What's Showing?

In these days, I was only beginning to see where God worked anonymously--planting deep subconscious spinning spheres in the most unlikely places.  I began to see where all things had their way of pointing back to their Creator and the Originator of their Essence.  It was a thing that would wax and wane at various times, but that would always fascinate me!

July 4, 2005
More and more the idea of the "wheel" of life, of life loops, of prophetic repetition seems to rise to the forefront. Yesterday, I was reading about the Transfiguration being the start of a "loop" that was completed at the Ascension. I thought on these looping systems some yesterday--seeing Abraham and Isaac being a loop that closed with God the Father and Jesus Christ; Judas and Peter starting the loops of the Apostate and True Church that will someday also close; the Hebrews starting in tents, going to Egypt where they were enslaved and then being rescued by God as He takes the "fight for freedom" onto Himself, this being a big loop rolling and shuddering through the span of the Age of Man. 

Eden, too, started the rotation of a wheel. It will come around to "meet the ground" in its same spot again when the new heaven and new earth are in place.  I'm thinking it's not so much about God kicking us out from there that we should think on, but of God kicking us forward to a place of which Eden only whispered. It was a starting of a wheel turning more than a screeching, braking stop of one.  Eden--not a thing of permanence, but a foretaste implanted into the eternal DNA of man to spark a longing that would keep us on the wheel no matter what.

then I find Ezekiel 1 talks of these wheels and how they serve God. 
15 Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel was on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces. 16 The appearance of the wheels and their workings was like the color of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel. 17 When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went. 18 As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims were full of eyes, all around the four of them. 19 When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. 20 Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures  was in the wheels. 21 When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures  was in the wheels.
I think about modern sci-fi movies and the pseudo-science behind their imagery:  in Contact, the "wheel within a wheel" that is the device that takes a person across the universe, in Paycheck, the idea of a lens powerful enough to see around the wheel of the universe to see the future...how much are such things based on real science?  Are we finally beginning to understand Ezekiel's wheels intellectually?  Although in Ezekiel's world, they did not represent impersonal time and space but Spirit.  And if this "wheel within a wheel" concept relates to the transport of God, what does it mean, the fact that man is beginning to adress it again?

Since the time I wrote this entry, another movie came out:  2012 which was even more specific in its reference to Ezekiel 1, with its imagery partrayed as a thing that could visit reality.  While such movies are fantastic and wild, entertaining even, they do serve a mysterious purpose.  They serve in the place of the modern parables--as much as many will ever see.  I hope Man watches well...