There has been an awful lot of fuss in the US of late, about “drones” and “unidentified flying objects” – or whatever they are called these days – buzzing around various military bases and civilian installations. Here are a couple of videos showing the nature of the problem:

There is an open question, at the moment, as to whether these are “aliens”, or “drones”. I am rather sceptical of the notion that they are the former, simply because I have lived in New Jersey, and know the state reasonably well. The smell alone, radiating off Secaucus, would surely have been sufficient to deter an alien nose – the rest of the country nicknamed the state, “the armpit of America”, for a VERY GOOD REASON.

That being said… what if the UFOs/UAPs we have been seeing of late, are not actually “aliens”, exactly, but are instead spiritual beings?

The declassified UAP videos from the Pentaloons, for example, demonstrated capabilities that simply defy the laws of physics:

There is considerable room for potential speculation here. The late, great, dearly missed Dr. Michael Heiser discussed the idea of aliens being spiritual beings at some length and over many podcasts, articles, and videos:

The Bible itself makes very clear that when we believers “die” and are raised up, we will be given new bodies:

³⁵ But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” ³⁶You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. ³⁷And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. ³⁸But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. ³⁹For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. ⁴⁰There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. ⁴¹There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

⁴²So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. ⁴³It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. ⁴⁴It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵Thus it is written,“The first man Adam became a living being”;the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. ⁴⁶But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. ⁴⁷The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. ⁴⁸As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. ⁴⁹Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shallalso bear the image of the man of heaven.

⁵⁰I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. ⁵¹Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, ⁵²in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.⁵³For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

— 1 Corinthians 5:35-53, English Standard Version

This offers a potential clue as to what these weird things could be. When His Hugeness rose again from the dead, His body was NOT like that of normal human beings – He was able to walk right through a locked door and appear in the midst of His disciples, with real and physical flesh:

¹⁹On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” ²⁰When he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

– John 20:19-20, English Standard Version

And Jesus was able to sit and eat with the disciples – just like a real human:

³⁶As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, “Peace to you!” ³⁷But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. ³⁸And he said to them, “Why are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? ³⁹See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.” ⁴⁰And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. ⁴¹And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, “Have you anything here to eat?” ⁴²They gave him a piece of broiled fish, ⁴³and he took it and ate before them.

– Luke 24:36:43, English Standard Version

So there is in fact considerable basis in Scripture – which is true – for spiritual bodies having capabilities and properties that are well outside the human realm of understanding.

But there is more to that idea, and this is what I want to muse about a little.

I was walking along the other night, thinking about these passages and other things in Scripture, and a thought suddenly hit me like a truck:

What if the “aliens” from other worlds, are in fact simply celestial bodies that have colonised other planets in the Universe?

I realise I am treading right up to the line of the Mormon heresy here. Their cult system says that Mormons who die will become something like star-gods that will spread out to colonise the Universe. Given the severe distortions of Scripture that Mormons have to use to justify their cult, one must be extremely careful not to fall into the same trap.

But, the fact that these “alien” things have the ability to move through space and time, as if gravity does not exist, and are able to travel huge distances instantaneously, essentially rules out any possibility of actual aliens using Newtonian and relativistic physical principles to get to our tiny little blue marble.

Moreover, as Dr. Heiser pointed out, the testimonies of many people who have experienced “alien abductions”, indicate an extreme malevolence and violence on the part of the beings that those people encountered. That is, as he said, quite obviously daemonic.

We know the daemons are the disembodied spirits of the Nephilim – the hybrid bastard spawn of the rebellious sons of God, and of human women, as outlined in Genesis 6 and 1 Enoch. I am not nearly as categorical as Dr. Heiser was in ruling out the possibility that many – not all – daemons are actually fallen angels, simply because I think we have to account for the experiences of actual front-line exorcists from the Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox churches. All of them, TO A MAN, testify that the daemons they have encountered, speak of themselves as fallen angels, who chose open rebellion against God’s Will.

The precise nature of that rebellion comes from one of the best horror movies you will ever see:

Whether daemons are fallen angels or the spirits of dead Nephilim is secondary – I personally think it is not an “either/or” question, and there is room for both ideas to stand side-by-side. The experiences of exorcists do not contradict Scripture, therefore we have to consider them within our dataset.

The real point is:

What if those “UFOs” we keep seeing, are in fact spiritual beings?

Therefore, what if the Universe itself is due to be populated and seeded by us, humans, who will one day truly become as uncountable as the stars?

That, after all, was God’s promise to Abraham:

¹⁵And the angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time from heaven ¹⁶and said, “By myself I have sworn, declares the Lord, because you have done this and have not withheld your son, your only son, ¹⁷I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore.”

– Genesis 22:15-17, English Standard Version

By the way, it is pretty clear from reading that passage, that the Angel of the Lord, is none other than the person of the Son – better known to you and me as our Lord Jesus.

Given that Gentile Christians are grafted into the tree of Abraham’s seed, and given that the number of Christians on Earth (never mind whether those are faithful or not) is still quite finite, at around 2.2 billion or so, and given there are TRILLIONS of stars in the heavens…

The logic, to me at least, is clear:

There is a real possibility that believers who die, repenting of our sins and professing our faith in Jesus Christ as Lord, King, and Redeemer, could become “spiritual” colonists of other planets.

Again, that idea might well be heretical. And perhaps I am being overly literal in my reading of Scripture. But I do not see anything in Scripture that contradicts it – though I could easily be wrong, and would be happy to be corrected if so.

Nor do I see any evidence that the Father’s Kingdom is a specific place – like Hell, it appears to be simultaneously a place, AND a state of being, though it is the polar opposite of Hell. The Father’s Kingdom appears to be a place of eternal fellowship with the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, who exist in perfect communion with each other, and who have infinite capacity for love, mercy, goodness, and justice.

What, then, stops spiritual beings who are obedient to the will of the one God, from being in constant communion with that God, AND also capable of travelling to and living on different worlds?

Just a thought…