I'm not aware of anywhere in the Bible that refers to anything other than holy "UFO" sightings. Unlike mind games, such biblical incidents had definite meaning and purpose. Satan and his demons have been restrained in what they can do.
For the record, as taught by *Herbert W. Armstrong, the biblical evidence is against life on other planets. The Bible reveals Earth is unique and it is here that God has chosen to reproduce Himself: mankind after the Godkind, born again at the First Resurrection into the Kingdom-Family of God!
Kingdom of God-Beings to Rule Earth from Jerusalem!
Those who teach the UFOs are demons are preparing minds to fight against the return of Christ with all the glorified saints and holy angels as an "invasion from Outer Space!"
Misguided Mankind Requires Divine Deliverance; Extraterrestrial Intervention
Man Questions Whether We'll Be Angelic Or Divine
Born Again and Heaven and Hell
*Herbert W. Armstrong taught the following in his book, Mystery of the Ages. Here's an excerpt from chapter 7 -- Mystery of the Kingdom of God --
Outer Space—Planets Now Dead
Now put this together with what is revealed in the eighth chapter of Romans.
Here it speaks of Christ as God’s Son: “. . . that he might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Rom. 8:29). Humans, having God’s Holy Spirit, are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ—who, alone of all humans, has already been born as God’s Son by a resurrection from the dead (Rom. 1:4). He is the first of the human family to be born into the family of God—the kingdom of God. He is our pioneer who has gone on before. We shall follow at the resurrection of the just at Christ’s return to earth in supreme power and glory.
This eighth chapter of Romans, verse 9, says if we have within us the Holy Spirit of God we are his begotten sons, but if we do not have his Spirit we are none of his—not Christians at all. But verse 11 says that if we have God’s Holy Spirit growing within and leading us we shall be raised from the dead by his Spirit—(or if living when Christ comes we shall be changed from mortal to immortal).
Now continue: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. . . . The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ . . . also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us…” (Rom. 8:14-18).
Continue, Revised Standard Version: “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation [all the suns, planets, stars, moons] was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation [stars, suns and moons now in decay and futility] has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves [we Spirit-begotten humans], who have the first fruits of the Spirit [the very few now being called to salvation—the “firstfruits”], groan inwardly as we wait for the [birth] as sons” (verses 19-23).
What an amazing marvelous revelation of knowledge!
No more amazing, awesome, eye-opening passage could be written!
It is so astonishingly revealing, one doesn’t fully grasp it just reading quickly through.
First I quoted from verse 29 of Romans 8 stating Christ was the firstborn of many brethren.
In Hebrews 1, we see that Christ, the first human to be born by a resurrection from the dead, has been glorified and now sustains the entire universe. He is our Pioneer who has gone on ahead. At his return to earth in power and glory, those who have been converted and received God’s Holy Spirit shall be born into the God family by a resurrection. Then the entire universe will be put into subjection under them!
Then, from Romans 8, if we have and are led by the Holy Spirit of God, we shall be raised to Spirit composition and immortality in the God family even as Christ was in a.d. 31 upon his resurrection.
Now once again from verse 19: “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God” (RSV). This shall happen after the time of the resurrection, when those who are human actually become—by a resurrection or instantaneous change from mortal flesh to Spirit immortality—sons of God.
Astonishing?—Entire Universe to Be Renewed
Now understand please. Why should the whole universe—the creation—be waiting with eager longing for the actual birth and appearing of all these sons of God, to be born into the family of God? The following verses portray a universe filled with planets in decay and futility—yet as if subjected now to this dead state in hope! “Because the creation itself [the universe not now capable of sustaining life] will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.”
How did all the planets fall into the bondage of decay? Surely God did not so create them!
Decay signifies a state or condition caused by degeneration and decomposition from a previous undecayed state. God, then, created these planets in a state of nondecay.
But something caused deterioration to set in.
What could have caused all this “bondage to decay”?
It cannot be the state in which God created them! Everything we read in God’s revealed Word about God’s creation shows it to have been a perfect creation. The earth was first created a perfect creation of glorious beauty.
We see that angels inhabited the earth prior to the creation of man. Angels, who were perfect from the creation until iniquity or lawlessness was found in them, caused the whole surface of the earth to turn into a state of decay, confusion and emptiness, as shown in chapter 2.
Could the whole universe with its myriad of other planets have been created for the eventual purpose of sustaining life? We are not told specifically by revelation in God’s Word whether it was or not, but what we are told throws additional light on why God decided to create man!
Continue this passage in Romans 8:22: “We know that the whole creation [universe] has been groaning in travail together until now.” Consider that the creation is compared to a mother about to be delivered of her child. The creation is pictured as groaning in travail in hope (verse 20), awaiting the birth by resurrection to immortality, of the children of God. It is as if the creation is the mother and God is the father. Anyway the whole thrust of the passage is that when we (converted humans) are born of God—then having the power and glory of God—we are going to do as God did when this earth had been laid “waste and empty”—Hebrew, tohu and bohu (Gen. 1:2). Christ, who renewed “the face of the earth” (Ps. 104:30), was renewing what had been destroyed by the rebellion of the sinning angels.
What these wonderful passages imply and indicate goes far beyond the amount specifically revealed.
This passage indicates precisely what all astronomers and scientific evidence indicate—the suns are as balls of fire, giving out light and heat; but the planets, except for this earth, are in a state of death, decay and futility—but not forever—waiting until converted humans are born the children of God; born into the very divine family of God, forming the kingdom of God.
Jesus’ gospel was the kingdom of God. What I am showing you here is that Christ’s gospel of the kingdom actually includes all this knowledge here revealed—even the whole universe is to be ruled by us, who, with God the Father and Christ, become the kingdom of God.
God is first of all Creator, but God is also Ruler. And he is Educator, who reveals knowledge beyond and outside the scope of human mind of itself to comprehend!
Put together all these scriptures I have used in this chapter, and you begin to grasp the incredible human potential. Our potential is to be born into the God family, receiving total power! We are to be given jurisdiction over the entire universe!
What are we going to do then? These scriptures indicate we shall impart life to billions and billions of dead planets, as life has been imparted to this earth. We shall create, as God directs and instructs. We shall rule through all eternity! Revelation 21 and 22 show there will then be no pain, no suffering, no evil, because we shall have learned to choose God’s way of good. It will be an eternal life of accomplishment, constantly looking forward in super-joyous anticipation to new creative projects, and still looking back also on accomplishments with happiness and joy over what shall have been already accomplished.
We shall never grow tired and weary. Always alive—full of joyous energy, vitality, exuberant life and strength and power!
For the record, as taught by *Herbert W. Armstrong, the biblical evidence is against life on other planets. The Bible reveals Earth is unique and it is here that God has chosen to reproduce Himself: mankind after the Godkind, born again at the First Resurrection into the Kingdom-Family of God!
Kingdom of God-Beings to Rule Earth from Jerusalem!
Those who teach the UFOs are demons are preparing minds to fight against the return of Christ with all the glorified saints and holy angels as an "invasion from Outer Space!"
Misguided Mankind Requires Divine Deliverance; Extraterrestrial Intervention
Man Questions Whether We'll Be Angelic Or Divine
Born Again and Heaven and Hell
*Herbert W. Armstrong taught the following in his book, Mystery of the Ages. Here's an excerpt from chapter 7 -- Mystery of the Kingdom of God --
Outer Space—Planets Now Dead
Now put this together with what is revealed in the eighth chapter of Romans.
Here it speaks of Christ as God’s Son: “. . . that he might be the firstborn among many brethren” (Rom. 8:29). Humans, having God’s Holy Spirit, are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ—who, alone of all humans, has already been born as God’s Son by a resurrection from the dead (Rom. 1:4). He is the first of the human family to be born into the family of God—the kingdom of God. He is our pioneer who has gone on before. We shall follow at the resurrection of the just at Christ’s return to earth in supreme power and glory.
This eighth chapter of Romans, verse 9, says if we have within us the Holy Spirit of God we are his begotten sons, but if we do not have his Spirit we are none of his—not Christians at all. But verse 11 says that if we have God’s Holy Spirit growing within and leading us we shall be raised from the dead by his Spirit—(or if living when Christ comes we shall be changed from mortal to immortal).
Now continue: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. . . . The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ . . . also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us…” (Rom. 8:14-18).
Continue, Revised Standard Version: “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God; for the creation [all the suns, planets, stars, moons] was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of him who subjected it in hope; because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God. We know that the whole creation [stars, suns and moons now in decay and futility] has been groaning in travail together until now; and not only the creation, but we ourselves [we Spirit-begotten humans], who have the first fruits of the Spirit [the very few now being called to salvation—the “firstfruits”], groan inwardly as we wait for the [birth] as sons” (verses 19-23).
What an amazing marvelous revelation of knowledge!
No more amazing, awesome, eye-opening passage could be written!
It is so astonishingly revealing, one doesn’t fully grasp it just reading quickly through.
First I quoted from verse 29 of Romans 8 stating Christ was the firstborn of many brethren.
In Hebrews 1, we see that Christ, the first human to be born by a resurrection from the dead, has been glorified and now sustains the entire universe. He is our Pioneer who has gone on ahead. At his return to earth in power and glory, those who have been converted and received God’s Holy Spirit shall be born into the God family by a resurrection. Then the entire universe will be put into subjection under them!
Then, from Romans 8, if we have and are led by the Holy Spirit of God, we shall be raised to Spirit composition and immortality in the God family even as Christ was in a.d. 31 upon his resurrection.
Now once again from verse 19: “For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God” (RSV). This shall happen after the time of the resurrection, when those who are human actually become—by a resurrection or instantaneous change from mortal flesh to Spirit immortality—sons of God.
Astonishing?—Entire Universe to Be Renewed
Now understand please. Why should the whole universe—the creation—be waiting with eager longing for the actual birth and appearing of all these sons of God, to be born into the family of God? The following verses portray a universe filled with planets in decay and futility—yet as if subjected now to this dead state in hope! “Because the creation itself [the universe not now capable of sustaining life] will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.”
How did all the planets fall into the bondage of decay? Surely God did not so create them!
Decay signifies a state or condition caused by degeneration and decomposition from a previous undecayed state. God, then, created these planets in a state of nondecay.
But something caused deterioration to set in.
What could have caused all this “bondage to decay”?
It cannot be the state in which God created them! Everything we read in God’s revealed Word about God’s creation shows it to have been a perfect creation. The earth was first created a perfect creation of glorious beauty.
We see that angels inhabited the earth prior to the creation of man. Angels, who were perfect from the creation until iniquity or lawlessness was found in them, caused the whole surface of the earth to turn into a state of decay, confusion and emptiness, as shown in chapter 2.
Could the whole universe with its myriad of other planets have been created for the eventual purpose of sustaining life? We are not told specifically by revelation in God’s Word whether it was or not, but what we are told throws additional light on why God decided to create man!
Continue this passage in Romans 8:22: “We know that the whole creation [universe] has been groaning in travail together until now.” Consider that the creation is compared to a mother about to be delivered of her child. The creation is pictured as groaning in travail in hope (verse 20), awaiting the birth by resurrection to immortality, of the children of God. It is as if the creation is the mother and God is the father. Anyway the whole thrust of the passage is that when we (converted humans) are born of God—then having the power and glory of God—we are going to do as God did when this earth had been laid “waste and empty”—Hebrew, tohu and bohu (Gen. 1:2). Christ, who renewed “the face of the earth” (Ps. 104:30), was renewing what had been destroyed by the rebellion of the sinning angels.
What these wonderful passages imply and indicate goes far beyond the amount specifically revealed.
This passage indicates precisely what all astronomers and scientific evidence indicate—the suns are as balls of fire, giving out light and heat; but the planets, except for this earth, are in a state of death, decay and futility—but not forever—waiting until converted humans are born the children of God; born into the very divine family of God, forming the kingdom of God.
Jesus’ gospel was the kingdom of God. What I am showing you here is that Christ’s gospel of the kingdom actually includes all this knowledge here revealed—even the whole universe is to be ruled by us, who, with God the Father and Christ, become the kingdom of God.
God is first of all Creator, but God is also Ruler. And he is Educator, who reveals knowledge beyond and outside the scope of human mind of itself to comprehend!
Put together all these scriptures I have used in this chapter, and you begin to grasp the incredible human potential. Our potential is to be born into the God family, receiving total power! We are to be given jurisdiction over the entire universe!
What are we going to do then? These scriptures indicate we shall impart life to billions and billions of dead planets, as life has been imparted to this earth. We shall create, as God directs and instructs. We shall rule through all eternity! Revelation 21 and 22 show there will then be no pain, no suffering, no evil, because we shall have learned to choose God’s way of good. It will be an eternal life of accomplishment, constantly looking forward in super-joyous anticipation to new creative projects, and still looking back also on accomplishments with happiness and joy over what shall have been already accomplished.
We shall never grow tired and weary. Always alive—full of joyous energy, vitality, exuberant life and strength and power!
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