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 than 800 radio stations worldwide. Under Epp's direction, the broadcasts were also noted for music by the "Back to the Bible Choir" and quartet. Several popular phonograph recordings were made by the choir in the 1940s and 1950s. "Back to the Bible" also had a weekly youth program on Saturdays, featuring a youth choir and serialized adventures with a Christian theme, such as the "Danny Orlis series" written by Bernard Palmer. Both the music segments and youth program were discontinued in the 1980s. By the 1970s the organization had offices in Australia, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, England, France, India,