it's been 2,000 years since the glorious light of the cross illuminated a world veiled in darkness and confusion about the character of God and still today the greatest need of mankind is a revelation of God's love as revealed in the life of Christ amazing facts presents the everlasting gospel with pastor Doug Batchelor coming to you each week from Sacramento Central Church in sunny California discover hidden treasures in God's Word today is there life on other worlds and I hope you'll find this inspiring and informative and interesting but the Bible actually has a lot to say about it and when I'm done I hope you realize it does make a difference to you where you are today the answer to this question I don't know if you've ever heard of SETI SETI is a real organization it's not some secret conspiracy it's a network of scientists and SETI is an acronym for search for extraterrestrial intelligence extraterrestrial means outside of the terrain of our world otherworldly intelligent City and they've got these radio telescopes stationed different parts of the world that are trying to get feedback from space and the cosmos the biggest of them it's called via and I hope I say this right it's out of a SIBO radio telescope it is the biggest parabolic dish in the world built right into the terrain of this sinkhole not far it's about nine miles from Arecibo Puerto Rico and it was built in 1963 it at a cost of nine million dollars back then it's basically a big parabolic satellite dish that is aimed out into space and they can move the receiver horn to different locations to change its direction and they coordinate that along with the rotation of the earth it's composed of about 40,000 aluminum panels and it's 1,000 feet across it covers the space of 18 acres I mean you can't tell from the photograph you can see this from Google Earth from space its enormous and the whole purpose of it for years now what 45 years it's been aimed at space they just did a twenty five million dollar upgrade on it in 1997 put a reflector upgrade on it a Gregorian reflector to try and capture more specifically things that are happening out there and it has been helpful in science it's helped them with receiving signals from the voyagers and from different Rovers on different planets but they've been listening for radio frequencies and patterns that would tell them that there's intelligent life out there and in 45 years of listening they've not received any messages or indication that there's intelligent life out there I am and I want to thank Jim Burris who is a an astronomy expert told him what I was preaching about this week and he shared some information with me one thing he said that I thought was a thought-provoking if you took the information that's on one strand of the helix of DNA one DNA helix band from a human and sent that signal to these radio receivers it would be front-page news all across the world that there is intelligent life we're surrounded with evidence in this world and we've got I mean what makes them think the Angels use the same frequency that we use and that's the assumption and so some astronomers are wondering well how much life is out there most astronomers believe there is other intelligent life out there but they also recognize that our planet is very unique Earth has perfect conditions for life there's a video series it talks about the privileged planet now for several years now I recommend it but it talks about how planet Earth it is so obvious because of its location in the composition it's perfect for life if our planet was just a little bit closer to the Sun nothing would survive if it was a little further away if it was a little bigger the gravitational pull would crush everything if it didn't if it was further away that water would be ice if it was too close it would be steam and just the combination of gases in the atmosphere the rotation the orbit is all of these things even the moon all are perfect and necessary to sustain life on this planet which makes people wonder is there anybody else out there is there other life out there I'm intrigued by the history of two very interesting space projects well they really are one it's called Voyager 1 and 2 these are two spacecraft that were sent in 1977 a lot of you weren't even born then and they're still going today they're powered by nuclear batteries that will be good until the year 2025 now my question is if there's an energy crisis today and if we could make a battery back then in 1977 that's still going today why don't we start making more stuff out of those batteries I'd I figure they're probably dangerous the nuclear batteries and there may be very expensive but that's pretty impressive when you think about it going since 1977 they took a lot of fascinating pictures swirling through space and one of them went back through by the Sun again picked up some gravitational slingshot power and shot off and they've taken pictures of Pluto and Saturn and the Rings they got a picture of the earth looking back through the rings of Saturn it's a little bitty dot almost like a pixel and it's our planet now these spacecraft Voyager 1 and 2 have left the solar system first man-made object to ever leave our solar system they are drifting off through interstellar space and they've got on board a gold-plated Oddie visual disk that has pictures of earth and sounds from Earth they've got whales calling and they've got a baby crying and I hope they put an intelligible message on there besides just that but in case a Lien's should happen to retrieve them if they're not intercepted in just what is it 25 trillion miles from now they'll plan they'll pass the star Sirius of course that will be in 296 thousand years so I don't know if anyone here will be aware of that maybe up in heaven wouldn't that be something if you're going through space and all sudden you go by and you say oh there was the Voyager look like that about twenty-five thousand million years from now and that's of course that was one of the earlier missions very interesting and then of course we had the Mars rovers wanting to know maybe we could transfer life to Mars because we're worried about global warming here and so they've sent up a number of Rovers a couple of crash-and-burn but they got a couple that have been successful one called spirit and I've actually got a picture there of spirit that was taken this year they're still sending back pictures of what's going on on Mars and they drive the Eco long a few inches and they snap these pictures and send them back and takes a long time to get the pictures to our planet but when you look at that picture up there I don't know what you think but I almost expect a rabbit to go hopping across it looks a lot like Nevada doesn't it we spent millions and millions of dollars to get those pictures that probably were just taken in Nevada and they tell us that it came from Mars no I believe it I'm not one of those conspiracy people but I'm fascinated by space exploration and I've told people more than one time on TV and radio hoping somebody who works with the NASA will hear me say it I'd love to be the first pastor in space if they haven't had one already that would be a lot of fun and you better do something about it quick before I get too old to pass the physical so if you know anybody but when we talk about doing exploration in our space in our solar system what you really got is a person who wants to explore the world picture if you will someone who they're in bed and they've decided to explore the world and so as they're preparing for their first day of exploring the world before they get out of bed they decide to scratch their nose they're scratching their nose is going even farther than we go when we explore our solar system they haven't even gotten out of bed and just scratching the nose and they've gone farther in exploring the world and we go in exploring the cosmos when we go to our solar system we haven't gone anywhere yet our solar system is very small when you consider the scope of space we've got eight or nine planets depending on whether or not you're willing to let Pluto go or not and the jury is out about whether Pluto qualifies and around those planets we've got approximately a hundred and seventy moons and they're swirling around one star that we call our Sun well how many stars are there CNN published something in their science article July 23 2003 here's what it says you ever wanted to wish upon a star well you have 70,000 million million million to choose from I don't you realize how big a number that is that's the total number of stars in the known universe according to a study by Australian astronomers it's about 10 times as many grains of sand not as many 10 times as many grains of sand on all the world's beaches and deserts that's the figure 7 followed by 22 zeros or more accurately 76 Tilian was calculated by a team of stargazers Bayes at the Australian National University it's interesting that they would say because you can read in the Bible where God spoke to Abraham speaking about his descendants he said I will greatly multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore so it's interesting that God compares the number of the stars to the number of the grains of sand the astronomers in Australia say there are more stars than there are grains of sand when you think about how big space is I've got a series of slides I think I showed them once before that just give you a little bit of scale so that you can comprehend how vast space is here's a picture of our earth as compared to some of the other planets most of them are between us and the Sun you've got Venus and Mars and Mercury and Pluto but then to keep the scale going let's look at some of the other bigger planets there you've got Jupiter and Saturn Uranus Neptune you see our earth down there at the bottom just a little bitty ping-pong ball and Mars but now we're going to look at our earth as compared to the Sun so here you've got the Sun and and I understand that you can fit approximately 1 million earths right now the earth on that screen if it wasn't for the arrow you want to know where to look it's just a little bitty speck takes about a million earths to fit in our Sun now our Sun is considered a white dwarf it's a small Sun there are some smaller but it's not one of the big ones you go out in space and as we look at some of the other Suns that are out there for instance you've got Betelgeuse which is there on your left and entries and you can see no you can't our Sun doesn't appear it's about the size of one digital pixel on the video projector screen there so just imagine one pixel on that screen that would be our massive Sun compared to some of the other stars and you see these - these are not the biggest there's one that and these are just the ones that we observe there's one even bigger that they've discovered now and it's called Canis Majoris is that what it is Stephen and that means big dog star you know I understand that there are we live when we look at the stars that we're observing we're looking at the stars in our galaxy which is a spiral of stars swirling through space and we are in the Milky Way galaxy now we can't take a picture of the Milky Way galaxy because we're in it but if we this is a picture of another galaxy you can see out there in space gives you some idea the distance across a galaxy like ours or like this if you travel the speed of light 186,000 miles per second could take like 270 thousand light years to get across that I mean it says fabulous how big it is now this is a galaxy they figure in a galaxy which is one of these spirals of stars there are as many as two billion stars just in Milky Way galaxy there are some galaxies out there that have hundreds of billions of stars one galaxy hundreds of billions of Suns I understand in the bowl of the Big Dipper when you look up at the sky at night just in the bowl of the Big Dipper there are over a million galaxies that we can see now this is the observable universe you start thinking about it and and it just boggles your mind how big it all is Isaiah 55 9 the Prophet says as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts and now you begin to get some idea the closest star to earth is probably alpha Proxima or Alpha Centauri they're about 4 light years away 186,000 miles per second you travel that speed think about how far you go in 5 seconds takes about 8 minutes for the light from the Sun to get to earth because it's 93 million miles away if you travel 186,000 miles per second for four years then you get to the first star and think about there being more stars out there then there are ten times more stars they said in Australia out there then there are grains of sand on all the beaches and all the deserts of the world I don't know who did the calculus on that but they must have been sitting there with a calculator for a long time but let's assume that's true for years for light years to get to the first one think about how big spaces think about the number of galaxies the number of stars now what we've been talking about keep in mind we've been talking about how many stars those are the things are shining things we see out there now we're talking about is there life on other planets there's no life on the stars the star is a fantastically hot radiation nuclear fission taking place all the time it incinerates anything that touches it so there's no life on the stars question is are there other planets that might sustain life when we say there are 10 times as many stars as there are grains of sand on all the beaches and deserts of the world how many planets are in our solar system 9 and 170 moons and some of the moons are bigger than some of the planets are closed anyway so you begin to think about that one of the odds that there are other worlds out there that may have life on them pretty good odds you mean the Lord put all that up there just so we could observe it with a telescope it's just a park for us to walk through for eternity and there's no other life out there that through the ceaseless ages in the past that God the Father Son and the Spirit has looked at each other in the Angels I don't think so I believe that there is life on other world so let's start at the beginning here who made everything John chapter one verse one Gospel of John in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God he the Word was in the beginning with God all things were made through him by the way some people think that Jesus was created at some remote time in the past if that's true this verse is not true if all things that were made were made by the word Christ then he couldn't have made himself right he's always existed just like the father all things that were made were made by him and without him nothing was made that was made then you can go to Colossians chapter 1 verse 16 for by him all things were created that are in heaven that are on earth that are visible and invisible now there are things in heaven he's created and things on earth whether Thrones or dominions there are Thrones in heaven as there are Thrones on earth principalities or powers all things were created through him and for him he is before all things and in him all things consist so the ultimate creator of all things that are out there were created by Jesus now there are some who believe that we've got a God and our God is a God of our galaxy and there are other gods that are gods of other galaxies and you could eventually grow and be a god of your own galaxy but my problem with that theory is God knows everything and if you know everything you can't learn anything so the idea of a growing God is a problem see what I'm saying and if he's all-powerful if there's some things he doesn't have control over he's not all-powerful so God knows all things he's all-powerful there is one God the Father Son and spirit that resides and reigns over all of the cosmos he's not competing with other gods did Jesus make other worlds we know that he made this world Hebrews 1 verse - God has in these last days spoken to us by his son whom he's appointed heir of all things through whom he also made the worlds plural you can read that also in Hebrews 11 verse 3 by faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God world's not just his planet now here's a question and and some of you may lead me at this point I hope not when did God make the other worlds Genesis 1:1 in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth now I want a park right here when I was researching this finding out what other churches believe a lot of churches believe that according to Bible chronology the world if you add up the ages of Adam and the patriarchs is about six thousand years old and I believe that I find you there's no written history before that the oldest tree rings is just a lot of earthly evidence that just points back to about 4000 years BC approximately and that's the point when a lot of Christians believe God also made all the other galaxies all the other observable space was made 6,000 years ago because the Bible says that the Lord made the Sun Moon and stars 6,000 years ago I don't think they're reading this correctly if you understand how Jews right how Hebrew Thanks how the Bible writers right they usually give the headlines and then they come back and give the details that's how we do it in newspapers today headline back up give the details the Bible begins with the headline everything that is made was made by God the heavens everything out there up there and everything down here then the narrative goes on describes how he made what's down here and I believe that if you go back 6,000 years you're reading the account of how God made perhaps not just our solar system but at least the Milky Way galaxy which is only one of billions of galaxies you got that but that what doesn't mean that 6000 years ago is when he made all these others I think God has had life on other worlds for an infinite amount of time how long has God been around do you think he just stared at the wall no there was no walls he couldn't stare at it for billions of years doing nothing God is love when a husband and wife get married and through an act of love they procreate they want to share the love they want to give the love they want to be loved and that's what God wants and he started doing that along before he made our planet he was still God back then I believe he has other worlds out there but they're unfallen I'll get to that just a moment notice an isaiah 45 verse 12 god says i have made the earth and created man on it this planet its environment and man intelligent life on it my hand stretched out the heavens those are other worlds and all their hosts you notice he makes a separation i made the world and the intelligent creatures here and i made the heavens and the intelligent creatures there you see the the simple the balance the symmetry of what he's saying here when did he do it you read in the book job 38 verse 6 and 7 - what were its foundations fastened here God is reasoning with Jobe he's talking about the creation of the earth - what were its foundations fastened or who laid its cornerstone when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy who are these sons of God that are shouting for joy when the world is being created well a person might instinctively say well those are the Angels well the word sons of God is one of those words it's sort of used in many different ways in the Bible but it's usually talking to those who have been uniquely created or recreated if you want to be a son of God you must go through a recreation newhart behold what manner of love the father has bestowed on us that we should be called sons of God and we'll talk more about that as well Genesis 1 verse 14 when you get to the fourth day of creation God says let there be lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide the day in the night now what are the lights that divide our day and night are they the galaxies is at the Sun and the moon let there be lights in the firmament that divide the day in the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and for years now our days and years and our months are divided by the moon is anything in our seasons governed by galaxies no and let them be for lights in the firmament of the heavens to give a light on the earth and it was so and God made two great lights how many it's talking about the fourth day he made two great lights the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night he made the stars also now when you find that phrase he made the stars also some scholars understand this to be it's it's an after fact he's saying he also is the one who made the Stars but on the fourth day he made these two great lights you see how the wording is working here he also made the Stars but on the fourth day he made these special lights to separate the day and night you keep reading it starts to sound that way God set them in the firmament of the heavens to give light on the earth to rule over the day in the night to divide the light from the darkness and God saw it was good so the principle subject of that fourth day of creation is the Sun and the moon and if you want I'll also give you the stars in our galaxy but he didn't make all of the galaxies back then on the fourth day he's talking about what happened in our neighborhood the stars and lights that actually have an influence on earth and even the stars that are used for Gavin navigation almost a gap of ation but that would have been embarrassing there probably in our galaxy I remember when Karen I went to Australia and we went diving on this boat that stayed a couple of nights out there by the Barrier Reef and at night you're far away from any city and you know you've got all this light pollution it's so hard for the observatories like Mount Palomar and Mount Diablo and even Hawaii they get so many city lights and interfere we were out there far away from shore far away from civilization and at night when the the Sun and the moon were down and we looked up it was the strangest feeling because I was looking up at all these stars I had never seen before in the southern hemisphere you just don't see those stars so it's like you're going through a whole new part of space and friends in Australia are used to it but I looked up there and went this is alien this is really surreal because I'm looking at sky I've never seen before and I forgot what led me to say that but it was very interesting is there life in outer space well I believe there is I think the Bible teaches there is Psalms 8 verse 4 and 5 first of all what is man that you're mindful of him and the son of man that you visit him for you've made him a little lower than the Angels now what was made for his angels or people angels were at leasts the angels were the sons of God shouting for joy when the world was made right man was made a little lower than the angels and you've crowned him with glory and honor so let's begin here are there extraterrestrials does God have angels so you answered the question already we know there's life out there other than life on Earth and you've got angels Seraphim cherubim there's probably all kinds of different types and varieties and species of ministering spirits that God has and different words are used we don't understand on our earth he has no two snowflakes that are the same so if you've got a cookie cutter in your head when you think about angels and they're all exactly the same think again they're unique if he's named all of the stars he calls up the hosts by their name then you know probably he knows all the angels names he knows who they are Psalms a diverse one give Hierro Shepherd of Israel you who lead Joseph like a flock you who dwell between the cherubim shine forth God is dwelling between two principal angels one of them used to be Lucifer then there's Gabriel who's one of those covering sheriffs by the throne of God now we don't know the names of other Psalm 19 verse 1 the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork not only did the Stars declare the glory of God but I believe there are beings that declare the glory of God and then listen to what Jesus says in John chapter 17 just before the cross he says and now O Father glorify me together with yourself with the glory that I had with you before the world was now if I were to ask you to bring up your son and glorify Him bring up your child and glorify him you might bring up your your child and say wonderful things about them and praise them and give them glory and extol their virtues but that only has value if others are listening did you get that so if Jesus said I shared glory with you before the world was there have to be other intelligent beings to recognize and appreciate that glory for it to be glory Christ is about to be glorified before the world and that's why he's praying this prayer there had to be others there it does make a difference for you and I now one of the most striking examples is where it talks about the sons of God I told you we'd come back to this read in your Bibles go to the book of Job job chapter 1 verse 6 and 7 and this actually this little scenario happens a couple of times in the beginning of job where it talks about the sons of God now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord this son heavenly Convention and Satan also came among them and the Lord said to Satan he's obviously standing out from where do you come that does God ever ask a question because he doesn't know God knows everything right God often asked questions for the benefit of others there that may not be all-knowing the sons of God are not all-knowing and God asks Satan where do you come from and Satan says I have come from going to and fro on the earth and walking up and down in it so here's a meeting is the meeting on earth when I tell you that I've come from my house do I say that when I'm in my house so when Satan says I've come from the earth and it says the sons of God have gathered for this meeting who are these sons of God again many Bible commentators believe and I agree that in the same way Adam was called the son of God you know when it goes through the genealogy in Luke chapter 3 it says in eNOS except for the son of eNOS who is the son of Adam who is the son of God now they're all the sons of humans until you get to Adam the son of the son of the son of anit names all the different ancestors human ancestors but when you get to Adam it says who was the son Seth who was the son of Adam who was the son of God Adam was given dominion of this world Adam should have been the one who went to that heavenly meeting to represent earth in its creatures right but Adam and Eve surrendered dominion to Lucifer so when Lucifer gets there they say what are you doing here he says I've come to represent the earth they have surrendered Dominion to me those sons of God were the leaders of other worlds that were gathering probably some other heavenly place maybe that was before Satan was barred from the gates of heaven when Christ came to earth Satan was evicted permanently from heaven he matter of fact you read about that revelation 12 verse 9 so that Great Dragon was cast out that serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world he was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him now why they were cast out for sinning Wright says because he said you were cast out in Ezekiel why does it say in revelation 12:12 therefore rejoice o heavens and you who dwell in them somebody dwells in the heavens who is up there dwelling in the heavens why are they rejoicing because Satan was going through the universe trying to croute other intelligent creatures and worlds to follow him in his rebellion how many angels did Lucifer take with him one-third the Bible tells us in Revelation 12 and in the same way he came to our world trying to recruit support he was campaigning through the universe finally God said enough is enough they've said no and you've got to understand that no means no and he was cast out but down here the devil found someone who said yes so this planet became a beachhead for him to continue his rebellion against God that's why the heavens the unfallen angels the good angels and the unfallen beings I don't know what they look like you know we see these pictures and look like eg and or do you know a lot of people have they got all these Star Trek creatures which are typically people with makeup and rubber masks on right I mean God's got creatures out that you and I probably can't even imagine I know that they're probably beautiful none of them maybe some are comical main do we have some comical creatures in this world that make you smile none of them are scary I don't think that you know these typical aliens with all the teeth and trying to scare everybody no these are unfallen intelligent beings they're going to be beautiful they're made to glorify their Creator the Bible speaks about the numberless angels now the angels are ministering spirits they were not all created just to take care of earth Daniel and these are the armies of God it speaks of in Daniel chapter 7 verse 10 a fiery stream came in issued forth from before him and thousands of thousands ministered to him ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him the court was seated and the books were opened this is not talking about the Judgment Day one of the lost and saved is standing before the Lord these are the witnesses to the judgment that is happening because think about it for a second before sin the people in heaven and earth were not quarantined they could communicate with each other this planet has rebelled there's a lot of wickedness and filth and crime and evil in this world because the Lucifer the devil Lucifer spread it all through this planet now God is telling the unfallen angels and the unfallen intelligence is out there I'm going to save them yes those people down there they're behaving so terribly I'm going to transform them and let them come back into heaven and reintroduce them to the universe and they're all going Lord you sure this is a good idea I've seen some of what they've been doing down there and if they haven't seen they've heard from the Angels I've not been to Afghanistan but I've heard about the war there you know what I'm saying there's reports that come back the soldiers the Angels tell us what's going on and so these unfallen beings are saying to the Lord you're going to let them back in God has this judgment he says I want to demonstrate they've been transformed they've been renewed they've been cleansed they're holy and so that's why when the Lord comes he's giving out rewards a judgment happens before Jesus comes is that right if the Bible says behold I come in my reward is with me that means if he's giving out saved and lost when he comes some investigation happens before he comes there's a judgment that happens in there witnesses unfallen beings that are very interested in these rehabilitated creatures being allowed back into the communion of the unfallen universe 10,000 the numbers of den is looking for you can't find there's another interesting verse in 1st Kings 22 maybe I'll post my notes if you're interested in at the SAC central website Mike hiya the Prophet describes a vision says therefore hear the word of the Lord I saw the Lord sitting on his throne and all the hosts of heaven standing by on his right hand and on his left and he's talking about Earth from heaven in that vision he's surrounded by his armies now do you ever have an army that fights to the offend a kingdom with no citizens did you catch that you might have drifted way for just a second and what I'm saying won't make sense unless you heard it would it make sense to have an army that fights to defend a country with no citizens who are the soldiers in God's army they're the angels are the only citizens what he has here on earth or are they also fighting in the defense in representing unfallen worlds unfallen angels represent unfallen galaxies they're the armies of God they're the ministering spirits they don't just minister to humans if you've got a hospital I'll get to that in a minute UFOs you want to talk about that for a moment are there UFOs have you heard my UFO story I got a few of them I remember one time I'm embarrassed I was up in the hills in Koval oh where you can see the sky pretty well and the family was up there and I called all the family out and I saw a UFO and I called all the family out I said look at that I said this is a UFO I saw this thing this circular thing that was flying and it was kind of moving around the heavens and was getting closer to us and I said kids grab the telescope we all came down front we're looking this thing it gets closer and closer and closer pretty soon we heard here's an airplane that was flying with his landing lights as running lights his beacon everything on it forgot to turn it off and here I'm a pilot I ought to know better but from a distance or I don't know what was happening with the atmosphere and inversion layers and the horizon and ions and I don't know what was going on but it look really weird and the kids at first we all thought what is it another time I was up flying with Karen and I think she was resting is it appear what is that up there matter of fact I was flying between here and like South Lake Tahoe and there was this great big red flying saucer and as we got closer and closer I was scared I thought I ought to run the other direction but I was really curious so I flew towards it and it's look at a look what is it what is it we're getting closer and it's shining in the Sun I said I know it's not an airplane and I was right it wasn't an airplane it was an unidentified flying object someone had a party and they had one of these great big metallically colored mylar balloons the dead let go and it had found its place up in the sky where it wasn't gonna go any higher and it wasn't gonna sink it was just sitting there hovering and from a distance with the sunlight you know the metallic ones they shine really bright with the Sun hitting them it looked like a UFO and as I got closer I thought oh I felt so dumb now what about all these UFO sightings I think it's safe to tell you this this is the truth you know my father was in the aviation business as were two of his brothers one of my father's brothers I won't say his name still alive today worked his whole working career for Lockheed out of Burbank I was born in Burbank his job was every Monday to get on an airplane he would fly to the desert in Nevada to a place called area 51 true story and he was part of the team that worked on and they'd fly them back on Friday worked on they work for skunkworks they worked on the SR 41 blackbird they worked on the stealth fighter they worked on a whole plethora different projects and any of them probably never got released some were very successful but he had to hide that for years never got married to this day it last names bachelor obviously never did get married because it's hard to have a family where you take off Monday and don't come home till Friday and you've got to be top secret about what you're doing but pretty much everyone knows now what was going on there but you hear about them having hidden you know spit a UFO went down out there in the desert somewhere and it had bodies in it if you want to have fun oh I don't even want to encourage you to do this get on the internet you start looking at all the conspiracy nonsense about them capturing aliens and they got even little alien babies they'll show you it some people have done some primitive photography to tried fool people and just to illustrate I don't want to get too far from my point but just to illustrate I've got a friend up in the hills who's got one of these cameras that takes pictures of nature and he sets it up by a watering hole on his property that's got this very beautiful nature background those trees and there's rocks and there's a watering hole and the pit it's got a motion detector and whenever an animal goes by it takes a picture and so he's posted something on the web for his Sabbath School class and his friends said these are my nature pictures you ought to take a look well he sent me he knows I do a little bit of Photoshop he sent me a picture from some movie of a Bigfoot Yeti abominable snowman you all know what I'm talking about Bigfoot he said Doug can you put that Bigfoot in my nature yard I said let me try and it was actually the lighting was perfect I mean this they took this picture of this Bigfoot's like this and he's looked like oh no and it looks like a camera shutter just went off and he got caught big ol hairy ugly made-up monster and I took it and I put it in there I took all the edges out I made it lit it and I did it just perfectly and so I mean it look real I'm tempted to share the website with you so he's got all these kids in his Sabbath School class he probably shouldn't be a Sabbath school teacher show you he says you know you guys ought to take a look at my website I got these really neat nature pictures and the kids are going throwing this in the squirrel listen there's a deer the bear there's another deer look a raccoon Bigfoot bit what and it looks real it looks so real we know what they're gonna send that all over the internet now they're gonna see another Bigfoot sighting and maybe I'll get on Discovery Channel after that but some people have taken these things and they create these aliens and they put it on the internet and they've created all these stories friends let me tell you what UFOs or combination of one of two or three things most of the time 98% of the time it is probably an optical illusion like the ones I've just described there may be the rare occasion where the military really was testing an aircraft and someone got a picture that looked weird they've got a couple of cases where they said yes it did look like a UFO that was our first trials of the stealth bomber then there's the possibility the devil can create illusions candy and I believe there are probably some people out there that say I saw this UFO and I saw these aliens and they'd spoke to me and as the devil got the power of light can he create illusions can he deceive can he give him messages and you know what happens usually those messages are dealing with yes you have been evolved in and you'll be reincarnated and you're going to keep progressing and eventually you'll be as sophisticated as we are it is a very unbiblical message that these aliens ostensibly give so yeah I think Devils can sometimes create these illusions revelation 13 13 he performs great signs so that he even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men Acts chapter 2 19 it's interesting Peter says I'll show in the last days wonders in the heaven above and signs in the earth beneath blood and fire and vapor of smoke you know I don't even have time to read this to you you might look at Ezekiel vision if you read in Ezekiel chapter 113 he talks about this wheel within the wheel and I've heard a lot of people say as UFO as UFO it is interesting but no I don't think it was a UFO I think he was taken and shown something unique and I'm looking forward to the day when that's described it talks about their wings and their army it's like the noise of an army as it flies and it is kind of a fascinating in enigma a conundrum about this wheel within a wheel our aliens watching us well some of them the angels are watching us you see our planet is sick Luke chapter 5 there are other unfallen worlds Luke 5 verse 31 jesus answered and said those who are well have no need of a physician but those who are sick I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance now think about the implications of what Jesus said how many people in this world have been infected by sin what percent 100 percent so when the Lord said it's not those who are well that need a physician but those who are sick I have come not to call the righteous he left the righteous but I've come to call the sick the well are still there you see this planet right now has a disease that is contagious and the only ones that can go to a hospital where there is a very contagious disease are the ones who are infected and the hospital staff you got that our planet now has been quarantined from the other unfallen galaxies because we're sick Jesus the Great Physician came into our infected environments to heal us but he left the uncontaminated unfallen world's safely where they were why does it matter why does it matter that there's life on other planets because the devil has maligned the character of God before the universe it's not just what's happening on on earth here it's accusations that have been made against God and his very government in his law that's why it tells us in Revelation chapter 19 verse 1 and 2 after these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven saying hallelujah by the way revelation 19 is before revelation 20 you knew that revelation 19 is before the Millenium chapter hallelujah salvation and glory and honor and power belong to the Lord our God for true and righteous are his judgments his judgment his justice was under attack and Christ has demonstrated here and who was the principle attacker Lucifer used to roam freely among the other angels in the unfallen world he maligned he accused he slandered God and here this world is a stage it's a theater of God's love and at the cross was demonstrated Satan's love for power and Christ's power of love and all the universe is aware of what's happening here and they're going to declare that he is true and righteous in his justice in his judgments you know it's wonderful soon Jesus will come is he coming alone does the Bible say that there is silence in heaven when he comes when we have been purified there's a parade coming of not only all of the Angels he says he will come with all of the Angels well who's going to take care of the unfallen world's if all the Angels are here you know every now and then we haven't done it in a while Sacramento will have an area church convocation and we want as many as possible to go to this convocation and so you know most churches close their doors and they say well if we're going to have everybody there will be no pastors left because they're all participating at the convocation if all of the angels are coming with Jesus and of God the Father is there would you if you're an unfallen alien from another world and you've heard about this and finally the great victory parade is going to collect the trophies why don't you want to go I think there's going to be in that procession not only angels but I think that he's bringing the unfallen worlds with him Wow think about how big spaces and how glorious that will be and then we'll be caught up to meet the Lord in the air will we need spacesuits made from NASA they better get busy right if that's the case I think that once we get our glorified bodies our spiritual bodies that you'll be able to travel the speed of thought there'll be an atmosphere around you that you can breathe that you'll have your your own light now you won't have to worry about being killed by the vacuum of space or the cold of space I don't know how God does it but the Angels do it don't they whatever it is they're wearing we'll have those the robes of light that he gives us and then he'll take us on this incredible procession I love this picture by my friend Alfred Lee he said that I could share that of Jesus bringing this parade of the Ransom back from Earth to heaven he's got the picture of the cross there in the background that I always thought was a moving picture now if you said to me Doug what's your job and I said I'm a king you say King King king of what country of the country of nebulus I just made that up who lives in that country nobody but I rain there I doesn't make any sense that's like saying you're politician but you've got no constituents or an author Yaman author how many books haven't written any yet any readers no haven't gotten any books but I'm an author so when a person says we're going to live and reign with Christ you reign over something just think of what a privilege that is he's going to take us the objects of His grace not only is going to save us reigning in heaven is not going to be the despotic mean kind of rule we are going to be going through the cosmos glorifying God as ambassadors of his love telling of his goodness because we've experienced it firsthand so we live in reign with him and there's these unfallen worlds let me read you a quote and this is from the book great controversy paid 677 all the treasures of the universe speaking of the redeemed will be open to the study of God saved unfettered by mortality they'll wing their tireless flight to world's afar world's as thrilled with sorrow at the spectacle of human woe and rang with songs of gladness at the tidings of a ransom soul so when we read in the Bible that there's singing in heaven over a soul that saved is it just angels or are there unfallen worlds that are singing they sang with joy at the tidings of a redeemed soul with unutterable delight the children of Earth enter into the joy and wisdom of unfallen beings they share the treasures of knowledge and understanding gained through ages upon ages and contemplation of God's handiwork can you imagine talking to an unfallen being that's lived a million years with undimmed vision they gaze upon the glory of creation sons and stars and systems all in their appointed order circling the throne of deity so I'm not making up this theology it's foundational to what we believe if you read in manuscript 155 in 1902 Christ came to reveal two worlds unfallen two angels into human race that God's law there is no restriction that we cannot obey that he came to represent God in humanity he met every requirement that we are asked to meet you know there's one more parable I'll close with that I think helps illustrate this you remember when Jesus said in the parable of the lost sheep Luke 15 verse 4 what man of you having a hundred sheep if he loses one of them he does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that was lost till he finds it and when he is founded he lays it on his shoulders rejoicing and when he comes home he calls together his friends and says rejoice with me for I have found my sheep that was lost I say to you likewise there's more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine just persons who need no repentance you know a place you can easily apply that parable all of the infinite universe that we just described none of those sheep fell the Lord laid aside his divinity as the chief shepherd he came he left them safe in their fold he came across the cosmos to this galaxy to this solar system to this planet in rebellion where Lucifer kidnapped the inhabitants Jesus came into this world and he paid an incredible sacrifice as the Lamb of God not only is he our Shepherd he's our lamb to rescue this world this lost sheep now when you think about how big spaces do you remember how small our planet is why does it matter it tells us about the love of God how easy would it have been for God in the scope of how big the universe is and how small our planet is so microscopic it's not even like an atom compared to the universe and when this planet reveled God could have looked around and said they're gone if he loved something that's small and he would lay aside his glory and become a human to live on this little speck to save us if you can find yourself on that speck how much does he care about the individual why that's a big sacrifice he left all that to save this wandering world and all of we like sheep have gone astray and he left the father's throne to save us how dare we when such a mighty God that made so much he's so awesome would come to save these little specks on a speck for us to tell him though or we're too busy it does matter it gives us a scope of how valuable you are to God he is our chief Shepherd I'd like to end where we started then I looked on II heard the voice of many angels around the throne the living creatures and the elders the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands saying with a loud voice worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing and every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea that means every creature everywhere I heard them saying blessing and honor and glory and power be to him who sits on the throne and the lamb forever and ever this world is that lost sheep and all of us have been wandering sheep the question is are you willing to come home with the Shepherd if you've missed any of our amazing facts programs visit our website at amazing facts org there you'll find an archive of all our television and radio programs including amazing facts presents one location so many possibilities amazing facts org
