God, Aliens, and Other Stuff

Pope Benedict XVI with President and Laura Bush Sources: Chuck Nowlen, “The Devil and Father Kunz: An Easter Tale about Murder, the Catholic Church and the Strange paths of Good and Evil,” Las Vegas Weekly, April 12, 2001, viewable at http://www.chucknowlen.com/kunz.htm. Thomas Horn, Zenith 2016, ( Crane, Missouri: Defender, 2013). Malachi Martin, Windswept House: A Vatican Novel, ( New York: Doubleday, 1996). Malachi Martin, The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church, ( New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987). Pius XII -- 1939-1958 John XXIII -- 1958-1963 Paul VI -- 1963 --1978 John Paul I -- 1978 John Paul II -- 1978-2005 Benedict XVI -- 2005-(2012) 2013 Francis -- March 13, 20013 Reality that sounds like fiction It was the team of Thomas Horn and Cris Putnam (more about them in past and future posts) that introduced me to Malachi Martin. He was a conservative Jesuit who, with the pope’s permission, left his order to write about Cathol...

Petrus Romanus? Really? Sources:   Thomas Horn and Cris Putnam, Petrus Romanus , Crane, MO: Defender, 2012; and Malachi Martin, Windswept House: A Vatican Novel, New York: Doubleday (Mainstreet), 1996. I’ve been plowing through books by Horn and Cris Putnam since I heard their interview by Sid Roth. Their books are long, 450 to 600 pages, laden with facts, dates, names, events, history, connections, illustrations, source references, conservative biblical applications, and lots of risky speculation about apocalyptic arcana and the era of 2012 to 2016. Getting through even one of the books is a daunting task, recommended only for those who are really interested in the topic. Their message begins with the prophecy of St. Malachy about the popes from Celestine II (1143-1144) to the last pope, the current Pope Francis, called “Petrus Romanus” or Peter the Roman in the prophecy, (Chapters 1 and 2 of Petrus ). In this pontiff’s reign, according to Malachy, persecution will plague th...

Joseph Smith Papyrus 1 - wikipedia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5FAFVVv_os   The link above is a 25 minute Youtube video presentation from MormonHistoryEtc, narrated and produced by an unnamed, young-sounding man. It’s the best explanation of the history of the Joseph Smith Papyri and the so-called Book of Abraham that you’ll ever hear. The Book of Abraham does not exist in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament canon, although the characters of Joseph and Abraham appear in the Book of Genesis. The  Book of Abraham  was an alleged special revelation of Joseph Smith, the founder of the LDS church. His translation of a 2000-year-old Egyptian scroll is today an important canonical document in the Mormon Church and is part of The Pearl of Great Price . The above video is so clear and well illustrated that it’s idiot proof. And, it uses an article written by my son Christopher Smith and his mathematical associate Andrew Cook as a source. The link demonstrates that the...

Pope John Paul I, murdered in September 1978? Sources:  Malachi Martin, The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church , Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987 Wayne Weible,  Medjugorje, the Message , Brewster, Massachusets, Paraclete Press, 1989. Wayne Weible, Medjugorje, the Mission , Brewster,  Massachusets, Paraclete Press, 1994. www.tldm.org ; www.medjugorje.org ; http://www.ewtn.com/library/papaldoc/consecra.htm ; and Wikipedia.   John XXIII (1958-1963) was right…the Catholic Church needed to reform, to change, to breathe some of the fresh air of the increasingly global atmosphere on the mid-to-late 1900’s. It needed to rethink certain dogmas such as birth control, the infallibility of the pope, the traditional garb of nuns, the Latin Mass, the elitist view of salvation, etc. That’s all Pope John wanted to accomplish with Vatican II (1962-1965). He worried that the reshuffling or airing out of long-held dogmatics ...

I recently received a negative comment on my posts about resisting alien abductions. One strong recommendation that I make when aliens attack is prayer, but it needs to be prayer to the correct Higher Power. The name of Jesus has probably been the most effective means of banishing aliens. However, not all agree. Here is the comment that came through. While I mean no disrespect to the responder, I think it would be worthwhile to unpack the response line by line and take a close look at it. I’ve read these arguments before and understand perfectly where they are coming from. “Do you realize that most of your religious beliefs were based on worshipping beings...FLESH and blood beings from other worlds?” So this responder thinks that Yahweh and Jesus are just para-humans from another planet. A goodly number of serious UFO researchers today, including Whitley Strieber and Jacques Vallee, question whether the “aliens” are actually from other worlds or planets. After His resurre...

In Part 1, we looked at the first 18 verses of Psalm 22 as a lament. It was a perfect picture of Christ’s crucifixion as described in the New Testament. It is one of the most amazing segments of literature ever written. Starting with verse 19, however, an entirely different mood prevails. And yet, the reference to dog, bulls, lions, and the sword makes it clear that part 2 of the psalm fits with verses 1-18. In the later verses of part 1, the sufferer is laid in the dust of death. He dies! So how is he rejoicing in the entire rest of the psalm? 19 But you, Lord , do not be far from me. You are my strength; come quickly to help me. 20 Deliver me from the sword, my precious life from the power of the dogs. 21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions; save me from the horns of the wild oxen. I know I’m pushing it here, but I like to think that we are seeing the soul of the not yet resurrected Christ in the above verses. A sword has literally been pushed into his heart to make su...

Although this psalm has a heading that it is a psalm of King David, Israel’s second king who reigned for 40 years in the tenth century BCE, scholars take that with a grain of salt. And they are right. The headings came later, and there is no guarantee that the heading is correct. However, the Psalm 22 resides in a biblical section designated as the “Psalms of David,” and whoever wrote it was in my opinion a “seer” (a Spirit-filled psychic) of high magnitude. Thus, I assume that it was David until someone can prove that it isn’t. According to a passage in 1 Samuel, ecstatic prophecy was a respected phenomenon in those days, even to the point where the person prophesying is laid out helplessly on the ground for long periods of time ( 18:19-24 ). Today’s Pentecostals would have no problem recognizing such an event. Whoever wrote Psalm 22 was possibly in that kind of state, and not only saw it, but lived it. The scholars who analyze Psalm 22 will usually say something like, the sufferer ...

If you have a deliverance story that you would like to share, please contact me by email. I would love to hear it. There is a contact link under my profile. In my most recent post, I wrote about the Catholic approach to exorcism as described in the book Hostageto the Devil , written by a former priest who is now an author on Catholic clerical topics. This post is taken from a CD set by  Mark Virkler  and from various other sources, including past conversations and books that are referenced in other of my blog posts. The Catholic method is very ritualistic, utilizing a crucifix, candles, a prayer book, and holy water. The priest wears certain garments and has a specialized team, thus only men actually perform the ritual. And it works if done right. The Protestants can be men or women, clergy or lay person. There are no special garments, holy objects, or ritualized prayer (in most cases). The exorcists or deliverers come armed with the Bible, either in hand to...