The following is a account of God himself telling us how he speaks and appears to his prophets. Ezekiel is one of gods prophets.
Numbers: 12 4-6
And the LORD spake suddenly unto Moses, and
unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, Come out ye three unto the tabernacle of the
congregation. And they three came out.
And the LORD came
down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and
called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.
And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a
prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision,
and will speak unto him in a dream.
Ezekiel sees this vision more than just one
time. Ezekiel sees this vision for the first time below but the second time is
much less known because it can not be turned into a UFO encounter!
Ezekiel Chap 10:2 is the start of the second vision please take
the time to read that vision also!
Ezekiel 1 1-28 the likeness of the glory of the Lord
This is a vision of God appearing before Ezekiel at the age of 13 years old (for a male Jew this is the age of adulthood, it is also the age of accountability, when you are self aware of right and wrong and held accountable for your sins!). The vision is not of 1 wheel but 4 wheels! The 4 wheels are merely part of a huge Ceremonial Chariot which the throne of God sits upon. The 4 wheels are vertical ,extremely noisy ,and are in the shape of a ring. Now really does that sound like a ufo ? Anyone who says this is a ufo has not taken the time to simply read this chapter.
Ezekiel 1 1-28
1
Now it came to pass in
the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was
among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.
2
In the fifth day of
the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin's captivity,
3
The word of the LORD
came expressly unto Ezekiel
the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the
Chaldeans by the river Chebar;
and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.
4
And I looked, and,
behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding
itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the
colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
5 Also out of the
midst thereof came the likeness of
four living creatures.
And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man.
6 And every one had
four faces, and every one had four wings.
7 And their feet were
straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot:
and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.
8 And they had the
hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their
faces and their wings.
9
Their wings were
joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one
straight forward.
10
As for the likeness
of their faces,
they four
had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on
the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four
also had the face of an eagle.
11 Thus
were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward; two wings of every one
were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.
12
And they went every
one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went;
and they turned not when they went.
13 As for the likeness
of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and
like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures;
and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
14
And the living
creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning.
15 Now as I beheld the
living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living
creatures,
with his four faces.
16
The appearance
of the wheels
and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl:
and
they four had one
likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it
were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
17
When they went,
they went upon their four sides: and
they turned not when
they went.
18
As for their
rings, they were so high that they were dreadful;
and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
19 And when the living
creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were
lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20
Whithersoever the
spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were
lifted up over against them:
for the spirit of the living creature was in the
wheels.
21
When those went, these went; and when those stood,
these stood; and when those were lifted up from the
earth, the wheels were lifted up over against them:
for the spirit of the living creature was in the
wheels.
22
And the likeness of
the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the
terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.
23 And under the
firmament were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had
two, which covered on this side, and every one had two, which covered on that
side, their bodies.
24
And when they went,
I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the
Almighty, the voice of speech, as the noise of an
host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
25 And there was a
voice from the firmament that was over their heads,
when they stood, and had let down their wings.
26 And above the
firmament that was over their heads was
the likeness of a throne,
as the appearance of a
sapphire stone: and
upon the likeness of the throne was the
likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it.
27
And I saw as the
colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the
appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even
downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round
about.
28
As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the
day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness
round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory
of the LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice
of one that spake.