Ancient Text Describes Space Craft
By James Donahue
I remember my attempts at pinning down an adult Bible teacher during a study of the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel some years ago. As an ardent Bible student and former religion writer for a Michigan daily newspaper, I was personally convinced that the writer of Ezekiel was describing the landing of some kind of “fiery” craft from the sky and his strange encounter with the entities that landed it.
That instructor skillfully skipped through Ezekiel and cautiously avoided my questions. He refused to accept any suggestion that the verses described anything other than a mystical encounter with angels that emerged from a “wheel within a wheel.” Despite the fact that he was a professional educator his mind was closed to any suggestion that the Scofield interpretation of Ezekiel might have been wrong.
Josef F. Blumrich, a NASA engineer and author of the book "The Spaceships of Ezekiel," is one of many contemporary researchers and thinkers who share my conclusions. Ezekiel and various other authors of ancient text not only witnessed ships coming down out of the sky, they wrote about them and drew pictures.
The New International Version of Ezekiel 1:16-21 reads: "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."
Blumrich said he began studying the Ezekiel account because he wanted to rebut Erich von Daniken's book Chariots of the Gods. But before he was finished with his research, he came to the conclusion that von Daniken was correct. Ezekiel wrote a detailed account of an encounter with extraterrestrial visitors and described what he saw in the best way he could based upon the knowledge of his time.
Another mystifying text has been the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian epic that describes a war between the Vrishnis, of the Rama Empire, and the Salva, invaders from another world or place. The Salva fly through the sky in chariots that emerge from a flying city hovering overhead known as the Saubha.
In the story, Krishna, a mythical god figure in India, leads the Vrishnis in a battle against the Salva. From the ground they used "swift-striking shafts" that shot the flying Salva craft out of the skies. The war ends when a great explosion destroys three cities of the Vrishnis and their neighbors, the Andhakas, killing everyone and leaving no building standing.
The Mahabharata describes the kind of warfare that the world might experience today. It had flying aircraft, missiles shot from the ground that brought down aircraft, and finally the use of nuclear weapons.
In the most ancient of known stories, the Epic of Gilgamesh can be found yet another description of a possible launch of a rocket-powered flying craft. In the story Gilgamesh kept awakening from "terrible dreams" that left his muscles trembling. He told his friend Enkidu: "Heaven thundered, earth quaked; day grew dark, darkness came up; lightning set in, fire flared up, sated with destruction and filled with death. Then suddenly the light darkened, the fire was quenched, turned into smoke."
In yet another dream Gilgamesh said: "I dreamed I saw a Thunderbird in the sky. It flew like a cloud, and its mouth was fire and its breath death."
In an ancient document from Ethiopia, the Kebra Negast, King Solomon possessed a marvelous airship. This text said that King Solomon would visit Makeda and his son Menelik by flying around in a "heavenly car. The king . . . and all who obeyed his word, flew on the wagon without pain and suffering, and without sweat or exhaustion, and traveled in one day a distance which took three months to traverse (on foot)."
By James Donahue
I remember my attempts at pinning down an adult Bible teacher during a study of the Old Testament Book of Ezekiel some years ago. As an ardent Bible student and former religion writer for a Michigan daily newspaper, I was personally convinced that the writer of Ezekiel was describing the landing of some kind of “fiery” craft from the sky and his strange encounter with the entities that landed it.
That instructor skillfully skipped through Ezekiel and cautiously avoided my questions. He refused to accept any suggestion that the verses described anything other than a mystical encounter with angels that emerged from a “wheel within a wheel.” Despite the fact that he was a professional educator his mind was closed to any suggestion that the Scofield interpretation of Ezekiel might have been wrong.
Josef F. Blumrich, a NASA engineer and author of the book "The Spaceships of Ezekiel," is one of many contemporary researchers and thinkers who share my conclusions. Ezekiel and various other authors of ancient text not only witnessed ships coming down out of the sky, they wrote about them and drew pictures.
The New International Version of Ezekiel 1:16-21 reads: "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."
Blumrich said he began studying the Ezekiel account because he wanted to rebut Erich von Daniken's book Chariots of the Gods. But before he was finished with his research, he came to the conclusion that von Daniken was correct. Ezekiel wrote a detailed account of an encounter with extraterrestrial visitors and described what he saw in the best way he could based upon the knowledge of his time.
Another mystifying text has been the Mahabharata, an ancient Indian epic that describes a war between the Vrishnis, of the Rama Empire, and the Salva, invaders from another world or place. The Salva fly through the sky in chariots that emerge from a flying city hovering overhead known as the Saubha.
In the story, Krishna, a mythical god figure in India, leads the Vrishnis in a battle against the Salva. From the ground they used "swift-striking shafts" that shot the flying Salva craft out of the skies. The war ends when a great explosion destroys three cities of the Vrishnis and their neighbors, the Andhakas, killing everyone and leaving no building standing.
The Mahabharata describes the kind of warfare that the world might experience today. It had flying aircraft, missiles shot from the ground that brought down aircraft, and finally the use of nuclear weapons.
In the most ancient of known stories, the Epic of Gilgamesh can be found yet another description of a possible launch of a rocket-powered flying craft. In the story Gilgamesh kept awakening from "terrible dreams" that left his muscles trembling. He told his friend Enkidu: "Heaven thundered, earth quaked; day grew dark, darkness came up; lightning set in, fire flared up, sated with destruction and filled with death. Then suddenly the light darkened, the fire was quenched, turned into smoke."
In yet another dream Gilgamesh said: "I dreamed I saw a Thunderbird in the sky. It flew like a cloud, and its mouth was fire and its breath death."
In an ancient document from Ethiopia, the Kebra Negast, King Solomon possessed a marvelous airship. This text said that King Solomon would visit Makeda and his son Menelik by flying around in a "heavenly car. The king . . . and all who obeyed his word, flew on the wagon without pain and suffering, and without sweat or exhaustion, and traveled in one day a distance which took three months to traverse (on foot)."