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Old 05-17-2007, 10:16 PM   #3
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Read the Book of Ezekiel 1-48 (KJV) paying particular attention to Ezekiel 1 (KJV). Remember that until that time, Ezekiel had only seen the wheels on ox carts (vertical) but these wheels that he is describing are horizontal. Look carefully at the entire book, chapters and verses and if you wish, take the important descriptive words back to the original Hebrew language with a good quality Strong's Concordance. As an example, in Ezekiel 1:4 (KJV) and in Ezekiel 1:27 (KJV) the word AMBER is a poor translation. In the Hebrew, it was written as "highly polished bronze". There are many such descriptions that make significantly more sense in the original Hebrew than in the English translations of 1611.

Use this analogy in pondering Ezekiel's descriptions... Place yourself in England in May in the year 1611. You are one of the translators working on the King James Version bible. On your way home from a hard day of translating, you see ahead of you, a dust cloud on the dirt road a mile or so away. As the dust cloud gets closer, you hear the sound of thunder. You are terrified because YOU have never seen anything like that before. THEN, as the dust cloud reaches you, you see something way beyond anything that you have seen before... a 2007 BMW X-5 SUV that has just popped in on your year 1611 road with several persons on board who just finished watching a local Rugby match in May 2007. NOW, try to explain what YOU saw to your family and your fellow translators the next day... not only do we have dimensional travel, but a machine that is unable to be described in your terms of understanding.

I think that good old Ezekiel did a pretty good job.
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