The LORD’S Spacecraft?

Exodus 19

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EXODUS 19

I’m reading Young’s Literal Translation (YLT) and the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV).

More “paranormal” activity as the LORD descends on Mount Sinai. It’s the latest of several visible, audible, and seemingly material appearances of the LORD in one form or another since the LORD walked in the Garden of Eden. The dense cloud (dark flying craft?), fire (lights circling around the craft?) and trumpet (deafening high-pitch sound?) are suggestive of what people today might think is a UFO encounter. But only Moses (accompanied by Aaron) is allowed special communication with this frightening presence.

The LORD seems to be well beyond anything comprehensible to human experience.

I think, however, that Chapter 19 is the metaphorical set-up for Exodus 20, which contains what we call The Ten Commandments. I’ll write about the Ten Commandments in my next installment, but I might suggest that this (literally) awe-some event in Chapter 19 might be akin to an overwhelming outpouring of “enlightenment” — the Ten Commandments — that changes one’s outlook forever.

Just as we might see something through our eyes that changes us, so do we sometimes “see the light” internally and everything’s different.. The external events described in Chapter 19 dramatizes the Ten Commandments working on the inner self in Exodus 20.

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