Plan 999 From Outerspace

The smell of blood and roasted corpses was not just pleasing to God,
who especially enjoyed the aroma after the Great Flood (Genesis
8:21), it was enjoyed by Jesus as well. Jesus certainly wasn’t averse
to malicious, virulent punishments to those who didn’t accept His
every word as Gospel. To name but a few, Jesus told the disciples to
bring before Him any man who didn’t believe in Him, and to violently
slaughter the non-believer while Jesus watched (Luke 19:27). Jesus
killed one man by having his body eaten by a swarm of worms because
the man failed to give Jesus His due (Acts 12:23). Jesus struck a Jew
blind for thwarting His teachings (Acts 13:8-11). He struck a man
dumb for failing to listen well (Luke 1:20). He took the lives of a
husband and wife by scaring them to death for not forking over all
the money they made on a real estate transaction (Acts 5:1-10).
During one particularly temperamental time when Jesus was hungry, He
even killed a fig tree for failing to bear figs, even though Jesus
knew figs weren’t in season (Mark 11:12-14). Jesus means business!

It had long been thought by many Christians that the Rapture doctrine
originated with , John Darby. It is now known that this is not true.
Darby only popularized it. Scofield and others who took over Darby’s
mantle later helped to make it respectable, Today, many of those in
the evangelical sphere of Christianity are so certain of its veracity
that it is accepted as the absolute truth of God. The fact is,
however, John Darby received the knowledge of the doctrine from
someone else. The source was the Margaret Macdonald mentioned above.

The studies of Mr. MacPherson show that her sickness during which she
received her visions and revelations occurred sometime between
February 1 and April 14, 1830. And by late spring and early summer of
1830, her belief in the two phases of Christ’s coming was being
mentioned in praise and prayer meetings in several towns of western
Scotland. In these meetings some people were speaking in “tongues”
and other charismatic occurrences were in evidence. These
extraordinary and strange events in western Scotland so attracted
John Darby that he made a trip to the area to witness himself what
was going on. Though he did not approve of the ecstatic episodes that
he witnessed. it is nonetheless significant that Darby, after
returning from Scotland, began to teach that Christ’s second coming
would occur in two phases. MacPherson shows good evidence that Darby
had even visited Miss Macdonald in her home. There can hardly he any
doubt that the visions of Miss Macdonald are the source of the modern
doctrine.

The word “Rapture” is not found in the Bible. There is also no single
word used by the biblical authors to describe the prophetic factors
which comprise the doctrine. Its formulation has come about by means
of induction. Certain biblical passages concerning the second coming
(and the role that Christians will play in that event) have been
inductively blended together to establish the teaching.

John Cabell “Bunny” Breckinridge (August 6, 1903 – November 5, 1996) was an American actor and drag queen, best known for his role as “The Ruler” in Ed Wood’s film Plan 9 from Outer Space, his only film appearance.

In 1927, while working as a drag/burlesque entertainer in Paris, he married a woman said to be Frenchroyalty. They divorced two years later, but had one daughter, named Solange.
Openly gay[1]at a time when it was daring (and even dangerous) to be so, he was well known for his flamboyant lifestyle, his outrageous sense of humor, and his penchant for perfume and costume jewelry. He performed in Shakespearean plays in England before moving to San Franciscoin the late 1920s. He also frequently performed in drag.

Plan 9 from Outer Space
In 1958, Breckinridge agreed to play the role of an alien leader in the film Graverobbers from Outer Space (later retitled Plan 9 from Outer Space), directed by his friend, Ed Wood. Wood and Breckinridge were introduced to one another by their mutual friend Paul Marco, who played Kelton the Cop in three Wood films.
Breckinridge and Marco were living together in the latter’s modest home at the time, despite the fact that he was a struggling B-movieactor and Breckinridge was an independently wealthy socialite. David Demering, who played the airplane co-pilot in the film, also lived with them.
Breckinridge’s previous stage experience convinced Wood to cast him as the alien ruler who oversees an attempt to take over the Earth using an army of reanimated corpses. Indeed, his background made him one of the few truly experienced actors in the entire cast. Dressed in a pajama-like outfit which is curiously less ornate than those worn by his underlings, he sports very visible mascara and lipstick, and constantly rolls his eyes and mugs for the camera.
In 1959, shortly after Plan 9 From Outer Space’s disappointing release, Breckinridge was convicted on ten counts of “sex perversion” for taking two underage boys on an excursion to Las Vegas. He was committed to the Atascadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, and released the following year. Upon his release, he returned to his San Francisco home, a Spanish style bungalow adorned with gold framed photographs of the many celebrities he met and befriended, including Princess Margaret, Noel Coward, J. Edgar Hoover, Elvis Presley, and Ed Sullivan. Breckinridge frequently opened his home to members of the growing hippie movement, who were enthralled not only by his stories of his flamboyant youth, but also his favorable opinions on free love and his encyclopedic knowledge of both gay history and the lives of closeted Hollywood stars.

[edit] Later years
Breckinridge continued his theatrical career throughout the 1950s, but in small local productions, such as playing the role of The Inquisitor in Richard Bailey’s production of The Lark in Carmel.
By the 1970s, Plan 9 from Outer Space had amassed a cult following among B-movie buffs as the “worst film ever made”, making Breckinridge’s name known to a new generation. Meanwhile, he returned to stage acting, appearing mostly in local productions in San Francisco.
In 1994, Breckinridge was surprised to find himself portrayed as a character in a major motion picture, played by Bill Murray in Tim Burton’s 1994 biopic Ed Wood. His advanced years and failing health, however, prevented him from participating in any of the publicity surrounding the film.
Breckinridge maintained homes on each coast – one in New Jersey and one in San Francisco – until his death in 1996 at age 93, in a Monterey hospital. He was quoted in his obituary as saying, “I was a little bit wild when I was young, darling, but I lived my life grandly.”