SECOND ENCOUNTER WITH THE FIRST KIND!    DFO1103  17/9/81
--The New Version of the Movie with a Message!

         1. I THINK IT HAD A VERY SPIRITUAL MESSAGE, even the beginning of the picture with those supernatural experiences of the appearance of the UFOs & the effect on everything around: It was a parallel to the power of the Spirit, or the power of angels or heavenly visitors.--Like when Moses met the angel that was in the burning bush & the bush was on fire, etc., it was a manifestation of the power.--Or Moses on the mountain with clouds & lightning & thunder!
         2. I think they were also trying to give you the impression that all those spiritual experiences of even the prophets & apostles of the past etc., could be sort of scientifically explained through all this, that these were some kind of superior intelligent space beings & they had these scientific effects--they were not necessarily supernatural, but scientific, beyond our ken & our comprehension, to cause these seemingly supernatural effects of thunder & lightning & clouds.
         3. It was as though the ones who accepted it & believed it & liked it were drawn by these appearances & these encounters toward these beings, these UFOs, like they were the saved believers. And especially the little child was not the least bit fearful, not afraid, which is so true of children when it comes to the things of the Spirit & the Lord & even spiritual experiences. It's just like they're so fresh from Heaven they understand & they wonder why everybody's so scared & why everybody else shouldn't believe it!
         4. IT'S ALL A VERY VERY BEAUTIFUL--& VERY SUBTLE IN A WAY--PARALLEL! They were drawn to the mountain & they had to defy the System to get there. They had to break through traditions & suffer persecution. But they finally reached their Heavenly goal, they reached the mountain! They made their pilgrimages & they got to the mountain & there the heavenly visitors arrived, & their being taken on board was almost like the Rapture!
         5. Before the Space City itself came down there were all these flying saucers flying around, zooming in & zooming out like tests of people's credibility, then they finally summoned in the great Space City & its actual space people! That's the closest thing I've ever seen with my own eyes, in the material, in this World, in model or anything, that looked the least bit like Space City! I got a chill, a thrill out of seeing that thing, especially when it opened up!
         6. When I saw that, I just nearly flipped at the end! I was just fascinated! (Maria: And so many people waiting inside!) Yes! Definitely I think they intended for it to be like a type of Heaven. They greeted the, you might say, born-again, saved, the called, the chosen. It was a lot like us & about heavenly beings & Space City coming down, the closest thing I've ever seen to what I saw when I was in Space City!
         7. YOU'VE GOT TO SEE THIS MOVIE! I'm really inspired about that film & I really want to see it again. I thought it was just another space film, but now that I begin to understand it I think I could pick out a lot more significant parallels & little sly hints that they were making about different things. It was really really religious. I would say it was definitely spiritual. They were trying to give a spiritual message in a scientific fashion.
         8. The Lord is really trying to get through to people any way He possibly can to help inspire faith. I'd say that that film was trying to show how scientifically these things are possible & how that this could be, these supernatural things that were happening.--To make people think, "Maybe all these things we read about in the Bible & the past etc., maybe they did happen! Maybe we could find a scientific explanation for them, that there were superior intelligences, supernatural beings!"
         9. Once we understand the interpretation of a movie, I think I'd really like the Family to see it. It definitely is sort of a scientific explanation of spiritual truths, a real message to help people try to understand the spiritual. It used to be that they almost had to explain the creation & the natural in spiritual terms, because people were more spiritually-minded & believed in the supernatural & spirits & Heaven & all those things & they had to try to sort of help them understand creation through that. Now you've got to interpret the spiritual with the natural & it has to be scientifically explained & interpreted before folks will believe!
         10. Thank You, Jesus, for this amazing movie with a message!--The Special Edition of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind!" Praise You, Lord, for Your faithfulness, love & mercy in trying to reach everyone with Thy Message in every way You can. TYJ!--Be sure you see it! You'll be glad you did! PTL! Lord bless it & make it a blessing to millions! In Jesus' name, amen!


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