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WisconsinChristianNews.com Volume 27, Issue 3 Test the Spirits Before You Follow the Aliens
By Jane Isley Summer 2026
been fed for decades, then no, the Bible does not ad- dress that. But if “alien” means the demonic forces that operate beyond our physical understanding, the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms, then Christians are looking in the right direction. Re- member, the Bible does not leave us hanging on any topic. If you believe God is the Creator of everything, and you believe in the Bible as His final word, then we have to ask a sim- ple question. Would He re- ally leave His people uninformed about something this significant? God made sure Esther, Song of Solomon, and Rev- elation were included in Scripture. Those three have
When asked what my thoughts are about aliens, unexplained phenomena, how Christians should process all of this, and if it will affect our faith, I find myself less concerned with what is flying above our heads and far more concerned with what is no longer happening in our churches. The real crisis at hand is the prevalent Biblical il- literacy within the Church, and before anyone can have a meaningful conversation about aliens, we have to define the word itself first. In the modern cultural context, aliens mean little grey beings, ab- ductions, bright lights, and flying saucers. That en- tire image was handed to us by Hollywood, not by God. People who insist the Bible never mentions aliens are reacting to that cultural construct, not to Scripture. They are interpreting the Bible through a pop-culture lens instead of pausing to consider what God’s Word actually describes for us, and that is precisely the problem. If “alien” means the pop-culture image we have
tion shifts to aliens? No, because that is already what I am seeing. Religious and church leaders are unable to answer questions Biblically on extrater- restrial life because they themselves are not grounded in Scripture. People have been conditioned for decades to find these topics fascinating instead of spiritually alarm- ing. Entertainment desensitized us, teaching Scrip- tural truth became optional, leaders were afraid to admit they did not have all the answers, and con- gregations stopped asking for definitions. Now we have people who cannot find a book in the Bible try- ing to interpret declassified UFO files. That is the real disaster. If extraterrestrials, in the pop-culture sense, re- vealed themselves tomorrow, Christianity would not collapse. The remnant, those six percent who are grounded in Scripture, would not flinch. What it would do is expose how unprepared the ninety-four percent are, and that is not a failure of God or His Word. That is a failure of discipleship. People will be deceived into embracing them as something excit- ing, or worse, as benevolent. Those who truly know God and His Word will in- terpret any nonhuman encounter through Scrip- ture, not through Hollywood. They will test the spirits as they are told to do in 1 John 4:1, “Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.” The urgent question to ask now is not whether aliens are real, but whether you actually know the God you claim to believe in. As for me and my house, I am not losing sleep over files or sightings. I know Who wins. What keeps me awake is the staggering number of people who will be deceived because no one built them a foundation to stand on, and I see leaders failing already in their conversations to explain this to the public. Before we debate conclusions on whether our faith would be affected, we have to define what we are talking about, because the deception is not coming. It is already here. FaithfulWriters.com
been points of contention as to their being in the Bible. If He made sure they were added, no, He did not accidentally forget to mention an entire category of beings that would one day dominate global conversation. The idea that God would expect His people to navigate something this spiritually charged with- out any guidance does not match His character either. The Bible is not silent about this. It simply does not call them aliens. Eph- esians 6:12 describes rulers, authori- ties, powers of this dark world, and spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. These are real entities with real influence. Second Thessalonians 2 warns that the lawless one will use signs, wonders, and displays of power that serve the lie. That is a deceptive strategy. Here is the part that keeps me up at night. Research consistently shows that only about six percent of self-identified
Christians hold a Biblical worldview. That means ninety-four percent of people who call them- selves “Christian” are walking into this mo- ment with almost no Scriptural foundation. We already watched churches fold on basic questions about gender, life, and God’s design. Do I think those churches that surrendered that ground are suddenly going to stand Biblically firm when the conversa-
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