AN IMPASSIONED PLEA TO PASTORS

And Various Other Christian Workers

By David Ruffino
 

Let me preface this story by telling you about something that I observed years ago when I was a teenager. I was good friends with a young lady whose mother was Japanese and her father was an American. Long before I had met Cathy, her father had left; for what reasons I really don't know, but I do know that it hurt her that he wasn't there. Because she didn't have a father to love, she loved her mother and did all she could do to please her. The mother was a nice person to Cathy's friends, but you could tell that deep down there was some sort of resentment toward Cathy. Perhaps she blamed Cathy for the departure of her husband; only God knows where the resentment was planted.

Cathy and her mother treated me like family and Cathy's mother even tried to bring me and Cathy together in a boyfriend, girlfriend relationship. Cathy and I were just happy with our friendship and it remained just that. Our first Christmas together started out fine, especially on Christmas Eve when we drank a lot, had a great meal and talked quite a bit. We ended the night with an invite for me to come over the next morning to open the presents that we all bought for one another. Cathy had gone out of her way to buy nice things for her mother; things that any mother would be happy to get from their child. What I saw next made what was supposed to be a blessed time turn into a time of great sadness. One by one, Cathy's mother opened the presents. The presents that I gave to her brought great praise of me from the mother. I was such a fine boy for thinking of her and for knowing just what she wanted. Cathy and I opened our gifts to each other; 8 track tapes, records, belts and even some paraphernalia. When Cathy's mother opened Cathy's gifts to her she would look at them, make some sort of snide comment and just throw them aside. The hurt I saw in Cathy's eyes are something that I will never forget. She ran into her room and cried, her body heaving almost in convulsions because of the great sorrow that was inside her. I noticed that this not only happened on Christmas, but on birthdays and other gift giving events. Eventually, Cathy sank into a life of drug abuse. She needed the drugs to ease her pain. We eventually fell out contact and I haven't seen nor heard from her in many years. At that time, none of us knew of Yeshua; his love, his caring and his healing for the soul. To this day I pray for Cathy, that perhaps she will find Yeshua and be healed of all of the hurt.

The Ministry Aspect:

I've had the sad opportunity to experience the same hurt that Cathy felt. After I came to faith in Yeshua Ha Mashiach (Jesus Christ) back in 1979, I sat in pews for quite a few years, soaking up the messages that the Lord was speaking through the pastors that led the flocks in the churches that I attended. The spiritual food that they fed me via the Holy Spirit nourished me but soon I started to become spiritually obese. I was taking in but not giving out and it was bothering me a great deal. Toward the end of that growth spurt I started to pray for the Lord to give me something to do. I did the whole church service routine; ushering, teaching Sunday School and I even lead a single's ministry for a while. While all of those are wonderful things to do they didn't satisfy me. I volunteered with Jews for Jesus and passed out broadsides (tracts) on the streets of San Francisco, and although I found it very rewarding, I never felt complete or any satisfaction of knowing that this was the niche that the Lord had for me.

One night I prayed that the Lord would give me a ministry. I acknowledged that I wasn't a very good speaker, so I just let that go. But then, like a lightning bolt from out of the blue it hit me. I was pretty good at putting ideas down on paper; I could write. But what do I write about Lord, I asked? He then showed me my life before I became a believer in Yeshua. The two largest lies in my life back then were the belief in extraterrestrials, UFO's and my belief in evolution. He explained that I had fairly good expertise in these two ideologies and that I could use that for the advantage of His Kingdom. So I kept in prayer, asking for the words to write. I prayed that whatever was written would be inspired by the Holy Spirit and that I would be a vessel for Him. I didn't want any of the page content to be "Dave's" thoughts, reflections or ideas; but only those of our Lord Yeshua.

Pretty soon the ideas started to flow into my head. God began to show me the deception of belief in extraterrestrials and evolution. All of the stuff that I had read in past years came back to mind, so that beliefs I once used to glorify myself and ultimately Satan; would now be used against the author of all lies, and for the glory of God Himself. It is such a happy feeling; almost indescribable, when one finally finds out what God's life purpose is for them. I was elated and got started right away. The Lord began to bless me in ways that were incredible. He gave me a working knowledge of word processing, allowed me to attain skills in making web pages and gave me the finances to buy server space so that I could have a presence on the internet. He's given me a godly adrenaline push many times when He's given me my heavenly work assignments. Please understand that I hold down an 8 hour a day job that is quite mind challenging and many times, by the end of the workday, I'm really shot and would love to do nothing but pass out in my recliner. But, the Lord has other plans for me because when I get home I have a second wind. Many are the nights when I don't stop typing until one or two o'clock in the morning. I do enjoy it so!!

The internet ministry that God has given to me has flourished. Some have become born again, others have overcome demonic oppression and many other have come to see God's hand both in their lives and in the history of the human race. With all of this in mind, there is still one area where it is hard to make advances. Sadly enough, that area is in the Church Body of Believers. It is absolutely no exaggeration when I say that normal, Bible believing, Spirit Filled Christians; the ones who believe in casting out demons and healing the sick; give me the strangest look when I bring up the subject about extraterrestrials being demonic in nature. It's almost like they see a sign on me proclaiming that I'm a leper when I bring up the subject. I experience the same disappointment and sadness that my friend Cathy felt all those years ago. My dear brothers and sisters are shown an area of great need, they possess the wherewithal to learn and minister, but they just reject it as worthless. I don't know where you stand on the subjects of extraterrestrials and/or evolution, but it causes me great consternation when I see people who claim to have spiritual authority through the Blood of Yeshua; running away from something that the Church needs to address. It seems that the same mistake that the Church made when dealing with evolution is being made with the subject of the demonic nature of UFO's and extraterrestrials.

Let's Learn From History Rather Than Trial And Error:

We should take some time to look at the former and try to learn from those mistakes. When I was growing up my dad would use a term that we all have to come know and practice quite regularly. I would see a wasp nest near our front door and address the issue. My dad would tell me, "if you don't bother them, they won't bother you." There is a great fallacy to that statement. Where the wasp's were concerned, it did become a problem because the nest would become so large that the wasps would swarm around the front door and nobody could enter without fear of getting stung. Had my dad taken the wise approach, he would have nipped the problem in the butt and killed the wasp colony while it was yet small. As people, we tend to take the approach that if we ignore a problem, it will just go away. There are so many illustrations in history that this is a false assumption that I could write a series of books about all of them. Had Hitler been dealt with before he became strong, World War Two probably would not have happened, at least in the European theater. Place any despot, or dictator throughout history in that category and there are vast numbers of problems, chaos's and holocaust's that could have been prevented. Let's look at a poem that is purported to have been written by a pastor who lived through Nazi Germany:

A modern equivalent to the ignorance of the church can be seen in the problem that evolution being taught to the populace. The majority of people in the United States before 1925 were Christian in affiliation and most of those people were God fearing Christians. In that year, the ACLU (yes, they were around then too) decided to test a new law, called the Butler Act; in a court of law. The Butler Act was a law passed on March 13, 1925, which forbade the teaching, in any state-funded educational establishment in Tennessee, of "any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals." This is often interpreted as meaning that the law forbade the teaching of any aspect of the theory of evolution. The victory was clearly won by the prosecution and the offending teacher was fined and released. But the victory was a hollow one because evolution theory had gained notoriety seeing that there were over two hundred members of the press there as well as WGN Radio that broadcast the trial over the whole country. Those with weak faith or rebellious hearts now knew that there was an opposing view and they flocked to it.

With the victory on the side of the Religious of the nation, Christians settled back into their lives and forgot about evolution. It never ceases to amaze me how believers in Yeshua read the Bible with such fervor, but they forget the object lessons that God gives us in His Word. Satan is prideful and he has the worse poker face around. If you look carefully at any situation in which he's involved, he always shows his hand of cards before he ups the ante. For some reason, which only God knows, most of those in the corporate body of Messiah refuse to look at the cards when they're shown. They are too busy concentrating on their own affairs to really notice what is going on around them. So, they either think that Satan is sitting this hand out or that he's just bluffing again and he plans to fold his cards. So, most of us just ignore him, like he's not a serious player. All too often the poker face turns out to be a bluff and the Christian, having been fooled suffers the consequence of not paying attention. Then they return to the card table and the process repeats itself again and again until finally the lesson is learned; hopefully.

This is true with the case of evolution. After the scopes trial we claimed a victory and figured that Satan was defeated both physically and morally. The trial did nothing but bring evolution into the limelight. As mentioned above, it whet the appetite of those who never really believed in God, but feigned belief in order to be found socially acceptable. After 1925 their numbers grew steadily until they were a large enough constituency to bring to force their agenda. By now, the Church had become so inept with the subject of evolution that it found itself powerless to fight against it. The sad part too is that many Christians, after being bombarded for years about the fallacious theory started to question the Biblical account of creation. Today, there are an alarming number of Christians who when asked, will tell you that they believe the earth to be millions if not billions of years old. Their faith is so weak that they have to try and meld science and the Bible. It's so shameful that some think that God had to use countless of mutations in order to get the job done right; and that he used the death of countless of generations of animals before death became an issue at all. My Bible says that death came into the world as a result of the sin of Adam and Eve. Given a choice, I choose the testimony of God's word over confused and misguided believers.

I thank the Lord for people like Henry Morris and Kent Hovind and others who are out in the trenches fighting against the fallacy of evolution. They're taking back ground, but the warfront is a tough one and it might take quite a few years till any true headway is made. But again, there are just a few who are fighting a battle that millions could be fighting. Had evolution been preached against not only with Biblical proof, but with all of the geologic and scientific evidence that abounds everywhere, during all of those slack years, we might not be in the heavy battle we're in today. There have always been scientists who disagreed with evolution; many of them Christians, but the subject was not allowed to be brought before the church congregation; for what ever reason, and there are probably many.

UFO's and Extraterrestrials?

So many of us, who are trying to educate the Christian population about UFO's, extraterrestrials and even alien abduction are given the same cold shoulder when it comes to these subjects. But why do people act like they do when this subject is addressed? There are several reasons. First, it wasn't too long ago when people who brought up such things were considered to be on some sort of lunatic fringe, psychotic or perhaps the member of some strange UFO cult. Sure, there are people who believe in UFO's who fall into all of those categories; but not everyone who experiences or studies this phenomena is crazy. Many notable scientists are studying the phenomena of UFO's, their occupants and how they take people unwilling into the night. Former skeptic, the late J. Allen Hynek, who worked for the government in their study of UFO's came to the conclusion way before his death that he thought that these beings were inter-dimensional, not from other planets, and that they aren't here for our benefit. Jacques Valee a French UFOlogist (and not a Christian) has come out and declared that these entities are demonic. Those are strong words for a person who has no faith in God. Some noted Christians, such as Hal Lindsey, Zola Levitt, and Chuck Missler have all come to the conclusion that we're not being visited by beings from other planets or galaxies; but are being introduced to the demons and fallen angels that were prevalent upon the earth before the flood of Noah's time. And we cannot forget to mention Whitley Strieber, the poster child for alien abduction; who in one of his writings said that he recognized these beings as being evil and demons. So, if scientists, atheists, noted Christian researchers and even an abductee all ascribe a demonic title to these entities, why does the church have so much trouble addressing the subject?

Another reason is that so many Christians have been bombarded with the extraterrestrial agenda that they actually believe in it. If you don't believe me, go up to twenty people in your church and ask them if they think we're alone in the universe. If they answer honestly, you'll get a pretty good percentage who will give you the common answer they have been indoctrinated to believe; that answer being, "I just think that the universe is too vast and diverse to contain just life on earth." That opinion doesn't come from God, but from the pits of hell via television, the news media, interest in science fiction and listening to the ever popular "Coast to Coast" radio program that night owls like me listen to all the time. Trust you me, that particular show should be avoided by anyone who has any questions about their faith and is not firmly grounded in Biblical theology.

You know, the Church has always seemed to me to be a day late and a dollar short when it comes to events coming upon the world. We mentioned the evolution lie above, and how it was ignored until it pervaded all aspects of society, even the Church. What many in the Christian realm don't recognize is that the two lies are interwoven. They have to be because they have the same author; Satan. Anyone who would bother to keep up on current events can see that evolution in it's current form is dying. Christians (aided by the Holy Spirit) are making important inroads into the evolution camp and the evolution lie is crumbling right before their eyes. So what do liars do when their lie is exposed? They make up another lie to cover the first one. Satan and his minions have been busy doing this since the late 1940's where evolution and UFO's are concerned. Slowly and methodically they've been introducing the extraterrestrial agenda to the public. And now that the evolution lie is finally starting to die, those who purport to channel messages from so called aliens and those who have had direct contact with them are all reporting that the aliens are saying that they were involved in our evolution. Some say that they were involved in what is called panspermia. That is the act of planting the rudimentary life forms here on earth. Others go a step farther and say that after they did that, they'd come back from time to time to manipulate the genes of the creatures here on earth until they finally arrived with humankind. Now their message is that mankind has to evolve again, and those who resist (Christians) will have to be eliminated.

It is beyond me how any pastor or church leader can be out in the world for any amount of time and not stumble across these lies. If one watches television the alien agenda has been promoted for several years. If you watch documentary channels you can't really miss the UFO specials that are constantly on. I've dealt with several people who claim to have been abducted. Some of them go to church every Sunday and the harassment (the demonic variety) continues because the person is too afraid to approach the pastor, or anyone for that matter, fearing that they will be labeled as some sort of weirdo or a person with a psychiatric disorder. How can you ask for help from people who don't know what your problem is or won't acknowledge that it exists. Several times a year there are Christian UFO conferences where these things are discussed and analyzed. Guy Malone from Alien Resistance organizes one of these in Roswell every July 4th. Guy offers his services to come and talk to churches about these things and gets very little response from those he contacts. Jim Wilhelmsen, is another brother who lives in Roswell, New Mexico. He operates a store that is right across from the parking lot of the International UFO Museum; the store's title is "The Museum of Alternate Realities." Before you judge the name of the store, you have to realize that what seems normal to the other 99 percent of America, is alternate reality to many in Roswell. Jim has had a lot of opposition from not only the city fathers of Roswell, but also the majority of the churches. When you consider that the building that houses the International UFO Museum is owned by a Baptist minister you can understand the problem; compromise runs rampant in Roswell. The truth cuts into the profits of Roswellians and isn't tolerated very well. The thing that I really respect about the two individuals mentioned above is that they're putting not only their finances, but also their reputations on the line. Like the Apostles of old and even Yeshua Himself, these two men know that there is a greater prize than what they can attain here on earth. They're willing to put up with the ridicule and harassment from a hostile Roswell establishment in order to present people with the truth of Yeshua Ha Mashiach.

Knowing this, one has to question the motives of those who refuse to address this very real issue; one that is becoming more real every year and one that will become a undeniable reality as the time of the end draws closer. There are those like my pastor, Mike Fraga here in Carmichael. Mike is one of the most honest and forthright pastors I've ever met. When I presented Mike with my ministry and asked if he's be willing to partake in helping people, he gave me an answer that was right from his heart. His answer to me was that he isn't well read on the subject, but would be willing to learn more so that he can be a minister to those who come out of the UFO society. Mike is a very busy pastor with little staff, putting in upwards of 80 hours of service in a week, so I see that it would probably be a long time before he can truly study the information. But I know Mike, and he'll do it sooner or later.

While at the Ancient of Days Conference down in Roswell this year (2005), Joe Jordan, Jim Wilhelmsen and myself had the opportunity to answer questions of those who had just watched Joe's video. His video tells about how to end alien abduction for good. Anyway, one older gentleman got sort of agitated and wanted to know why he never heard our message preached from a pulpit. The man was really put off about that fact. When I later had a time to talk, I addressed that gentleman's question with what I felt the Lord was wanting me to say. I told the guy the story about my pastor and basically told the group that many pastors just haven't heard of nor studied the subject matter. It would be foolhardy to preach about something you know nothing about. Pastors; especially those of small congregations who have little or no staff, are so bogged down that they don't have time to thinking about taking meals let alone studying about UFO's, aliens and their implications on modern society. I truly believe that once my pastor becomes educated on the subject and after he prays to God about what to do, he'll preach about it from the pulpit.

There is another type of church laity that take a different approach to the subject matter at hand. But before I write about that, I think it would be good to use an illustration that Joe Jordan speaks about in his DVD about his testimony and his ministry. Joe has studied UFO's and alien abduction for a few years now. He's the state section director of MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) for Brevard County, Florida. During his studies he had the opportunity to talk to many well know researchers in the field of alien abduction. After running into a couple of case studies where Joe was told that the name of Yeshua (Jesus) when cried out for help, actually stopped the abduction from happening, he needed to know more. Joe wanted to know if other researchers had similar stories in their case files. He thought it odd that he was the only one to have such information. Joe was shocked to find out that all of the researchers (off the record) said that they had similar cases in their files. Joe asked them why they didn't publish these cases with their other cases; and he got two answers. One answer was that the cases were just too bizarre to believe. The second reason for not publishing these findings, was that these researchers admitted that they thought that if they did, they would lose credibility in the research community. Their own reputation was more important than giving a cure that would end the torment of hundreds of thousands or maybe millions of people who are harassed by demons in alien disguise.

So, where am I going with that illustration. Frankly, I feel that there are many pastors who don't want to touch the subject because they are concerned that they might freak out some of their parishioners and possibly lose some of the members of their church. Unlike Guy, Jim, Joe and myself who have secular jobs to support us, many pastors, reverends, ministers or whatever title one might use, depend on their church income for their sole support. Now I'm not saying that it's wrong for people to be professional pastors; but it is wrong to keep information from people, who can use that knowledge to become free, in order to keep up the payments on the Cadillac or that fancy house that they were so blessed with. If a church leader finds themselves in such a situation then they should consider their eternal security, and that it might be in peril. God is a God of quality, not quantity.

Where Is This Going?

So, where am I going with all of this? I never intended this to be a mini-sermon or offensive to anyone. Being that it was written out of only concern, if anyone was offended I ask that they become circumspect and examine themselves. The whole reason for this document is to get the word out there that alien abduction is real, it is demonic and it's not going to go away. It will get progressively worse as the days, months and years move along and society will need people who are willing to minister to those lost in its grip. We have started a new ministry, called "Alien Abduction Crisis Centers of America," and we are up to the challenge of initial ministry of people seeking to become free from alien abduction. We could always use Holy Spirit filled people to help us in that part of the ministry. But more importantly, we need to have places to send these people once they've become free. They need Christian fellowship and solid Biblical teaching. They need to know that if they have a problem in the wee hours of the morning, they have someone local who can stay with them and pray with them. Our counselors cover a wide area of the nation and more are signing on all the time, but we can't be everywhere. Please, if you have a Biblically sound church that believes in deliverance and practices the same than we'd like to put you on our list of places of refuge for these people.

If you need to learn more about our ministry and what we do then I implore you to visit our site at www.aaccoa.org and look around. If more information is needed then we can send you DVD's, documentation or other things that can help you to learn more about freeing people from alien abduction and helping them to remain free. If need be, one of our counselors might even be able to come to your fellowship to present the ministry to your congregation. Sometimes a lecture from a stranger is easier for a congregation to accept over one of their own pastors. Strange as it sounds that is true sometimes. At the very least, you could show our DVD's at your church. There are many ways to convey the message. And finally, if you have people in your congregation who claim to have had such experiences, please don't brush them off as being crazy or on the lunatic fringe. In all probability, they have had genuine experiences with demonic or fallen angelic entities and they need help. If you feel that you don't have the expertise to help them then pass them on to us. We're here to help in any way we can. Be blessed in the Name of Yeshua, as you minister to Him and through Him.

David Ben Yakov