Ezekiel's Wheel (Part One)
From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 10:15:37 -0500
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Subject: Ezekiel's Wheel (Part One)
To add to the discussion of Ezekiel's wheel,
here are a couple of text files from the
UpDates Archives here. Jean Van Gemerts posts
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From The Book of Ezekiel
Eze1:1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month,
in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the
river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of
God.
Eze1:2 In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of King
Jehoiachin's captivity,
Eze1:3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest,
the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and
the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
Eze1:4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a
great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about
it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the
midst of the fire.
Eze1:5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living
creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a
man.
Eze1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
Eze1:7 And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet
was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour
of burnished brass.
Eze1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four
sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
Eze1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when
they went; they went every one straight forward.
Eze1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of
a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had
the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an
eagle.
Eze1:11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward;
two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered
their bodies.
Eze1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit
was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went.
Eze1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance
was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it
went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright,
and out of the fire went forth lightning.
Eze1:14 And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of
a flash of lightning.
Eze1:15 Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon
the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
Eze1:16 The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the
colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their
appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a
wheel.
Eze1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they
turned not when they went.
Eze1:18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful;
and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
Eze1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them:
and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels were lifted up.
Eze1:20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was
their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them:
for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
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And this from Jean Van Gemert:
Date: 04-26-95 (12:18) Number: 87636 of 87819 (Refer# NONE)
To: ALL
From: JEAN VAN.GEMERT
Subj: EZEKIELS UFO SIGHTING
Read: (N/A) Status: PUBLIC MESSAGE (Echo)
Conf: F-UFO (1356) Read Type: READING ALL (+)
Hello, Since I do not know If my posts have been sent out because of some
MAJOR problems in Holland with fido, I will repost this.
This chapter is taken from the book: extraterrestrials in biblical prophecy.
written by a retired english professor who taught at the university of
North Dakota, Iowa etc. etc......
* The Book of Ezekiel: Ezekiel's Spaceship Odyssey *
The story of the descent of the sky people is an im-
memorial event in man's heritage. Time after time, in recorded
documents the world over, we hear the same things: Beings
looking much like us have come down from the heavens, met
local inhabitants who were much impressed with these "gods"
and "angels," visited briefly and before departing, left informa-
tion of various kinds. Often this information is explanatory - it
tells the people who they are, where they came from, their
reason for being. Not surprisingly, it has served as both an im-
petus and a matrix from which religion has grown. Sometimes
it offers the Law or other moral teachings, as with Moses in the
Pentateuch and Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita. The messages
and visitations as such, whatever their nature, most often
become interwoven into the fabric of not only religion but
mythology, legend, tradition and general history as well. The
visitation experiences themselves are almost always peaceful.
The messages in a large number of cases offer knowledge of a
prophetic or spiritual nature rather than simply practical,
technical advice. They also often offer expressions of love and
promises of the possibility for eternal life. Far less often, the
motive for interaction appears to be simple fraternization.
What is most remarkable is that the language used to
describe these interactions, although originally couched in the
local idiom and often obscured by etymological shifts in mean-
ing, has so much in common. If we look at these accounts with
2Oth century space-age eyes (and a brain to match), we are not
only struck with the similarity of description, but are led to a
conclusion that would have seemed quite outlandish or unac-
ceptably otherwordly to our recent skeptical ancestors who
had not seen much, if any, evidence of extraterrestrial visitors
with their own eyes. That conclusion is simply this. These ac-
counts are descriptions of spacecraft shaped not unlike what
we are are becoming familiar with in our skies today, and these
biblical "gods" and "angels" are probably crew members of
craft from other worlds. These craft descend from the heavens
as "chariots of fire" with bright lights, thunder, smoke and
flame accompanying them in what is often a tremendous sound
and light show.
Undoubtedly the best biblical description of spacecraft
and visitation by extraterrestrials to the surface of this planet
is found in the Book of Ezekiel. B. Le Poer Trench, P. Thomas,
Morris K. Jessup, Maurice Chatelain, Virginia F. Brasington as
well as Erich von Daniken have all recognized the importance
of Ezekiel's account. Josef F. Blumrich, a NASA engineer, did
a complete and thorough study of it (The Spaceships of
Ezekiel). It could be said that even if no other book of Judeo-
Christian scripture contained material that suggested extra-
terrestrial contact with earth, and many most surely do, the
Book of Ezekiel alone would give serious cause to contemplate
the possibility of there having been such.
Ezekiel, a rabbi, lived in a community called Tel-Abib on
the Chebar River in Chaldea. He was a prisoner of King
Nebuchadnezzar, as were many other Israelites who had been
deported from their homeland and sent into captivity. Most of
the tribes were methodically split up and scattered across
Chaldea with some Hebrews still remaining in Jerusalem. The
Book of Ezekiel begins in 593 or 592 B.C., roughly five years
after his deportation. He has four encounters with our extra-
terrestrial visitors, spanning a period of nineteen years.
We are introduced to the first encounter immediately
after Ezekiel sets the scene:
As I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the
north, and a great cloud, with brightness round about it,
and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of the
fire, as it were gleaming bronze. And from the midst of it
came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was
their appearance: they had the form of men, but each had
four faces, and each of them had four wings. Their legs
were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole
of a calf's foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze.
Under their wings on their four sides they had human
hands. And the four had their faces and their wings thus:
their wings touched one another; they went every one
straight forward, without turning as they went. As for the
likeness of their faces, each had the face of a man in front;
the four had the face of a lion on the right side, the four
had the face of an ox on the left side, and the four had the
face of an eagle at the back. Such were their faces. And
their wings were spread out above; each creature had two
wings, each of which touched the wing of another, while
two covered their bodies. And each went straight forward;
wherever the spirit would go, they went, without turning
as they went. In the midst of the living creatures there
was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like
torches moving to and fro among the living creatures; and
the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth light-
ning. And the living creatures darted to and fro, like a
flash of lightning.
Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel
upon the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of
the four of them. As for the appearance of the wheels and
their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming
of a chrysolite; and the four had the same likeness, their
construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel.
When they went, they went in any of their four directions
without turning as they went. The four wheels had rims
and they had spokes; and their rims were full of eyes
round about. And when the living creatures went, the
wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures
rose from the earth, the wheels rose. Wherever the spirit
would go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them;
for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
When those went, these went; and when those stood, these
stood; and when those rose from the earth, the wheels rose
along with them; for the spirit of the living creatures was
in the wheels.
Over the heads of the living creatures there was the
likeness of a firmament, shining like crystal, spread out
above their heads. And under the firmament their wings
were stretched out straight, one toward another; and each
creature had two wings covering its body. And when they
went, I heard the sound of their wings like the sound of
many waters, like the thunder of the Almighty, a sound of
tumult like the sound of a host; when they stood still, they
let down their wings. And there came a voice from above
the firmament over their heads; when they stood still,
they let down their wings.
And above the firmament over their heads there was
the likeness of a throne, in appearance like sapphire; and
seated above the likeness of a throne was a likeness as it
were of a human form. And upward from what had the ap-
pearance of his loins I saw as it were gleaming bronze, like
the appearance of fire enclosed round about; and down-
ward from what had the appearance of his loins I saw as it
were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness
round about him. Like the appearance of the bow that is in
the cloud on the day of rain, so was the appearance of the
brightness round about.
Such was the appearance of the likeness of the glory
of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I
heard the voice of one speaking.
1:4-28
What is happening here? It is necessary for us to try to
put ourselves in the mind of a sixth century B.C. rabbi who
has no conception of mechanical, technological marvels. He is
a careful, capable observer but he must use language and make
associations that are familiar to him while trying to define
very unfamiliar things. His native language completely lacks
the technical vocabulary he needs, and he is forced by these
strange, unknown pheonomena to become a comparative, figurative
thinker and writer if he is to communicate effectively at all.
We cannot emphasize the fact too much that before the coming
of our technological age, beginning with the Industrial Revo-
lution of the Western World, there was an almost total absence
in most cultures of the kind of language Ezekiel needed to
describe his experiences, which often led men to misconstrue
what they saw into oversimplified versions of what they already
believed, prompting them to substitute for the unknown their own
familiar gods and devils.(1) Ezekiel's great chore, then, is to
find a choice of words which will be adequate, at least obliquely,
to his task, words which will describe effectively to his contem-
poraries what he saw and make them understand that which neither
he nor they have ever before experienced. No mean task that.
And yet it is the same task all the prophets faced who tried to
translate their extraterrestrial experiences into the language of
the masses.
This is the introduction taken from the book: extraterrestrials in
biblical prophecy.....
Sixteen years ago a NASA engineer by the name of Josef-
F. Blumrich, after reading some of Erich von Daniken's work
picked up the Bible and turned to the Book of Ezekiel. He was
intent on refuting von Daniken's idea that the Bible contained
evidence of extraterrestrial visitations to earth in ancient
times and that the Book of Ezekiel was a case in point. The
result of his investigation was published as a book, The
Spaceships of Ezekiel. Blumrich, much to his surprise, became
convinced that the Book of Ezekiel is a very accurate literal
description of several spaceship landings and of the craft them-
selves, albeit with the language limitations of Ezekiel's day.
Von Daniken, it would seem, more than anyone else, has spur-
red along the spirit of inquiry in the search for evidence of an-
cient astronauts. In fact, it was not very long ago that he men-
tioned the need for a more extensive investigation of biblical
scripture for evidence of extraterrestrial contact with biblical-
man. To my knowledge, a handful or more of such works have
been attempted in the past decade or so. Almost all of them,
however, suffer from one or more of several shortcomings.
Some are too superficial and incomplete to qualify as well re-
searched works. Some offer preconceived conclusions due to
their author's bias and end up little more than a forum for re-
ligious sermonizing. And almost all of them fail to grasp the
interrelationship between ancient and present-day UFOs and
scriptural prophecy and what that means for us today.
Some interesting earlier work was done, nevertheless.
And some speculations were made in the past that are perti-
nent today. Most notably, Alexander Kazantsev, a Russian
astronomer, and M. Agrest, a Soviet physicist, suggested in
the early 1960's that biblical angels could be astronauts from
space. Morris K. Jessup, the indefatigable UFO investigator
published in the 50's his "The UFO and the Bible." B. Le Poer
Trench came out with "The Sky People" in 1960 which specu-
lated that the biblical angels act very much like astronauts.
The same idea was reiterated by P. Thomas (pseudonym for P.
Misraki) in "Les Extraterrestres" (1962). The first edition of Rev.
Barry H. Downing's laudable "The Bible and Flying Saucers" ap-
peared in 1968. More recently, Jean Sendy's "Those Gods Who
Made Heaven and Earth" appeared in an English translation in
1972 and W. Raymond Drake's "Gods and Spacemen in the An-
cient east" in 1973 and "Gods and Spacemen in Ancient Israel in
1976. Maurice Chatelain, another NASA employee, wrote "Our
Ancestors Came From Outer Space" (1977), which confirms his
own research that we have been visited by extraterrestrials in
the distant past, and the Rev. Virginia F. Brasington published
a short but insightful work, "Flying scaucers in the Bible (last
edition, 1982). Unfortunately, all these works, except Down
ing's, as far as I know, are out of print and difficult to obtain
One exceptional work, actually three works in one, is
Zecharia Sitchin's The Earth Chronicles which consists of "The
12th Planet" (1976), "The Stairway to Heaven" (1980) and "The
Wars of Gods and Men" (1985). It is Sitchin's pioneering work in
Sumerology, his discovery of the strong extraterrestrial pre-
sence in many Sumerian-Babylonian tablets and his decipher-
ing and tracing of pictographic, cuneiform and Semitic termi-
nology for spacecrafts and spaceflight accouterments that
have helped me greatly in recognizing the interrelationship
between events in that part of the Middle East and later
events in the Judeo-Christian scriptures, including events to
come dcscribed in the prophecies. It is also Sitchin's work
which has helped me see the correspondence between the
Sumerian-Babylonian planet Nibiru (Marduk), which makes, ac-
cording to him, an approximate 3,600 year orbit of our sun, and
St. John's Wormwood of Revelation. As far as I know, I am the
first to recognize that correspondence. If Sitchin's calculations
are accurate, and the correspondence does in fact exist, then
our planet is soon to be wracked (and wrecked) by earth
changes of overwhelming intensity.
This is not the first work to offer the idea that Jesus of
Nazareth was (is) either a messiah-astronaut or, at the very
least, working closely with extraterrestrial visitors to the-
planet. Although assertions of this kind have been made in-
passing by several authors, this is also, as far as I know, the
first work which attempts a detailed, extensive textual analy-
sis of the Judeo-Christian scriptures in support of such ideas.
And it will come as a surprise to many people, I am sure, that
the textual evidence seems overwhelmingly to support such
contentions.
My research is offered with the full knowledge that theo-
logians as a group are adverse to the idea of someone poking
around in the sacrosanct with a new way of looking at things.
Even our "hard scientists," except for a few stalwarts like
Harley D. Rutledge, have until recently avoided anything that
smacks of UFOs with dread, as if such an interest is profes-
sional suicide, the bite of the self-applied asp. That attitude is
slowly changing as an avalanche of new material appears
almost daily, pointing to the fact that something is indeed go-
ing on in the sky and that it is purposefully affecting us on
earth in a ratio that seems to have something to do with our
ability to become acclimated to its existence. But more import-
antly, the intensification of the phenomenon seems to grow
greater as world events move closer to the prophesied final
days of "end time," and few people, scientists, theologians and
otherwise, are making the mental correlation between this in
creased UFO activity and the Old and New Testament pro-
phecies concerning those days. The sound reasons for making
that correlation are most often either missed completely or
misunderstood.
At any rate, von Daniken's suggestion made sense to me. I
had read his work and Blumrich's, and other works as well by
investigators of the UFO phenomenon, and I decided to go to
the scriptures and see, with my eyes open, just what I could
find indicating an extraterrestrial influence. I plunged ahead
wondering what I would find, if anything. I had read Blumrich-
granted, and I was impressed with what he had found in the
Book of Ezekiel. I thought there might be a bit more elsewhere
in the scriptures in the same vein. I was not, however, pre-
pared for the large amount of evidence of extraterrestrial con-
tact and influence that I found.
End Part One
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