Posted on 07/15/2013 6:47:01 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Human beings have always seen unidentified objects in the sky. From the prophet Ezekiel’s sighting of a flying wheel in 593 B.C., to the 1561 A.D. Battle over Nuremberg, Germany, to Kenneth Arnold’s “pie plate” UFOs spotted near Mt. Rainer, Washington, in June 1947, there are things above our heads that baffle us.
Many of these unidentified flying objects appear to be intelligently controlled aircraft. Others, like the following sightings in California and Illinois, defy explanation.
(Excerpt) Read more at mysteriousuniverse.org ...
re: “From the prophet Ezekiel’s sighting of a flying wheel in 593 B.C. . . .”
This so-called “sighting” is always thrown in with the “evidence” that extra-terrestrials visited us in the past. There is no mystery to what Ezekiel saw. He tells the reader what it was - Cherubim from the presence of throne of God, which are winged creatures created by God who are always in His presence. The description of them is difficult to imagine as Ezekiel uses terms to describe them as best he can, plus most Bible scholars agree that the description also uses symbolism, so you have to be careful about taking it literally (hand of a man, wings, whole body full of eyes, etc.).
Further, if you read the entire chapter 10 of Ezekiel, you realize that the whole point of what he was envisioning was that the presence, the glory, and the Spirit of God was leaving the temple. Israels’ sin was so great that God’s glory left the temple. It was a message of judgement against the people of Israel at that point in time.
So, it is clear this has NOTHING to do with extra terrestrials or a flying saucer.
Your comment is somewhat logical and somewhat generous...Thank You for the last word!
Ezekiel has absolutely nothing to do with extra-terrestrials. See post #22. Read the entire chapter of Ezekiel 10.
Yes, the “wheel” appears again during his vision of the coming millennium Temple.
re: “Yes, the “wheel” appears again during his vision of the coming millennium Temple.”
You are correct. There are at least 58 passages throughout the Bible which mention the cherubim. They are mysterious in their appearance (weird for sure), but their purpose is not - they symbolize the presence of God, the glory of God, the holiness of God.
Not exactly flying saucer material.
I wish I could see one.
So, the being whose hand reached from some other where/when into King Belshazzar’s where/when at palace party central would not be defined as belonging to an ‘extra-terrestrial by you? FRiend, even Angels are extra-terrestrials.
I am always mystified as to why we can get clear, in focus film and photos of everything EXCEPT UFOs and/or extra-terrestrials.
I’m not saying people aren’t seeing something, and there are definitely strange visual occurrences in the skies, but why can’t we ever get a good, clear picture? I mean with all the cell cameras, iphones, ipads, digital cameras, surely someone could get at least one clear, in focus shot.
Let’s face it: this article and the resulting discussion here were simply too coherent, and cast too focused a light on matters that - until now - had done something to some of us at some point.
I’m left with an uneasy sense of time missing and consciousness averted for reasons that lie like a murky pond in twilight, awaiting Truth . . . or maybe more coffee.
Let’s face it: this article and the resulting discussion here were simply too coherent, and cast too focused a light on matters that - until now - had done something to some of us at some point.
I’m left with an uneasy sense of time missing and consciousness averted for reasons that lie like a murky pond in twilight, awaiting Truth . . . or maybe more coffee.
Let’s face it: this article and the resulting discussion here were simply too coherent, and cast too focused a light on matters that - until now - had done something to some of us at some point.
I’m left with an uneasy sense of time missing and consciousness averted for reasons that lie like a murky pond in twilight, awaiting Truth . . . or maybe more coffee.
Hmmmm...
I can only speak for my self, but I am going to go have more
Coffee
Coffee
Coffee
re: “So, the being whose hand reached from some other where/when into King Belshazzar’s where/when at palace party central would not be defined as belonging to an ‘extra-terrestrial by you? FRiend, even Angels are extra-terrestrials.”
Well, then. If that’s your definition of an extra-terrestrial, then I guess God/Jesus is an ET as well?? So-called “ghosts” would also be ET’s too, right?
Angels are NOT extra-terrestrials in the sense you mean them or the other 99.9% of ET believers mean. They are spiritual beings from outside of not only our planet and universe, but our dimension as well. They are not even material beings with flesh and blood.
Um, nice try at a broad deception, but there in fact are many clear photos and video. You knew that and still tried to float your deception. Why?
Again with the logical fallacies (the undistributed middle mean anything to your ilk?). Jesus is a Terrestrial manifestation of the God Who created this Universe. Want to try another deception? Jesus even explained that FACT to Philip in the fourteenth chapter of John’s Gospel, as he instructed Philip that all he, Philip, could see of God the Father was where God intersected Philip’s senses manifest in Jesus, for Jesus is in The Father and the Father is in Jesus. If the being to whom the hand in Daniel Chapter Five belonged had been on the terrestrial ‘plane’ then that being would not have been invisible. Want to try again?
They are spiritual beings from outside of not only our planet and universe, but our dimension as well. They are not even material beings with flesh and blood.
First the following: without time events do not occur; without space things do not exist.
If you can agree with that starting point, then we can have a rational discussion of the issues at hand. Otherwise I will not take the time to exchange with someone gnarled up in Magic Thinking. God Created the entire Universe, all the dimensions (even the ones we have yet to identify) and all the realities thereof. God is not the Universe, His Holy Spirit maintains the extremely delicate balance which allows beings like us to exist within His Creation, and He has entered into His Creation in the person of Jesus Christ, Who now having taken a terrestrial body, has shown to us that such a terrestrial body can take on characteristics which allow movement between dimensional realities we humans have yet to define, perhaps because they are outside of our sensing capabilities, but not necessarily outside of our abilities to construct 'things' which will detect these other dimensional qualities which really exist, having temporal and spatial characteristics we have yet to define for our understanding.
“How come Superman just stands there smiling as the bad guy fires six shots at him from point blank range, but then ducks when the bad guy throws his empty gun at him? “
Now THAT is indeed a most interesting question...and more worthy of consideration than anything concern Trayvon dorkton or his low-information supporters.
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