This is not to indict the character of anyone but to reveal the vision of Ezekiel the prophet. It is not about people but the flying craft in days of old.
Be forewarned; as I write this, I sought to neglect the mysterious living creatures of the first chapter of Ezekiel. In the process of study, I came to believe who those living creatures were and from whence they came. I did not make them what they are but God, I believe, revealed them to me. You look at the setting and the rebellion and you decide who those creatures are!
Reading the Book of Ezekiel
is like reading science fiction and the account of the “living creatures” seems
explainable only in terms of spacecraft from another world. Indeed, they are
surely from another world, they are not spacecraft, but creatures alien to
Ezekiel. If they were spacecraft, then God would be only the Power of great
engines. Ezekiel probably saw the cherubims of Genesis 3:24.
Therefore,
I will make no further attempt to explain the noise and visions of Ezekiel. (But
then I did).
Ezekiel could have seen into the
future. He could have seen the end-of-days and spacecraft, not of aliens, but jets
from the future. That is what ancient prophets could do.
The focus of all that noise and activity centered around God revealing Himself to Ezekiel:
The hand of the Lord was there upon me; and He said unto me, “Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.”
Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
Then the spirit entered into me, and set me upon my feet, and spake with me… (Ezek 3:22-24)
The Lord was upon Ezkiel; he would have glowed like Moses of so long ago. Ezekiel went to the plain as he was told.
Generally, worshippers went to
the mountains to be with God. This time it was the plain, in the same manner as
Nimrod building his tower on the plain of Shinar.
The last commentary was about
Nimrod’s tower; that it was not a tower, but an attempt to make a rocket, as science-fi
as that seems (DEATH:THE PORTAL TO HEAVEN). [1]
As the great hunter Nimrod would
endeavor to send a spacecraft to heaven to kill God. His rocket exploded and the
ones aboard it suffered death. I proposed that their souls were held prisoner
in the Second Heaven. In a sense, the “tower,” if it was a rocket, made it to
heaven in a sense, but only its passengers. It seems that the rocket exploded,
leaving no traces, but the contents arrived as prisoners of God, according to
the sightings of Enoch in the Second Heaven.
Ezekiel came on the scene years
later given the same circumstance as in the days of Nimrod. The Israelites were
again alien to God in the manner of the Semites at Babel.
God said to Ezekiel, “The house
of Israel will not hearken unto you; for they will not hearken unto Me: for all
the house of Israel are impudent and hardhearted” (Ezek 3:7).
Ezekiel was given a message from
God that he was to save the Israelites who had been dispersed into the land of
Shinar. It was his responsibility to share the Word that God had laid upon him.
In a sense, God ordained Ezekiel to be the savior of His people, and no other
peoples. His role was to “speak with My Words unto them” (Ezek 3:4) — the
Israelites.
Now, jump to the time of Jesus
from around 550 B.C. Paul wrote to Timothy, “All scripture is given by
inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness” (2 Tim 3:16). When God got on
Ezekiel, Ezekiel was “engendered from above” which is the literal meaning of “born
again” (John 3:7). Ezekiel, after his encounter with God, was in Christ because
he was in the Word of God, (John 1:1-14). His role was the same as Paul wrote
to Timothy.
In a sense, the Israelites, in
their own manner, were still killing God. They had found that ignoring God in
favor of the paradisical life in the Gardens of Babylon was superior to asceticism
in the worship of God.
God had not been killed but
severely wounded and He would not wait for them to attack again. He met them on
their own turf on the plain of Shinar and left behind a valiant man who was given
the Power of God that he would use to separate them into the worthy and the unworthy
(Ezek 2).
God
came onto the plain of Shinar with a show of strength. Ezekiel saw the army of
God whose role was described in the beginning: “He placed at the east of the Garden
of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way
of the Tree of Life” (Gen 3:24). (Note that the Israelites were meant to be the
keepers of the Way to the Tree of Life (Jesus) but in the end, they destroyed
the “Tree.”
Ezekiel was sent by God to save
the Tree of Life from the Israelites.
Eastward could be before
time and it was at the beginning of time. Time began with sin… “In the
process of time…” (Gen 4:3) with the murder of Abel by Cain. Cain was hard-hearted,
so God tagged him to die rather than to be saved during the flood of Noah’s day.
However, east is
directional as well. The Garden of Eden in this realm was not Mesopotamia (Shinar)
where the fabulous gardens were, but westward of Shinar in Israel where flows
to this day the Naral Ha Yarden (“The River of the Garden”) — the Jordan
River.
The
plain of Shinar was where God placed the cherubims to ensure that those who
were unworthy had no access to the Tree of Life in Israel. Shinar was indeed east
of the Garden of Eden!
Ezekiel was to sort out who was worthy and unworthy.
Referring to Ezekiel as the “son of man,” God said to him, “You shall speak my Words
unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are
most rebellious” (Ezek 2:7).
Ezekiel was given the same title
that Jesus was called — the “Son of Man.” He was the proxy for Jesus during
those days, and he would judge the people for God; not that he was Jesus but
would act on behalf of Jesus. When God came on him, he became, not God, but
like God just as Christians would years later.
Now, I will suppose what God was
doing:
In the days of Abram, Nimrod,
probably using the invention of Genun, sought to build a giant rocket to send
an army to attack God on His Turf (The Estate of God in Paradise). Perhaps
Nimrod did build a rocket; after all, His people may have built the pyramids.
Who knows?
If that was possible, considering
that the Book of Jasher said it exploded and all aboard died, Nimrod was
not successful in either building a rocket nor in killing God.
To answer a new threat on the
plain of Shinar, what would God do? Would He build rockets to show His
strength, or would be just summon mighty jets from the future? My guess is that
the cherubims were airmen from the end-of-days and not spacecraft from another
planet.
Did Ezekiel really experience
those things, or did he only have a vision? I believe that “with God all things
are possible” (Mat 19:26). I believe Ezekiel’s vision was reality and not science
fiction.
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