Looking through the pages of the Bible we find many stories of superhuman visitors to earth whose dealings with mankind go back to the dawn of human history. We ought to know something about these beings in order to properly understand the universe in which we live. Millions of people want to know. Hence the current upsurge in unidentified flying objects. (UFOs) Are they ancient and modern manifestations of:
| Revelation 5: | 11: “And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands.”
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| Daniel 7: | 10: “A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.”
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| Matthew 26: | 53: “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?” |
Yes, there are many supernatural beings in the universe besides Yahweh and Satan. One may quite correctly say that they are numberless; and they have been visiting mankind for many thousands of years!
| Isaiah 37: 36: | 185,000 Syrian soldiers were slain by one of God's angels.
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| 2 Samuel 24: 15: | Some 70,000 Judeans were killed because of David's sin.
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| Revelation 7: 1: | Hold back the four (symbolic) winds from destroying earth. |
| Revelation 12: | 4: “And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth...”
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| Verses: | 7: “And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8: And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9: And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.” |
Here we are told that Satan, the symbolic ‘dragon’ led a third of the mighty angelic host in a revolution against the government of God. In other words multiplied millions of evil angels sided with Satan.
| Ezekiel 28: | 1: “The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, 2: “Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:...”
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| Verse: | 12: “Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.”
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| Verse: | 13: “Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.”
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| Verse: | 14: “Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.”
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| Verse: | 15: “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.”
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| Verse: | 16: “By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.”
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| Verse: | 17: “Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.”
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| Verse: | 18: “Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee.”
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| Verse: | 19: “All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more.” |
| Ephesians 6: | 12: “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. 13: Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”
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| James 4: | 7: “Resist the devil and he will flee from you.”
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| Revelation 12: | 11: “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.” |
| Matthew 4: | 11: “1: Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. 2: And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. 3: And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. 4: But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. 5: Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, 6: And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. 7: Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. 8: Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; 9: And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. 10: Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. 11: Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him.” |
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