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NARRATOR: He is
the personification of evil.
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KATHLEEN McGOWAN: Satan was the source
of torture and death and destruction.
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NARRATOR: He's the ruler of hell.
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JONATHAN YOUNG:
He grew arrogant.
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And he lost his heavenly position.
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He was thrown out of
the heavens and fell.
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NARRATOR: And he commands
an army of demons
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united on a vengeable quest:
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to destroy mankind.
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REV. BOB LARSON: A demon is a body
who accomplishes evil purposes.
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You can't have her.
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So they can bring about their
plan of death and destruction
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NARRATOR: But is the character
known as the prince of darkness,
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merely a myth?
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Or could he be something
much much more.
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
Satan may well be a person
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a god, an angel, an E.T.
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who's been malign in a sense.
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NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe
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we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And if so, could evidence be
found in centuries-old stories
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of a fallen angel?
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Could there really be
a Satan conspiracy?
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NARRATOR: He is called Satan...
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Lucifer...
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the Devil.
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And his name conjures up
horrifying images of a horned
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demon whose sole purpose is to
corrupt and destroy mankind.
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HENRY ANSGAR KELLY: Satan is
portrayed as the enemy of God.
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Trying to destroy good people,
to make good people bad and to,
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uh, keep them from being saved,
keep them from going to Heaven
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so that they can go to hell,
where he's in charge.
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McGOWAN: Satan has become the
catchall for the embodiment of evil.
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When we think of Satan, I think
there are two different ways
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that our brains can go.
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The first is this almost comical
character that rules over the
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land of flames, the red guy with
the horns and the pitchfork.
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But then, on the darker side, I
think that Satan has become this
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very, very terrifying,
frightening embodiment of evil
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who causes man to do terrible
things, who is the source of
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torture and death and destruction.
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NARRATOR: But are these
perceptions of Satan correct?
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Is he really the master of all
things evil in the universe?
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Lakeland, Florida.
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2012.
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Hundreds of faithful followers
congregate at the Ignited Church
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to witness the removal of demons
from those who believe they're
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possessed by the Devil.
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LARSON: You let him go.
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All the pain and the hurt you've
caused this man, you let him go.
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The Devil wants to get even.
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How else to hurt the heart of
God to the greatest possible
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extent but to harm the
beloved of his creation?
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The height of his creation.
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The thing that God loves most:
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humanity, human beings, me, you,
every single person on Earth.
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NARRATOR: In the ritual known
as exorcism, a priest or
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minister performs a sacred rite
in order to confront Satan and
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drive him back to hell.
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It is a ceremony that dates back
hundreds and perhaps thousands
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of years and is considered quite
controversial, even within the
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Catholic Church.
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LARSON: I torment you
by the blood of Christ.
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When I'm battling Satan, there
are a lot of mind games going on
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and it's a bit of a chess match.
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You think you have her, don't you?
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Don't you?
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WOMAN: Yes.
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LARSON: You think she's
yours, don't you?
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WOMAN: Mm-hmm.
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LARSON: Well, she's not.
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So I have to be mentally and
spiritually prepared for that.
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How long have you had her?
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WOMAN: Long time.
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LARSON: Yeah?
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Well, now it's gonna be a short time.
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Torment! Torment!
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Torment you.
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NARRATOR: But just who
or what is Satan?
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And why is he determined to
corrupt all of humanity?
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Perhaps the answers can be found
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in the myths and legends that
describe Satan's ancient origins.
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ADAM BLAI: In the beginning,
Satan was one of the angels that
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was created by God before the
physical universe was created.
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And there was basically a
sphere of angels around God,
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worshiping God.
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And Satan at that time was
Lucifer or the Day Star.
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He was the brightest of the angels.
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McGOWAN: Satan is actually
one of the archangels.
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He is one of the high angels,
one of the highest ranking, one
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of the most beautiful,
the most beloved.
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He is beloved of God.
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He is a bringer of light.
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KELLY: When God created man in
his image, he ordered all the
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angels to, uh, worship
his image in this man.
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And Satan refused.
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He says, "Look, they're mud people.
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We're made out of fire.
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"And I'm not going to do it."
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And so he gets kicked out.
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YOUNG: He grew arrogant.
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He began to challenge God.
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And, for this arrogance, he
lost his heavenly position.
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He was thrown out of
the heavens and fell.
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BLAI: When Lucifer was cast
down, it was instant and
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abrupt and total.
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And he was cast down to Earth to
roam here until the end of time.
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NARRATOR: Although few
references are made to Satan in
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the Hebrew testament, he is
depicted as an opposer or
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accuser and is generally
acknowledged to have been
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the inspiration for the
serpent in the Garden of Eden.
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BRETT PETERSON: One of the
great stories in the Bible is
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Adam and Eve in the garden.
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You know, we have this picture
of a beautiful garden scene and
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Adam and Eve in their innocence
just enjoying God and each other
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in this beautiful creation.
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And all of a sudden enters
Satan in the form of a snake.
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And he finds Eve close to the
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one thing, the one law
God gave mankind.
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NARRATOR: According to the Book
of Genesis, God placed two
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trees in the garden...
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the Tree of Life and the
Tree of Knowledge...
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and forbade Adam and Eve to eat
fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.
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PATRICK COOKE: Satan
convinces Eve to eat of the
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fruit of the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil.
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And she convinces Adam to do that.
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And, of course, we see that
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suddenly their whole
personality changes.
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PETERSON: Prior to eating of
the forbidden fruit,
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Adam and Eve were sinless.
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It means that the one law that
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God gave them, uh, they
had not disobeyed.
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Satan himself decided that if he
could get them to break that one
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law, then sin would enter mankind.
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And when Adam ate, all mankind
from that point on has been
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selfish, prideful and were
genetically given the ability
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and, really, the desire to rebel
against authority and thus
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obtain the knowledge of good and evil.
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NARRATOR: But is this story
of Adam and Eve really a
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fanciful account of how
evil entered the world?
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Or might there be another, even
more profound explanation?
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KENNETH HANSON: You can make a case
that Eve actually wants to mature.
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She wants to grow up.
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God wants to keep us in a
state of perpetual innocence,
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infantility perhaps.
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Eve decides that knowing
everything she can know about
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this world into which she has
been placed is more important
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even than obeying a
particular command of God.
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The serpent enables her.
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WILLIAM HENRY: Satan's
wanting to give humanity all
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this incredible wisdom that maybe
can even elevate humankind
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to the level of gods.
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But the Old Testament God
Yahweh is saying, "Not so fast.
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Humankind are-aren't perhaps
"worthy of this knowledge."
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And this becomes then the
battle between God and Satan.
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NARRATOR: Was the serpent's
temptation of Adam and Eve
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really a case of sabotage?
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Was it a deliberate effort to
seduce mankind into sinning
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against its Creator?
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Or might Satan's real purpose
have been to encourage mankind
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to share the fruits of God's wisdom?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe more clues may lie in
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another book of the Hebrew testament.
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Southern Israel.
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This dry, sun-blasted desert was
once the realm of Edom...
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an ancient kingdom that some
researchers believe was home to
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the biblical figure, Job.
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According to the Hebrew Bible,
Job was among the wealthiest men
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in the kingdom, and owned enormous
herds of cattle, sheep and camels.
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He was also among the most
righteous, making sacrifices to
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the Almighty God to atone for his
transgressions and the sins
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of his family.
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REVEREND BARRY H. DOWNING:
In the story of Job, Satan is part
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of the heavenly council of angels.
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And then the council meets, and
God is at the council meeting.
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And basically, he and
Satan have a discussion.
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WILLIAM FULCO: And God says,
"You know, look at Job.
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He's very faithful."
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And Satan, in charge of quality
control, says, "Well, of course.
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You know, you give him everything.
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"What do you expect?"
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McGOWAN: And Satan actually
challenges God, and says,
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"If Job were tempted, if he
no longer had all of these
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wonderful things that God had given
to him, what happens to "him then?"
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Satan convinces God that Job
should be tested to see if he is
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really all that good.
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And this is where Satan becomes
the first adversary, the first
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tester of humans.
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YOUNG: So, it's interesting
in this story.
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Satan is actually working with
God as a kind of member of his
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staff or his heavenly counsel.
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HENRY: The divine council of God
is very interesting, because
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we learn that it is composed
of various angelic beings,
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including Satan.
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And the idea is that these are
advanced beings who carry out
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God's orders and God's wishes from
the commands of this council.
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It really seems like we're
seeing some kind of divine
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bureaucracy, something like you
would see in a corporate or a
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governmental bureaucracy.
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NARRATOR: Could our notion of Satan
as an evil force be incorrect?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe there is much more to
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the story... and that the answer
may be found, not only in the
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pages of the Hebrew Bible,
but on ancient scrolls.
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Scrolls whose origins date
back thousands of years.
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NARRATOR: Qumran,
the West Bank.
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Here, during a series of
excavations beginning in 1949,
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archaeologists unearth
hundreds of ancient scrolls.
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They are believed to have been
written by a Hebrew sect known
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as the Essenes more
than 2,000 years ago.
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Several of the scrolls contain
fragments of what has become
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known as the Book of Enoch, and
the account of a rebellion
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launched by a group of
angels called the Watchers.
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BLAI: One of the most famous
parts of the Book of Enoch
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is a story of the Watchers.
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This is a story about 200 angels
that were charged with watching
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over mankind in its early
stages, and basically, taking
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care of us, looking out for us.
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McGOWAN: The Watchers are
a group of angels who are
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dispatched to watch humans
and to help humans.
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Now, the Watchers are very
interesting, because they are
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angels who interact with humans.
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BLAI: And there's a brief
reference to this in Genesis.
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But the Book of Enoch
essentially expands that story
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and tells a more full story.
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This was taken out of the canon
of the Bible early in the
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Church's life, but it was
in for a period of time.
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McGOWAN: Once the Watchers
begin to interact with humans,
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they become infatuated with this
new species, and they become
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lustful of this new species.
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And all of a sudden, the
original idea, the original
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commands that they were given seem
a lot less interesting to them.
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BLAI: They came to a point where
they wanted to take wives
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and have children, and so
they decided to rebel, create
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bodies, marry and bear children.
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(shouting, metallic scraping)
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NARRATOR: According to the
Book of Enoch, the leader of
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this rebellion is a Watcher
known as Shemyaza or Satanael.
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(thunder crackling)
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Could this be the same
character we know as Satan?
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PHILIP COPPENS: So, what
we're seeing in the story of
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Shemyaza and the Watchers is
very similar to the story of
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Lucifer in charge of the angels.
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In both cases, we're confronted
with a hierarchy of a species
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which is between us and God, the
leader of which disagrees with
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God and basically wants
to live amongst mankind.
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GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: When you
look at different versions of
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the Book of Enoch, the one thing
that combines all of them is
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that they talk about the Watchers,
the Watchers from Heaven.
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And they are the ones
who gave knowledge.
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And when I look at terms such
as "Watchers from Heaven," then
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personally, I interpret them
as possible extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR: Do the ancient
accounts of Shemyaza's revolt
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and Lucifer's fall suggest that
Satan's efforts to corrupt
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mankind in the Garden of Eden
were actually an attempt to give
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man forbidden knowledge?
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And might these legends be
based, not on myth, but on
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actual historical events...
events involving
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extraterrestrial visitors?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and believe that close
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examination of the Book of Enoch
may point to physical evidence
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of where Satan's so-called
rebellion against God may have
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actually occurred.
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Mount Hermon, Lebanon.
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Straddling the border of Syria,
this legendary mountain,
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as described in the Book of Enoch,
is the peak where Shemyaza
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and the Watchers descended to Earth.
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BLAI: In the Book of Enoch, there's
a reference to Mount Hermon.
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We see the angels basically
descending to Mount Hermon.
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So, Mount Hermon was both a
place of connection with Heaven
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and kind of a sally port
between Earth and Heaven.
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The Watchers, being angels from
Heaven, knew the sciences of Heaven.
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Samyaza was basically an expert
in enchantment and root cutting.
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You could think of it as,
basically, witchcraft.
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The casting of spells, creating magic
and using roots to create potions.
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McGOWAN: The Book of Enoch
lists, very specifically, the
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subjects that are taught to
humans by the Watchers, by these
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angels who begin to share
their wisdom with them.
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NARRATOR: The Book of Enoch
describes Mount Hermon as the
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place where Shemyaza taught
humans about magic and medicine.
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Other powerful angels passed
on knowledge of metallurgy,
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weapons, astrology,
science and even warfare.
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SCOTT ROBERTS: The Watchers
delivered to humanity the
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forbidden knowledge of God.
All the stories in ancient
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cultures, cross-cultural, had
these tales of beings that would
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deliver the forbidden knowledge
of the gods to humans.
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And they were all condemned for it.
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McGOWAN: The Watchers,
through Shemyaza, give us
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extraordinary tools, which make our
lives much, much better on Earth.
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So, is Shemyaza really a bad
guy, or did he, in fact,
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liberate humans from ignorance?
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And if Shemyaza actually is the
forerunner of Satan, has Satan
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actually been misrepresented
all of these years?
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
Shemyaza and the other Watchers
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were extraterrestrial beings
that gave humanity the
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foundations for civilization?
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Then, if so, how did Satan come
to be so misunderstood and
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misinterpreted by history?
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COPPENS: If we equal Shemyaza and
Satan, what we're confronted
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with here is a larger framework
which basically tells us that
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Shemyaza, Satan were
here to civilize us.
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The Watchers were civilizing deities.
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They basically helped us to develop
our skills of civilization.
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And so, what we're confronted
with here is basically the
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conclusion that civilization the
way we know it is not something
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divine, but it's literally satanic.
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It was Satan who gave us
the tools of civilization.
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NARRATOR: Was Satan really a
civilizing force for early
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humans, as some ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
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And, if so, might further
evidence be found by examining
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other ancient myths and legends?
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CHILDRESS: In ancient Sumeria,
you have these very
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curious stories of the Anunnaki.
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The Anunnaki were half-god, half-man,
who came down from the stars.
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They were instructing the Sumerians
in various arts of civilization.
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They were very strange-looking.
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They had elongated heads.
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They looked almost like
insect-type people.
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Or what they call reptilian
features in a sense, or a viper
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visage, as the Watchers
were called in the Bible.
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HENRY: In global cultures, we
find constant references to
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these giant celestial beings
coming to Earth and initiating,
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or instructing humankind.
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Satan himself is considered
to be a seraphim, which means
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winged serpent or fiery
serpent, but yet the word
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"seraphim" contains the word
"ser," meaning serpent, and
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"rephaim," meaning giant.
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NARRATOR: Was the character
we know as Satan really an
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extraterrestrial being?
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One who broke with his own
species in order to live among
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our distant ancestors?
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Did he, along with other
so-called fallen angels,
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actually break with God, not
out of spite or arrogance, but
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instead to help mankind?
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Perhaps further clues can be
found in legends of a flying
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serpent, and in the story of a
Titan who was savagely punished
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for all eternity.
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NARRATOR: The Yucatan Peninsula.
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Here in the jungles of southern
Mexico lie the ruins of the
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great Mayan city Chichen Itza.
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Constructed more than a thousand
years ago, Chichen Itza was one
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of the largest and most powerful
cities in the Mayan world.
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And dominating the site is the
great pyramid El Castillo...
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a temple built to honor the
Mayan serpent god Kukulkan.
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HENRY: Kukulkan is the name for
Satan, or for the winged serpent.
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He's always portrayed as a
wisdom-bearing being who
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delivers this cosmic
knowledge to humankind.
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Often we'll see Kukulkan
portrayed as half-human or
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half-serpent or as a human being coming
out of the mouth of the serpent.
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This is how Christianity will
traditionally portray Satan as a
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dragon figure or a
serpentine-like being.
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COPPENS: The question is,
why is he depicted as such?
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And I think we really can find out that
Kukulkan is not unique in this sense.
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NARRATOR: One of the most
powerful gods in the Mayan
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pantheon, Kukulkan was believed
to have descended from the stars.
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He is also credited with
teaching astronomy, mathematics
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and agriculture to mankind.
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HENRY: This is identical to the
Christian tradition of Satan
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being the serpent of the Tree
of Knowledge, delivering the
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forbidden wisdom to humanity.
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In the Book of Enoch, we learn
of the Watchers who were
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described as having visages of
vipers or the face of a serpent,
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and delivering this powerful
knowledge to humankind.
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So, it's possible that what
we're seeing in all of these
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instances is the same figure or
representative of the same tribe
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of angels, the satanic beings or
these serpentine-like angel beings.
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NARRATOR: Are the stories of
Satan and Kukulkan really based
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on the same being, as many ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
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And, if so, might this same
character also be found in the
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myths and legends of
other ancient cultures?
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COPPENS: Satan, as a creature
who comes out nowhere to live
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amongst mankind and teaches, is not
something which is limited to the Bible.
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We find it in most
traditions across the world.
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NARRATOR: According to the
legends of ancient Greece,
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the Titan known as Prometheus sinned
against the gods by stealing the
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secret of fire and giving it to man.
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For his transgression, he was
doomed to suffer a gruesome,
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eternal punishment, by being
chained to a rock and having an
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eagle eat his liver, only to
have the organ grow back each
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night so that the eagle could
continue to feast on it the next day.
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RICHARD RADER: He's a god that
becomes associated with humans,
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because he's a champion for humans.
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Right, and the mythological
stories talk about how
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Prometheus is basically
like their representative.
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NARRATOR: Another such deity
was the god Viracocha.
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Worshiped by the ancient Inca
in the Andes of South America,
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Viracocha was a powerful creator
god who came to Earth to pass on
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celestial knowledge.
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Like Prometheus, this Incan god
was described as a bringer of
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light, and is depicted in
ancient Incan sculpture as
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holding two lightning bolts and
wearing the sun as a crown.
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HENRY: The Inca describe
a luminous being called
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Viracoca or Viracocha who
brought knowledge of medicine,
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astronomy and other advanced sciences.
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It's possible that Viracocha is
the same as Shemyaza or Satan as
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a figure bringing this
liberating wisdom to humankind
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that seeks to bring us along the path
of advancement and enlightenment.
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So you have to ask yourself,
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"Why would such diverse cultures
have such similar mythologies?"
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COPPENS: In the case of
Viracocha, what we see is a
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deity which manifests itself
from Earth, lives amongst
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mankind, gives us sciences, and after
a number of years, disappears again.
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NARRATOR: The ancient
Egyptians had cults that
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worshiped the god Set;
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a divine being who, like Satan,
ruled over darkness and chaos.
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COPPENS: The tradition
of civilizing deities
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who go around civilizing,
educating us, is something which
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we find in all traditions.
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Whether they are the great
cultures of Egypt, Inca,
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or the Mayan empires,
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or smaller cultures
elsewhere in the universe.
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And so what we're finding is
that the story of Satan as a
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civilizing deity is definitely
not unique, but sits within
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a clear framework across
the the entire world.
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And it shows you that the
importance of Satan is not just
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something limited to the Bible,
but really tells us an awful lot
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about civilization as a whole.
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NARRATOR: Could it be that
these ancient myths were
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actually describing the
same creature, the fallen
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angel we now refer to as Satan?
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But how, then, did a creature
who is so often credited with
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bringing mankind knowledge and
enlightenment, become thought of
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as the personification
of all things evil?
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ERICH VON DANIKEN: The word
"Lucifer" comes from Latin.
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Mix "lux" "ferre,"
"making light."
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It's the same as in the Greek
mythology, Prometheus, who stole
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the light from the gods.
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It's really a sympathetic idea
that all these figures are
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finally just one figure
in different languages.
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But they were sympathetic
to the humans.
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It is quite possible that our
religious traditions and those
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who selected the-the old holy
texts some thousands of years
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ago, they made out an evil figure
out of Lucifer and the Devil.
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And maybe it was the other way around...
he was the good one.
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COPPENS: When we're looking at
something like Satan, we're
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not necessarily talking about
morality but we're actually
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exploring things about our ancestors.
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We're exploring mythology.
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We're exploring accounts of our
ancestors saying that they
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developed civilization not on
their own but with the help of
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nonhuman intelligences.
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And in the case of one such
story, we see that that
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intelligence is Satan.
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CHILDRESS: In many ways, Satan
may well be a person,
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a god, an angel, an E.T.
who's maligned in a sense.
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Lucifer is-is Prometheus.
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He's the light bringer.
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He's the god of hard work.
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He's the one who brings us fire.
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He's the one who gives us the
opportunity to do things ourselves.
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NARRATOR: If the biblical
character of Satan is really
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based on an extraterrestrial being...
one who stole technology
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from his masters in order to
benefit early man... then why is
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he now reviled as a creature
of consummate evil?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer may lie not
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in ancient scriptures but in numerous
accounts of demonic possession.
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NARRATOR: Klingenberg, Germany.
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Located 32 miles southeast of
Frankfurt, this small city is
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home to one of the most famous
and frightening cases of demonic
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possession ever recorded.
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In September 1973, a young woman
named Anneliese Michel began
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hearing voices that told her she
was damned and would rot in hell.
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When medical treatments failed, she
sought the help of an exorcist.
467
00:30:23,513 --> 00:30:26,381
MICHEL: Nein!
468
00:30:26,482 --> 00:30:28,817
Nein.
469
00:30:28,884 --> 00:30:31,252
(priest speaking German)
470
00:30:34,123 --> 00:30:36,357
(Michel growls)
471
00:30:40,695 --> 00:30:44,298
NARRATOR: Demonic possession is
perhaps the most frightening
472
00:30:44,365 --> 00:30:49,804
and visceral of all phenomena
associated with Satan.
473
00:30:49,871 --> 00:30:53,007
According to Christian
tradition, possession occurs
474
00:30:53,075 --> 00:30:57,412
when a demon enters the body,
corrupting a person's physical
475
00:30:57,479 --> 00:30:59,380
and spiritual being.
476
00:31:01,650 --> 00:31:04,653
YOUNG: The belief in demonic
possession is widespread.
477
00:31:04,754 --> 00:31:08,590
It seems to show up pretty
much all over the planet.
478
00:31:08,658 --> 00:31:13,762
It was believed to be the
presence of a satanic energy,
479
00:31:13,829 --> 00:31:19,801
a truly dark, terrible evil
that could take over a person.
480
00:31:19,902 --> 00:31:22,337
Take over their body,
take over their mind.
481
00:31:22,405 --> 00:31:25,307
And they would be acting with
no free will, they would be a
482
00:31:25,375 --> 00:31:29,678
complete slave to the
power of the dark side.
483
00:31:29,746 --> 00:31:33,215
BLAI: Demons manifest on Earth
to interact with people,
484
00:31:33,283 --> 00:31:36,118
to afflict us and tempt
us in various ways.
485
00:31:36,186 --> 00:31:39,722
The oppression involves
physically wounding us,
486
00:31:39,790 --> 00:31:44,060
attacking us, causing effects
on our body and our mind.
487
00:31:44,194 --> 00:31:47,363
Possession is when we surrender
our lower faculties to them and
488
00:31:47,464 --> 00:31:50,499
they take over our body
and use it as their own.
489
00:31:50,567 --> 00:31:53,970
And, in rare cases, they can
appear visibly to multiple
490
00:31:54,037 --> 00:31:56,141
people as supposed human spirits.
491
00:31:58,109 --> 00:32:01,077
NARRATOR: Most Christians
believe demons are evil
492
00:32:01,145 --> 00:32:04,647
incarnations of the other angels
who followed Lucifer in his
493
00:32:04,715 --> 00:32:08,518
rebellion against the Almighty God.
494
00:32:08,586 --> 00:32:13,423
They bear names like Beelzebub,
Asmodeus, Moloch and
495
00:32:13,491 --> 00:32:20,096
Mammon and are dedicated to
corrupting the souls of mankind.
496
00:32:23,267 --> 00:32:28,071
ROBERTS: Biblically speaking, the
demonic comes from the fallen angels.
497
00:32:29,239 --> 00:32:34,676
Those who fell with Lucifer
during the great wars in Heaven.
498
00:32:34,811 --> 00:32:39,014
And their purpose is
to deceive humanity.
499
00:32:39,082 --> 00:32:40,449
To lead them astray.
500
00:32:40,517 --> 00:32:43,019
To distract them from God.
501
00:32:43,086 --> 00:32:44,887
And there are many castes.
502
00:32:44,955 --> 00:32:49,192
They range from your basic thugs
on the bottom all the way up to
503
00:32:49,260 --> 00:32:52,596
your... if you will, your
intelligentsia that is
504
00:32:52,664 --> 00:32:56,200
governing behind the scenes
of the affairs of mankind.
505
00:32:56,268 --> 00:32:57,902
BLAI: It is essentially...
506
00:32:57,969 --> 00:33:01,038
you can imagine a military
structure with generals,
507
00:33:01,106 --> 00:33:03,540
officers, privates.
508
00:33:03,608 --> 00:33:07,711
There's basically nine levels,
which are fallen angels of
509
00:33:07,779 --> 00:33:12,282
various ranks serving under each
other, ultimately serving Satan.
510
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:17,622
NARRATOR: In many religious
traditions there are sacred
511
00:33:17,689 --> 00:33:21,628
rites to exorcize these demons
from the bodies of the afflicted.
512
00:33:26,298 --> 00:33:28,066
LARSON: Let her go.
513
00:33:28,134 --> 00:33:29,669
Let her go.
514
00:33:30,737 --> 00:33:33,538
I come against you again, Satan,
by the blood of Christ.
515
00:33:33,606 --> 00:33:36,074
NARRATOR: The Reverend Bob
Larson is an evangelical
516
00:33:36,142 --> 00:33:40,178
minister and exorcist who says
he has come face-to-face with
517
00:33:40,246 --> 00:33:43,348
the demonic and the truly satanic.
518
00:33:43,416 --> 00:33:46,118
LARSON: By the blood of
Christ, I torment you, Satan.
519
00:33:46,185 --> 00:33:47,119
(woman grunts)
520
00:33:47,186 --> 00:33:49,188
You can't have her.
521
00:33:49,255 --> 00:33:51,023
She belongs to God.
522
00:33:51,091 --> 00:33:52,424
I torment you.
523
00:33:52,492 --> 00:33:54,627
I torment you by the blood of Christ.
524
00:33:54,694 --> 00:33:56,695
I torment you!
525
00:33:56,830 --> 00:34:00,866
I'm here to be an instrument of
God to cast out the Devil,
526
00:34:00,934 --> 00:34:02,868
to free human souls.
527
00:34:03,002 --> 00:34:04,870
It's not my power that does it.
528
00:34:04,938 --> 00:34:05,871
It's God's power.
529
00:34:05,939 --> 00:34:08,908
I'm simply the
instrument that he uses.
530
00:34:08,975 --> 00:34:14,947
But my mission is to get every
demon possible out of every
531
00:34:15,015 --> 00:34:19,652
possible human being and
send them straight to hell.
532
00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:23,723
How long have you had her?
533
00:34:23,791 --> 00:34:28,094
Give me some oil, please.
534
00:34:28,196 --> 00:34:31,231
I anoint you in the name of the
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
535
00:34:31,299 --> 00:34:33,233
How long have you had this woman?
536
00:34:33,301 --> 00:34:34,501
How many generations?
537
00:34:34,569 --> 00:34:36,170
How many generations?!
538
00:34:36,238 --> 00:34:37,905
WOMAN: A thousand.
539
00:34:37,973 --> 00:34:39,973
LARSON: A demon is metaphysical.
540
00:34:40,041 --> 00:34:41,008
It is invisible.
541
00:34:41,076 --> 00:34:42,476
It's spirit.
542
00:34:42,544 --> 00:34:48,014
Doesn't have a physical body, so a
demon can't really do anything evil.
543
00:34:48,082 --> 00:34:51,151
A demon can't start a war, can't
pull the trigger of a gun, can't
544
00:34:51,218 --> 00:34:52,519
rape anybody.
545
00:34:52,586 --> 00:34:56,322
A demon needs a body to
accomplish its evil purposes.
546
00:34:56,390 --> 00:35:01,426
So demons are looking to inhabit
human souls so that through the
547
00:35:01,494 --> 00:35:05,097
physicality of human beings
they can bring about their plan
548
00:35:05,165 --> 00:35:08,934
of death and destruction.
549
00:35:09,002 --> 00:35:12,671
NARRATOR: According to Larson and
other Christian theologians,
550
00:35:12,772 --> 00:35:16,875
demonic forces have always been
present on Earth and demons are
551
00:35:16,943 --> 00:35:23,182
continually traveling to Earth
to sow the seeds of ruin.
552
00:35:23,249 --> 00:35:26,518
But where exactly are
they coming from?
553
00:35:26,586 --> 00:35:31,256
Is it hell, or perhaps someplace else?
554
00:35:35,361 --> 00:35:37,828
LARSON: Both the Jewish and
Christian scriptures, as well as
555
00:35:37,896 --> 00:35:42,467
other religious books that delve
into the subject of demonism,
556
00:35:42,568 --> 00:35:44,136
never fully describe the nature
557
00:35:44,203 --> 00:35:47,406
of their existence,
where they operate.
558
00:35:47,474 --> 00:35:51,309
It seems to be in a kind of
parallel reality, another
559
00:35:51,377 --> 00:35:55,313
dimension, out of our
time-space continuum.
560
00:35:55,381 --> 00:35:58,817
They're there, we're here.
561
00:35:58,918 --> 00:36:05,991
Einstein opened a little bit of a door
into the possibility of other realms.
562
00:36:06,058 --> 00:36:11,563
We are getting a small glimpse
of the reality that exists
563
00:36:11,631 --> 00:36:13,165
beyond our understanding.
564
00:36:13,233 --> 00:36:15,501
We just need to know there's
another realm out there, and
565
00:36:15,568 --> 00:36:19,605
when I do an exorcism, I step
in and out of those realms.
566
00:36:19,672 --> 00:36:23,609
I'm in the physical, natural
realm, but I'm also invading the
567
00:36:23,677 --> 00:36:26,612
realm in which demons operate.
568
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,415
So I step from the physical
into the metaphysical.
569
00:36:29,483 --> 00:36:31,417
I don't have to understand
what's going on there.
570
00:36:31,518 --> 00:36:34,453
I'm on a simple mission: not to
find out everything I can about
571
00:36:34,521 --> 00:36:40,793
that world, but to get the
demon out of the human soul.
572
00:36:40,861 --> 00:36:43,863
NARRATOR: Might devils and
demons really be beings from
573
00:36:43,931 --> 00:36:45,364
another realm?
574
00:36:45,432 --> 00:36:49,367
And might that realm not
be hell, but an actual
575
00:36:49,435 --> 00:36:53,605
extraterrestrial world?
576
00:36:53,706 --> 00:36:56,174
And are they really malevolent?
577
00:36:59,445 --> 00:37:01,380
Or might they have another...
578
00:37:01,447 --> 00:37:05,784
perhaps even more profound...
agenda?
579
00:37:05,851 --> 00:37:10,221
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answers may be found
580
00:37:10,322 --> 00:37:15,427
in the mysterious prophecies
of the Book of Revelation.
581
00:37:18,657 --> 00:37:20,457
NARRATOR: Megiddo, Israel.
582
00:37:21,658 --> 00:37:26,195
Located 11 miles from Nazareth,
this ancient city is mentioned
583
00:37:26,263 --> 00:37:30,800
more than a dozen times in the
Bible, most prominently in the
584
00:37:30,867 --> 00:37:35,404
prophetic Book of Revelation.
585
00:37:35,472 --> 00:37:39,542
According to the religious text,
it is outside this city, on the
586
00:37:39,609 --> 00:37:43,645
so-called Plains of Megiddo,
where the forces of the Almighty
587
00:37:43,713 --> 00:37:48,651
God will wage a final battle against
Satan and the forces of evil.
588
00:37:48,752 --> 00:37:51,988
DOWNING: The Book of
Revelation is certainly one of
589
00:37:52,055 --> 00:37:55,224
the most complicated books in
the Bible, and it belongs to a
590
00:37:55,325 --> 00:38:02,231
separate set of material
that's called apocalyptic.
591
00:38:02,332 --> 00:38:08,204
It is a book that gives visions
of the future to come.
592
00:38:11,308 --> 00:38:15,911
PETERSON: There's a battle that
will take place in a valley
593
00:38:15,979 --> 00:38:21,950
in Israel called Megiddo, or Har
Megiddo, thus Armageddon...
594
00:38:22,018 --> 00:38:25,754
we get the term.
595
00:38:25,822 --> 00:38:30,625
Satan himself will gather the
armies of the world to Megiddo
596
00:38:30,693 --> 00:38:34,496
to fight Jesus Christ.
597
00:38:37,333 --> 00:38:41,102
BLAI: Satan takes on a more
physical appearance, uses
598
00:38:41,170 --> 00:38:46,875
various technologies to enslave
more and more of mankind.
599
00:38:46,943 --> 00:38:50,045
Ultimately he becomes a
geopolitical force, basically
600
00:38:50,113 --> 00:38:54,317
essentially a dictator
of the entire world.
601
00:38:54,418 --> 00:38:57,820
NARRATOR: The Book of
Revelation further describes
602
00:38:57,921 --> 00:39:02,458
that this battle will be
fought in Heaven and on Earth.
603
00:39:02,526 --> 00:39:06,562
Angels will descend from the
sky, demons will spread out
604
00:39:06,663 --> 00:39:12,302
across the land to destroy with
fiery swords, and the Almighty
605
00:39:12,369 --> 00:39:16,072
God will rain destruction
down upon Earth.
606
00:39:16,173 --> 00:39:19,742
McGOWAN: The Book of the
Revelation is really a
607
00:39:19,810 --> 00:39:22,478
pretty terrifying document if
we're to look at it and think
608
00:39:22,546 --> 00:39:25,348
that these things could
happen literally.
609
00:39:25,449 --> 00:39:28,818
I mean, when you look at what's
happening in the book, we have
610
00:39:28,886 --> 00:39:30,753
cataclysms on the Earth.
611
00:39:30,821 --> 00:39:31,754
We have earthquakes.
612
00:39:31,822 --> 00:39:33,756
We have fire raining from the sky.
613
00:39:33,824 --> 00:39:37,160
We have angels doing battle in Heaven.
614
00:39:37,261 --> 00:39:41,464
And then repeatedly, we
have Satan coming back.
615
00:39:45,235 --> 00:39:48,036
NARRATOR: But could it be
that this biblical prophecy
616
00:39:48,104 --> 00:39:52,775
isn't a doomsday prediction
of cataclysm and war?
617
00:39:52,842 --> 00:39:57,347
But it has another, even more
profound interpretation?
618
00:39:57,448 --> 00:40:02,385
HANSON: The Book of Revelation
gives us some of the
619
00:40:02,486 --> 00:40:06,622
clearest depictions of what
not a few moderns would call
620
00:40:06,690 --> 00:40:08,624
extraterrestrial activity.
621
00:40:08,725 --> 00:40:10,560
Think about it.
622
00:40:10,628 --> 00:40:14,130
We have supernatural beings
flying through the cosmos
623
00:40:14,198 --> 00:40:17,133
blowing trumpets, casting
fire upon the Earth.
624
00:40:17,201 --> 00:40:22,071
We have great conflict between
light and darkness, good and evil.
625
00:40:22,139 --> 00:40:28,978
There's a cosmic dualism going
on here that involves in the end
626
00:40:29,046 --> 00:40:32,382
the reassertion of divine
authority over those wayward
627
00:40:32,449 --> 00:40:36,052
angels who had gone
astray so long ago.
628
00:40:39,223 --> 00:40:42,592
NARRATOR: Extraterrestrial combat?
629
00:40:42,660 --> 00:40:45,828
Could the Bible's Book of
Revelation really be referring
630
00:40:45,896 --> 00:40:48,431
to a galactic war?
631
00:40:48,499 --> 00:40:54,504
One waged over the
ultimate fate of mankind?
632
00:40:54,572 --> 00:40:58,609
If so, who or what is Satan?
633
00:40:58,676 --> 00:41:04,447
Is he a demon, the Devil, the
personification of evil?
634
00:41:04,515 --> 00:41:10,920
Or was he, in fact, a benevolent
extraterrestrial being?
635
00:41:10,988 --> 00:41:14,423
One who stole technology from
alien beings in an effort to
636
00:41:14,491 --> 00:41:19,195
lead early man out of
darkness and ignorance?
637
00:41:19,262 --> 00:41:24,633
If so, then why did Satan
become a force for evil?
638
00:41:24,701 --> 00:41:26,201
Does he seek to punish mankind
639
00:41:26,269 --> 00:41:29,604
for siding with our
Creator against him?
640
00:41:29,672 --> 00:41:34,776
Perhaps he is testing us, using
alien technology to modify
641
00:41:34,844 --> 00:41:39,448
human behavior in ways we
have yet to understand.
642
00:41:39,515 --> 00:41:43,319
McGOWAN: He's this idea of
an adversary, this idea of a
643
00:41:43,386 --> 00:41:47,556
liar or a tester combined with
this concept of Lucifer, the
644
00:41:47,624 --> 00:41:53,228
fallen angel, combined with this
leader of the Watchers who also
645
00:41:53,296 --> 00:41:54,897
leads a rebellion.
646
00:41:54,964 --> 00:41:57,966
I think that ultimately, what
we find is that Lucifer is a
647
00:41:58,034 --> 00:42:04,006
conflation, a character who is
a composite of all of these
648
00:42:04,073 --> 00:42:08,844
different ideas and
different characters.
649
00:42:08,978 --> 00:42:12,648
HENRY: It's important for us
to remember that Satan is part
650
00:42:12,716 --> 00:42:17,186
of the class of angels
called seraphim.
651
00:42:17,287 --> 00:42:21,924
The seraphim were sent to Earth
as benefactors of humankind
652
00:42:21,991 --> 00:42:24,827
bringing wisdom.
653
00:42:24,895 --> 00:42:29,198
The churches created this evil
monster out of Satan, perhaps
654
00:42:29,266 --> 00:42:32,702
even out of thin air, when in
reality, Satan's entire mission
655
00:42:32,769 --> 00:42:36,872
was about bringing knowledge and
wisdom to humanity, and in fact,
656
00:42:36,940 --> 00:42:43,880
caring about humanity, not
seeking to destroy humankind.
657
00:42:43,948 --> 00:42:47,850
CHILDRESS: In a sense,
Satan's not such a bad guy.
658
00:42:47,918 --> 00:42:50,686
You cannot have the
light without the dark.
659
00:42:50,753 --> 00:42:53,521
You can't have right without wrong.
660
00:42:53,589 --> 00:42:57,058
And we have to learn these
things for ourselves.
661
00:42:57,126 --> 00:43:01,562
And ultimately, uh, through
choice, wrong and right, we grow
662
00:43:01,630 --> 00:43:03,931
and we become who we are.
663
00:43:06,001 --> 00:43:11,205
And ultimately, that is
to be like our makers.
664
00:43:11,306 --> 00:43:13,608
To... to become gods ourselves.
665
00:43:16,778 --> 00:43:19,046
NARRATOR: Might Satan's
reputation as the
666
00:43:19,114 --> 00:43:23,250
personification of evil really
have been his punishment for
667
00:43:23,318 --> 00:43:27,054
giving mankind scientific knowledge?
668
00:43:27,122 --> 00:43:31,926
If so, might his evil acts
really be expressions of
669
00:43:31,993 --> 00:43:36,031
revenge against the human
creatures that abandoned him?
670
00:43:37,532 --> 00:43:43,771
Or are the evil deeds associated with
Satan really a part of a grand plan?
671
00:43:44,305 --> 00:43:50,818
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