Pete
5th February 2004, 21:27
This is in particular for Felicia, just out of interest's sake. I call it the SUV of God, it is something else in Hebrew, but I don't really remeember it. I copied out the first chapter of Eziekel from my bible and it would take to long to send it over msn, so everyone can see this beast in all its glory!
I saw visions from God ... In my vision I saw a storm-wind coming from the north, a vast coloud with flashes of fire and brilliant light about it; and within was a radiance like brass, glowing in the heart of the flames. In the fire was the likeness of four living creatures in human form. Each had four faces and each four wings; their legs were straight, and their hoofs were like the hoofs of a calf, glistening and gleaming like bronze. Under the wings on each of the four sides were human hans; all four creatures had faces and wings, and the wings of one touched those of another. They did not turn as they moved; each crature went straight forward. This is what their faces were like: all four had a human face and a lion's face on the right, on the left the face of an ox and the face of an eagle. Their wings were spread upwards; each living creature had one pair touching those of its neighbour, while one pair covered its body. They moved forward in whatever direction the spirit went; they never swerved from their course. The appearance of the creatures was as if fire from burning coals or torches were darting to and from among them; the fire was radiant, and out of the fire came lightning.
As I looked at the living cratures, I saw wheels on the ground, one beside each of the four. The wheels sparkled like topaz, and they were all alike: in form and working they were like a wheel inside a wheel, and when they moved in any of the four direction they never swerved from their course. I saw that they had rims, and the rims were covered with eyes all around. When the lving cratures moved, the wheels moved beside them; when the creatures rose from the ground, the weheels rose; they moved in whichever direction the spirit went; and the wheels rose together with them, for the spirit of the creatures was in the wheels. When one moved the other moved; when one halted, the other halted; when the cratures rose from teh ground, the wheels rose togheter with them, for the spirit of the creatures was in the wheels.
Above the heads of the living cratures was, as it were, a vualt glittering like a sheet of ice, awe-inspiring, stretched over their heads above them. Under the vault their wings were spread straight out, touching one another, while on pair covered the body of each. I heard, too, the noise of their wings; when they moved it was like the noise of a mighty torrent or a thunderclap, like the noise of a crowd or an armed camp; when they halted their wings dropped. A voice was heard from above the vault over their heads, as they halted with drooping wings.
Above the vault over their heads there appeared, as it were, a sapphire in the shape of a throne, and exalted on the throne a form in human likeness. From his waist upwards I saw what might have been brass glowing like fire in a furnance; and from his waist downwards I saw what looked like fire. Radiance encircled him. Like a rainbow in the clouds after the rain was teh sight of that encircling radiance; it was like the appearance of the glory of the lord... Ezekiel 1.1 - 1.28
It reminds me of a space ship and was written after 597, yet before 587 (first exile and destruction of Jerusalem) BCE
Any Comments?
http://home.earthlink.net/~lyam/ezekiel.jpg
http://www.ordination.org/ezekiel-1.jpg
http://www.ufobc.ca/images/ezekiel.jpg
I saw visions from God ... In my vision I saw a storm-wind coming from the north, a vast coloud with flashes of fire and brilliant light about it; and within was a radiance like brass, glowing in the heart of the flames. In the fire was the likeness of four living creatures in human form. Each had four faces and each four wings; their legs were straight, and their hoofs were like the hoofs of a calf, glistening and gleaming like bronze. Under the wings on each of the four sides were human hans; all four creatures had faces and wings, and the wings of one touched those of another. They did not turn as they moved; each crature went straight forward. This is what their faces were like: all four had a human face and a lion's face on the right, on the left the face of an ox and the face of an eagle. Their wings were spread upwards; each living creature had one pair touching those of its neighbour, while one pair covered its body. They moved forward in whatever direction the spirit went; they never swerved from their course. The appearance of the creatures was as if fire from burning coals or torches were darting to and from among them; the fire was radiant, and out of the fire came lightning.
As I looked at the living cratures, I saw wheels on the ground, one beside each of the four. The wheels sparkled like topaz, and they were all alike: in form and working they were like a wheel inside a wheel, and when they moved in any of the four direction they never swerved from their course. I saw that they had rims, and the rims were covered with eyes all around. When the lving cratures moved, the wheels moved beside them; when the creatures rose from the ground, the weheels rose; they moved in whichever direction the spirit went; and the wheels rose together with them, for the spirit of the creatures was in the wheels. When one moved the other moved; when one halted, the other halted; when the cratures rose from teh ground, the wheels rose togheter with them, for the spirit of the creatures was in the wheels.
Above the heads of the living cratures was, as it were, a vualt glittering like a sheet of ice, awe-inspiring, stretched over their heads above them. Under the vault their wings were spread straight out, touching one another, while on pair covered the body of each. I heard, too, the noise of their wings; when they moved it was like the noise of a mighty torrent or a thunderclap, like the noise of a crowd or an armed camp; when they halted their wings dropped. A voice was heard from above the vault over their heads, as they halted with drooping wings.
Above the vault over their heads there appeared, as it were, a sapphire in the shape of a throne, and exalted on the throne a form in human likeness. From his waist upwards I saw what might have been brass glowing like fire in a furnance; and from his waist downwards I saw what looked like fire. Radiance encircled him. Like a rainbow in the clouds after the rain was teh sight of that encircling radiance; it was like the appearance of the glory of the lord... Ezekiel 1.1 - 1.28
It reminds me of a space ship and was written after 597, yet before 587 (first exile and destruction of Jerusalem) BCE
Any Comments?
http://home.earthlink.net/~lyam/ezekiel.jpg
http://www.ordination.org/ezekiel-1.jpg
http://www.ufobc.ca/images/ezekiel.jpg