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John and Jesus stood to their waists in the river, but as John was about to carry out that which Jesus had asked of him, a mysterious cloud appeared above them. Many people stood upon the shore and in the shallows of the river, including those who had traveled from distant lands and spoke with different tongues. As they watched, out of the cloud flew a dove, which hovered above the head of Jesus, then came and sat upon His right shoulder. As this occurred, a voice was heard as though from Heaven. Each person looked upon the scene before them, and also at one another, for it appeared that the voice spoke unto each of them personally and in their own tongue.
Biblically we are advised that when the Christ left His disciples, he was taken up, and a cloud received him out of their sight. While they gazed steadfastly toward heaven, lo, two men looking like angels garbed in white apparel stood nearby and said to those gazing: Why dost thou gaze upward into heaven for this reason? Surely as ye have seen Him go into heaven, He shall surely return in likewise fashion.
One interpretation of that statement could relate to the following? Many of you have seen, heard, or read of UFOs or spaceships manned by what might be termed intelligent life forms. These craft may be from another system, either outside or inside our own. Perhaps then we might apply this modern explanation to former enigmas in the Holy Bible as clouds by day and pillars of fire by night, which followed Moses and his followers from their enemies and advised them where to make encampments.
Then there was Jonah, whose name is interpreted to mean: God, in whom is my Salvation. Jonah was swallowed by a so-called whale. While within the belly of this whale for a period of three days and nights, Jonah was instructed to go before the King and Council of the City of Nineveh and prophesy their doom at the hands of Yeohovah, if they did not repent of their wicked ways. After having briefed Jonah in this manner, the whale disgorged him upon dry land near modern Haifa, Israel, the whale presumably returning to the sea from whence it came. Following this line of thinking, could a whale actually swallow a human being, talk to him, then spit him out upon dry land unharmed and return to the sea?
Remember, Yohannes, the Wonderman of Sumer-Akkad, who came from the sea of the Tigres-Euprates dressed in what appeared to be fish-scales, yet he had a human head and body and legs within the scales? This Wonderman also came to exhort the people to change from their bad ways. Yohannes then proceeded to teach them of peace, civility, culture and tilling the soil.
Such reports are presumed to be impossible feats within physical means. But are they impossible if we apply a spaceship built to travel in the pressures of undersea exploration as well as in the air? This would adequately answer the enigma of such incidents.
We can ascertain from scientific studies of electromagnetic fields that when certain fields of energy are subjected to moist air, which is charged by electrified particles, it changes the nature of their polarity and they become magnetized ions. These ions then become gathered into vapor or water droplets, which in turn become lucent clouds that seem to be lit in some strange fashion. There are photographs which purport to show such clouds, either formed as secondary effects of EMF about spaceships, or the UFOs leaving behind such clouds upon rapid movements away from the positions in which the clouds were originally formed.
If we can ascertain what kind of a vehicle was used to carry Him into the air, both during the period of transfiguration and upon the day of Pentecost, we will then know how we are to recognize Him and how we also will be in appearance.
When are we told to look for the return of our beloved Master, the Messiah? According to the Sepher Yetzirah, which was original knowledge before the later Masoretic Text, it shall be in our troubled times. In the midst of the smoke and dust of the battles of earth, should he then not returnto bring to a close that which has gone on for centuries on our beleaguered world among mankind? Warfare shall be put to an end that love should once more come among us.
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