Ezekiel – Matty (Headwind)

October 3, 2024October 3, 2024

The Time Traveler

there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed (Ezekiel 40)

a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz: his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass (Daniel 10:5-6)

I heard the man clothed in linen, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; (Daniel 12:7)

a man with a measuring line in his hand (Zechariah 2:1)

There is a recurring character in the Bible who is, it would seem, a time traveler. The description includes him wearing linen clothes, but his arms and legs appear to be made of polished brass. C-3PO?

November 25, 2020November 25, 2020

The Mount of Olives

Now when they drew near Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples; and He said to them, “Go into the village opposite you; and as soon as you have entered it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has sat. Loose it and bring it.
(Mark 11:1-20) NKJV

The Mount of Olives will split into a northern and a southern half creating a great valley. This will is to allow water to up well from within the Earth, flowing out to the east and west from the temple in Jerusalem.

October 10, 2020February 16, 2022

Absolute Frame of Reference

Comparison of Earth's size and internal structure through history

When the exiles arrived at the Lord’s Temple in Jerusalem, some of the leaders of the clans gave freewill offerings to help rebuild the Temple on its old site. They gave as much as they could for this work, and the total came to 1,030 pounds of gold, 5,740 pounds of silver, and 100 robes for priests.
(Ezra 2:68-69) Good News Translation

The idea that the presence of God dwells in a specific place, as a theme, doesn’t get picked up until King David wanted to build a temple. Up until that time the Lord used a tabernacle as the center of worship.

September 9, 2020March 21, 2022

Bending the Truth

They have envisioned futility and false divination, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD!’ But the LORD has not sent them; yet they hope that the word may be confirmed.
(Ezekiel 13:6) NKJV

If P-waves (sound waves) travel in straight lines then why are the lines depicting their paths through the interior of the Earth curved in the popular science interpretation of data from seismic waves (SciPop)?

August 23, 2020August 23, 2020

Holy and Profane

Her priests have violated My law and profaned My holy things; they have not distinguished between the holy and unholy, nor have they made known the difference between the unclean and the clean; and they have hidden their eyes from My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
(Ezekiel 22:26) NKJV

Holy and unholy (profane) are synonyms for clean and unclean. They’re part of how the Bible describes spiritual condition. We’re either alive or dead, spiritual or carnal, giving or receiving, holy or unholy, clean or unclean.

August 10, 2020August 10, 2021

Extensive Swamps in Lowlands

It shall be that fishermen will stand by it from En Gedi to En Eglaim; they will be places for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea, exceedingly many. But its swamps and marshes will not be healed; they will be given over to salt.
(Ezekiel 47:10-11) NKJV

Most of the sedimentary deposits assigned to the Mississippian are coal beds in the Mississippi valley. The coal is the remains of swamp habitat that was buried in a world-wide flood.

August 9, 2020May 2, 2022

Spherogenetic Systematics

So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.
(Ezekiel 38:20) KJV

In the book of Jonah it’s said that the Lord prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. In the book of Matthew, Jesus describes Jonah spending three days and three nights in the belly of a whale. Is this a problem?

July 24, 2020July 25, 2020

Epistemological Abuse

“Everyone must use honest weights and measures:
(Ezekiel 45:10) Good News Version

Hitchens’s razor isn’t a philosophical tenet which regulates the use of evidence, it’s proof of a failure to understand what evidence is and how it’s used. We all have exactly the same evidence. What you believe it’s evidence of is derived from your choice of paradigm. This is Matty’s Razor.

July 9, 2020July 9, 2022

The Lehmann Sheol Discontinuity

Looking out across the molten core of the earth from a place in the lower mantle

The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him: they are gone down, they lie uncircumcised, slain by the sword.
(Ezekiel 32:21) KJV

Hell, it turns out, is a lot of things. There’s a midst of hell, a belly of hell and a lowest hell. The Hebrew and Greek words are modified in ways which make groupings that correspond to the regions of the interior of the Earth.

March 24, 2020March 14, 2021

Tehom

Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:
(Deuteronomy 5:8) KJV

The deep, of Genesis 1:2 became the great deep, the deeps and the depths of the created world. They’re all translated from the same Hebrew word, tehom. The deep became creation. The word became flesh.