Imagine you’re a man in 593 BC with no vocabulary for spacecraft, alloys, propulsion systems, or energy fields.
What words would you use?
Chariot.
Fire.
Wheels.
Glory.
The Hebrew word often translated as “wheel” — ophanim — can also imply rotating mechanisms. Ezekiel describes something mechanical. Structured. Engineered.
Was this an angelic vision?
Or was it something else entirely?
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Garments of Light
Ezekiel describes beings clothed in something radiant — metallic, reflective, otherworldly.
Silver. Shining. Not fabric.