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immortal or something like that—why wouldn't they take the planet by force whether wethreatened counter-measures or not?""Good question," Brian said thoughtfully. "I don't know.""What's more," the Colonel continued on the offensive, seizing Brian's failure toaddress his criticism, "why would these sons of God use spaceships? Tell me!" hedemanded."I think I can address that one," Melissa took the opening. Brian did a doubletake."Hey, you read enough of the apocalyptic crap that I have and you run into theBook of Enoch eventually. A lot of this is in Elizabeth Claire Prophet's drivel."Brian and Father Benedict exchanged curious glances."If Enoch is taken seriously—again, not that I believe this," she continued, "andthese creatures are masters of technology who have freely doled it out to humankind fortheir own purposes, then why couldn't the Watchers make these craft? Besides—andDeidre probably knows more about this than I do—I recall reading that there are storiesfrom ancient India that describe strange flying craft."Deidre nodded. "They're in their Vedic sagas.""I'd say that's pretty remarkableflying machines in ancient literature," Melissacontinued. "It's not that long of a leap to make the connection between the Watchers andthe beings in this Sanskrit literature. Deidre?""You're readin' my mind, honey.""I'd add," said Father Benedict, "that if Psalm 82 describes a punishment of theWatchers for the Genesis 6 episode, then they have lost their immortal status, and with itthey may have lost other divine attributes, such as the ability to be anywhereinstantaneously. We only discussed the first verse in relation to the divine council.""Later in the psalm," Brian picked up the cue, "God judges the elohim forperverting judgment—I don't know if it's a link to Genesis 6 or not it may be if you takeEnoch's version at face value. At any rate, when the text says `you will die like men' theverb there is identical to the punishment upon humankind in Genesis 2 for Adam andEve's disobedience to God's command: `you shall surely die'. We know that Adam andEve didn't just drop over dead when they sinned, but they did start to age, and wereforever removed from the presence of the tree of life and the divine council's presence.""In other words, they may be spatially limited when they take on physical form,"Father Benedict explained. "They may actually need the craft, but I'm not totallyconvinced that's the only answer.""This is preposterous!" the Colonel exploded."It gets worse," Brian said, trying to finish quickly, suspecting the Colonel wasabout to terminate the meeting. "I didn't get to your last question—what this has to dowith the apocalypse.""This meeting is over, as far as I'm concerned!" he bellowed."No!" Neil challenged him unexpectedly. The room grew quiet. The Colonel triedto disguise the surprise on his face at Dr. Bandstra's objection, but everyone had takennote. Brian decided hesitation would only allow the Colonel to shut things down."This is all related to the apocalypse," he said hurriedly, "because of what Jesussaid in Matthew 24:37 during his discourse on what the signs of his second comingwould be. That's the verse I quoted earlier:195