The Books of the Prophets Ezekiel and Daniel
Scientific line-by-line explanation of the Bible
Translator Andrey Tikhomirov
Editor Andrey Tikhomirov
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The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel
Chapter 1
1 And it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, when I was among the emigrants by the river Khovar, the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. (The show is a performance staged by the priests of Judaism to influence Ezekiel (from Hebrew «the Lord will strengthen», one of the first settlers).
2 On the fifth day of the month (it was the fifth year after the captivity of King Joachim), (At the age of 25, Ezekiel was taken captive to Babylon and settled in Chaldea).
3 The word of the LORD came to Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, the priest, in the land of the Chaldeans, by the river Khovar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him. (Ezekiel, like Jeremiah and Zechariah, belonged to the priestly family of the Sadokids and may have been on the staff of the Jerusalem temple, so the priests-hypnotists influenced them in order for them to influence their flock, and the flock to return to the bosom of Judaism).
4 And I saw, and behold, a stormy wind was coming from the north, a great cloud and a swirling fire, and a radiance around it, (the north wind, a cloud of smoke from the fire and the radiance produced by the fire).
5 and from the middle of it, as it were, the light of a flame from the middle of the fire; and from the middle of it, the likeness of four animals was visible, and this was their appearance: their appearance was like that of a man; (A complex construction on a chariot with the use of torches and all kinds of devices with images of animals and man, whose task is to frighten and influence on «the prophet).
6 and each has four faces, and each of them has four wings; (The design had images of faces with wings).
7 But their feet were straight legs, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of a calfs foot, and they shone like shining brass. (The design had images or carved figures of legs with hooves of «sacred» animals).
8 And the hands of men were under their wings, on their four sides; (The human hands held the figures of the wings).
9 and their faces and their wings were all four; their wings touched one another; during their march they did not turn around, but walked each in the direction of their face. (The structure was moving and the wings were moving).
10 The likeness of their faces is the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side of all four of them; and on the left side the face of a bull on all four and the face of an eagle on all four. (The design had «sacred» images of certain human faces, lions, calves, eagles).
11 And their faces and their wings were separated from above, but each had two wings touching one another, and two covered their bodies. (The structure was moving and the wings were moving).
12 And they went, each one in the direction that was before him; wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went there; during their procession they did not turn around. (The structure was moving and the wings were moving).
13 And the appearance of these animals was like the appearance of burning coals, like the appearance of lamps; [fire] went among the animals, and the radiance from the fire and lightning came out of the fire. (This is a kind of scarecrow for gullible fearful people).
14 And the animals moved quickly to and fro, like lightning flashing. (The structure was moving and the animals were moving in different directions, apparently intending to break out of the fetters).
15 And I looked at the animals, and, behold, on the ground beside these animals, one wheel in front of their four faces. (The design also had wheels that were positioned in front of images of animal faces).
16 The appearance of the wheels and their arrangement is like the appearance of topaz, and the likeness of all four is the same; and by their appearance and arrangement it seemed as if the wheel was in the wheel. (Topaz is a mineral of the subclass of insular silicates, it can be of various colors: yellow, blue, pink or colorless. Complex wheel designs).
17 As they walked, they walked on their four sides; during the procession they did not turn around. (Between 593 and 591 BC, this event was repeated twice more in the same form, and about 20 years later about 572 BC for the fourth time. Three times Ezekiel took part in the flights of the «firmament». For the third and fourth time, that is, in 591 and 572 BC, as he claims, he was taken on a «divine» chariot from Khabur to Jerusalem. In 587 BC, that is, in the period between these two «flights», Nebuchadnezzar destroyed the temple erected by Solomon).
18 But their rims were high and terrible; their rims were full of eyes around all four of them. (Already in the Uruk period (chariots-carts were invented in the Southern Urals more than 4 thousand years ago) the Sumerians had wheeled carts, and since the third millennium BC, wheels, in order to reduce wear, began to be upholstered on the rim with nails with convex caps such, for example, copper nails about 5 centimeters long).
19 And when the animals went, the wheels also went by [them]; and when the animals rose from the ground, then the wheels also rose. (American psychologists who studied this text found in Ezekiel symptoms of catalepsy a painful numbness observed in a number of mental illnesses. The philosopher Karl Jaspers, a psychiatrist by training, published in 1947 a work devoted to an attempt to investigate the visions of the prophets from the point of view of psychopathology; he believes that they should be considered as hallucinations of paranoids prone to schizophrenia, that is, mentally ill with obsessive ideas. According to psychiatrists, the image of wheel rims dotted with «eyes» is a typical symptom of the disease. Many paranoids suffering from persecution mania claim that they constantly feel the gaze of many eyes on themselves just like Ezekiel).
20 Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they also went; wherever the spirit went, and the wheels rose up along with them, for the spirit of the animals was in the wheels. (The chariot of a complex design moved with great difficulty, since there were also living beings in it people, animals, as well as their models the «spirit of animals»).
21 When they walked, they walked; and when they stood, they stood; and when they rose from the ground, then the wheels also rose with them, for the spirit of the animals was in the wheels. (The chariot of a complex design moved with great difficulty, since there were also living beings in it people, animals, as well as their models the «spirit of animals»).
22 Above the heads of the animals was a kind of vault, like a kind of amazing crystal stretched out above their heads. (Ezekiel saw «the likeness of a vault» descending in a fiery cloud (Luther wrote at this point in his translation of the Bible: «Shaped like the firmament»), carried by four winged beings. The creatures had metal legs and one wheel each. On the upper side of the vault, which Ezekiel calls «the likeness of the throne,» the prophet saw «as if the likeness of a man,» and this «likeness» spoke to him).
23 And under the arch their wings stretched straight one to the other, and each had two wings that covered them, each had two wings that covered their bodies. (Apparently, Ezekiel imagined something like a battle chariot with sickles (a chariot from the wheels of which sickles or curved swords protruded), known even from Greek testimonies about the East. In addition, not only in India, but also in Mesopotamia, and since very ancient times, along with war chariots, cult ones with statues of gods were also used. Such carts were quite common for the equipment of that time).
24 And as they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the sound of many waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a great noise, like a noise in a military camp; [and] when they stopped, they lowered their wings. (The people in this structure made a lot of noise, including using homemade wings, in order to influence their victim in this way, in this case Ezekiel).
25 And the voice came from the vault that was over their heads; when they stopped, then they lowered their wings. (The voice was reproduced by a man hiding in a chariot).
26 And over the vault that was above their heads, there was a likeness of a throne in appearance, as if made of a sapphire stone; and over the likeness of the throne there was a likeness of a man above on it. (This man stood on a certain throne in order to intimidate Ezekiel so that he would believe that God himself was «broadcasting» to him. Sapphire is a mineral, a blue or blue variety of corundum).
27 And I saw, as it were, a flaming metal, as it were, a kind of fire within it around; from the sight of its loins and above, and from the sight of its loins and below, I saw, as it were, a kind of fire, and a radiance [was] around it. (All kinds of tricks, including torches with fire, the glow from mirrors, etc., are used to impress the hypnotized).
28 In what form does a rainbow appear on clouds during rain, such was the appearance of this radiance around. (All kinds of tricks are used to impress the hypnotized).
Chapter 2
1 Such was the vision of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw this, I fell on my face, and I heard the voice of the Speaker, and He said to me: Son of man! Stand on your feet, and I will speak to you. (Ezekiel understood the words «the voice of the Speaker,» which means he was speaking in a language known to Ezekiel).
2 And while he was speaking to me, the spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard him who was speaking to me. (The suggestion began to take effect).
3 And he said to me, Son of man! I am sending you to the children of Israel, to the rebellious people who have rebelled against Me; they and their fathers are traitors before me to this very day. (Lord God, that is, persons interested in spreading Judaism, gave Ezekiel instructions on the transformation of Ezekiels native society; thanks to these instructions, the local Judaic religion turned into one of the world religions. God. Yahweh becomes the «judge of the world.» The political background of the «Ezekiel revolt» was the subjugation and subsequent destruction of the kingdom of Solomon by the Egyptian and Babylonian empires and the beginning of the dispersion of Jews outside of what was then Palestine. Ezekiel himself, at the age of about 30, was hijacked from Jerusalem to Babylon. He was among the first to be expelled from his homeland. The place of his imprisonment was located on the bank of a tributary of the Euphrates Khabur, also called Khovar. There, five years later, his first vision of the «divine chariot» took place).
4 And these sons with a callous face and a hard heart; I am sending you to them, and you will say to them: «Thus saith the Lord God!» (The priests of Judaism, using a stage show, influenced their priest to become a «herald of God»).
5 Whether they will listen or not, for they are a rebellious house; but let them know that there was a prophet among them. (Ezekiel is «appointed» as a prophet).
6 But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them and do not be afraid of their speeches, if they are wolves and thorns for you, and you will live with scorpions; do not be afraid of their speeches and do not be afraid of their faces, for they are a rebellious house; (The suggestion of fearlessness, that is how hypnotists would act, that is theater and verbal suggestion. «Rebellious House» those who have departed from Judaism).
7 And speak to them my words, whether they will listen or not, for they are stubborn. (The stubborn ones who stopped feeding the priests of Judaism).
8 But you, son of man, listen to what I will say to you; dont be stubborn like this rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you. (The suggestion was to convince Ezekiel to give up stubbornness, only listen and eat what the priests would give, most likely some «sacred» object).
9 And I saw, and, behold, a hand was stretched out to me, and, behold, a scroll of books was in it. (Using a book scroll to «confirm» the truth of events).
10 And he unfolded it before me, and behold, the scroll was written inside and out, and it was written on it, «Weeping, and groaning, and woe.» (Ezekiel could read.)
Chapter 3
1 And he said to me, Son of man! Eat what is in front of you, eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel. (An offer to eat a book scroll and then go to the «rebellious house» of Israel).
2 Then I opened my mouth, and he gave me to eat this scroll; (Ezekiel obediently fulfills the will of the hypnotist).
3 And he said to me, «Son of man! Fill your belly and fill your insides with this scroll that I am giving you; and I ate it, and it was sweet as honey in my mouth. (Eating a «sacred» object, in this case a book scroll, perhaps the scroll was soaked in some sweetness).
4 And he said to me, Son of man! Get up and go to the house of Israel, and speak to them in My words; (The Prophet refers to the Israelites so that they perceive the information beneficial to the priest-hypnotist).
5 For you are not sent to the people with an inarticulate speech and an incomprehensible language, but to the house of Israel («The House of Israel» «the chosen ones»).
6 not to many nations with slurred speech and incomprehensible language, whose words you would not understand; yes, if I had sent you to them, they would have obeyed you; (You can also send to the «unelected»).
7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you; for they will not listen to me, because the whole house of Israel is with a strong forehead and a hard heart. (The Israelites have stopped bringing food to the priests of Judaism, and they send hypnotized prophets).
8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. (This maxim can be understood as follows, Ezekiel is well bombed and coded (enchanted and hypnotized), so he will be able to convince the stubborn «chosen ones» to return to the bosom of Judaism).
9 I have made your forehead like a diamond, which is stronger than a stone; do not be afraid of them, and do not be afraid before them, for they are a rebellious house. (The diamond is the third precious stone in the second row of stones of the judgment breastplate of the high priest. According to some interpreters, there may be an inaccuracy of translation here: the Hebrew word «yahalom» does not mean diamond, but perhaps jasper).
10 And he said to me, «Son of man! all My words that I will speak to you, accept with your heart and listen with your ears; (Installation of a hypnotist).
11 Arise and go to the emigrants, to the sons of your people, and speak to them, and say to them, «Thus saith the LORD God!» whether they will listen or not. (Installation of a hypnotist).
12 And the spirit lifted me up; and I heard a great thunderous voice behind me: «Blessed is the glory of the Lord from his place!» («Lifted up the spirit» that is, Ezekiel fell into a hypnotic trance, the thunderous voice of the hypnotist gave the last setting).
13 and also the noise of the wings of animals touching one another, and the sound of wheels beside them, and the sound of a great thunder. (The helpers helped to influence the prophet).