L.A. Marzulli: Redeeming the DarknessL.A. Marzulli, author, composer and researcher had no use for God after the age of 13, when he stopped attending the Catholic church of his parents.
When he was 18, his 16-year-old girlfriend was killed in an accident. Deeply affected by this, he felt there was no God whatsoever. To ease the pain, he sought relief from many sources including drugs.
By the age of 21, Marzulli moved into an ashram. Though he’d left the church, he found himself drawn to other spiritual expressions, especially the New Age movement. His fascination with unusual phenomena drew him deeper and deeper into the supernatural and occultist world.
By age 30, however, he realized something crucial: that none of his experiences did a thing to change what was on the inside. Marzulli read a book by Dave Hunt, “Kingdom of the Cults”, and started researching how many of today’s phenomena have deep occultist roots. This research led him back to God and allowed him to heal from his past. Marzulli knew he had been deceived by an enemy. Marzulli’s fascination with the enemy continued, but now from a whole new perspective.
He sees the current fascination with UFOs and other unusual phenomena as tools that the enemy is using to deceive people. It bothered him that Satan was deceiving so many, just as he’d been deceived. He wanted to warn others as to what was really happening, and equip other believers to share their faith with those who were caught up in supernatural phenomena.
Marzulli had expressed himself creatively all his life, through music (he composed piano pieces at the age of six), and writing (he wrote screenplays since high school days).
“When I read Frank Peretti’s book, ‘This Present Darkness,’ I got serious about my own writing,” he said. He wrote a novel, sent it out, and received “a couple of nibbles” but no contract. By this time he had become fascinated by the whole UFO phenomena and began doing extensive research.
“Most people have no clue as to what’s going on with the UFO phenomenon,” he says. “It used to be so fringe, but now with The X-Files on television, Art Bell and George Noory on the radio and a tremendous Internet presence, there is this growing fascination with it. There are all kinds of web sites, novels and books coming out on it.”
Serious research is being done into alleged alien abductions; it’s not just the stuff of supermarket tabloids.
Marzulli has researched the topic of UFO cults in depth, which became the basis for his the Nephilim trilogy (Zondervan). His research has convinced him that serious spiritual deception is going on, and many people are falling under its spell. He wrote the trilogy to help people understand the spiritual dimensions of the whole UFO phenomenon, which he sees as part of the end times prophesied in The Book of Revelation, The Book of Daniel, and elsewhere in the Bible.
“At the heart of all of this weird phenomena, whether you’re talking about people who claim to have found the tomb of Jesus, to those who believe in UFOs and alien abductions, is a negation of the spiritual teachings most of us have grown up with,” Marzulli says.
Though it’s fiction, the Nephilm trilogy sheds the light of biblical truth on the deceptions of our day. Though these phenomena may seem fringe to many of Christian faith, Marzulli says that it’s only because we don’t realize how many people are caught up in it.
“One of the tactics of the enemy is to introduce something, wait a while, then reintroduce it,” he says. “The second time around, it doesn’t seem so strange or bad. “I think UFOs will be like that”.
Back in the 1950s, there was a lot of talk about them, and it seemed very strange to most people. But now it seems more believable. We even have people like the Israeli journalist and skeptic [BARRY CHAMISH] talking about the Nephilim—the giants mentioned in Genesis 6:4--returning to Israel. There are hundreds of UFO sightings weekly around the world. I think everything points to demonic deception on a growing scale.”
Marzulli sees his former involvement in the occult as the basis of his current calling: “Having my roots in the occult, then becoming a Christian—all I went through—has enabled me to look at this phenomenon from both an insider’s view and a biblical view. I want to steer people away from getting involved, and arm people to know what to say to someone who is involved in the occult.”
Marzulli's latest book is Politics, Prophecy & The Supernatural. Plus, he will be making a new EBook available soon!
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