Does life exist on other planets? If life does exist on
other planets how come we haven’t had any contact with them and why are we
isolated from all other life forms in the universe? What kind of creatures can we expect to find?
Will they be like us or will they be like the monsters you see in the horror
movies?
These are the questions I am going to be addressing using
the Bible as my guide. I know that most of you are saying “the Bible doesn’t
say anything about aliens from outer space.” And you are right. The Bible
doesn’t say anything directly about space aliens but indirectly the Bible has a
lot to say on this subject if you know where to look for the answers.
Let’s start with the question of why we haven’t had any contact
with aliens and why are we isolated in the universe? I believe the answer to
this question lies in us. The Bible tells us that we as human beings are evil.
I know that many people believe that human beings are born good and learn how
to be bad when in reality the opposite is true. We are born selfish and have had
to learn how to be good. You don’t have to teach any little child to lie. It
comes natural to them.
Matthew 7:11 If you then, being evil, know how
to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in
heaven give good things to those who ask Him!
Matthew 15:19 For
out of the heart proceed evil
thoughts,
murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.
God is more concerned about what you think and not what you
do. For God knows that if evil is in your thoughts it is just a matter of time
before your thoughts manifest themselves into evil actions. I have heard many
people say “it doesn’t hurt to look” nothing could be further from the truth.
What you put into your mind is really all that does matter. What do our evil
thoughts have to do with aliens? Our thoughts have everything to do with aliens
not wanting anything to do with us human beings. One of the biggest problems with sin is the
blinding that occurs in the sinning process. We can’t see the destructive
forces at work in our own minds. Most everybody else around us can see our
short comings, except for us. We can’t see ourselves and that’s the reason we
are so quick to overlook our shortcomings and dismiss them as not as bad as
other peoples faults.
I believe that the whole human race is evil and condemned to
death on this penal colony called earth.
John 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe
is condemnedalready, because
he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that
the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. I don’t believe it’s an accident that this
planet earth is set in a far corner of the universe away from all other life
forms. We do the same thing with the placement of our prisons. If at all
possible we place our prisons as far away from society as possible as to not
subject a bad influence on our people.
It’s so easy for us to justify our sins,
all we have to do is turn on the television set and watch just about any
program and say to ourselves “I’m glad I’m not that bad.” We compare ourselves
to people who are perverted, violent and wicked and we walk away feeling good
about ourselves. If you can imagine a planet where the people don’t have a
single evil thought in their minds and are always looking for ways to help
their fellow man it’s then when we can finally see ourselves for what we really
are.This next verse explains to us exactly why
we are alone in this far corner of the universe.
1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived: “Evil Company corrupts good
habits.”
If you take a pure glass of water and add anything foreign to
the water the water is no longer pure. This is one of the major reasons why I
believe we are alone in the universe. God may have many different colonies on
many different planets but one thing is for sure. He certainly is not going to
let them mingle with the condemned earthlings. We would corrupt them and make
them just like ourselves.
So you say “how do you even know that anybody is really out
there? The Bible tells us of one God-Man that ascended to heaven. I have heard
some theories that heaven is really on earth right now and when you die you
simply move to a different dimension. I don’t believe the Bible teaches us
that. The Bible says that heaven is a real place where Jesus is preparing our
spiritual bodies and there are also eye witnesses who seen Jesus ascending to
heaven and the Bible says that eye witnesses will also see Him returning to
earth. If heaven is here on earth only in a different dimension it doesn’t make
any sense that when Jesus returns to earth He would first have to ascend to
heaven before He could descend to earth.
Acts 1:11 who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you
stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into
heaven, will so come in likemanner as you saw Him go into
heaven.”
We know that Jesus is in heaven sitting at the right hand of
the Father. We also know that heaven is also called “the secret place” and that
the secret place is being kept a secret from us.
Matthew 6:6 But you, when you pray, go into your room,
and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in thesecretplace; and your Father who sees insecret will reward
you openly.
We know that heaven is a real place with
Jesus and the Father on the throne. We also know that when we die as Christians
to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 5:8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present
with the Lord.
2 Corinthians 4:14 knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise
us up with Jesus, and will present us with you.
We know as Christians that when we die we will go to be with
the Lord. Just how many people are we talking about? It has been estimated that
7 billion people are living today and it has also been estimated that another 7
billion people throughout earth’s history are dead. How many of those dead have
gone to heaven?
Matthew 7:13-14 Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is
the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because
narrow is the gate and difficult
is the way which leads to life, and there
are few who find it. So just how many people are going to be in
heaven? We know that currently there are a lot of people there. We know that
these people are no longer manipulated by evil thoughts and desires. We know
that these people already have their new spiritual bodies and are living in
complete harmony with God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Revelation 5:11 Then I looked, and I heard the voice of
many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the
number of them was ten thousand times
ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.
Is there life on other planets? Of course there is! Where do
you think all the dead people went? God says “I am the God of Abraham, the God
of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. God is not the God of the dead, but of the
living.” When Jesus took Peter, James and John up to the mountains and
transfigured himself in front of them Moses and Elijah was there with Jesus.
Where did they come from? Moses died thousands of years before Jesus.
I believe heaven is a physical place out in a far corner of
space with God, Jesus, the angels and all the saints who have died since the beginning
of time living in complete harmony and happiness. I also believe that we as a
human race because of Adam’s sin against God have been condemned to death
physically and spiritually that is why we are isolated and all alone on this
planet earth and set apart in the opposite corner of the universe.
In the book of Matthew 13:24-30, Jesus is talking to His
disciples with a parable about the “tares of the field.” Of course the
disciples didn’t understand the parable and asked Jesus to explain the parable
to them. In Matthew 13:24-30 Jesus gives the meaning of the parable to His
disciples. I took the parable along with
the meaning of the parable and put the two together and came up with the
parable with the meanings in apprentices. Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The
kingdom of heaven is like (the son of man,) (Jesus) who planted (the sons of
the kingdom)in his (world) but while men slept, (Satin)came and planted (the
sons of the wicked one,) among (God’s people)and went his way. But when (God’s
people)had (matured) ,and (brought other people to God) then the (sons of the
wicked one) also appeared. So the (angels)of (God)came and said to him,
‘Sir, did you not plant the (sons of the kingdom)in your(world)? How then does
it have(Sons of the wicked one?) God said to them, ‘ (Satan)has done
this.’ The (angels)said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up? But God said, ‘No, lest while you gather up
the (the sons of the wicked one)you also uproot the (the sons of the kingdom)with
them. Let both grow together until the(end of the age) and at the time
of(the end of the age)I will say to (the angels,) “First gather together (the
sons of the wicked one) and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather (the
sons of the kingdom)into my barn.”
The Son of Man will send
out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend,
and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace
of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous
will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to
hear, let him hear.
I am trying to get you to think of the Biblical events as
real events that will soon be taking place. It took Noah 100 years to build his
ark and nobody except his family believed him that the flood was coming. I can
imagine the people of Noah’s day saying “look at that stupid man building that
ark for over 95 years waiting for a flood that will never happen.” The Bible
says that our last days are to be compared to the last days of Noah before the
great flood in that the people become very wicked and very few people will
actually believe that Jesus is returning to the earth.
Is there life on other planets? I would have to say
probably. It wouldn’t surprise me if God has several colonies on several
different planets. How come we haven’t had any confirmable contact with any
aliens? I believe God stuck this planet away from everybody else as a
punishment for man’s fallen state. The Bible says that Satan is the ruler of
this world so if there is any contact it will be by Satan or his fallen
angels. What kind of creatures can we
expect to come in contact with? At this point in time unfortunately all we can
expect to come in contact with will be Satan or his fallen angels that is until
Jesus and His saints return to this planet at the end of this age.
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