What’s this about aliens?

What’s this about aliens?
Ephesians 6:12 - For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

For those of you who don’t know, my professional background is military intelligence, and there was one time when I was in the SCIF (the facility that requires a security clearance to enter), and I had a 12 hour overnight shift. There wasn’t much happening that night, so I decided to log into one of our databases, and research aliens. I stumbled into a CIA webpage that I quickly exited because a big part of military intelligence is need to know, and I knew that I did not need to know anything CIA related. The next morning, I went to my supervisor and gave him a heads up that he may hear about one of his Soldiers going where he doesn’t belong. Luckily for me, no one ever inquired to why I was snooping around in classified materials.

All that being said, this past week, the U.S. government declassified a number of UFO related documents, and the week prior, a number of pastors came forward claiming that they were approached by government officials concerning these documents that were going to be released. (I looked through the released documents, there’s nothing interesting).

The warning that these pastors received was that there was going to be a coming “Great Distraction” regarding what the government was going to release, but in all honesty, the great distraction was the “government officials” who were almost definitely not related to the government (because, come on, they met in an AirBNB near a pastors conference for Pete’s sake).

First, if any of the information that was leaked to these pastors about intergalactic beings were true, and the government was involved in some kind of alien conspiracy coverup, each of those pastors would have been visited by counterintelligence agents. That is simply how the intelligence community works. You don’t talk about intelligence or you will be formally investigated. The whole thing is a hoax and a distraction.

Second, we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against spiritual forces. These pastors went viral online warning their churches and the online community about coming information about aliens. But this is not what a pastor is called to do. They abandoned their post as shepherds and ministers to chase spooks. The great distraction was the distraction from the Gospel.

Finally, we must stand firm in Christ. Stand on the rock, the cornerstone that is Christ and take up the whole armor of God with militaristic discipline rooted in the Word of God that we may have confidence in the truth of Scripture. Paul warns that "But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed.” The message these pastors communicated was one of deception. One that points away from who God is as our Creator and who Christ is as our Savior. Yet we ought not be distracted because if Christ is risen from the dead that this Word is true! The Gospel is true. Do not be distracted or deceived, but stand firm on the cross of Christ!

United in Christ,
Rev. Joshua Fried
Pastor