The Biblical and Secular View of U.F.O. Phenomenon

By Richard Govier

Perhaps the greatest question fascinating our generation is the idea that there are other civilizations on other planets that are able to sustain life, even on a level higher than our own. The Bible says nothing about life on other planets. But the Bible is very explicit that extraterrestrial creatures do exist and are an integral part of the whole creation of the universe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Govier
• Release date: May 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463521625

Richard Govier

Richard O. Govier (1928-2018) was a Protestant pastor and missionary and travelled the world in that capacity. He planted a number of churches as well as training pastors who served in Brazil, Chile, Argentina and across the United States.After his marriage to his lifetime sweetheart, Christine Ann Golfis, at the Bethesda Missionary College in Portland, Oregon, he attended extension classes at Pierce College and the Portland State college. Touched by the Latter Rain revival that began in the Northwest, the call of God rested continually on their hearts and they were forever seeking means of preaching the Gospel to their generation. They bought a small trailer and began an evangelistic trek across the United States, preaching in small churches that were open to the work and moving of the Holy Spirit. They criss-crossed the United States from Los Angeles to New York and finally settled down in Los Angeles where they both got jobs and attended a church in Long Beach, California. While serving in that church their son, Jeffrey Lee, was born on November 4, 1963.God had spoken through prophetic words that they would be going to a land whose language they would not understand. Going through a dry period in their lives, Richard loaded up a small tent and made a trip to Mount Palomar, to wait on God. After a week of prayer and fasting, the Holy Spirit spoke to his heart that it was time to fulfill the call to a foreign land. Richard, Christine, and Jeff, set out for Brazil. They had no financial support for this until the night they boarded the ship. God sent a local Christian businessman who committed himself to their support for two years, just enough time to attend language school.It was while attending the Brazilian language school that a missionary visited and introduced Richard to one of Brazil's most notable guitar players, who had recently converted to Christianity. Richard played with him on the banjo and the two began a ministry together that took them to Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Richard taught pastors in afternoon meetings, while accompanying his Brazilian friend in large city-wide evangelistic campaigns in the evenings.After serving for ten years in South America, Richard and Christine returned to the United States, primarily to get Jeff into an English-speaking school. Richard pastored churches in York, Pennsylvania, and later in Brooksville, New Jersey. The family eventually moved to Florida where Richard went to work for Piper Aircraft and Page Avjet.Richard loved studying the word of God and, in his retirement years, wrote over thirty books about the unfolding revelations of God in human history. His son, Jeff, published these books one year after his father passed away.

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THE BIBLICAL AND SECULAR VIEW

OF UFO PHENOMENON

Richard O. Govier

Copyright © 2020 by Jeff Govier

Bible quotations unless otherwise identified are taken from

the King James Version with emendations by the author.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

The Biblical View Of The Good Angels

The Biblical View Of The Fallen Angels

The Two Views Of UFOs

Satan Cast Out Of Heaven

Is Satan Using A New Tactic To Deceive?

The Great Deception

About the Author

Introduction

Perhaps the greatest question facinating our generation is the idea that there are other civilizations on other planets that are able to sustain life, even on a level higher than our own. They assume this posture from reports of UFOs that have appeared in the upper atmosphere of our own planet. In the view of these commentators, this is proof that we are not alone in the universe. This raises challenges to those who believe in the integrity of Holy Scripture. If there are other civilizations other than our own, then what does that say about Man that is supposed to be created in the image of God? Or what does that say about Jesus who died for the inhabitants of this Earth? If there are other superior forms of life then why have they not made themselves known? Why do they supposedly keep appearing here and there without affecting our own civilization?

Is the whole thing a trick of Satan to get our attention on other worlds than our own? Satan, after all, is said to be the prince of the power of the air. There is nothing that Satan would like more than to get us doubting the Word of God that came down to us through holy prophets as they have appeared on this planet. Before we put too much credence in what is being fed to us on television, or thrown at us by incredulous scientists, let us first take a look at all of the facts as they are presented to us in the Bible, and by individuals who themselves claim to have encountered such alien beings. Were they aliens from outer space, or were they simply fallen angels that have been resident on planet Earth for thousands of years? In my opinion, it would be no harder to believe the biblical account of fallen angels than to believe in some form of alien life that has survived the rigors of space travel. They would certainly have to be eternal beings that are exempt from interstellar radiation. We might as well call them angels for which the Bible has a lot to say. But interestingly, those who do not believe in the God of the Bible would rather call them Extraterrestrials and link them to a materialistic universe without God.

It is my hope and prayer that this study will throw some light on the subject of UFOs without throwing out our Christian belief. This is what many New Age thinkers have done and have brought on unbelievable damage to themselves and to those around them. They have created for themselves an Orwellian vision of the coming age in which there is no hope. They have thrown out their only access to the God of the universe, for they have rejected the One who God has sent.

The Biblical View Of The Good Angels

The Bible says nothing about life on other planets.

But it does set forth a higher form of life than that of Man. Their existence is found throughout Holy Scripture. They are powerful beings any one of which could destroy an entire army if God so willed.

The idea of angels and demons are very prevalent throughout biblical history, and their substance seems to be more metaphysical than physical. They often appear to people in dreams and visions; yet, at other times they are able to materialize themselves usually in the form of man. They have even appeared as chariots of fire in the case of Elijah the prophet. The fact that most people have never seen angels when they are manifested does not make them less real. Neither do the manifestations of UFOs make them less real just because the majority of us have never seen them.

The Bible is very explicit that they do exist and are an integral part of the whole creation of the universe.

The View Of St. Augustine And The Origin Of Angels

The great theologian of the Catholic Church, St. Augustine of Hippo, taught that the angelic creation came into being even before that of the physical universe. He quotes from the Book of Job that says: When the stars were made, all my angels praised me with a loud voice (Job 38:7). In Augustine’s view, the angels already existed before the earth came into existence. In the Creation Week of Genesis chapter 1, he identifies the angelic creation with the creation of light (Genesis 1:3). Light being in this case spiritual light, or the light that the apostle John referred to in John 1: And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not (John 1:15). Augustine says