of angels in general.In
this we can have a better idea of what fallen angels can do in general. And also
a foundation for better understanding the activities that fallen angels are
engaged in today, which seems to include “alien abduction” experiences.
Visions caused
by Angels
Angels can cause
what the Bible refers to as “Visions”.
Dan 10: 1-12
In the third year of
Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called
Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he
understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision. In those days I
Daniel was mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came
flesh nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three whole
weeks were fulfilled. And in the four and twentieth day of the first month, as I
was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;Then
I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and beholda
certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning,
and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to
polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.AndI
Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision;
but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.Therefore
I was left alone, and saw thisgreat
vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was
turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength.
Yetheard I the voice of his words:
and when I heard the voice of his words, then was I in a deep sleep on my face,
and my face toward the ground. And, behold,an
hand touched me,which setme
upon my knees and upon the palms of my hands. And he said unto me, O Daniel,
a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand
upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me,
I stood trembling. Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the
first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself
before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.
What can we
observe from this passage? Daniel calls what he experienced a “great vision”
(Daniel 10:8) which was caused by an angel. While having this vision:
It was real to the bodily senses: Daniel
was in his body, he saw with his eyes, he heard with his ears, he felt a
hand of an angel touch his body, felt being on his hands and knees and later
standing up, and he felt bodily trembling
The vision Daniel saw was overlaid on
top of the reality everyone else could see, but others could not see the
vision. (Dan10:7)
What Daniel saw was unusual, and even
impossible-seeming, such as a face with the “appearance of lightning”. Also
the voice of the singular being he was seeing sounded like a multitude of
voices.
Daniel was awake, and not dreaming, nor
in a trance.
Daniel’s body was
still surrounded by objective reality, the river, the landscape, and the men
fleeing from something they couldn’t see but felt emotionally. The men could see
the river and the landscape. However, Daniel’s mind was also seeing a vision
from an angel overlaid onto this objective reality, and this vision that he
interacted with felt completely real to his bodily senses. He saw it, he heard
it, and felt it, yet no one around him could even see it, though they felt fear.
The Bible confirms that Visions caused by angels are experienced with the
senses, seen with the eyes, heard with the ears, felt tactilely in the body,
stating it plainly in Eze 40 and 44.
In thevisionsof
God brought he me into the land of Israel, andset
meupon
a very high mountain, by which [was] as the frame of a city on the south.And
he brought me thither, and, behold, [there was] a man, whose appearance [was]
like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring
reed; and he stood in the gate.[angel]
And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with
thine ears,and set thine heart
upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew [them] unto
thee [art] thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of
Israel.Eze 40:2-4
Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked,
and, behold, the glory of the LORD filled the house of the LORD: andI
fell upon my face.And the LORD
said unto me, Son of man, mark well,and
behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine earsall
that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and
all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every
going forth of the sanctuary.Eze
44:3-4
Before going any further, I think it is important to be able to conceptualize
what a Vision is.What would an
experience like this be called in the present-day world? If a man today claimed
to have seen an angel, which he saw with his eyes, heard with his ears, touched,
and who no one else with him could see… There are many today who would say he
must have had a “hallucination”. Not only that, but also a “visual, audio, and
tactile hallucination”. And there are many people today who would say such a man
should see a psychologist or psychiatrist for help. This would only be more
likely if the man started claiming he was a prophet, and writing down his
experiences, because he thought these “hallucinations” were important enough
that God wanted them recorded to be shared with posterity. Then he might really
be labeled as “crazy” and locked away. But this would all be the case only
because much of the world today rejects that God exists, that angels exist, and
rejects that angels have supernatural abilities and can interact with mankind.
A hallucination is defined as: “a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind,
caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic
substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.” -Dictionary.com
“a sensory perception that does not result
from an external stimulus and that occurs in the waking state. It can occur in
any of the senses and is classified accordingly as auditory, gustatory,
olfactory, tactile, or visual. It is a symptom of psychotic behavior, often
noted during schizophrenia, as well as of other mental or organic disorders and
conditions.” –Mosby’s
Medical Dictionary
Inherit in the
definition of a “hallucination” is the forgone conclusion that it is “not a
result of external stimulus” (like an angel), it “does not exist outside the
mind” objectively (like angels or the spiritual side to reality itself), and it
is “caused by various physical and mental disorders” and is a “symptom of
psychotic behavior”.
The difference between a Vision and a hallucination is that a Vision IS a result
of external stimulus, namely angels, who are an external stimulus that do exist
outside of the mind, and a Vision is not caused by a physical or mental
disorder, nor is it a symptom of psychotic behavior.
But like a hallucination, a Vision is a sensory experience, like Daniel is
described to have had.
Of course, differentiating between a “hallucination” and a “Vision” is entirely
a matter of if one can prove as to whether the sensory experience was caused by
an angel or not caused by one. It is hard to prove that a “hallucination” was
not caused by external stimulus when that external stimulus could be an angel,
who stays invisible and does not declare their presence.
In fact, one could just as easily assume that all “hallucinations” are actually
caused by angels (holy or fallen) and are therefore Visions, as one could assume
that all Visions are not caused by any external stimuli (but rather from some
physical or mental disorder) and are therefore “hallucinations”. As to which is
which, the deciding factor is all a matter of personal spiritual beliefs, bias,
and very subjective personal interpretation of the experience.
But for Christians, the Bible is full of many examples of Visions caused by
angels. And Visions in the Bible have quite a bit of variety to them, for
instance some happen while awake, and some happen while in a trance state. An
example of a Vision had during a trance is in Acts 10:9-17.
On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and drew nigh unto the city, Peter
went up upon the housetop to pray about the sixth hour: And he became very
hungry, and would have eaten: but while they made ready, hefell
into atrance,
Andsawheaven
opened, and a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet
knit at the four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein were all manner of
fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things, and fowls
of the air.Andthere
came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat. ButPeter
said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or
unclean. Andthe voice spake unto
him againthe second time, What
God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. This was done thrice: and the
vessel was received up again into heaven.Now
while Peter doubted in himself what this visionwhich
he had seenshould mean, behold,
the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon's house, and
stood before the gate.
Observations on
this passage:
Peter had this “vision” in a “trance”,
while awake, and not asleep. The “trance” is not described as “dreaming”. It
seems likely that those preparing for lunch who were with Peter saw Peter in
this trance state. However, this trance state is not described as
“dreaming”. Peter was awake, and not asleep, though in a trance state.
Peter observed being in his body - this
is implied by him being able to optionally “rise, kill, and eat”. Peter also
is seeing with his eyes, and hearing with his ears.
Peter, like Daniel, sees unusual or
impossible-seeming things.
During this
trance Peter experiences what the Bible calls a ‘vision’ (“horama” Strong’s
3705). Earlier in Acts 10:3, Cornelius also receives a “horama” vision,
specified to be caused by an angel. Later, in Acts 12, Peter is unsure whether
or not he is having another vision, when an angel is present:“Peter
followed him (an angel) out of the prison, but he had no idea that what the
angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision”Acts
10:9 NIV
These Visions
(which communicate a message) are Biblically associated as being caused by
angels, as Holy angels are God’s messengers; the Greek word aggelos meaning
“messenger”. Many times angels give messages from God by causing dreams or
visions.
The word above in
Acts 10 for ‘trance’ is “ekstasis” (1611 in the Strong’s). The second definition
is “a throwing of the mind out of its normal state, alienation of mind, whether
such as makes a lunatic or that of a man who by some sudden emotion is
transported as it were out of himself, so that in this rapt condition, although
he is awake, his mind is drawn off from all surrounding objects and wholly fixed
on things divine that he sees nothing but the forms and images lying within, and
thinks that he perceives with his bodily eyes and ears realities shown him by
God.”
So, even the
Strong’s Concordance defines this trance as an experience in the mind, which is
perceived with “bodily eyes and ears”, or in other words is real to the bodily
senses. In Peter’s case, he describes that he perceived hearing with his ears,
seeing with his eyes, and speaking with his mouth. This indicates he perceived
himself as being in his body, experiencing something which seemed real to all
the bodily senses. However, it is implied that those around Peter perceived him
as being in a trance state. Peter might not have known he had been in a trance,
but may have just thought he had been awake, if there had not been other people
around that saw him in a trance.
Another instance
of a vision, which was also likely facilitated by a Holy angel messenger (Se Rev
1, 1:1) happened to Paul and the men with him in Acts 9 (related again in Acts
22).
Acts 9:3-8 And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round
about him a light from heaven: And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice
saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou,
Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee
to kick against the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what
wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the
city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. And the men which journeyed
with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. And Saul arose
from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him
by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
Acts 22:6-11 And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus
about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. And I
fell unto the ground, and heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me? And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I
am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. And they that were with me saw
indeed the light, and were afraid; but they understood not the voice of him that
spake to me. And I said, What shall I do, LORD? And the Lord said unto me,
Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which
are appointed for thee to do. And when I could not see for the glory of that
light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.
Observations on
these passages:
Paul and the men saw the light, though
no one saw to whom the voice which was speaking belonged.
Paul saw the glory of the light, and it
was so intense he was blinded by it, but the men with him did not even see
it in the same intense way he did.
Paul heard and understood the voice that
was speaking
The men heard the voice that was
speaking, but did not understand it
In this case the
vision was waking. What is most interesting is that the vision was experienced
in one way by Paul, and in another, more limited way, by the men with him. This
implies that it is possible for a group of people to experience the same vision.
Yet, this case also shows that one person can see A but another person can see
B, even while they are both having a shared Vision.
So it seems an angel could cause several people to have a Vision at the same
time, but each person might see something different, still experiencing it with
their bodily senses, but differently for each person.
Dreams Caused
by Angels
Besides Visions, the Bible teaches that angels can also cause dreams, such as
seeing an angel in a dream, as is in the case of Joseph the husband of Mary,
surrogate father of Jesus Christ:
Matt 1:20But
while he thought on these things, behold,the
angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of
David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in
her is of the Holy Ghost.
Matt 2:13And when they were
departed, behold,the angel of the
Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child
and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word:
for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
The Bible also
gives an example that some experiences may be a mix between a dream and a
vision, but happen when one is asleep in one’s bed.“In
adream, in avisionof
the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed”Job
33:15
Besides Dreams and Visions, the Bible teaches that angels can also interact with
people physically, in ways that leave physical effects afterwards.
Acts 12:5-12,
18-19 Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the
church unto God for him. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same
night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the
keepers before the door kept the prison.And,
behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison:
and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And
his chains fell off from his hands. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself,
and bind on thy sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment
about thee, and follow me. And he went out, and followed him;and
wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a
vision.When they were
past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth
unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and
passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him. And
when Peter was come to himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the LORD hath sent his angel, and hath delivered
me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of
the Jews. And when he had considered the thing, he came to the house of Mary the
mother of John, whose surname was Mark; where many were gathered together
praying. …. Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the
soldiers, what was become of Peter. And when Herod had sought for him, and found
him not, he examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to
death. And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
In this case an
angel is sent to free Peter from Herod’s prison. At first Peter thinks he is
experiencing a vision, but soon realizes these events have truly taken place.
Peter had visions before, and his confusion proves the point thatvisions
are real to the bodily senses - as real as objective reality -which
is why Peter was not sure if what was happening was a vision or not.
But the events were physically real and did take place in objective reality.
The angel
materialized in a physical way and caused lasting physical changes in objective
reality. Other people, such as the guards, Herod, and Peter’s friends, were all
affected by these lasting physical changes to objective reality, in the angel
rescuing Peter from prison.
Not only that,
but the angel was able to defy physics in objective reality, or seem to have
supernatural powers, by doing things such as causing a light to shine, chains to
fall off, likely opening what was a locked gate, and moving a very heavy door
with apparently supernatural strength, as well as appearing and disappearing
seemingly out of nowhere.
Another example
of angels appearing physically and leaving physical effects is Gen 19:
Gen 19:1-7,
10-13, 24-28 And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and Lot sat in the gate of Sodom:
and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them; and he bowed himself with his face
toward the ground; And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into
your servant's house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise
up early, and go on your ways.
And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night. And he pressed
upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and
he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat. But
before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the
house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they
called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this
night? bring them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the
door unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren, do
not so wickedly….But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house
to them, and shut to the door. And they smote the men that were at the door of
the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves
to find the door. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in
law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city,
bring them out of this place:For
we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before
the face of the LORD;and the LORD
hath sent us to destroy it…Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah
brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities,
and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew
upon the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt. And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he
stood before the LORD: And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all
the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as
the smoke of a furnace.
Some
observations:All of the men
of the city could see the angels, not just Lot. The angels caused all the men
who were harassing Lot to become blind. The angels likely turned Lot’s wife into
a pillar of salt. The angels also destroyed the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, and
Abraham was able to observe the smoke from the city’s destruction from far away.
Today some people (see arkdiscovery.com) say they have found the destroyed city,
and no doubt some evidence of this angelic event remains to this day, somewhere.
In the case of
Sodom and Gomorrah the angels were seen by men and interacted with them. These
angels appeared looking as human men. However, angels can also interact with
objective reality without being seen, and remaining invisible, as is seen in
Job.
Job 1:12-19
And
the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon
himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence of the
LORD.
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and drinking
wine in their eldest brother's house: And there came a messenger unto Job, and
said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them: And the Sabeans
fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the
edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet
speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from
heaven, and hath burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I
only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also
another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels,
and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the
sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking,
there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy daughters were eating and
drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: And, behold, there came a great
wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell
upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
In this case God
effectively removed a “hedge of protection” around Job and allowed everything
but Job’s life to be put “into Satan’s hands” (Job 1:12). Satan then inspired
people to kill Job’s servants, caused a fire from heaven to come down and kill
his sheep and servants, and caused a great wind to demolish a house on top of
Job’s children, killing them all. Though Satan was invisible in all of these
events, nevertheless the events Satan caused occurred in objective reality, and
there were multiple witnesses to the physical effects of what had occurred.
Another lasting
effect angels can cause is physical illness or injury, is seen in Acts and in
Job:
Acts 12:21-23
And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat
upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the people gave a shout,
saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the angel of
the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of
worms, and died.
In this case in
Acts the angel was invisible, at least his public appearance to the crowd is not
recorded, and the angel caused a physical ailment resulting in death to the body
of a person.
Job 2:6-7
And the
LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in thine hand; but save his life. So went
Satan forth from the presence of the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from
the sole of his foot unto his crown.
In Job, the angel
Satan was invisible, but in objective reality he caused real and visible
injury/disease to Job’s body, and Job was ill for some time, until God set
things right.
In the case of
fallen angels, such as the fallen cherubim Satan, we also know that they can
appear looking like holy angels (who look like men).
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.2
Cor 11:13
Holy angels are of the messenger-type of angel, who look like men, though
sometimes glowing with light. Satan who is a cherubim (with 4 faces, 3 of
animals, and 4 wings) can transform himself to appear as looking like a Holy
messenger-type angel, like a man and glowing with light. And of course fallen
messenger-type angels, who already look like men, can do this all the more
easily.
Observations on
Physical Interactions with angels:
1. There can be multiple witnesses of angels who appear looking like men
2. There can be multiple witnesses to lasting physical effects caused by
angels, including illnesses, injury, and death
3. There can be supernatural occurrences that seem to defy physics, in
objective reality
4. Generally reality follows normal physical laws, except for the actions of
the angels
5. Physical effects can also be caused by angels that, though present, remain
invisible
6. Fallen angels can appear looking like holy angels, who look like men,
sometimes glowing
So far we have
covered that the Bible teaches that angels can interact with people by the
methods of Visions, Dreams, and can interact with people physically either while
appearing as men, or while remaining invisible. The Bible also teaches that
there can be limited physical interactions during a Vision that seem to combine
or merge with the Vision experience itself. These limited physical interactions
can leave physical effects that remain after the Vision is over.
Visions Caused by Angels Can Include Limited Physical Interactions Which Can
Leave Physical Aftereffects
Let’s look at an example from the book of Revelation. The entire book of
Revelation contains a very long and detailed Vision given to John by a Holy
angel, even though some of the terminology seems a little different at first
glance,
Rev 17:3Sohe
carried me away in the spiritinto
the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of
names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 21:10Andhe
carried me away in the spiritto
a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem,
descending out of heaven from God,
In these examples
John says that “he carried me away in the spirit”. The “he” that is referenced
here is an angel of the Lord, a messenger of Jesus Christ,and
thisis established in Rev 22:8-9 And I John saw these things, and heard [them]. And when I had heard and seen, I
fell down to worship before the feet ofthe
angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See [thou do it]
not: for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of them
which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
From these
passages, we know that all the things John experienced in the Vision were caused
by a Holy angel. An angel can “carry someone away in the spirit”, but this term
is synonymous with someone having a Vision caused by an angel. We can know the
term is synonymous because John also makes clear that all of this was a Vision: And thus I saw the horsesin
the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of
jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses [were] as the heads of
lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.Rev
9:17
Altogether, the entire imagery John recorded in the book of Revelation was
caused by an angel of the Lord showing John these things in a Vision.Also,the
same phrases are used in Eze 11:24,"Afterwardsthe
spirit took me up,andbrought
me in a vision by the Spiritof
God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity. So thevisionthat
I had seen went up from me." And so if one is "in the
spirit", then the Bible indicates that one is having a Vision.
What John
experienced was real to all the bodily senses, even including taste, and
internal feeling in his stomach, as John perceived he was experiencing all this
bodily. John ate a scroll which was part of the vision, tasted it, and it was
“bitter to his stomach”. And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in
my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.Rev
10:10
In this Vision caused by a Holy angel, John was writing down what he saw and
heard throughout his entire experience on a piece of paper. Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and,What
thou seest, write in a book, and send [it] unto the seven churches which are
in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira,
and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea…Write the things
which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be
hereafter; Rev 1:11,19
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices, I was about to write:
and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Seal up those things which the
seven thunders uttered,and write
them not.Rev 10:4
John did not
write down the Vision experience after it had ended, but while it was ongoing.
What is astounding is that this paper remained with him after the experience had
ended. Whether John was given the paper to write on and the writing instrument
during the Vision, or if John carried these things into the experience and out
of the experience later, is unknown. But in either case, John took the paper out
of the Vision with him, which he had written on during the Vision, and so a
greater level of lasting physical effects is shown here than in most Visions.
This example establishes that the Bible teaches an angel can cause a person to
have a Vision which leaves minor physical effects or traces, like the scroll
John recorded the Vision on, or even bodily effects, even internal bodily
effects like his stomach becoming bitter. The Bible also teaches that angels can
have physical interactions with people that can include causing people bodily
injuries or illness. As Visions can include limited physical interactions with
angels that leave physical aftereffects, it makes sense that Visions could
possibly include physical aftereffects of injuries or illness as well.
Visions Caused by Angels
Can Manipulate a Person’s Perception of Time
A Vision also may include elements of a fallen angel manipulating a person’s
perception of time. Another angelic encounter in a passage with similar
terminology to “carried me away” uses the phrase “took him up”. These may be
synonymous terms. This experience caused by an angel (Satan) was likely also a
Vision experience. Andthe devil took him up, to
a high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the worldin
a moment of timeLuke 4:5
(CompareAnd he carried me away in
the spirit, to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the
holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from GodRev
21:10)
The Greek word
here for ‘moment’ is “stigme” (4743) which literally means a “point” of time.
This word is used only once in the New Testament, but is used in the Greek Old
Testament, the Septuagint, in Isaiah 29:5. The word that is translated as
“stigme” is “petha`” (6621) in Hebrew. According to Thayer’s Lexicon, “petha”
means “the opening of the eyes”, hence the meaning “a moment of time”. The
amount of time referenced to here is the amount of time it takes to open your
eyes. This is no more than the time it would take to blink. It takes a human
about 300 to 400 milliseconds to blink; that is 3/10ths to 4/10ths of 1 second.
How could Jesus
see “all the kingdoms of the world” in the time it takes to blink? Or even in
one full second? It would seem that to be shown all the kingdoms of the world
should take at least a couple hours, if not days, if a thorough tour was done.
But even snapshot pictures in quick succession would take a couple minutes, and
this without any time to really think about what one was seeing. And so the
necessary amount of time to be shown all the kingdoms of the world is still
incredibly more than 3/10ths of a second, or even one full second.
This passage
implies that one second passed in time, but Jesus experienced subjectively a
much longer period of time than one second during that one second. And so it’s
possible that there can be time perception manipulation in a Vision caused (in
particular) by a fallen angel. There is another example in the Bible of
something similar on a greater scale, during Joshua’s Long Day.
Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites
before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand
thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun
stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon
their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still
in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there
was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the
voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.Josh
10:12-14
This passage could be interpreted as to mean that God can pause the progress of
time forward, that the clock is paused, but people still can do things while
forward-moving time is paused. God seemed to be able to do this to the whole
world, a large scale, as the sun stood still in the sky. Because the sun stood
still in the sky, if time was being manipulated here (not the earth’s rotation),
then this was a case of forward-moving time being paused, and not a case of time
travel. Yet while forward-moving time was paused, in that moment time in
substance still seemed present, and in a way that still allowed people to
interact and do things.
The angels are called “sons of God” or “gods” at times, and in this it seems
they may be able to cause someone to perceive something similar on a very
limited scale. The effect is that of a longer period of time being experienced
during a much shorter period of time. But the only Biblical example of an angel
doing this seems to be the fallen angel Satan doing this to Jesus alone, during
what was very likely a Vision that Satan was causing Jesus to have. As a Vision,
this was a spiritual experience that only affected the person having the Vision,
and not everyone else in physical reality. The only Biblical example of a fallen
angel being able to add time like this, is during a Vision the fallen angel is
causing someone to have. But there is no indication or Biblical example that
angels can do this on a larger scale like God Himself can do.
This makes sense as God made time (Gen 1:1), and is outside of it eternally.
Only He is “the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end” (Rev 21:6, 22:13)
and only God knows the end from the beginning (showing that angels cannot time
travel): Remember the former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else;
[I am] God, and [there is] none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning,
and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My
counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:Isa
46:9-10
Angels and Fallen angels are still only created beings who experience linear
time as we do, caught in the flow of time moving forward.
Butthe prince of the kingdom of
Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief
princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Dan
10:13
Therefore rejoice, [ye] heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the
inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! forthe
devilis come down unto you,
having great wrath, becausehe
knoweth that he hath but a short time.Rev
12:12
And so while a fallen angel may be able to cause a person to perceive extra time
in a Vision, while linear time seems to be paused, there is no indication that
fallen angels can do this on a larger scale like God can. He is God who made
time, and angels are just created beings who exist caught in the flow of time.
And as this could be confusing, I hope that it has been made clear that this
does not have anything to do with the science fiction concept of time travel,
which in fact the Bible indicates that fallen angels cannot do, and is not
possible.
However, the Bible does seem to indicate that a longer time can be condensed
into a shorter time, like time itself has a second aspect or dimension to it.
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord
as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slack
concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to
us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance.2 Pet 3:8-9
A thousand of our
years can seem a short time to God, who is eternal. A thousand years for us
doesn’t seem like a long time to Him, but rather a thousand of our years seems
to Him like a day would for us. But also, just one of our days, as perceived by
Him, would seem to us to stretch on and on like it was taking a thousand years,
from our perspective. This may be as in a single one of our days, the Lord is so
busy and with so much to do, that it would take us a thousand years to get as
much done. It might take us a thousand years to get as much done as He does in a
day. This may refer to what it is like, that He hears all of our prayers, and
intercedes for all of us, "Who [is] he that condemneth? [It is] Christ that died, yea rather, that is
risen again, who is even at the right hand of God,who
also maketh intercession for us."Rom
8:34
All over the world, Jesus Christ intercedes for, and hears the prayers of
millions of people, a multi-tasking of an incomprehensible sort. A solution in
understanding this may be that a longer period of time can be condensed down
into a shorter period. Time itself is a thing that was created by God, and may
have been designed in such a way as to allow for this. But again, this is
another Biblical example that a longer period of time can seem to be condensed
into a shorter period of time. Time perception manipulation caused by the fallen
angel Satan followed along these lines in the Vision he seemed to cause Jesus to
have in Luke 4:5. And so the only sort of time manipulation that there is any
Biblical precedent for is: time perception manipulation of adding time into a
paused moment. Fallen angels seem to be able to do this in a limited way, and by
the only example of this in the Bible, it seems they only can do this in a
Vision they cause a person to experience.
A Vision Caused by an Angel Can Seem So Real As to be
Indistinguishable from Reality
Peter couldn’t
tell if something was real or a Vision, and so in Acts mistook reality for a
Vision, because Visions can seem so indistinguishably real. Peter followed him (an angel) out of the prison, but he had no idea that what
the angel was doing was really happening; he thought he was seeing a vision”Acts
10:9
There is a second
witness to this by Paul. I believe in this example the Bible speaks on the
difficulty of the confusion in telling one from the other, with guidance on how
we should handle that difficulty. It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come tovisionsand
revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago,
(whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell:
God knoweth;) such an onecaught
upto the third heaven. And I
knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God
knoweth;) How that he wascaught
upinto paradise, and heard
unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.2
Corinthians 12:1-4
The word here for
"caught up" is "harpazo", and the same word is used in Acts 8:39 when
"the
Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip, that the eunuch saw him no more". And so
being "caught up" does happen to be a term that can refer to the Holy Spirit
moving someone to a new place, bodily. It is used in reference to Jesus'
ascension (Rev 12:5) and to believers being caught up into the air to be with
the Lord (1 Thes 4:17). And so this word seems to reference more to people being
transported by God bodily.
But on the other hand, Paul also makes it very clear that he cannot tell if the
man was caught up ‘in his body’ to the third heaven, or caught up ‘out of his
body’ to the third heaven. To understand what Paul means here by
“out of the
body”, we have to look to earlier in this same book, in 2 Cor 5:4-9, where Paul
says, "We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body,
and to be present with the Lord." In this case Paul references to one whose body
is dead, and so their spirit is with the Lord. Paul defines the term "out of the
body" to mean one is "in spirit".
And so in 2 Cor 12 Paul references back to 2 Cor 5, saying he did not know if
the man was "out of his body" which is another way to say "in spirit". Putting
this together what Paul says is that he doesn't know if the man was caught up to
the third heaven in his body, or in his spirit.
The word “harpazo” and term “caught up” is rather synonymous with “carried away”
or “taken up”, and these are terms which are both used of Visions caused by
angels. And indeed, in this passage Paul is referencing to
“visionsand
revelations of the Lord”.
In 2 Cor 5 Paul is saying that he doesn’t know if this man was caught up bodily
to the third heaven, or if the man was caught up in the spirit to the third
heaven in a Vision caused by a Holy angel. Many people think Paul was referring
to himself in this passage, though this also may have been a story he heard in
detail from whoever experience it. In any case, Paul couldn’t figure out if the
experience happened bodily, or was a Vision in the spirit. The reason why Paul
couldn’t figure out which was the case is because a Vision experience seems so
real that it can be indistinguishable from reality.
2 Cor 12 is telling us that it can be impossible to tell by the bodily senses if
something was a physical bodily experience, or if it just seemed to be and was a
Vision in the spirit. However, as much as Paul admits he does not know if this
man was caught up to the third heaven in his body or in his spirit, Paul also
makes it very clear that God knows. This means only God has the answers, for
instance in His Word, and through His Holy Spirit. We cannot tell with our
bodily senses alone whether an experience was in the body, or a Vision, but God
can tell. While people sometimes can’t figure out whether an experience was real
or a Vision, God can reveal the truth about an experience to those who ask Him.
If a person is
“carried away in the spirit” while having a vision caused by an angel,
does this mean that a person's spirit leaves their body?
No.The
Bible indicates that a person who is having a Vision, taken in the spirit,
actually never leaves their body. Daniel had"visions
of his head upon his bed"and
in the middle of the vision"was
grieved in my spirit in the midst of [my] body, and the visions of my head
troubled me."(Dan 7:1,15) And
so we can see that while Daniel had Visions, in his spirit, that this was all in
the midst of his own body (no matter where he seemed to be, or what he saw) and
that the Visions he experienced were of his head, which is part of his body. Not
only that, but all of these Visions Daniel had took place whilehe
never left his bed. Note that part of this vision included Daniel seeing the
"Ancient of Days", likely on His throne, which would be in the third heaven.
Even though a person may seem to be somewhere else, they actually are only
"carried in the spirit" in the "midst of their body”. The Visions are of their
head, in their spirit, which is in their body. So the Bible indicates their
spirit never leaves their body, but they have the Vision experience in their
spirit, and their spirit remains inside of their body.
Visions Caused by Angels Can Contain Just About
Anything
Visions can
include settings or landscapes of just about any place, be about anything, and
can include anyone or anything as a character in the Vision, and can include
perception of travel.
Daniel had a Vision that occurred where he stood by the River Chaldea. Peter had
a Vision while on the housetop where he was, of the housetop, though he was in a
trance. So Visions can be of places that are a person’s normal surroundings.
John had a Vision where he saw heaven, as did Isaiah (Isa 6) and Daniel (Dan 7),
and so a Vision could be of Heaven.
Ezekiel saw a Vision of Jerusalem, of the temple, which was a real place.
Ezekiel also had a Vision of a valley full of bones, and when the bones came to
life into an army, this was not of something taking place in an actual valley
somewhere (Eze 37). And so Visions can be of real places or invented places.
Even if the valley was a real valley somewhere, what Ezekiel saw was not
actually taking place in that valley. Though, what Ezekiel saw in Jerusalem was
taking place there. So Visions can be of things that are happening somewhere, or
of things that are not actually happening somewhere (but are symbolic, and of
truth being taught only in the case of visions from Holy angels).
Ezekiel experienced the perception of travel in a Vision (Eze 8, Eze 40), and
Daniel seemed to be near a great sea in his Vision (Dan 7) and so Visions can
seem to include travel or being in a different location. But Daniel makes clear
he didn’t go anywhere during his Visions, but was in his bed while he had them.
Ezekiel saw people in the Vision of the valley of bones. John saw people in his
Vision of Revelation, as well as strange looking locust creatures, angels, a
dragon, a strange beast with seven heads and the body parts of various animals.
The characters in a Vision could be in the forms of people, real or not, angels,
animals that exist, and strange creatures that don’t exist. But like an artist
can draw a cartoon of about anything, or any place, so can an angel cause a
Vision to contain just about any landscape or characters.
Whatis seen in a Vision can vary
wildly and be of just about anything. During a Vision a person may see angels,
people, entities, living creatures, landscapes of strange places, or of familiar
ones, as well as perceiving they experience travel to various places. Yet all of
this is just part of the Vision caused by the angel, and the Bible teaches, like
Daniel, that people don’t actually go anywhere, regardless of what they perceive
during a Vision.
The Bible summarily teaches several things about Visions caused by angels:
1. A Vision can seem totally real to a single bodily sense (like sight) or to
all of the bodily senses, and a person’s self-perception is usually that they
are in their body.
2. A Vision can affect one person or multiple people, though they may perceive
it differently
3. A Vision can occur in a waking state, or in a trance state
4. A Vision can be causes by a visible angel, or an invisible angel
5. A Vision can involve some physical effects that remain afterwards, such as
objects that remain with a person, and bodily effects, even internal ones.
6. A Vision can involve manipulation of a person’s perception of time, like an
hour in a minute.
7. A Vision can contain just about any landscape, or any sort of characters, and
can seem to involve travel, even though the person doesn’t actually go anywhere
8. A Vision can seem so real to the bodily senses that it is indistinguishable
from reality, even in the case of people who are experienced with Visions,
though God knows and can reveal the truth
This level of power in the hands of fallen angels is staggering to
conceptualize. I thank God that they are limited in what they can do, and who
they can do it to, by God’s laws of spiritual authority grounds. A fallen angel
can only attack someone if they have spiritual authority grounds and rights to
do so. God places a “hedge of protection” around people, limiting whom the
fallen angels can harass and harm, and limiting the level of harassment and the
extent of the harm that they can do to a person. (See Job 1 and 2, also the New
Testament is full of this concept. This also involves the concept of spiritual
warfare, see Resources at end for further information.) It is also a relief to
know that for every fallen angel, there are 2 Holy angels working for God and
Jesus; and so the fallen angels are outnumbered two to one. Additionally Jesus
Christ assures believers in Him:
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all
the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.Luke
10:19
False Dreams and False Visions
caused by Fallen Angels
We have covered
Visions that were had by people who were prophets, or those with the gift of the
Holy Spirit of prophecy, such as Daniel, John, Ezekiel, Peter and Paul. Even in
the case of Joseph having a dream of an angel, telling him to flee to Egypt,
this also was a prophetic warning given by a Holy angel. When Holy angels cause
people to have a dream or a Vision they are delivering a message, but often
these messages are classified by the Bible as "prophecy" and those who have them
as "prophets".
In the Bible, prophecy is heavily associated with a person having dreams or
Visions. And as we have established, dreams and Visions can be caused by Holy
angels, who are God's messengers.
“And it shall come to pass in the
last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons
and your daughters shallprophesy,
and your young men shall seevisions,
and your old men shall dreamdreams”Acts
2:17
“And he said, Hear now my words: If
there be aprophetamong
you, [I] the LORD will make myself known unto him in avision,
[and] will speak unto him in adream.”Num
12:6
And so a person who has a dream or
a Vision caused by a Holy angel is classified by the Bible as a prophet. And
while an angel delivers a message to the prophet, the prophet in turn delivers
the message on to other people. The Strong's definition of prophet is a
"spokesman, speaker", and to prophesy is to "a) be under the influence of a
divine spirit" or to be "b) a false prophet".
The Bible also mentions false
prophets. True prophets have true Visions that are caused by Holy angels sent by
God. But the Bible teaches that false prophets have False Visions and Vain
Visions.
“Have ye not seen avain
vision, and have ye not spoken alying
divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith [it]; albeit I have not spoken?
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies,
therefore, behold, I [am] against you, saith the Lord GOD. And mine hand shall
be uponthe prophets that see
vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my
people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel,
neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I [am]
the Lord GOD.”Eze 13:7-9
Then the LORD said unto me,The
prophets prophesy liesin my
name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them:
they prophesy unto you afalse
vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart. Jer 14:14
False prophets have False Visions,
and these are caused by Fallen angels who lie and deceive.
And he saith, `Therefore, hear a word of the Lord; I have seen the Lord sitting
on His throne, and allthe host of
the heavens [angels]standing by
Him, on His right and on His left; and the Lord saith, Who doth entice Ahab, and
he doth go up and fall in Ramoth-Gilead? and this one saith thus, and that one
is saying thus. `And a spirit came out, and stood before the Lord, and saith, I
-- I do entice him; and the Lord saith unto him, By what? and he saith, I go
out, and have beena spirit of
falsehood in the mouth of all his prophets; and He saith, Thou dost entice,
and also thou art able; go out and do so.1
Kin 22:19-22
In this passage the angels were
around God's throne, and an angel admits to having been communicating deception
or lies to the false prophets. God permissively allows this deceptive angel to
continue to do what the falling angel himself is able to do, and chooses to do.
And so the Bible teaches that fallen angels do communicate lies and deception to
false prophets. And this is by the method of false dreams and False Visions,
which false prophets are reported to have.
Beyond false messages which fallen angels can communicate in False Visions or
dreams, they can also use False Visions and dreams to simply harass and frighten
people, to a terrible extent. While Job was under a series of attacks caused by
Satan, a fallen angel, Job records:
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; Then youscare
me with dreams andterrify
me with visions so that I would choose strangling and death rather than my
bones.Job 7:13-15
And so the Bible teaches that
fallen angels can victimize people with their ability to cause dreams and
Visions, using these to scare and terrify, even to the point of severe
traumatization from them. Job here experiences severe depression, longing to die
rather than deal with these terrifying dreams and Visions. It seems various
other psychological symptoms besides severe depression could result from these
experiences as well, as Job's account here shows they can be very traumatic, and
different people handle trauma in different ways.
Along with this, fallen angels can also cause False Dreams and False Visions to
communicate a lying or deceptive message, false information, to a person with
the intent that the person might become a false prophet, who shares the false
message as truth.
This is part of why the Bible warns
that people must test spirits, not just believe them, as these fallen angels are
at war against all of humanity, to deceive
us: "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:
because many false prophets are gone out into the world."(1
Jn 4:1) and as Jesus said,″Many
false prophets will arise, and will mislead many.”(Matt
24:11)
But even in the midst of this war followers of Jesus Christ can have God's
reassurance, Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor principalities
nor powers [fallen angels], nor things present nor things to come, nor height
nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the
love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.Rom
8:37-39
Next we will
compare modern alien abduction accounts to the Biblically based abilities of
Fallen angels. The Bible teaches that Fallen angels can cause False dreams and
False Visions.
In False Visions causes by Fallen angels:
1. A Vision can seem totally real to a single bodily sense (like sight) or to
all of the bodily senses, and a person’s self-perception is usually that they
are in their body.
2. A Vision can affect one person or multiple people, though they may perceive
it differently
3. A Vision can occur in a waking state, or in a trance state
4. A Vision can be causes by a visible angel, or an invisible angel
5. A Vision can involve some physical effects that remain afterwards, such as
objects that remain with a person, and bodily effects, even internal ones.
6. A Vision can involve manipulation of a person’s perception of time, like an
hour in a minute.
7. A Vision can contain just about any landscape, or any sort of characters, and
can seem to involve travel, even though the person doesn’t actually go anywhere
8. A Vision can seem so real to the bodily senses that it is indistinguishable
from reality, even in the case of people who are experienced with Visions,
though God knows and can reveal the truth
What is
experienced in “alien abduction” accounts?
Abductees report
in their experiences that in some cases the experience feels completely real to
the bodily senses, sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell, and time perception.
Abductees can be adamant that some of these experiences were NOT dreams, but
occurred in a waking state. Here are some common events in abductee accounts:
Seeing aliens of
a wide variety of types
Walking through
walls (themselves or seeing aliens do so)
Defying gravity
(flying or floating themselves, or seeing aliens/spacecraft do so)
Travel to
outer-space, other planets, and other galaxies, with no suit or spacecraft, and
Travel to outerspace in spacecraft
Impossible
scenarios, like breathing underwater or in viscous liquid, without drowning
Not breathing for
a half hour or more in air, without suffocating or dying
Injuries that
only last until the end of the experience
Injuries that
remain after the experience, sometimes mostly healed and leaving scars
Strange or rare
illnesses
Medical-like
examinations and procedures including needles and drills
Time perception
disturbances and manipulation, time loss, time gain
Sexual
molestation, assault and rape
Miscarriages and false pregnancies with supernatural aspects
Physical pain and
torture
Partial or
complete paralysis during experience
As you can see,
these experiences are often highly confusing, painful, and violating.
Now let’s look at some individual alien abductee accounts.
The case of "Robert" summarized from CE4 Research Group’s case files: On a Monday, Joe and Robert had a conversation. Robert said he had been having
abduction experiences with colorful light beings for a year. Each being was a
different color, and looked much like the light-people in the movie Cocoon. He
described that it felt real to his bodily senses, and he seemed in his body,
however he did not need to breathe during his experiences.
Later that week, on Thursday, Robert was in a car with his girlfriend. Robert
slumped over like he passed out unconscious while in the car, and his girlfriend
was with him. Robert experienced a long period of conscious time during what he
later recounted as being like a vision with the beings. He felt he seemed to
have gone somewhere else. However, to Robert’s girlfriend, he was in a trance
state that only lasted a minute or so. But he experienced several hours’ worth
of experiences, during the minute he was passed out. As his girlfriend was there
with him, she saw he did not go anywhere, his body did not leave. Just in that
week, since first talking to Joe, the experiences had turned very bad, and the
light-beings were being very nasty to him, and Robert wanted the experiences to
stop. Robert could somehow feel that an experience was about to happen, before
it happened, precipitating the entities attacks on him. Telling his girlfriend
beforehand, Robert had a second experience the same evening.
-Joe Jordan, CE4Research, Unholy Communion: The Unwanted Piece of the UFO Puzzle
www.ce4research.com
Robert said he
had been having abduction experiences with colorful light beings much like the
light-people in the movie Cocoon. He described that it felt real to his bodily
senses, and that he seemed to be in his body; however he did not need to breathe
during his experiences.
Robert had 2
experiences while seeming to pass out in a trance, which seemed to last hours
for him, but his girlfriend said he was only in this state for a few minutes.
(Robert
Continued) Afterwards, Robert called Joe, telling him what had been happening to him that
day. While on the phone, Robert could feel another attack coming on. This was
the third experience that day, and he was again in a trance state, for a couple
of minutes. His girlfriend, present, saw this, and talked to Joe on the phone
while this was ongoing. When Robert’s experience ended, he got back on the phone
and related to Joe that the beings who were attacking Robert told Robert that
they “hated Joe” because he understood what was happening to Robert.
The next morning
Joe and a Christian co-worker went to Robert’s house and met with him and his
girlfriend. While there, Robert felt another attack coming on, but before he was
forced into a trance again, they rebuked the entities in the name and authority
of Jesus Christ, and Robert said he could feel the entities disappear, stopping
the attack.
-Joe Jordan, CE4Research, Unholy Communion: The Unwanted Piece of the UFO Puzzle
www.ce4research.com
As I mentioned
earlier, time manipulation seems to occur in the Bible during False Visions
caused by fallen angels. In this case, the experience could have been a False
Vision, and matches the Biblical description very well. Robert experienced time
manipulation, and the experiences were real to his bodily senses, and at the
same time during his experiences he did not breathe for impossibly long periods
of time (that is, his subjective time).
The case of
Robert was of a False Vision which was real to the bodily senses, it fully
overlaid objective reality, happened in a waking trance state, to one person.
But there was a witness with Robert that saw him go into a trance state, and
remained with him throughout. This shows, as is recorded in Daniel, that he did
not go anywhere, but rather had these False Visions in his spirit, in his body,
while remaining where he was.
This next case
from an “alien abductee” is from “Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction
Agenda” by the late Dr. Karla Turner PhD. “Lisa had some conscious memories of encounters with the typical Grays, as well
as missing-time episodes, multiple-witnessed UFO sightings, unexplained body
marks, telepathic communications from unseen sources, and many dream-memories of
ambiguous reality - except in those instances where other evidence pointed to an
actual event. While the details of Lisa's life-long involvement are certainly
very typical, the alien intrusions are clearly more intense and frequent than in
many such cases…
In 1980, however,
Lisa did see something very different from the shadows, in a terrifying event.
"A being appeared to me," she recalled, "when I was a couple of weeks pregnant.
We had just got into bed and Neal already seemed 'out of it,' and the being
appeared on the end of the bed, squatting, telling me mentally the child I was
carrying was special and it would be a boy. I almost had a fainting spell. I
threw the covers over my head as the being was leaping toward me, I believe, and
said, 'In Jesus' name, take it away!' It disappeared, and I fell quickly asleep.
It was about three feet tall, dark-skinned, leathery looking. I don't remember
anything else."
-Karla Turner PhD, Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda, Pg. 36-37
I would also say
this case was a False Vision, partially overlaying objective reality, in a
waking state, and happening to one person. When rebuked in Jesus’ name the False
Vision ended, and what she was seeing disappeared.
Transcribed from
the Cursed Net internet radio show, the next case describes multiple witnesses
seeing a UFO over a populated area.
“Byron:
That beings me to the question of when did you first see a UFO? And how did it
affect you? Kathy: The first UFO I saw I was probably in my very early 20s, there
were three other people with me and we all saw it, only one of them remembers
seeing it, and none of us remember what we did the rest of the day… Byron: How could you forget such a strange instance, and its also
puzzling to me how you could not remember what you did for the rest of the day,
after an event like that, could that indicate this expression called “missing
time”, may have taken place right at that time? Kathy: That’s what I’m taking for granted now… I mean we had a long drive
home, a couple of hours from where we were at the time, and none of us remember,
we don’t even remember that weekend, I mean the next few days we all went, “What
did we do Saturday? I don’t remember.” You know, but it gets fuzzier and fuzzier
as the years go on… Byron: What did it look like? Kathy: It was huge, we were on a street with houses on both sides that
backed up to a beach, and we were walking to our vehicles, and it came over us,
and the reason I think we looked up is because it got dark, it was like the sun
went away, and you could see the bottom of a … the starship enterprise, it was
like mechanical looking stuff on the bottom, but you couldn’t see the beginning
or the end of it, you could see it went past the houses on that side of the
street, it went past the houses on [the other] that side of the street, as far
as you could see in both directions, up and down, its like we were seeing just a
teeny piece of the bottom of a huge spaceship… And there was virtually no sound
either, that’s something one of the other people who was with me said about it,
because I remember us saying that “It’s not making any sound at all” while we
were looking up.”
-Byron LeBeau, Richard Stout and Greg Messina,
www.thecursednet.com,www.blogtalkradio.com/cursednet
with guest Kathy Land (1/5/09)
Happening in a
populated area, in which a huge sun-blocking UFO would be arguably noticed by
the residents, local police, and local news, this event seems more likely to be
a False Vision than any sort of Physical Manifestation. This was a False Vision
shared by a group of people, who were all under a deceptive attack with False
Visions at the same time. This waking False Vision seemed to only partially
overlay objective reality, in that the UFO was seen but not heard to make any
sound at all, while hovering over the neighborhood. But there were multiple
victims which saw the vision, and missing time was noted by all involved.
Missing time is can be described as a type of time perception manipulation. All
of this matches what the Bible teaches is possible with False Visions caused by
Fallen angels.
Once an abductee,
Kathy is now a former abductee, and a Christian, whose experiences have been
terminated from happening in her life, by the name and authority of Jesus
Christ.
The next case is
of Maureen: “Arriving at the nominated spot, all 3 people then sat in Maureen’s car. She
saw the same “man” had appeared just outside the vehicle. Neither of the other
2, Judith Magee or Paul Norman, could see anything unusual present. Maureen says
that the “man” was beckoning her to join him outside the vehicle. She refused to
get out of the car.
Suddenly,
according to the others present, Maureen “fainted”. She began a verbal
description to them whilst she was in this apparent state of unconsciousness.
She related she was in a round room somewhere, which was lit, but there was no
visible source of illumination. This scene was indistinguishable from the
consensus reality that we call “real life”.
The “man” just
appeared in the room, in which there was also a mushroom shaped object rising up
from the floor. This was stemmed, with a broad domed top. There appeared to be
an inner hemisphere, wobbling around, and it was covered with what looked to be
hieroglyphics on it. The “man” told her to describe what she could see, and this
she did, to be heard by the 2 in the car. She could see no doors, or windows in
this room, and so began to be scared. She started to cry, then woke, still in
the car, with tears in her eyes, saying she could not remember anything that had
just occurred. The 2 in the car filled her in on what had transpired.”
-Keith Basterfield, “Maureen Puddy: An Australian Abductee Physically Present
During An Abduction”, 1992, As presented at the 1992 Abduction Study Conference
at M.I.T
Two different
aspects of False Visions are distinctly represented here. The first, like that
of Kathy, was a partial overlaying onto objective reality in a waking state.
However, unlike Kathy’s case in which all the people saw the UFO, in this case
only Maureen saw the entity outside the car, while two people with her did not
see it. Maureen alone was having a False Vision, while those with her were not.
I would like to point out the same pattern occurs with “ghost encounters” in
which someone with supposedly “special sight or powers” can see the ghosts but
others with them cannot.
The second False
Vision seen here was a full overlaying of objective reality, in a trance state.
This is very similar to the case of Robert. The experiences were real to the
bodily senses for Maureen, and she seemed to be somewhere else. But in this case
Maureen was speaking to people with her while in the trance state, and in her
case the passage of time seemed normal. Although she perceived herself in her
body in another location in a way that felt real to all of her bodily senses,
she never left the car and the two people with her. Maureen also spoke out loud
to the people with her during this False Vision experience.
The next case may
be of an extreme case of time perception manipulation, or there may be some
other explanation for the experience. But we are going to cover this case
assuming the time perception manipulation is factual as is recounted with
insistence by the abductee. And time perception manipulation as we have covered
occurs in False Visions. “The Mars Records” and “The Mars Records 2” detail
probably the most extreme case of time perception manipulation I have read about
in a False Vision, which is said to have lasted for a subjective period of 20
years. The entirety of the books by Stephanie Relfe, is about the experiences of
her husband Michael, with many details.
To summarize,
Michael was a childhood abductee, who in the 70s enlisted in the US military. In
1976 Michael had a very unusual experience. He remembered enlisting in a special
military program.He then experienced
traveling through a “portal” to Mars.
He experienced
what seemed to be 20 years of time, which he spent on Mars, and afterwards he
perceived his body was made younger and he perceived he traveled back through
the “portal” to 1976. Then he was back on Earth, and the time was about a week
after he remembers leaving to Mars. During those perceived 20 years he remembers
being stationed on the planet Mars on a US military base, working in a Top
Secret military operation. He remembers having a wife on Mars, who died on Mars.
There were many aliens throughout his experiences, Grays and Reptilians, as well
as a Martian population of millions of human people.
In several
incidents in the books, the fallen angels include in the False vision a piece of
technology, a “portal”, which is portrayed as a time travel machine. As seen in
other cases, time can seem to be gained subjectively during abductions, in time
perception manipulation. However, in the case of Robert mentioned earlier, while
he experienced hours during a minute, his body did not actually go anywhere.
This is known as a witness remained with his body for those objective minutes
during his subjectively hours-long experiences.As
such, actual physical time travel did not take place in either of these cases,
but rather the False Vision enabled subjective time perception manipulation.
I would describe
this 20-year experience of Michael as a False Vision, of extreme subjective
duration in time perception manipulation. Other experiences in the book seem to
involve Physical manifestation along with the False Visions.
It is important
to note that sometimes fallen angels do cause abductees to see “humans” during a
False Vision; however these are not real humans, but instead are part of the
vision caused by the fallen angel (exceptions being cases of a group of people
attacked together by fallen angels).
In many cases in
which fallen angels cause False Visions of humans, the humans are military
personnel, and advanced technology appears to be present, these kinds of
abductions are called “Mil-abs” for “military abductions”. Except in rare cases
of actual government investigation of abductions and interviews with abductees,
these Mi-labs are caused by fallen angels, and are just a subset variety of more
typical “alien abduction” experiences. The entire experience, like other False
visions, is a vision, including the military personnel and advanced technology
the person sees.
Remember, these
experiences are real to the bodily senses, and the perception of time passage
seems normal to the abductee during the experience. Fallen angels sometimes do
display technology in False visions, technology which (deceptively) seems to
work time travel, which adds a new layer of confusion for the abductee. Fallen
angels have expansive supernatural abilities, which they were originally created
with by God, and the technology seen is just part of the False vision, which is
a deception.
About 2 years
after this 20-subjective-year False vision of Mars, in the late 1970s, Michael
became a Christian. In the book he gives God and the Lord Jesus Christ credit
for his deliverance from the enemy.
“This book is
dedicated to God and the Lord Jesus Christ, for without them this book would
never have been written… I want to thank the LORD JESUS CHRIST, my saviour for
His mercy and blessings and for removing me from the hands of the enemy. It is
only by His love and grace that I am on the road to recovery from the effects of
mind control and manipulation…
“I also know that
the enemy cannot do anything to me unless God allows it and that God has given
me weapons to fight back (see the section on deliverance). I will use those
weapons without hesitation…
“I believe that
only God has the answer for what is happening to the world at this times and
that spiritual warfare is a vital part of His ministry for these end times. It
is clear that spiritual warfare and deliverance is the only thing that has not
been used against these projects and that God’s weapons are superior to the
weapons of the enemy.”
-The Mars Records, www.metatech.org Dedication, Thank You pgs. 262
According to
their website, Michael and Stephanie Relfe, both abductees, have been completely
free from abductions for over 7 years now. They say this is from using spiritual
warfare and deliverance methods, and through the name and authority of the Lord
Jesus Christ.
In reference to
being set free from abductions, Michael writes in The Mars Records 2, pg. 205:
“You can do the exact same things as I have if you have a personal relationship
with The Lord Jesus Christ and if you have faith and follow the warfare prayers
in this document. Prayer does not rely on metaphysical abilities or training. I
myself do NOTHING. God performs the miracles.”
So far we have
covered a variety of False visions, but the next case of Howard, from CE4
Research Group, is one of terrifying dreams.
“…I was not a
Christian at this time either. The next experiences I had with the Greys was
several years after that when they decided to ‘contact’ me personally. I
remember having a strange dream about them; it wasn’t anything bad but just
strange, strange enough for me to remember it. I remember laughing about it to
someone I knew. The very next night was absolutely terrifying and it left me in
no doubt that I was under attack. In my dream I was running away from a UFO and
it kept swooping down and buzzing me with its energy. Its energy was one of
indescribable terror and malevolence.
Anyway the next day I was quite alarmed because I knew these weren’t just dreams
and that I was dealing with something quite evil and dangerous. Things got worse
and worse because they kept at me every night. It got to the point where I
became too afraid to go to sleep because I knew they were waiting for me. Have
you ever seen the film nightmare on Elm Street? Well I was living that. I do
remember in my dreams that I used violence on them, but this did not harm them
not even in the slightest. To be honest with you, I think they quite enjoyed it;
it was like a game for them. I was getting extremely desperate; I couldn’t work
or think because I was too afraid to sleep so I was tired all the time.”
-CE4 Research Group, the Testimony of Howard, www.alienresistance.org/ce4testimonies.htm
This case
described UFOs and “gray aliens” appearing in nightmares, which were so terrible
they were causing him to be afraid to go to sleep. This is like the terrifying
dreams and visions Job describes in the Bible, which he experienced while under
attacks from Satan.
Howard later
describes turning to the Bible for answers, and soon being set free from having
these dreams which were destroying his life. He credits Jesus Christ and God
with having freed him from these dreams.
I am only going
to be including one case example of the Physical Manifestation of a fallen
angel, known as the Malmstrom UFO Incident. I think many Physical manifestations
do take place today, in minor ways. Many of these could arguably be found on TV
shows such as “Ghost Hunters” and similar paranormal shows, which record “voices
of ghosts”, and things like that. Also, there are supposedly many real photos or
videos of orbs, ghosts, and even UFOs and aliens on the internet. This seems to
be physical manifestation, perhaps directly onto film. And this is besides the
injuries which abductees get during False Vision experiences. These all seem to
be minor physical manifestations which go along with False Vision experiences.
But I am only going to be including one case of physical manifestation, which
seems to be a major incident, and shows more of the extreme line that fallen
angels seem to be crossing today.
There are many
declassified military reports, documenting military encounters with UFOs. I hope
these have a level of credibility that is acceptable. I only am personally aware
of one such documented military reporting that fits the supernatural
requirements to clearly show it was a Physical Manifestation of fallen angels.
This is due to a supernaturally caused electronic malfunction that is otherwise
unexplainable.
March 16, 1967 “Early in the morning on the sixteenth, at Malmstrom AFB in Montana, one of the
most extraordinary events in the history of military-UFO encounters took place.
Under a clear and dark Montana sky, an airman with the Oscar Flight Launch
Control Center (LCC) saw a starlike object zigzagging high above him. Soon, a
larger and closer light also appeared and acted in similar fashion. He called
his NCO, and the two men watched inawe as the lights streaked through the sky,
maneuvering in impossible ways. The NCO phoned his commander, Robert Salas, who
was below ground in the launch control center. Salas was dubious. “Great,” he
said. “You just keep watching them and let me know if they get any closer.”
A few minutes later, the NCO called Salas again. As Salas later wrote, this time
he was clearly frightened and shouted that a red, glowing UFO was hovering
outside the front gate. “What do you want us to do?” asked the NCO. Salas told
him to make sure the site was secure while he phoned the command post. “Sir,”
replied the NCO, “I have to go now, one of the guys just got injured.” Before
Salas could ask about the injury, the NCO was off the line. The man, who was not
seriously injured, was evacuated by helicopter to the base. Meanwhile, Salas
woke his commander, Lt. Fred Meiwald. As he briefed Meiwald, an alarm rang
through the small capsule, and both men saw a “No-Go” light turn on for one of
the missiles. Within seconds, several more missiles went down in succession.
Twenty miles away, at the Echo-Flight launch facilities, the same scenario was
taking place. First Lt. Walter Figel, the deputy crew commander of the Missile
Combat Crew, was at his station when one of the Minuteman missiles went into
“No-Go” status. He immediately called the missile site to determine the cause of
the problem. Was it because of the scheduled missile maintenance, he asked the
security guard? No, came the response, as the maintenance had not yet taken
place. However, continued the guard, a UFO had been hovering over the site. Like
Salas, Figel doubted the story. Before he had any time to reflect on this,
however, ten more ICBMs in rapid succession reported a “No-Go” condition. Within
seconds, the entire flight was down.
Strike teams were dispatched to two of the E-flight launch facilities, where
maintenance crews were already at work. Figel had not told the strike teams
about the UFO report. Upon their arrival, however, the teams reported back to
him that all of the maintenance and security personnel had been watching UFOs
hover over each of the sites.
The missiles were down for the greater part of a day. The air force
investigation included full-scale tests on-site, as well as laboratory tests at
the Boeing Company’s Seattle plant. No cause for the shutdown could be found.
The Boeing engineering chief said, “there was no technical explanation that
could explain the event.”
-Richard M. Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State, Pgs. 322-323
In the Malmstrom
UFO incident, UFOs are associated with the supernatural electronic malfunction
of at least 15 nuclear ICBMs. Scientists and engineers examined what had
happened, and concluded “there was no technical explanation that could explain
the event”. As such I would say these UFOs were caused by a fallen angel causing
a large group to have a False Vision of the form of a UFO. But at the same time,
fallen angels also physically manifested, so as to cause supernatural electronic
malfunctions to several nuclear missiles in the immediate vicinity. This
technological malfunction is a more major documented event of physical
manifestation of fallen angels, which left behind documented military records as
evidence that this event occurred, as well as some military personnel who claim
to have witnessed this event.
The next cases of
Fallen Angelic Attacks are of False Visions which are combined with Partial
Physical Manifestation.
The Valdes Case “On April 25, 1977, Valdés, along with five members of an army patrol, saw two
bright objects descending from the sky. Valdés set out alone to investigate and,
according to the men, simply vanished. Fifteen minutes later, they said, he
reappeared, tried to speak and passed out. The date on his watch had been
advanced five days, and he had about a week's growth of beard.”
-Cate Setterfield, Armed Forces Reveal UFO Presence in Chile,
The Valparaiso Times 2/11/07
“The corporal
moved toward the object. He disappeared for some 15 minutes. When he reappeared,
he was shaking and his voice seemed different. The light had been illuminating
the whole area…He then became unconscious and was attended by his fellow men
till he awoke some two hours later. The UFO also disappeared about this time.
While the unconscious Corporal Valdes was assisted by his patrol, his men made
another strange observation. They saw that Valdes had a beard growth equivalent
to several days without shaving. He had been well shaven before the incident. As
Valdes awoke he exclaimed, "I don't remember anything from the moment I left
you." He then ordered,
"Get ready to leave because it's 4:30 in the morning. It was actually about 7
AM. His calendar watch had stopped at 4:30 but the date was five days advanced -
to the 30th instead of the 25th.”
-Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), 1977
Much like the
Biblical account of Jesus tempted by Satan seen in Luke 4, in which Jesus
experienced a far longer period of time in less than a second, the Valdes case
shows time perception manipulation. In principle, this is the same thing.
In the Valdes
case, the time manipulation seems very physical instead of perceptual, because
his watch was moved ahead by 5 days, and he had 5 days growth of a beard, after
only 15 minutes of time passing in objective reality. It also seems very
physical because he disappeared for 15 minutes and his men could not see him. As
such, this seems to be a case of a False Vision couple with powerful Physical
Manifestation seen in the effects on Valdes’ body.
One way to look
at this is that, like the boils of Job described in Biblical Physical
Manifestations onto the body, a fallen angel was able to supernaturally cause
rapid hair growth, and also alter Valdes’ watch. The men might have been blocked
with a group False Vision, from being able to see Valdes, even if he was nearby
within normal sight distance. This is similar to the case of Peter escaping from
prison in that no one could see him. There is nothing in this case that
necessitates that Valdez went anywhere, merely that those with him could no
longer see him. And there is nothing here that proves his body experienced 5
days worth of time in 15 minutes, but the simplest explanation would be that
fallen angels affected his body supernaturally to grow hair very quickly, and
altered his watch.
And so there is
nothing in this case which “must” indicate the science fiction concept of “time
travel”. Nothing in this case shows that Valdes traveled backwards in time, or
that he traveled forward in time more than anyone else did (that being 15
minutes). Valdes’ experiences during the abduction are unknown, but even if he
had reported he subjectively experienced 5 days worth of time in 15 minutes,
this would have been time perception manipulation in a False Vision. This is a
separate matter from the hair growth, and his watch changing, and other people
not being able to see him. The simplest explanation is that this entire event
was staged with the goal in mind of deception, it being caused by fallen angels
whose goal is to deceive.
In a cases like
this one, and as in the case of Michael Relfe, it becomes apparent that fallen
angels want people to believe that they can time travel – which in itself is a
good reason to not believe such – but there are alternate explanations for
everything which occurred in this case which match Biblical teaching on what
fallen angels are known to be able to do. However, there is nothing in the Bible
which teaches that angels can time travel, and in opposition, the Bible does
teach that God has absolute authority over time, and appoints things to happen
at certain times, which fallen angels cannot interfere with, or alter. Jesus
Christ is “the alpha and omega, the beginning and the end”.
The next case of
Anita is a good overview of physical injuries that many abductees have after
fallen angelic attacks:
“Anita has been consciously aware of UFO activity since childhood, and her
brothers and sisters have also had recurrent UFO events throughout their lives.
So, perhaps, may have some of Anita's children and grandchildren…
So are thevarious marks and
injuries she has discovered on her body. "Lots of mornings," Anita said, "I
have gotten upfeeling like
someone beat me up in my sleep." This is another common abductee report,
waking up with sore, damaged-feeling muscles and joints. "I have waked up
with bruises on my arms, shoulders, and legs," she continued, "with no idea
where they came from. I havefound
scratches that I could not remember having gotten the day before."
The evidence for vigorous physical activity during the night, although
unremembered, comes from more than just Anita's sore or scarred body, however.
In one incident, she woke up in the morning and felt an unfamiliar pain in her
right hand. "I sat up in bed," she explained, "and found thatsometime
during the night my ring had been squashed on my finger." She managed with
effort to remove the ring, butneither
her husband nor a jeweler could completely restore its original shape.
On another occasion, Anitagot out
of bed one morning and found the crucifix from her necklace lying on the floor.
"It had been on my neck the night before," she said, "and the chain was still
on [me]. But the only way to remove the crucifix is to remove the necklace and
take it off the chain." She has also awakened several mornings to discover that something had
happened to her clothing, a report frequently echoed by other abductees. In one
instance,she woke up with her
nightie on backward, although she was certain she had not taken it off,
turned it around, and put it back on. And on a different occasion she found thatthe
nightie was not only backward but had also been turned inside-out. In the
night during one of these events, she had an altered-state experience in which
she recalled a group of Tan aliens observing her as she was "free-falling," an
event which did not feel unduly upsetting for some reason…. Anita had quite a
severe reaction to another similar event, however, venting much more emotion
than the situation seemed to call for. It was in the winter, during the
Christmas holidays one night, and she hadworn
socks to bedfor extra warmth.
When she woke up the next day andfound
that one of her socks was missing,…Anita was also physically upset that
morning,suffering from a violent
headache and nausea which caused her to vomit, yet there was no illness to
account for the symptoms.Still,
she might not have been overly concerned about the vanished sock and her
physical problems, if her young granddaughter hadn't made a disturbing
comment…Theseven-year-old child
told her grandmother that some "mean men" had come in and taken her away during
the night. When Anita asked her to describe the "mean men,"the
little girl called them "the mushroom men."
"What are the mushroom men?" Anita asked, and her granddaughter then found the
book MISSING TIME by Budd Hopkins and pointed to the drawing on the cover.
…The girl said the creatures were about a foot tall, gray-skinned and had four
fingers rather than five-a detail not apparent in the cover picture. There were
quite a few of these entities present, she said. Anita remembered nothing
strange that night herself, but the physical symptoms, the missing sock, and her
granddaughter's story were indicative enough of an intrusive incident to be of
great concern.”
-Karla Turner PhD, Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda, Pgs. 46,
50-51
As for Physical
Manifestation, there were physical aftereffects that remained and were seen by
others, such as her bent ring. The case of Anita is a good overview of physical
injuries that many abductees have after this type of fallen angelic attack.
In this case
there was another person involved, her 7 year old granddaughter that saw part of
the experience, and this part was a case of a False Vision seen by multiple
people. As in the Valdes case, part of the False Vision on the child was her
grandmother seemed to be missing, in that she was unseen and not visible for a
period of time. And the child in the False Vision also saw her grandmother be
taken, deceiving her into thinking her grandmother has went somewhere. But the
simplest explanation is that Anita did not go anywhere, but that her and her
granddaughter both experienced False Visions that night. And this along with
various degrees of Physical manifestation throughout Anita’s experiences,
including objects moved, and injuries, and physical illness.
It is important
to note that innocent children can be attacked by fallen angels, as in this
case, and this is a type of generational curse. While on that topic, another
case from Karla Turner’s book Taken is of a child (though this case does not
involve Physical manifestation):
"When I was seven
or eight years old," Beth related, "my father gave us permission, my sister and
me, to go outside and play with the other children, who were playing
hide-and-seek. It was close to six in the evening. I remember that I went to
hide between some bushes, and then I heard a sound, somebody else. And as I
turned, I saw what I thought at that moment was one of the other kids.
"The next thing I know," she continued, "it was dark, and I was very surprised.
When I got home, my father was very mad at me and my mother was very upset. My
father told me that they had been calling me and looking for me for hours. But I
couldn't understand it," she said. "The place where I was hiding was less than a
hundred feet from the front of the house. I was hiding there, and it was
daylight, and then the next thing I know it was dark-and I was scared.
"Recently I had another memory about that," she added. "That kid I thought was
there, he was an alien, one of the Grays. He took me to a ship, but I don't
remember what happened after that."
-Karla Turner PhD, Taken: Inside the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda, Pg. 56
I think the most
efficient way to explain this case is that first the child Beth had a False
Vision of an “alien” approaching her, which overlaid onto objective reality.
Then Beth was effectively hidden from her parents by fallen angels by a False
Vision her parents were caused to have, which kept them from seeing their
daughter as they looked for her. While this was going on, the child Beth
experienced a False Vision of being with Grays on a ship. A combination of
various aspects of False Visions would suffice to explain this experience.
This case is
somewhat reminiscent of the abduction case of Travis Walton, who was missing for
5 days, and remembered only 2 hours. I do feel that the explanation for the case
of Beth is also an adequate explanation for the Walton case. He was present, but
all those involved in searching for him were prevented from seeing him. The main
difference is that he was made unconscious for the majority of the 5 days,
except for the 2 hours in which he experienced a False Vision.
And so after looking
at several “alien abduction” cases it seems that the abilities of Fallen angels
to cause False Visions (and all that entails) and terrifying dreams, as well as
elements of Physical manifestation, are sufficient to explain what abductees
experience.
Next we are going to move on to looking at the Physics and Science of this being
the case, and how science does not conflict with the existence of fallen angels,
or them having these abilities. Some people think that the most straightforward
explanation for these alien abductions is flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials with
advanced technology, even perhaps having time-travel capabilities, and perhaps
with military involvement. And to some people, the explanation of fallen angels
with vast supernatural powers who can cause powerful deceptions seems too
spiritual of an answer. But the understanding of Modern science and it’s
theories actually allows both for the existence of such creatures as fallen
angels, and for them to have inherit supernatural powers such as these. The
explanation of fallen angels is not any less science-friendly than biological
extraterrestrials with advanced technology, and actually in some ways the
explanation of fallen angels is more science-friendly, contradicting modern
known science far less than the biological ET with advanced technology
explanation.
Some people think
the miraculous is impossible, and use science as a justification for this claim.
The miraculous could be miracles from God, or worked through Holy angels. Or the
miraculous can come in the form of false signs, miracles and wonders from fallen
angels, such as what they do in causing False Visions, dreams, and physical
manifestations.
The goal of the following is to show the miraculous abilities of God, Holy and
fallen angels are allowed by science, using modern physics terminology and
theories. This is towards being about to explain how they might do such things,
from a modern physics perspective.
The main point of doing this is to show that modern science does not preclude
the existence of the miraculous. I believe modern science actually completely
allows for either God or angels of either kind to work miracles without
violating the laws of science, and for the existence of angels and their
Biblically described abilities. The science involved is all just theoretical,
mainly secular theories, and I do not claim any of it is correct, though much of
it is accepted as such by some people.
How the
Miraculous Does Not Conflict with Modern Science Theories
All of the
categories of angelic Visions would be called supernatural events.
There are some
words in the Bible to describe the “supernatural” activities of God, Holy
angels, and fallen angels.
These same 3
words are all used in the context of:
1. God - the
power of God in signs, wonders, and miracles that God,Jesus
Christ, and the Holy Spirit through the gift of miracles, as seen throughout the
Bible
2. Holy Angels -Holy
angels. (Acts 2:22, 5:12, 2 Peter 2:11, Heb 2:4)
3. Fallen angels, of the dragon and beast, and the “3 evil spirits like frogs”.
(Matt 24:24, 2 Thes 2:9, Rev 13:2, 14, 16:14)
From the Bible it
is clear that God in His three persons, Holy angels,and
also Fallen angels, are all capable of performing signs, wonders, and miracles.
How, in physics terminology, might God work signs, wonders, and miracles?
Gen 1:1In
the beginningGod created the
heavens and the earth.
Eph 3:18May
be able to comprehend with all saints what [is] thebreadth,
andlength, anddepth,
andheight
Rev 1:8I amAlpha
and Omega,the beginning and the
ending,saith the Lord,
which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.
According to
modern science, we live in an observably 4 dimensional universe. The universe is
made of space(3) + and time(1) dimensions, which equal the Spacetime we can see.
God made all the 3 dimensions of space that we see (length, width, and height),
when God “created the heavens and the earth”. (Eph 3:18 also references to the
“depth” which compares more the size or extent or full scope of something.) God
made the dimension of time “in the beginning”, which marked the creation of time
itself, the dimension of time as we know it. God is eternal, and having made
time itself, God is outside of time, and was here before time was created. God
has complete authority and control over the dimension of time. God also made the
three dimensions of space that we can see, and is also outside of them. So, God
made it all, and is outside of the entire universe, having created it.
Above I use the term “dimension” as it is referred to in science. To quote
Wikipedia,
“In physical terms, dimension refers to the constituent structure of all
space (cf. volume) and its position in time (perceived as a scalar dimension
along the t-axis), as well as the spatial constitution of objects within
—structures that have correlations with both particle and field conceptions,
interact according to relative properties of mass, and which are fundamentally
mathematical in description. These or other axes may be referenced to uniquely
identify a point or structure in its attitude and relationship to other objects
and events. Physical theories that incorporate time, such as general relativity,
are said to work in 4-dimensional "space-time", (defined as a Minkowski space).
Modern theories tend to be "higher-dimensional" including quantum field and
string theories. The state-space of quantum mechanics is an infinite-dimensional
function space.”–
Dimension, Wikipedia
This use of the term “dimension” should not be
confused with the science fiction concept of a “parallel universe”. Again to
quote Wikipedia on the term “Dimension”, “Science fiction texts often mention the
concept of dimension, when really referring to parallel universes, alternate
universes, or other planes of existence. This usage is derived from the idea
that to travel to parallel/alternate universes/planes of existence one must
travel in a direction/dimension besides the standard ones. In effect, the other
universes/planes are just a small distance away from our own, but the distance
is in a fourth (or higher) spatial (or non-spatial) dimension, not the standard
ones.”
The “parallel universe” concept in science
fiction actually is very different from the use of the term “dimension” in
science, as you can see above. In theory, a “parallel universe” would also have
3 spatial dimensions (length, width, height) and a time dimension. That means a
“parallel universe” in theory actually has 4 dimensions of its own. Additionally
the assumption is that there is a 5thdimension to our universe which
would be used to allow travel to the parallel world, which has its own 4
dimensions. It would not be accurate to say a “parallel
universe” uses the same 4 dimensions that our universe has, because by
definition a “universe” is everything that is. So a “parallel universe” would
have to have its own construct of dimensions which define its reality and
cosmological structure, and not just borrow use of the dimensions inherit in our
own universe. This is of course all fictional theories that come from science
fiction, which has nothing to do with actual science. And I want to clarify
this, as any statement that science has straight theories on “other dimensions”
does NOT have anything to do with the science fiction concept of “parallel
universes”. If science were to find some evidence of observation of a “5thdimension”
inherent in our universe, this has nothing to do with a “parallel universe”. The
term “dimension” is a science term first, and has been misleadingly borrowed by
science fiction in such a way that its meaning is construed.
The Bible teaches
that “in the beginning” God made the
“heavens and the earth”, and that at the
end of the 6thday God
“saw
every thing that He had made, and, behold, [it was] very good…Thus the heavens
and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.” Gen 1:31,2:1.
This means that in making the heavens and the
earth, and the host of them, God made everything that He made. There isn’t
anything else besides what God made, and there is no mention made of any other
universe besides the entirety of the universe we know which God made. So there
actually are no “parallel universes” and the concept itself contradicts the
Bible, as this universe is all God is said to have made, and is well-defined by
the Bible. God made the heavens and the earth, and these terms are well-defined,
and there is nothing more that God made besides the heavens and the Earth, and
the host of them.
We know what the Earth is, but beyond this there
are multiple heaven(s) that God made, and the Bible defines each of them for us.
The first heaven is the sky or atmosphere, and is
where the rain comes from and where the birds fly. (Gen 1:7-8, Jer 4:25, Rev
19:17, Deut 11:17, 28:12, Jud 5:4, Acts 14:17)
The second heaven is outer-space, where the sun
and moon, and all the stars, planets, and galaxies are located. (Jer 8:2, Isa
13:10)
The third heaven is where God dwells, where God’s
throne is, and this is where the angels are who are in heaven. (1 Kin 8:30, Psa
2:4, 11:4, Isa 66:1, 2 Ch 18:18, Matt 5:16)The
third heaven is also called the “highest heaven” or the “heaven of heavens”. It
is called the “heaven of heavens” because it is the heaven of the first and
second heavens.(1
Kin 8:27, Deut 10:14)
And so the Earth, the atmosphere (first heaven),
outer-space (second heaven), and where God’s throne and the angels in heaven
dwell (third heaven) is all the areas that exist in all of God’s creation. None
of these are a “parallel universe”, and so the Bible does not describe any
“parallel universes” to exist. Rather, the Bible’s thorough defining of the
entirety of creation actually precludes the existence of anything along the
lines of the concept of a “parallel universe”.
All that being said, using the term “dimensions” in a science context, (spatial
length, width, height, and time) are there more dimensions that God made,
besides the 4 we can perceive, and see with the naked eye?
It seems possible that there are more dimensions than we can perceive, because
the Bible teaches there is an invisible spiritual realm.
The Earth has 4 dimensions that we can see, but also the Bible teaches that
there is an invisible spiritual realm all around us on Earth, and in this
spiritual realm, spirits have a presence, like Holy angels, fallen angels, and
demons. We know that demons, when they are cast out, travel through desert
places, yet we cannot see them. (Matt 12:43, Luke 11:24) We know that an army
can exist on this Earth invisibly, right in front of us, while remaining unseen.
This happened in the case of Elisha and his friend,
“And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee,
open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man;
and he saw: and, behold, the mountain [was] full of horses and chariots of fire
round about Elisha.”(2
Kin 6:17)
When God opened his eyes to the spiritual realm,
he saw an army all around them fighting for them. This is the spiritual realm
that exists all around us, but is invisible. The same sort of army, God’s army
which is the “host of heaven” or the angels of God, is mentioned in Josh 5-6 in
the battle of Jericho.
“And he said, Nay; but [as] captain of the host
of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did
worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?”(Josh
5:14)
The “host” of the Lord is His army, which are the
angels. While the walls of Jericho seemed to fall miraculously, the Bible does
indicate that the army of God’s angels was present. It is entirely likely that
God’s angels had a hand in the actual mechanics of the wall of Jericho coming
down. And so we know there is an invisible spiritual realm here on Earth.
In the first heaven, the atmosphere, the Bible
also indicates that besides the physical part of the atmosphere, of air and
clouds, that the invisible spiritual realm is there also. Angels fly in the
atmosphere, which is the first heaven, so the invisible spiritual realm must be
there too. (Eze 8:3, John 1:32, Rev 8:13) And Satan is called the “prince of the
power of the air” by the Bible, and “air” refers to the atmosphere (Eph 2:2).
The third heaven seems to be entirely made of an
invisible spiritual realm, as when we look into the farthest reaches of space,
we cannot see God’s throne or the angels. As obvious as that is, it shows us
that precisely wherever God’s throne and the angels of heaven are, they are in
an invisible spiritual realm. And this makes sense that the third heaven is a
spiritual realm, as the third heaven is where God is, and God is spirit.
In between is the second heaven, which is defined
by the Bible as outer-space. The Bible clearly indicates that the second heaven
also contains the invisible spiritual realm, and that angels pass through it as
they descend to Earth, and ascend back to the third heaven.
“And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on
the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God
ascending and descending on it. And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said,
I [am] the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land
whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed…” Gen 28:12-13 makes clear that the second heaven,
which is outer-space, must also contain the invisible spiritual realm, as we do
not see the angels as they ascend and descend through the second heaven. The
ladder which Jacob saw indicates God has given the angels a method by which to
ascend and descend. That Jacob could see Lord above the ladder indicates that
the distance was not very far that the angels had to travel. So the Bible seems
to teach that the angels do not actually have to transverse the vast distances
of outer-space in order to reach the earth, as is seen in the physical
dimensions. Rather, in the invisible spiritual realm, the distance is short
enough between heaven and earth, no longer than a ladder you can see the top of.
Like a sort of permanent ladder has been created by God for angels to travel
through the 2ndheaven,
going between the 1stand
3rdheavens.
And so angels can be dispatched to Earth quickly, as the invisible spiritual
realm is not limited by the way time is bounded in physics by the physical
dimensions. How this actually works is somewhat vague, but we can get the
general idea from what the Bible does say. In any case, the invisible spiritual
realm also seems to exist throughout the second heaven, which is outer-space.
And so the Earth and all 3 of the heavens have an
invisible spiritual realm that seems to pervade through all of them. Here on
Earth the spiritual realm is all around us, but invisible. The Bible teaches
that God created an invisible side to the universe,
“For by him all things were created: things in
heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers
or authorities; all things were created by him and for him.”(Col
1:16)
And it should be noted that the terms here for
“rulers, authorities” all refer to fallen angels. This can be seen by comparing
this with Eph 6:12, “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].” And so these powers and authorities are
the invisible fallen angels.
While they can physically manifest, it seems that
fallen angels also have something akin to bodies made of spirit.We
are 4 dimensional in our physicality, being made for 4 dimensions. Angels are
spirits, and Jesus said after His Resurrection in Luke 24:
“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
This could be taken, that truly angels are not physical life of the 3 physical
dimensions we live in, as we are. Rather, angels are spirits of the spiritual
realm, and their “bodies” exist in the spiritual realm. It would make sense that
their bodies are composed of the substance of this invisible spiritual realm
they live in, as human bodies are composed of the stuff of the 3 physical
dimensions we live in.
1 Cor 15:40, 44[There are] also
celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial [is]
one, and the [glory] of the terrestrial [is] another… It is sown a natural body;
it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual
body.
The Bible
acknowledges that there can be bodies made of spirit, or spiritual bodies. As
our human terrestrial bodies are composed of 4-dimensional physical matter, it
would make sense that living spirit or heavenly bodies would be composed of the
equivalent of the “matter” of the invisible spiritual realm. Angels have such
spiritual bodies, and were created with such. It would make sense that there is
at least a 5thdimension,
if not more, and that the angels’ bodies are composed of the analogy to our “4d
matter” which is in that spiritual realm. The spiritual realm might be composed
of several dimensions, in the scientific sense of the term, such as a spiritual
realm width, length, and height. But even if the spiritual realm is just 1 extra
dimension, in the scientific sense of the term, the invisible spiritual realm
would still be a 5thdimension,
1 more dimension that the 4 dimensional physical world which we routinely
perceive.
All of this leads to the point that this invisible spiritual realm may be
composed of more dimensions, as per the scientific use of the term. The
additional dimension(s) of the invisible spiritual realm, would be an extra
dimension that is at least one more than the 4 dimensions that we perceive. Thus
it would be fair to call angels “extra-dimensional”, meaning of more dimensions
than us, esp. if the invisible spiritual realm correlates to extra dimensions,
per the science use of the term.
However, God isnotsimply
extra-dimensional. God is eternal, and therefore is what I call
“outer-dimensional”. God is outside of dimensionality, being eternal and the
Creator of everything that is, including all theoretical dimensions of the
heavens and earth, and everything living in them. So to coin a term, God is
“outer-dimensional”. This is an important distinction between the God the
Creator, and His creation. The Bible says that all three of the heavens and the
earth cannot contain God, which makes sense as He made them all; however they do
manage to contain everything He created.
“But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of
heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?”1
Kin 8:27
Now, the Earth is
made by God, and it has visible dimensions that science has studied many things
in, and the same for the first and second heaven. We also know there is an
invisible spiritual realm throughout God’s creation. Science has said much on
the visible physical realm. But the fact that the spiritual realm is invisible
does not mean that science will never have anything to say about it, or that no
rules or bounds may operate upon the angels who live there. In fact, it seems
that there are rules and bounds, like laws of physics, which are inherit in the
spiritual realm as well. Even the battle in Rev 12 between the Holy angels and
the fallen angels indicates that there are opposing forces best described as
some spiritual realm physics being present. This is implied even in that the
Holy angels prevailed, and pushed the fallen angels out of heaven, casting them
down to earth. You can’t have one angel pushing another without some concept of
physics being implied, even in the spiritual realm. As such, there is some
chance that the invisible spiritual realm does have physics rules under which it
operates, and if so, that where the invisible spiritual realm touches the
visible physical realm that we know, science might be able to glean some
insight, or give some insight. This possibility is especially interesting in
light of more and more of modern physics studying things which are invisible,
and theories on what invisible dimensions may exist behind the scenes in the
universe.
So if we were to guess that the invisible spiritual realm, and the creatures who
are there, do have something to do with an extra dimension or dimensions (in the
scientific use of the term), and spirits are therefore extra-dimensional beings,
what would modern physics have to say about this?
Modern physics
actually does include the topic of extra dimensions, and talk from scientists
about extra dimensions has to do with something called “string theory” or
“superstring theory”.
Some branches in
modern physics are well established through experiments, such as gravity,
relativity, quantum mechanics, much of particle physics, electromagnetism, and
the weak and strong nuclear forces. String theory is not established, but rather
is an attempt to bring all these branches of the tree of physics together, to
connect them, to draw and see the trunk that all the branches stem from. String
theory is highly theoretical, unproven, likely improvable and unverifiable,
highly mathematical, and requires 10-11 dimensions to theoretically be able to
describe the trunk of the tree of modern physics.
Here is quote from Lisa Randall
PhD, a leading theoretical physicist and expert on particle physics, string
theory, and cosmology:
“How many dimensions of space are there? Do we really know? By now, I hope
you would agree that it would be overreaching to claim that we know for certain
that extra dimensions do not exist. We see three dimensions of space, but there
could be more that we haven't yet detected.
You know now that extra dimensions can be hidden either because they are curled
up and small, or because spacetime is warped and gravity so concentrated in a
small region that even an infinite dimension is invisible. Either way, whether
dimensions are compact or localized, spacetime would appear to be
four-dimensional everywhere, no matter where you are.”-Lisa
Randall PhD, Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden
Dimensions, pg. 437
Lisa Randall is saying, according
to modern physics, that there may be very large, even infinitely large,
invisible dimensions that do exist, although we can only perceive the 4
dimensions of space-time. A 5th large
dimension such as this could be the invisible spiritual realm taught in the
Bible, which contains angels in their spirit bodies of that dimension.
And here is a quote from Stephen Hawking PhD, one of the most famous scientists
and theoretical astrophysicists of our time, commenting his thoughts on
Randall’s work:
If fact, in order to explain the rate in which stars orbit the center of our
galaxy, it seems there must be more mass than is accounted for by matter we
observe. This missing mass might arise from some exotic species of particles in
our world such as WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles) or axions (very
light elementary particles).But
missing mass could also be evidence of the existence of a shadow world with
matter in it… Instead of theextra
dimensionsending on a shadow
brane, another possibility is thatthey
are infinite but highly curved, like a saddle. Lisa Randall and Raman
Sundrum showed that this kind of curvature would act rather like a second brane:
the gravitational influence of an object on the brane would be confined to a
small neighborhood of the brane and not spread out to infinity in the extra
dimensions. As in the shadow brane model, the gravitational field would have the
right long-distance falloff to explain the planetary orbits and lab measurements
of the gravitational force, but gravity would vary more rapidly at short
distances. There is however an important difference between this Randall-Sundrum
model and the shadow brane model. Bodies that move under the influence of
gravity will produce gravitational waves, ripples of curvature that travel
through spacetime at the speed of light. Like the electromagnetic waves of light
, gravitational waves should carry energy, a prediction that has been confirmed
by observations of the binary pulsar PSR1913+16. If we indeed live on a branein
a spacetime with extra dimensions, gravitational waves generated by the
motion of bodies on the brane would travel off into the other dimensions. If
there were a second shadow brane, gravitational waves would be reflected back
and trapped between the two branes. On the other hand, if there was only a
single brane and theextra
dimensionswent on forever, as in
the Randall-Sundrum model, gravitational waves could escape altogether and carry
away energy from our brane world. This would seem to breach one of the
fundamental principles of physics: The Law of Conservation of Energy. The total
amount of energy remains the same. However, it appears to be a violation only
because our view of what is happening is restricted to the brane.An
angel who could see the extra dimensions would knowthat
the energy was the same, just more spread out.”
-Stephen Hawking PhD, The Universe in a Nutshell, pgs. 184-192
While giving
credence to Randall’s statement, basically Hawking says that very large
extra-dimensions are possible, and would not violate the known laws of physics.
In fact, their existence might help explain some rather large befuddling
questions in science that are still unanswered, such as missing mass. As such,
science allows for the existence of an invisible spiritual realm, potentially
one in which angels are, and the spirit bodies of angels could be composed of
the stuff of this extra dimension, this invisible realm.
The branch of
physics called quantum mechanics deals with particles which are subatomic (that
is smaller than an atom). Quantum mechanics has been well-established through
scientific experimentation. Unlike string theory, quantum mechanics is a field
of practical experimentation. It is in quantum physics that we find the
Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle:
In
quantum physics, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that certain pairs
of physical properties, like position and momentum, cannot both be known to
arbitrary precision. That is, the more precisely one property is known, the less
precisely the other can be known. It is impossible to measure simultaneously
both position and velocity of a microscopic particle with any degree of accuracy
or certainty. This is not a statement about the limitations of a researcher's
ability to measure particular quantities of a system, but rather about the
nature of the system itself and hence it expresses a property of the universe.
-Wikipedia, Uncertainty Principle
This basically
means that on a subatomic level, that of electrons, quarks, photons, etc., there
seems to be a fundamental principal of randomness. Particles go where they seem
to want to go. Particles almost seem to choose what they are doing. However,
these choices do form an overall pattern, of statistically calculable
probabilities.
One of the most
well-known and respectable scientists in recent history, instrumental in the
development of quantum mechanics, was Richard Feynman PhD. He worked on the
Manhattan project developing the atomic bomb, was a recipient of the Nobel Prize
in Physics, and is also known for demonstrating the O-ring defects resulting in
the space shuttle Challenger tragedy.
To quote Richard
Feynman PhD on the Uncertainty Principle in quantum mechanics:
One might
still like to ask: “How does it work? What is the machinery behind the law?” No
one has found any machinery behind the law. No one can “explain” any more than
we have just “explained.” No one will give you any deeper representation of the
situation. We have no ideas about a more basic mechanism from which these
results can be deduced.
We would like to emphasize a very important difference between classical and
quantum mechanics.We have been
talking about the probability that an electron will arrive in a given
circumstance. We have implied that in our experimental arrangement (or even in
the best possible one) it would be impossible to predict exactly what would
happen. We can only predict the odds!This
would mean, if it were true, that physics has given up on the problem of trying
to predict exactly what will happen in a definite circumstance. Yes! physics has
given up. We do not know how to
predict what would happen in a given circumstance, and we believe now that it is
impossible—that the only thing that can be predicted is the probability of
different events. It must be recognized that this is a retrenchment in our
earlier ideal of understanding nature. It may be a backward step but no one has
found a way to avoid it.
No one has figured a way out of this puzzle. So at the present time we must
limit ourselves to computing probabilities. We say “at the present time,” butwe
suspect very strongly that it is something that will be with us forever—that it
is impossible to beat that puzzle—that this is the way nature really is. -Richard P. Feynman,
PhD, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. 3, pgs.1-10,1-11
So why is it that
at the scale of the tiniest parts of the universe, that there is all this
randomness? Why has science given up on precise predictability, and accepted
that uncertainty and chance rule the microscopic domain of the most basic and
fundamental building blocks of the universe? Why can only probabilities be
known?
With the
advent of quantum mechanics, we have come to recognize that events cannot be
predicted with complete accuracy but that there is always a degree of
uncertainty. If one likes,one
could ascribe this randomness to the intervention of God, but it would be a
very strange kind of intervention: there is no evidence that it is directed
toward any purpose. Indeed, if it were, it would by definition not be random. In
modern times, we have effectively removed the third possibility above by
redefining the goal of science: our aim is to formulate a set of laws that
enables us to predict events only up to the limit set by the uncertainty
principle.-Stephen Hawking
PhD, The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Pg 224
There is
always an element of uncertainty or chance, and this affects the behavior of
matter on a small scale in a fundamental way. Einstein was almost singlehandedly
responsible for general relativity, and he played an important part in the
development of quantum mechanics. His feelings about the matter are summed up in
the phrase “God does not play dice.” But all the
evidence indicates that God is an inveterate gambler and that He throws the dice
on every possible occasion. -Stephen Hawking
PhD, Black Holes and Baby Universes, pg. 70
Regarding quantum
physics, Einstein said that “God does not play dice”, and Stephen Hawking says,
“God throws the dice on every possible occasion”. But what does the Bible say on
the topic of dice and God?
We may throw the
dice, but the LORD determines how they fall.
Prov 16:33
Assuming that
whether it is us or the universe that throws the dice, it makes no difference,
then what the Bible indicates is that God set up the universe to “play dice” on
a quantum level, but at the same time, God is the one that determines how those
“quantum dice” fall.
By “quantum dice”
I am referring to all of the subatomic particles/energies and their activities
on the microscopic scale of the quantum level.
However, if the
uncertainty principle of quantum physics is correct, then the Bible assures us
that God still sets the rules and outcomes for the seeming “randomness” of the
“quantum dice”. God is in control of the randomness and the probabilities that
we see.
Some Christians
who are Scientists speak on this very issue:
John Byl has a
PhD in Astronomy, is the author of the book “God and Cosmos: A Christian View of
Time, Space, and the Universe”, and is Professor of Mathematics and Head of the
Department of Mathematical Sciences at Trinity Western University.
“W.G.
Pollard and, more recently, Nancey Murphy advocate that the apparently random
events at the quantum level are all specific, intentional acts of God.God's
action at this level is limited in that
(1) He respects the integrity of the entities with which He co-operates (e.g.,
He doesn't change the electron's mass arbitrarily) and
(2) He restricts His action to produce a world that, for all we can tell, is
orderly and law-like.
God is the hidden variable. Murphy asserts that this position is not only
theologically preferable to indeterminism, but has the further advantage of
consistency with the principle of sufficient reason. Of course, if God is
directly responsible for quantum events this entails that these are therefore
predictable by God. Hence we are left with a deterministic universe, at least at
the quantum level.” “God’s sovereignty rules out the possibility of agents acting independently
of Him. In particular,quantum
mechanics does not imply ontological indeterminism, given that determinist
interpretations of quantum mechanics are possible, that non-physical secondary
causes cannot be ruled out and that God is the primary cause for all events.”
-John Byl PhD, “Indeterminacy, Divine action and Human Freedom”
William Pollard
PhD, is a Nuclear Physicist and Episcopal Priest, with a PhD in Physics and
Honorary doctorates in science, divinity, law, and humane letters. He is the
author of “Chance and Providence: God's Action in a World Governed by Scientific
Law”. The entire book is on God operating, instead of “chance”, in quantum
mechanics.
“In the next
chapter I will begin the presentation for your consideration of a quite
different approach to this problem which seems to me to offer an entirely
adequate solution for it. Under it, as we shall attempt to show, there can
emerge again in all of its ancient power the fullness of the Biblical response
to the living God who is ever active in the whole of His creation sustaining,
providing, judging, and redeeming all things, both in heaven and in earth, in
accordance with the mysterious and hidden purposes of His might will. At the
same time, however, this is accomplished in such a way that the essential
integrity and unity of science, both as it is now and as in principle it may
become, is fully preserved.”
“To Einstein’s famous question expressing his abhorrence of quantum mechanics,
“Does God throw dice?” the Judeo-Christian answer is not, as so many have
wrongly supposed, a denial, but a very positive affirmative. For only in a world
in which the laws of nature govern events in accordance with the casting of dice
can a Biblical view of a world whose history is responsive to God’s will
prevail.” -William Pollard
PhD, “Chance and Providence: God's Action in a World Governed by Scientific
Law”, pg. 35, pg. 97
Nancey Murphy
PhD, Theologian, is Professor of Christian Philosophy at the Fuller Theological
Seminary. She also serves as an editorial advisor for Theology and Science,
Theology Today, and Christianity Today. She is the author of “Divine Action In
The Natural Order”.
“The second
strategy for giving an account of the locus of divine action explores quantum
physics and seeks to give an account of God’s action throughout the natural and
human world by means of action at the quantum level (either alone or in
conjunction with top-down action). My proposal is motivated theologically.If
God is immanent in and acting in all creatures, then necessarily God is acting
at the quantum level.Emphasis on
this fact has the advantage of sidestepping the problem of interventionism: the
laws of quantum mechanics are only statistical and therefore not subject to
violation. If, as most interpreters conclude, events at this level are genuinely
indeterminate, then there need be no competition between divine action and
physical causation. It is possible from a theistic perspective to interpret
current physics as saying thatthe
natural world is intrinsically incomplete and open to divine action at its most
basic level.”
-Nancey Murphy PhD, Dive Action In The Natural Order, pg. 131
In other words,
God is in control and constantly interacting with the world at a quantum level.
Where scientists see randomness and probabilities, they are seeing God determine
how the dice fall, all the time, in quantum mechanics. The Bible may also
present an argument of God controlling the “quantum dice” in Col 1:16-17,
referring to Jesus Christ,
“For by him were
all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether [they be] thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or
powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all
things, andby him all things
consist.”
The word here for
“consist” is “synistemi” (4921) and it means, “to consist of or be composed of,
to cohere, put together, hold together or band together”.
According to
subatomic physics, it is the quantum force particles of bosons, and gluons that
hold together atoms, and particles like photons and electrons that hold together
different atoms. As such, this verse in the Bible could be referring to, that it
is by God’s control over the “quantum dice” that makes these particles we are
composed of to hold together. As such, by His actions all things hold together
or “by Him all things consist”.
Assuming it is
true that God does allow randomness at a quantum level of physics, but also
constantly controls the outcome of that randomness, besides “upholding all
things”, like the universe, “by the word of His power” (Heb 1:3), is there
another possible reason for God creating the universe to be this way? Could it
relate to miracles, signs and wonders? This could very well be the case.
Not only does
quantum physics allow for existing particles that we can observe in experiment
to act in random ways, but it also allows for particles and antiparticles
(antimatter) to pop in and out of existence, seemingly randomly. These particles
usually only exist for a very short time, and are called “virtual particles”.
“Down at the
very tiniest length scale and trillions of times smaller than atoms, is what is
known as the Planck scale where the concept of length loses its meaning and
quantum uncertainty rules. At this level all known laws of physics break down
and even space and time become nebulous concepts. Any and all conceivable
distortions of spacetime will bepopping
in and out of existence in a random and chaotic dance which is going on all the
time everywhere in the universe.Terms
such as “quantum fluctuations” and the “quantum foam” which are used to describe
this chaotic activity certainly do not do it justice.”
-Jim Al-Khalili PhD, Black Holes, Wormholes, and Time Machines, pg. 207PhD
in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, theoretical physicist at the University of
Surrey
The existence of
these seemingly random particles does not violate the laws of physics,
especially the Law of Conservation of Energy:
“Where did
all these particles come from? The answer is that relativity and quantum
mechanics allow matter to be created out of energy in the form of
particle/antiparticle pairs. And where did the energy come from to create this
matter? The answer is that it was borrowed from the gravitational energy of the
universe. The universe has an enormous debt of negative gravitational energy,
which exactly balances the positive energy of the matter.”
-Stephen Hawking, PhD, Black Holes and Baby Universes, Pg. 97
Virtual particles have been shown, through experiments, to exist, as seen in the
Lamb shift and the Casimir Effect.
“These
particles are called virtual because, unlike “real” particles, they cannot be
observed directly with a particle detector. Their indirect effects can
nonetheless be measured, andtheir
existence has been confirmedby a
small shift (the “Lamb shift”) they produce in the spectrum of light from
excited hydrogen atoms.”
-Stephen Hawking PhD, Black Holes and Baby Universes, Pg 107
Regarding the
Casimir Effect,
“As we saw in Chapter 7, even what we think of as “empty” space is filled with
pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles that appear together, move apart,
and come back together and annihilate each other. Now, suppose one has two metal
plates a short distance apart. The plates will act like mirrors for the virtual
photons or particles of light. In fact they will form a cavity between them, a
bit like an organ pipe that will resonate only at certain notes. This means that
virtual photons can occur in the space between the plates only if their
wavelengths (the distance between the crest of one wave and the next) fit a
whole number of times into the gap between the plates. If the width of a cavity
is a whole number of wavelengths plus a fraction of a wavelength, then after
some reflections backward and forward between the plates, the crests of one wave
with coincide with the troughs of another and the waves will cancel out.
Because the virtual photons between the plates can have only the resonant
wavelengths, there will be slightly fewer of them than in the region outside the
plates where virtual photons can have any wavelength. Thus there will be
slightly fewer virtual photons hitting the inside surfaces of the plates than
the outside surfaces. One would therefore expect a force on the plates, pushing
them toward each other. This force has actually been
detected and has the predicted value. Thus we have experimental evidence that
virtual particles exist and have real effects.” -Stephen Hawking PhD, The Illustrated
Brief History of Time, pgs. 204-206
Virtual particles
can include all types of particles, including photons, electrons, gluons,
bosons, and quarks. According to physicists, under certain conditions in the
universe, virtual particles can exist for longer periods of time and therefore
become “real” particles. This particular example relates to conditions of space
near a black hole, but in principle this shows that science does generally allow
for the possibility of virtual particles popping into existence and becoming
real particles.
“We can understand this in the following way: what we think of as “empty”
space cannot be completely empty because that would mean that all the fields,
such as the gravitational and electromagnetic fields, would have to be exactly
zero. However, the value of a field and its rate of change with time are like
the position and velocity of a particle: the uncertainty principle implies that
the more accurately one knows one of these quantities, the less accurately one
can know the other. So in empty space the field cannot be fixed at exactly zero,
because then it would have both a precise value (zero) and a precise rate of
change (also zero). There must be a certain minimum amount of uncertainty, or
quantum fluctuations, in the value of the field. One can think of these
fluctuations as pairs ofparticle
of light or gravitythat appear
together at some time, move apart, and then come together again and annihilate
each other. These particles are virtual particles like carry the gravitational
force of the sun: unlike real particles, they cannot be observed directly with a
particle detector. However, their indirect effects, such as small changes in the
electron orbits in atoms, can be measured and agree with the theoretical
predictions to a remarkable degree of accuracy. The uncertainty principle also
predicts that there will be similarvirtual
pairs of matter particles, such as electrons or quarks. In this case,
however, one member of the pair will be a particle, and the other an
antiparticle (the antiparticles of light and gravity are the same as the
particles).
Because energy cannot be created out of nothing, one of the partners in a
particle/antiparticle pair will have positive energy, and the other partner
negative energy. The one with negative energy is condemned to be a short-lived
virtual particle because real particles always have positive energy in normal
situations. It must therefore seek out its partner and annihilate with it.
However, a real particle close to a massive body has less energy than if it were
far away, because it would take energy to lift it far away against the
gravitational attraction of the body. Normally, the energy of the particle is
still positive, but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong
that even a real particle can have negative energy there. It is therefore
possible, if a black hole is present, for thevirtual
particlewith negative energy to
fall into the black hole andbecome
a real particle or antiparticle. In this case it no longer has to annihilate
with its partner. Its forsaken partner may fall into the black hole as well. Or,
having positive energy, it might also escape from the vicinity of the black hole
asa real particle or
antiparticle. To an observer at a distance, it will appear to have been
emitted from the black hole.”
-Stephen Hawking PhD, The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Pgs. 134-137
According to
science it is possible that physical quantum particles can randomly pop into
existence seemingly out of nowhere. If God is controlling the “quantum dice”,
then this means God could cause these subatomic quantum particles to come into
existence out of nowhere. This does not contradict the laws of physics in any
way. Rather the laws of physics and modern science make clear that subatomic
quantum particles popping into existence from out of nowhere is the normal state
of the universe, which science has confirmed. And it is entirely possible for
this randomness to be controlled by God controlling the “quantum dice”; and the
quantum randomness seen has no explanation. Metaphorically speaking, this is a
huge hole in the wall of science, which allows for the hand of God to come
through into the physical universe, without in any way contradicting science or
the known laws of physics. This shows that science actually allows for miracles
and the miraculous done by God, without it in any way conflicting with Science
or Modern Physics.
Modern Physics teaches that elementary
particles, of all kinds, can and do randomly pop in and out of existence. This
includes photons, which are particles of light. This also includes gravitons,
which are theoretical and theoretically instrumental in gravity, as well as
gluons, bosons and other force carrying particles.
Some force
carrying particles are what hold quarks together to form neutrons and protons,
and other force particles hold together atoms. All of these particles can pop
into existence out of nowhere, seemingly randomly, the universe allows for this,
and the universe was created by God intentionally to be the way it is.
What are quarks
and electrons? They are the particles that are the building blocks of atoms.
Different types of atoms make up
all of the elements of matter, as seen in the periodic table of the elements.
Atoms
are the building blocks of all the matter we see, and our bodies are made of
atoms.
So assuming God,
who is omnipotent, one way or another controlled the randomness of the quantum
world… then this means that God could choose to have a large number of quarks,
gluons, electrons, etc. pop into existence very quickly, and assemble into
atoms. God could also do this in such a way that many atoms were formed, and
would assemble into much larger objects, even objects large enough that we could
see them.
This might include things like oil and grain popping into existence out of
nowhere:
1 Kings 17:8-16 And the word of the LORD came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath,
which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow
woman there to sustain thee. So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came
to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks:
and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a
vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her,
and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said,
As the LORD thy God liveth,I have
not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse:
and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and
my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and
do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto
me, and after make for thee and for thy son. For thus saith the LORD God of
Israel,The barrel of meal shall
not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD
sendeth rain upon the earth.And
she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her
house, did eat many days.And the
barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the
word of the LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
God provided for
3 years oil and grain, though the land was in a drought with famine. This oil
and grain appeared seemingly out of thin air. But another way to put it might be
that it appeared out of “seemingly random quantum foam”. And there are many
miracles, signs, and wonders in the Bible, done by God, which are similar to
this, such as Jesus Christ feeding the multitudes of thousands from a couple
fish and a few loaves of bread.
Also, there are miraculous healings
mentioned many times in the Bible. According to science, our bodies are made up
of molecules of atoms, which are made from quarks and electrons and such.
Consider the cases of sight being restored to the blind, the healing of the
disfigured hand, the healing of lepers, and the healing of all manner of
sicknesses; miracles done by Jesus Christ. Control over the “quantum dice” would
be one way to explain how sick flesh was instantaneously changed into healthy
flesh.
And
so this is one way to describe, in modern physics concepts, how God does
miracles, signs, and wonders. Though God does do them, whether control of the
“quantum dice” of quantum physics is truly and specifically how, or not.
But the Bible
also says that Holy angels, and Fallen angels, also work miracles, signs and
wonders. (Acts 2:22, 5:12, 2 Peter 2:11, Heb 2:4, Matt 24:24, 2 Thes 2:9, Rev
13:2, 14, 16:14) So it could be an accurate description to say that how fallen
angels also do miracles, signs, and wonders is because they too somehow have
control over the “quantum dice”, though definitely on a more limited scale than
God does. The Bible teaches that God is everywhere in the universe, and there
is nowhere that He is not. Whereas fallen angels have a set, limited, location
for their spirit body, and are only in one place at a time, much like mankind.
Under this line of reasoning, God has power, and “quantum power” over everywhere
in the universe, but fallen angels only have power or “quantum power” in their
immediate location. Also, God has power over the fallen angels’ spirit bodies
themselves, as their bodies are part of the creation, whereas fallen angels have
no such power over God.
It does make some
analogous sense that all angels would have powers like God, but limited, for the
Bible several times in the Old Testament calls angels the “sons of God”. (Gen 6,
Job 1:6, Job 2:1, Psalm 29:1, 89:6)
It may be that
the extra-dimensionality of angels is what would make possible them having
limited control over the “quantum dice” in their immediate location.
“Today, however, physicists are following a different trail-the one leading
to superstring theory. Unlike previous proposals, it has survived every
blistering mathematical challenge ever hurled at it. Not surprisingly, the
theory is a radical-some might say crazy-departure from the past, being based on
tiny strings vibrating in 10-dimensional space-time… In superstring theory, the
subatomic particles we see in nature are nothing more than different resonances
of the vibrating superstrings, in the same way that different musical notes
emanate from the different modes of vibration of a violin string.”
-Michio Kaku PhD, “Into the Eleventh Dimension”, author of Hyperspace: A
Scientific Odyssey through the 10th Dimension, Oxford University Press.
According to
String Theory, particles in the 4-dimenional space-time we observe, are the
result of vibrations of 1 dimensional strings that exist in an additional 6-7
dimensions, in the scientific sense of the word (which comes to 10-11 dimensions
total).
As such, speaking
generally according to science in principle, it is possible that the
extra-dimensionality of angels would allow for their altering of particles in
our 4 dimensional world, on the subatomic quantum level. As such, their
extra-dimensionality, in the spiritual realm, may be tied directly to their
ability to work “miracles, signs, and wonders”, possibly through being able to
determine how the “quantum dice” fall (on a limited scale in their immediate
locality).
To illustrate, imagine that sitting on a table, is a cup. This cup has 3 spatial
dimensions, and as the second pass, it moves through the 4thdimension
of time. Now, in the exact same location as the cup, would be 6-7 invisible
dimensions that you can’t see. And that is because these invisible 6-7
dimensions intersect the 4 dimensions we know at every point. These 6-7
dimensions are most definitely not somewhere else, but are in the same place we
are, but invisible. Now, if these 6-7 extra dimensions correspond to the
invisible spiritual realm that the Bible teaches, then an angel who has a spirit
body would have an invisible spirit body comprised of the stuff of these 6-7
extra dimensions. And such an invisible angel could choose to effect the 6-7
extra dimensions where the cup is located so as to knock the cup over.
In other words, fallen angels have spirit bodies in the invisible spiritual
realm. If the spiritual realm is composed of these extra 6-7 dimensions, then
the spirit bodies of the fallen angels are composed of the spiritual realm,
these extra 6-7 dimensions. Just as the invisible spiritual realm is all around
us, so also could be these 6-7 extra dimensions. According to String Theory
(just a theory) what we observe as an effect in our 3 spatial dimensions is
caused by what happens in the 6-7 invisible extra dimensions. This means that an
extra-dimensional angel could use their extra-dimensional spirit body in the 6-7
extra dimensions, to have the effect of changing things in the physical 3
dimensions we perceive. And in this, fallen angels would also have limited
control over how the “quantum dice” fall, but only in a very limited location
where they are present. As the invisible realm is all around us (or these extra
dimensions would be also) a fallen angel can only effect changes in the
immediate locality around them, in the location of their spirit body.
And so this shows how Modern Physics also allows for angels or fallen angels to
work miracles (in a limited locality) along the same lines as how Modern Physics
allows for God to work miracles. And so angels can also work miracles and do the
miraculous, without violating and laws of Modern Physics or science. Rather,
Modern Physics and Science totally allows for the existence of angels, their
spirit bodies, the invisible spiritual realm, and the miraculous powers of
angels as described in the Bible.
When it comes to
Holy angels or fallen angels, the Bible describes that they can cause dreams and
Visions, as well as causing the physically miraculous or miracles.
In the case of fallen angels, they cause False Visions, which can seem entirely
physically real to a victim, and also dreams. Beyond this fallen angels can
cause physical injury, and other sorts of physical manifestations, like objects
moving, or recording film being altered, etc. These physical manifestations
would be considered as false signs, false miracles, and false wonders,
Biblically speaking.
I think that fallen angels being able to control (in their immediate locality)
how the “quantum dice” fall, would work as a way to explain Physical
manifestations very easily, both with visible angels materializing, or seeing
the physical effects of invisible angels, including the physical aspects of
Visions.
Excepting time
perception manipulation, I also think this “quantum dice” idea explains all
varieties and aspects of Visions quite well, and also dreams. This is because
the human brain also can experience the effects of a fallen angel being able to
control the “quantum dice” (in a limited localized way).
“The human brain, however, is also subject to the uncertainty principle. Thus,
there is an element of the randomness associated with quantum mechanics in human
behavior. But the energies involved in the brain are low, so quantum mechanical
uncertainty is only a small effect.”
-Stephen Hawking PhD, Black Holes and Baby Universes, Pg. 133
Although the
effect of quantum mechanical uncertainty in the brain is normally small, if
fallen angels can determine how the “quantum dice” fall, then a fallen angel
could make the effect quite large and noticeable.
Regarding False
Visions, all of our physical senses are dependant on how our brain interprets
them. By fallen angels generating electrical impulses in the brain, and such
things like that, fallen angels would be able to make us “see” things that are
not actually in front of our eyes, and “hear” things that are not there to make
any sound, “feel” things that are not touching our bodies, “smell” things not
before our noses, and “taste” things that are not on our tongues. These things
would seem completely real to all of the bodily senses. And
the electrical impulses that are truly transmitting information about reality
around us could also be blocked out by fallen angels, under this same ability.
Or actual reality could be partially blocked. And either way, false electrical
signals in the brain generated by fallen angels, through manipulation of the
“quantum dice”, could cause a person to experience a False Vision that seemed
entirely physically real, but was not.
A person could be caused to perceive something completely illusionary, by a
fallen angel manipulating that person’s brain, which is a person’s gateway to
physical perception. As such, an illusion could seem completely physically real
to all of the bodily senses, so much so as to be completely indistinguishable
from reality to the person. This manipulation of the senses through manipulation
of the brain is very likely what happens in False Vision (or in Holy angelic
true Visions). Fallen angels could cause this to happen to more than one person
at a time, strengthening the deception. And also under the same limited control
over the “quantum dice”, fallen angels could cause physical manifestations, even
running concurrently with a Vision which seems real. This sort of deception can
be very powerful. Dreams could be explained much in the same way, but the same
sort of thing occurring while the person is asleep and dreaming.
Besides all of
this, there is one more thing which is miraculous that fallen angels do, which
modern science allows for in a specific way. That is time perception
manipulation.
Luke 4:5“Andthe
devil, taking him upinto an high
mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.”
This case of
Satan likely causing Jesus Christ to have a Vision, as mentioned in the Bible,
was likely at least hours in less than 1 second.
Let’s look at some of the examples of time perception manipulation mentioned
earlier:
The case of
Robert was about 2 hours in about 1 minute.
The Valdes case was about 5 days in 15 minutes.
The case of Michael was about 20 years in about 7 days.
In a
seconds-to-second ratio, this equates to:
Robert: 7200 seconds in 60 seconds,
or a ratio of120 seconds in 1
second
Valdes: 432,000 seconds in 900 seconds,
ratio of480 seconds in 1 second
Michael: 630,720,000 seconds in 604,800 seconds,
ratio1043
seconds in 1 second
What we are going
to cover next is the time perception manipulation abilities of fallen angels, as
seen in False Visions. I will first be covering the ways time perception
manipulation can not be explained under Modern Science, before I
get into the way it can be explained, and Modern Physics allows for this.
First off, it is
necessary to keep in mind that the memories of these experiences are of real
interaction between the abductee, and the vision caused by the fallen angel, in
which the abductee can make choices while the experience is ongoing.
I would first
like to make the point that remembered False Vision experiences are not memories
that are ready-made and downloaded like a file into the abductee’s brain.
Rather, because the abductee actively participates in decision making during the
Vision, the experience is stored as the events take place, over time. In short,
what abductees usually experience is very different than what some people refer
to as “false memories”. This can be sufficiently supported in that there are
cases in which an abductee has experienced a couple hours worth of abduction,
called out to Jesus for help, the experience has abruptly stopped, and the
abductee has found that only minutes had passed since the experience had begun,
not hours. As Satan does not work against Satan, a fallen angel would not
download a ready-made memory story that included the abduction experience
stopping in the name and authority of Jesus Christ.
So this shows
that abductees are able to make decisions during the False Vision experience. It
is a real experience, that takes place over the gradual progression of the
experience, and it progresses with time passing. It is reported that the flow of
time seems normal to abductees during these experiences, along with the
experience feeling real to all the bodily senses.
As the brain of
the victim of a False Vision is an integral part of how fallen angels carry out
these Visions, and the memories of these attacks are stored in the brain, then
the time perception manipulation aspect of these attacks must be explainable in
a way that is consistent and not conflicting with the physical human brain and
how it functions. And so any explanation of time perception manipulation must be
limited and confined to explanations that do not conflict with the science of
the human brain.
In examining this
further, I am going to keep relevant and prevalent in this explanation that it
has been shown in False Visions that time perception manipulation is present
while the abductee’s body does not go anywhere. This is important. I would
assert that any solution that would work to explain time perception manipulation
in this scenario would also work in all other scenarios, though the opposite
would not be true. The simplest answer can be found in explaining the most
restrictive scenarioin difficulty of
a science-friendly explanation.
If we were to
assume that time perception manipulation involves a compacting or compressing of
extensive experiences into a short period of time, then this would require the
human brain to handle in one second, somewhere from a hundred to a thousand
times more information than the brain usually processes in one second. The brain
processes information by the firing of neurons.
The only
information I could find on neurons firing more rapidly than normal were studies
on psychoactive drugs, heroin especially. As people attacked by fallen angels
that experience time perception manipulation do not report experiencing a severe
heroin-like sensation, this serves as experimental evidence that overly-rapid
neuronic firing in the normal passage of time will not work to explain this time
perception manipulation.
And as such, time
perception manipulation does not involve a compacting or compressing of
extensive experiences into a short period of time. The only other option is that
these experiences actually do take as much time as subjectively perceived by the
person having a fallen angelic Vision, though objective time passage for the
rest of the world is much shorter.
A major example
for this may be seen in the theory of general relativity. According to
relativity, no matter what speed a person moves, time is perceived to pass at
the same rate. However, less time will comparatively pass for an accelerated
person than for a (relatively) stationary person. Yet either person will feel
time passing at the same rate. It could be argued from a theological standpoint
that God designed the human brain to need a consistent flow of actual time in
order to function correctly, and designed a universe in which time passage would
remain consistent, no matter to what speed a human might accelerate.
Because the
person’s brain is involved in the process of a Vision, yet their body does not
go anywhere, many theoretical physics concepts dealing with time would not work
to explain how the brain can experience more time while the body experiences
less time.
Could general
relativity and time dilation explain how this works? Relativistic Time Dilation
would not work, because it would require the body to feel acceleration (or its
gravitational equivalent) in comparison to the brain, at over 99% the speed of
light. This speed would be necessary to produce a 100 or 1000 seconds to 1
second ratio. This is not what is reported by witnesses of the person under
attack's body, that see it does not go anywhere, nor the Biblical account that
during Visions people do not go anywhere. So this cannot be the case, aside from
the fact that such a thing would likely kill the person.
Could time travel
gained by travel to the future, and then the past, explain this extra perceived
time?
There is a type
of theoretical wormhole, called a CTC, which was once theorized to be able to be
used in this way, if many detailed criteria were met. But according to the
current consensus of scientists, a CTC would not work for time travel to the
future or past. This manner specifically would involve moving a brain to another
location in 4d space-time, spending a real amount of time in that other location
moving into the future, and then the brain traveling back in time to the same
moment it left. Even if this could work without killing the person, a CTC
wormhole still would not work for returning the brain to the past, as a CTC will
not work for time travel to the past or future. A CTC wormhole will not work for
time travel to the future and past for a brain, or a person, or even for a
bowling ball, as they cannot be used for time travel in general.
Kip Thorne and
Stephen Hawking had an ongoing debate for about 20 years over the subject of
time travel into the past, using a CTC wormhole for time travel. The debate,
based on their books, seems to have become settled, with Thorne (pro-possibility
of time travel) coming to agree with Hawking (anti-possibility of time travel).
Here are some highlights:
“Perhaps
fortunately for our survival (and that of our mothers), it seems that the laws
of physics do not allow such time travel. There seems to be a Chronology
Protection Agency that makes the world safe for historians by preventing travel
into the past. What seems to happen is that the effects of the uncertainty
principle would cause there to be a large amount of radiation if one traveled
into the past. This radiation would either warp space-time so much that it would
not be possible to go back in time, or it would cause space-time to come to an
end in a singularity like the big bang and the big crunch. Either way, our past
would be safe from evil-minded persons. The Chronology Protection Hypothesis is
supported by some recent calculations that I and other people have done. But the
best evidence we have that time travel is not possible, and never will be, is
that we have not been invaded by hordes of tourists from the future.”
-Stephen Hawking PhD, Black Holes and Baby Universes Pg. 154 (1994)
“Translating back the viewpoint of an observer at rest in the wormhole (the
observer that Kim and I had relied on), Hawking’s conjecture meant that the
quantum gravity cutoff occurs 10^-95 second before the wormhole becomes a time
machine, not 10^-43 second – and by then, according to our calculations, the
vacuum fluctuational beam is strong enough, but just barely so, that it might
indeed destroy the wormhole.”
-Kip S. Thorne PhD, Black Holes and Time Warps pg. 520 (1994)
“Hawking
suspects that the growing beams of vacuum fluctuations is nature’s way of
enforcing chronology protection: Whenever one tries to make a time machine, and
no matter what kind of device one uses in one’s attempt (a wormhole, a spinning
cylinder, a “cosmic string”, or whatever), just before one’s device becomes a
time machine, a beam of vacuum fluctuations will circulate through the device
and destroy it. Hawking seems ready to bet heavily on this outcome. I am not
willing to take the other side in such a bet. I do enjoy taking bets with
Hawking, but only bets that I have a reasonable chance of winning. My strong gut
feeling is that I would lose this one. My own calculations with Kim, and
unpublished calculations that Eanna Flanagan (a student of mine) has done more
recently, suggest to me that Hawking is likely to be right. Every time machine
is likely to self-destruct (by means of circulating vacuum fluctuations) at the
moment one tries to activate it.”
-Kip S. Thorne PhD, Black Holes and Time Warps pg. 521 (1994)
That was all from
1994, but a more recent quote from 2001 shows the issue has generally been
settled:
“… Since the
sum-over-histories calculations in these backgrounds are mathematically
equivalent, one can conclude that the probability of these backgrounds goes to
zero as they approach the warping needed for time loops. In other words, the
probability of having sufficient warping for a time machine is zero. This
supports what I have called theChronology
Protection Conjecture: that the laws of physics conspire to prevent time travel
by macroscopic objects.
Although time loops are allowed by the sum over histories, the probabilities are
extremely small. Based on the duality arguments I mentioned earlier, I estimate
the probability that Kip Thorne could go back and kill his grandfather as less
than one in ten with a trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion zeroes after
it… As gambling men,Kip and I
would bet on odds like that.The
trouble is, we can’t bet each other because we are now both on the same side.”
-Stephen Hawking PhD, The Universe in a Nutshell, pgs. 152-153
(2001)
One problem with time travel to the past (and future) between 2 locations in 4d
space-time, is that, put simply, electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations would build
up traveling in a loop from the present to the past, an infinite loop, and this
would destroy any pathway from the present to the past (or future). Stephen
Hawking and Kip Thorne have said, CTC wormholes won’t work for time travel.
As such, this is
also not a possibility for time perception manipulation during a fallen angel
attack, and it can summarily be concluded that peoples’ brains do not go
anywhere, or time travel. Time gained by traveling to the future, and then the
past, is not allowed by physics in any way that would fit this time perception
manipulation scenario seen in a fallen angelic Vision.
Biblically, this
can be understood in that God created the universe so as to not allow time
travel into the past. God controls both sides of the wormhole, and it is God who
would make it so electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations in a loop from the wormhole
mouths would destroy the wormhole before it could allow for any possible time
travel.
God created time,
as did Jesus Christ, as all things were created through Him.
Jesus Christ
says:
Rev 22:13I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.
As such God has
complete authority over time, and simply does not allow time travel to the past,
or the future and then the past again.
None of these
theories mentioned will work as an explanation for time perception manipulation
caused by fallen angels during False Visions. So then what is going on?
The key verse is
Luke 4:5 “And the devil, taking him up into an high mountain, shewed unto him all the
kingdoms of the worldin a moment
of time.”
This verse does
not describe time travel to the past. In contrast, this verse describes a long
period of time passing during a second, or less than a second. Or another way to
say this is that some extra time was perceptually gained by the person, more
than the objective passage of time that God controls. This verse describes a
long period of time passing during a second, or less than a second. Or another
way to say this is that some extra time was perceptually gained by the person,
more than the objective passage of time that God controls.
So how would a fallen angel do this? How might this work?
The answer is
that there is simply more to the dimension of time than we normally think of
there being. I believe the Bible sets precedence for this concept, and this is
how I would interpret Joshua’s Long Day.
Josh 10:12-14 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites
before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand
thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. And the sun
stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon
their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still
in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. And there
was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the
voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
I have read
several theories to explain how this worked, but here is mine:
When God made the
dimension of time, He made it to have both its flow in length, as we normally
perceive, and draw as a line, but also to have a width to it, at right angles to
its length. This width is normally small and tight like a string. But the width
of time is like a stretchy material, like a rubber band, and so if God wants to,
God can stretch out the width of time. The width of time is not affected by the
3 dimensions of space, or things like gravity or speed. The length of time is
what is referred to in “space-time”, but the width of time exists unaffected by
the things that would normally affect the length of time. In other words, the
width of time works like a 2nddimension
to time.
In Joshua’s Long
Day, it was the width of time that God stretched out, around the surface of the
earth, and for the people on the earth. As such the people on earth experienced
long time passage in the width of time, during what was a brief moment in the
length of time.
I believe that
according to physics this is possible. Although the concept of time having a 2nddimension
of “width” seems to be in its infancy, there is some information to be found on
it. The concept which parallels the “width” of time in modern theoretical
physics is the concept of “imaginary time”:
“…One of these
is that it is easier to do the sum if one deals with histories in what is called
imaginary time rather than in ordinary, real time. Imaginary time is a difficult
concept to grasp, and it is probably the one that has caused the greatest
problems for the readers of my book. I have also been criticized fiercely by
philosophers for using imaginary time.How
can imaginary time have anything to do with the real universe? I think these philosophers have not learned the lessons of history. It was
once considered obvious that the earth was flat and that the sun went around the
earth, yet since the time of Copernicus and Galileo, we have had to adjust to
the idea that the earth is round and that it goes around the sun. Similarly, it
was long obvious that time went for the same rate for every observer, but since
Einstein, we have had to accept that time goes for at different rates for
different observers. It also seemed obvious that the universe had a unique
history, yet since the discovery of quantum mechanics, we have had to consider
the universe as having every possible history. I
want to suggest that the idea of imaginary time is something that we will also
have to come to accept. It is an intellectual leap of the same order as
believing that the world is round. I think that imaginary time will come to seem
as natural as a round earth does now.There
are not many Flat Earthers left in the educated world.”
-Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universe, Pg. 81-82
Imaginary
timeis
already a commonplace of science fiction. Butit
is more than science fiction or a mathematical trick. It is something that
shapes the universe we live in. -Stephen Hawking,
Black Holes and Baby Universes, Pg. 83
Though it is a
newer concept, it seems that imaginary time shapes the universe we live in.According
to physics, what is it like?
“You can
think of ordinary, real time as a horizontal line, going from left to right.
Early times are on the left, and late times are on the right. But you can also
consider another direction of time, up and down the page. This is the so-called
imaginary direction of time, at right angles to real time.
What is the point of introducing the concept of imaginary time? Why doesn’t one
just stick to the ordinary, real time that we understand? The reason is that, as
noted earlier, matter and energy tend to make space-time curve in on itself. In
the real time direction, this inevitably leads to singularities, places where
space-time comes to an end. At the singularities, the equations of physics
cannot be defined; thus one cannot predict what will happen.But
the imaginary time direction is at right angles to real time.This
means that it behaves in a similar way to the three directions that correspond
to moving in space. The curvature of space-time caused by the matter in the
universe can then lead to the three space directions and the imaginary time
direction meeting up around the back. They would form a closed surface, like the
surface of the earth.The space
directions and imaginary time would form a space-time that was closed in on
itself, without boundaries or edges. It wouldn’t have any point that could be
called a beginning or end, any more than the surface of the earth has a
beginning or end.”
-Stephen Hawking PhD, Black Holes and Baby Universes, Pg 82
“When one
tried to unify gravity with quantum mechanics, one had to introduce the idea of
“imaginary” time. Imaginary time is indistinguishable from directions in space.
If one can go north, one can turn around and head south; equally, if one can go
forward in imaginary time, one out to be able to turn round and go backward.This
means that there can be no important difference between the forward and backward
directions of imaginary time. On the other hand, when one looks at “real” time,
there’s a very big difference between the forward and backward directions, as we
all know.” -Stephen Hawking
PhD, The Illustrated Brief History of Time, Pg 182
Imaginary time
does not follow the forward direction of time, but instead forms a closed loop,
in which there is no distinguishable forward or backward direction. This concept
seems to parallel a stretchy width to time very well. A person experiencing
imaginary time could gain time, going around a closed loop on the width of time,
and ending up where they started. This would allow time to be gained, and
experienced, by the person, without that person moving forward on the length of
time, save a moment.
Could the science
theory of Imaginary Time, or concept of a Width to Time, explain time perception
manipulation in False Visions caused by fallen angels? …Yes.
As I have
mentioned before, the Bible calls the angels the
“sons of God” in several places, and this may
relate to that angels can do many of the same things that God can do, but on a
more limited and local basis.
For instance, God
can perform miracles, signs and wonders, and Joshua’s Long Day was one of these
miraculous events. If this analogy holds true in this case, as it has in other
cases, then it would make sense that fallen angels may also be able to stretch
out the width of time on a limited local basis. The length of time God keeps all
authority over, and fallen angels cannot travel it nor stretch it out. But
during a Vision the additional time perceived would be from fallen angels
stretching out the width of time (not the length of time). Time is received like
a substance coming from the width of time, while there is scarcely anything
gained in the ever-proceeding length of time.
In fallen angelic
Vision experiences, this could be visualized as a fallen angel stretching out
the width of time around the brain of the person under attack. The person’s
brain does Not leave their body, nor move forwards and backwards along the
length of time. But the person does experience a gain of time from the period in
which the width of time is stretched out around their brain. This allows for a
gain of perceived passage of time in a Vision, and would allow for a couple
minutes to or even a couple hours to be perceived to pass in a moment, or
second.
This scenario
would allow the brain to function at its normal speed, with decision making
processes working as they normally do in the brain-mind-soul-spirit connection.This
would also allow for memories to be stored in the brain according to the normal
way the brain functions.
And so this is
how I would explain fallen angels accomplish time perception manipulation during
Visions. Modern Physics seems to somewhat allow for this, especially that angels
might be able to do this under the explanation of if they were extra-dimensional
in 6-7 extra dimensions, they might be able to access a second dimension of time
as well. In any case, this explanation of stretching the width of time around
the brain of the person would work to explain time perception manipulation in
Visions.
I find a good
analogy to conceptualize an extra dimension or dimensions is the green code in
the Matrix movie. Like the agents in the Matrix movie, fallen angels can alter
the “code” (“quantum dice”) to change what is there and alter the green code
inside a person’s mind, to change what the person perceives, through their
brain.
As such I often
try to represent the abilities of Fallen angels and the False Visions they
cause, using Matrix imagery. I use a red sphere of code to represent the
invisible extra-dimensional or spiritual realm fallen angel. (hallway is green,
sphere is red)
As an example, below is a close up of
a fallen angel False Vision of an “alien abduction”. Remember that the entire
vision, all 3 aliens, and the setting, are all caused by 1 fallen angel. In this
example, the red ball below contains a person standing in a room with 3 aliens,
near a table, in a defensive posture against the aliens. That is how the person
having this Vision experiences themself to be, and it seems real to them, though
a Vision.
What this represents is that because of a fallen angel, the
neurons in the person's brain are firing in such as way that their perceptions
have been altered. As the person perceives their surroundings through their
brain, which is the hub and gateway to all the physical senses, the true green
reality has been blocked out either fully or partially, and the person perceives
what is going on in the red sphere, which is the fallen angel attacking. Their
brain being able to send signals of sensing the green reality around them has
been blocked, and instead the deceptive red signals of the fallen angel is what
is getting through to their brain. In the most extreme case, this can mean the
person may perceive being touched, when they are not, smell things, see things,
etc. which seem entirely physically real, but are not. These physical sensations
can be of things which are external to the body, like the skin being cut, or
internal to the body, such as John's stomach ache in Revelation, or any other
sort of internal pain.
Because of the
brain-sensory-hacking abilities of fallen angels seen in False Visions, which
can seem completely physically real, it can be difficult to be able to tell with
certainty that an actual pure physical manifestation of a fallen angel has
occurred. Perhaps one example is that of fallen angels manifesting as UFOs (or
whatever) in which pictures or video-recording have been taken.
It has to be kept
in mind that when fallen angels do physically manifest, it may only be on a very
limited and partial basis. One example is the audio-recordings made of ghosts,
which if not hoaxes, only show a physical manifestation of the air vibrating so
as to produce a recordable sound, or a physical manifestation to alter the
recording device directly. That is all that could be proven to have occurred, at
most. In fact in many cases, it is possible that a physical manifestation was
limited to only a direct altering of the film or recording device, whether
pictures of ghosts or UFOs, video film, or audio recordings, while people
sometimes experience a False Vision in conjunction with this.
It is analogously similar to the scene
in the movie The Matrix where Neo lays down on a table, and his brain is
connected to a piece of hardware. He awakes to find himself standing in a white
room, with Morpheus, and some chairs. He touches them and asks “Is this real?”
and Morpheus comments to him on how what seems to be real is determined by
electrical signals in the brain.
All of Neo’s senses were working, it seemed real to him, yet it was not, and he
wasn't really where he perceived himself to be: he was still on the table, where
his brain and senses had been hacked into, blocking out reality, and replacing
it with something that felt just as real, but was not. But, he really did have
the experience.
This represents what the person perceives during the False Vision:
In this example, the person
does not perceive the green reality, but only the red deception of the fallen
angel. They may have a dream of being in this room with 3 aliens, or the Vision
could seem to completely physically-real-seeming to the abductee, clear and
focused as if they were fully awake. To an observer, the abductee might seem to
be awake as normal, or in a trance/sleeping state, and the observer who is not
under attack does not experience what the abductee is experiencing. It is
possible for and observer to also get attacked, and perceive themself to be in
the room with the abductee, but then the observer would be represented with the
same representation as the abductee above. It is also possible that the abductee
could be allowed to perceive the green reality to some extent or another, making
the mental attack only partial, and not full, such as a sensation of their
actual body (in green reality) getting tapped by an observer. Or as in some
cases, the abductee might see a gray, which seems physically real, overlaid on
top of the green reality of their actual home, bedroom, car, etc. This would
perhaps be better represented by a partially transparent red circle, in which
some green is seen through the red.
Also lumped into
the aspects of False Visions are events involving time perception manipulation.
As in the case of Robert, the explanation is that in the localized area of his
brain, something like a second dimension of time, ever present but at
right-angles to the normal flow of time, was utilized by the fallen angel, so
that he experienced hours in minutes. Again, we know this is possible for fallen
angels to utilize time this way to a limited localized extent, on a person, as
the Bible records in Luke 4:5 in Satan showing Jesus all the kingdoms of the
world in the time it takes to blink. (And that God did this to a worldwide
extent as in Joshua 10 as the sun stood still in the sky all day, though it
should be noted nothing in the Bible indicates that fallen angels can do this in
a worldwide way, nor beyond the localized effect on a person during a False
Vision.)
As to Physical Manifestation, the major example I have used here is of the
Malmstrom incident, in which UFOs were seen, and physical documented
malfunctions, without any other explanation to be had, coincided with the UFOs.
In the case of abductees, partial physical manifestations are documented with
bruises and other injuries, etc., however typically the simpler explanation for
much of the experience is that the rest of the experience was a False Vision.
Most of the experience was a False Vision, which also had minor elements of
physical manifestation. For instance, an abductee flown around Mars and back in
a UFO, who returns with a bruise, should be assumed to have had a False Vision
of going to Mars. This is because a bruise that is ascertained to have been
received during the experience is only able to serve as evidence of a partial
limited physical manifestation of a fallen angel, only enough to produce a
bruise. Along the same lines, cuts or scars, whether external or internal (such
as to the sexual organs) would need to be ascertained to have been received
during the experience, and could only serve as evidence of a partial limited
physical manifestation of a fallen angel, only enough to produce those cuts or
scars. A bruise as the only evidence simply
cannot prove someone physically went to Mars.
When it come to physical manifestation, it is clear from the Bible that fallen
angels can cause illness, as is seen in the case of Job being given boils by
Satan, and Herod (accepting worship as a "god") being smitten with worms by an
angel of God, which killed him. In this case of illness, once a fallen angel has
caused an illness, it can remain for some time. One such illness that seems to
be reported often among female abductees is that of "false pregnancy", which is
a verifiable medical condition. This medical condition also happens to many
women who have never reported having any "alien abduction" experiences. The
symptoms include extended abdomen, sensations of a baby moving inside, menstrual
changes and lack of menses, verifiable hormonal changes, weight gain, tender
breasts, morning sickness, cervical changes, and false labor. Research has shown
18% of cases of false pregnancy were at one time diagnosed as a pregnancy by a
doctor. This is likely as doctors use hormone blood tests. In the normal
population this is estimated to occur 1-6 times per every 22,000 births. False
pregnancy happens to many women who are not abductees. As such it is possible
either that a fallen angel could supernaturally trigger this illness in a
woman's body by a partial physical manifestation targeted to cause this illness,
or could simply be playing upon an illness of false pregnancy that would have
occurred in that women anyway, due to some natural or unrelated reason for this
medical problem. To date there is no verifiable proof of any real "alien"
conception taking place, or resulting babies, to be found in abduction research.
(From
Wikipedia, False Pregnancy).
Here is a False Vision combined with
some degree of Physical Manifestation:
And what the
person perceives during the combination False Vision / physical attack:
The
representations above are meant to convey that both a False Vision and a
Physical Manifestation attack are taking place at the same time, to some extent
or another. The brain is sensory-hacked so that the abductee may perceive
themself to be in a new location, and whatever they experience can seem
physically real. At the same time, the abductee may incur physical injuries from
a level of Physical attack, in partial physical manifestation. While the
abductee perceives themself to be aboard a spaceship, and bruised by an alien,
the fallen angel manifests physically enough to cause a bruise on the body of
the abductee in the corresponding area. In fact, the abductee is in green
reality, still located in the same hallway, though having a False Vision of
being somewhere else.
An especially deceptive aspect of a False Visions combined with a degree of
Physical Manifestation, is when the attack begins with a real-feeling False
Vision of the abductee's actual location. For instance, the abductee may
actually be in their bedroom, and the Vision begins with the fallen angel having
them perceive their bedroom, in a way that seems completely physically real. The
real-seeming Vision then includes the abductee being moved from their bedroom to
a spaceship, and the travel out of the house to the spaceship, even being
floated through a wall or out a window, while the experience continues to be so
physically-real-seeming that it is indistinguishable from reality to the
abductee. The effect is seamless and flawless, and can convince the abductee
that the travel and the location they went to were physically real locations
that exist in objective reality. However, without actual objective proof of
this, nothing can be confirmed. The simplest explanation is that the abductee
had a False Vision which felt completely real, as their brain, through which
they perceive their senses, was under attack and being manipulated in it's
signals by a fallen angel.
Abductees have reported being taken to underground military bases, a hollow
earth, other planets, going there on spaceships with advanced propulsion and
anti-gravity systems, underground secret railway systems, and going through
portals, wormholes, teleportation, etc. sometimes with corresponding technology
seen. Yet, there is no objective evidence that the abductee actually went
anywhere by these methods the abductee saw. Even in cases in which the abductee
was observed to be missing, it is not ruled out that the witness was also being
affected by a fallen angel with a False Vision, so designed that they would not
be able to see the abductee, even if the abductee was right in front of them.
This is the interpretation I have of the several cases of abduction accounts I
referenced prior; the abductee did not go anywhere but was prevented from being
seen.
Also, even if there were in fact secret military underground bases in existence,
and there was verifiable proof that this was a true fact in actual reality, this
does not mean that any abductees have actually been to these places. There is a
verifiable planet Mars, but that this place exists does not mean that any
abductee has actually been taken to the planet Mars. The government may have
top-secret advanced military aircraft, but that does not mean that an abductee
has actually ridden on any such aircraft. Without verifiable proof, an equally
valid explanation is that the abductee experienced a real-seeming False Vision
which was deceptive, and intelligently designed to be deceptive by a fallen
angel.
When the abductee sees supernatural occurrences during their experience, things
that seems to defy the laws of physics, like passing through a wall, or severe
injuries that would kill a person but have healed the next morning, technology
that not only is unknown but in fact science has so-far concluded does something
which is impossible (like a device that makes a wormhole), these are all
indicators of a real-seeming False Vision experience.
Also, if the abductee sees other abductees, or military personnel, or humans
that are real people who are living today, these could still just be part of a
real-seeming False Vision, and is not conclusive proof that the abductee went
anywhere, or saw actual other people. A particular John Doe might be a real
person, but that an abductee saw John Doe during their abduction experience does
not mean that John Doe was involved with the abductee's experience in any way.
Some abductees report seeing "Jesus" during their experience, or seeing a dead
spouse, yet in neither case was the actual person involved. Just as easily as a
fallen angel can cause a False Vision of several aliens, so also can a fallen
angel cause a False Vision of human beings, even ones who really exist. There
are some documented cases of one abductee seeing another abductee in an
experience, and meeting that very person later in their life. In this case it is
entirely possible that the fallen angels simply knew that both people were
abductees, as the abductions were being caused by these fallen angels, and
incorporated this fact into a False Vision, given to one or both abductees. That
the people met later in life (like a UFO Conference) could be a coincidence that
was merely hoped for by the fallen angel, or it even could be that the abductee
was influenced towards the decision to go to this event by the fallen angel.
Once the enormity of the abilities of deception that a fallen angel has at their
disposal by use of these methods, sinks in, it becomes very clear just how
little of the information gleaned from abductee reports can be assumed to serve
as verifiable proof of what is taking place in objective reality. In abductee
cases, usually the only thing that can really be accepted as true is that the
person really had an "alien abduction experience". However, very little
information can be gathered from the content of that experience. The abductee
really did experience an event, but like one can't trust what a channeled demon
says to a contactee to be true, one cannot trust what a fallen angel causes an
abductee to experience in a False Vision to be true either. It is true that the
abductee experienced something, and something truly traumatic, and can need all
the understanding of someone who experienced a real trauma, because they have.
(And the Bible always records Visions as actual events that happened to the
person who experienced the Vision, even though it is specified that the
experience was a Vision. The Bible also confirms these events can be truly
traumatic, besides in Job 7, also see Dan 8:27 and 7:28.) Yet at the same time
the information that can be gathered from the content of a False Vision
experience cannot be trusted, as all of it is a purposely designed deception
caused by a fallen angel, working in the dark army of Satan who is the father of
lies.
In conclusion,
Science and Modern Physics seems to allow for the miraculous and miracles,
whether caused by God, Holy angels or fallen angels. For Christians, the Bible
does establish the kinds of things that fallen angels can do. Taking the Bible
as the authoritative Word of God, on faith, there really is no need to question
that fallen angels have these abilities. The Bible says fallen angels have these
abilities, both of whatever degree of physical effects, and causing False
Visions and dreams. Bible-believing Christians should be able to accept that,
whether modern science has caught up to the Truth of the Word of God, or not.
But the hope with this piece is that you can understand that Science and the
Bible do not conflict, as science actually allows for the miraculous to occur,
as is recorded in the Bible and seen in miracles God still works today. And as
also is seen in the false signs and wonders that happen today, caused by fallen
angels. Theories in Science are always changing, in a progressive accumulation
of knowledge: they are not truth. Where the Bible and science seem to
contradict, I believe the Bible should always be deferred to as Correct and
Truth, no matter what science teaches or scientists say.
I’ve touched on
topics involved with big bang theory, quantum mechanics, black holes, worm
holes, extra dimensions, and string theory. But I agree with what Russell Grigg,
from CMI-Australia has to say on this:
“It has truly
been said that Christians married in their thinking to today’s science (e.g. big
bang, ten dimensions, etc.) will be widowed tomorrow.”
-Russell M. Grigg M.Sc. (Hons.), Creationist Chemist and Missionary
www.creation.com CMI–Australia
That being said,
I’m not entirely convinced about any of these theoretical science theories, and
my intent here has not been to convince anyone of them. But rather, the aim of
this was to use Modern Physics theories to show that science does not contradict
or in any way disallow what that Bible teaches is true. The main point of doing
this is to show that science does not preclude the existence of miracles of God
and of holy angels, and also the false miraculous done by fallen angels. But
rather I believe modern science actually completely allows for miracles, and for
fallen angels, and their Biblically described abilities.
It is clear that
the Bible says fallen angels can do things as are described in “alien abduction”
accounts. There is nothing in modern science that contradicts or disproves what
the Bible teaches about fallen angels and their abilities. Rather than prove
this seemingly supernatural activity is impossible, science actually completely
allows for all of this to be possible...
Modern physics shows that God created the universe to leave room for the
miraculous to occur, without violating the laws of physics that He set up and
maintains. Regarding “alien abduction” experiences, the explanation of fallen
angels causing False Visions actually makes far more sense and violates known
science and modern science theories far less than the biological
extraterrestrial with advanced technology explanation.
In any case, God
is infinitely dimensional, without any question, having created all dimensions
and everything in them, and as we know, God, in His three persons, can do
anything and is All-powerful.
A fallen angel is
more powerful than a human. But Jesus Christ is the Son of God, fully God and
fully man, and also infinitely dimensional. So Jesus Christ is more powerful
than any fallen angel, and even more powerful than all fallen angels combined.
This is just another way of looking at what we already know, that Jesus Christ
is seated at the right hand of God, with all power, above every other power,
principality, authority, above every angel, Holy or fallen.
Angels can only
be in one place at once, as we see in Daniel 10. And angels were created by God,
as Genesis says,
“God created the heavens and the earth and all the host of them”.
But Jesus Christ
is the fullness of the Godhead in human form, and Jesus Christ said
“before Abraham was, I AM”,
and John tells us “All things were made by him; and
without him was not any thing made that was made”,
showing Jesus Christ’s infinite dimensionality as the Son of God.
And the Bible
tells us in Acts 4:10-12, Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead,
[even] by him doth this man stand here before you whole. This is the stone which
was set at nought of you builders, which is become the head of the corner.
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
And we see
this in abductions stopping in the name of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ can and
does help those who call out to Him for His help, and who have faith in Him and
believe upon the power of His Name.
So Jesus Christ
is more powerful than fallen angels, in whatever form they take, one example
being aliens, no matter how powerful they seem, Jesus Christ is more powerful.
And we also see
this in that many other supernatural harassment and attacks stop in the name and
authority of Jesus Christ. So Jesus Christ is more powerful than fallen angels,
in whatever form they take, no matter how powerful they seem, Jesus Christ is
more powerful. The Bible confirms this in every way, including symbolically.
Insectoid Aliens look like locusts,
but the Bible tells us that the locusts will not harm those with the seal of God
on their foreheads.
Rev 9:3-11And
there came out of the smokelocustsupon
the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpionsof
the earth have power. And it was commanded them that they should nothurtthe
grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; butonly
those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. And to them it
was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five
months: and their torment [was] as thetorment
of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. And in those days shall men seek
death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from
them. And the shapes ofthe
locusts[were] like unto horses
prepared unto battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and
their faces [were] as the faces of men. And they had hair as the hair of women,
and their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions. And they had breastplates, as it
were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings [was] as the sound of
chariots of many horses running to battle. And they had tailslike
unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power [was]
to hurt men five months. And they
had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit,whose
name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name
Apollyon.
Theses locusts are like
scorpions, But Jesus tells us:
Luke 10:9Behold,
Igive unto you power to tread on
serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing
shall by any means hurt you.
Reptilian Aliens also look like
serpents, but Jesus gives power to us to tread upon scorpions and serpents!
Also, Gray Aliens look like
frogs.
Rev 16:13-14And I saw three uncleanspirits
like frogs[come] out of the
mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of
the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, [which]
go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to
the battle of that great day of God Almighty.
Frogs
“Gray
Aliens” are said to have
Large eyes, slit mouth, no nose
Large eyes, slit mouth, no nose
3-4 long webbed fingers
3-4 long webbed fingers
No external genitalia
No external genitalia
No hair
No hair
Ability
to Absorb through skin
Ability
to Absorb through skin
External reproductive means
External reproductive means
But Jesus tells
us:
Rev
19:10-16,19-21 And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him
[was] calledFaithful and True,
and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes [were] as a flame of
fire, and on his head [were] many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man
knew, but he himself. And he [was] clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and
his name is calledThe Word of God.
And the armies [which were] in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in
fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the
nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the
winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on [his]
vesture and on his thigh a name written,KING
OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
And I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered
together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army.
And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles
before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast,
and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of
fire burning with brimstone. And the remnant were slain with the sword of him
that sat upon the horse, which [sword] proceeded out of his mouth: and all the
fowls were filled with their flesh.”
Jesus Christ the
Lord will destroy the enemy, Jesus Christ will win the battle. In all the forms
of that the enemy takes, aliens or whatever else, the Bible tells us that all
power over the enemy, to defeat the enemy, is in the hands of the Lord Jesus
Christ. The victory belongs
to the Lord Jesus Christ.
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