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SUBJECT: THE BIBLE & THE 4th DIMENSION FILE: UFO2881
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Message number 5490 in "MUFON_PUBLIC"
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Date: 03-07-93 08:12
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From: Michael Trinham
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To: Mike Sinclair
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Subj: The Bible & the 4th Dimension
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THE BIBLE AND THE FOURTH DIMENSION
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A BIT ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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As I sit to write I am for once stuck for words. Although I have never had
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an encounter of the second, third or fourth kind, I have seen things in the
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sky I could not explain. Mind you my area of expertise is not in ufology, it
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is in the Bible and the Judaeo Christian religion and although a couple of
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degrees might lend plausibility to what I might say in this regard, we all
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know that degrees are merely a licence to make erroneous statements with a
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ring of authority. Even experience is coming into question in this drug-
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aware age, and age old truths are being challenged on every hand. the
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question is, is there any one who really knows what is going on?
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Well I must say at the outset that I am convinced, for a number of reasons,
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that the Bible is inerrant in its original condition. For those who will
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read on from this point I must say it is wholly difficult in many cases to
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really understand what it is saying. If it is inerrant in the original this
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logically precludes any private interpretation (as the Bible claims for
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itself in 2Peter 1:20). However it also means that if this premise is true
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what is understandable is worth discovering.
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I begin this way because I want the reader to know where I am coming from at
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the outset. It is not my purpose to convince, but to discover more. I have
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drawn some conclusions as to what is going on in near space and in the fourth
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dimension. I may be wrong. If I am I want to discover that too. If I am
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right in some things it is most certain that I am not right in all respects.
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As knowledge is empirical, it needs to be continually reviewed and updated,
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honed and corrected. I therefore would value comments and directions as to
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reading matter both in the BBS files and abroad.
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Although I have experienced first hand, many times, what scientists would
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call the para-normal my experience of UFO phenomena is rather limited. I
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remember seeing an object in the sky back in the era of Sputnik I , which
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seemed to travel across the sky at a great altitude, probably in orbit, and
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which travelled across the sky from the point it entered visibility until it
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disappeared on the other side of the heavens in a straight line and in the
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space of about one and a half seconds. You might say "Big deal!", but it
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made a profound impression on my mind, and it was not until that choice
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piece of television tape, taken from a satelight, was screened last year that
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I saw anything resembling the speed and motion of what I saw years ago.
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Since then I have had an open mind to the existence of other visible
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"entities" sharing our space.
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I have read fairly widely on the subject and am familiar with the miriad
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reports of experiences both bogus and valid. I am convinced that there is
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enough evidence of a concrete nature to authenticate many of the reports
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globally.
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WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
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My real interest is of course how these things fit with what is predicted in
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the Bible. As I said before, for many unstated reasons I am working from
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the presupposition that the Bible is true, and that the trick is to
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understand it. Before we can discuss the immediate topic we must establish,
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at least in part, what the Bible has to say about the fourth dimension in
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general. Paul the Apostle in his writings called it the "spiritual" and said
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that spiritual things are spiritually discerned (1Corinthians 2:14).
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There are events recorded in the Bible, some clear and others not so clear
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where this dimension of existence is demonstrated. John 20:19 records an
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instance of the appearance of Jesus to the disciples in a locked room, He
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appears and then leaves by the same means, what ever they were. Later in
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Acts 8:39,40 we read of an incident where Philip, having completed his task
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communicating to the Ethiopian eunuch in the dessert between Jerusalem and
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Gaza, is immediately transported to Azotus many miles away.
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If spiritual things are spiritually discerned we need to obtain a certain
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mind-set which leaps across the barrier of what previously we would call
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credibility. We must begin to accept that there is a possibility of another
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dimension which obeys rules which supersede those of the dimensions with
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which we are more familiar. Time and space in that dimension do not have the
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same relevance as they do in the physical world. The Bible says a thousand
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years is as a day and a day as a thousand years to the Lord (2Peter 3:8).
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Einstein began to break into this concept with the theory of relativity. Once
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we grasp this possibility we can give credence to the idea that people may
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under certain circumstances travel great distances, or experience many
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events which would otherwise consume great chunks of time, in a very short
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period of "normal" time.
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THE LIVING BEINGS OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION
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From what I can see of it, although the Bible is not a scientific book, it
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makes statements of fact which sooner or later science "discovers". For
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example science is only now beginning. in some quarters, to propose that the
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universe must have actually been designed by a higher intelligence. Working
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from the premise that the Bible got it right, and that there is another
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dimension in which beings live which the Bible variously calls "angels" or
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in the original, messengers, to discover more about this dimension means
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that we should know a bit more of what the Bible says about those beings:-
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Angels are strong and the ones which belong to God do His will.
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Ps 103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in
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strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the
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voice of his word.
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Ps 103:21 Bless ye the LORD, all [ye] his hosts; [ye]
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ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
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Ps 103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in
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strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the
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voice of his word.
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Ps 103:21 Bless ye the LORD, all [ye] his hosts; [ye]
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ministers of his, that do his pleasure.
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Ps 104:4 Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a
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flaming fire:
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Children have angels assigned to them.
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Mt 18:10 Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say
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unto you, That in heaven their angels do
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always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.
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They transmit messages.
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Lu 1:19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am
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Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to
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speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.
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They can be awesome.
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Lu 2:9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the
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Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
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Da 10:11 And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly
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beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and
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stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word
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unto me, I stood trembling.
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They can materialize
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Lu 2:13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly
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host praising God, and saying,
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They are called "the sons of God" sometimes and Satan appears to exist in the
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same realm.
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Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to
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present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also
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among them.
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They can assume various forms
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Isa 6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six
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wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he
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covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
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3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy,
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holy, [is] the LORD of hosts: the whole earth [is] full of
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his glory.
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Ac 11:11 And, behold, immediately there were three men
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already come unto the house where I was, sent from Caesarea unto me.
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