Date: ±593 B.C.

Place: Chaldea, Iraq.

The Prophet Ezekiel is undoubtedly one of the most well-known personalities in both Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament. His encounter with God and a group of living creatures that he called “Cherubs” is certainly interesting.

In the so called “Book of Ezekiel”, he describes in a very vivid way this experience. “Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfed itself”, states one of the book’s passages. Then, “from within it came the likeness of four living creatures”. About them, the book says: “they had the likeness of a man. Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings”.

Beside these entities, there was “a wheel” which looked like “a wheel in the middle of a wheel”.

In reference to this, writer and UFO researcher Albert Rosales affirms that it is an “experience reminiscent of numerous contemporary reports by people claiming UFO abductions”.

Draw your own conclusions.

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Location. Chaldea, near the River Chebar, Iraq

Date: circa 593 BC      Time: unknown

The Bible states that the Prophet Ezekiel saw a strange craft appear in the sky above him.

It consisted of “wheels within wheels,” a brilliant dome, and four beings. He was transported to a mountaintop, without knowing how he got there, and remained stunned, an experience reminiscent of numerous contemporary report by people claiming (UFO) abductions.

However, some scholars have suggested that the person described by the Book of Ezekiel may have suffered from temporal lobe epilepsy, which has several characteristic symptoms include hyper graphics, hyper religiosity, fainting spells, mutism, and pedantism, often collectively ascribed to a condition known as Geshwind syndrome.

Even with these qualifications, the account is remarkable for Ezekiel’s description of a phenomenon that would resonate with the people of his time, and still striking by its awesome imagery: “Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfed itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. Also from within it came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings.” “Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel was on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces. The appearance of the wheels and their workings was, as it were, as wheel in the middle of a wheel. When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went.

“When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When those went, these went’ when those stood, these stood’ and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels”

(Ezekiel 1: 4-21).

Later Ezekiel describes what today would be characterized as “abduction”:

2:9 And when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and a written scroll was in it.

3: 12 Then the spirit lifted me up, and as the glory of the Lord arose from its place, I heard behind me the sound of a great earthquake.

3:13 It was the sound of the wings of the living creatures as they touched one another, and the sound of the wheels beside them that sounded like a great earthquake.

3:14 The spirit lifted me up and took me away and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, the hand of the Lord being strong upon me.

3: 15 And I came to the exiles at Tel-Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar. And I sat there overwhelmed among them seven days.