Ezekiel 1-3: What If It's Real

I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him.  Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him.
   This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. When I saw it, I fell facedown, and I heard the voice of one speaking. - Ezek. 1:27-28 NIV

I have been thinking for days about the difference between mind and body, soul and spirit.  We have a tendency to lump them all together as one, usually with the mind and body ruling supreme.   But that is not truth, not here on earth and especially in the world to come.  As Jesus himself told the woman at the well, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." (John 4:24 KJV)

I believe that what Ezekiel saw was real, more real than anything we see around us today.  We have a tendency to take the prophetic descriptions in the Bible and turn them into something we know, usually something of a military nature: tanks, airplanes, helicopters.  But what if what the prophets saw and described is the real thing.  What if the spirit world where God resides is something more than our imagination can comprehend.?  What if there are real beings with real spirits inside the wheel that moves them to and fro?  What if it is real, more real than the table that I'm sitting at this morning? What if God's countenance is like glowing metal as if it is full of fire?   What if his radiance is more than anything we have ever witnessed here on earth?  If we saw him as Ezekiel did, would we fall face down and listen to his voice?

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