The Old Testament contains many stories suggesting that the Israelites could take aliens for God. It is not only about the famous vision of Ezekiel, but also the "pillars" leading the Jews in the desert, the object that landed on Sinai, or "taking" to the sky of Enoch and Elijah.
"Kavod rested on Sinai ..."
Direct references to strange objects flying in the Old Testament are easy to come by. Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010) - an ancient culture researcher and author of bestsellers sees one of them in Exodus, where "kavod" is mentioned - a mysterious term usually translated as "the glory of the Lord."
"In the Semitic languages, this word also means 'hard thing.'" The Israelites saw this as they entered the desert and were told that they would see it the second time God spoke to Moses, a sign that the word actually came from the Lord. "he wrote.
Kavod had to be quite real, for when God "landed" on Mount Sinai, it looked terrifying: "The mountain was all covered with smoke, for the Lord came upon her in the fire, and the smoke from her was as though from the furnace, and the whole mountain was very great. shakes, "writes the script.
"The appearance of the Lord's glory in the eyes of the Israelites was like a devouring fire on top of the mountain," he says of the next meeting of the kavod Book of Exodus. As an intermediary in "contact" with him served Moses, who brought from Sinai the Ten Commandments. Another time Yahweh allowed him and several dozen people to look at themselves: "They saw the God of Israel, and under his feet were like a work of sapphire stones," we read in the Bible.
Did the companions of Moses really see the interior of the advanced machine and the astronaut arriving from the stars?
It is not all controversial threads that accompany the wanderings of the Israelites. Exodus mentions that "the Lord" was constantly accompanying them in the way: "He went before them during the day, as a pillar of cloud to guide them in the night, and as a pillar of fire to shine for them to go day and night. ".
Sitchin and others believe that the ancient scribes described the authentic events of the 13th century before Christ. The continuation of this was the commissioning of the Tabernacle, of which Sitchin wrote: "God spoke to Moses from a place placed between the golden cherubim's wings at the top of the ark of the covenant, called 'dvir'.
According to proponents of paleocaching theory, Arka was an instrument for communicating with representatives of other intelligentsia. The descriptions show that it was a dangerous device and access to it had a narrow circle of people. If all this is true, there are questions about the motives driving the guests from outer space. Did they just aim to civilize the primitive people?
Flying saucers in the Bible
For hundreds of years, the artists and interpreters of the Bible have broken their heads over Ezekiel's vision. Approx. 592 p.n.e. The biblical prophet came across the river Kebar (today Chabur) on the "Yahweh chariot" surrounded by great clarity.
"I was watching, and here the violent wind came from the north, a great cloud and a burning fire, and from its midst it radiated like a shine of gold and silver with silver, and there was something in the midst of them that was like the four living creatures. Each of them had four faces and four wings, "he reported.
In the description, Ezekiel also mentions the mysterious "wheels, one of which was in the other" and the mighty roar that accompanied this chaotic and frightening manifestation. The Prophet saw the essence he had taken for God, receiving guidance and prophecy for his people.
Over 25 centuries later, Eng. Joseph Blumrich (1913-2002), a former NASA employee, in the book "The Spaceships of Ezekiel", interpreted this account again, describing the description of an advanced flying apparatus seen with the human eye from the 6th century BC. On the project he made, he saw an object resembling a combination of a flying saucer and a helicopter.
Blumrich, who worked With the Saturn V rocket and the Skylab station, he made a clear case: Ezekiel saw what was to be described as a "UFO" over Kebara today: "He first saw the object about a kilometer from the moment of launching the nuclear propulsion. fire, brackets, and mechanical arms attached to propeller sections. At first glance, they seemed to be similar to the silhouettes of people, but then described them as 'living beings', which was an expression of uncertainty, "he wrote.
Equally interesting was the prophetic departure of the "chariot of God": "Then the spirit lifted me up, and I heard a loud noise behind me as the glory of the Lord rose from the place where she was staying."
Does not it make real associations with breaking away from the land of flying machines?
Raised to heaven
Raised to heaven
In the Old Testament there are also stories resembling modern accounts of kidnappings by UFOs. The first person to encounter this strange fate was Patriarch Henoch, who "lived in friendship with God and then disappeared because God took him," says Genesis. Interestingly, in the Orthodox Bible, the Book of Enoch is incorporated into the canon, which describes what he learned in heaven from the angels about their relationship with the earthly women and the offspring born of them.
The same thing happened to Elijah, one of the highest-ranking prophets, when he was in the company of his disciple: "Behold, the chariot of fire, and the chariots of fire, and the two of them, and Elijah ascended into the heavens, and Elisha looked and cried. [...] And he did not see him anymore. "
If, like followers of the theory of paleocontact, we read these stories literally, the conclusions may shock. Although the issue of interpretation is controversial, it can not be denied that some of the descriptions give rise to a thought. There is also the question: "Why?".
Did the aliens help the people at the beginning of the civilization path with purely humanitarian motives? Or perhaps for centuries they have shaped the history of the nation chosen in the framework of the "living experiment"?
"When our astronauts meet some primitive thinking beings on a planet some day, they will consider the newcomers" heavenly sons "or" gods " Probably our level of advancement will overtake these creatures just as our ancestors overtook these legendary stars ... ".