Page 13 of Flying Saucers Magazine - August 1960

WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS

ABOUT THE

All through ancient literature there are mysterious references to strange places on the Earth which are not to be found today. The primary reference, of course, is the Garden of Eden. Centuries of argument have failed to locate this biblical location, the birthplace of man, and in fact, no place on the surface of the Earth can be even remotely linked to the biblical description of its location, which is quite definite. There are many ancient books available to be studied, and even ancient maps, one in particular drawn on a projection never understood by modern cartographers. In this article, however, we will limit ourselves to a very sketchy search into the Bible for direct references to now unknown areas of the Earth's surface.

"He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing." - Job, 26:7.

How many of us have read this verse in the Bible and passed over it with a puzzled shake of our head? What does it really mean? In our analysis of the statements made in the Bible, we must necessarily set up a standard: either the Bible makes sense, or it does not. Either it is a book of gibberish, or it is literate and descriptive. Either it is historical and factual, or it is fantasy. Either it is the word of God, or it is not. The choice is yours. But if we assume that it is not fantasy, but factual, we are forced to categorize it also as literal. To say that it is allegory is to duck the issue. Allegory can be interpreted any way mental calesthenics dictates. Let us, therefore, proceed on the assumption that the Bible is attempting to record facts, as comprehensively as possible, within the limits of language and the concept of the day in which it was written.

It is necessary to read more of the book of Job to enlarge on this single verse, so that those who will argue that anything taken out of context is invalid will be satisfied. Before we discuss the meaning of the quotation, let us list more from Job:

"He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

"He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.

"He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.

"He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through the proud." Job, 26: 8, 9, 10, 12.

"Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south." Job, 9:9.

"Out of the south cometh the whirlwind; and cold out of the north.

"By the breath of God frost is given: and the breadth of the waters is straitened."

"Fair weather cometh out of the north: with God is terrible majesty." Job, 37: 9, 10, 22.

"Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail?

"Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war.

"By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

"Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

"To cause it to rain on the earth where no man is; on the wilderness wherein there is no man;

"To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud and the tender herb to spring forth?

"Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

"Out of whose womb came the ice? and the hoary frost of heaven, who hath engendered it?

"The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen." Job, 38: 22-30.

Since this article is written with the theory that the Earth is hollow and has a hole leading to the interior at each pole, picture this condition in your mind as you review what the book of Job has said in the foregoing quotes. As we proceed northward, and we come to the place where the surface begins to dip into the hole (Arctic explorers have marveled at the unnatural foreshortening of the north-south horizon, while the east-west horizon remains its usual apparent distance), it is easy to see the literal discription in Job's: "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place ..."

Viewed from space, the Earth would seem to be completely spherical, and the hole would not in any way change the regularity of the sphere. We can easily understand this when Job makes his reiterated mentions of the clouds that cover the hole (Polar explorers curse the eternal fog). Particularly in: "He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it."

This same phenomenon is visible on the planet Mars, whose polar "ice" caps (some astronomers have calculated them to be snow as thin as an eighth of an inch in depth) might actually be perpetual clouds that conceal an opening.

For those who say this is a secret that cannot be kept, note how Job explains how it is kept: " He hath compressed the waters with bounds

By the breath of God frost is given; and the breadth of the waters is straitened." Truly the ice has been an eternal barrier to penetration of the far north. "The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen." Why would Job, who lived in a tropic land, and who could know nothing of frozen oceans, speak thusly? What area is he speaking of? Not the Mediterranean, certainly, nor the Atlantic, or the Gulf of Arabia. He can be speaking only of the Arctic ocean, and specifically as a barrier to that place hidden from man.

Those who have objected to the hollow earth on the basis that it must be perpetually dark, are also answered by Job. He says: "Dost thou know when God disposed them. and caused the light of his cloud to shine?" (Job, 37: 15.) "By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?" In many places in Job, the reference to the light of clouds is made. Light caused by clouds, and not by the sun.

The constant reference to the east in the Bible is significant, also. In ancient times, the cardinal points of the compass were different than they are now. The earth was divided into two hemispheres; one was called the north, the other the south. East and west were vertical directions! East was down, and west was up. Even today we speak of "going west" when we die. Thus Job's reference to the way light is parted, somehow connected with the east wind, it significant. He is asking if we know how the east is lighted, that is, the interior of the earth.

Is there more in the Bible about this? In Genesis, we have the following: "And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed." Genesis, 2:8. Why eastward? Why not westward, or northward or southward? Where was the Lord God standing when he planted the garden in Eden? He planted it in a specific location (a location which becomes meaningless if we use our modern concept of east) which could be designated by no other direction than eastward. When Adam (Lost books of the Bible) went back to look into Eden with sorrow, after his expulsion, he climbed a mountain, as high as he could go, and "the garden was yet 18 cubits above him"! Admiral Byrd's "land in the sky"!

"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." Genesis, 3:24. How would Cherubim placed only on the east of the garden prevent Adam from re-entering? Also, the flaming sword which turned every way reminds us of the Aurora. In Genesis 4:14, Cain says: "Behold thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me." This seems quite specific; no place on the face of the earth for Cain! In the earth, he says. Is this substantiated anywhere else? In Genesis 4:16, we have: "And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden." Here we have it again - this reference to east of Eden, and this time specifically linking the inside of the earth (as opposed to the face of it) with the direction east. So Nod (like Adam's place of banishment, only further) is east of Eden, and specifically, below it. Further from the opening to the surface than Eden.

How then, did they get back to the surface? Job 9:9 mentions "the chambers of the South," indicating that an opening also exists at the South Pole.

Can we find references to the inside of the Earth anywhere else in the Bible? "For thou has said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north." Isaiah, 14:13. Reference is made here to Lucifer, who was cast from heaven into the pit. "Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit." Isaiah 14:15.

"Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended it `- - , the lower parts of the Earth?" esians, 4:9.

"He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.

"Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, 0 Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.

"He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.

"He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me because he delighted in me." Psalms, 18: 11, 15, 16, 19.

Perhaps of greater interest are references in the Bible which may be considered prophetic, and which might refer to the present day. We have already quoted from Job 38 as follows: "Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or has thou seen the treasures of the hail? Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, against the day of battle and war." Does this seem to say that hidden beyond the frozen north are treasures which are reserved for the time of trouble? In light of the fact that many declare that we are in the time of trouble, this might be interesting to pursue. Read then, in Revelations, 9:11, the following: "And they had a king over them which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue bath his name Apollyon." Follow this with verse 14: "Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates."

The Euphrates is one of the four great rivers which flow out of Eden. If we look at the globe, we will find that the oceans are parted into four major sections by land masses surrounding the Pole. Since the other three rivers mentioned in Genesis, as emerging from Eden, have never been found, and the Euphrates of today has failed to give us a clue as to the location of Eden through lack of the other four rivers, might we conclude that the four angels are to be loosed from a river inside the Earth, under the domination of Abaddon?

Let us go to Job, 26:6 (American Standard Version) which says: "Sheol is naked before God, and Abaddon hath no covering." Here again we have the pit (sheol), or as the King James Version gives it, hell, exposed to the view from heaven (naked before God) ; and Abaddon without a covering (Abaddon is translated destruction in the King James Version).

Proverbs, 15:11 says: "Sheol and Abaddon are before Jehovah." Once more the pit and Abaddon are linked. In the King James Version the same verse reads: "Hell and destruction." In all these cases, examination of the original Hebrew shows the King James Version to be incorrect in its translation, yet it would be well to read all versions of the Bible, if you intend to follow up the research which is being instigated in this article.

In Psalms, 15:15, we read: "Let them go down alive into Sheol." Obviously, then, it is possible to go into Sheol (the pit) while still alive. This cannot be the grave, or death, or hell. It must be the realm of Abaddon, which lies in the far north, covered over by eternal clouds, inside the earth, to the east of Eden.

Refer back now to the Cherubim placed to the east of Eden to prevent Adam from re-entering the garden, and reconcile this with Ezekiel, 11:22, which says:: "Then did the cherubim lift up their wings, and the wheels were beside them." In Chapter 3 of Ezekiel, he is taken by these same creatures with wings and wheels over the river Chebar. Psalms, 99:1 tells us: "Jehovah reigneth; let the peoples tremble; He sitteth above the cherubim; let the earth be moved." Hebrews, 9:5 says: "And above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak severally." Apparently here further mention of cherubim is not permitted.

Could it be that cherubim, having wings and wheels, above whom is Jehovah himself, and who have the important job of guarding the garden of Eden, and who carried Ezekiel great distances in a very short time, are actually flying saucers (so-called) and that the Bible tells us that they come from inside the earth, specifically through a North Polar opening, where a prince named Abaddon reigns, who is destined to loose his hordes upon the surface of the earth during the time of trouble prophesied by many Bible prophets, during the time of battle and war?

This article is written only to show that the Bible is a rich and fertile field for research which seems to confirm this fantastic theory which we have brought forth in FLYING SAUCERS. This article is the result of only a cursory examination of the Bible. A thorough search would reveal astounding things. There is much concerning the mysterious "kings of the north and south" and particularly in the prophetic portions of the Bible which we have not touched upon at all. But given this lead, the reader might find a fascinating research spreading out before him.