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cee . _ WHIRLING WHEE DS. * ge Fy m i, TRULIA WRF ae Le Pe a an ro — aes re vo . tas cre we Ds gre, Wet ye aha r (A Corretetion of Flying Saucers and a, Vieitors from other Planete.4n Yhe Bible) weet tH tm a a by: Revererd Oe ‘erate yas , “Flying Saucere“ have mate the headlines off and on for many months ne Much has been written about them, Research has slown that "flying che ricta" ard atrunce powers, both of locomotion and destruction, are des evibed in the holy books of vurious heathen faiths many thousands of © yerro older thom our ov, “Flying Chariots" have been seen and report ard net beljeved for giny ager, ‘rat ie nothing new, But what is nev ie that recently they have Deen photographed, Having eeta>lished the factunlity of the “flying saucer", it is now a- boat tine that we find a theological confirmation of the whole matter. foie in a necepeity! If "flying enucern" inhabit outer-epace, and if tiey Nave some kind of celestial character, they should have some pla: in the total econom of God. They thould have more place in our thin! ing ard planning, and one would expect them to be muntioned in our ow: hely books, too, We are therefore not surprined, upon investigation, to find "flying" clouds, rolls, chariots, wheels and peopls, mentione¢ in the Bible. To reelize this, is to make a great many mrsterious things in the Bible ceem both matter-of-fact and encouraging! The ancients, it is true, had no adequate words to describe the thing thoy sav in their diy which came from outer epace, If a thing flew, : wee Callec a "flying" cloud, bird, chariot or angel. We, today, show have progressed far enough scientifically to cell objects from outer~ erace by nawes which are more appropriate. But the unhapoy term "fly. ex.cer" is a term more reminiscent of a tea-party than of the man-wor: of science, It seems our own nomenclature, or is it our imagination, very inadequate also, However, the possibility and probability of re. izing unheard of gources of power and speeds, and the conquering of epace is to us but a matter of time, To understand our orm holy bock we must replace outworn mythological 1 minology of yereter-year with the mort adequate ecientific terminology tedeay. The heaven of yesterday we call “space” today! It-can be notl ing #ie¢, The angels cf yertesduy are the “space-ucn" of today. An angel wae an ishebitant of espace. They came from other worlds. if. there are ovr inhabitante of outer space, we today would call them. *s; men", ‘he *fiying" clouds, horses, or chariots of scripture we call “flying saucers" or “space ships". With a clarification of but these * three terms, meny thinge now fall into place quite naturally. . “ Anreis or *"opace-men" have beer seen, They've walked on earth, We re .. way back in the O14 Teatument, "Two angels (or space-men} came to Sedc an the evening, Vhen Lot dav them ke rose to meet then, and bowed hin self with his face to the ground", He spoke to ther and offered them hormpitality. They did hic a faver too. They saveo his life! For the two space-men sutsecuentiy led an ettack on Sodom and Gomorrah and de- atroyed it with “brimstone and fire out of heeven (space)}" (Gen, 19). *