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UFO REVELATION 8

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Dr. Barry H. Downing


BIOLOGY, DOMINANCE, CHRIST, ANTICHRIST


Sociobiology is the relatively new science that studies the genetic consequences of the social behavior of a species. It relies on the data collected from the study of animal social behavior, especially of mammals, a science called ethology. What is clear throughout all species is that there is a system of dominance in every species, those at the top of the society are called Alpha, those at the bottom Omega. (Useful books in the field include: Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, 1975; Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 1976; Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression, 1966; Robert Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative, 1966; The Social Contract, 1970.)

Gaining dominance has rewards related to both food and sex. The dominant males and females usually have first choice of the food that is available, and in some cases, the dominant female will protect food for her offspring from other adults of the species. Among most species, a struggle for food means a struggle for territory, and therefore there are often “turf wars” within species to control what Robert Ardrey calls The Territorial Imperative.

Among most species, females do not have to compete for sex, but the males do.

The maturing male of whatever species does not have it good. The sexually maturing male elephant must leave his mother and join the male band, with rank order already established, where he will find himself omega.” (Ardrey, The Social Contract, 1974, p. 141) Most males as they mature will have to find a way to gain dominance within their social group in order to have sexual access to females. Usually this involves some kind of violence, head butting, clawing, biting, or goring with horns. Death is sometimes the reward for the losers in this struggle.

The sociobiological explanation for this behavior is that the weak males are weeded out through this process, and only the most fit males—fit to survive—become sexually active. It is their genes that get passed on to the females. Thus violence is one of the main means by which nature controls the quality of the genes that pass from generation to generation. Violence within a species, directed at its own kind, is common, and is related to the dietary advantage that comes with controlling territory, and the sexual advantage that comes usually to the dominant male.

It is interesting to look at the parable of the Wheat and Tares as a creation parable. Jesus tells of a man who sows good seed in his field, as we would expect God to do, “but while men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.” (Mt. 13:25) Thus life as we find it is a mix of good and evil. If we think of the sleeping men as angels, the implication is that angels were present at creation, and it was their job to defend the earth, and help care for “God’s farm.” The enemy sowing his seed by night in another man’s field is the classic image of adultery. But unlike the serpent seducing Eve in the Garden, there seems to be no seduction here. The “enemy” just plants his evil seed by night. When the discovery is made that wheat and weeds are growing together, it is found there is no way to pull up the weeds without hurting the wheat in the process. (vs. 29) The solution is to let both grow until harvest, until judgment day. The parable implies that we humans have good and evil in us, in our very biology. It is mixed in our very roots. This does not mean our bodies are “all bad.” But it does mean our biological nature is corrupted, we have a dark side, a Satanic side, which we could say in scientific terms is planted in our DNA. If we were hopelessly bad, like Sodom, we would have been destroyed by God. But we have good in us, along with the bad, and the gospel is Christ has come to redeem the good in us, by putting his Holy Spirit in us. Our calling as Christians is to have the Holy Spirit in us rule over the Satanic laws of dominance in us. Christ will lead us on a new Exodus, not from Egyptian slavery, but from slavery to our corrupted biology, which is controlled by a spirit of domination.

What about women and the struggle for power? In the animal world, females struggle for dominance too, but the stakes are somewhat less high. Females usually do not have to compete for sex. In a flock of chickens, the females will establish a “pecking order.” The dominant chicken will be able to peck all the hens below her in the order, and none will peck her back. She is Alpha. The Beta chicken will peck all below her, but not peck Alpha. The Omega chicken gets pecked by all, and can peck none back. I have seen the Omega chicken in a flock, and often it is not a pretty sight. Many feathers are missing, there are often open sores, this is the most likely chicken in the flock to die first.

Maturing males of a species will look for ways to displace the dominant males. Ardrey makes the comment, “But if the maturing male does not know as much as he thinks he knows, the established male may not either. As ignorance is the property of the young, habituation is the property of the adult.” (Ibid, p. 156) As we think of the recent revolutions in Egypt and Libya, we have witnessed the long established adult male leader being overthrown by the young. While most agree that the “aging leader” in each case is “oppressive,” there is anxiety that the “new order” may not know what it is doing. But the message from ethology is the political struggle for power and dominance is all very natural.

From a political point of view, conservatives are those who now hold power, liberals are the ones wanting to be in power, but are not. Among humans money is one of our most basic forms of power: George Soros, Donald Trump and Warren Buffett are famous for having money. The poor are famous for not having money, and for “always being with us” as Jesus said. (Mt. 26:11)

Technology is a special source of human power, rather than horns, teeth and claws. Guns and nuclear weapons give power to those who have these weapons, humans will be in a position to dominate those who have no weapons, or who have technologically less powerful weapons. In so far as science helps build more successful weapons, science too is a form of power which enables one country to dominate another, and technological success in the market place helps one company dominate “market share” over another.

Something like “arena behavior” can be observed among certain species. The arena serves as a breeding ground, and dominant males hold territory in the arena, and only those males holding territory in the arena have sexual access to females. Females will ignore those males outside the arena who cannot control territory in the arena. Human sports frequently occur in an arena. Sports are the human ritualization of nature’s biological drive to dominate. The biggest day in American television each year is Super Bowl Sunday, the day the teams with the Alpha Males of football face off to see who is the champion, the dominate team. The winners gain money, and if the rumors are to be believed, sexual access to females.

Bulls have their strength in their “bull neck;” NFL linemen usually have a bull neck; defensive linemen may make a “bull rush” on the quarterback. We worship “dominance,” we worship winners, not losers.


THE ALPHA GOD


“’I am the Alpha and the Omega,’ says the Lord God, who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” (Rev. 1:8) The God of the Bible is a strange God. He is almighty, he is the God who can dominate, and demands to be Alpha. But at the same time, this Alpha God can choose to be Omega, can choose to be dominated, as we see in the cross of Christ. Jesus loves the losers, the blind, the lame, the lepers, those who would never make an NFL roster. Jesus was sent to the losers, to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. (Mt. 10:6)

The power of God is sounded at the beginning of the Apostles’ Creed: “I believe in God the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth.” Genesis speaks the opening word of our dominant God, “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” (Gen. 1:1) The Gospel of John makes the same claim for Jesus, “without him was not anything made that was made.” (Jn. 1:3)

The God of the Exodus insists, “You shall have no other gods before me.” (Ex. 20:3) Furthermore, this God is not nature, not something you can turn into an idol of stone or wood. “You shall not make for yourself any graven image.” (Ex. 20: 4) Religions that worship nature are false religions. The God of the Jews is Spirit, which created nature.

In fact, the God of Moses issues commandments that counteract the drives we find in nature—killing is forbidden; killing is very natural, killing is the ultimate sign of victory in nature’s dominance game. The one who lives is the winner, number one, Alpha. Adultery is forbidden, taking another man’s wife, or stealing, or using deception to gain advantage (bearing false witness), the many tricks that are found throughout the animal kingdom as techniques for gaining territorial and sexual advantage, are forbidden in the commandments.

But the Alphaness of the God of the Exodus is shown in language that Pharaoh could understand. Pharaoh had ordered the killing of Hebrew male children at their birth. Moses had escaped, thanks to being hidden in the bulrushes along the shore of the Nile, only to be rescued by Pharaoh’s daughter. Years later, when Moses demanded freedom for Israel in the name of God, plagues came upon the defiant Pharaoh—flies, frogs, locusts—until finally came the big hammer blow. The first-born male Egyptian children were killed on Passover night, and the Hebrew males were spared. The God of Moses could out kill Pharaoh. At the Red Sea, the pillar of cloud and fire defeated the chariots of Pharaoh. Egypt got the message, “Let us flee from before Israel, for the Lord fights for them against the Egyptians.” (Ex. 14:25) This led to what modern America sees as the very politically incorrect view that the Jews were God’s chosen people, a religious idea many in our generation find revolting.

Jesus never killed anyone, but he in some ways was like the young males of a species who challenge the establishment leaders, in his case, the Scribes and Pharisees. He gathered a band of disciples who became his followers, and he attracted crowds that could number in the thousands. He could heal the blind, the lame, the deaf, he could drive out demons. Thus he exhibited an Alphaness over nature, and over the destructive spiritual powers that could overtake the human mind. He was eventually seen as a threat to the Roman power structure in Jerusalem, mainly because he seemed to upset the Jewish religious and political power structure.

He sent his disciples out to preach that the kingdom of God was near. This was a strange message, which still causes debate among Christian scholars. But finally he was crucified by the Roman authorities. From the point of view of the God of Moses, Jesus seemed to be a failure. Surely if Jesus were as he claimed, the Son of God, then he should have been saved from the cross. The God who killed the first-born of Egypt, and parted the Red Sea, certainly had the power to protect Jesus. But he did not. Jesus died, but then on the third day was raised. This is strange. In Jesus we see that God is more than power, more than Alpha. In Jesus, the weakness of God, the Omega side of God, is exposed.


THE OMEGA GOD


The Apostle Paul caught the paradox of the Omega God, the God who loses in the dominance game that Jesus fought with Caiaphas and Pilate. “For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.” (1 Cor. 1:22-25)

The essence of the spiritual battle that we find in Jesus is that he is in a battle against the desires of his own biology, his desire for food, power, success, survival. Over against that, he is seeking the power of God to heal the sick, the blind, the lame, demand that the rich show compassion toward the poor, and ordain followers who will maintain his tradition after his death and resurrection.

Immediately after his baptism, he is “led by the Spirit” into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. The first temptation is to turn stones to bread, to use his divine power to meet the hunger of his flesh. Jesus turned down the offer with the words, “Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.” (Mt. 4:4) The lesson here is that the word of God, and will of God, must always take priority over the hungers of the flesh (for food, sex, status etc.)

The third temptation is to bow down and worship the devil, and Jesus would be given the kingdoms of the world. Jesus responded that we are to worship God alone. What was at stake here? I believe that if Jesus had used his divine power the way the rulers of this world operate, by fear, taxes, armies, and oppression, he could have ruled the world.

In a debate with his opponents Jesus said, “You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” (Jn. 8:44) Throughout the animal kingdom, deception is a strategy for dominance and success. Sometimes, murder of ones own species is part of that strategy. Jesus identified all these forms of power seeking as the work of the devil.

It is worth noting that the crowd, when given a choice between the release of Jesus, and Barabbas, elected Barabbas who “had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder.”

(Lk. 23:25) The crowd preferred a “liberationist” to Christ. The crowd of Jews loved the man who wanted to throw the oppressive Romans out of Jerusalem. Jesus was not that man.

But what we also need to face here is that in the Exodus, God used the power of killing, and domination, to defeat Pharaoh. In Jesus we have a rejection of that kind of power, because it is in a sense the way of the flesh, the way of the world. This is why the New Testament really is a New Covenant. The New Covenant was not established by God out killing his enemies. In the New Testament, the son of God is killed by his enemies. I do not find it surprising that many Jews found the God Jesus preached at odds with the God of Moses. In the Old Testament, the power of God overshadowed his love. In the New Testament, the love of God overshadows his power, although in the empty tomb, we see God’s power is still part of our faith reality. [In The Bible and Flying Saucers, I make the observation in regard to UFOs that “we never find the fantastic display of power in the New Testament that we found in the Old Testament in front of thousands of witnesses.” ( p. 159)]

The Apostle Paul understood that we who are in Christ have a Spirit that is at odds with the desire of the flesh, including our drive to dominate. This point of view is expressed clearly in Romans 8:1-17, as well as in Galatians, where he says, “Now the works of the flesh are plain:

Fornication, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing and the like.” (Gal. 5:19-21) In contrast the fruit of the Spirit “is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.” (5:22,23) Christians are those who have “crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” (Gal. 5:24) We find Jesus speaking directly to our need to be “born again,” because flesh is flesh, and spirit is spirit. (Jn. 3:3)

The biblical people saw the injustice of the strong dominating the weak, both in the animal world, and its parallel in the human world. The prophet Ezekiel used images from the shepherd experience to proclaim the will of God. “Therefore, thus says the Lord God to them: Behold, I, I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. Because you push with side and shoulder, and thrust at all the weak with your horns, till you have scattered them abroad.

I will save my flock, they shall no longer be a prey, and I will judge between sheep and sheep.”

(Ez.: 34:20-22)

When Jesus heals the sick and the lame, when he calls on the rich to share with the poor, when he condemns the scribes who “devour widows’ houses,” (Mk. 12:40, not unlike modern Wall Street Bankers), Jesus is very much acting the role of the Good Shepherd. (Jn. 10:11)

Jesus made the distinction between his kingdom, and the kingdoms of this world, very clear. On one occasion the mother of James and John came to Jesus, asking that one sit on his right hand, and one on his left, when Jesus came into his kingdom. This was worldly politics, in which the winners expect to share the rewards. Jesus said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great men exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you; but whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave; even as the Son of man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mt. 20:25-28)

In other words, worldly politics is very much the Alpha Game, in which, driven by the lusts of the flesh, rulers of this world rise to the top of the pecking order. Jesus calls us not to play Alpha, but rather to play Omega, to seek not to be at the top of the pecking order, but rather at the bottom. Jesus is a contradiction in terms, a servant Lord, and we are called to join him.

Notice Jesus does not preach a Marxist style “classless society” as some liberal Christians suppose. True, Jesus has no great love for the oppressive ruling class at the top of the human pecking order, whether it be political power in the secular world, or preachers living in houses with gold faucets. Jesus did not preach a health and wealth gospel. But at the same time, Jesus does not call for a revolution to overthrow the oppressors, to bring in a society of equality, as is often typical of modern liberation theology. Jesus does not call his followers to a classless society of equality, rather we are called to join the servant class, the bottom class. That is the class in which the Holy Spirit of gentleness, kindness and meekness dwells. Most liberation movements are fueled by envy, “they have what we should have and it is only just that we take it.”

In so far as modern Protestantism has split between liberals and conservatives, liberals have tended to be guilty of envy, conservatives of greed, of wanting to hold on to what they have. Both envy and greed are very natural. But they are not godly motives. There are two major sins in the Bible: rebellion and oppression. Rebellion is the basic sin of Adam and Eve in the garden. Oppression is the sin of Pharaoh as he mistreats the slave nation Israel. Liberals tend to be guilty of the sin of rebellion; conservatives of the sin of oppression. Each is usually able to see the sin in the other side, but not their own. Thus when conservatives hold fast to their money, their positions of power in the world, or the church, they are playing Alpha, in worldly terms. When liberals, like young males in the animal world, attack conservatives who hold power, they are acting out of rebellion and envy. Liberals are not Alpha, but want to be. But usually liberals put on the moral white suit of “justice” to cover their biologically motivated drive for power. Conservatives usually protect their territory by saying, “It is the law.” They deny freedom to others in the name of the law. The extreme forms of both liberals and conservatives are very much caught up in the world’s power game, they are not interested in hearing the call of Christ to join the servant class. As I see it, in so far as they are at war with each other, liberal and conservative Christians have really joined “the children of darkness.”

There are some parables of Jesus that suggest the heavenly ideal may be a classless society, such as the parable of the workers in the vineyard, who at the end of the day receive the same pay, no matter how long or how little they worked. (Mt. 20:1-18) But the workers are paid in the opposite order in which they were hired. As Jesus explains, “So the last will be first; and the first last.” (20:18)

What Jesus is preaching here is an eschatology—our future life in heaven—in which we will experience not classlessness, but class reversal. Ordinarily, those who work longest would be paid most, and be the richest. In this parable those “least deserving” from the world’s point of view are most deserving from God’s point of view. The story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke makes the same point, that in the life to come, there will be class reversal, Lazarus will be rewarded. The pecking order of the world will be reversed. In the resurrection, Spirit will win out over flesh. (Lk. 16:19-31)

The distinction between liberal and conservative is strikingly clear in the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15. The younger son is the liberal in rebellion. By the custom of the day, the oldest son in the family would inherit the major part of the estate. This is why Jacob, the second born twin, was so intent on stealing his brother Esau’s birth right. (Gen. 25:19-34) The younger son would be in the position of natural envy of his older brother. A liberation theologian would tell the younger brother that he is the victim of an oppressive inheritance system, and he should rebel against it.

Since he has little investment in the future of the family estate, the prodigal asks for his share of the inheritance, cashes it in, and heads for a far country where he wastes his money on wild living, especially sexual promiscuity. The sin of the prodigal is the sin of rebellion, like Adam and Eve. The younger brother has a fairly typical liberal profile: he rejects the established order (home), and has little regard for sexual or financial responsibility.

The older brother represents a fairly typical conservative profile. He is hard working and obedient. “Lo, these many years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command.”

(Lk. 15:29) But at the same time, there is a sense of resentment about his obedience, he has not obeyed joyfully, and notes that his father has not even killed a kid so that he could party with his friends. The older brother comes off as responsible, but hard hearted, a frequent conservative profile. He believes in crime and punishment, not crime and forgiveness. His sin is the sin of oppression, like Pharaoh in Egypt. Conservatives tend to believe because they “stayed home with father,” they have the right to condemn the unfaithful brother, or as I have experienced, condemn anyone who disagrees with them. In the parable, there is a happy ending for the prodigal, but not for the older brother. But the older brother could have had a happy ending if he had repented of his hard heartedness. The two brothers together, the younger acting out rebellion, and the older oppression, represent the two sides of the war of the flesh at work, the biological struggle for dominance. But neither the liberal nor the conservative brother has the heart of the father, and therefore, they do not have the heart of Christ, who is one with the Father. (Jn. 17:22)

The gospel is that both liberals and conservatives have to repent. Liberals have to repent of their sin, or they are as good as dead. (Lk. 15:24) Conservatives have to repent of their hard hearts, or they will exclude themselves from the joy of the Father’s kingdom. (Lk. 15:28)


CHRIST AND ANTICHRIST


It does not appear that Jesus supposed that his coming would bring to an end the power politics of the world, that the “laws of the flesh” would suddenly disappear. Rather, justice for those who took on the Servanthood of Christ, who lived in his Spirit, would be rewarded not in this world, but in the world to come. This is why the loss of eschatology, which I found in my studies at Princeton Seminary, meant that there was no motivation now to obey the ethics of Jesus. That is why a Marxist eschatology replaced the eschatology of Jesus in liberation theology. And perhaps why some conservatives, who supposedly believed in heaven, so easily bought the false “prosperity” gospel of modern media preachers.

Jesus said as he neared the end of his earthly ministry, “In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” (Jn. 16:33) Many will come in the name of Christ, we must be careful not to be led astray. There will be wars and rumors of wars, the flesh will still rule this world. “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places; all this is but the beginning of the birth-pangs.” (Mt. 24:7, 8)

And “wickedness will multiply.” I take this warning to be inclusive, not only of wickedness in the world of politics, but also in the church, “most men’s love will grow cold.” (Mt. 24:12) Dolan and Zabel believe, as do I, that the government of the United States has been keeping UFO information secret for more than 60 years, and that billions, perhaps trillions of dollars in secret funds, black budget money, has gone into research regarding UFO technology. We face the possibility that a Breakaway Civilization, not our elected officials, now rule the United States. This secret group has unbelievable power to “multiply wickedness.” And I fear that the love of Christ in the church has grown so cold that no Christian voice of protest speaks against this wickedness. Dolan and Zabel are doing what I believe the church of Christ should be doing, and is not. A Website like Strong Delusion is doing its best, but in the modern world of media overload, Strong Delusion has a fairly quiet voice.

What is the UFO reality? Is it demonic? Do UFOs carry fallen angels? These are the views of some conservative Christians. My view, that UFOs may carry the angels of God has almost no support, from either conservative or liberal Protestant Christians.

Should I worry about being taken in by a “strong delusion?” (2 Thes. 2:11) If so, what is the delusion, that UFOs might carry the angels of God? (Is it wicked of me to hope UFOs are a sign the angels of God are guarding the earth?) This is hardly a “strong” delusion, since I am one of the few raising this possibility. Or could it be a strong delusion that UFOs are demons?

Or a strong delusion that UFOs are just space guys, here to help give us new technology?

Paul raises the possibility that “the lawless one will be revealed.” This will be by the activity of Satan and “will be with all power and with pretended signs and wonders.” (2 Thes. 2:9) John sees the coming of the antichrist. “Children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that antichrist is coming, so now many antichrists have come; therefore we know that it is the last hour.” (1 Jn. 2:18) Satan, as we see in the temptations of Jesus, is very much on the side of the flesh, and its laws of domination. In a sense, the laws of the flesh, the lust to dominate, the lust for sex and power, for position and prestige, to be at the top of the pecking order, are very much Satanic characteristics. Therefore they are Anti-Christ. They are very much part of our current political order, and in no small part, visible in a corrupt church, worried about its status in the world. In modern Protestantism, with its liberal and conservative divisions, with each side saying, “We speak for the truth of Christ,” both sides are taking an Anti-Christ role. By taking sides with either the prodigal brother, or the elder brother, modern Protestants fail to speak for the heart of the Father. I do not believe that modern divided Protestantism has the theological faithfulness to deal with the UFO evidence.

And we do have to worry that some extraterrestrial power might convince us that they have a god-like status in relation to us, causing us to worship them, rather than the God of Jesus Christ. If those in charge of UFO secrets are talking with Zorg (if Zorg exists), is Zorg the Antichrist? Or a false Christ? One of the questions we need to ask is: Do UFOs seek to dominate us, as we might expect Satan to do, following the laws of the flesh? Or do UFOs seem to be carrying out a servant role in relation to planet earth, which is the Christ role? Are modern UFOs, like the angels, trying to save us from ourselves? Or are they trying to enslave us? And how do we weigh the evidence? How do we get our modern Pharaohs to release the evidence? Or do we count on God to expose the lies of our modern Pharaohs with a modern UFO Passover? These are the issues that face us as we consider our next UFO REVELATION, UFOs and Conservative Protestantism.


Dr. Barry H. Downing

July 3, 2011

 

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