The “Demons Did It” News Network Claims Demons Are Present In New Spielberg Movie "Disclosure Day" And How Some Even Wear Short Skirts

Crackpot Bob has a new article up about Steven Spielberg's new movie, Disclosure Day. As usual, he sees demons EVERYWHERE. 
Of course, he does.
Everything unexplained, sensational, or even fictional gets shoehorned into a demonic conspiracy. UAP disclosures? Demons. A Spielberg sci-fi movie? Demons (with shape-shifting animal aliens as a bonus nod to the Garden of Eden serpent). Fatima? Definitely demons in a short skirt. Weeping statues? More demonic proof. It’s the theological version of “if it’s not in my specific prophecy checklist, Satan did it.”
Crackpot Bob’s pattern is relentless: unidentified = demonic. Personal feelings (Spielberg’s childhood wonder) = demonic influence. Government bureaucracy creating a UAP advisory council = part of the setup for the Antichrist. This isn’t careful discernment; it’s confirmation bias on steroids, filtered through the distinctive lens of Armstrongism.The Demon Obsession and Why Demons Seem Like the Real “God” HereIn Crackpot Bob's writings (and this piece is no exception), demons aren’t just fallen angels with limited power. They’re hyper-competent cosmic deceivers who:

• Shape-shift into animals or short-skirted ladies.
• Inspire Hollywood blockbusters.
• Fool popes, governments, scientists, and the masses.
• Orchestrate “lying wonders” on a global scale in preparation for the end times.

This makes them functionally the most active and powerful force in his narrative. God is mostly offstage, waiting for the dramatic Tribulation reveal, while Satan and crew run the show with near-impunity—fooling almost everyone via UFOs, apparitions, movies, and statues. It borders on practical dualism: Satan as the effective “god of this age” (a verse Thiel loves) who is so good at his job that only the tiny “Philadelphia remnant” (i.e., his flavor of Armstrongism) sees through it.
Biblically, this is overstated. Satan is real, a liar, and the accuser. He has influence (Ephesians 2:2). But he is a created being, defeated at the cross, disarmed (Colossians 2:15), and under God’s sovereign permission. He is not co-equal with God, nor does he get to run unchecked deception without limits. Thiel’s version inflates demonic power to make the end-times narrative more urgent and his group more special.
Then, for some insane reason, he jumps to Fatima. His obsession with anti-Catholicism has no boundaries as his ADD kicks in.The Fatima “Short Skirt = Demon” Argument Is Peak Cherry-PickingCrackpot Bob leans hard on early 1917 priest reports where the children allegedly described the Lady’s skirt as falling only to the knees — scandalous by 1917 Portuguese standards. He calls this the “real secret of Fatima” (revealed in documents decades later) and proof it was demonic, not Mary.
This is weak sauce. Eyewitness accounts from traumatized kids (ages 7–10) under intense questioning can vary. Later, more detailed recollections from Lucia standardized on more modest descriptions. The Catholic Church investigated for years, looked at the fruits (message content, reported miracle of the sun witnessed by tens of thousands, conversions), and approved it. Thiel ignores all that context to score a modesty gotcha. It’s like saying an apparition must be fake because the seers’ initial drawings weren’t photorealistic.
Even if one rejects Fatima as a genuine Marian apparition, as many Protestants do, leaping to “therefore demons pretending to be space ladies” is still a massive assumption. Unexplained supernatural claims require testing by fruit and doctrine—not the fashion police from a century later who live in Arroyo Grande.Why New Covenant Christians Should Not Fear Any of ThisHere’s the core difference. Armstrongism leans heavily Old Covenant — law-keeping, holy days, tithing as binding, remnant theology, heavy emphasis on external signs and “proving” everything. The New Covenant (Jeremiah 31, Ezekiel 36, Hebrews 8–10) is fundamentally different: God writes His law on hearts, pours out His Spirit, and gives believers direct relationship and authority through Christ.
New Covenant believers have zero reason to live in fear of demons, UAPs, shape-shifting aliens, weeping statues, or Spielberg movies:

• You have authority. Jesus said believers would cast out demons in His name (Mark 16:17). He gave disciples power over “all the power of the enemy” (Luke 10:19). James 4:7 is simple: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” Not “analyze every headline for demonic fingerprints and panic.”
• Greater is He who is in you (1 John 4:4). The indwelling Holy Spirit is not intimidated by interdimensional tricksters, plasma orbs, or Hollywood fiction.
• Test the spirits properly (1 John 4:1-3). The test is straightforward: Does it confess Jesus Christ has come in the flesh? Does it align with the gospel? Not “Does it wear a sufficiently long skirt?” or “Is it flying in a way that violates current aerodynamics?”
• Fear is not from God. “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control” (2 Timothy 1:7). Obsessing over every UAP release or movie as Satanic preparation breeds anxiety, not sound-minded faith.
• Walk by faith, not by sight (2 Corinthians 5:7). Christians aren’t supposed to need constant “proof” via signs and wonders — or constant warnings about them. The strong delusion of 2 Thessalonians 2 comes on those who “did not receive the love of the truth.” Grounded believers in Christ are not the target demographic for that.

UAPs/UFOs? Most have mundane explanations (balloons, drones, birds, lens flares, classified aircraft, sensor glitches). Some remain genuinely unexplained — which means “we don’t know yet,” not “therefore demons from the spirit realm.” Extraordinary claims (interstellar visitors or shape-shifting demons) require extraordinary evidence. Science is still the best tool for the physical sky. The Bible doesn’t require us to interpret every unidentified light as spiritual warfare.
The Spielberg movie Disclosure Day is fiction. It’s entertainment exploring themes of disclosure and wonder — the same themes that made E.T. and Close Encounters popular. Linking a director’s childhood feelings to demonic deception is the kind of overreach that makes serious people tune out.Bottom LineCrackpot Bob's article isn’t careful biblical analysis. It’s a recycled conspiracy template: world events + his prophecy grid = demons everywhere, only my group sees it. It sells fear and special knowledge while downplaying the finished work of Christ and the empowering presence of the Holy Spirit.
New Covenant Christianity offers something far better: freedom from paranoia, authority over darkness through Jesus, and the ability to engage the world with curiosity, discernment, and peace rather than constant demon-hunting. Unexplained lights in the sky don’t threaten your faith. Neither do movies. Neither do old apparitions with debatable fashion choices.
Test everything. Stay grounded in Scripture and the Spirit. And maybe ease up on the “everything is demons” setting — it makes the actual spiritual battle harder to see clearly.
Go watch the movie this weekend and have fun. This isn't a lake of fire issue that will keep you out of Petra. No demons will be sitting next to you in the theatre ready to steal your soul. You survived E.T. the Extraterrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and you will survive this movie.

Scofield + HWA = Hybrid Heresy: How Armstrong Turned Dispensational Nonsense Into Something Even Worse

Armstrongism and Dispensationalism: 

Borrowed Prophecy, Twisted Identity, and the Glorious Failure of Both Systems

Herbert W. Armstrong, that self-appointed “apostle” who loved to claim he restored truths lost for 1,900 years, built a hefty chunk of his prophetic house on ideas he cribbed from the popular fundamentalist crowd. Enter the Scofield Reference Bible — his favorite cheat sheet. He stirred in his special secret sauce of British Israelism, church eras, mandatory law-keeping, and a dash of one-man authoritarianism. The result? A glorious hybrid monstrosity that took the worst of Dispensationalism and made it even more ridiculous. What a masterpiece of “Plain Truth”!

What Is Dispensationalism? (The Original Flavor)

Dispensationalism, cooked up by John Nelson Darby and neatly packaged by Cyrus I. Scofield, slices human history into neat little “dispensations” where God supposedly changes the rules like a cosmic game show host. Innocence, Conscience, Human Government, Promise, Law, Grace (the current “Church Age” parenthesis), and a future Kingdom.

The big selling point: a sharp, permanent wall between Israel (God’s earthly people with all those juicy land and temple promises) and the Church (a mostly Gentile heavenly afterthought inserted as a temporary gap). This leads to the crowd-pleasing pre-tribulation Rapture, a neat 7-year Tribulation focused on the Jews, and a literal millennial kingdom where national Israel gets its big comeback.

Scofield’s notes glued all this directly into the Bible text, turning speculation into something that looked almost official. Brilliant marketing, really.

Armstrong’s Love Affair with the Scofield Bible

HWA didn’t hide his admiration for the Scofield Bible. He leaned on it heavily while “studying” in the 1920s and 1930s and borrowed freely as he invented his own prophetic empire.

He kept the premillennialism, the literal-prophecy-when-it-suited-him approach, the heavy focus on Daniel and Revelation, and the 70 Weeks as a handy timeline. But true to form, he couldn’t leave well enough alone. He ditched the secret Rapture (too mainstream), replaced it with his patented “place of safety” (Petra, anyone?), and glued on British Israelism — the delightful fantasy that Americans and Brits are the lost ten tribes of Israel while the Jews play second fiddle.

Because why settle for ordinary Dispensationalism when you can make Anglo-Saxons the stars of the birthright promises? Much more exciting.

Why This Hybrid Is So Delightfully Wrong

From a New Covenant perspective grounded in the finished work of Christ, both systems are embarrassing, but Armstrongism takes the cake by adding extra layers of legalistic nonsense and ethnic myth-making.

1. Prophecy Gymnastics on Daniel’s 70 Weeks Scofield fans love inserting a giant mysterious “gap” between the 69th and 70th weeks so they can shove a future 7-year Tribulation in there. Armstrong mostly followed the historical line to Christ’s first coming (69½ weeks) but left that pesky final 3½ years dangling for end-time drama. Both approaches require Olympic-level textual contortions. The prophecy is about the Messiah finishing transgression, ending sin, atoning for iniquity, bringing everlasting righteousness, and anointing the Most Holy — all gloriously fulfilled in Jesus’ ministry, death, and the New Covenant. Not in some distant gap or Armstrongist Tribulation sideshow.

The day-year principle sounds spiritual until you realize how selectively they apply it.

2. Israel, the Church, and British Israelism Fantasy Dispensationalism’s rigid Israel/Church split already undermines the New Testament’s crystal-clear teaching of one people of God — the “one new man” in Christ. Armstrong made it exponentially worse with his Anglo-Israel fairy tale. Modern U.S. and Britain as literal descendants of the lost tribes? Thoroughly debunked by history, genetics, archaeology, and the Bible itself. The New Testament doesn’t waste time hunting for lost tribes because it doesn’t need to. In Christ, ethnic myths dissolve.

3. Legalism on Steroids Both systems cling to Old Covenant shadows, but Armstrong cranked it to eleven: mandatory Sabbath, Holy Days, tithing, clean meats, and the soul-crushing idea that you must “qualify” for the Kingdom through obedience plus faith while hoping to “become God.” Nothing says “good news” like turning grace into a lifelong performance review.

4. The Scofield Influence Problem Scofield’s notes helped popularize endless speculation, date-setting (which HWA turned into an Olympic sport), and a form of prophecy worship that often overshadows the actual gospel. Armstrong cherry-picked the parts he liked and claimed divine restoration on the rest. Classic.

The whole hybrid appealed to people hungry for “hidden knowledge,” but it delivered failed prophecies, crushed lives, and authoritarian control.

The Real Restoration That Matters (Unlike the Restored Nonsense)

Armstrongism’s desperate raid on the Scofield Reference Bible perfectly exposes the glorious comedy of both systems: a bunch of men playing prophetic mad scientist, cobbling together elaborate doomsday puzzles from human imagination instead of simply believing the finished work of Christ. Herbert W. Armstrong grabbed the dispensational toolkit that promised to “unlock” the headlines, tossed in his beloved British Israelism fairy tale and a truckload of mandatory Old Covenant rule-keeping, then had the audacity to slap a “Thus saith the Lord — Plain Truth Restored!” label on the resulting dumpster fire. The final product? A bloated hybrid that took Dispensationalism’s worst quirks — those convenient prophetic gaps, ethnic superiority myths, and temple-obsessed futurism — and supercharged them with legalistic bondage, one-man cult rule, and a legendary track record of spectacularly failed dates.

In a sharp contrast, the New Testament drops a far simpler, more glorious bombshell. In Christ, every single one of God’s promises shouts a resounding “Yes!” (2 Corinthians 1:20). There is only one people of God — Jew and Gentile smashed together into one new man in the Church, the true Israel of God by faith (Ephesians 2:11-22; Galatians 3:28-29; 6:16). The tired shadows of the Old Covenant have been fulfilled and tossed aside like yesterday’s obsolete paperwork. We’re not waiting around for a rebuilt temple, revived national distinctions, or some separate prophetic program for physical Israel. The Kingdom is already here in the risen Lord, and its full party awaits His visible return.

For all the exhausted souls crawling out of Armstrongism and its prophetic funhouse, this is actual freedom: stop sweating to “qualify” through rituals, lost-tribe fantasies, and endless chart-staring. The gospel isn’t a secret decoder ring for hidden tribes and prophetic gaps — it’s the raw power of God for salvation to everyone who simply believes.

True biblical prophecy does one thing: it points straight to Jesus — the Messiah who already showed up, who reigns right now at the Father’s right hand, and who will return visibly to make everything new. No Scofield footnotes, no Armstrong “plain truth” sales pitch, and no ridiculous ethnic hierarchies required. Just Christ, and Him crucified and risen.

That is the only restoration worth shouting about.

Silent Pilgrim