Saturday, July 6, 2024

DEATH: THE PORTAL TO HEAVEN

The Book od Ezekiel begins by where he was standing and what he was seeing… “by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God” (Ezek 1:1).

Just a few seers saw God in heaven without dying. Ezekiel was one of the few.

Now consider how he saw God:

The Chebar River is surely the Kabar near Nippur in Babylonia.  Ezekiel was held captive, but in captivity he saw freedom; he saw God.

There by the side of the river, the firmament was opened. He saw beyond the firmament. There is only speculation just what the “firmament” might be, but scripture has it as a dome somewhere beyond the Earth. To ancient people the Earth was the center of existence, and the celestial axis is wherever God appeared on the face of the Earth.

Because the Jews were held captive, at the very moment Ezekiel saw God, that place was the celestial axis. The firmament was most certainly the cosmos. The firmament — the celestial sphere — has a center that coincides with the center of the Earth and for most people, it coincides with where their “god” is.

The God of Ezekiel, at that very moment in time, was above him some place beyond the celestial sphere. As such, Ezekiel saw beyond the cosmos and saw God.

Everybody is looking for God. Nimrod built a tower, or even perhaps a rocket to find God, or for his purposes as the great hunter, not to find God out there.

Where was Nimrod standing? Where did he build his tower? To get closer to God all societies went to high places. Nimrod knew how to get closer to God. He went to the plane of Shinar; the lowest place in the area.

Now consider the Tower of Babel. The word, “Babel” is of unknown derivation. It was in Shinar and “Babel” was the Akkadian, Babilim — “the gate of god” (Wikipedia 2023). Babylon was seventy miles northwest of Nippur where Ezekiel was standing. Both Nippur and Babylon are the lowest elevation in Mesopotamia. Both men sought God on the lowest ground in Mesopotamia.

The picture below is the situation of both Nimrod’s Tower and Ezekiel’s vision.

 


Figure 1:Khabur River

 There is indeed something strange when both Nimrod who sought God and Ezekiel who found God would go to a place with an elevation of 100 meters! Maybe the point is that God is not confined to the same metrics that mankind is confined.

For a moment consider how Nimrod sought God: 

Go to, let us build us a city (Babel) and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. (Gen 11:4)

 They were not necessarily building a tower, but some type of structure as the Hebrew suggests. The root verb of that noun is gadal is “twisting.” That could either mean that the tower was spiral or that the motion of an object was like a spiral.

Babylonian towers were ziggurats that have no twists but are levels of sub-towers. Monthis ago, I first proposed that those “towers” were indeed towers but mobile towers whose motion was meant to be upward and that the kiln in which Abram withstood the heat was an engine for flight. Nimrod was endeavoring to overcome the world, if that is true, by the best way he knew how; he would build the structure that could reach “unto heaven.”

According to sacred literature it is said this way: “The building of the tower was unto them a transgression and a sin, and they began to build it, and whilst they were building against the Lord God of heaven, they imagined in their hearts to war against him and to ascend into heaven” (Jasher 9:29). They would not climb to the top of the tower but ascend as a rocket ship might ascend.

The people even tested their invention: “The Lord knew their thoughts, and it came to pass when they were building, they cast the arrows toward the heavens, and all the arrows fell upon them filled with blood, and when they saw them, they said to each other, ‘Surely we have slain all those that are in heaven’” (Jasher 9:29).

Now think of the motion of the arrows; they spin in flight based on the design of their feathers. Surely, they were shooting arrows into the air as protypes for space travel.

God destroyed the tower to heaven, and it no longer exists. “And as to the tower which the sons of men built, the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up one third part thereof, and a fire also descended from heaven and burned another third, and the other third is left to this day, and it is of that part which was aloft, and its circumference is three days' walk” (Jasher 9:38).

The tower, or rocket, had three stages. The first stage was for lift-off if they had indeed built a rocket; it propelled the rocket into the air, then the second stage burnt up going aloft. Then the third stage is left to the day of the writing. It did go unto the heavens and perhaps orbits the earth to this day. Somehow, Nimrod was not only the great hunter but the “great navigator” as well.

If Nimrod indeed sent the third of the people to heaven, they are held prisoners in the Second Heaven (in orbit) just as Enoch describes that place: “Those men took me and led me up on to the second heaven, and showed me darkness, greater than earthly darkness, and there I saw prisoners hanging, watched, awaiting the great and boundless judgement, and these angels were dark-looking, more than earthly darkness, and incessantly making weeping through all hours” (Secrets 7:1).

So, Nimrod sought God by his own devices and found Him, not in Person, but His Dynamics. He scattered the people, not only over the land, but unto the heavens; not Paradise in Heaven but held prisoners in the Second Heaven until on Judgment Day they will finish the trip to Hades in the Third Heaven.

Mission accomplished, Nimrod!

So, what did Enoch do to see God. “Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him” (Gen 5:24). From the Book of II Enoch, we find that like Elijah, God also took Enoch in a whirlwind — a twisting motion like Nimrod’s “rocket” which was meant to fly.

The picture below shows a 3000-year-old version of a stone rocket ship.

 


Figure 2: Ancient Code "Rocket Ship"

I submit that Abram, when he destroyed his father’s idols, as the Hebrew custom was, he cut off the head of the idol. This could be a very idol that Abram destroyed to find God for himself the Way of God!

Some might say that the stone figure might have been left by aliens in unidentified flying objects. I submit that is not true. It was surely one of the many inventions of Genun in the days of Noah. The knowledge of Satan may have been the source of that technology, after inventing many things, Genun was motivated to build weapons of mass destruction, “Then Satan, when he saw that they yielded to Genun and hearkened to him in every thing, he told them, rejoiced greatly, increased Genun's understanding, until he took iron and with it made weapons of war” (2 A & E 20:7).

Satan surely revealed not only how to make stone images of God, but weapons of war for the mighty hunter, Nimrod, to use to kill God! That invention came from Genun’s muse, Lucifer whose initiative was to do the following things: 

I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. (Isa 14:13:14)

 Satan surely showed Genun how to do that and Nimrod made the tower after the manner of the rocket ship in figure #2.

To this day, it is like in the days of Noah; mankind is reaching into the stars to find God not there. Indeed, according to Enoch, God is not in the cosmos but beyond it in the Tenth Heaven, safe from the initiatives of Satan and his “stooges” (mankind).

Here is what and where Enoch found God: 

On the tenth Heaven, Aravoth, I saw the appearance of the Lord's face, like iron made to glow in fire, and brought out, emitting sparks, and it burns. Thus, I saw the Lord's face, but the Lord's face is ineffable, marvellous and very awful, and very, very terrible.” (Secrets 22:1-2)

 Rockets will never find God because he is not out there; He is another realm where rockets cannot go!

Jesus said, “Not every one that says unto me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of My Father which is in heaven” (Mat 7:21).

Towers nor rockets are the way to heaven, and neither are idols of false gods nor even rockets. The Way to “heaven” where God is, is by the Will of the Father. He wills it, and it happens, and without any other devices that are man or Satan made.

Enoch did nothing, and neither did Ezekiel. He was standing on the plain of Shinar and suddenly the heavens were opened. He saw through all the levels of heaven and God was exposed beyond the cosmos. You cannot get there by any other means than by God.

Ezekiel saw “visons of God,” not just a phantom image in a dream, but as if Ezekiel had on special “binoculars,” to wit magnifical “towers” (Strong’s) to bring God closer to himself.

God was made visible to Ezekiel, whether he went there or saw God from the plane of Shinar is not certain, but it seems that Ezekiel went where Enoch had gone before.

How far away is God? For both Enoch and Ezekiel, God was right there, as if there is indeed a space/time warp, not a warped cosmos, but it is through a portal anywhere a righteous person peers.

The celestial axis was where Nimrod looked and where Ezekiel stood. It too is wherever the Christian stands. The “doorway” to heaven is the invisible firmament that opens when God sees fit.

Ezekiel never sought God, but God found Him. What did Ezekiel do? He was held captive! He was held captive in much the same manner as the repentant thief, Dismus, who saw God in the heavenly Paradise that day as if he was already there. Death, for him was the portal to God on the celestial axis between heaven and earth at Calvary; again, wherever God and man are found together in one accord (Acts 2:1).

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