In the opening paragraphs of my twenty-part series "Nature Of The Alien", I   
   made the following observation:   
      
   "I'm reminded of the famous poster that agent Fox Mulder had hanging on the   
   wall of his office in the wildly popular "The X-Files" television program.   
   It contained a large image of a UFO, under which were the words "I want to   
   believe". In the real world there are definitely a lot of Fox Mulders. So   
   many people want to believe that we are a part of something much bigger, and   
   that we are not alone. For those people who reject God, the Bible, and the   
   reality of the spirit world, believing in the existence of UFO's and alien   
   beings fills a void in their lives. In fact, for some of them, it is easier   
   to believe in aliens, than it is to accept the existence of a loving God who   
   created everything from nothing."   
      
   While I made that statement fourteen years ago in 1997, it wasn't until   
   recently that I became aware of how much the balance has tipped in favor of   
   the alien and UFO crowd, insofar as our online ministry is concerned.   
      
   As some of our regular visitors to the Endtime Prophecy Net website will   
   already know, beginning in September of last year, I undertook a concerted   
   effort to heavily promote our website, much more than I had ever done   
   before. This included submitting our home page URL to several dozen new   
   search engines and link directories -- a few of which I paid for -- as well   
   as joining over one hundred topsites lists. I also started my own topsites   
   list, as well as a WordPress blog. All of these things have served to   
   enhance our online presence, and have resulted in our Alexa site rank   
   skyrocketing from the four million plus mark a few months ago, to our   
   current 708,239 position; and it continues to improve every week, daily in   
   fact.   
      
   But what caught my attention is which of these endeavors has resulted in   
   bringing more new visitors to our site. As it turns out, it appears that it   
   isn't just our topsites listings, but more specifically, it is the topsites   
   I have joined which are related to aliens and UFOs, the paranormal and New   
   Age.   
      
   I have been keeping a record of exactly how many visitors each topsites list   
   sends our way, so that I can determine which ones I should keep, and which   
   ones I should eventually remove from our home page. After all, having so   
   many vote buttons on our home page does drag down the load time of the page,   
   which currently stands at 80/100 according to Google's "Page Speed"   
   webmaster tool.   
      
   Out of the 104 topsites on which I currently participate, the one which has   
   brought in the most number of visitors is "Close Encounters" with a total of   
   171 visitors arriving from that topsite since I joined it December 23, 2010.   
   In second place is "Top Prophecies Of The Bible Websites" with 107 visitors,   
   which I joined September 7, 2010. As you can see, even though I joined   
   "Close Encounters" over three months later, it has still brought in more   
   visitors than the highest ranking Christian-oriented topsite.   
      
   I should point out that the visitors from the "Close Encounters" topsites   
   list more than likely do not come to our site because they sre interested in   
   the Bible. What brinhd them is probably the fact that rather than using our   
   regular EPN banner on that topsite, I made a different eye-catching banner   
   with several UFOs on it. Furthermore, I also changed our site description   
   for that topsites list, so that it emphasizes our articles which deal with   
   aliens and UFOs, Nostradamus, New Age, conspiracy theory, etc. Finally, upon   
   clicking on the banner, they aren't taken to our home page, but rather to my   
   twenty-part series "Nature Of The Alien".   
      
   So all of that to say this: If the numbers I am seeing are any indication,   
   then it would seem that there are more people who are interested in visiting   
   our website because of our alien and UFOs material, than those who visit us   
   because of our Christian content. Of course, once the alien and UFO crowd do   
   arrive on our site, they quickly discover that while I do discuss all of   
   these different topics, they may not like what I have to say about such   
   subjects.   
      
   It has occurred to me that certain more conservative Christians may be   
   offended to some degree upon discovering that I delve into aliens and UFOs,   
   New Age, Nostradamus, 2012 and the Mayan Long Calendar, etc., on our   
   website. They may even wonder what such things are even doing on a Christian   
   website. However, before you are too quick to pass harsh judgment on our   
   site, I urge you to take some time to seriously study exactly what I have to   
   say concerning these different topics.   
      
   Allow me to also remind you that we are supposed to be fishers of men for   
   the Kingdom of God. Any good fisherman has to know what bait to use in order   
   to catch fish successfully. That being the case, I will use whatever bait   
   draws them here -- even their interest in aliens and UFOs -- if it means   
   giving them an opportunity to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As the   
   Apostle Paul wrote, we must be willing to become all things to all men, in   
   order that we might win some. If we, the Body of Christ, are only interested   
   in our own little clicks -- our church congregations -- and just keeping to   
   ourselves, and just spiritually feeding ourselves, and no longer have a   
   vision for winning new souls to Christ, then we have in fact become a dead   
   Church, and we will cease to exist before this current generation passes.   
   Think about it.   
      
   But again, I do find it sad that more people seem to be interested in aliens   
   and UFOs, the paranormal, New Age, etc., than they are in God and His Word,   
   and Biblical truth. As I point out in my articles, truly, this is an age of   
   deception, and an age of delusion, and one can only wonder what such   
   delusion will eventually lead to.   
      
      
      
   Jeff Snyder, SysOp - Armageddon BBS  Visit us at endtimeprophecy.org port 23   
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