Ezekiel's wheel

[[File:Ezekiel's Wheel John Kratovo.jpg|thumb|right|165px|Ezekiel's Wheel in St. John the Baptist Church in Kratovo, [[Macedonia]] (1836)]] 
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'''Ezekiel's wheel''' is a claimed [[unidentified flying object|UFO]] sighting recorded in the [[Book of Ezekiel]].

{{cquote|<bible book="Ezekiel" chapter="1" verse1="16" />}}

Various pieces of [[art]]work have been made depicting this "wheel within a wheel" as a spaceship of some description, each more fantastical and distant from the actual source description than the last.

Ezekiel describes a "flying chariot" containing "wheels within wheels" and "powered by [[angels]]". Some consider this incontrovertible proof of [[ancient aliens]]. Authors that have alleged the ancient aliens explanation of the book include Joseph Blumrich, who wrote ''The Spaceships of Ezekiel''.<ref>http://ancientaliensdebunked.com/references-and-transcripts/ezekiels-wheels/</ref>

==Angels versus UFOs==
The entire Book of Ezekiel is, of course, incontrovertible proof of alien visitation, and not the result of [[hallucination]]s induced by gibbering [[schizophrenia]] and/or more [[drugs]]<ref>http://community.livejournal.com/bible_thugs/10898.html</ref> than were used to write the [[Book of Revelation]] and [[The Beatles]] back catalogue combined.

Nor is it, in any way, an obvious, internally consistent, mythological reference to the order of Biblical angels known as Ophanim (Hebrew for "wheels" — shocking!) or Thrones, described as wheels (or wheels-within-wheels, rimmed in beryl plating and a bunch of creepy eyeballs) in {{bible|Daniel|7|9}}, {{bible|Revelation|11|16}}, and (had any Biblical alien hunter ever managed to complete the entire book) later in {{bible|Ezekiel|10|17}}.

No, it ''has'' to be alien spacecraft, even though the angels are infinitely freakier<ref group=note>Yes, there's a damn good reason why they had to say "Be not afraid" when they visited humans — because fear would be a completely natural response to one of these mind-breakingly ''weird'' monstrosities dropping by to chat!</ref> and would actually make sense being mentioned elsewhere in the Bible.

==Blumrich's spaceship==
[[File:Ezekiel's vision.jpg|thumb|left|Wheels: you are doing them wrong.]]
[[NASA]] [[engineers and woo|engineer]] Josef F. Blumrich<ref>[http://www.thelightside.org/EARSite/ears_ufos_biblefiles1.html ''The Bible Files'', Issue 1: Ezekiel's Wheel] (Evidence of Aliens Revealed in Scripture)</ref> talked about it in his book ''The Spaceships of Ezekiel''. Blumrich says he was inspired by [[Erich von Däniken]] (''who else?''). Blumrich has patented an "omnidirectional wheel"<ref>[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=3789947 US Patent #3789947]</ref> which he claims was based on the description in the Book of Ezekiel.

However, it has been shown that Blumrich based his theory on two mistranslations in a single German-language Bible.<ref>http://www.spaceshipsofezekiel.com/html/refs-toc.html</ref> Blumrich says he had designed a landing strut with a straight leg and a round pad, so obviously Ezekiel was describing a similar landing strut. But neither the original [[Hebrew]] nor other translations say the feet were "round". It says the feet were like the foot of a calf.<ref>[http://www.spaceshipsofezekiel.com/html/phrases_analyzed-round_feet.html Phrases Analyzed: "round feet"]</ref> Also, the Hebrew says Ezekiel saw a "vision", not "vehicular structure".<ref>[http://www.spaceshipsofezekiel.com/html/phrases_analyzed-vehicular_structure.html Phrases Analyzed: "vehicular structure"]</ref>

There are other problems too. Blumrich claims that "the Spirit" means "the spaceship", which Blumrich says was about 29 meters (95 feet) from rotor tip to rotor tip.<ref>http://www.spaceshipsofezekiel.com/html/spaceships_of_ezekiel_appendix-j.html</ref> But Ezekiel says: {{cquote|<bible book="Ezekiel" chapter="2" verse1="1" verse2="2" />}} 

Ezekiel also says: {{cquote|<bible book="Ezekiel" chapter="3" verse1="24" />}}

==External links==
*[http://www.earthportals.com/Portal_Ship/ezekiel.html The spaceships of the Prophet Ezekiel] (Josef F. Blumrich)

==Notes==
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==References==
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