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>>John Bradshaw:
This is It Is Written.
I'm John Bradshaw.
Thanks for joining me.
This is part 3 of
our five-part series,
"Conspiracy, More
Than Just a Theory."
There is a massive conspiracy
playing out in the world today.
Its effects are being felt
right around the globe.
It's spoken of in the Bible, and
it affects every last one of us.
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rises and subsides]♪
There are a lot of
conspiracy theories today,
and one in particular has gained
a great amount of traction
over the last several decades.
It centers in a very
isolated location,
said to be a hotbed of
paranormal activity.
It's one of the most secretive,
one of the most
mysterious places
in all of the United States--
it could easily be said,
in all of the world.
And the secrecy which enshrouds
this place has given rise
to one of the biggest conspiracy
theories you will ever hear.
About 80 miles northwest
of Las Vegas, Nevada,
is a place the L.A. Times
referred to as
"the holy grail for
conspiracy theorists,"
a US Air Force
military installation.
It's a real location,
and it's a busy place.
Things happen here.
Exactly what isn't really known.
In 1955, the site was selected
for testing the U-2 spy plane,
and since then many other
aircraft have been tested here.
The A-12, which could travel
at 2,000 miles an hour
and take clear pictures
of things on the ground
from 90,000 feet.
Its successor, the
SR-71 Blackbird,
was tested here as well,
as was the F-117
Nighthawk stealth fighter.
Research, development, and
testing are carried out here
at this very remote location
by the government of
the United States.
There's a lot of security
surrounding the area:
cameras, guards, barriers,
and helicopter patrols.
Even though we have no
intention of getting any closer
than we're allowed,
there's no doubt Uncle Sam
knows we're here.
He does not want
people getting too close.
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otherworldly music]♪
A large amount of UFO sightings
have been reported in the area.
Now, many of these
have been explained
by those who do the explaining
as aircraft flights.
The U-2 spy plane was tested,
apparently, at Area 51,
flies much, much higher
than conventional aircraft,
and so that was
given as a reason
for some of the strange
things seen in the sky.
Visitors come here from
all around the world,
but at the end of the day,
on Area 51 there is a
military installation.
What takes place there
is highly secretive
and under a blanket
of immense security,
much like many other military
installations around the world.
In fact, the US government
only acknowledged officially
the existence of a base at
Area 51 for the first time
just a few years ago.
It's that kind of secrecy that
has led many people to speculate
that there has to be
more going on at Area 51
than simply mundane, everyday
military operations.
It has been claimed that
the United States government
keeps aliens or the remains
of aliens at Area 51.
The legend goes that late at
night on the 4th of July, 1947,
a UFO crashed near
Roswell, New Mexico,
and that the remains
of that crash,
the UFO and its occupants,
were brought to Area 51.
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The main runway is 4 1/2 miles
long--long for a runway.
Janet flights come
and go from here,
shuttling workers between
the military installation
and various locations.
So the question that
gets asked is this:
How much of this is simply
the world's last remaining
superpower doing what it needs
to do to maintain and develop
its military capability, and how
much of this is a coverup,
a conspiracy, a concerted effort
on the part of those in power
to keep the truth about
aliens and flying saucers
from the people?
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I wanted to ask someone
with a unique understanding
of the area.
Pat Travis owns Little A'Le'Inn,
a diner and watering hole
that's been here in
Rachel, Nevada, for years.
Pat knows the area as
well as pretty much anyone,
and she's seen a lot of people
come and go in their pursuit
for the truth about Area 51.
How did this whole
Area 51 thing get started?
>>Pat Travis: Well, that
started a long time ago.
But they have been able
to test all kinds of things.
The stealth was
proved from there.
And if the world had known
what the stealth could do
when it went on
its first mission,
we would not have
accomplished what we did.
I'm proud to be part of
the secrecy that's there.
So many things have
been developed there.
Probably by the time
we knew about the stealth,
it's probably old.
That's what I can say.
[Laughs]
>>John: Do you think
that explains much
of what people consider to be
the, the interesting phenomena?
>>Pat: Um, testing, yes.
No, I believe that we work
side by side with aliens.
Can I prove it to you?
No. But I have that feeling.
>>John: Now, people come here
from all around the world
hoping to see lights in the sky
and objects up there.
Do the locals see odd
things flying around?
>>Pat: We have all seen
a few strange things.
One of my employees and I
actually were sitting outside
early one morning
drinking coffee,
and we saw something we
could not explain in the sky,
and that was in the morning.
So, I have no idea
what they're testing.
You know, maybe what
I saw a long time ago,
maybe it was a drone.
I have no idea,
but I know that there should
not have been anything flying
in the area where there
was something flying.
>>John: Can you describe
what that was?
>>Pat: It was a
saucer-shaped vehicle--
that's the best I can say--
in an area where they, there
is no flying as a general.
But there was something
there that night.
And my niece and I watched it
do maneuvers for 20 minutes.
Can I prove it to you?
No. We know where it was.
It was marked; there is a record
of where the sighting was,
heighth, and so we could
about judge how big it was.
>>John: I'm really interested
in your perspective
because you live out here.
You, you, you're truly a local.
What do the locals think
is happening over the hill
on, on the range?
What, what, if you hear--
>>Pat: We do not
discuss any of it.
Because it is a
top security area.
And believe it or not,
all of us that live here,
somebody may know something, but
none of us discuss it at all.
Because if it was
one of our neighbors,
and something was said wrong,
they could lose their job
over just a slight--
and it actually came
really close to happening.
Someone told reporters that
a man that used to live
in the double-wide house trailer
that's right up here
worked in Area 51.
He was a truck driver.
That's all he was.
But he came really
close to losing
his entire security clearance
because of what someone stated.
They reworked his
entire security clearance.
And, you know, we try
and keep our neighbors
in that secure place.
It's just like the security
guards that are at the gate.
We ask people not
to take their pictures,
not to do these things.
These are men and women
that have a job to do.
Is it secure?
Yes.
Do they have to do this?
Definitely.
Because we probably don't
want to know all the things
that go on out there,
and that would be my best
estimation of that one.
>>John: Tell me something about
the people that get attracted
to this area.
>>Pat: There are people from
every country in the world.
Of course, you spoke to some
people from Italy this morning.
If you look at the
dollar bills on my ceiling,
you will see dollar bills that
have been put up on my ceiling
from every country in the world.
And it's always fun
to talk to some of them.
Language barriers,
uh, you know what,
you can point to things.
They know what
a cup of coffee is.
[Laughs]
So we can get by.
>>John: So you're here in
this area where they're,
essentially, on the
"Extraterrestrial Highway,"
and you see something;
what goes through
your mind?
>>Pat: Nothing.
[Laughs, sips coffee]
It's exciting...
when you see something
that you can't explain.
But that's okay.
We wonder.
I wonder every day how
did everything get created.
I wonder why I was brought here,
and why I feel
compelled to be here,
why I get up every morning
and I feel happy,
even if I know that
something else--
I have two employees
out sick right now.
So somebody has to cover.
I don't have a
problem doing that.
I love the people that
I've employed over the years.
Some have been disasters; some
have been absolutely awesome.
You know what?
We have such a close
family of friends,
and that's the best
I can tell you.
>>John: Pat, thank you,
thank you very much.
We'll be right back
with more in just a moment.
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>>John Bradshaw: Thanks for
joining me on It Is Written.
So, you have secrecy,
the government,
unexplained phenomena--
just about everything you
need to convince people
that aliens are being kept
here at Area 51 in Nevada,
that the government is involved
in some great conspiracy
to keep people from
knowing the truth.
But do you have evidence?
Well, no, really you don't.
Or maybe you have
just enough evidence
to keep the conspiracy
theories alive and well.
But there's a real conspiracy
that people are missing,
even though it's playing out
right in front of our eyes.
[Jet rumbling]
The tendency is to ignore it,
even though the signs,
the phenomena are visible,
measurable, and verifiable.
To miss this one is to
make a really big mistake.
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[Fire crackling and popping]
According to the
Word of God,
there was rebellion long ago
in heaven, of all places.
Lucifer, whose name
means "light-bearer,"
rebelled against God and
wanted to receive worship.
Isaiah records
that Lucifer said,
"I will be like the Most High,"
or "I will make myself
like the Most High."
Having led a third of heaven's
angels in rebellion against God,
Satan, which means "adversary,"
came to the earth and lied
to Adam and Eve about God
and then led our first
parents into sin.
Now, you'll notice that in the
same chapter God intervened,
and He provided Adam and Eve
with a way out of the mess
that they were in.
He provided them with
the gift of repentance.
Genesis 3:15,
"And I will put enmity
between you and the woman,
and between your seed
and her Seed;
He shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise His heel."
In that verse, God promised that
Jesus would come into the world.
Humanity could be saved--
remember, saved from itself,
saved from the result of its
own, well, of our own rebellion.
Adam and Eve chose
to rebel against God,
and God Himself
stepped in to say,
"I want to give the human
family a way out of this."
And think of what
that way out was.
It was that which
was agreed upon
in the "counsel of peace"
Zechariah wrote about.
Jesus would die for
the sins of the world.
So now the devil realizes
that victory isn't assured.
His goal is to ruin humanity.
If he is to lose,
then he'd do everything he could
to cause everyone to lose.
And he set out to bring
as much pain as he could
to the heart of God.
So what has happened
since that time
is all part of the devil's
campaign to ruin the world
and drag humanity to the
lowest depths possible.
Let's think about where
we are today as a world.
The internet is awash with sin.
Think about the
hatred in the world.
Why do you think it is
that society is so divided
in many ways?
You would think that after
being on the planet this long,
human beings would have
figured out how to get along
with each other, how
to bridge racial divides,
how to work for
the good of a country
rather than for the good of a
political party or a politician.
And yet well into
the 21st century,
even though there's an
undeniable amount of good
in the world,
there is a massive amount of
dysfunction and hate and evil.
And that's because the devil
has been goading people
to live selfishly and
without reference to God.
It's a plan, a conspiracy,
a conspiracy to bring
down the entire world.
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And now with the internet,
the devil has what's probably
his most effective tool ever.
There was a time when
we thought television
was corrupting our minds.
Now we carry so much more
than a television with us
wherever we go.
Even though you can watch
this program on the internet,
the internet is a minefield.
What the devil is doing is
making it as easy as possible
for you to be distracted
from faith in God--
as easy as possible and
as accepted as possible.
And today it's entirely
acceptable to be distracted
from faith.
Fewer people than ever
are members of a church.
More people than ever claim
no religious affiliation.
I'll give you one more
rather unsavory example
of where we're going
as a planet.
Pornography has shown itself
to be absolutely ruinous.
Marriages are ruined.
Minds are ruined.
Families are ruined.
Reputations are ruined.
After 6,000 years of sin,
Satan has succeeded in
bringing society to the place
where we promote this
and make celebrities
of those who make it.
Freedom of speech?
Freedom of sin is more like it.
But keep in mind when someone
is being tempted to click
on a link of that nature,
it's because there's a real
devil trying to lure that person
into a real web of sin.
The stakes are not small.
They are immense.
And the one who knows that
the most, after God, is Satan.
And how has the devil
succeeded in getting us
to where we are today?
I'll answer that question
and more in just a moment.
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>>John Bradshaw:
Thanks for joining me today
on It Is Written.
Just a moment ago I asked how
it is that the devil has been
so successful in getting the
world to where it is today.
Well, think about this.
When the devil used a serpent as
a medium in the Garden of Eden
and spoke to Eve, he said
in Genesis 3, verse 1,
"Has God indeed said,
'You shall not eat of
every tree of the garden'?"
Now, don't miss that.
"Did God really say that?
Did God really suggest you
shouldn't eat that fruit?"
In other words, "You don't
need to listen to God.
Don't take what He says
too seriously.
He didn't really mean it.
Just do whatever you want."
Now, that's rebellion.
Satan's rebellion in heaven
resulted in one third
of the angels in heaven
turning against God.
When he brought his
rebellion here to the earth,
he tried to turn people
away from God here as well.
But how do you do that?
Well, you have to turn them
against the Word of God.
"God says it, but you don't
have to take that seriously."
That's what he did in
the Garden of Eden.
The Bible tells us that we
are saved by grace through--
through what?
Through faith.
And what is faith?
To put it simply, faith is
believing the Word of God
and living according
to the Word of God,
expecting God's Word to do
what it says it will do.
That is faith.
So when Satan said to Eve, "Did
God really mean what He said?"
he was encouraging her to
manifest a lack of faith,
distrust in God's Word,
rebellion against God's Word.
Think with me about what
Jesus said in Matthew 19:17.
Speaking to a man we've come
to know as the rich young ruler,
a man who asked Him what
good thing he needed to do
in order to be saved,
Jesus said,
"If you want to enter into life,
keep the commandments."
In John 14:15, Jesus said,
"If you love me,
keep my commandments."
Now, be careful here.
This isn't Jesus
contradicting Paul.
Salvation is by grace alone,
through faith alone,
in Christ alone.
No one is saved by obedience.
But God makes clear to us
that the lives of saved people,
filled with the
presence of Christ,
will be characterized
by obedience.
When you come to faith in God,
your desire is to obey God.
Satan knew that.
He also knew that if he
could lead people into sin,
he'd be able to
accomplish his aims.
But how do you lead
people into sin
when the Bible so clearly
warns us against sin?
Listen to Jesus and
you notice a thread
running through His words.
John 15:10,
"If you keep my commandments,
you will abide in my love,
just as I have kept
my Father's commandments
and abide in His love."
John was more than clear
in 1 John 2 and verse 3:
"And hereby we do know
that we know Him,
if we keep His commandments."
Matthew 4:4 speaks to this.
After having been tempted
to turn stones into bread,
a ravenously hungry Messiah
turns to the devil and says,
"It is written, 'Man shall
not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
So Satan turned his
attack to the Word of God.
Where's the respect for
the Word of God today?
Well, it's in rapid decline.
In the late 19th century,
modernism promoted the idea
that religious and moral
principles should not be
the main influence
in social progress.
God was left out of
the equation altogether.
Charles Darwin claimed that
human beings are the result
of natural selection and not
the product of a Creator God.
See what's happening?
Between modernist thinkers
and Charles Darwin,
God suddenly becomes
unimportant to our origins
or to where we're going
as a civilization.
We can get by
without God, we're told.
The World Health Organization
estimates that 125,000 abortions
are performed a day
around the world.
Tens of thousands occur every
month in the United States,
even though even atheists
know that the Bible says,
"Thou shalt not kill."
God speaks, yet we seem
to be able to say,
"I'm doing completely
the opposite.
That doesn't apply to me."
Seems as though the devil
has been highly successful
in causing people
to think his thoughts.
Revelation 22:14, God says,
"Blessed are they that do
His commandments,
that they may have right
to the tree of life,
and may enter in through
the gates into the city."
It's been hundreds of years
since the Catholic Church
removed the commandment
about worshiping idols
from its teachings and replaced
the missing commandment
by dividing the commandment
about coveting.
Rome was also responsible
for changing the
weekly day of worship
from the seventh day
of the week to the first.
God's commandments have been
under attack historically,
and they still are today.
And this isn't like ignoring
the speed limit or jaywalking.
"The wages of sin
is death," Paul wrote.
It's serious.
But it's what Satan wants.
Isaiah wrote in Isaiah 59:2 that
sin separates a person from God.
That's the aim;
that's the agenda:
to separate people from God.
And if you could do that while
convincing them it's harmless
or fashionable or that
times have changed
or that the church
is out of touch,
then you've just succeeded
in justifying rebellion
against God.
But is it ever justified?
No, it's not. Not ever.
And is it ever wise?
Oh no, of course
it isn't ever wise.
Is it ever necessary?
Oh no, it's not necessary.
What would make perfect sense is
to read the Word of God and say,
"This is a God I can trust.
This is a Savior
who died for me.
This is a Jesus who one day
is coming back to take me
to be with Him in heaven."
Following God is the
pathway to a glorious future,
a bright future, a happy future.
You can believe the propaganda,
you can listen to the lies,
you can be caught up
in the conspiracy,
or you can look into the
face of Jesus and say,
"Now, that's Somebody
that I can love."
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>>John Bradshaw: So what's
the answer to a conspiracy
that's led people
to feel free to obey
basically whatever they want,
basically to obey themselves--
which means to be
their own god--
what's the answer?
Well, the answer is this:
a radical commitment to God,
a commitment to Jesus,
and a complete surrender to
Christ and to the Word of God,
including the law of God.
If God said it, that's enough.
And how's that going with you?
We're in a battle here on Planet
Earth, a real spiritual battle.
Only as we surrender
to the Word of God
are we safe in the face
of this relentless attack.
Let's pray for that
true surrender
and pray that God
would keep us safe,
not just now but always.
Let's pray now.
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Our Father in heaven,
caught up in this war,
this battle, we turn to You.
Jehoshaphat in the Bible
was caught up in a battle
he knew he couldn't win,
but he turned to You,
and he prayed and he said,
"Our eyes are upon You."
And so, Lord, that's
what we say to You.
We're looking in
Your direction.
Friend, are your eyes on Jesus?
If they're not, you'll be
pushed this way and that,
swayed this way and that,
but if your eyes are on Him,
focusing on the risen Savior,
looking upon a God who is love,
then you'll receive His
presence and His strength
and His blessing.
And this great God will
live His life out in you.
Lord, that's our prayer.
Is it your prayer, friend?
If it is, open
your heart to God.
Say to God, "Yes, God,
that's my prayer.
Yes, Lord, I want Jesus to be
my Savior now and forever."
Keep us, Lord, in
this great conspiracy,
this great battle.
Thank You that when Jesus comes
back, we will be able to say,
"Victory, victory
is ours forever."
We pray gratefully
in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Thank you so very much
for joining me.
Looking forward to
seeing you again next time.
Until then, remember:
"It is written, 'Man shall
not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
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