By Douglas V. Gibbs
America’s foundation, established through our Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution, is rooted in a Christian worldview. Our system was built upon the Rule of Law (Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God), God-Given Natural Rights (Endowed by our Creator and Unalienable), and the principle that God existed before government, so our allegiance is to our Creator before it is to government. God instructs us to be good citizens, follow laws, and be active in the public square when the need arises to move government toward a foundation that does not interfere with our right to worship and follow the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.
The opposition to our System of Liberty is founded upon secularism and collectivism. Socialist Systems place the community and government above everything, making them naturally atheistic. In a nutshell, tyranny is not fond of competition – especially competition that outranks it. So leftwing political ideologies have always sought to silence, or at least minimize, the voice of Christians and Jews (in particular). One might ask about Islam, but in an interesting twist, globalist communists seeking to destroy America’s Foundation in Faith and Liberty tolerate Islam not because they are willing to embrace religion per se, but because Islam and the progressive communists share the same enemies: Christianity and Israel. For the time being, they are allies.
Scriptural prophecy recognizes that Christians and Israel will be hated during the latter days before Christ’s Second Coming. Jesus said in Luke 21:17: “And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.” In order for their planned communist utopia to take root in America, Faith in God must be eliminated, and with the whole alien phenomenon, they think they might have found a way to do it. The thing is, as a godly country, Americans aren’t buying it.
The way to exterminate Faith, according to the progressive left, is to kill God. But, as a recent movie so exclaimed, “God is not dead.” Christians believe that God created the Universe, He created the Heavens and the Earth in seven days, and that we are alone when it comes to His Creation of sentient beings – or at worst, we were created first. So aliens from outer space has never been something Christians have bought into. Meanwhile, the world has been pushing all kinds of ideas to challenge the Christian idea of Creation: Evolution. The Big Bang Theory. Anything they can to disprove God. And now, they are trying to generate an assist from the curiosity everyone has about UFOs.
Steven Spielberg’s mastery of blending science fiction with eerily plausible storylines is nothing new. He showcased that skill in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and even in E.T. – The Extra-Terrestrial. Since some Americans think movies contain certain elements of reality, and Hollywood knows that films are great for desensitizing the public regarding certain issues and normalizing others, Spielberg has been happy to use that medium to shape America’s view regarding the possibility of extraterrestrial life.
Enter, Stage Left, Disclosure Day. The movie’s timing is fascinating, arriving in theaters as UFO curiosity reaches high altitude during a rash of Pentagon disclosures about previously classified UFO files. As expected, the aim seems to be to use Disclosure Day as a cinematic event designed to challenge faith at its core – except, as I noted earlier, nobody is buying the bull-pucky.
As a Christian, I definitely view the whole thing as orchestrated and deliberate. What a coincidence that as government prepares more revelations about unidentified aerial phenomena, Hollywood rolls out a story that ties right into it, essentially attempting to normalize the idea of visitors from out there, somewhere. And I, by the way, don’t believe in coincidences.
The movie, as I understand (I admit, I have not seen it), tells a tale of the world anticipating some kind of forced disclosure on the horizon, with characters grappling with the spiritual impact of such news and what it will do to their belief in God.
As always, the movie took a bundle to produce, and they hoped for a blockbuster. The technical creativity and incredible cinematic handiwork is expected to be phenomenal, but word has it that the film is chock-full of anti-biblical themes, and not only are Americans not interested in such gobbly-gook, these types of movies with their leftist, anti-Christian messaging are typically formulaic, predictable, and underwhelming to the point that they become laughers.
The plots typically have good guys evading antagonists that are twisted caricatures of Hollywood’s version of people of Faith, puzzle-solving to find the meaning of whatever they are seeking even though they don’t quite know what it is they are seeking, and twists that sometimes surprise but are usually telegraphed worse than a pass from LeBron James.
From what I understand, Disclosure Day reeks of bad writing, a bad premise, a political message nobody cares to swallow, and a failing climax that looks more like it was formed out of leftover dough on the cookie-cutter’s floor. Mediocrity with a twist of God-Derangement-Syndrome.
Interestingly enough, it’s not that the movie is so horrible, but that it is a messy pronouncement of what the hard-left humanists want most in life: a huge event that kills God for good, so that they can push aside those pesky Jews and Christians and get on with constructing their secular global collective utopia that, as history reveals over and over again, would become a smorgasbord of tyranny, death, and disaster if it was ever able to take a few breaths of life.
They want desperately in the real world to create a crisis of faith with undeniable evidence of something – like aliens from outer space, or whatever else they can throw at the wall with the hopes of it sticking. They want to force the question into your face: How can a Christian reconcile alleged proof of aliens with Scripture?
Genesis gives us part of the answer. God created the Heavens and the Earth. He then created man in His image, granting man dominion over the earth. Nothing suggests that God created any other beings anywhere else, and even if He did, it would have been “after” His Creation of Earth. That said, He did create the angels before Earth, and Satan’s heavenly departure with a third of the angels happened before the creation of Earth. So, perhaps that is where the answer lies. There are beings out there, but they aren’t aliens. They are of angelic origin. As J.D. Vance so aptly put it, if there are so-called aliens out there, possibly visiting us, they are of demonic origin.
Scripture warns of deception in the last days. The Bible reveals there will be signs and wonders that will deceive even the elect. We have technologies that may be able to assist that deception to the point of believability, I think. We also have a demonic population out there that would love to provide an assist – perhaps even stage a UFO landing, or something similar. I believe there is a whole host of demonic activities already going on during this current age on Earth.
The film Disclosure Day may have missed the deliverance it sought of causing people to question their Faith, or at least normalize the whole “aliens are out there somewhere” narrative, but the purveyors of these deceptions and untruths don’t give up easily. I am sure this is just the first of a coming wave of films and suggestions regarding aliens, alien landings, and other tactics aimed at challenging the Bible.
It is a culture war that is being waged, after all. Christianity, and God Himself, serves as the primary target on their termination list. They want you to believe that the vastness of the universe testifies that something must be out there. “The Truth is Out There,” they seem to be saying, parroting the line from X-Files. And they are right. The truth is indeed out there. But, it’s not alien civilizations, but a glorious universe created by a Glorious Creator who spoke it into existence and centered His redemptive plan through the Blood of Jesus Christ on this small place we call Earth.
I may watch the movie, more out of curiosity than desire, when it is available for free on some streaming service I have someday in the future. But I have no plans to pay any money to see it. And I will be ready to stand up against any other attempts to normalize extraterrestrial narratives while I am still breathing on this planet. Heck, I might even read some science fiction along the way. I am a Sci-Fi fan, if I may say so. I even write stories of fantasy and science fiction. But, the difference between me and the purveyors of things like Disclosure Day is I know the difference between truth and fantasy. Stories are fun to read and watch, but we always have to remember that they are stories – a product of someone’s wild imagination. Entertaining, sometimes. Fun to watch, sometimes. But always nothing more than fantasy.
Truth? Reality? Well, they reside in a blessed place that these humanist collectivists can never bring themselves to go to. And it’s a shame. God would love it if they would simply set aside their pride for just a moment to smell the roses He created. But, they can’t bring themselves to do that. The truth is too simple for them. Their hubris has blinded them, as has their hatred for God. So, they dive deep into complexity hoping to somehow stumble upon another answer out there. But, in the end, like the film Disclosure Day, they will always come up empty unless they point their attention toward God.
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