by John W. Milor
Posted @ https://www.JohnMilor.com
Could it be that the rapture of the church is a bit different from how most Christians imagine it?
At least some angels faithful to God utilize advanced technology. They probably don’t have to have it in many cases, but they use it in order to supplement or enhance their abilities. Consider the angel who guarded the entrance to the Garden of Eden and the tree of life after Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden (Genesis 3:22–24). Did he absolutely have to have a flaming sword? What kind of weapon was that, anyway—a light saber? Just a regular sword is a type of technology, but a flaming sword is advanced technology.
Why didn’t the angel just wave his hand in order to prevent access to the tree of life? Could it be that he actually needed that sword?
Genesis 3:22–24
And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever: Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the Garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So He drove out the man; and He placed at the east of the Garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.
Was this a flaming sword, or… a forcefield?
Could it be that the angels who were flying a sky chariot with fire all around it and who apprehended Elijah and took him to heaven, actually needed a vehicle capable of flying?
2 Kings 2:11–12
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. And Elisha saw it, and He cried, My father, my father, the chariot of Israel, and the horsemen thereof.
Why would an angelic being use a flying vehicle with wheels? It is not rolling on the ground. Furthermore, if it was pulled by horses of fire, why isn’t the chariot dangling under the horses? What was holding it up? And if there was an antigravity power suspending it, why wasn’t that same power propelling it forward?
These are just a few basic questions here, and a lot of Christians don’t bother to ask them. The point I’m getting at here, is that I believe the word “chariot” is used for angels in a generic sense, to refer to a vehicle. I think Ezekiel was telling his friends, something more along the line of… “It was weird, dude! That chariot was flying! It was super powerful, with thunder and lightning, bro! The horses, if that’s what they are, were made out of fire!”
The Bible speaks of angels walking (Genesis 19:1–3) and flying (Genesis 28:12; John 1:51; Revelation 14:6), but perhaps a vehicle gets certain angels where they want to go a little faster, just as an automobile gets people where they need to go a little faster, even though they don’t absolutely have to have one, since they can always walk. Nevertheless isn’t it true that technology is the natural expression of intelligence in the universe? I acknowledge that these incredibly powerful, ultra-intelligent beings could actually use something as antiquated as a literal chariot if they wanted to, but I think it is more likely it was another type of vehicle, and its description is given through the eyes of someone who knew of no other type of vehicle. That’s why the power moving the chariot is referred to as a horse, albeit made of fire.
Consider for a moment, that from a profile view, there are arguably two sets of wings covering the “body” of the “creature.” The top panels would look like birds wings going down, but the buttom panneling would look like two birds wings going upward. Both sets of wings (top and bottom), are straight, they don’t flap/turn, and they are connected at the ends. If you have four of these “cratures,” consider what we see UAPs doing these days, busting into pieces, then re-emerging together, so multiple UAPs could do any number of odd, erradic movements.
From a top-down view, you’re looking at a series of concentric circles, with view ports or lights in the paneling, that could be described as eyes in the spoke area or rims of the wheels. Is this not pretty close to the somewhat confusing description that Ezekiel describes? Overall, it is an angelic “chariot”, i.e. vehicles, associated with angels. Reading the details of Ezekiel 1, and chapter 10, will reveal a number of interesting clues as to what this angelic chariot looked like, and the way it behaved.
Personally, I think it is on the nose as a description of a UFO from the perspective of an ancient Israelite.
In my book, Christian Ufology, I camp out on Ezekiel 1 and 10, pointing out details, such as the fact that the shape of the angelic chariot is a saucer (wheels within wheels), it has a transparent dome on top, its base is described as berillium – a heat resistant metal, its flight is erratic, it is associated with fire, and its function is to transport otherworldly beings from the heavens (outer space – heaven is a plural word here), to Earth.
Of course, many will point out details that seem difficult to explain, but they aren’t difficult to explain in my opinion. One such detail is that vision is described as a mercakabah, aka God’s portable throne. There are heavy theological implications with a merkabah, but consider this: any UFO capable of interdimentional, intergalactic travel, would have to be capable of generating a quantum singularity (worm hole). Using this capability, it would be able to punch a hole through time-space directly above it, so anyone looking at it, could see directly into the throne room of God.
Another detail relates to spirit horses. There are animals in heaven, so there are probably horses there as well, and they might have some unusual abilities.
Spirit horses in particular are mentioned in several places in Scripture, and I see no reason why the inhabitants of the first heaven (directly in the upper atmosphere of the Earth, dimensionally shifted from our perception), wouldn’t ride them, especially when going into battle, just as we do in this world in certain places, though longer journeys probably require something a bit faster. Most likely the majority of the visions of spirit horses that are actually horses, and not symbolic imagery, (such as the four horsemen of the Apocalypse), are from horses in the first heaven right above our heads (2 Kings 6:17—could refer to both spacecraft and spirit horses, just as the armies of Earth may include soldiers mounted on horses and an assortment of vehicles). But I doubt angels are riding spirit horses cross the entire universe, though a spirit horse might have a few tricks up his sleeve.
Overall, I think it would help people somewhat to get away from thinking of heaven and angels as purely magical and apply some logic to contemplating everything that scripture says about them. The invisible realms can be known by that which is visible (Romans 1:20). Just as this world has a mix of the natural (creatures, technology, logic, principles, and so forth) and supernatural (powers, prophecy, miracles, and so forth), so it is in the heavens. A prime example of what I’m trying to explain can be derived by simply analyzing movies like Star Wars and Star Trek with a more eternal kingdom–oriented perspective. Scripture makes much more sense this way. These movies clearly depict the universe with a colorful mix of all manner of life-forms, technology, and beings with varying abilities, intelligence—and in some cases, supernatural power.
In Star Wars, remember that only the Jedi Knights imbued with the force (supernatural power) were able to make and use light sabers. Recall in Star Trek that most beings needed technology, while others, such as the Q, were so powerful they didn’t need it at all. As such, I expect the heavens to be very diverse in these details, which are so clearly depicted in science fiction and in the Bible. The Bible supports a more science fiction type of perspective, rather than an antiquated fairytale paradigm. Reality at large is very diverse, yet interestingly, human reasoning has a natural tendency to learn about reality by accepting only one dimension of it at a time. People assimilate knowledge by categorizing and classifying, and in many cases, they unnecessarily eliminate even the possibility of that which is unknown.
With these details in mind, take note that no scripture ever mentions that angels are all-powerful; they have limits. Also realize that God doesn’t do everything Himself, nor is He a micromanager. God takes extensive risks in His delegations, and He constantly delegates to His angels many activities in the affairs of His creation. In light of these facts, it should be understood that the event of the rapture of the church referred to in numerous places in scripture will be a coordinated event with Jesus heading an extremely quick “flyby” with a massive fleet of angels within their sky chariots (1 Thessalonians 4:16–17; Psalms 68:17). It will be faithful angels who will be taking the physical bodies of saints from Earth, stealing them off to heaven, probably exactly the way they took Elijah (2 Kings 2:11), but on a much larger scale. What might this entail?
1 Thessalonians 4:16–17
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Psalms 68:17
The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.
2 Kings 2:11
And it came to pass, as they still went on, and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven.
Consider for a moment the possibility of a fleet of intergalactic, inter-dimensional spaceships, capable of containing an excess of one billion people (all the saints of the past since the crucifixion, and all the saints presently on Earth). Imagine the sky proliferated with spacecraft, and hundreds of millions of people suddenly disappearing. The angels will arrive and quickly circle the globe in their sky chariots, taking millions of people as they pass by. I won’t even bother to go into detail in describing Ezekiel’s wheel (Ezekiel chapters 1 and 10), other than to say that there’s every indication (at least to me) that technology seems to be in the picture.
The purpose of this mission will be for God to gather the saints prior to the “great tribulation” (a time of unparalleled suffering, both in magnitude and intensity, unlike ever before in the history of the world). Note that while the rapture of the church may not be clearly visible because of the speed at which it will be conducted (in the twinkling of an eye), the massive arrival to occur at the second coming of Christ will not be discreet at all. Isaiah 66:15–16 speaks of “chariots like a whirlwind” raining fire down on the Earth.
As for the rapture of the church—as suddenly as the angels arrive, they will disappear without a trace, in the twinkling of an eye (1 Corinthians 15:52), leaving the entire world to dither in complete dismay.
Isaiah 66:1
For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render His anger with fury, and His rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire and by His sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
1 Corinthians 15:52
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
Now that I’ve established a basis for concluding that the rapture of the church could be a mass alien abduction, what are the implications of this conclusion?
After the rapture of the church, the world will be a spiritual vacuum, and this global event will be alarming to the entire planet, to say the least. It will be viewed as the single most devastating catastrophe to ever strike the planet! Furthermore, it will most likely be made known with verifiable proof that there actually was, quite literally, a massive extraterrestrial presence. This will actually be true, which makes the deception to follow even more cunning. Countless videos of spaceships, radar recordings, sightings, etc, will come to light, and the fact that there was a mass alien presence will be clear. HOWEVER, the detail that will be left out is that it will be a glorious abduction that Christians have been longing for ever since Jesus ascended from the Earth, rather than a hostile force that abducted or perhaps even vaporized a large portion of the Earth’s inhabitants.
Following the rapture of the church, the Bible describes a prominent figure to arise on the global scene, known as the son of perdition, or more commonly, the Antichrist. Most people know that the Antichrist will be a charismatic spiritual leader, but the Bible actually describes him as a war mongering tyrant more than anything else; the majority of his reign from its inception will be spent making war against his neighbors and assimilating them into his kingdom. The fake peace treaty he will establish with Israel won’t come about until after he firmly establishes his powerbase through a great deal of bloodshed.
But concerning this warring dictator that is to come, the Bible states that through a series of deceptions, he will eventually align the majority of the people on the entire planet under his military command. Furthermore, he will also cause most of the people on the planet to abandon the majority of the established faiths in the world, and adopt an entirely new belief system that he will lead. How in the world will he achieve all of this?
Daniel in the Old Testament, describes the faith of the antichrist, saying that he will worship an unknown god, perhaps quite literally, an alien god, unlike those of his ancestors (Daniel 11:38). This is the Antichrist we’re talking about, so his ancestors might not even believe in the God of the Bible, thus, his unknown god may even be foreign to them; a foreigner of foreigners.
Most Bible scholars can point out the passages that state that almost everyone on Earth will be deceived into thinking that God’s return with His angels to the Earth, to save the people of Israel from the Antichrist’s attacks, will actually be a hostile otherworldly invader bent on global annihilation. That’s what turns the armies of the Earth in the battle of Armageddon, against God and His angels, as well as the Saints that were raptured. But the deception that creates this misrepresentation of God, His angels, and his raptured Saints, is a complete mystery. Indeed, the deception that is coming upon the earth is known as the mysterious delusion spoken of in 2 Thessalonians 2:11–12.
Scripture speaks of three unclean spirits who will be feeding the deception of the Antichrist (Revelation 16:13–16). The primary deception these unclean spirits will be using will have something to do with the new religion that the Antichrist will be advocating, and I believe that new religion will have something to do with beings from other worlds.
Take special note that tied directly in with the turning point of where the Antichrist starts claiming a deity-like nature is a strange event that the book of Daniel connects with an otherworldly battle.
Daniel 8:10–12
And it [the Antichrist] waxed great, even to the host of heaven [heavenly forces]; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down. And an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered.
Here’s a possible scenario, as sensationalistic as it may seem. To the amazement of the entire world, extraterrestrial life will become a reality when beings from other worlds introduce themselves in open contact shortly following the rapture of the Church. Those in the public eye, for the most part, will be aligned with Satan (but not all of them – keep reading).
Jesus predicted that in the end times, as we near the time of His return, we would see a return to the days of Noah (Matthew 24:27-39; Luke 17:26). Out of all of human history, Jesus singled out Noah’s day – which was very unique, and unlike any other time in Earth’s history. Take a look at Genesis 6, and you will discover that in Noah’s day, otherworldly beings were in open contact with human civilization, and they even reproduced hybrid children with us. The results of these ungodly unions were disasterous and they led to the flood of Noah.
Jesus said we would see a return to the days of Noah, and this aligns exactly with many other scriptures, speaking of an otherworldly presence to come in end times.
In their arrival, they will give special attention to a global leader on the rise, a leader who seems to have all the answers. This special someone might even have a special connection with these otherworldly beings. I suspect he will be a hybrid himself; the grand masterpiece culmination of all alien abduction genenic engineering they’ve been doing with humanity all this time. I suspect that the Antichrist will be a Nephilim, version 3.0 – a kind of anthropas, aka diety, god-man. He will have supernatural abilities – the Bible says he will be capable of false signs and wonders. And he will herald in a new age for humanity, uniting with these otherworldly beings, bringing words that promise peace – so long as we go along with his plan. This might be why Israel agrees to the seven-year peace treaty. These beings uniting with the Antichrist, and claiming peace, will be the bad guys, because they will give credence to the Antichrist.
There will be a remnant on Earth in the days to come, that will come to faith after the rapture of the church. When the rapture occurs, they will be among those who remembered hearing prophecies about the rapture, and they will come to faith. And they will have their work cut out for them.
This remnant will resist the message of false peace that overshadows the entire planet at that time. Faithful Christians and Jews will unite, for they will be among the few who know who the Antichrist is. They will be able to point out the scriptures I am highlighting in this article, and in my books, Christian Ufology, and The Strong Delusion – Revealing the Strange god of the Antrichrist, and say “Yo dawg, hold up, take a look at this! These aliens didn’t create the universe an all life in it! That’s a lie, these are all imposters! So what if they’re really aliens, that doesn’t matter, they didn’t create humanity, God did (Genesis 2:7).
Genesis 1:1 [Bold emphasis and bracketed comments added]
In the beginning, God [Elohim] created the heavens and the Earth.
Genesis 2:7 [Bold emphasis and bracketed comments added]
Then the Lord God [Jahova Elohim] formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
The good angels aren’t entirely out of the picture. The Bible covers a great deal of activity conducted by God’s faithful angels in the end times, to include even preaching the Gospel (Revelation 14:6-10). The good guys—also beings from other worlds, which people will have to get used to thinking of them as—will be openly communicating with the new true believers of the day as well.
Shortly after the introduction of these otherworldly beings and after the Antichrist has already consumed three kingdoms from the original ten of the revised Roman Empire, these otherworldly beings will inform the Antichrist of a pending invasion, which they claim will cause great devastation unless the people of Earth cooperate with them. Just as they warned would happen, an invasion ensues—but amazingly, the Antichrist, along with his new allies, will be successful in fending off this otherworldly invasion.
Whether this initial otherworldly invasion is from beings allied with God or not is unknown. Most likely they will be other fallen beings, and this initial attack will be a civil war among Satan’s minions. I say this because the Antichrist will successfully defeat this invading force, which would be highly unlikely if he were fighting God’s faithful angels.
I know this all seems highly sensational and speculative, but consider the wording of Daniel’s prophecy: “He waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them.” This passage is clearly speaking of a battle in the future that resonates to the tune of Independence Day. It is a battle that will originate from the heavens—outer space—and the invaders are cast down to the ground. This event will establish a historical record that will come to play later in the reign of the Antichrist, but initially, the Antichrist will use it to magnify himself. Shortly following this cosmic spectacle, the Antichrist will throw a party in the Jewish temple, putting an end to the daily sacrifices that will be going on there. He’ll boldly waltz into the temple and sit on the throne of God (the Mercy Seat of the Ark of the Covenant), and claim that he is God (2 Thessalonians 2:4).
While this scenario may sound sensational, please keep in mind that it will definitely take something sensational to change the hearts and minds of an entire planet full of people, to adopt a new religion, and venerate a human being to the point of worship. Indeed, the Antichrist will be revered as a god, the hero and savior of the entire planet, and I believe that nothing short of saving the world from a hostile otherworldly invasion would create this perception in the hearts and minds of the majority of the people on the planet. This is exactly what happened in the film, Independence Day, except that the savior in the real story to come, will not be a savior at all, but will actually be a deceiver; the Antichrist. As for the invading force headed for Earth once the Antichrist has complete dominion; they will actually be the good guys returning home. They will utterly destroy the works of the devil, and usher in the kingdom of heaven on Earth.
Keep in mind, for those who read this article and question many of the statements, some of which require an exposition if being theologically scrutinized, this small article is only a fragment of the research initially taken from the book, Aliens and the Antichrist: Unveiling the End Times Deception, posted on the website, http://www.AliensAndTheAntichrist.com.
I have since upgraded this book with a second edition, titled Christian Ufology, posted on the website, https://www.ChristianUfology.net. My other book, and The Strong Delusion – Revealing the Strange god of the Antrichrist, adds yet another dimension to the strong delusion, which I have not even touched on in this article. Needless to say, the deception that is headed our way, is a whopper.
This article is a cliff-notes version of information extracted from this book, which is much more comprehensive, and provides more support for the conclusion outlined in this article.
As for any who choose to purchase the paperback or hardback of this book, I am grateful, and your purchase will help me continue to conduct further research, and post my findings for public consumption. But if you are financially strapped, email me and ask for a free copy, and I’ll hook you up! jmilor@yahoo.com. All I ask is that you give me a review on Amazon, but I have no way of requiring you do that for me.
Blessings to all who read this article; be strong in the faith! If you are reading this article at a time when the things herein are coming to pass, lift up your heads, for your redemption draws near (Luke 21:28). In the darkest days to come, the light that shines shows up a lot more in the darkness. What’s more, Jesus spoke of days to come, when Saints would achieve greater works than the miracles He did, (John 14:12). Jesus walked on water, controlled the weather, multiplied food, turned water to wine, cured every manner of sickness, cast out demons, and resurrected the dead. He said we would do GREATER works; what could be greater than these? Keeping this in mind, KNOW that in the future, when otherworldly beings are involved in the affairs of the world, and chaos and deception reign supreme, don’t think that your prayers are falling on deaf ears. I suspect there is no limit to the extent that the power of faith filled prayers can manipulate reality. Those who put their trust in God, will never be let down.