Are UFOs for Real?

October 25
Technically speaking, the answer is both yes and no. If a non-Christian were to see a band of angels hovering overhead, he would call them UFOs. He would be unable to identify them. And literally being an unbeliever, he would likely freak out. He’d think he was seeing extra-terrestrial beings, and he would be right, but they wouldn’t be from another planet. Angels, cherubim, and seraphim, are certainly extra-terrestrial. Several accounts in scripture confirm the existence of flying chariots, horses, and strange looking creatures with multiple heads and wings. In II Kings 2 Elijah is taken up in a whirlwind into a chariot that apparently escorted him to heaven. When the king of Aram sent his soldiers after Elisha (II Ki. 6), God rescued him with a heavenly army riding in horse drawn chariots that flew.


The Revelation tells us Jesus and His heavenly army will return one day from heaven wearing white robes; that will definitely be the UFO sighting of the ages (Rev. 19:11-16).

Few humans have ever seen angels, seraphim, or cherubim. Those who actually believe God’s word know they exist and we even have a pretty good description of some of them. Revelation 4:6-8 tells us,

. . . and in the center around the throne, four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind. The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within;
In Revelation 12 we’re told,

A great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars; and she was with child; and she cried out, being in labor and in pain to give birth. Then another sign appeared in heaven: and behold, a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns,, and on his heads were seven diadems.

In Revelation 17 John sees a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, probably the same one described in chapter 12. We read about heavenly birds flyinig around in mid-heaven (Rev. 19:17). So, the point is that UFOs do exist, but they're not visitors from other planets; and if anyone has actually seen on recently, there has to be some eternal purpose attached to it. Neither God nor His angelic beings just appear and disappear to get on the local news.  But they do exist. Of course, there are psychos who claim to have seen something that they never saw. Some are seeking attention, and some are just plain liars. And it's a complete waste of resources and energy to send space ships into outer space seeking life on other planets, because God will only allow us to see what we need to see to accomplish what He wants us to accomplish. And we don’t have to build space ships for that. He takes into heaven anyone He wishes to take into heaven, whenever and however He desires to do so. As far as we know, only two people have ever actually been translated into heaven and returned to earth to talk or write about it. Paul and John were actually translated into heaven to see the things they saw. Whether or not their entire physical bodies accompanied them, we know not.

It is enough to realize there are a whole lot of subjects about which none of us here on earth knows anything. And that’s the way God intends to keep it for now. Deuteronomy 29:29 says, "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our sons forever, that we may observe all the words of this law.” And that’s God’s word for us today.