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”
The picture below is the
situation of both Nimrod’s Tower and Ezekiel’s vision.
Figure 1:Khabur River
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)
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)
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)
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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