“Disclosure”. The idea that the governments have been hiding the truth about UFO’s and extraterrestrials from the public for decades and will reveal that truth to everyone. Such ideas have been thrown around a lot in recent years, but it has been interesting to watch the trajectory change recently. Disclosure used to be a fringe concept, something you’d only read about on Above Top Secret forums or hear about on Coast-to-Coast AM radio. But within the past 5-10 years the concept of “Disclosure” has percolated its way into the mainstream. Congressional hearings, mainstream news interviews, and now, a $115 million-dollar theatrical release film by iconic director Steven Spielberg called “Disclosure Day.”

This article isn’t really about that new movie. I haven’t seen it yet and I won’t be seeing it in theaters. However, Spielberg himself can be quoted on a recent TV interview asking “is God our God only on this planet?” I do think this is an interesting question and although Spielberg goes on to say that the movie takes the same position as the Catholic Church, that God is the God of the entire universe, not just this planet, I have a sneaking suspicion that the intention is deceptive.

Whether a cosmic being beyond our comprehension and one responsible for intelligently designing this entire universe exists is almost not even a question anymore. Science continues to point towards intelligent design as a possible, if not even likely answer to many of our greatest scientific mysteries (See “Language of God” by Francis Collins). But even New Agers are comfortable with a great cosmic being or energy force they can label as “God”. The real test isn’t whether someone believes in a God of this universe, it’s whether they believe in Jesus.

Jesus is the key to identifying the deception here. Jesus is who makes people like Spielberg and New Agers uncomfortable. Many non-Christians are perfectly happy to concede that Jesus may have existed, and that He taught some good stuff, and was even murdered for His teachings, but they stop short of calling Him the Son of God and attributing our Salvation to Him.

Why? Because a vague “God” asks almost nothing of us. A vague “God” can be shaped into whatever we want Him to be: an energy field, a cosmic consciousness, an advanced intelligence, a benevolent designer, or some distant force behind the universe. But Jesus does not leave that same wiggle room. Jesus makes the question personal, historical, moral, and unavoidable. If Jesus is who He said He is, then God is not merely “out there” somewhere among the stars. God has entered human history, taken on flesh, died for our sins, risen from the dead, and claimed authority over heaven and earth.

As Bradley mentions in the video below, the Bible already indicates that humanity is not alone, nor were we the first intelligent beings created by God. Jesus’ parable of the Lost Sheep expands on this concept that humanity is the one lost sheep out of the 99. The other intelligent beings God created may mostly be “unfallen” civilizations that are still part of God’s cosmic Kingdom. When humanity encounters extraterrestrial beings, they may very well be the other fallen worlds, fallen angels who sided with Lucifer.

But here’s the uncomfortable part: Jesus didn’t die to save the fallen angels. Those rebels knew exactly what they were doing when they sided with Lucifer and tried to overthrow the Kingdom. God created humanity after that conflict to help serve as a neutral third-party, but we were deceived in our infancy by the serpent. God, in His infinite wisdom, took pity on humanity. Adam and Eve may have been deceived into sin, but that didn’t absolve them of the consequences of their actions. However, through an incredible act of self-sacrifice, God took on human form as Jesus in order to redeem humanity and give us all a chance to re-join His royal family.

This is where the alien question becomes spiritually dangerous. Extraterrestrial “disclosure” will eventually be framed as a correction to Christianity, and Christians should immediately recognize the pattern. The serpent’s first deception wasn’t crude atheism. He didn’t begin by telling Eve that God did not exist. He began by questioning God’s word, God’s motives, and God’s authority: “Did God really say?” That same strategy will be repackaged on a cosmic scale. The message won’t be “there is no God,” but rather, “your understanding of God was primitive.” Not “Jesus never existed,” but “Jesus was misunderstood.” Not “the Bible is useless,” but “the Bible was only one small piece of a much larger revelation we are now here to explain.”

And that’s exactly where the line has to be drawn. Any being, human or otherwise, that tries to move Jesus out of His rightful place is not bringing enlightenment. It’s bringing the oldest lie in a new costume. Christianity doesn’t stand or fall on whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. It stands on Jesus Christ: crucified, risen, and reigning. If God created other worlds, then He is Lord of those worlds too. If there are unfallen beings elsewhere, then they already know Him better than we do. But if any “visitor” arrives claiming to be our maker, our savior, or our next step in evolution while denying the Lordship of Christ, then Christians should not be awestruck. We should be sober-minded and steadfast in the face of impending social pressure that’ll make COVID mandates seem like a cake-walk.

The coming deception won’t look like red horns and pitchforks. It’ll look scientific, compassionate, peaceful, and impossibly advanced. It’ll promise unity, healing, knowledge, and an end to religious division and wars. But unity purchased by demoting Jesus isn’t peace; it’s rebellion. The question for Christians won’t be whether these beings are impressive. The question will be whether they confess the truth that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh, that He is the Son of God, and that every authority in heaven and on earth is beneath Him.

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