Days of Noah Redux

"It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...more aliens!" My apologies for revisiting this topic so soon, but a couple of issues came up that I felt warranted a closer look and I decided to go ahead and strike while the iron was hot.

In my last article, I discussed the UFO/alien narrative and how it will impact certain aspects of the end-time scenario. For one thing, I discussed how I wasn't 100 percent convinced that Satan would break out the full monty of his elaborate ruse before the attack of Gog-Magog.

I also discussed was how I wasn't convinced that Satan would immediately wave his UFO/alien narrative around by the tail as an alternative explanation for the Rapture, and that a full-blown, UFO/alien-based explanation for this "evacuation" would come during the Tribulation, when fallen angels posing as aliens show up to supposedly save mankind and our planet.

But I gotta admit being beamed up by aliens in advanced spacecraft would totally rock as a way to be raptured.

The reason I said I don't think Satan will do that is the simple fact that the world in its current state of indoctrination in regard to UFOs and aliens isn't going to need any extra help from Satan to ascribe the sudden disappearance of several hundred million people from the face of the planet to the work of an advanced race of extraterrestrials from a galaxy far, far away. That's the conclusion most people will leap to, alien landing or no alien landing.

I received a number of thought-provoking comments on what I wrote—some of which added to and extended what I had written, and some that took slightly different views on some of the details. And hey, that's a good thing, because this is a topic where...well, let's just say things are notoriously difficult to pin down with a high degree of scriptural certainty.

In other words, I can only name one person on earth who knows exactly how the UFO/alien narrative will come into play in the end times:

First name "No," last name "Body."

The point is that all any of us can do is read and study Scripture and do our best to put the pieces of the puzzle together in a way that at least doesn't contradict God's Word and that makes a reasonable amount of horse sense to most scripturally knowledgeable believers.

However, as I worked on last month's article, a couple of ideas reared their extraterrestrial heads that I was hesitant to pursue to any great degree because I felt it would have taken me too far afield. That article was already developing into an eminent example of my hopelessly scatterbrained style of writing, and I feared that doing so would have made it even more so.

So what I want to do here is take a closer look at a couple of ideas that floated to the surface in my last article that are related to Satan's use of his UFO/alien narrative to deceive and gain control over the world and establish his kingdom in the end times. But just keep a tight grip on one thing:

ALIENS are a LIE of Satan.

You can take it to the bank.

Although a few side issues will arise along the way (as they always do for people as hopelessly scatterbrained as this writer), the primary issues I want to flesh out in this article boil down to the following two items:

1. In my last article, I discussed how I believe Satan will arrange for fallen angels to take on physical form and come to earth posing as advanced aliens. I mentioned that Satan did something similar with his fallen angels back in Genesis 6 before the Flood—but how does what happened in Genesis 6 relate to what I believe Satan will do during the Tribulation? Are there any connections or parallels waiting to be ferreted out?

2. Although I didn't actually speak to this issue directly in my previous article, I did give it some thought as I worked on it. As far as Satan having fallen angels pose as aliens during the Tribulation is concerned, are there any passages of Scripture that give us any hints or shadows of this, or that could be reasonably interpreted in ways that support this idea?

Although I was thinking about these and other ideas last month, I decided to deal with them in a future article...which turned out to be this article.

Before the Flood

It may come as a bit of a surprise to many people that the idea of Satan arranging for some of his fallen angel cohorts to take on physical form and dwell among men here on terra firma is certainly not new. Many Bible teachers and commentators are fully convinced that we see this occurring in Genesis 6, in the days prior to the Flood:

1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them, 2 That the sons of God [early references are virtually unanimous on these being angels—in this case fallen angels] saw the daughters of men that they were fair; [two distinct groups are mentioned here—see remarks below] and they took them wives of all which they chose. [That is, although they possessed "demonic DNA," so to speak, they were clearly close enough to real humans that they could freely mate with fully human women.] 3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4 There were giants [i.e. nephilim] in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. [More nephilim.]

5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD [in other words, it grieved Him—it broke His heart] that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. 7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repents me that I have made them.

8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD. [And as a result, you might say God gave mankind a second chance.]

(Genesis 6:1–8 AKJV / emphasis & [comments] added)

The phrase "sons of God" (v. 2) is used several times in other places in the Old Testament to refer to angels (Job 1:6; 2:1; 38:7), and here in Genesis 6:2 many people are satisfied that it refers specifically to fallen angels.

Arguably the oldest and most widespread interpretation of this passage in Genesis 6 is that fallen angels took on physical form, dwelled here on earth, mated extensively with human women, and produced what were in effect people who were genetically contaminated with some non-human DNA.

The great majority of early sources starting from around the third century BC reflect this Fallen Angel view, and it was easily the predominant view in the early Church.

There is, however, another popular view that balks at the Fallen Angel idea and sees Genesis 6:2 as referring to the "sons of Seth."

Am I my brother's keeper? Just to get our bearings: After Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, their first son was Cain and later they had Abel. God accepted Abel's offering of a blood sacrifice, but rejected the sacrifice offered by Cain because it consisted of produce he had grown in his fields—the work of his own hands. In a fit of jealous rage, Cain rose up and killed Abel, and essentially became a fugitive (Gen. 4:1–16). Afterwards, Adam and Eve had their third son, Seth.

According to the Sons of Seth argument, the lineage of Seth ultimately became regarded as being godlier than that of Cain. In spite of that, however, the sons of Seth ultimately became enamored with many of the daughters of the sons of Cain and intermarried with many of them. But since this argument claims the "sons of God" mentioned in Genesis 6:2 are the (eminently human) sons of Seth, that means this is no longer a matter of pure human DNA vs contaminated DNA. According to the Sons of Seth argument, it's a matter of godly people vs ungodly people—nothing more.

People who hold to this view argue that since Scripture indicates that angels neither marry nor are given in marriage (Matt. 22:30), that means they cannot reproduce, and thus the Fallen Angel view must be discarded.

But there are weaknesses with this view, and I'll touch on two of them:

1. Yes, Matthew 22:30 indicates that angels in heaven do not marry. OK, fine. But it requires a modest leap of logic to go from that statement to the idea that all angels—both good and bad—are 100 percent incapable of taking on human form and impregnating female humans under any circumstances. It doesn't say that—it must be read into Scripture.

For starters, it's clear from several passages of Scripture that angels are perfectly capable of taking on human form and interacting among men here on earth, and have undeniably done so. For example, consider the angels who came to warn Abraham's nephew Lot of God's impending destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen. 19). Of course, these "good" angels certainly didn't have sex with anyone...but still. The men of Sodom sure wanted to have sex with them. In fact, they were ready to beat the door down and drag them out and rape them. So why is it such a stretch to believe that "bad" angels could take on human form and have illicit sex with human women? Who said anything about marriage? Hey, these are some bad angels!

2. There is also a bit of a grammar issue in Genesis 6:2, so you may need your grammar magnifying glass. As I pointed out in the passage above, the grammatical structure of this verse clearly refers to two distinct groups:

(a) The sons of God, and (b) men.

Not these men or those men. Not any certain group of men. Not just men who were the sons of one certain individual, be it Seth or whoever. Just men, period. Not a subgroup in sight. Logically that refers to all human men in general. And the grammar of the sentence clearly distinguishes "men" from the first group mentioned, or "the sons of God." So, if the rules grammar and logic mean anything at all, "the sons of God" cannot be conflated with or interpreted as a group of human men. TILT.

Having said that, however, let me emphasize that it's unlikely that anyone will ever be able to prove either side of this argument with absolute airtight certainty. But having said that, I am still convinced the Fallen Angel view enjoys stronger scriptural support if people simply follow the Golden Rule of Biblical Interpretation and let Scripture interpret Scripture.

So I am content to cast my lot with what was long the majority view and go with the idea that Satan had some of his fallen angels take on human form and dwell in the earthly domain. Then, over a period of time that could have been up to a millennium and a half, they got busy mating with human women until nearly the entire human population was contaminated with at least some non-human DNA (all but the eight members of Noah's family).

But one obvious question is staring us in the face:

Why on earth would Satan do such a thing?

What could have possibly motivated him?

Simple: He wanted to stop the Head Crusher.

I've written about this before in more depth, but understand that when God confronted Satan over his deception of Adam and Eve, He said something to him that would alter the course of his existence for eternity:

14 And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; on your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life:

15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed [i.e. the Redeemer]; it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel [a lot of translations read "crush your head," although the same Hebrew word is used in both spots—it conveys both meanings].

(Genesis 3:14–15 AKJV / emphasis & [comments] added)

The woman's "seed" refers to the Redeemer God is promising to send to take back from Satan what he duped Adam and Eve out of. And in so doing, the Redeemer will "crush his head." Yep...Christ the Head Crusher.

Satan may be evil, but he's

not stupid—he got the message.

So he got to work...and he knew what he had to do:

Plan A: Prevent the Head Crusher from being born!

From that time forward, Satan tried to outguess God and go after, negatively influence, or somehow disqualify individuals he suspected might be or give rise to the Head Crusher.

And I believe Satan wasted no time in going after Adam and Eve's firstborn son Cain (C'mon, firstborn son...gotta be the one, right?), and influenced him to disregard God's commands concerning sacrifices and ultimately to slay his brother Abel in a fit of rage and end up an outcast. But Satan guessed wrong—turns out the Head Crusher would come from the line of Seth, not Cain.

And that brings us to Genesis 6. Satan knew that the Head Crusher would have to be born of a genetically pure human woman. So the next angle from which he approached the problem was to have some of his fallen angels take on human form and mate copiously with human women, and after well over a millennium it reached the point where nearly the entire human race was contaminated with non-human DNA. And if he could genetically contaminate them all, he would win because there would be no fully human women left to give birth to the Messiah who would come to redeem fallen Homo sapiens—not fallen Homo daemonium. But thanks to Noah and his family, Satan failed and God started over with Noah's three sons and their wives.

Satan continued to guess wrong at every turn for roughly the next 15 centuries, until the Head Crusher was finally born in a manger in Bethlehem to a young virgin named Mary.

Satan had been knocking himself silly for many centuries trying every trick in the book to prevent the Redeemer from ever being born—but at that point he knew he had failed. So what did Satan do? He switched to...

Plan B: Kill the Head Crusher!

After the Three Wisemen and their entourage came to Jerusalem seeking what they knew was the King of the Jews, Satan's first major attempt at killing the Head Crusher came in the form of influencing King Herod to kill all the male children under the age of two in order to eliminate what he perceived as a potential threat to his rule.

Mary's husband Joseph was warned in a dream by an angel of the Lord to pack up the family and head to Egypt to escape Herod's baby-killing rampage. After Herod's death they returned to Israel and settled in Nazareth, so Satan's first attempt came up empty.

But even though Satan may have failed in his initial attempt at killing the Head Crusher, he saved his grandest attempt for last—and he succeeded! When the Romans took Jesus into custody and proceeded to crucify Him, Satan was convinced he had finally won after all. He figured that he may not have been able to prevent the Redeemer from being born, but he sure prevented Him from "redeeming" anybody. And most importantly, he had prevented the Head Crusher from fulfilling Genesis 3:15.

Or so he thought.

But the Resurrection changed everything. Just like all of mankind, Satan failed to see that one coming—an omniscient God planned it that way. So when Satan realized Christ had defeated the curse of sin and death and had officially won back the rights to what he had cleverly usurped from Adam and Eve back in the Garden of Eden, what did he do? He switched to...

Plan C: Prevent the Head Crusher from returning!

Satan knows that it is the believing one-third of Israel calling on the Lord to save them at the climax of Daniel's 70th Week that prompts Christ to return in the Second Coming (Zech. 13:8–9) to physically establish His kingdom (and in the process the unbelieving two-thirds of Israel will perish).

So for the last two thousand years, Satan's primary goal has been to prevent that possibility from coming to fruition by wiping out the Jews completely in order to prevent Zechariah's prophecy from ever being fulfilled. By doing so, Satan actually believes he can put the Second Coming on ice indefinitely and hang on to his little kingdom down here on earth where he can strut around pretending to be like the Most High (Isa. 14:14).

To that end, Satan's plan involves establishing, possessing, and controlling a man that he will transorm into an all-powerful world leader that he will sell to the world as their true Messiah. This man—the Antichrist—will appear to have great supernatural power, which will presumably be rationalized by his intimate connection with and support from an advanced alien race who has come to earth to help mankind evolve spiritually in order to help their Earth Mother get through a time of turbulent changes. These turbulent changes (the judgments of the Tribulation) are a result of Mother Earth trying to cleanse herself from the dark, negative energy of ancient myths (i.e. the Bible) that some low-vibrational cretins persist in foolishly clinging to (i.e. the believing Jewish remnant and the Gentile Tribulation saints).

I believe one part of this plan will involve the staged "arrival" of a large number of Satan's fallen angels who will once again take on physical form, just as they did in Genesis 6. Only this time they will present themselves as an advanced race of aliens who have come to earth in a fleet of advanced spacecraft. As I mentioned, one of their main jobs will supposedly be to help mankind evolve spiritually in order to assist Mother Earth in surviving the turbulent changes she is going through. If our Earth Mother Gaia can successfully do that, then mankind and our planet will be able to enter into an indescribably wonderful New Age of heaven on earth.

Of course, in reality this idea of helping people "evolve spiritually" may amount to little more than a bunch of fancy-schmancy Yoga-type breathing and meditation and other associated pseudo-spiritual, New Age schlock—just dressed up with sexy extraterrestrial terminology. I mean, hey, it's coming from an advanced race of aliens who have traveled many light years to help us, and so I'm sure people will eagerly buy into it and gobble it up.

Those who have come to faith in the gospel of the real Messiah, however, won't be deceived and won't buy it (the Jewish remnant and the Gentile Tribulation saints), and according to the demonic "aliens" their refusal to get with the program will endanger the earth and all of mankind. And that means they must be eliminated for the greater good—and legions will be.

But don't miss the striking parallels between what Satan and his fallen angels did in the days before the Flood what they will do during the Tribulation:

• Before the Flood, Satan had his fallen angels take on human form and dwell on earth so they could mate with human women in order to contaminate the world's people genetically in an effort to prevent the Head Crusher from being born.

His efforts failed, however, and the Head Crusher was born. And He died, rose from the grave, and Scripture promises us that He will return to establish His kingdom after making His enemies His footstool. But Satan believes that if he can just wipe out all the Jews, he can prevent that from happening. So...

• During the Tribulation, Satan will have his fallen angels pose as an advanced race of aliens that will strive to contaminate the world's people spiritually and kill all who resist in an effort to prevent the Head Crusher from returning.

(Spoiler alert: His efforts will fail again—Glory to the Head Crusher!)

So during the Tribulation, the world is going to see a bona fide days of Noah redux, where Satan and his fallen angels will pull an even grander stunt than the one they pulled before the Flood in regard to the Head Crusher, and for an updated reason that smacks of a greater sense of desperation:

In the days of Noah, the goal was to

stop Him from coming the first time.

In the days of Noah redux, the goal

will be to stop Him from coming back.

But a sovereign Creator God has a very different ending to that story already scripted and ready to play out.

And we will be watching from the wings as it all goes down until we join Christ on stage for the climactic scene.

What saith Scripture?

As always, especially when dealing with something I think most would agree is a bit on the wild side, biblically speaking, we need to go to the Word. We need to take a careful look at anything in Scripture that could possibly be interpreted in a manner that either potentially supports or contradicts the ideas we have been discussing concerning fallen angels appearing on earth and posing as aliens during the Tribulation.

As I wrote about this last month, the primary passage of Scripture that grabbed my attention comes from the Olivet Discourse.

In Matthew 23, Jesus has His final standoff with the Pharisees at the temple, and when He's finished with them He and His disciples get ready to leave the temple area. As they leave, Jesus drops a bombshell on them:

1 Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. 2 But he answered them, "You see all of these things, don't you? Most certainly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down." [And this was fulfilled about 40 years later.]

(Matthew 24:1–2 / emphasis & [comments] added)

In other words, He tells them the temple will be utterly destroyed. The stunned disciples don't what to make of Jesus' statement, since they are convinced Jesus is on the verge of establishing the kingdom—and they knew that would obviously require a functional temple.

Later that evening back at camp on the Mount of Olives, four of Jesus' disciples (according to Mark 13:3, Peter, Andrew, James, and John) were in such distress that they come to Him in private seeking answers to the questions that were burning in their troubled hearts:

3 As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples [the four that Mark mentions] came to him privately, saying, "Tell us, when will these things be? What is the sign of your coming, and of the end of the age?" [They are focused on His return to establish the kingdom, which was of primary interest to Jewish believers at the time. They knew nothing about the Church and even less about the Rapture, if that's possible.]

4 Jesus answered them, "Be careful that no one leads you astray." [The first words out of Jesus' mouth: "Do not be deceived."]

(Matthew 24:3–4 / emphasis & [comments] added)

After admonishing them to not be led astray, Jesus said something that stirred in my mind as I wrote my last article:

5 "For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray. [See remarks below.] 6 You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet. 7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places. 8 But all these things are the beginning of birth pains." [In other words, Jesus goes on to mention several of the seal judgments that will get the Tribulation off and running (see Rev. 6).]

(Matthew 24:5–8 / emphasis & [comments] added)

My focus here, however, is on verse 5. Note that the word "Christ" comes from the Greek word Χριστός (khris-TOS), which means "the Anointed One" and it became one of the most common epithets of Jesus.

In other words, Jesus is saying that during the Tribulation "many" will go around saying they "come in the name of the Messiah," and that each one of them will say he is "the anointed one." Now, please take out your grammar magnifying glass.

Note that in Greek Jesus says "ὁ Χριστός" or "the Christ." That is, He uses the definite article ὁ (ho), which works the same way as the English word "the." So Jesus makes it clear that these "many" are not just saying they are anointed, or one of the anointed ones. Each of them is saying "I am the anointed one."

The question is whether or not these "many" could possibly be Satan's fallen angels posing as aliens and running around saying they have come in the name of the Messiah (a "messiah" who later turns out to be the Antichrist), with each of them saying he is "the anointed one."

On the other hand, perhaps they are simply deceived people who have been deluded into believing they are some type of spiritual grand poobah like Jesus (who dwells on Saturn according to some UFO cults) and who seek to save the world by spouting pseudo-spiritual mumbo jumbo.

And we've got a few of those out there now.

Notice, however, something else Jesus says about these "many":

23 Then if any man tells you, "Behold, here is the Christ!" [same definite article as in v. 5] or, "There!" don't believe it. 24 For false christs [note that although each of them uses a definite article and says "I am the Christ," Jesus just lumps them all together into one group here] and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders, [i.e. they have supernatural powers] so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones. [Many translations read "the elect," which in this case are believers in the Tribulation.]

(Matthew 24:23–24 / emphasis & [comments] added)

Note that we have shifted forward in time a bit here, and are now in the period following the abomination of desolation (vv. 15–22). And we still have those who are claiming to be "the Christ" or "the anointed one" as we did in the first half of the Tribulation in verse 5.

So what can we make of all this? The way I see it, these "many" Jesus is speaking of can legitimately be one of two things:

(a) Deceived human men empowered by Satan.

(b) Fallen angels posing as advanced aliens.

I cannot definitively rule out (a), and I say that for two basic reasons:

1. I am satisfied that Satan will have the capacity to grant supernatural power to men during the Tribulation. After all, I have to believe that Satan will be enjoying the benefits of being unrestrained.

2. It's also easy to imagine deceived men running around saying "I am the anointed one," as foolish as that sounds. We've got people doing that today. And it's just as easy to imagine people falling for it, because some are.

One problem, however, is that it just seems more likely to me that aliens would be informed enough to say "I am an anointed one" (indefinite article—one of many) or "I am one of the anointed ones," (same deal—one of many) not "I am the anointed one" (the one and only). That would seem to point to their boss's man the Antichrist, who will pose as the Anointed One (the Messiah). So, why would his phony alien gofers all foolishly claim to be what would refer exclusively to the Antichrist himself? It just strikes me that Satan's program would be a bit better organized than that.

Now, I have seen articles written by people who claim the "many" are aliens who are in fact saying things like "I am an anointed one," as in one of many. It strikes me, however, that they're not paying very careful attention to the grammar Jesus uses in Matthew 24:5, 23.

That's not what Jesus is saying.

So I can't definitively rule out (a), but neither can I definitively rule out (b)...and I say that for two basic reasons:

1. Although yes, I believe Satan will be able to impart supernatural power to human men during the Tribulation, it's actually easier and more natural to see fallen angels as being the ones with the supernatural power. So I have to consider both possibilities as being entirely workable.

2. Grammar issues aside, I believe that if these "aliens" went around saying that each of them is "the anointed one" and performing miracles, most people would excitedly leap to the conclusion that they are highly spiritually advanced beings who are preparing us for the advent of the true Anointed One (that is, the poser extrordinaire pretending to be Him). And since all these aliens are saying the same thing, many people would interpret what they are saying to mean they are one with or part of the Anointed One, and so are part of God (as are we all, didn't ya know)—which meshes nicely with New Age teachings.

So that leaves the issue on the proverbial fence: I think Jesus could be referring to either deceived men claiming to be the Christ (which is how most commentators have traditionally interpreted these verses in Matthew), or to fallen angels posing as aliens making that claim. I think a good case can be made for both possibilities without contradicting Scripture, so I think we have to consider the idea that Jesus is referring to Satan's fallen angels posing as aliens during the Tribulation as being a valid interpretation of the passage.

In other words, nothing in Scripture precludes that UFO/alien view. So...

The possibility that Satan's fallen angels

will pose as aliens during the Tribulation to

deceive people into worshiping the Antichrist

as the Messiah is still very much on the table.

So the UFO/alien view may be on the fence, but it's still on the table—and that's fine and dandy with me. That's all I set out to establish in this section, and that is that the idea of Satan having some of his fallen angels posing as advanced aliens during the Tribulation is scripturally plausible.

Plausible?! It's practically staring us in the face.

Another redux

So I believe Satan will use his fallen angels again—as in the days of Noah—to try to prevent Christ from returning to crush both his head and his kingdom.

Only this time, instead of mating with human women to contaminate the human gene pool to prevent the Messiah from being born like he did back before the Flood, this days of Noah redux will see those fallen angels posing as an advanced race of aliens who have come to help the world prepare for the advent of the Antichrist and hopefully put Christ's return on ice by wiping out the Jews in the process.

It occurred to me, however, that there are also parallels between the First and Second Advents of Christ...call it Christ the King redux if you please:

Christ came the first time as a

King riding on a humble donkey

to establish His Church, conquer

sin, and teach about His kingdom.

He will come the second time as the

King of kings riding on a white horse,

accompanied by His Church, to conquer

sinful nations and establish His kingdom.

Of course, we won't be here to witness the days of Noah redux. But when it's time for the Christ the King redux, we will do more than witness it:

We will take part in it when we return to earth with Christ at His Second Coming, having already been raptured and rewarded, and ready to rock and rule with Him in His glorious kingdom!

And you know, now that I think about it, there's really no way being beamed up by aliens in advanced spacecraft can top being changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye and being caught up into the clouds along with many of our loved ones to meet the Lord in the air.

Now that's gonna totally rock!

From Greg Lauer @ A Little Strength—MAY '26: "Days of Noah Redux"

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