War In Heaven (11 page)

“...having
heard the king, they went their way; and lo,
the star which they had seen in
the east,


went on before them, until it came and stood over where the child
was.”
(Matthew 2:9).



Bright
new stars are incapable of moving from place to place, and certainly do not
come to a


complete standstill over a specific destination.

Christ Will Return with an Armada of Spaceships



Throughout the four Gospels of the New Testament, Christ is
associated with what appear to be


hovering spacecraft concealed within clouds. (This will be discussed
in detail in later chapters). In fact,


Christ is predicted to return with an armada of spaceships in the
later days: “and they will see the Son


of Man coming on the clouds of the sky with power and great
glory." (Matthew 24:30). “For just as the


lightning comes from the
east, and flashes even to the west,
so shall the coming of the Son of Man
be,


wherever the corpse is, there the eagles (literal) will gather.”
(Matthew 24:27-28).



In ancient times, eagles were associated with the spaceflight capabilities
of the gods. An


Assyrian seal from circa 1500 B. C. depicts two “eagle men”
saluting a “shem,” indicating that these


“men” were the pilots of these heavenly craft. Numerous depictions
of eagle men show that they were


not monstrous bird men, but anthropomorphic beings wearing
uniforms lending an appearance of an


eagle. A Sumerian king named Etana made the journey to Heaven with
the aid of eagle men. The


Mesopotamian god Shamash was often depicted wearing the costume of
an eagle man, including the


Wings. Oddly, some biblical texts describe God as having wings,
and speaks of flying eagles in relation


to God.
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Could this have been how angels came to be
depicted with wings? Curiously, humans are


told to look to the skies
for their rescue in the end times: “when these things begin to come to pass,
then


look up, ...Iift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
(Luke 21:28). Is it
because the sky


will be filled with the invading military might of the home world
of the Nibirians? Will they return


because Nibiru will be crossing between Jupiter and mars making
invasion possible for the first time in


several thousand years? Are Christ’s chosen ones to be lifted up
into hovering spacecraft by


electromagnetic rays?



“Then
we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together
with them in the
clouds to meet


the Lord in the air,
...thus we shall always be with the Lord.” (l1Thessalonians
4:17).

6. The Glory, The Spirit, And The
Prophets

Ezekiel
Has Close Encounter



The
rabbis who put together the Old Testament, debated whether or not to include
the strange,


yet astounding book of Ezekiel due to their inability to
comprehend it.
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The highly observant priest


reported some
extraordinary happenings, including several UFO sightings that may have
originated with


the Nibirians. He begins his book with a provocative description
of the final phase of a spaceship’s


descent from a circular orbit to the earth, and of its subsequent
landing.
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He then provides a detailed


description of the main
parts of the spacecraft he calls “the glory of God,” and mentions that the
craft is


identical to the one he saw some twenty years earlier. He speaks
to the commanders of the spaceship.


He hears them converse, he observes their movements, and on one occasion
he witnesses a peculiar


event involving the participation of a ground crew summoned by the
commander. He is also carried


aloft by these spaceships, and travels to two temples of
mysterious location.



His
first encounter with the “glory” occurred around 592 B. C., while Ezekiel was
“by the river


Chebar" (in the land of the Chaldeans, Babylon) among the
exiles, when “the heavens were opened up ”


and he “saw visions of God.” (Ezekiel l:l).
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And
Ezekiel looked, and “behold a storm was coming


from the north, a great
cloud with fire flashing forth continually and a bright light around it, and in
its


midst something glowing
like metal in the midst of the fire... within it there were figures resembling


four living beings; this
was their appearance: they had human form.” Ezekiel 1:4-5. The astonished


prophet goes on to
describe how “each had four faces and four wings... their legs were straight
and the


soles of their feet were like a calf's hoof, and they gleamed
like burnished bronze.” Ezekiel 1:6-7.

Ray Used on Ezekiel



Curiously,
from a distance, the “word of the Lord came expressly” to him, while the “hand
of the


Lord came upon him.” (Ezekiel l:3). It could be that a ray of some
kind, possibly magnetic in origin, was employed to hold Ezekiel in place.
Perhaps the “words of the Lord” were beamed into his head


telepathically, or by some
type of transmitter. The object that glowed like metal in the midst of the
fire,


may have actually have been some type of otherworldly craft.
Notice that again this UFO was reported


in a cloud. It could be that the device generated an
electromagnetic field as some modern scholars have


suggested, which in tum
created atmospheric disturbances that produced strong winds, lightning, and


storm-like conditions.
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Ezekiel Sees Landing Pods of Craft Emerging from Cloud



The first things to emerge from this fiery cloud were what he
terms four “living creatures,” each


having four faces and four wings. Their straight legs, with soles
resembling calves hooves, imply that


these living beings were landed pods that supported the craft as
it landed. These metallic extensions


were probably round, tubular units with a flush bottom; while the
calves hooves might have acted as


shock absorbers.
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Under
their wings on their four sides were human hands... As for the faces and wings
of the


four of them, their wings touched one another; their faces did not
tum when they moved, each went


straight forward. As for the form of their faces, each had the
face of a man, all four of them had the face


of a lion on the right,
and the face of a bull on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle. Such
were


their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each had two
touching another being, and two covering

their
bodies... each went straight forward; wherever the spirit was about to go, they
would go, without


turning as they went.” Ezekiel 1:8-12.



The
human hands beneath the wings were probably mechanical arms similar to devices


employed on the spacecraft
used in our own space program.
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The wings did not tum when the
vehicle moved; instead the wings went straight forward, and were joined to each
other. The sound resembling


rushing water was most likely the loud whirring of the
helicopter-like wings.
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Were these animal and


human faces simply carved
images of the chimeras so predominate in the Mesopotamian culture? The


lion, the bull, and the
eagle were all Mesopotamian symbols.



“In the midst of the living beings there was something that looked
like burning coals of fire, like


torches darting back and forth among the living beings. The fire
was bright and lightning was flashing


from the fire... the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of
lightning.” Ezekiel 1:13-14.



In
the center of the craft, in the midst of the living beings,” emanated the glow
of an overheated


reactor; and if it were coming to a stop, it would probably
pulsate. Such a glow would naturally be


reflected on the metallic surface of the legs; that in tum would
give the appearance of glowing on their


own. This would reflect the pulsation of the hot reactor, giving
the impression of torches “darting back


and forth among the living beings.”
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Craft Searches for Landing Site



Conceivably,
Ezekiel observed the spacecraft as it hovered a few feet above the ground in
search


of a suitable landing site. Perhaps, the brief bursts of the
control rockets used to slow the craft for


landing occurred in a sequence that seemed irregular to Ezekiel
(like torches darting back and forth


among the living beings).
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He said that the fire was
bright, and lightning was flashing from the fire.


This could have made it
seem as if the living beings ran to and fro like bolts of lightning.



We find verification in chapter ten that the reactor was indeed
located in the center of the


spaceship, beneath the expanse (the main body of the craft), and
between the whirling wheels: “I looked


and behold, in the expanse that was over the heads of the cherubim
something like a throne appeared


above them. And he (God?) spoke to the man clothed in linen and
said, “Enter between the whirling


wheels under the cherubim, and fill your hands with coals of fire
from between the cherubim, and


scatter them over the city. Ezekiel 10:1-2.



“And it came about when he commanded the man clothed in linen,
saying, take fire from


between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, he entered
and stood beside a wheel.”


Ezekiel 10:6.



The
coals of fire must have been the radioactive by products of the crafts
propulsion system;


located under the vehicle for the “man clothed in linen” was
ordered to take fire from between the


whirling wheels,” and from between the cherubim. Were these coals
of fire capable of becoming a


formidable weapon? Is this why god ordered the man clothed in
linen to scatter them over the city? If


they were radioactive in nature, they would be quite capable of
destroying human and animal life. Note


that the man was wearing special protective attire that would make
it safe for him to handle radioactive


material. The special suit he wore made him more conspicuous than
other members of the ground crew.


It is intriguing to note that anyone handling radioactive elements
in atomic power plants and scientific


research facilities wears such protective clothing.
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Ezekiel Sees “Wheel Within a Wheel”



“...as
I looked at the living beings, behold, there was one wheel on the earth beside
the beings,


for each of the four of them. The appearance of the wheels and
their workmanship was like sparkling beryl, and all four of them had the same
form, their appearance and workmanship being as if one wheel


were within another.
Whenever they went, they went in any of their four sides, without turning as
they


moved. As for
their rims they were lofty and awesome, and the rims of all four of them were
full of


eyes round about. Ezekiel 1:15-18.



Notice that each of the four wheels looked alike, implying that
this was indeed a mechanical


apparition, since it displays uniformity in its functions and
design strategy, One would expect to see


four wheels on any modern day air borne craft, if it were also an
all-terrain vehicle when on the ground.


Four wheels would be required to support the weight of a large,
heavy space vehicle. If this were a


reconnaissance craft, then it would probably be specially designed
and equipped for movement on land,


just as one might expect if the vehicle were on a mission from
another world.


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These
wheels were lofty and awesome, leading one to suspect that they must have been
quite


large, since they made such an indelible impression on the
prophet. He describes them as being a huge


wheel within a wheel, which probably rotated inward or outward.
The workmanship of these wheels


suggests that there may literally have been a wheel within a
wheel. There may have been additional


appurtenances, such as segmented hubs that would have allowed the
circumferential movement


suggested by the statement “wheel within a wheel.”
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And
― these awesome wheels had “eyes” all around. These “eyes” might have
been specially


molded bumps like the ones on modem day snow tires placed there to
help the tires gripping power. Or,


perhaps they were instead television camera lenses that were in a
sense, the “eyes of the vehicle, ”


allowing the crew to observe surrounding alien terrain."
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...whenever the living beings went, the wheels went with them...
whenever the living beings


went from the earth,
the wheels rose also. Wherever the spirit
was about to go, they would go in that


direction
... the wheels rose close
beside them; for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.


Whenever those went, these
went; and whenever those rose from the earth, the wheels rose close beside


them; for the spirit of
the living beings was in the wheels.” Ezekiel 1:19-20.



Whenever the living beings moved, the wheels accompanied them,
just as one would expect if


they were all part of the same unit. “...over the heads of the
living beings there was something like an


expanse, like the awesome gleam of crystal, extended over their
heads... under the expanse their wings


were stretched out straight, one toward the other; each one also
had two wings covering their bodies on


the one side and on the other.” I also heard the sound of their
wings like the sound of their wings like


the sound of abundant waters as they went, like the voice of the
Almighty, a sound of tumult like the


sound of an army camp; whenever they stood still, they dropped
their wings... their came a voice from


above the expanse that was over their heads; whenever they stood
still, they dropped their wings.”


Ezekiel 1:22-25.



The
“expanse” was most likely the main body of the craft, which contained the
command


module of the ship. Notice that the wings made a deafening sound
like “abundant waters,” and that


when the vehicle came to a halt, the wings dropped ― just as
one might expect from rotor-like


propellers! Did the voice that came “from above the expanse”
emanate from a loud speaking device?

Ezekiel Sees the Commander of the Craft



“...above
the expanse that was over their heads; like eben-sappir (literal Hebrew texts
meaning


sapphire) in appearance; and on that which resembled a throne,
high up, was a figure with the


appearance of a man. " Ezekiel 1:26



First
the prophet sees the command module shaped and colored like a cabochon-cut
sapphire.
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Then he sees the commander of the vehicle, sitting in the command
chair. Or, was it the pilot of the


craft? Ezekiel might have mistaken this to be the Almighty, when
it was actually only an Elohim crewman. It seems logical that the crew of the
spaceship would be located on top of the vessel (above


the expanse), for this
would have separated the inhabitants of the vehicle from the main body of the


craft, which may have
housed the reactor that fueled it. This “expanse” would protect the crew from
the


dangerous
radiation given off by the reactor.



“...I
noticed from the appearance of His loins and upward something like glowing
metal, that


looked like fire all around within it, and from the appearance of
his loins and downward I saw


something like fire; and there was a radiance around him. As the
appearance of the rainbow in the


clouds on a rainy day, so was the appearance of the surrounding
radiance. Such was the appearance of


the likeness of the glory of the Lord. ...when I saw it, I fell on
my face and heard a voice speaking.”


Ezekiel 1:27-28.



Was
Ezekiel describing the light effects of the crewman’s flight suit which are
reminiscent of the


similar effects caused by the reflecting surfaces of certain
insulation materials used in the Apollo Lunar


module? (See also
Revelation 1:12-15, Daniel 10:6). In some modem day close encounters, UFO


witnesses have described a
“golden glow effect.” A well-known example of such an effect would be the


incident at Fatima, which
transpired earlier in this century.



The
effects of verse 28 may have been produced by the optical light effects of the
translucent


cabochon-shaped command module sitting atop the main body of the
craft. The rainbow light effect


was probably the result of sunlight hitting the translucent
surface and reflecting off other surfaces, such


as glowing, or lighted
control panels inside the module.1
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Notice his reaction to the
sight of the


descended alien craft - “he fell on his face,” and “heard a voice
speaking.” Such a response is a-typical


of modern day UFO observers who are within close proximity of a
landed craft.
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In Ezekiel chapter eight, verse 3, the prophet describes how, “he
stretched out the form of a hand


and caught me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up
between earth and heaven and brought


me in the visions of God to Jerusalem.” What did Ezekiel mean by
“visions of God?” Could he have


meant that his experience of flying and seeing the earth from the
confines of a spacecraft was like seeing


the earth as God saw it ― “in visions of God?”
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NASA Engineer Concludes that Ezekiel Did See Spaceship



Several
twentieth century persons have read the book of Ezekiel and reached the
conclusion that


the Old Testament prophet was indeed describing a spaceship. Erich
Von Daniken wrote of it,


compelling a NASA engineer, Josef F. Blumrich to attempt to
disprove this idea. As Blumrich began to


analyze the biblical book, he soon realized that the
technologically ignorant Ezekiel had indeed


witnessed the landing of a
spaceship.
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Blumrich
published his work entitled “The Spaceships of Ezekiel” in 1973. The main
thesis of


the book was to prove that Ezekiel did report an exact description
of a spaceship, propelled by rocket


power, descending to earth. He believes that the last phases of
its descent and landing were by means of


a helicopter-like action.
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This certainly falls
within the realm of wings that were constantly in motion,


dropping only when the
vehicle stopped.


Blumrich stated that the craft possessed a main body, four
extension legs equipped with


helicopter-like blades, and a top capsule for the commander and
his crew. The awesome wheels


probably had the ability to retract themselves back into the
vehicle, as the craft went aloft. The specific


impulse of the craft was
estimated to be 2,080 sec, the weight of construction 63,300 kg (139,000 lbs.),


the fuel for the return
journey ― 36,700 kg (81,000 lbs.). The diameter of the rotor was 18m
(59.0 ft.).


The total power developed by the rotor was 70,000 H. P. The
diameter of the spaceship proper was


18 m.
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Blumrich Receives Patent on Ezekiel's “Wheel Within a Wheel

”


It was Blumrich’s
conclusion that this spaceship was a smaller reconnaissance craft; that exited
a


larger mother ship in
orbit around earth. In addition to his technical composition of the spacecraft


described by Ezekiel, Mr.
Blumrich subsequently patented the “wheel within a wheel” (U.S. patent No.


3,789,947).
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