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Extraterrestrials in Biblical Prophecy and the New Age Great Experiment
Professor Schellhorn has skillfully demonstrated the large body of evidence that suggests extraterrestrial visitors have long been occupied with visiting our planet, biologically engineering the develoment of man and directing certain control cultures such as the early Hebrews. The return of the Messiah "out of the clouds" is not metaphor but fact--and that Messiah's "army of heaven" is not only truly extraterrestrial but has been here before.
427 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 1990
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July 20, 2023
WAS JESUS A ‘MESSIAH-ASTRONAUT?’ ARE SPACESHIPS THE ‘SECOND COMING’?
Author G. Cope Schellhorn wrote in the Introduction to this 1989 book, “This is not the first word to offer the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was (is) either a messiah-astronaut or, at the very least, working closely with extraterrestrial visitors to the planet… this is… the first work which attempts a detailed, extensive textual analysis of the Judeo-Christian scriptures in support of such ideas. My research is offered with the full knowledge that theologians as a group are adverse to the idea of someone poking around in the sacrosanct with a new way of looking at things… Just what did I find… that suggests visitations to earth by ancient astronauts? I found considerable evidence that Moses, Enoch, Noah, Elijhah, Jacob, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechariah… including Jesus and St. John, had contact with extraterrestrial visitors…
“Not fully understanding the wonderful things they were missing, they came to the logical conclusion that their visitors were an incarnation of the Godhead and his helpers, the angels.. Sometimes…they interpreted even the spacecrafts themselves as being either God or angels… the visitors made little attempt to disabuse them of their mistakes of identity. These visitors … were more concerned with carrying out their mission(s) than explaining themselves and their technology…
“Our visitors were intent upon passing on to men… moral and practical advice… for the more orderly development of human society. They also passed on many warnings… Our visitors also seem to be … directed by an authority greater than themselves… a Greater God… They could, of course, have been spoofing us… but there seems little… evidence to substantiate such a suspicion… has the plight of the earth in this ‘end time’ anything to do with the plethora of UFO sightings since the end of World War II and our development of the means to almost instantly annihilate ourselves? I think so…” (Pg. viii-xii)
He states in Chapter One, “Who are these beings that came down from the sky[?]… It is true that … they are most often called… ‘Lord,’ ‘God,’ or ‘angels’… But when we are given a description IN DETAIL… certain attributes … appear over and over again. There is bright light and lightning, fire and smoke, wind and whirlwinds, quakes, thunder and noise in general… these descriptions… often describe what we might expect to see and hear at the landing of a spacecraft… It helps to try to put ourselves in the mind of an Israelite of the pre-Christian era… His language has definite limitations trying to deal with what he has never seen…” (Pg. 1-2)
He suggests, “The problem is, man has often mistaken the messengers for God himself and… these messengers have allowed the mistake to go unclarified… It would appear that ‘they’ had a certain idea as to what man would most likely accept, what would… motivate him psychologically and spiritually.” (Pg. 13)
He observes, “What exactly was the ‘star’ of Bethlehem[?]… Stars move gradually at the night progresses, but they do not COME TO A STOP. UFOs can and do…” (Pg. 23) He says of Paul’s conversion, “[What was] that ‘light from heaven’ that ‘flashed about him’… that temporarily blinded him, as might radiation burns from a hovering spacecraft?” (Pg. 29) He adds “references to ‘clouds’ in association with extraterrestrial activity is not unusual…If we keep in mind the propensity of clouds and spacecraft to be found in the same proximity… and … the recurved bow of antiquity looks in silhouette… like a disc or ‘flying saucer.” (Pg. 41-42)
He speculates about the Transfiguration, “It is scientifically possible that [Peter and James] were actually looking at the original Moses and Elijah [if they] were transported … aboard a spacecraft… at speeds close to the speed of life, or even beyond it, they would only be a few years older … than… when first taken aboard ship… The idea of Jesus as an ancient astronaut… is supported by more evidence than many people, including theologians and governments, would like to believe.” (Pg. 46-47)
He postulates, “It is… possible that during … those billions of years prior to the Genesis creation of the Adam and Eve prototype that extraterrestrials alone made their abode on earth or that they shared the planet at some time with a struggling hominid species that … they decided to eugenically improve.” (Pg. 56) Later, he adds, “after the biological experimentation… (all done in a laboratory called the Garden of Eden) and… direct interbreeding with the new specimens, or visitors had a new planet… Adam was a eugenic experiment.” (Pg. 61, 65)
He asserts, “The idea that there may have been more than one creator involved in the formation of man … such as our extraterrestrial visitors… is an idea so offensive to a theology built up over time into an unbending monotheism…their persuasive conclusion…. Has shaped men’s minds in spite of the evidence of the scriptures themselves.” (Pg. 57-58)
He suggests, “Nephilim, who are most likely our visitors, their eugenic creation Adamic man, some other humanoid mutants that they also created and their literal offspring the demigods, all existed at the same time along with the local genetically unimproved populace. This is a mix rife with all kinds of possible evolutionary … overtones… Our visitors were soon ‘sorry’ they had ‘made man on the earth,’ and their leadership decided to ‘blot out man’ (Gen 6:6-7).” (Pg. 75-76) The Tower of Babel was “an adventure rather naively intended to rival the work of the ‘gods’ in the past, to match them, to impress them.” (Pg. 82)
He summarizes, “It might be important and satisfying to know all the truth about our visitors, but it is more important now to acknowledge their contribution… to man’s uplift… The complete truth will have to wait until our visitors are willing to tell us more. Whoever they are, we owe them a debt of thanks… we are their children… They are surely our benefactors and friends, perhaps ever our genetic brothers and sisters.” (Pg. 92-93)
He insists, “even if no other book of Judeo-Christian scripture contained material that suggested extraterrestrial contact with earth… the Book of Ezekiel alone would give serious cause to contemplate the possibility of there having been such.” (Pg. 100) What happened to Enoch “has the basic markings of an abduction.” (Pg. 125) “Whatever happened to Zechariah… Those who accosted him … were not very interested in explaining… They let him draw his own conclusions in his own words but helped him apply a heavy religious gloss to the actual physical description of his encounter.” (Pg. 175-176)
He speculates, “the Master Jesus who became the Christ travels… where he wants, when he wants… perhaps, by means of a UFO.” (Pg. 204) “Christ’s armies … that descend during the … Second Coming are his cosmic friends, extraterrestrials complete with tangible spacecraft….[to perform] the physical plucking up and removal into their spacecraft of those elect who can best serve in the sky rather than literally on the ground…” (Pg. 320)
He acknowledges, “The problem of no [physical evidence has been used too frequently to dismiss claims for the validity of UFO phenomena… And yet it is reasonable to believe that if bodies have sometimes been recovered… we can assume that official agencies would be very reticent to ever admit that they were in possession of any.” (Pg. 363-364)
He concludes, “Whether extraterrestrials will ever land … I cannot say. But they will continue their presence in the sky until the fateful last hours of this cycle of civilization are played out. Of that I am certain. Their presence in numbers, I am convinced, tells us that we are living in those last hours.” (Pg. 376)
Mr. Schellhorn’s very imaginative biblical interpretations are unlikely to persuade any Scripture scholars. (He was an English professor, not a Biblical Studies scholar or Hebrew/Greek linguist.) But for people who enjoy such ‘Jesus was an astronaut’ interpretations, his interpretations go much more in depth than those of other similar books.
Author G. Cope Schellhorn wrote in the Introduction to this 1989 book, “This is not the first word to offer the idea that Jesus of Nazareth was (is) either a messiah-astronaut or, at the very least, working closely with extraterrestrial visitors to the planet… this is… the first work which attempts a detailed, extensive textual analysis of the Judeo-Christian scriptures in support of such ideas. My research is offered with the full knowledge that theologians as a group are adverse to the idea of someone poking around in the sacrosanct with a new way of looking at things… Just what did I find… that suggests visitations to earth by ancient astronauts? I found considerable evidence that Moses, Enoch, Noah, Elijhah, Jacob, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Zechariah… including Jesus and St. John, had contact with extraterrestrial visitors…
“Not fully understanding the wonderful things they were missing, they came to the logical conclusion that their visitors were an incarnation of the Godhead and his helpers, the angels.. Sometimes…they interpreted even the spacecrafts themselves as being either God or angels… the visitors made little attempt to disabuse them of their mistakes of identity. These visitors … were more concerned with carrying out their mission(s) than explaining themselves and their technology…
“Our visitors were intent upon passing on to men… moral and practical advice… for the more orderly development of human society. They also passed on many warnings… Our visitors also seem to be … directed by an authority greater than themselves… a Greater God… They could, of course, have been spoofing us… but there seems little… evidence to substantiate such a suspicion… has the plight of the earth in this ‘end time’ anything to do with the plethora of UFO sightings since the end of World War II and our development of the means to almost instantly annihilate ourselves? I think so…” (Pg. viii-xii)
He states in Chapter One, “Who are these beings that came down from the sky[?]… It is true that … they are most often called… ‘Lord,’ ‘God,’ or ‘angels’… But when we are given a description IN DETAIL… certain attributes … appear over and over again. There is bright light and lightning, fire and smoke, wind and whirlwinds, quakes, thunder and noise in general… these descriptions… often describe what we might expect to see and hear at the landing of a spacecraft… It helps to try to put ourselves in the mind of an Israelite of the pre-Christian era… His language has definite limitations trying to deal with what he has never seen…” (Pg. 1-2)
He suggests, “The problem is, man has often mistaken the messengers for God himself and… these messengers have allowed the mistake to go unclarified… It would appear that ‘they’ had a certain idea as to what man would most likely accept, what would… motivate him psychologically and spiritually.” (Pg. 13)
He observes, “What exactly was the ‘star’ of Bethlehem[?]… Stars move gradually at the night progresses, but they do not COME TO A STOP. UFOs can and do…” (Pg. 23) He says of Paul’s conversion, “[What was] that ‘light from heaven’ that ‘flashed about him’… that temporarily blinded him, as might radiation burns from a hovering spacecraft?” (Pg. 29) He adds “references to ‘clouds’ in association with extraterrestrial activity is not unusual…If we keep in mind the propensity of clouds and spacecraft to be found in the same proximity… and … the recurved bow of antiquity looks in silhouette… like a disc or ‘flying saucer.” (Pg. 41-42)
He speculates about the Transfiguration, “It is scientifically possible that [Peter and James] were actually looking at the original Moses and Elijah [if they] were transported … aboard a spacecraft… at speeds close to the speed of life, or even beyond it, they would only be a few years older … than… when first taken aboard ship… The idea of Jesus as an ancient astronaut… is supported by more evidence than many people, including theologians and governments, would like to believe.” (Pg. 46-47)
He postulates, “It is… possible that during … those billions of years prior to the Genesis creation of the Adam and Eve prototype that extraterrestrials alone made their abode on earth or that they shared the planet at some time with a struggling hominid species that … they decided to eugenically improve.” (Pg. 56) Later, he adds, “after the biological experimentation… (all done in a laboratory called the Garden of Eden) and… direct interbreeding with the new specimens, or visitors had a new planet… Adam was a eugenic experiment.” (Pg. 61, 65)
He asserts, “The idea that there may have been more than one creator involved in the formation of man … such as our extraterrestrial visitors… is an idea so offensive to a theology built up over time into an unbending monotheism…their persuasive conclusion…. Has shaped men’s minds in spite of the evidence of the scriptures themselves.” (Pg. 57-58)
He suggests, “Nephilim, who are most likely our visitors, their eugenic creation Adamic man, some other humanoid mutants that they also created and their literal offspring the demigods, all existed at the same time along with the local genetically unimproved populace. This is a mix rife with all kinds of possible evolutionary … overtones… Our visitors were soon ‘sorry’ they had ‘made man on the earth,’ and their leadership decided to ‘blot out man’ (Gen 6:6-7).” (Pg. 75-76) The Tower of Babel was “an adventure rather naively intended to rival the work of the ‘gods’ in the past, to match them, to impress them.” (Pg. 82)
He summarizes, “It might be important and satisfying to know all the truth about our visitors, but it is more important now to acknowledge their contribution… to man’s uplift… The complete truth will have to wait until our visitors are willing to tell us more. Whoever they are, we owe them a debt of thanks… we are their children… They are surely our benefactors and friends, perhaps ever our genetic brothers and sisters.” (Pg. 92-93)
He insists, “even if no other book of Judeo-Christian scripture contained material that suggested extraterrestrial contact with earth… the Book of Ezekiel alone would give serious cause to contemplate the possibility of there having been such.” (Pg. 100) What happened to Enoch “has the basic markings of an abduction.” (Pg. 125) “Whatever happened to Zechariah… Those who accosted him … were not very interested in explaining… They let him draw his own conclusions in his own words but helped him apply a heavy religious gloss to the actual physical description of his encounter.” (Pg. 175-176)
He speculates, “the Master Jesus who became the Christ travels… where he wants, when he wants… perhaps, by means of a UFO.” (Pg. 204) “Christ’s armies … that descend during the … Second Coming are his cosmic friends, extraterrestrials complete with tangible spacecraft….[to perform] the physical plucking up and removal into their spacecraft of those elect who can best serve in the sky rather than literally on the ground…” (Pg. 320)
He acknowledges, “The problem of no [physical evidence has been used too frequently to dismiss claims for the validity of UFO phenomena… And yet it is reasonable to believe that if bodies have sometimes been recovered… we can assume that official agencies would be very reticent to ever admit that they were in possession of any.” (Pg. 363-364)
He concludes, “Whether extraterrestrials will ever land … I cannot say. But they will continue their presence in the sky until the fateful last hours of this cycle of civilization are played out. Of that I am certain. Their presence in numbers, I am convinced, tells us that we are living in those last hours.” (Pg. 376)
Mr. Schellhorn’s very imaginative biblical interpretations are unlikely to persuade any Scripture scholars. (He was an English professor, not a Biblical Studies scholar or Hebrew/Greek linguist.) But for people who enjoy such ‘Jesus was an astronaut’ interpretations, his interpretations go much more in depth than those of other similar books.
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