Ezekiel the Prophet: Wheels Within Wheels and the Kavod

The vision by the river Chebar

Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.

Ezekiel 1:1 (KJV)

And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

Ezekiel 1:4 (KJV)

The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

Ezekiel 1:16 (KJV)

Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place.

Ezekiel 3:12 (KJV)

• The hierarchy of YHWH: the kavod that fills the tabernacle and Solomon’s temple, and that Ezekiel sees arriving from the north.
• Gods Who Travel in Fire: Ezekiel’s vision set next to Elijah, Sinai and other fiery arrivals.

Ezekiel’s kavod, with its fire and clouds of smoke, arrives via a ‘whirlwind wind’ and so does Elijah’s when it takes him up into the sky, with Elisha as the eyewitness. Just picture that whirlwind with a craft travelling through it. Don’t we call that a wormhole?

Paul Wallis, The Eden Conspiracy

The kavod as a craft

• Kavod, ruach and merkaba: the Hebrew meanings of glory, spirit and chariot, the key verses in Exodus and Ezekiel, and the readings of Biglino and Wallis, who take these words as a physical craft.
• Biblical Kavod as a Heavy Physical Object: Paul Wallis on the weight and the danger of the kavod, and on Ezekiel’s reaction.

in such shock because he Ezekiel has never had an experience like this before

Paul Wallis, Kavod as a heavy object, at 34:40

• Von Däniken on Gods, Technology and Scripture: von Däniken reads Ezekiel as the description of a descending vehicle.

Ezekiel is a prophet in the Bible and he describes a vehicle which descended

Erich von Däniken, Von Daniken on gods technology and scripture, at 14:44

• Flying Chariots: Mauro Biglino draws parallels between the flying chariots in Homer and the chariots in the Book of Ezekiel.
• Uncovered: Beings of the Bible: Paul Wallis reads Ezekiel’s flying craft and Jacob’s ladder as accounts of beings arriving from space.
• Watchers, Ezekiel and the Ark as Contact Stories: The 5th Kind turns Ezekiel’s vision into a witnessed craft, next to the Watchers and the Ark.

The cherubim and the wheels

• Ezekiel 10: the cherubim return in the temple vision, and I set the chapter beside Lyssa Royal Holt’s reading of them as a mechanical security device.
• Why Biblical Angels Look Frightening: the cherubim and the wheels as Ezekiel describes them, far from the angels of later art.

the wheels are beings who are meant to carry god's throne

hochelaga, Why biblical angels look frightening, at 7:30

• God Bes: Ezekiel 10:12, where the creatures and even the wheels are full of eyes.
• Mariana Giovino: The Assyrian Sacred Tree: Layard thought the winged figures of Assyria had inspired Ezekiel’s imagery.

What Ezekiel saw in the temple

And he brought me into the inner court of the LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.

Ezekiel 8:16 (KJV)

• Worship of the Sun: I start from Ezekiel 8 and follow the trail of sun worship toward Atlantis.
• The worship of crawling things: Ezekiel 8:10 and the images on the temple walls.
• The gods in the Bible: Tammuz, whose worship Ezekiel 8:14 condemns.

Statutes that were not good

Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

Ezekiel 20:25 (KJV)

• Ezekiel 20: a god who admits giving statutes that were not good, and children passed through the fire. I compare it with Jeremiah 7.
• The gods in the Bible also takes up this admission of bad laws.

Son of man

• Ben-adam, son of the human: the title by which Ezekiel is addressed, 93 times in his book, and what it may mean.

Ezekiel on Eden, Tyre and the sea

• Satan: a fallen angel?: Ezekiel 28, the lament over the king of Tyre who had been in Eden, the garden of God. See also my Garden of Eden page.
• Jonah went down to Joppa: Ezekiel 27:12 and the trade of Tarshish.
• Islands mentioned in the Bible: Ezekiel 26, where the coastlands and islands tremble at the fall of Tyre.
• Whales: Ezekiel 32:2 and the great creature of the seas.
• Sons of Dan: the tribe of Dan in Ezekiel 48:1.

Ezekiel as a channeled being

A very different voice uses the same name. In Channeling Ezekiel, a Lyran star being, Italia Oliver channels a star being from Lyra who says he lived one of his lives as the biblical prophet. He describes the seeding of Earth long before Lemuria and Atlantis. I list it here as a separate tradition, not as a reading of the book.

Related pages

• Ezekiel chapter table
• Ezekiel 10
• Ezekiel 20
• Kavod, ruach and merkaba
• Gods Who Travel in Fire
• Elijah
• Who Is Yahweh?
• Garden of Eden

For every Ezekiel chapter page in one list, see the Ezekiel category.