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Ezekiel was a priest living with the Jewish exiles in Babylon after the taking of Judah and Jerusalem by Babylon, around 580-600 B.C.
Ezekiel 1:4 (NIV)
I looked, and I saw a windstorm coming out of the north--an immense cloud with flashing lightning and surrounded by brilliant light. The center of the fire looked like glowing metal
Ezekiel 1:5 (NIV)
and in the fire was what looked like four living creatures. In appearance their form was that of a man
Ezekiel 1:6 (NIV)
but each of them had four faces and four wings
Ezekiel 1:7 (NIV)
Their legs were straight; their feet were like those of a calf and gleamed like burnished bronze.
Ezekiel 1:8 (NIV)
Under their wings on their four sides they had the hands of a man. All four of them had faces and wings,
Ezekiel 1:9 (NIV)
and their wings touched one another. Each one went straight ahead; they did not turn as they moved.
Ezekiel 1:10 (NIV)
Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle.
Ezekiel 1:11 (NIV)
Such were their faces. Their wings were spread out upward; each had two wings, one touching the wing of another creature on either side, and two wings covering its body.
Ezekiel 1:12 (NIV)
Each one went straight ahead. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went.
Ezekiel 1:13 (NIV)
The appearance of the living creatures was like burning coals of fire or like torches. Fire moved back and forth among the creatures; it was bright, and lightning flashed out of it.
Ezekiel 1:14 (NIV)
The creatures sped back and forth like flashes of lightning.
Ezekiel 1:15 (NIV)
As I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the ground beside each creature with its four faces.
Ezekiel 1:16-21 (NIV)
This was the appearance and structure of the wheels: They sparkled like chrysolite, and all four looked alike. Each appeared to be made like a wheel intersecting a wheel. As they moved, they would go in any one of the four directions the creatures faced; the wheels did not turn about as the creatures went. Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around. When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
Originally posted by oozyism
This doesn't mean they were living creatures, he is simply describing what he is seeing. He is saying that the UFO looked like four living creatures. It gave him that appearance.
6and before the throne [is] a sea of glass like to crystal, and in the midst of the throne, and round the throne, [are] four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind;
7and the first living creature [is] like a lion, and the second living creature [is] like a calf, and the third living creature hath the face as a man, and the fourth living creature [is] like an eagle flying.
8And the four living creatures, each by itself severally, had six wings, around and within [are] full of eyes, and rest they have not day and night, saying, `Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is coming;'
9and when the living creatures do give glory, and honour, and thanks, to Him who is sitting upon the throne, who is living to the ages of the ages.
Originally posted by oozyism
reply to post by xstealth
I like your avatar made me laugh
Anyways, people describe things based on their belief, based on the time's understand, based on language (hence definition) etc.
These things must be taken in to consideration when making a judgement what this man saw.
At least that is how I see it.
Ezekiel 1:10 (NIV)
Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a man, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle.
Revelation 4:7
7The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.
reply to post by xstealth This isn't describing Aliens/UFO's this is describing God's throne vehicle so to say
Originally posted by Zeta Reticulan
reply to post by xstealth This isn't describing Aliens/UFO's this is describing God's throne vehicle so to say
I was under the impression god was not of this earth
an alien
Originally posted by oozyism
Book of [Ezekiel] and the detailed description of [UFO and Aliens]
Firstly let's examine what the Book of Ezekiel is:
Ezekiel was a priest living with the Jewish exiles in Babylon after the taking of Judah and Jerusalem by Babylon, around 580-600 B.C.
Born in Steyr, Austria in the Tyrolean Alps, Josef Franz Blumrich (Franz) (March 17, 1913 – February 10, 2002) was awarded B.S. degrees in aeronautical engineering and in mechanical engineering in 1934 by the Ingenieur Schule ("engineering school", equivalent to an American Polytechnic Institute or Institute of Technology) in Weimar, Germany.
Coming to the United States at the age of 46, he worked at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama on the design research for the Saturn V rocket, various satellites, Skylab and the Space Shuttle. He was Chief of NASA's Advanced Structural Development Branch when he retired in 1974 at age 60.