Did the prophet Ezekiel observe a spacecraft of some type as described in Book of Ezekiel? Was it a chariot of the gods as ufologists, such as Erich von Däniken, once asserted, or, was it God’s chariot?
I recall reading Erich von Däniken‘s 1968 book “Chariots of the Gods?” very early 1970s as an undergraduate physics student. I also recall being very critical of it because in one section he described that ancient alien astronauts, from some other star system, had built the Egyptian pyramids.
Von Däniken wrote that those ancient astronauts had built the pyramids such that their height to the area of their base was exactly equal to the transcendental number π.
The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle is this transcendental number represented by the Greek letter π (pi). It is approximately 3.14159… .
I realised immediately that von Däniken’s claim did not make sense. A height to an area (of the base) is not dimensionless. So if you calculate the ratio it depends on the units of measure you use, and you will get a different result according to your choice of units, whether meters, feet, cubits etc. No putative ancient alien would have made that mistake. Von Däniken was clearly a deceiver, probably out to make some money from the gullible.
For this discussion the relevant section of Biblical text is Ezekiel 1:1–3:15, a prophetic passage. It outlines how YHWH (Jehovah) came down to Earth in His chariot to speak with Ezekiel.
Indeed, a whole branch of Jewish mysticism has developed from Ezekiel’s description of the divine chariot or merkāvâ: Merkavah mysticism,
Ezekiel’s Vision of God and the Chariot. The Torah.com
The noun merkavah “thing to ride in, cart” is derived from the consonantal root רכב r-k-b with the general meaning “to ride”. The word “chariot” is found 44 times in the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible—most of them referring to normal chariots on earth, and although the concept of the Merkabah is associated with Ezekiel’s vision (1:4–26), the word is not explicitly written in Ezekiel 1.
However, when left untranslated, in English the Hebrew term merkavah relates to the throne-chariot of God in prophetic visions. It is most closely associated with the vision in Ezekiel 1 of the four-wheeled vehicle driven by four hayyot “living creatures”, each of which has four wings and the four faces of a man, lion, ox, and eagle (or vulture).
The vision of Ezekiel sure seems to be describing God’s chariot with a throne attached.
16 As for the appearance of the wheels and their construction: their appearance was like the gleaming of beryl. And the four had the same likeness, their appearance and construction being as it were a wheel within a wheel. 17 When they went, they went in any of their four directions without turning as they went. 18 And their rims were tall and awesome, and the rims of all four were full of eyes all around. 19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures rose from the earth, the wheels rose. 20 Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, and the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. 21 When those went, these went; and when those stood, these stood; and when those rose from the earth, the wheels rose along with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
Ezekiel 1:16-21 ESV
The prophet describes, in one part of his vision, wheels within wheels, with the spirit of living creatures (or the spirit of life) within the wheels. When they rose up from the Earth the wheels rose up with them because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
Thus some ufologists suggested that this section is describing a UFO with space ancient astronauts inside.
The book “Spaceships of Ezekiel” (1974), written by German engineer Josef F. Blumrich (March 17, 1913 – February 10, 2002), is a book about a spaceship that was allegedly observed by the prophet Ezekiel. Blumrich wrote it while he was chief of NASA’s systems layout branch of the program development office at the Marshall Space Flight Center. In the book the author speculates on putative ancient astronauts.
In The Spaceships of Ezekiel Blumrich asserts that the account of Ezekiel in the Bible was not a description of a meeting with God in a prophetic vision, but one of several encounters with ancient astronauts in a shuttlecraft from another planet.
Wikipedia article The Spaceships of Ezekiel
On the web you can easily find people using Blumich’s “spacecraft” to explain alien visitors. The claim is also that it is what Ezekiel saw, as recorded in the Bible, only it was not God driving it but ancient astronauts.
From the 1960s the world was being prepped for a massive Satanic delusion. That the gods were returning and we should listen to them because they are benevolent and want to stop a nuclear conflagration. But read Gods of the Present Age are Lying Spirits.
Sometime around 1980 I acquired the book “The Cosmic Conspiracy” by Stan Deyo, which he first published in 1978.
The Cosmic Conspiracy, New Revised Edition, is currently available on the web, published March 1, 1996. There were other editions after this. A 2002 edition is labelled the Millennium Edition.
In the 1978 edition the author made the claim that the US government was secretly developing / reverse engineering alien spacecraft, which used electrogravitics. That means it is able to defy gravity, and do the amazing non-inertial maneuvers that are seen in some UFOs video footage.
Deyo’s book “The Cosmic Conspiracy” had a picture that looked very similar to the following image. He described superficially how the craft generated a electromagnetic field around the outside of the vehicle (using a nuclear power generator, if I recall correctly) and the electromagnetic field caused the vehicle to lift in the Earth’s gravitational field.
His caption: The impressive Advanced Research Vehicle (ARV) hovercraft diagrammed by aerospace illustrator, Mark McCandlish, which he calls the “Fluxliner”, is powered by pulsed electrokinetics as the distributor cap rotates and fires three equidistant capacitor banks at a time. An online documentary called “Zero Point, the Story of Mark McCandlish and the Fluxliner” contains extensive details about the craft and Mark’s experience with the eye witnesses, which included a Congressman.
Two fields of physics research that have been developed over the past 70 years or more are Electrogravitics and Electrokinetics. Neither involve alien space technology but are better described as highly experimental research tech, which have generally been classified, especially if they achieved anything useful. And denied more generally.
Electrogravitics and electrokinetics can be traced to T. Townsend Brown’s first article “How I Control Gravity” (Science and Invention, 1929) with the unexplained alignment of the “molecular gravitors”. Brown reported that the dielectrics had high propulsive force when the “differently charged elements” were aligned with the voltage source. Perhaps electrogravitics was also revealed in the article “Gravity Nullified: Quartz Crystals Charged by High Frequency Currents Lose Their Weight” which appeared two years earlier in the same magazine in September of 1927. The editors had a change of heart however, in the following issue, they rescinded the article. Much of what we know about T. T. Brown is from his numerous patents and articles, reprinted in Electrogravitics Systems Volume I, by this author who was fortunate to correspond with him in 1981 when he was at the University of Florida.
Review of Electrogravitics & Electrokinetics Propulsion a review by Thomas F. Valone published in International Journal of Geosciences, Vol. 6 No. 4, April 2015
The review by Thomas F. Valone published in Intl J. Geosciences, 2015 describes these experimental propulsion systems some of which were engineered onto military airframes. The Black Manta TR3b is one example. But it is not reverse engineered alien tech. Nor does it create an anti-gravity field. I will explain further below.
However I do recall, as an undergrad in 1970 at university, a film being shown of an electrokinetic wireframe ‘craft’ that would lift off the ground and could be controlled by very high voltage static charges applied to different corners of the vehicle. But it was 1970’s physics at that time.
Before I proceed to a discussion on anti-gravity I need to make one more comment about Stan Deyo.
In the early 1980’s I met and spoke with him on the street when he was handing out tracts on the return of Jesus Christ which he predicted to occur in 1988. Clearly that did not happen.
Deyo had based his prediction on 40 years, which he said was a generation, after the establishment of Israel in 1948. I believe he was quoting from Matthew 24.
34 Truly I say to you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
Matthew 24:34 AKJV
He sure sounded like he was a Christian Zionist and based his theology on same false notion that the modern state of Israel was some miraculous fulfillment of Bible prophecy. He was quite wrong on his prediction of 1988 for Christ’s Second Advent and so I would suggest great caution listening to any of his predictions based on his faulty eschatology.
Up to this point in this piece I have shown that the prophet Ezekiel, in a vision, saw a heavenly chariot with Jehovah God in the driver’s seat. Also I have shown that there has been a line of physics and aerospace engineering developing novel propulsion systems, often classified, but none were reverse engineered from alien spacecraft. Not by a long shot.
Often the words ‘anti-gravity’ or ‘electro-gravitics’ are used. The only meaning for those words in the context of the physics being developed is propulsion systems that permit flight. That is, they oppose the downward force of gravity and generate lift. An aircraft with aerodynamic lift generated by the wings could also be classed as ‘anti-gravity’.
But when we speak of true anti-gravity in physics we mean that the gravitation field all around a test vehicle is excluded or repelled. Any unrestrained occupants would float in the cabin as they would be without the gravitational force of the planet pushing them down towards the Earth’s center and into their seats.
To build such a device in the real world is much more than a problem. It is probably impossible.
A gravitational field contains a lot of energy but there is no known way to control that energy. By that I mean, even theoretically, we have no idea how to exclude the gravitational field from any test vehicle.
For a discussion on warp drives, see Warp Drive and Understanding UFOs: Military, Interstellar, and Interdimensional Insights.
The coupling between electromagnetism and gravitation is extremely weak. The idea to use an electromagnetic field to exclude a gravitational field from a test vehicle is pure science fiction.
When comparing the forces between two electrons or two protons, the electromagnetic forces are much stronger than the gravitational forces. However, when comparing the forces between massive objects (e.g., planets or stars), gravitation dominates over electromagnetism.
The strength of electromagnetic forces can be demonstrated with everyday objects, such as you holding a paper clip which is holding onto a fridge magnet despite the gravitational force of the entire planet pulling the fridge magnet down towards its center. Conversely, the strength of the gravitational force can be seen in the orbit of planets around stars or the bending of spacetime around massive objects, such as is seen in gravitationally lensed background objects.
Both forces are described by well-established theories: general relativity for gravitation and quantum electrodynamics (QED) for electromagnetism. While these physical theories have been very successful, there is ongoing research into unifying the fundamental forces, including the possibility of a single force at very high energies.
Gravitational forces are generally much weaker than electromagnetic forces at small distances, but they dominate at large distances. The strength of the forces depends on the specific context and the objects involved.
There is no Theory of Everything where the gravitational force is combined into the same theory with the other three forces (the electromagnetic, the weak and the strong nuclear forces). And no fifth force has ever been discovered.
Also despite all the claims to the contrary Zero Point energy is no solution. It is real enough and it influences atomic clock performances due to the clock’s ultra-cold atoms or ions interacting with the vacuum energy states near absolute zero. But there is no thermodynamic pathway to extract energy from the vacuum and power an exotic spacecraft.
In summary, there has never been a reverse engineered anti-gravity alien spacecraft. You will find many claims of government coverups and conspiracies around this. But fundamental physics is the real problem.
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2 responses to “Ezekiel’s Vision: Heavenly Chariot or UFO?”
Interesting! Your undergrad statement of being shown an elektrokinetic wire frame craft….controlled by very high static charges….hmmm. Could that be what we saw in that recent video you posted with the AI generated still photo belonging to the plane spraying the sky with the “orbs” surrounding it and then it vanishes?
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No, I don’t think so.
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