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A Study on
Abductions
Before we get started, I want to point out that this is
on what I call “fallen angels” and not on what I would call “demons”. I
make a distinction between the two, as I think there is a hierarchy of
evil spirits, and some are more powerful than others.
We see this in scripture:
Eph 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].”
Rom 8:38-39
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life,
nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.
Spirit beings of evil are divided up into
types. Some types of evil spirits are more powerful than others. I am
defining “demons” as the less powerful evil spirits that require gaining
influence or control over a person or animal in order to have any
physical presence. The evil spirits that Jesus and the disciples cast
out of people in New Testament are who I refer to as demons.
What about the demon level of the hierarchy of evil spirits?
I do think that demons can affect dreams, and it is this kind of “alien
abduction experience” that I would attribute as also possibly being
caused by evil spirits of the demon level, as well as fallen angels.
This is in cases where no physical aspects take place.
Demons also cause waking oppression. Some contactees and abductees while
awake do practice channeling of what they call “aliens”. This could also
be attributed to Demons. Finally, Demons, once they have a physical
influence or control over a person’s body, can cause seizures,
illnesses, ailments, and madness, as seen in the Bible. Some things
related to the “alien abduction” phenomenon may be attributable to
demons in this way.
However, besides these few things, there are many other parts of the
“alien abduction” experience that simply do not match the physicality
level or powers of demons. They would require a higher physicality and
power, as fallen angels have.
Dan 10:13
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood
me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came
to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
And I am defining “fallen angels” as being the more powerful evil
spirits that can have a physical presence that is not dependant on
inhabiting a person or animal’s body. These are more comparable in
abilities to Holy angels, or to Satan, having comparable abilities, and
of the same or a similar class as him.
Fallen angels are of the class referred to in Daniel as the “prince of
the kingdom of Persia”. We read that Gabriel could not overcome the
“Prince of Persia” by himself, but needed Michael’s assistance. So, in
Daniel that it is made clear that some spirits are more powerful than
others. The distinction having been made, this lecture is mainly on
fallen angels and not on demons.
We are going to take a look at the abilities demonstrated by angels in
the Bible.
It would make sense that the abilities of fallen angels would be the
same as the abilities of Holy angels. As such I’m going to be using
examples found in the Bible of both Holy angels and fallen angels, to
establish what the Bible says are the abilities of angels in general.
Angelic Apparitions
The first category of angelic encounters is “Mind Envelopments” or
"Mental Attacks".
Dan 10: 1-12
In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing
was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the
thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the
thing, and had understanding of the vision. In those days I Daniel was
mourning three full weeks. I ate no pleasant bread, neither came flesh
nor wine in my mouth, neither did I anoint myself at all, till three
whole weeks were fulfilled. And in the four and twentieth day of the
first month, as I was by the side of the great river, which is Hiddekel;
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed
in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: His body also
was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his
eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to
polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a
multitude. And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with
me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they
fled to hide themselves. Therefore I was left alone, and saw this great
vision, and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was
turned in me into corruption, and I retained no strength. Yet heard I
the voice of his words: and when I heard the voice of his words, then
was I in a deep sleep on my face, and my face toward the ground. And,
behold, an hand touched me, which set me upon my knees and upon the
palms of my hands. And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved,
understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto
thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood
trembling. Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first
day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten
thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy
words.
What can we observe from this passage?
Daniel calls what he experienced a “great vision” caused by an angel.
While having this “vision”:
It was real to the bodily senses: Daniel was in his body, he saw with
his eyes, he heard with his ears, he felt a hand touch his body, felt
being on his hands and knees and later standing up, he felt bodily
trembling,
The vision Daniel saw was overlaid on top of the reality everyone else
could see, but others could not see it.
What Daniel saw was unusual, and even impossible-seeming, such as a face
with the “appearance of lightning”. Also the voice of the singular being
he was seeing sounded like a multitude of voices.
Daniel was awake, and not dreaming, nor in a trance.
So Daniel’s body is still surrounded by objective reality, the river,
the landscape, the men fleeing from something they can’t see, but feel
emotionally. However Daniel’s mind is also seeing a vision from an angel
overlaid onto this objective reality, and this vision that he is
interactive with feels completely real to his bodily senses.
Another example is in Acts 10:9-17
On the morrow, as they went on their journey, and
drew nigh unto the city, Peter went up upon the housetop to pray about
the sixth hour: And he became very hungry, and would have eaten: but
while they made ready, he fell into a trance, And saw heaven opened, and
a certain vessel descending upon him, as it had been a great sheet knit
at the four corners, and let down to the earth: Wherein were all manner
of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and wild beasts, and creeping things,
and fowls of the air. And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill,
and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing
that is common or unclean. And the voice spake unto him again the second
time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common. This was done
thrice: and the vessel was received up again into heaven. Now while
Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean,
behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for
Simon's house, and stood before the gate,
Observations:
Peter had this “vision” in a “trance”, while awake, and not asleep, the
“trance” is not described as “dreaming”. It seems likely that those
preparing for lunch with Peter saw Peter in this trance state. However,
this trance state is not described as “dreaming”. Peter was awake, and
not asleep.
Peter observed being in his body, this is implied by him optionally
being able to “rise, kill, and eat”. Peter also is seeing with his eyes,
and hearing with his ears.
Peter, like Daniel, sees unusual or impossible-seeming things.
What Peter experienced during this trance the Bible calls a ‘vision’ (“horama”
Strong’s 3705). Earlier in Acts 10, Cornelius also receives a “horama”
vision, specified to be caused by an angel. Later, in Acts 12, Peter is
unsure whether or not he is having another vision, when an angel is
present. So there is really no doubt that ‘visions’, which communicate a
message, are Biblically associated as being caused by angels; Holy
angels who are God’s messengers. (The Greek word angelos means
“messenger”.)
The word here in Acts 10 for ‘trance’ is “ekstasis” (1611) in the
Strong’s the second definition is “a throwing of the mind out of its
normal state, alienation of mind, whether such as makes a lunatic or
that of a man who by some sudden emotion is transported as it were out
of himself, so that in this rapt condition, although he is awake, his
mind is drawn off from all surrounding objects and wholly fixed on
things divine that he sees nothing but the forms and images lying
within, and thinks that he perceives with his bodily eyes and ears
realities shown him by God.”
So, even the Strong’s Concordance defines this trance as an experience
in the mind, which is perceived with “bodily eyes and ears”, or in other
words is real to the bodily senses. In Peter’s case, he describes
perceiving hearing with his ears, seeing with his eyes, and speaking
with his mouth. This indicates he perceives himself as being in his
body, experiencing something which seems real to all the bodily senses.
However, it is implied that those around Peter perceive him as being in
a trance state.
Another kind of partial vision, as Daniel had, arguably and likely
caused by an angel happened to Paul and the men with him in Acts 9 and
is related again in Acts 22.
Acts 9:3-8
And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and
suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: And he fell
to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why
persecutest thou me? And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said,
I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against
the pricks. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou
have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city,
and it shall be told thee what thou must do. And the men which journeyed
with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. And Saul
arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but
they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.
Acts 22:6-11
And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey,
and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from
heaven a great light round about me. And I fell unto the ground, and
heard a voice saying unto me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And I
answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of
Nazareth, whom thou persecutest. And they that were with me saw indeed
the light, and were afraid; but they understood not the voice of him
that spake to me. And I said, What shall I do, LORD? And the Lord said
unto me, Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of
all things which are appointed for thee to do. And when I could not see
for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were
with me, I came into Damascus.
Observations:
Paul and the men saw the light, though no one saw the voice who was
speaking.
Paul saw the glory of the light, and was blinded, while the men with him
did not.
Paul heard and understood the voice that was speaking
The men heard the voice that was speaking, but did not understand it.
In this case the vision/mind envelopment was waking, and very partial
(in that sight and vision were affected but not other senses). What is
most interesting is that the experience was experienced in one way by
Paul, and in another, more limited, way by the men with him. This
implies that group waking mind envelopment visions are possible, in
which one person sees A but another person sees B.
Another kind of mind envelopment caused by angels is simply seeing the
angel in a dream, such as in the case of Joseph the husband of Mary,
surrogate father of Jesus Christ:
Matt 1:20 But while he thought on these things,
behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying,
Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for
that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Matt 2:13 And when
they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in
a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and
flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod
will seek the young child to destroy him.
This summarizes as:
First
Category of Angelic Encounters: Mind Envelopments
1. Visions – real to the bodily senses
a. Fully, or partially, overlaying objective reality,
b. fully awake, or a waking trance state
c. one person or multiple people
2. Dreams – not real to bodily senses, and happen while asleep
I categorize these kinds of angelic encounters as “mental attacks” or “mind
envelopments”, and also simply call them “visions”. They are real to the
bodily senses, but other people cannot see them.
Mind Envelopments can be full visions (as in Peter’s case) in which a
trance is involved, and objective reality is no longer seen but rather
only the landscape of the vision, which is real to the bodily senses.
Mind Envelopments can be partial visions (as in Daniel’s case), in which
the vision is overlaid onto objective reality, and both are perceived
with the bodily senses at the same time.
Mind envelopments can happen to one person alone, or to several people
at the same time.
Or a Mind Envelopment can be a dream, which is not real to the bodily
senses, and happens while asleep in a dream. This is not the same as a
waking vision, whether full or partial, whether in a trance state or
not, and dreams are not real to the bodily senses in the same way as a
waking or trance vision.
When it comes to the perception of time, in these cases the subjective
perception of the passing of time of Daniel and Peter seemed to match
the objective amount of time that had passed for other people around
them. However, this is arguably not always the case with angelic
encounters. (More on that later.)
The second category of angelic encounters is “Physical
Materializations” or "Physical Attacks".
Acts 12:5-12, 18-19
Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was
made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. And when Herod
would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between
two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door
kept the prison. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a
light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised
him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his
hands. And the angel said unto him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy
sandals. And so he did. And he saith unto him, Cast thy garment about
thee, and follow me. And he went out, and followed him; and wist not
that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a
vision. When they were past the first and the second ward, they came
unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of
his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and
forthwith the angel departed from him. And when Peter was come to
himself, he said, Now I know of a surety, that the LORD hath sent his
angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the
expectation of the people of the Jews. And when he had considered the
thing, he came to the house of Mary the mother of John, whose surname
was Mark; where many were gathered together praying. …. Now as soon as
it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers, what was become
of Peter. And when Herod had sought for him, and found him not, he
examined the keepers, and commanded that they should be put to death.
And he went down from Judaea to Caesarea, and there abode.
In this case an angel is sent to free Peter from Herod’s prison. At
first Peter thinks he is experiencing a vision, but soon realizes the
events have truly taken place. Peter had visions before, and his
confusion proves the point that visions are real to the bodily senses,
as real as objective reality, which is why Peter was not sure if what
was happening was a vision or not.
But the events did take place in objective reality, and the angel
materialized in a physical way, and caused lasting physical changes in
objective reality. Other people, such as the guards, Herod, and Peter’s
friends were all affected by these lasting physical changes to objective
reality.
Not only that, but the angel was able to defy physics in objective
reality, or seem to have supernatural powers, by doing things such as
causing a light to shine, chains to fall off, likely opening what was a
locked gate, and moving a very heavy door with apparently supernatural
strength, as well as appearing and disappearing seemingly out of
nowhere.
Another case is seen in Gen 19:
Gen 19:1-7, 10-13, 24-28
And there came two angels to Sodom at even; and
Lot sat in the gate of Sodom: and Lot seeing them rose up to meet them;
and he bowed himself with his face toward the ground; And he said,
Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant's house,
and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and
go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all
night. And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him,
and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake
unleavened bread, and they did eat. But before they lay down, the men of
the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and
young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and
said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring
them out unto us, that we may know them. And Lot went out at the door
unto them, and shut the door after him, And said, I pray you, brethren,
do not so wickedly….But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot
into the house to them, and shut to the door. And they smote the men
that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great:
so that they wearied themselves to find the door. And the men said unto
Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy
daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this
place: For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen
great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy
it…Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire
from the LORD out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the
plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon
the ground. But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt. And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place
where he stood before the LORD: And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah,
and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of
the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.
Some observations: All of the men of the city could see the angels, not
just Lot. The angels caused all the men who were harassing Lot to become
blind. The angels arguably turned Lot’s wife into a pillar of salt. The
angels also destroyed the city of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Abraham was
able to observe the smoke from the city’s destruction from far away.
Today some people say they have found the destroyed city, and no doubt
some evidence of this angelic event remains to this day, somewhere.
In the case of Sodom and Gomorrah the angels were seen by men and
interacted with them. However, angels can interact with objective
reality without being seen, as in the case of Job.
Job 1:12-19
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he
hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So
Satan went forth from the presence of the LORD.
And there was a day when his sons and his daughters were eating and
drinking wine in their eldest brother's house: And there came a
messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses
feeding beside them: And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away;
yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only
am escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came
also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath
burned up the sheep, and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am
escaped alone to tell thee. While he was yet speaking, there came also
another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the
camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the
edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee. While he
was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, Thy sons and thy
daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house:
And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the
four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are
dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.
In this case Satan inspired people to kill Job’s servants, caused a fire
from heaven to come down and kill his sheep and servants, and caused a
great wind to demolish a house on top of Job’s children, killing them
all. Though Satan was effectively invisible in all of these events,
nevertheless the events Satan caused occurred in objective reality with
multiple witnesses as to what had occurred.
Another subset of a Physical apparition of physical illness or injury
is seen in Acts and in Job:
Acts 12:21-23
And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal
apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them. And the
people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man.
And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God
the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and died.
In this case in Acts the angel was arguably visible, and caused physical
ailment that caused death to the body of a person.
Job 2:6-7
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, he is in
thine hand; but save his life. So went Satan forth from the presence of
the LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto
his crown.
In this case in Job, the angel, Satan, was invisible, but in objective
reality caused real and visible injury/disease to the body of a person.
Observations on Physical Attacks
1. Multiple witnesses of angels
2. multiple witnesses to lasting physical
effects, including illnesses
3. supernatural occurrences, that seem to
defy physics, in objective reality
4. Objective reality generally follows
normal physical laws, except for actions of angels
This summarizes as:
Physical Attacks
1. Lasting physical effects in objective reality with multiple witnesses
a. Visible
angels
b. Invisible angels
The third category of angelic encounters is “Combination Experiences”.
Let’s look at some scriptural examples for the third category of angelic
encounters. The first two scriptural examples say “he carried me away in
the spirit”.
Rev 17:3 So he carried me away in the spirit into
the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast,
full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 21:10 And he carried me away in the spirit to
a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy
Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,
The “he” that is referenced here is an angel of the Lord, a messenger of
Jesus Christ.
This is established in Rev 22:8-9
And I John saw these things, and heard [them]. And
when I had heard and seen, I fell down to worship before the feet of the
angel which shewed me these things. Then saith he unto me, See [thou do
it] not: for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets,
and of them which keep the sayings of this book: worship God.
So we know “he” is an angel of the Lord.
From these passages, we can see angels can “carry someone away in the
spirit”. These two passages say so specifically, however other passages
in scripture are a little more unclear in terminology as to whether the
“Spirit of the Lord” or an “angel of the Lord” is involved. But as we
know an angel was doing the “carrying away in the spirit” in the above
verses in Revelation, we can reasonably conclude that this angel was
also doing the things mentioned in other passages in Revelation. Such
as:
Rev 1:10-19
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard
behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, Saying, I am Alpha and Omega,
the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send
[it] unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto
Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto
Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea. And I turned to see the voice that
spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; And in
the midst of the seven candlesticks [one] like unto the Son of man,
clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a
golden girdle. His head and [his] hairs [were] white like wool, as white
as snow; and his eyes [were] as a flame of fire; And his feet like unto
fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound
of many waters. And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his
mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance [was] as the sun
shineth in his strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.
And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the
first and the last: I [am] he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I
am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the
things which shall be hereafter;
Altogether, the entire imagery John recorded in the book of Revelation
was caused by an angel of the Lord showing him these things. (Though I’m
not going to quote the entire book of Revelation here.) What John
experienced was real to all the bodily senses, even including taste, and
he was in his body.
Rev 4:2-3
After this I looked, and, behold, a door [was]
opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard [was] as it were of
a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew
thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the
spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and [one] sat on the
throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine
stone: and [there was] a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like
unto an emerald.
Rev 10:10
And I took the little book out of the angel's
hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon
as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.
Rev 10:4
And when the seven thunders had uttered their
voices, I was about to write: and I heard a voice from heaven saying
unto me, Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered, and
write them not.
Notable is that in Revelation John ate a scroll which was part of the
vision, tasted it, and it was “bitter to his stomach”. Also, John was
writing down what he saw and heard throughout his experience on a paper,
and this paper remained with him after the experience had ended. John
did not write down the experience after it had ended, but while it was
ongoing. Whether John was given the paper to write on and the writing
instrument during the vision, or if John carried these things into the
experience and out of the experience later, is unknown. But in either
case a different level of physicality is shown here than in mind
envelopments, or physical materializations.
Unlike the other two categories, John did not record that he had a
“vision”, nor was “in a trance”, the terms used to refer to “mind
envelopments”, nor was it an “Physical attack”. Instead, the
key phrases used are “carried away” and “in the spirit”.
Another angelic encounter in a passage with similar terminology is:
Luke 4:5
“And the devil, taking him up into an high
mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of
time.”
The Greek word here for ‘moment’ is “stigme” (4743) which literally
means a “point” of time. This word is used only once in the New
Testament, but is used in the Greek Old Testament, the Septuagint, in Is
29:5. The word that is translated as “stigme” is “petha`” (6621) in
Hebrew. According to Thayer’s Lexicon, “petha” means “the opening of the
eyes”, hence the meaning “a moment of time”.
The amount of time referenced to here, is the amount of time it takes to
open your eyes. This is no more than the time it would take to blink.
It takes humans 300 to 400 milliseconds, that is 3/10ths to 4/10ths of a
second, to blink.
How could Jesus see “all the kingdoms of the world” in the time it takes
to blink? It would seem that to be shown all the kingdoms of the world
should take at least a couple hours, if not days, if a thorough tour was
done. But even snapshot pictures in quick succession would take several
minutes, and this without any time to comprehend or think about what one
was seeing, the necessary amount of time is still incredibly more than
400 milliseconds.
Obviously another attribute of this kind of angelic encounter is time
perception manipulation of the person having the experience. This
passage implies that one second passed in time, but Jesus experienced
subjectively a much longer period of time during that one second.
Some observations about these passages:
Like other kinds of angelic encounters, the experience is physically
real to all the bodily senses, and the person is in their body.
The person is carried or taken “in the spirit”, implying they have been
“carried” or “taken” in some fashion of a spiritual nature.
The person is in a place of fantastically unrealistic scenery and/or a
place in which out of the ordinary or impossible-seeming things occur.
In John’s case, he is writing on a real scroll during the entire
experience, and the real scroll remains with him afterwards. So objects
taken into the experience can be altered and retained afterwards. This
also implies that objects obtained by a person during the experience
could remain afterwards, and/or that objects brought into the experience
could be lost.
In John’s case he eats a scroll that is part of the encounter, and his
stomach is upset by it, as such the experience can physically go inside
the human body and have internal effects.
Time perception manipulation of the person having the experience.
I categorize these types of angelic encounters as “Combination”. There are two reasons for doing so.
The first is the different terminology the Bible uses.
The second is there seems to be more physicality in these cases than in
“Mind envelopment visions” and less physicality than in “Physical
attacks”.
Mental Attacks
1. Visions –
real to the bodily senses
a. Fully, or partially, overlaying objective reality,
b. fully awake, or a waking trance state
c. one person or multiple people
2. Dreams –
not real to bodily senses, and happen while asleep
Physical Attacks
Lasting physical effects in objective reality with multiple witnesses
1. Visible
angels
2. Invisible
angels
Combination Attacks
1. Normal or
Manipulated perception of time
2. objects
carried in/taken with, or not
So, according to the Bible, the three categories of fallen angel attacks
are: Mental Attacks in visions or dreams, Physical
Attacks, and Combination Attacks
I have tried to organize Fallen Angelic Apparitions into categories that
are as well defined as possible, so as to be easier to understand.
However, there are limitations on the accuracy of these categories.
The main problem is that angels have such expansive powers that it is
possible to combine these categories, or have overlap between them. For
instance, it may be possible to have multiple people experience a
Combination attack at the same time. Also, if a person is alone, it is very
difficult to discern a Combination attack from a Mental Attack.
Additionally, it would make sense that a manipulated perception of time
could occur in a Mental Attack, as well as a Combination experience. It can
be confusing to categorize exactly what happened, especially between the
Mental Attack and Combination Attack categories.
I believe the Bible speaks on this difficulty, with firm guidance on how
we should view this difficulty in 2 Cor 12:2-4:
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago,
(whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I
cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I
cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and
heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
Here Paul expresses he doesn’t know whether the man was “caught up”
inside his body (a Mind Envelopment) or outside of his body (a
Combination
experience (or possibly real travel)). However, God knows, and we really
don’t need to know which it was, it’s not that important. The Bible
essentially tells us that it may be impossible for us to figure out, so
there’s no need to dwell on it.
So, ultimately the abilities and attacks of fallen angels that people
experience are like the parable of the blind men and the elephant.
The first held its trunk, and said, “Its like a snake.” The second
leaned against its belly and said “its like a wall” and the third held
its tail and said, “its like a rope”. In truth, the elephant was like
all of those things, and a lot more.
In truth, fallen angels have expansive
powers, and that is the bottom line. One person would say its like a
vision, another would say its a Combination-like experience, and in another
case we would say it was completely real… but they are all real
experiences, and like the elephant, fallen angels have expansive powers
which we cannot understand, which are not limited by our individual
perceptions of them.
Next I am going to compare modern alien abduction accounts to the
Biblically based categories of Fallen angelic apparitions. Please keep
in the mind the overlap between the categories as I pointed out with the
Blind Men and the Elephant analogy.
What is experienced in “alien abduction” accounts?
Abductees report in their experiences that in some cases the experience
feels completely real to the bodily senses, sight, hearing, touch,
taste, smell, and time perception. Abductees can be adamant that some of
these experiences were Not dreams, but occurred in a waking state.
Here are some common events in abductee accounts:
Common events in abductee accounts:
Seeing aliens of a wide variety of types
Walking through walls (themselves or seeing aliens do so)
Defying gravity (flying or floating themselves, or seeing
aliens/spacecraft do so)
Travel to outerspace, other planets, other galaxies, with no suit or
spacecraft,
Travel to outerspace in spacecraft
Impossible scenarios, like breathing underwater or in viscous liquid,
without drowning
Not breathing for a half hour or more in air, without suffocating or
dying
Electromagnetic disturbances, electronic malfunctions
Alice in wonderland sorts of landscapes
Aliens’ bodies shapeshifting into new forms
Injuries that only last until the end of the experience,
Injuries that remain after the experience, sometimes mostly healed and
leaving scars
Strange or rare illnesses
Medical-like examinations and procedures including needles and drills
Time perception disturbances and manipulation, time loss, time gain
Sexual molestation, assault and rape
Miscarriages and false pregnancies with supernatural aspects
Physical pain and torture
Partial or complete paralysis during experience
As you can see, these experiences are often highly confusing, painful,
and violating.
The first category we are going to cover is the Mental Attack category.
The case of "Robert" summarized from CE4
Research Group’s case files:
The case of "Robert" summarized from CE4 Research Group’s case files:
On a Mon, Joe and Robert had a conversation. Robert said he had been
having abduction experiences with colorful light beings for a year. Each
being was a different color, and looked much like the light-people in
the movie Cocoon. He described that it felt real to his bodily senses,
and he seemed in his body, however he did not need to breathe during his
experiences.
Later that week, on Thursday, Robert was in a car with his girlfriend.
Robert slumped over like he passed out unconscious while in the car, and
his girlfriend was with him. Robert experienced a long period of
conscious time during what he later recounted as being like a vision
with the beings. He felt he seemed to have gone somewhere else. However,
to Robert’s girlfriend, he was in a trance state that only lasted a
minute or so. But he experienced several hours’ worth of experiences,
during the minute he was passed out. As his girlfriend was there with
him, she saw he did not go anywhere, his body did not leave. Just in
that week, since first talking to Joe, the experiences had turned very
bad, and the light-beings were being very nasty to him, and Robert
wanted the experiences to stop. Robert could somehow feel that an
experience was about to happen, before it happened, precipitating the
entities attacks on him. Telling his girlfriend beforehand, Robert had a
second experience the same evening.
-Joe Jordan, CE4Research, Unholy Communion: The Unwanted Piece of the
UFO Puzzle
www.ce4research.com
Robert said he had been having abduction experiences with colorful light
beings much like the light-people in the movie Cocoon. He described that
it felt real to his bodily senses, and he seemed in his body, however he
did not need to breathe during his experiences.
Robert had 2 experiences while seeming to pass out in a trance, which
seemed to last hours for him, but his girlfriend said he was only in
this state for a few minutes.
(Robert Continued)
Afterwards, Robert called Joe, telling him what had been happening to
him that day. While on the phone, Robert could feel another attack
coming on. This was the third experience that day, and Bob was again in
a trance state, for a couple of minutes. His girlfriend, present, saw
this, and talked to Joe on the phone while this was ongoing. When
Robert’s experience ended, he got back on the phone and related to Joe
that the beings who were attacking Robert told Robert that they were
pissed at Joe, because he understood what was happening to Robert.
The next morning Joe and a Christian co-worker went to Robert’s house
and met with him and his girlfriend. While there, Robert felt another
attack coming on, but before he was forced into a trance again, they
rebuked the entities in the name and authority of Jesus Christ, and
Robert said he could feel the entities disappear.
-Joe Jordan, CE4Research, Unholy Communion: The Unwanted Piece of the
UFO Puzzle
www.ce4research.com
Joe Jordan and a Christian co-worker went to Robert’s house While there,
Robert felt another attack coming on, but before he was forced into a
trance again, they rebuked the entities in the name and authority of
Jesus Christ, and Robert said he could feel the entities disappear,
stopping the attack.
As I mentioned earlier, time manipulation seems to occur in the Bible
during what I categorize as Combination experiences, but there is much
overlap in the categories of angelic apparitions. Recall the blind men
and the elephant. In this case, the experience was obviously a Mental
Attack,
and not a Combination attack, because although Robert experienced time
manipulation and the experiences were real to his bodily senses, at the
same time during his experiences he did not breathe for impossibly long
periods of time (that is, his subjective time).
So although the Biblical precedent set for time manipulation is
categorized in Combination attacks, from modern-day experiences of fallen
angelic attacks, it is clear that time perception manipulation also
occurs during Mental Attack visions. That includes all types of Mental
Attacks,
waking, full or partial overlaying of objective reality, and whether
they happen to one person or multiple people.
The case of Robert was of a Mental Attack which was real to the bodily
senses, fully overlaid objective reality, happened in a waking trance
state, to one person. There was a witness with the person that saw the
person go into a trance state. This case also involved time perception
manipulation.
This next case from an “alien abductee” is from “Taken: Inside the
Alien-Human Abduction Agenda” by the late Dr. Karla Turner PhD.
“Lisa had some conscious memories of encounters with the typical
Grays, as well as missing-time episodes, multiple-witnessed UFO
sightings, unexplained body marks, telepathic communications from unseen
sources, and many dream-memories of ambiguous reality - except in those
instances where other evidence pointed to an actual event. While the
details of Lisa's life-long involvement are certainly very typical, the
alien intrusions are clearly more intense and frequent than in many such
cases…
In 1980, however, Lisa did see something very different from the
shadows, in a terrifying event. "A being appeared to me," she recalled,
"when I was a couple of weeks pregnant. We had just got into bed and
Neal already seemed 'out of it,' and the being appeared on the end of
the bed, squatting, telling me mentally the child I was carrying was
special and it would be a boy. I almost had a fainting spell. I threw
the covers over my head as the being was leaping toward me, I believe,
and said, 'In Jesus' name, take it away!' It disappeared, and I fell
quickly asleep. It was about three feet tall, dark-skinned, leathery
looking. I don't remember anything else."
-Karla Turner PhD, Taken: Insides the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda, Pg.
36-37
I would categorize this case as a Mental Attack, partially overlaying
objective reality, in a waking state, and happening to one person.
Rebuked in Jesus’ name the Mental Attack vision ended, and the being
disappeared.
Transcribed from the Cursed Net internet radio show, the next case
describes multiple witnesses seeing a UFO over a populated area.
“Byron: That beings me to the question
of when did you first see a UFO? And how did it affect you?
Kathy: The first ufo I saw I was probably in my very early 20s, there
were three other people with me and we all saw it, only one of them
remembers seeing it, and none of us remember what we did the rest of the
day…
Byron: How could you forget such a strange instance, and its also
puzzling to me how you could not remember what you did for the rest of
the day, after an event like that, could that indicate this expression
called “missing time”, may have taken place right at that time?
Kathy: That’s what I’m taking for granted now… I mean we had a long
drive home, a couple of hours from where we were at the time, and none
of us remember, we don’t even remember that weekend, I mean the next few
days we all went, “What did we do Saturday? I don’t remember.” You know,
but it gets fuzzier and fuzzier as the years go on…
Byron: What did it look like?
Kathy: It was huge, we were on a street with houses on both sides that
backed up to a beach, and we were walking to our vehicles, and it came
over us, and the reason I think we looked up is because it got dark, it
was like the sun went away, and you could see the bottom of a … the
starship enterprise, it was like mechanical looking stuff on the bottom,
but you couldn’t see the beginning or the end of it, you could see it
went past the houses on that side of the street, it went past the houses
on [the other] that side of the street, as far as you could see in both
directions, up and down, its like we were seeing just a teeny piece of
the bottom of a huge spaceship… And there was virtually no sound either,
that’s something one of the other people who was with me said about it,
because I remember us saying that “Its not making any sound at all”
while we were looking up.”
-Byron LeBeau, Richard Stout and Greg Messina, www.thecursednet.com,
www.blogtalkradio.com/cursednet
with guest Kathy Land (1/5/09)
Happening in a populated area, in which a huge sun-blocking UFO would be
noticed by the residents and local police, and news, this event seems
more likely to be a Mental Attack vision than a Physical Attack.
This waking vision seemed to only partially overlay objective reality,
in that the UFO was seen but not heard to make any sound at all, while
hovering over the neighborhood. But there were multiple witnesses which
viewed the vision. Missing time was noted by all involved. Missing time
is describable as a type of time perception manipulation.
Once an abductee, Kathy is now a former abductee whose experiences have
been terminated from happening in her life, by the name and authority of
Jesus Christ.
“Arriving at the nominated spot, all 3 people then sat in Maureen’s
car. She saw the same “man” had appeared just outside the vehicle.
Neither of the other 2, Judith Magee or Paul Norman, could see anything
unusual present. Maureen says that the “man” was beckoning her to join
him outside the vehicle. She refused to get out of the car.
Suddenly, according to the others present, Maureen “fainted”. She began
a verbal description to them whilst she was in this apparent state of
unconsciousness. She related she was in a round room somewhere, which
was lit, but there was no visible source of illumination. This scene was
indistinguishable from the consensus reality that we call “real life”.
The “man” just appeared in the room, in which there was also a mushroom
shaped object rising up from the floor. This was stemmed, with a broad
domed top. There appeared to be an inner hemisphere, wobbling around,
and it was covered with what looked to be hieroglyphics on it. The “man”
told her to describe what she could see, and this she did, to be heard
by the 2 in the car. She could see no doors, or windows in this room,
and so began to be scared. She started to cry, then woke, still in the
car, with tears in her eyes, saying she could not remember anything that
had just occurred. The 2 in the car filled her in on what had
transpired.”
-Keith Basterfield, “Maureen Puddy: An Australian Abductee Physically
Present During An Abduction”, 1992, As presented at the 1992 Abduction
Study Conference at M.I.T
Two different types of Mental Attack visions are represented here. The first,
like that of Kathy, was a partial overlaying onto objective reality in a
waking state. However, unlike Kathy’s case in which all the people saw
the UFO, in this case only Maureen saw the entity outside the car, while
two people with her did not see it. I would like to point out the same
pattern occurs with “ghost encounters” in which someone with supposedly
“special sight or powers” can see the ghosts but others with them
cannot. This pattern also fits some examples of experiences which are
termed “schizophrenic hallucinations”.
The second type of Mental Attack seen here is a full overlaying of objective
reality, in a trance state. This is very similar to the case of Robert.
The experiences were real to the bodily senses for Maureen, and she
seemed to be somewhere else. A difference is that in this case the woman
was speaking to people with her while in the trance state. In her case
the passage of time seemed normal. Although she perceived herself in her
body in another location in a way that felt real to all of her bodily
senses, she never left the car and the two people with her, and even
spoke out loud during this experience.
“The Mars Records” and “The Mars Records 2” detail probably the most
extreme case of time perception manipulation I have read about in a
Mental Attack, which lasted for a subjective period of 20 years. The entirety
of the books by Stephanie Relfe, is about the experiences of Michael,
with many details.
To summarize, Michael was a childhood abductee, who in the 70s enlisted
in the US military. In 1976 Michael had a very unusual experience. He
remembered enlisting in a special military program. He then experienced
traveling through a “portal” to Mars. On Mars, he experienced what
seemed to be 20 years of time, which he spent on Mars, and afterwards he
perceived his body was made younger and he perceived he traveled back
through the “portal” to 1976. Then he was back on Earth, and the time
was about a week after he remembers leaving to Mars. During those
perceived 20 years he remembers being stationed on the planet Mars on a
US military base, working in a Top Secret military operation. He
remembers having a wife on Mars, who died on Mars. There were many
aliens throughout his experiences, Grays and Reptilians, as well as a
Martian population of millions of human people.
In several incidents in the books, the fallen angels include in the
Mental Attack vision a piece of technology, a “portal”, which is
portrayed as a time travel machine. As seen in other cases, time can
seem to be gained subjectively during abductions, in time perception
manipulation. However, as seen in the case of Robert mentioned earlier,
while he experienced hours during a minute, his body did not actually go
anywhere. This is known as a witness remained with his body for those
objective minutes during his subjectively hours-long experiences. As
such, actual physical time travel did not take place in either of these
cases, but rather the Mental Attack enabled subjective time perception
manipulation.
I would describe this 20-year experience of Michael as a Mental Attack, of
extreme duration. Other experiences in the book would fall into the
Combination or Physical categories of fallen angelic
apparitions.
It is important to note that sometimes fallen angels do cause abductees
to see “humans” during the apparition; however these are not real
humans, but instead are part of the vision caused by the fallen angel
(this is excepting cases of a group of people attacked together by
fallen angels.) In many cases in which fallen angels cause visions of
humans, the humans are military personnel, and advanced technology
appears to be present, these kinds of abductions are called “Mil-abs”
for “military abductions”. Except in rare cases of actual government
investigation of abductions and interviews with abductees, these Mi-labs
are caused by fallen angels, and are just one variety of abduction
experiences. The entire experience, like other Mental Attack visions, is a
vision, including the military personnel and advanced technology the
person sees.
Remember, these experiences are real to the bodily senses, and the
perception of time passage seems normal to the abductee during the
experience. Fallen angels sometimes do display technology in a Mental
Attack vision, technology which seems to do time travel, which adds a
new layer of confusion for the abductee. Fallen angels have expansive
supernatural abilities, which they were originally created with by God,
and the technology seen is just part of the Mental Attack vision, which is a
deception.
About 2 years after this 20-year Mental Attack vision of Mars, in the late
1970s, Michael became a Christian. In the book he gives God and the Lord
Jesus Christ credit for his deliverance from the enemy.
“This book is dedicated to God and the Lord Jesus Christ, for without
them this book would never have been written… I want to thank the LORD
JESUS CHRIST, my saviour for His mercy and blessings and for removing me
from the hands of the enemy. It is only by His love and grace that I am
on the road to recovery from the effects of mind control and
manipulation.”
“I also know that the enemy cannot do anything to me unless God allows
it and that God has given me weapons to fight back (see the section on
deliverance). I will use those weapons without hesitation.”
”I believe that only God has the answer for what is happening to the
world at this times and that spiritual warfare is a vital part of His
ministry for these end times. It is clear that spiritual warfare and
deliverance is the only thing that has not been used against these
projects and that God’s weapons are superior to the weapons of the
enemy.”
-The Mars Records, www.metatech.org, Pgs. Dedication, Thank You, 262
According to www.metatech.org, Michael and Stephanie Relfe, both
abductees, have been completely free from abductions for over 7 years
now, they say this is from using spiritual warfare and deliverance
methods, and through the name and authority of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In reference to being set free from abductions, Michael writes in The
Mars Records 2, pg. 205: “You can do the exact same things as I have
if you have a personal relationship with The Lord Jesus Christ and if
you have faith and follow the warfare prayers in this document. Prayer
does not rely on metaphysical abilities or training. I myself do
NOTHING. God performs the miracles.”
So far we have covered a variety of Mental Attack visions, but the next
case of Howard, from CE4 Research Group, is one of Mental Attack dreams.
“…I was not a Christian at this time either. The next experiences I
had with the Greys was several years after that when they decided to
‘contact’ me personally. I remember having a strange dream about them;
it wasn’t anything bad but just strange, strange enough for me to
remember it. I remember laughing about it to someone I knew. The very
next night was absolutely terrifying and it left me in no doubt that I
was under attack. In my dream I was running away from a UFO and it kept
swooping down and buzzing me with its energy. Its energy was one of
indescribable terror and malevolence. Anyway the next day I was quite
alarmed because I knew these weren’t just dreams and that I was dealing
with something quite evil and dangerous. Things got worse and worse
because they kept at me every night. It got to the point where I became
too afraid to go to sleep because I knew they were waiting for me.
Have you ever seen the film nightmare on Elm Street? Well I was living
that. I do remember in my dreams that i used violence on them, but this
did not harm them not even in the slightest. To be honest with you, I
think they quite enjoyed it; it was like a game for them. I was
getting extremely desperate; I couldn’t work or think because I was too
afraid to sleep so I was tired all the time.”
-CE4 Research Group, the Testimony of Howard, www.alienresistance.org/ce4testimonies.htm
This case described UFOs and “gray aliens” appearing in nightmares,
which were so terrible they were causing him to be afraid to go to
sleep. He later describes turning to the Bible for answers, and soon
being set free from having these dreams which were destroying his life.
He credits Jesus Christ and God with having freed him from these dreams.
Physical Attack:
I am only going to be including one case example of a Physical Attack type of fallen angelic apparition, which is the Malmstrom UFO Incident. I think many
Physical Attacks do take
place today. Many of these could arguably be found on TV shows such as
“Ghost Hunters” and similar paranormal shows, which record “voices of
ghosts”, and things like that. Also, there are supposedly many real
photos or videos of orbs, ghosts, and even UFOs and aliens on the
internet.
There are additionally many declassified military reports, documenting
military encounters with UFOs. I hope these have a level of credibility
that is acceptable. I only am personally aware of one such documented
military reporting that fits the supernatural requirements to clearly
show it was a Physical Attack of fallen angels. This is due
to a supernaturally caused electronic malfunction that is otherwise
unexplainable.
March 16, 1967
“Early in the morning on the sixteenth, at Malmstrom AFB in Montana, one
of the most extraordinary events in the history of military-UFO
encounters took place. Under a clear and dark Montana sky, an airman
with the Oscar Flight Launch Control Center (LCC) saw a starlike object
zigzagging high above him. Soon, a larger and closer light also appeared
and acted in similar fashion. He called his NCO, and the two men watched
in awe as the lights streaked through the sky, maneuvering in impossible
ways. The NCO phoned his commander, Robert Salas, who was below ground
in the launch control center. Salas was dubious. “Great,” he said. “You
just keep watching them and let me know if they get any closer.”
A few minutes later, the NCO called Salas again. As Salas later wrote,
this time he was clearly frightened and shouted that a red, glowing UFO
was hovering outside the front gate. “What do you want us to do?” asked
the NCO. Salas told him to make sure the site was secure while he phoned
the command post. “Sir,” replied the NCO, “I have to go now, one of the
guys just got injured.” Before Salas could ask about the injury, the NCO
was off the line. The man, who was not seriously injured, was evacuated
by helicopter to the base. Meanwhile, Salas woke his commander, Lt. Fred
Meiwald. As he briefed Meiwald, an alarm rang through the small capsule,
and both men saw a “No-Go” light turn on for one of the missiles. Within
seconds, several more missiles went down in succession.
Twenty miles away, at the Echo-Flight launch facilities, the same
scenario was taking place. First Lt. Walter Figel, the deputy crew
commander of the Missile Combat Crew, was at his station when one of the
Minuteman missiles went into “No-Go” status. He immediately called the
missile site to determine the cause of the problem. Was it because of
the scheduled missile maintenance, he asked the security guard? No, came
the response, as the maintenance had not yet taken place. However,
continued the guard, a UFO had been hovering over the site. Like Salas,
Figel doubted the story. Before he had any time to reflect on this,
however, ten more ICBMs in rapid succession reported a “No-Go”
condition. Within seconds, the entire flight was down.
Strike teams were dispatched to two of the E-flight launch facilities,
where maintenance crews were already at work. Figel had not told the
strike teams about the UFO report. Upon their arrival, however, the
teams reported back to him that all of the maintenance and security
personnel had been watching UFOs hover over each of the sites.
The missiles were down for the greater part of a day. The air force
investigation included full-scale tests on-site, as well as laboratory
tests at the Boeing Company’s Seattle plant. No cause for the shutdown
could be found. The Boeing engineering chief said, “there was no
technical explanation that could explain the event.”
-Richard M. Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State, Pgs. 322-323
In the Malmstrom UFO incident, UFOs are associated with the supernatural
electronic malfunction of at least 15 nuclear ICBMs. Scientists and
engineers examined what had happened, and concluded “there was no
technical explanation that could explain the event”. As such I would say
these UFOs were caused by a fallen angel objectively materializing, in
the form of a UFO, and causing supernaturally caused electronic
malfunctions to several nuclear missiles in the immediate vicinity.
The next category of Fallen Angelic Apparitions is the Combination Attack.
Recall that there seems to be more physicality in these cases than in
Mental Attacks and less physicality than in Physical Attacks.
The Valdes Case
“On April 25, 1977, Valdés, along with five members of an army patrol,
saw two bright objects descending from the sky. Valdés set out alone to
investigate and, according to the men, simply vanished. Fifteen minutes
later, they said, he reappeared, tried to speak and passed out. The date
on his watch had been advanced five days, and he had about a week's
growth of beard.”
-Cate Setterfield, Armed Forces Reveal UFO Presence in Chile, The
Valparaiso Times 2/11/07
“The corporal moved toward the object. He disappeared for some 15
minutes. When he reappeared, he was shaking and his voice seemed
different. The light had been illuminating the whole area…He then became
unconscious and was attended by his fellow men till he awoke some two
hours later. The UFO also disappeared about this time. While the
unconscious Corporal Valdes was assisted by his patrol, his men made
another strange observation. They saw that Valdes had a beard growth
equivalent to several days without shaving. He had been well shaven
before the incident. As Valdes awoke he exclaimed, "I don't remember
anything from the moment I left you." He then ordered, "Get ready to
leave because it's 4:30 in the morning. It was actually about 7 AM. His
calendar watch had stopped at 4:30 but the date was five days advanced -
to the 30th instead of the 25th.”
-Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), 1977
Much like the Biblical account of Jesus tempted by Satan seen in Luke 4,
in which Jesus experienced a far longer period of time in less than a
second, the Valdes case shows time perception manipulation. In
principle, this is the same thing.
In the Valdes case, the time manipulation seems very physical instead of
perceptual, because his watch was moved ahead by 5 days, and he had 5
days growth of a beard, after only 15 minutes of time passing in
objective reality. It also seems very physical because he disappeared
for 15 minutes and his men could not see him. As such, this case is more
physical than a Mental Attack, but less physical than a Physical Attack.
One way to look at this is that, like the boils of Job described in
Biblical Physical Attacks, a fallen angel might have been able
to supernaturally cause rapid hair growth, and also alter Valdes’ watch.
The men might have been blocked with a group Mental Attack, from being able
to see Valdes, even if he was nearby within normal sight distance.
Another possibility is that Valdes’ body did gain some passage of time,
though there is nothing here to indicate the science fiction concept of
“time travel”. Nothing in this case shows that Valdes traveled backwards
in time, or that he necessarily traveled forward in time more than
anyone else did (that being 15 minutes). Valdes’ experiences during the
abduction are unknown, but even if he did subjectively experience 5 days
worth of time in 15 minutes, as clearly seen in Mental Attack cases,
this would be a Mental Attack of time perception manipulation.
The next case of Anita is a good overview of physical injuries that many
abductees have after this type of fallen angelic attack:
“Anita has been consciously aware of UFO activity since childhood,
and her brothers and sisters have also had recurrent UFO events
throughout their lives. So, perhaps, may have some of Anita's children
and grandchildren…
So are the various marks and injuries she has discovered on her body.
"Lots of mornings," Anita said, "I have gotten up feeling like someone
beat me up in my sleep." This is another common abductee report, waking
up with sore, damaged-feeling muscles and joints. "I have waked up with
bruises on my arms, shoulders, and legs," she continued, "with no idea
where they came from. I have found scratches that I could not remember
having gotten the day before."
The evidence for vigorous physical activity during the night, although
unremembered, comes from more than just Anita's sore or scarred body,
however. In one incident, she woke up in the morning and felt an
unfamiliar pain in her right hand. "I sat up in bed," she explained,
"and found that sometime during the night my ring had been squashed on
my finger." She managed with effort to remove the ring, but neither her
husband nor a jeweler could completely restore its original shape.
On another occasion, Anita got out of bed one morning and found the
crucifix from her necklace lying on the floor. "It had been on my neck
the night before," she said, "and the chain was still on [me]. But the
only way to remove the crucifix is to remove the necklace and take it
off the chain."
She has also awakened several mornings to discover that something had
happened to her clothing, a report frequently echoed by other abductees.
In one instance, she woke up with her nightie on backward, although she
was certain she had not taken it off, turned it around, and put it back
on. And on a different occasion she found that the nightie was not only
backward but had also been turned inside-out. In the night during one of
these events, she had an altered-state experience in which she recalled
a group of Tan aliens observing her as she was "free-falling," an event
which did not feel unduly upsetting for some reason…. Anita had quite a
severe reaction to another similar event, however, venting much more
emotion than the situation seemed to call for. It was in the winter,
during the Christmas holidays one night, and she had worn socks to bed
for extra warmth. When she woke up the next day and found that one of
her socks was missing,…Anita was also physically upset that morning,
suffering from a violent headache and nausea which caused her to vomit,
yet there was no illness to account for the symptoms. Still, she might
not have been overly concerned about the vanished sock and her physical
problems, if her young granddaughter hadn't made a disturbing
comment…The seven-year-old child told her grandmother that some "mean
men" had come in and taken her away during the night. When Anita asked
her to describe the "mean men," the little girl called them "the
mushroom men."
"What are the mushroom men?" Anita asked, and her granddaughter then
found the book MISSING TIME by Budd Hopkins and pointed to the drawing
on the cover.
…The girl said the creatures were about a foot tall, gray-skinned and
had four fingers rather than five-a detail not apparent in the cover
picture. There were quite a few of these entities present, she said.
Anita remembered nothing strange that night herself, but the physical
symptoms, the missing sock, and her granddaughter's story were
indicative enough of an intrusive incident to be of great concern.”
-Karla Turner PhD, Taken: Insides the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda, Pgs.
46, 50-51
Like a Physical Attack, there were physical aftereffects that
remained and were seen by others, such as her bent ring.
The case of Anita is a good overview of physical injuries that many
abductees have after this type of fallen angelic attack. In this case
there was another person involved, her 7 year old granddaughter that saw
part of the experience, like in Mental Attacks this was a case of a vision
seen by multiple people. It is important to note that innocent children
can be attacked by fallen angels as this is a type of generational
curse.
Another case from Karla Turner’s book Taken is of a child:
"When I was seven or eight years old,"
Beth related, "my father gave us permission, my sister and me, to go
outside and play with the other children, who were playing
hide-and-seek. It was close to six in the evening. I remember that I
went to hide between some bushes, and then I heard a sound, somebody
else. And as I turned, I saw what I thought at that moment was one of
the other kids.
"The next thing I know," she continued, "it was dark, and I was very
surprised. When I got home, my father was very mad at me and my mother
was very upset. My father told me that they had been calling me and
looking for me for hours. But I couldn't understand it," she said. "The
place where I was hiding was less than a hundred feet from the front of
the house. I was hiding there, and it was daylight, and then the next
thing I know it was dark-and I was scared.
"Recently I had another memory about that," she added. "That kid I
thought was there, he was an alien, one of the Grays. He took me to a
ship, but I don't remember what happened after that."
-Karla Turner PhD, Taken: Insides the Alien-Human Abduction Agenda, Pg.
56
I think the most efficient way to explain this case is that first the
child Beth had a partial Mental Attack overlay vision of an “alien”
approaching her. Then she was effectively hid from her parents by fallen
angels; likely by a partial Mental Attack overlay vision on her parents
that kept them from seeing their daughter. While this was going on, the
child Beth experienced a full overlay Mental Attack vision of being with Grays on a
ship. In many ways, a combination of various forms of Mental Attacks would
suffice to explain this experience, but because of the seeming
physicality of Beth’s disappearance, in that it was noticed by others,
there is a seemingly more physical aspect to this fallen angel attack,
like a Physical Attack. Yet it cannot be categorized as a Physical
Attack because her “abduction” experience was still
highly subjective and not seen by others. So this case is a Combination
experience, being more physical than a Mental Attack, and less physical than
a Physical Attack.
This case is somewhat reminiscent of the abduction case of Travis
Walton, who was missing for 5 days, and remembered only 2 hours. I do
feel that the explanation for the case of Beth is also an adequate
explanation for the Walton case. The main difference is that he was made
unconscious for the majority of the 5 days.
All of the categories of angelic apparitions would be called
supernatural events.
There are some words in the Bible to describe the “supernatural”
activities of God, Holy angels, and fallen angels.
Greek - signs “semeion” (4592), wonders “teras” (5059), and miracles
“dynamis” (1411).
These same 3 words are all used in the context of:
God - the power of God, in signs, wonders, and miracles that God, Jesus
Christ, and the Holy Spirit through the gift of miracles, as seen
throughout the Bible
Angels
Holy angels. (Acts 2:22, 5:12, 2 Peter 2:11, Heb 2:4)
Fallen angels, of the dragon and beast, and the “3 evil spirits like
frogs”. (Matt 24:24, 2 Thes 2:9, Rev 13:2, 14, 16:14)
From the Bible it is clear that God in His three persons, Holy angels,
and also Fallen angels, are all capable of performing signs, wonders,
and miracles.
Excerpted from "The Bible, Physics, and the
Abilities of Fallen Angels"
By Nicole Malone
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