Very exciting - recently, Dr. Michael Heiser's film: "Aliens and Demons: Evidence of an Unseen Realm," has been made available for free viewing on Youtube. It's really incredible! Well worth watching, it runs about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
Here's the link to the film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThmF7OErkxY
Through Heiser, the film offers an evangelical, Biblical scholar's / Christian insights into research surrounding UFOs, supposed aliens visitations and abductions, government misdirections and their purposes, as well the related demonic connections and deceptions. The film covers a LOT of ground. He goes through the history of UFO sightings, including the infamous Roswell, New Mexico incident (a supposed UFO crash of aliens recovered), the government's cover-up of it, CIA and secret programs, related secrets and purposes, and recent, unexplained UFO sightings). He examines the evidences and widely held beliefs about ancient aliens, including considerable research into modern alien sightings and abduction reports. Heiser focuses primarily on source data and peer-reviewed research - he takes a scholars approach to such phenomena - and not things mostly passed around by popular media.
Dr. Heiser is a published, peer-reviewed Bible scholar, whom has been a teaching professor and his academic expertise includes the ancient near east, its people groups, languages, and religions. He's taken considerable scholarly interest in a variety of reported phenomena. You can see his resume here: https://drmsh.com/wp-content/uploads/20 ... e-2020.pdf
Heiser's film also offers his views on the Bible's referencing of the Nephilim, giants, Ezekiel's Wheel, various Scriptural mysteries, and the spiritual realm he says the Bible also references - and gives his Biblically based reasoning behind them. It's important to note that while Heiser believes God created other spiritual beings, he believes there is ONLY ONE Creator God / Yahweh, that Jesus is fully God (as is the Holy Spirit), and that Jesus is the only way to Heaven - he mostly holds classical Christian beliefs. He does NOT believe any other beings (gods / little "g") are anything other than created beings (created by Yahweh) or demonic entities - note that Scripture references unseen "powers and principalities" which fight against us. While I do not personally know what Heiser has gotten right or wrong (about these spiritual beings / the unseen world), but I do see his reasoning and find it very interesting. I realize that Scripture is full of mysteries and that there IS legitimate debate over them. But his take on the UFO / alien / demonic stuff is definitely a must-listen and quite eye-opening. Every Christian should see it!
Tell me what you think!
Philip
. And which is which? There are so many mortal players alone that we can't easily sort - much less understand how the demonic works. I think Heiser's biggest point about the unseen spirit world is not to definitively say what they are doing or might do, but simply to make us aware that such a world exists, and the basic characteristics and strategies of its players. But certainly amongst mortals, various groups with differing agendas A) don't realize they are being manipulated as well, and B) there are so many different players that it is impossible for the left hand to know what the right one is doing. So, trust God - and be watchful, aware, smart - and don't worry so much about trying to figure it all out - or sucked into the black hole of endless conspiracy theories!