Ezekiel's Vision
Well, I'm sure if you're looking at
this, it's probably either from curiousity or you're trying to find another
stupid theory that is easily disprooved about aliens and/or UFOs.
Well, this one isn't a theory, it's a "Draw Your Own Conclusion".
This is a quote from the prophet Ezekiel in which he describes beings that
came to him from a ball of fire... It is rather interesting and if
you are to copy this information, please say where you got it from and
the bibliography on the bottom of this page as well. Thank you and
enjoy :)
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 Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw
visions of G-d. In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth
year of king Jehioachin's captivity, the word of the Lord came expressly
unto Ezekiel the priest the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by
the river of Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was there upon him.
And I looked,
and, behold a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a
fire flashing up, so that a brightness was round about it; and out of the
midst thereof as the colour of electrum, out of the midst of the fire.
And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures.
And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. And
every one of them had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.
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. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their
four sides; and as for the faces and the wings of them four, their wings
were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every
one straight forward. As for the likeness of their faces, they had
the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side;
and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also
the face of an eagle. 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. And they went every one straight forward;
whither the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like
coals of fire, burning like the appearance of torches; it flashed up and
down among the living creatures; and there was a brightness to fire, and
out of the fire went forht lightning. And the living creatures ran
and returned as the appearance of flash of lightning.
Now as I behled
the living creatures, behold one wheel at the bottom hard by the living
creatures, at the four faces thereof. 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 within
a wheel. When they went, they went toward their four sides; they
turned not when they went. As for their rings, they were high and
they were dreadful; and they four had their rings full of eyes round about.
And when the living creatures went, the wheels went hard by them; and when
the living creatures were lifted up from the bottom, the wheels were lifted
up. Whithersoever the spirit was to go, as the spirit was to go thither,
so they went; and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit
of the living creature was in the wheels. When those went, these
went, and when those stood, these stood; and when those stood, theese stood;
and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up
beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
And over the
heads of the living creatures there was the likeness of a firmament, like
the colour of the terrible ice, stretched forth over their heads above.
And under the firmament were their wings confromable to one to the other;
this one of them had two which covered, and that one of them had two which
covered, their bodies. And when they went, I heard the noise of their
wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a
noise of tumult like the noise of a host; when they stood, they let down
their wings. For, when there was a voice above the firmament that
was over their heads, as they stood, they let down their wings.
And above the
firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the
appearance of a sapphire stone; and upon the likeness of the throne was
a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above. And I saw as
the colour of electrum, as the appearance of fire round about enclosing
it, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance
of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and
there was brightness round about him. As the appearance of the bow
that is in the cloud of the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness
round about. This was the appearance and likeness of the glory of
the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice
of one that spoke.
this comes from pages 1027-1031 in "Pentateuch and Haftorahs: second
edition" edited by Dr. J. H. Hertz, C. H. (Late chief rabbi of the British
Empire).
