Granted I will be taking a few liberties with this one, but
viewed through a certain lens various events described in the Bible could have
an extraterrestrial, rather than supernatural, source. Again with both of
these, you must take as a matter of faith that what is being described here
actually happened and is not the result of an active imagination.
For
this article, I will be focusing exclusively on the Book of Ezekiel which takes
place between 593 and 571 BCE (Before Common Era). The book records the six
visions of the prophet (who is assumed to be the author), who is in exile in
Babylon. This first excerpt describes an object landing near the Chebar Canal
in ancient Chaldea (modern day Iraq) in the fifth year of the Jewish captivity
under Nebuchadnezzar II.
“As
I looked, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, and a great cloud, with
brightness round it, and fire flashing forth continually, and in the midst of
the fire, as it were gleaming bronze.”
Odd,
very odd. The prophet continues.
“And
from the midst of it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was
their appearance: they had the forms of men, but each had four faces, and each
of them had four wings. Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet
were like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like burnished bronze.
Under the wings on their four sides they had human hands… each had the face of
a man in the front; the four had the face of a lion on the right side… the face
of an ox on the left side, and ...the face of an eagle on the back… And their
wings were spread out above; each creature had two wings, each of which touch
the wing of another, while two covered their bodies. And each [creature] went
straight forward without turning as they went...And the living creatures darted
to and fro, like a flash of lightning.”
Even
more odd. Some claim this is a description of the angelic order of Cherubs. But
if you discount those creatures from existence, what else might they be
describing? Some hybrid creature, created to mingle on the planet? Or natural
shape-shifters. The description goes on.
“Now
as I looked at the living, I saw a wheel upon the earth beside the living
creatures, one for each of the four of them. As for the appearance of the
wheels and their construction: the appearance was like the gleaming of a
chrysolite [a yellowish-green gemstone]... being as it were a wheel within a
wheel…. The four wheel shad rims and they had spokes, and their rims were full
of eyes round about. And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside
them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose.”
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| Ezekiel by Michelangelo from the Sistine Chapel panel |
Are
these spectral visitors or extra-terrestrial? The creatures approach Ezekiel,
declare him to be the messenger of his people and is taken on board the craft
(“the Spirit lifted me up...I heard the sound of the wheels… that sounded like
a great earthquake”) and he is transported to Tel-abib (which translates to
Spring Mound) to proselytize to his fellow Jewish exiles.
For more weirdness try Across the Wounded Galaxy by Rex Hurst
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