Close Encounters of the Third Kind aliens as God and Roy Neary as Moses. Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" is seen on television at the Neary household. Some found close relations between Elijah and Roy; Elijah was taken into a "chariot of fire", akin to Roy going in the UFO. Climbing Devils Tower behind the faltering Jillian, Neary exhorts Jillian to keep moving and not to look back, similar to Lot's wife who looked back at Sodom and turned into a pillar of salt. Spielberg explained, "I wanted to make "Close Encounters" a very accessible story about the everyday individual who has a sighting that
Back to the Bible as senior pastor, but Back to the Bible stood by its decision to dismiss him from his role there. From August 2014 to June 2016, the daily "Back to the Bible" program featured Bible teaching from Warren Wiersbe, David Chadwick and Darrell Bock. In July 2016, Ron Moore, pastor of The Bible Chapel in the Pittsburgh area, was named president and Bible teacher. He served as president until February 2018, and was succeeded by David Platt. Back to the Bible has offices in nine countries outside the United States (Canada, Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Trinidad &