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[ Narrator]
He is the personification of evil.

[Woman] Satan was the source
of torture and death and destruction.

[ Narrator]
He's the ruler of hell.

He grew arrogant,
and he lost his heavenly position.

He was thrown out
of the heavens and fell.

[ Narrator] And he commands an army
of demons united on a vengeful quest:

To destroy mankind.

[Man] A demon needs a body...

- to accomplish its evil purposes-
- You can't have her.

So they can bring about their plan
of death and destruction.

[ Narrator] But is the character known
as the Prince of Darkness, merely a myth...

or could he be something much, much more?

[Man ♪2] Satan may well be a person,
a god, an angel, an E.T...

who's been maligned in a sense.

[ Narrator]
Millions of people around the world...

believe we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history...

and if so, could evidence be found
in centuries-old stories of a fallen angel?

Could there really be a Satan conspiracy?

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He is called Satan...

Lucifer, the devil...

and his name conjures up
horrifying images of a horned demon...

whose sole purpose
is to corrupt and destroy mankind.

Satan is portrayed as the enemy of God...

trying to destroy good people...

to make good people bad...

and to keep them from being saved...

keep them from going to Heaven so that
they can go to hell, where he's in charge.

[Woman] Satan has become the catchall
for the embodiment of evil.

When we think of Satan, I think there are
two different ways that our brains can go.

The first is this almost comical character
that rules over the land of flames...

the red guy with the
horns and the pitchfork.

But then, on the darker side,
I think that Satan has become...

this very, very terrifying,
frightening embodiment of evil...

who causes man to do terrible things...

who is the source of torture
and death and destruction.

[ Narrator]
But are these perceptions of Satan correct?

Is he really the master
of all things evil in the universe?

Lakeland, Florida, 2012.

Hundreds of faithful followers
congregate at the Ignited Church...

to witness the removal of demons...

from those who believe
they're possessed by the devil.

You let him go.

All the pain and the hurt
you've caused this man-

You let him go.

[ Man]
The devil wants to get even.

How else to hurt the heart of God
to the greatest possible extent...

but to harm the beloved of his creation...

the height of his creation...

the thing that God loves most:

Humanity, human beings, me, you,
every single person on Earth?

[ Narrator]
In the ritual known as exorcism...

a priest or minister
performs a sacred rite. ..

In order to confront Satan
and drive him back to hell.

It is a ceremony that dates back
hundreds and perhaps thousands of years...

and is considered quite controversial,
even within the Catholic Church.

I torment you by the blood of Christ.

[ Larson]
When I'm battling Satan...

there are a lot of mind games going on,
and it's a bit of a chess match.

- You think you have her, don't you?
- [Woman Murmurs]

- Don't you?
- Yes.

- You think she's yours, don't you?
- Mm-hmm.

Well, she's not.

[Larson] So I have to be mentally
and spiritually prepared for that.

- How long have you had her?
- Long time.

Yeah? Well, now it's gonna be a short time.

- Torment! Torment!
- [ Gasps]

Torment you.

[Narrator]
But just who or what is Satan?

And why is he determined
to corrupt all of humanity?

Perhaps the answers can be found
in the myths and legends...

that describe Satan's ancient origins.

[Man] In the beginning, Satan was one
of the angels that was created by God...

before the physical universe was created...

and there was basically a sphere
of angels around God, worshiping God.

And Satan at that time was Lucifer,
or the Day Star.

He was the brightest of the angels.

[ McGowan]
Satan is actually one of the archangels.

He is one of the high angels,
one of the highest ranking...

one of the most beautiful,
the most beloved.

He is beloved of God.

He is a bringer of light.

When God created man in his image...

he ordered all the angels
to worship his image in this man...

and Satan refused.

He says, “Look, they're mud people.
We're made out of fire.

I'm not going to do it.”

And so he gets kicked out.

He grew arrogant.
He began to challenge God.

And, for this arrogance,
he lost his heavenly position.

He was thrown out of the heavens and fell.

[Blai ] When Lucifer was cast down,
it was instant and abrupt and total...

and he was cast down to Earth
to roam here until the end of time.

[ Narrator] Although few references are
made to Satan in the Hebrew testament...

he is depicted as an opposer or accuser...

and is generally acknowledged...

to have been the inspiration
for the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

[Man] One of the great stories
in the Bible is Adam and Eve in the garden.

You know, we have this picture
of a beautiful garden scene...

and Adam and Eve in their innocence...

just enjoying God and each other
in this beautiful creation.

And all of a sudden enters Satan
in the form of a snake.

And he finds Eve close to the one thing,
the one law, God gave mankind.

[ Narrator]
According to the Book of Genesis...

God placed two trees in the garden-

the Tree of Life and the
Tree of Knowledge...

and forbade Adam and Eve to eat fruit
from the Tree of Knowledge.

Satan convinces Eve to eat of the fruit of the
Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil...

and she convinces Adam to do that.

And, of course, we see that suddenly
their whole personality changes.

[Peterson] Prior to eating of the forbidden
fruit, Adam and Eve were sinless.

It means that the one law
that God gave them, they had not disobeyed.

Satan himself decided that if he could
get them to break that one law...

then sin would enter mankind.

And when Adam ate,
all mankind from that point on...

has been selfish, prideful...

and were genetically given the ability...

and, really, the desire
to rebel against authority...

and thus obtain the knowledge
of good and evil.

[ Narrator]
But is this story of Adam and Eve...

really a fanciful account
of how evil entered the world...

or might there be another,
even more profound, explanation?

You can make a case
that Eve actually wants to mature.

She wants to grow up.

God wants to keep us in a state
of perpetual innocence...

infantility perhaps.

Eve decides that knowing
everything she can know...

about this world
into which she has been placed...

is more important even
than obeying a particular command of God.

The serpent enables her.

Satan's wanting to give humanity
all this incredible wisdom...

that maybe can even elevate humankind
to the level of gods...

but the Old Testament God Yahweh
is saying, “Not so fast.

Humankind aren't perhaps
worthy of this knowledge.”

And this becomes then the battle
between God and Satan.

[Narrator] Was the serpent's temptation
of Adam and Eve really a case of sabotage?

Was it a deliberate effort to seduce
mankind into sinning against its creator?

Or might Satan's real purpose...

have been to encourage mankind
to share the fruits of God's wisdom?

Ancient astronaut theorists...

believe more clues may lie
in another book of the Hebrew testament.

Southern Israel.

This dry, sun-blasted desert
was once the realm of Edam...

an ancient kingdom...

that some researchers believe
was home to the biblical figure job.

According to the Hebrew Bible, job was
among the wealthiest men in the kingdom...

and owned enormous herds of cattle,
sheep and camels.

He was also among the most righteous,
making sacrifices to the Almighty God...

to atone for his transgressions
and the sins of his family.

[Man] In the story of Job, Satan is part
of the heavenly council of angels...

and the council meets
and God is at the council meeting.

And basically,
he and Satan have a discussion.

[Man] And God says,
“Look at Job. He's very faithful.”

And Satan, in charge of quality control,
says, “Well, of course.

You know, you give him everything.
What do you expect?”

[McGowan]
And Satan actually challenges God...

and says, “If Job were tempted...

if he no longer had all of these wonderful
things that God had given to him...

what happens to him then?”

Satan convinces God
that job should be tested...

to see if he is really all that good.

And this is where Satan becomes
the first adversary...

the first tester of humans.

[Young]
So it's interesting in this story.

Satan is actually working with God...

as a kind of member of his staff
or his heavenly counsel.

[Henry] The divine council of God
is very interesting...

because we learn that it is composed
of various angelic beings, including Satan.

And the idea is
that these are advanced beings...

who carry out God's orders
and God's wishes...

from the commands of this council.

It really seems like we're seeing
some kind of divine bureaucracy...

something like you would see in a
corporate or a governmental bureaucracy.

[ Narrator] Could our notion
of Satan as an evil force be incorrect?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe
there is much more to the story...

and that the answer may be found, not
only in the pages of the Hebrew Bible...

but on ancient scrolls...

scrolls whose origins date back
thousands of years.

Qumran, the West Bank.

Here, during a series of excavations
beginning in 1949...

archaeologists unearth
hundreds of ancient scrolls.

They are believed to have been written
by a Hebrew sect known as the Essenes...

more than 2,000 years ago.

Several of the scrolls contain fragments...

of what has become known
as the Book of Enoch...

and the account of a rebellion launched
by a group of angels called the Watchers.

One of the most famous parts
of the Book of Enoch...

is the story of the Watchers.

This is a story about 200 angels...

that were charged with watching
over mankind in its early stages...

and basically taking care of us,
looking out for us.

The Watchers are a group of angels...

who are dispatched to watch humans
and to help humans.

Now the Watchers are very interesting...

because they are angels
who interact with humans.

[ Blai ] There's a brief
reference to this in Genesis...

but the Book of Enoch
essentially expands that story...

and tells a more full story.

This was taken out of the canon
of the Bible early in the Church's life...

but it was in for a period of time.

[ McGowan] Once the Watchers
begin to interact with humans...

they become infatuated
with this new species...

and they become lustful
of this new species.

And all of a sudden, the original idea...

the original commands that they were given
seem a lot less interesting to them.

[Blai ] They came to a point where they
wanted to take wives and have children...

and so they decided to rebel,
create bodies...

marry and bear children.

[Shouting Voices ]

[ Narrator]
According to the Book of Enoch...

the leader of this rebellion is a Watcher
known as Shemyaza or Satanael.

Could this be the same character
we know as Satan?

So what we're seeing in the story
of Shemyaza and the Watchers...

is very similar to the story
of Lucifer in charge of the angels.

In both cases, we're confronted
with a hierarchy of a species...

which is between us and God...

the leader of which disagrees with God and
basically wants to live amongst mankind.

When you look at different versions
of the Book of Enoch...

the one thing that combines all of them...

is that they talk about the Watchers-

the Watchers from Heaven-

and they are the ones who gave knowledge.

And when I look at terms
such as “Watchers from Heaven”...

then personally, I interpret them...

as possible extraterrestrials.

[ Overlapping Voices ]

[ Narrator] Do the ancient accounts
of Shemyaza's revolt and Lucifer's fall...

suggest that Satan's efforts
to corrupt mankind in the Garden of Eden...

were actually an attempt
to give man forbidden knowledge?

And might these legends
be based, not on myth...

but on actual historical events...

events involving extraterrestrial visitors?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and believe that close examination
of the Book of Enoch...

may point to physical evidence of where
Satan's so-called rebellion against God...

may have actually occurred.

Mount Hermon, Lebanon.

Straddling the border of Syria...

this legendary mountain,
as described in the Book of Enoch...

is the peak where Shemyaza
and the Watchers descended to Earth.

[Blai] In the Book of Enoch,
there's a reference to Mount Hermon.

We see the angels basically descending
to Mount Hermon.

So Mount Hermon was both
a place of connection with Heaven...

and kind of a sally port
between Earth and Heaven.

The Watchers, being angels from Heaven,
knew the sciences of Heaven.

Shemyaza was basically an expert
in enchantment and root cutting.

You could think of it as,
basically, witchcraft-

the casting of spells, creating magic
and using roots to create potions.

The Book of Enoch lists
very specifically...

the subjects that are taught to humans
by the Watchers...

by these angels who begin
to share their wisdom with them.

[ Narrator]
The Book of Enoch describes Mount Hermon...

as the place where Shemyaza taught humans
about magic and medicine.

Other powerful angels
passed on knowledge...

of metallurgy, weapons...

astrology, science...

and even warfare.

[Man ] The Watchers delivered to humanity
the forbidden knowledge of God.

All the stories in ancient cultures-
cross-cultural-

had these tales of beings
that would deliver...

the forbidden knowledge
of the gods to humans...

and they were all condemned for it.

[ McGowan ] The Watchers, through
Shemyaza, give us extraordinary tools...

which make our lives much,
much better on Earth.

So is Shemyaza really a bad guy...

or did he, in fact,
liberate humans from ignorance?

And if Shemyaza actually
is the forerunner of Satan...

has Satan actually been misrepresented
all of these years?

[ Narrator] Is it possible that Shemyaza
and the other Watchers...

were extraterrestrial beings that gave
humanity the foundations for civilization?

Then, if so, how did Satan
come to be so misunderstood...

and misinterpreted by history?

If we equal Shemyaza and Satan...

what we're confronted with here
is a larger framework...

which basically tells us...

that Shemyaza, Satan,
were here to civilize us.

The Watchers were civilizing deities.

They basically helped us
to develop our skills of civilization.

And so, what we're confronted with here...

is basically the conclusion
that civilization the way we know it...

is not something divine,
but it's literally satanic.

It was Satan who gave us
the tools of civilization.

[ Narrator] Was Satan really
a civilizing force for early humans...

as some ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

And if so,
might further evidence be found...

by examining
other ancient myths and legends?

In ancient Sumeria, you have these
very curious stories of the Anunnaki.

The Anunnaki were half god, half man,
who came down from the stars.

They were instructing the Sumerians
in various arts of civilization.

They were very strange looking.

They had elongated heads.

They looked almost like
insect-type people...

or what they call reptilian features
in a sense...

or a viper visage...

as the Watchers were called in the Bible.

In global cultures,
we find constant references...

to these giant celestial beings
coming to Earth...

and initiating, or instructing humankind.

Satan himself
is considered to be a seraphim...

which means “winged serpents”
or “fiery serpents”...

but yet the word seraphim contains
the word “ser,” meaning “serpent”...

and “rephaim,” meaning “giant.”

[ Narrator] Was the character we know as
Satan really an extraterrestrial being...

one who broke with his own species in order
to live among our distant ancestors?

Did he, along with
other so-called fallen angels...

actually break with God,
not out of spite or arrogance...

but instead to help mankind?

Perhaps further clues can be found
in legends of a flying serpent...

and in the story of a Titan who
was savagely punished for all eternity.

The Yucatán Peninsula.

Here in the jungles of southern Mexico...

lie the ruins
of the great Mayan city Chichén Itzá.

Constructed more
than a thousand years ago...

Chichén Itzá was one of the largest and
most powerful cities in the Mayan world.

And dominating the site
is the great pyramid El Castillo. ..

A temple built to honor
the Mayan serpent god Kukulkan.

[Henry] Kukulkan is a name for Satan,
or for the winged serpent.

He's always portrayed
as a wisdom-bearing being...

who delivers this cosmic knowledge
to humankind.

Often we'll see Kukulkan portrayed
as half human or half serpent...

or as a human being coming out
of the mouth of the serpent.

This is how Christianity
will traditionally portray Satan-

as a dragon figure
or a serpentine-like being.

The question is, why is
he depicted as such?

And I think we really can find out
that Kukulkan is not unique in this sense.

[ Narrator] One of the most powerful gods
in the Mayan pantheon...

Kukulkan was believed
to have descended from the stars.

He is also credited
with teaching astronomy...

mathematics and agriculture to mankind.

[Henry] This is identical
to the Christian tradition...

of Satan being the serpent
of the Tree of Knowledge...

delivering the forbidden wisdom
to humanity.

In the Book of Enoch,
we learn of the Watchers...

who are described as having visages
of vipers or the face of a serpent...

and delivering this powerful
knowledge to humankind.

So it's possible that what we're seeing
in all of these instances...

is the same figure or representative
of the same tribe of angels...

the satanic beings or these
serpentine-like angel beings.

[ Narrator]
Are the stories of Satan and Kukulkan...

really based on the same being, as many
ancient astronaut theorists believe?

And, if so, might this same character
also be found...

in the myths and legends
of other ancient cultures?

[COPPENS] Satan, as a creature
who comes out nowhere...

to live amongst mankind and teach us...

is not something which
is limited to the Bible.

We find it in most traditions
across the world.

[ Narrator] According to the legends
of ancient Greece...

the Titan known as Prometheus
sinned against the gods...

by stealing the secret of fire
and giving it to man.

For his transgression, he was doomed
to suffer a gruesome, eternal punishment...

by being chained to a rock
and having an eagle eat his liver...

only to have the organ
grow back each night...

so that the eagle could continue
to feast on it the next clay.

He's a god that becomes associated with
humans, because he's a champion for humans.

Right, and the mythological stories
talk about...

how Prometheus is basically
like their representative.

[ Narrator]
Another such deity was the god Viracocha.

Worshipped by the ancient Inca
in the Andes of South America...

Viracocha was a powerful creator god...

who came to Earth
to pass on celestial knowledge.

Like Prometheus, this Incan god
was described as a bringer of light...

and is depicted in ancient
Incan sculpture...

as holding two lightning bolts
and wearing the sun as a crown.

The Inca describe a luminous being
called Viracoca or Viracocha...

who brought knowledge of medicine,
astronomy and other advanced sciences.

It's possible that Viracocha
is the same as Shemyaza or Satan...

as a figure bringing this liberating wisdom
to humankind...

that seeks to bring us along the path
of advancement and enlightenment.

So you have to ask yourself...

“Why would such diverse cultures
have such similar mythologies?”

[COPPENS]
In the case of Viracocha...

what we see is a deity
which manifests itself from Earth...

lives amongst mankind,
gives us sciences...

and after a number of years,
disappears again.

[ Narrator] The ancient Egyptians
had cults that worshipped the god Seth...

a divine being who, like Satan,
ruled over darkness and chaos.

[COPPENS]
The tradition of civilizing deities...

who go around civilizing, educating us...

is something which we find
in all traditions.

Whether they are the great cultures
of Egypt, Inca or the Mayan empires...

or smaller cultures
elsewhere in the universe.

And so what we're finding is that
the story of Satan as a civilizing deity...

is definitely not unique...

but sits within a clear framework
across the entire world.

And it shows you
that the importance of Satan...

is not just something limited
to the Bible...

but really tells us an awful lot
about civilization as a whole.

[ Narrator]
Could it be that these ancient myths...

were actually describing
the same creature...

the fallen angel we now refer to as Satan?

But how then did a creature...

who is so often credited with bringing
mankind knowledge and enlightenment...

become thought of as the personification
of all things evil?

The word “Lucifer” comes from Latin.

Mix “lux,” 'ferre”-

“Making light.”

it's the same as in the Greek mythology-

Prometheus who stole the
light from the gods.

It's really a sympathetic idea...

that all these figures are finally
just one figure in different languages...

but they were sympathetic to the humans.

It is quite possible
that our religious traditions...

and those who selected the old holy texts
some thousands of years ago...

they made out an evil figure
out of Lucifer and the devil.

And maybe it was the other way around:
He was the good one.

[COPPENS ] When we're looking
at something like Satan...

we're not necessarily
talking about morality...

but we're actually exploring things
about our ancestors.

We're exploring mythology.

We're exploring accounts
of our ancestors...

saying that they developed civilization
not on their own...

but with the help
of nonhuman intelligences...

and in the case of one such story,
we see that that intelligence is Satan.

[CHILDRESS] In many ways,
Satan may well be a person, a god...

an angel, an E.T. who's
maligned in a sense.

Lucifer is Prometheus.

He's the light bringer.

He's the god of hard work.

He's the one who brings us fire.

He's the one who gives us the opportunity
to do things ourselves.

[ Narrator]
If the biblical character of Satan...

is really based
on an extraterrestrial being-

one who stole technology from his
masters in order to benefit early man-

then why is he now reviled
as a creature of consummate evil?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer may lie...

not in ancient scriptures...

but in numerous accounts
of demonic possession.

Klingenberg, Germany...

located 32 miles southeast of Frankfurt.

This small city is home to one
of the most famous and frightening cases...

of demonic possession ever recorded.

In September 1973,
a young woman named Anneliese Michel...

began hearing voices that told her
she was damned and would rot in hell.

When medical treatments failed,
she sought the help of an exorcist.

[ Michel, Priest Speaking German]

[Michel Growling]

[ Narrator] Demonic possession is perhaps
the most frightening and visceral...

of all phenomena associated with Satan.

According to Christian tradition...

possession occurs
when a demon enters the body...

corrupting a person '5 physical
and spiritual being.

The belief in demonic possession
is widespread.

It seems to show up
pretty much all over the planet.

It was believed to be the presence
of a satanic energy...

a truly dark, terrible evil
that could take over a person-

take over their body,
take over their mind-

and they would be acting
with no free will.

They would be a complete slave
to the power of the dark side.

[Blai] Demons manifest
on Earth to interact with people...

to afflict us and tempt us
in various ways.

The oppression involves
physically wounding us, attacking us...

causing effects on our body and our mind.

Possession is when we surrender
our lower faculties to them...

and they take over our body
and use it as their own...

and, in rare cases, they can appear
visibly to multiple people...

as supposed human spirits.

[ Narrator] Most Christians
believe demons are evil incarnations...

of the other angels who followed Lucifer
in his rebellion against the Almighty God.

They bear names like Beelzebub...

Asmodeus...

Moloch and Mammon...

and are dedicated
to corrupting the souls of mankind.

Biblically speaking, the demonic comes
from the fallen angels-

those who fell with Lucifer
during the great wars in Heaven.

And their purpose is to deceive humanity,
to lead them astray...

to distract them from God.

And there are many castes.

They range from your basic thugs
on the bottom...

all the way up to your, if you will,
your intelligentsia...

that is governing behind the scenes
of the affairs of mankind.

[Blai] It is essentially-
You can imagine a military structure...

with generals, officers, privates.

There's basically nine levels...

which are fallen angels of various ranks
serving under each other...

ultimately serving Satan.

[ Narrator]
In many religious traditions...

there are sacred rites to exorcize these
demons from the bodies of the afflicted.

[ Larson]
Let her go. Let her go.

I come against you again, Satan,
by the blood of Christ.

[ Narrator] The Reverend Bob Larson
is an evangelical minister and exorcist...

who says he has come face-to-face
with the demonic and the truly satanic.

By the blood of Christ,
I torment you, Satan.

- [ Grunting]
- You can't have her.

She belongs to God.

I torment you.
I torment you by the blood of Christ.

I torment you!

I'm here to be an instrument of God...

to cast out the devil, to free human souls.

It's not my power that does it.
It's God's power.

I'm simply the instrument that he uses.

- But my mission-
- [ Man Groans]

Is to get every demon possible
out of every possible human being...

and send them straight to hell.

How long have you had her?

Bring me some oil, please.

I anoint you in the name of the Father,
the Son and the Holy Spirit.

How long have you had this woman?
How many generations?

[Shouting] How many generations?

A demon is metaphysical.

It is invisible. It's spirit.

Doesn't have a physical body,
so a demon can't really do anything evil.

A demon can't start a war...

can't pull the trigger of a gun,
can't rape anybody.

A demon needs a body
to accomplish its evil purposes...

so demons are looking
to inhabit human souls...

so that through the physicality
of human beings...

they can bring about their plan
of death and destruction.

[ Narrator] According to Larson
and other Christian theologians...

demonic forces have
always been present on Earth...

and demons
are continually traveling to Earth...

to sow the seeds of ruin.

But where exactly are they coming from?

Is it hell, or perhaps someplace else?

[ Larson] Both the Jewish
and Christian scriptures...

as well as other religious books
that delve into the subject of demonism...

never fully describe
the nature of their existence...

where they operate.

It seems to be in a kind
of parallel reality...

another dimension,
out of our time-space continuum.

They're there. We're here.

Einstein opened a little bit of a door
into the possibility of other realms.

We are getting a small glimpse of the reality
that exists beyond our understanding.

We just need to know
there's another realm out there...

and when I do an exorcism,
I step in and out of those realms.

I'm in the physical, natural realm...

but I'm also invading the realm
in which demons operate.

So I step from the physical
into the metaphysical.

I don't have to understand
what's going on there.

I'm on a simple mission:

Not to find out everything I can
about that world...

but to get the demon out of the human soul.

[ Narrator] Might devils and demons
really be beings from another realm?

And might that realm not be hell,
but an actual extraterrestrial world?

And are they really malevolent?

Or might they have another,
perhaps even more profound, agenda?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answers maybe found...

in the mysterious prophecies
of the Book of Revelation.

Megiddo, Israel.

Located 11 miles from Nazareth...

this ancient city is mentioned
more than a dozen times in the Bible...

most prominently
in the prophetic Book of Revelation.

According to the religious text,
it is outside this city...

on the so-called Plains of Megiddo...

where the forces of the Almighty God...

will wage a final battle
against Satan and the forces of evil.

The Book of Revelation is certainly one of
the most complicated books in the Bible...

and it belongs to a separate set of
material that's called apocalyptic.

It is a book that gives visions
of the future to come.

[ Peterson ] There's a battle that will
take place in a valley in Israel...

called Megiddo, or Har Megiddo,
thus Armageddon-we get the term.

Satan himself will gather
the armies of the world to Megiddo...

to fight Jesus Christ.

Satan takes on a more
physical appearance...

uses various technologies to enslave
more and more of mankind.

Ultimately,
he becomes a geopolitical force...

basically, essentially a dictator
of the entire world.

[ Narrator]
The Book of Revelation further describes...

that this battle will be fought
in Heaven and on Earth.

Angels will descend from the sky.

Demons will spread out across the land
to destroy with fiery swords...

and the Almighty God
will rain destruction down upon Earth.

[McGowan ] The Book of the Revelation
is really a pretty terrifying document...

if we're to look at it and think that
these things could happen literally.

I mean, when you look
at what's happening in the book...

we have cataclysms on the Earth.

We have earthquakes.
We have fire raining from the sky.

We have angels doing battle in Heaven.

And then repeatedly,
we have Satan coming back.

[ Narrator] But could it be
that this biblical prophecy...

isn't a doomsday prediction
of cataclysm and war...

but it has another,
even more profound, interpretation?

The Book of Revelation gives us
some of the clearest depictions...

of what not a few moderns
would call extraterrestrial activity.

Think about it.

We have supernatural beings flying
through the cosmos blowing trumpets...

casting fire upon the Earth.

We have great conflict
between light and darkness, good and evil.

There's a cosmic dualism going on here...

that involves, in the end,
the reassertion of divine authority...

over those wayward angels
who had gone astray so long ago.

[ Narrator]
Extraterrestrial combat?

Could the Bible's Book of Revelation
really be referring to a galactic war...

one waged
over the ultimate fate of mankind?

If so, who or what is Satan?

Is he a demon, the devil,
the personification of evil?

Or was he, in fact,
a benevolent extraterrestrial being...

one who stole technology
from alien beings...

in an effort to lead early man
out of darkness and ignorance?

If so, then why did Satan
become a force for evil?

Does he seek to punish mankind
for siding with our creator against him?

Perhaps he is testing us...

using alien technology
to modify human behavior...

in ways we have yet to understand.

He's this idea of an adversary,
this idea of a liar or a tester...

combined with this concept of Lucifer,
the fallen angel...

combined with this leader of the
Watchers who also leads a rebellion...

and I think that ultimately
what we find...

is that Lucifer is a conflation-

a character who is a composite...

of all of these different ideas
and different characters.

It's important for us to
remember that Satan...

is part of the class of angels
called seraphim.

The seraphim were sent to Earth...

as benefactors of humankind
bringing wisdom.

The Church has created this evil monster
out of Satan...

perhaps even out of thin air...

when in reality, Satan's entire mission...

was about bringing knowledge
and wisdom to humanity...

and, in fact, caring about humanity,
not seeking to destroy humankind.

[CHILDRESS]
In a sense, Satan's not such a bad guy.

You cannot have the light without the dark.

You can't have right without wrong.

And we have to learn these things
for ourselves.

And ultimately, through choice,
wrong and right...

we grow and we become who we are.

And ultimately,
that is to be like our makers-

to become gods ourselves.

[ Narrator] Might Satan's reputation
as the personification of evil...

really have been his punishment
for giving mankind scientific knowledge?

If so, might his evil acts
really be expressions of revenge...

against the human creatures
that abandoned him?

Or are the evil deeds
associated with Satan...

really a part of a grand plan...

a series of moral challenges...

intended to prepare us for our next,
and perhaps final...

close encounter?

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