gnostic:
I've found the chapter on Ezekiel it is on page 460 in my Bible and is Chapter/Verse 1:1-3;27; 'As I looked, I saw a great storm coming toward me from the north, driving before it a huge cloud that flashed with lightning and shone with brilliant light ... '
I hope you are able to find it ok, if you don't here's a quick summerary of the experience which is described as a 'vision'.
1:1 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.
1:2 In the fifth [day] of the month, which [was] the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's
captivity,
1:3 The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the
priest, the son of Buzi, in the
land of the Chaldeans by the
river Chebar; and the
hand of the LORD was there upon him.
1:4 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.
1:5 Also out of the midst thereof [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] their
appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four
wings.
1:7 And their
feet [were] straight
feet; and the sole of their
feet [was] like the sole of a
calf's
foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished
brass.
1:8 And [they had] the
hands of a man under their
wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their
wings.
1:9 Their
wings [were] joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a
lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an
ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an
eagle.
1:11 Thus [were] their faces: and their
wings [were] stretched upward; two [
wings] of every one [were] joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
1:12 And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; [and] they turned not when they went.
1:13 As for the likeness of the living creatures, their
appearance [was] like burning
coals of
fire, [and] like the
appearance of
lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the
fire was bright, and out of the
fire went forth
lightning.
Interesting stuff eh, if that happened today it would certainly be understood differently. BTW I'm sorry to have gone on about alien abductions to you, that was a mistake on my part - its just as soon as I hear the words abduction and alien it worries me.
Thanks again gnostic, and if you want to post anything you want to convey in your own opinion about Ezekiel or the Elohim, then I'd be interested in hearing it!
I've kind of been doing most of the talking on this forum so far, which I didn't mean to, it would be good if someone else could take over, and I certainly only meant to gently persuade 'is any of this true?' rather than conveying 'surely it is true' which is another mistake on my part, but I hope any of you reading have found this thread interesting.
So, is any of Ezekiel's experiences possibly real, and something which many witnessess also experience today and are called contactees, are these people experienceing the same thing? If Ezekiel was on drugs in the experience, why would he go onto preach to many peoples in Isreal etc about the coming of the Lord? Did he not know he had been on drugs, and being righteous about a vision on drugs isn't exactly divine.