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Flying Saucers And Abductions In The Old Testament

By Sean Casteel

            The notion that flying saucers can be inferred when reading certain passages of the Old Testament is not a new one, but, like the Bible itself, it is an inexhaustible subject, meaning we can never know the complete truth of that correlation in spite of how hard we work to understand it all. But Timothy Green Beckley comes to the aid of the curious reader seeking to learn more about this marvelous relationship between miracles many millennia old and the advanced UFO technology we have seen in our skies at least since the 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold.

            Beckley has recently released an updated edition of the classic “Flying Saucers In The Holy Bible,” which consists mostly of an older work by the Reverend Virginia F. Brasington, who offered flying saucer interpretations of stories from both the Old and New Testaments. This article will concern itself primarily with incidents from the Old Testament.

            In his introduction to the new reprint, Beckley discusses the little known Reverend Brasington thusly: “Hers was a relatively obscure manuscript that had been picked up by ‘flying saucer promoter’ Gray Barker and published by his Saucerian Press. Before she became an angel in heaven herself, I met the petite woman while a guest on an all-night talk show hosted by, of all people, the Amazing Randi. The lady minister had set about to promote her work and she so impressed me with what she had uncovered that I later reissued her book in 1982. At the time it was well received, but unfortunately there was only a limited audience for its controversial content. Unlike other more authoritative figures in the same genre, Reverend Brasington touched upon her own fertile ground.”

            If you’re wondering just what kind of reverend Virginia Brasington was, Beckley writes that she was licensed as a minister in the State of North Carolina by the Church of the Nazarene. But it is unlikely that many of her fellow clergy members at the time were seeing the Bible quite like she did.

            For example, Brasington takes up the story of the Pillar of Cloud that guided Moses and the Israelites through the desert.

            “In Exodus 14:19-20,” she writes, “we read how the Pillar of Cloud would change position as the circumstances warranted it. It glowed at night and made a light for the whole camp of Israel, but in the daytime it was a thick grey mass that protected them from the hot burning desert sun. In the 20^th verse mentioned above, it tells us how when they were engaged in battle, or when the Egyptians drew too near the Israelites, this huge object moved between the enemy and the Israelites and would glow on the side of the Israelites, thus giving them light to perform their camp duties; while on the side of the Egyptians it was dark. It was just as though God put His great big hand between them.”

            Brasington also provides a comprehensive list of the many references to clouds in the Old Testament, specifically God appearing at various times to be using “clouds” as a form of transportation. Like this incident recorded in the 16^th chapter of Exodus:

            “When the Children of Israel had been murmuring and complaining,” Brasington recounts, “and Aaron had called them together to deliver a lecture on ingratitude, we are told in the 10^th verse that ‘they looked toward the wilderness, and, behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.’ So, evidently, this was some kind of vehicle that hovered over them, stood on end beside them, glowed when necessary, and put out some kind of vapor that condensed and kept a continual cloud over them to protect them from the sun – and maybe to protect the people from radiation burns – and, somehow, God was aboard.”

            Further examples of clouds are listed. The following are both from Exodus 19.

            “And the Lord said to Moses, ‘Lo! I come unto thee in a thick cloud, and the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee forever.’”

            “And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud came upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that were in the camp trembled.”

            But clouds are not the only symbolic representation of God’s celestial modes of transportation. Also included in the updated “Flying Saucers In The Holy Bible” are some remarks by Biblical scholar and television personality Gary Stearman, who says,   “The Bible speaks of fiery chariots. The chariot in Hebrew is called the ‘merkavah.’ It has been suggested – in fact, several modern Israelis have suggested – that UFOs in the Hebrew be called ‘merkavah mophtim.’ And mophtim means ‘wonder.’ So what you have in the Hebrew would be ‘chariots of wonder’ or ‘vehicles of wonder.’

            “The Bible speaks of the fiery chariots being like heavenly ambassadors, or sometimes they’re called heavenly messengers, or angels. You can call them beings from another dimension. They’re commonly called aliens. But the prophets said that these were the watchmen watching over Israel. And they were acting on the behalf of Israel, according to the will of God.”

            During the interview I conducted with Stearman for the book, he made reference to a story in the Bible from Second Kings 6, beginning with verse 15.

            “And when the servant of the man of God was risen early and gone forth,” Stearman read aloud, “Behold, an host – that’s an army – encompassed the city, both with horses and chariots. And his servant said unto him – of course, ‘he’ being Elisha – the servant said unto him, ‘Alas, my master, how shall we do?’ In other words, we are in deep trouble. And he answered, ‘Fear not, for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.’ 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, who saw and behold the mount was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.”

            Stearman then illuminated the text a bit more.

            “Now what was going on here in Second Kings, Chapter Six,” he explained, “is that there was a great battle being fought in which Israel was threatened, deeply threatened. And the prophet Elisha went out on behalf of Israel. The king of Syria had invaded Israel, and Elisha went down to deliver God’s message to the leaders of Israel. And he had a servant with him. And the servant was deathly afraid that they were going to be killed. Elisha prayed and the servant’s eyes were opened and he was able to see they were surrounded, the Israelites were surrounded, by these chariots of fire, these merkavim. I believe this is an Old Testament reference to what we could call UFOs today, fighting on behalf of Israel.”

            The same chapter in which Stearman is quoted also includes material on Israeli UFO researcher Barry Chamish and the flying saucer phenomenon in the Holy Land in recent times. The same alien presence that drove the stories of the Old Testament is still present today, watching over a Promised Land divided by racial conflict and warfare, and may offer an assurance of a future peace being established in that troubled part of the world.

            In my own years of research into the Old Testament and the alien abduction phenomenon, I discovered what I feel is a connection between the two that I’ve never seen presented elsewhere.

            The genetic experiments that many researchers believe are the most basic purpose of the abduction program may not have been totally ignored by the prophets of the Bible, as most would assert. What is regarded for the most part as a purely 20^th-21^st century manifestation of the UFO phenomenon can perhaps be said to at least be a subject the prophets warned us about, in both a positive and a negative sense, in Isaiah and Hosea, as well as by Nostradamus many centuries later.

            In attempting to see the positive side of the alien hybrids, one should keep in mind the standard evolutionary view of the phenomenon, which results in the following paradigm, or model for understanding, that goes something like this: Perhaps it is simply the next step in evolution, like when we made the transition from Neanderthal Man to Cro-Magnon Man, a sudden and dramatic change in both form and consciousness.

            I believe I can establish at least some sort of fleeting connection between this issue and some passages in the Bible. For example, Isaiah 45:9-11.

            “Woe to him who strives with his Maker, an earthen vessel with the potter. Does the clay say to him who fashions it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles.’ Woe to him who says to a father, ‘What are you begetting?’ or to a woman, ‘With what are you in travail?’ Thus says the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, ‘Will you question me about my children, or command me concerning the work of my hands?’”

            Here it seems that the Lord is attempting to answer his critics while at the same time confessing to his own hand in the alien/human hybrid creation process. One can almost see the average abduction researcher leading a witness through the process of hypnotic regression and, when the subject of the hybrid babies comes up, asking questions like “What are you begetting?” or “With what are you in travail?” The word “travail” is often used in the Bible to mean the childbirth labor of a pregnant woman, and “begetting” is of course the parenting of a child. The link to the concept of newborn alien hybrids should be obvious.  

One should also recall that one aspect of alien hybridization often involves a “presentation” of the mutant baby to both human fathers and mothers, who may also be confused as to what they had a hand in parenting. With what were they in travail indeed!

Returning to Isaiah, the prophet has God declaring himself to be strange and “alien” as well. Isaiah 28:21 reads, “For the Lord will rise up as on Mount Perazin, he will be wroth as in the Valley of Gibeon, to do his deed – strange is his deed! And to work his work – alien is his work!”

Admittedly, “alien” is generally understood to be synonymous with “foreigner” or “stranger,” but is it so difficult to imagine these words were written with a future context in mind? Is it so hard to see that the books the prophets wrote are intended to serve as a time capsule-type message to the future world, our present world, in which the word “alien” read as “extraterrestrial” was a very much intended pun?

Isaiah 42:9 reads, “Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them.” It is followed shortly by Isaiah 43: 18-19, which reads, “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?”

Both of these passages portray the Lord as doing something new under the sun, showing mankind an aspect of creation not yet seen yet still the bona fide creation of the Lord of Israel. Perhaps, without reading an understanding in where it does not belong (though anyone attempting this kind of argument would fall prey to that), these verses can also be seen as referring to an intended evolutionary change from homo sapiens to whatever the hybrid children are ultimately called. When you connect the preceding verses, the Lord declares himself an alien carrying out an alien act that is something new and not previously seen or understood involving the begetting and birth of children that he is loathe to see suffer criticism. Does that not fit rather neatly the patterns of abduction and the mutant children these experiences many times involve, as well as the aliens’ obvious concern for and pride in these hybrid children?

As alien abduction researcher David Jacobs wrote in “Secret Life” (Simon and Schuster, 1992), the aliens often say to their reluctant human parent subjects, “This is a good baby! What a good baby!” The God of the Bible has very little patience for those slow to see his unfolding plan, even if it involves babies that can factually be called “mutations.”

Let’s break from the Old Testament and also look at Nostradamus in this regard. In “The Untold Story: Nostradamus’ Unpublished Prophecies,” by Arthur Crockett and published by Timothy Green Beckley’s Inner Light Books, Nostradamus is said to have written the following prophecy and then left it out of the published part of his work. The prophecy is understandably without Century or Quatrain number, and it reads, in part: “A new breed descends in gratitude. Conflagration in the heavens.”

While it is probably impossible to entirely authenticate the prophecy as being genuinely written by Nostradamus, the understanding should be obvious to those who know about the genetic experiments of the alien abductors. That the hybrid children are destined to descend to Earth and dwell with mankind and that they do so in an attitude of gratitude sounds an optimistic note often lacking in modern treatments of the subject of hybridization, which usually view the process as a cruel and sinister manipulation of humans, their emotions and their genetic material.

Further support for the idea that the mutant children are intended to take their place on Earth comes from a source who is, by his own admission, hostile to the spiritual interpretation of the abduction experience, the aforementioned David Jacobs. In his book, “Secret Life,” one of his subjects undergoing hypnotic regression describes what Jacobs calls a “media presentation” in which the abductee is shown “moving pictures of beautiful and idyllic landscapes.” Jacobs’ subject then says, “I think the impression we’re meant to have is, ‘This is where we’re taking the babies’ . . . the message is that this is the way, all of these beautiful things that they keep showing us, this is the way the world will be. It’s just like Big Brother. There’s no difference.”

The point here is that Nostradamus’ prediction, which I assume was not known by Jacob’s research subject, matches what an abductee is told directly by the aliens themselves. It fits so neatly that it has an eerie quality of appropriateness. For the sake of non-censorship, I have also quoted what is unquestionably the negative interpretation of what the witness was shown. Whether or not we should fear that such a future world, with hybrids dwelling here with us, would necessarily exist under the thumb of a Big Brother-type totalitarian state is for the reader to ponder according to his own preference.

There is also a pleasing harmony and repetition between Nostradamus’ vision of the new breed descending from the heavens and the oft-quoted passage from Genesis 6:4, “The Nephilim were on the Earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children with them. These were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.”

Again, we find the theme of descent from above and of a sexual crossbreeding between two different species. What happened in man’s infancy is repeated 6,000 years later in his history, except to a much greater degree of exactitude and refinement. When one keeps in mind that the most literal translation of “Nephilim,” according to no less a source than Zechariah Sitchin, is “those who come down from above,” the image is conjured up of an ever-evolving, ever-progressing transformation of what humans are and are intended to become.

The verse about the Nephilim is often said to speak plainly of their evil and their subsequent punishment by God, but Sitchin’s less moralistically negative translation may prove more accurate both linguistically and prophetically. But in all fairness to those who prefer to take a dim and negative view, I offer another verse that I found simply by looking up “alien” in my concordance, from the Book of Hosea, an Old Testament minor prophet. Hosea 5:7 reads, “They have dealt faithlessly with the Lord; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.”

As so often happens, the Bible is contradictory. What one prophet calls holy, another prophet calls profane. But as they say, context is everything in these matters, and we may yet see the truth of the two opposite views fulfilled in ways we cannot now imagine.

The Old Testament and the UFO phenomenon both contain mysteries we are still a long way from comprehending fully. And it is also true that they may both contain the keys to our collective salvation, whether we ever completely understand them or not.

SUGGESTED READING

FLYING SAUCERS IN THE HOLY BIBLE

http://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-Holy-Bible-Interpretations/dp/1606111531/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385237187&sr=1-1&keywords=1606111531

UFOS, PROPHECY AND THE END OF TIME

http://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Prophecy-Time-Sean-Casteel/dp/1892062356/ref=sr_1_41?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385237289&sr=1-41

SIGNS AND SYMBOLS OF THE SECOND COMING

http://www.amazon.com/Signs-Symbols-Second-Coming-Casteel/dp/1892062771/ref=sr_1_45?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1385237375&sr=1-45

NEW CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE UFO PHENOMENON http://www.seancasteel.com/bible.htm