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Ezekiel’s vision: Wheels within wheels. Flashing lights. Moving by Spirit. Strange creatures. What if almost everyone focuses on the wrong mystery in the Book of Ezekiel? Some think it was an alien encounter—ancient spacecraft, advanced technology, or even messages from distant worlds. We’ll examine that—but the bigger mystery is why did Ezekiel see it? Who is this vision in Bible prophecy really for?
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00:00 Ezekiel’s First Encounter: A Whirlwind, a Chariot, and Cherubim
03:07 Ezekiel’s Wheel | Ezekiel 1:15–21
06:25 The Book of Ezekiel’s Purpose: An End-Time Warning
08:02 Ezekiel’s Prophecy to the Rebellious House of Israel
12:50 Differentiating the House of Israel from the House of Judah | Ezekiel 4
15:21 Ezekiel Watchman: Warning the House of Israel in the Last Days
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Notice what must have been a frightening sight, beginning in Ezekiel 1 4.
Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. Also from within it came the likeness of four living creatures.
And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man. Each one had four faces, and each one had four wings. Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of calves’ feet. They sparkled like the color of burnished bronze. The hands of a man were under their wings on their four sides; and each of the four had faces and wings. Their wings touched one another (Ezekiel 1 4–9).
What were these creatures?
Ezekiel 10 1 answers this question—they were cherubim, angelic beings of very high rank, and they are seen in some kind of mobile vehicle directed by another spirit being.
notice how this object appears to move about, changing directions, defying the laws of nature as we know them.
The creatures did not turn when they went, but each one went straight forward…. they went wherever the spirit wanted to go, and they did not turn when they went…. And the living creatures ran back and forth, in appearance like a flash of lightning (Ezekiel 1 9–14).
Ezekiel next describes something that has puzzled many—wheels within wheels. Speculations are all over the map. Some think the wheels are angels. Others think that they are gyroscopes, similar to tops that many of us played with as children, with the wheel inside providing stability.
Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel was on the earth beside each living creature.… The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel. When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went…. and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels (Ezekiel 1 15–21).
What was Ezekiel seeing? There is no need to speculate, as the Bible interprets the Bible. Ezekiel 1 1 tells us in plain language.
Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, on the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the River Chebar, that the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God (Ezekiel 1 1).
The vision given to Ezekiel was apparently a portable throne of God, being confirmed later in the chapter.
And above the firmament over their heads [that is, over the heads of the cherubim] was the likeness of a throne, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness with the appearance of a man high above it (Ezekiel 1 26).
Now notice Ezekiel’s reaction when he saw the throne and the One sitting on it (verse 28).
So when I saw it, I fell on my face, and I heard a voice of One speaking (Ezekiel 1 28).
Ezekiel’s vision was exactly that—a vision of God, a vision of God on a portable throne.