Every Sunday we present a prophecy update. We show how news and trends in the world corroborate centuries-old prophecies you read in the Bible.
Every now and then there is significant news about the probability of humans encountering alien life. It is significant in Bible prophecy because the Bible predicts a great end times deception that will turn men’s hearts away from God.
On September 17th, a British news source posted a story titled, World’s largest telescope to be switched on as scientists step up search for alien life.
Excerpts:
Is Earth finally about to make contact with extra terrestrial life? That is one of the hopes for the world’s largest radio telescope, which will be switched on later this month. The finishing touches have now been put to the Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST), in south west China’s Guizhou Province, with the enormous 1,650-foot-wide dish set become operational from September 25.
The first few years of FAST’s life will see Chinese scientists conduct early stage research to find out more about the beginning of the universe.
After that the telescope will become open to researchers across the world to search for distant planets and listen out for signals potentially left by alien civilizations.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/worlds-largest-telescope-switched-scientists-8859489
Why does this interest us as students of Bible prophecy? According to Christian researcher Don Koenig (and I quote),
The scriptures tell us that in the last days God will allow a great deception to take place. This deception may be one delivered by beings some people call aliens from outer space. It is no coincidence that there is common pagan theological agreement among those in the occult, those in the new age movement and those that believe that we are being visited by aliens from outer space.
The Bible specifically warns us that, in the last days, demonic deceptions will increase. Almost everything attributed to UFO’s can be explained by demonic activity preparing the world for this great end-times deception.
Author Lynn Catoe writes,
A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked with mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects like mental telepathy, automatic writing and invisible entities as well as phenomena like poltergeist [ghost] manifestation and ‘possession.’ Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic possession and psychic phenomena.
UFO’s are ‘real,’ but they aren’t what folks think. They are demonic and are part of the great end times deception predicted in the Bible. The prevalence of UFO reports, and the belief in them, is evidence we are in those days.
We are going to be abducted by Jesus! He promised to return for His church, to resurrect the dead in Christ, and to rapture living believers. He said it could happen at any moment, and he N courage us to be ready.
Are you ready for the rapture? If not, get ready, stay ready, and keep looking up. Ready or not, Jesus is coming!