Elvis, I think you are missing the very important point I tried to make earlier. When you discuss things like mark of the beast etc... you are discussing biblical prophecy. No argument there right? Well what is the bible about, in essence? God? yes, it's His word. But it's more than that. It's about the trials and tribulations of the jewish people, what they go through when they wander from God etc. when they are tempted by sin... as put so eloquently in the New Testament, it's about a battle between spiritual forces that go against God, and against his people. The battle of spiritual principalities.. The battle of dark vs light. The battle of good vs evil... a battle of angels and devils... a battle essentially of God vs Satan (or whatever you want to call the devil and his minions) in which we are caught in the middle and are asked to make a decision, either for God or for the devil.

So if you want a truthful answer about biblical prophecy, what means what really or whatever, where do you look? To the devil or to God? I have to assume that most reasonable people would say God because biblical prophecy is not the devil's word but God's word. The devil, as a baptist preacher told me many years ago, mixes truth with lies, that's his game. He is a very asute deceiver. He may tell you something that is 99% truth sometimes... but it's that last 1% that will really screw you up. That's his game.

Biblically speaking, what is not of God, is of the devil. Christians or non-christians it doesn't matter... we are all caught up in the battle of dark against light, evil against good, there is not a single person on this earth who escapes it. Teachings that come from 'aliens', from 'reincarnated dead', whatever, are not of God, Elvis. And as sweet as they may sound to you today, they will screw you in the end. If you listen to them and promote their sweet sounding agenda you are as good as one of them already, albeit even unwhittingly strieber. Trying to discern tidbits of truth from the wrong side of the spiritual principality fence is not wise even with the best of intentions.