Celano, Daniel (EXCHANGE:HAL02:GB12) wrote:
If you want aliens look at Ezerial 1-16 (excuse the spelling - got no
idea if it right),
Ezekiel 1:4-28. I've reproduced it below (Young's literal
translation).
it speaks of beings with 4 faces and 4 arms, with
wings; These came down from heaven.
They are not angels; but they are definationly not human (there also
mention of burning chariots and the like).
Well being as an angel is simply a messenger from God, these
most certainly qualify as angels. The image which your probably
thinking of when you refer to angels is a fairly resent invention
and doesn't really have a lot of biblical basis.
Theologically speaking these particular angels are refered to
as Cherubim, and are one of the higher orders of the angelic
host. From the crackpot perspective, von Daniken has made
numerous cases for these being spacemen, helicopters and anything
else that takes his fancy. Scientists mainly consider it to be a
bad trip.
Laters,
Adam Hattrell
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Ezekiel 1
4
And I look, and lo, a tempestuous wind is coming from the north, a
great cloud, and fire catching itself, and brightness to it round
about, and out of its midst as the colour of copper, out of the midst
of the fire.
5
And out of its midst [is] a likeness of four living creatures, and
this [is] their appearance; a likeness of man [is] to them,
6
and four faces [are] to each, and four wings [are] to each of them,
7
and their feet [are] straight feet, and the sole of their feet [is]
as a sole of a calf's foot, and they are sparkling as the colour of
bright brass;
8
and hands of man under their wings -- on their four sides, and their
faces and their wings -- [are] to them four;
9
joining one unto another [are] their wings, they turn not round in
their going, each straight forward they go.
10
As to the likeness of their faces, the face of a man, and the face
of a lion, toward the right [are] to them four, and the face of an
ox on the left [are] to them four, and the face of an eagle [are]
to them four.
11
And their faces and their wings are separate from above, to each
[are] two joining together, and two are covering their bodies.
12
And each straight forward they go, whither the spirit is to go,
they go, they turn not round in their going.
13
As to the likeness of the living creatures, their appearances [are]
as coals of fire -- burning as the appearance of lamps; it is going
up and down between the living creatures, and brightness [is] to
the fire, and out of the fire is going forth lightning.
14
And the living creatures are running, and turning back, as the
appearance of the flash.
15
And I see the living creatures, and lo, one wheel [is] in the earth,
near the living creatures, at its four faces.
16
The appearance of the wheels and their works [is] as the colour of
beryl, and one likeness [is] to them four, and their appearances and
their works [are] as it were the wheel in the midst of the wheel.
17
On their four sides, in their going they go, they turn not round in
their going.
18
As to their rings, they are both high and fearful, and their rings
[are] full of eyes round about them four.
19
And in the going of the living creatures, the wheels go beside them,
and in the living creatures being lifted up from off the earth,
lifted up are the wheels.
20
Whither the spirit is to go, they go, thither the spirit [is] to
go, and the wheels are lifted up over-against them, for a living
spirit [is] in the wheels.
21
In their going, they go; and in their standing, they stand; and
in their being lifted up from off the earth, lifted up are the
wheels over-against them; for a living spirit [is] in the wheels.
22
And a likeness [is] over the heads of the living creatures of an
expanse, as the colour of the fearful ice, stretched out over
their heads from above.
23
And under the expanse their wings [are] straight, one toward the
other, to each are two covering on this side, and to each are two
covering on that side -- their bodies.
24
And I hear the noise of their wings, as the noise of many waters,
as the noise of the Mighty One, in their going -- the noise of
tumult, as the noise of a camp, in their standing they let fall
their wings.
25
And there is a voice from above the expanse, that [is] above their
head: in their standing they let fall their wings.
26
And above the expanse that [is] over their head, as an appearance
of a sapphire stone, [is] the likeness of a throne, and on the
likeness of the throne a likeness, as the appearance of man upon
it from above.
27
And I see as the colour of copper, as the appearance of fire within
it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward, and
from the appearance of his loins and downward, I have seen as
the appearance of fire, and brightness [is] to it round about.
28
As the appearance of the bow that is in a cloud in a day of rain,
so [is] the appearance of the brightness round about.
