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Evils of Wheels
The above film footage was taken from an expedition to the bottom of the Red Sea, where chariots were found in a straight line. This is exactly where we would expect Moses to have participated in the parting of the waters. The chariots are identical to other archeological findings from the dynasty of the Pharaoh who pursued Moses. In the chariot house of this Pharaoh was found a lone chariot up on a block with one wheel, as if it was in the process of being repaired. The chariot wheels which are in a straight line at the bottom of the Red Sea match perfectly the style of wheel made only during this dynasty. It is mentioned that Israel walked on dry land, and that God had commanded men not to use man-made chariots. God causes chariots (Literally any kind of cart with wheels that rolls on the ground) to get clogged and stuck in the mud, as in Exodus 14:25. God Himself promises to destroy the things that reprobate man makes with wheels, Ezekiel 1:16. There is just no good example for men to use wheels. Speaking for God, the holy prophet Isaiah says in chapter 31, verse 1, “Woe to them that trust in chariots.” Wheels on the ground are unnecessary and a bad example for us in this temporary modern world. It is true that by the command of Pharaoh wagons were sent to enslave Joseph’s family, but I do not see any wheel on the ground kept or controlled by a person of God anywhere. Elsewhere God commands wheels to be burned, Joshua 11:6,9. Israel had no chariots during this time in history and were told by God to hamstring the enemies horses of war and burn the chariots. In this manner God commanded Moses to utterly destroy wheels.
There is this external link about how Pharaoh’s chariots were found at the bottom of the Red Sea, here
Here is another link I found about a book titled The Exodus Case
Some believe that stories like the one in Ezekiel 1:16 give allowance for wheel use. In these instances we are seeing something otherworldly that merely has the “appearance” of a wheel, so we are not to conclude they have any connection to earthly man-made wheels that roll upon the ground. Man-made wheels of this world are not allowed to be used by men of God. Later in the book of Ezekiel (23:24) “chariots, wagons, and wheels” are clearly spoken of in a negative manner. In Judges chapter 4 we see how God placed an army of chariots (which some people might consider a great advantage) into the corrective hands of Israel at Mount Tabor, where their outcome is then so clearly explained to us.
The account of the man who was killed when attempting to steady the Ark of the Covenant is recorded twice in the Scriptures (2 Sam 6, 1 Chron 13). God commanded that the bars for carrying the Ark were always to stay in the rings and that the Ark was only to be transported while being carried by walking men. Never before this accident had the Ark been transported by wheels (the Ark had been the possession of pagans, the source of wheels). King David was so frightened by this deadly accident that they did not immediately complete the journey, and never again did the people of God use wheels to move the Ark of the Covenant. It is important to note that they were also playing all kinds of ungodly musical instruments at the time of the accident, no doubt that was contributing distraction at the least. If they followed the instructions of God no accident would ever have happened. [From the time of Solomon’s Temple the Ark no longer had inside it the manna or the rod, but only the Law]
Tsar Solomon was prohibited three things. The hoarding of money (he kept for himself 666 talents of gold per day); having many wives (he had hundreds); and lastly, possessing chariots (he was the first king of Israel to keep wheels). I believe that Solomon made a good repentance towards the end of his life, away from every form of vice.
During the ancient Olympics the riskiest sport was the chariot race as can be seen at timestamp 14:55 in the documentary film, The First Olympics - blood, honor and glory. Around 600 A.D. the Hippodrome in Olympia (where the chariot races were held) was washed away when the Alpheus River changed course during a torrent. That was no accident.
In Zechariah 9:10 God says that he will make sure there are “no chariots in Ephraim...”
At the time of Christ we know that chariots were well known, yet Christ chose not to ride on one, and we do not see any real Christian or godly man making a practice of using such man-made apparatuses. These days I am not exactly sure how to get away from all the crazy and dangerous infulences of wheels, but it is clear that Jesus certainly would never “take the wheel.” The situation with The Road to Moscow is a bit unreasonable if you ask me. Here are some other views of
Russian Federal Highways. If it were me I would stay as far away from such craziness as possible. The road crews that worked on these roads quit because they would be attacked by stranded motorists. I do not blame the workers for quitting. Below is a photo from a truck accident showing the letters of G.O.D. on the trailer, no wonder such things happen. People really should be more careful with what they are doing in the name of God. The first Russian cannon (which itself is inherently unclean due to the petroleum product of gunpowder) was around the 17th century (a time when Russia began going downhill in many areas). Such heavy things were not put on wheels at this time, but only traveled on a sledge. A favorite cartoon above shows the Russian people as mice taking the cat, Peter the Great, away. We can see two of the mice playing musical instruments. This type of music was allowed in Christian Russia for the first time only in year 1698, during the funeral of his heretical friend Lefort. The orchestra was again present during Peter’s burial, the image suggests how his funeral sled was drawn by eight horsesmen. The cask represents the sin of his allowing the consumtion of hard liquor, namely Vodka. One of the mice is smoking a pipe, an allusion to the tsar-reformer’s introduction of evil tobacco sales. In the upper right corner, two mice are riding in a one-axle cabriolet or gig. Wheels were forbidden by Peter’s father Alexis Mikhailovich, but allowed during Peter’s reign. In fact, it was one of Tsar Peter’s favorite means of transportation which he picked up from his travels to apostate England. Other versions of the print include even more anti-Petrine allusions (cf. Sytova, ill. 92). It is titled, The Mice are Burying the Cat. In Roy Robson’s book, OLD BELIEVERS in MODERN RUSSIA, there is a chapter on Ritual Prohibitions and the epigraph mentions “about railways”. A little further on in the chapter it continues to say that the strong Old Believers have a ritual prohibition on “using railroads”. At time stamp 4:08 in this video, on Old Orthodox Church History (Part 2), there’s an ancient illustration of how people traveled on sleds (or were dragged on tree branches that leaned against people or animals who pulled them) during summer when there was no snow. I place the picture immediately below. A common record of old is of “Troikas” which was a team of 3 horses that would drag people in any given season across the Siberian wilderness. These were around so prevelently in those times because wheels were not allowed to be used. An ancient law exists for what is known as the oldest continuously surviving monastic community in the world. It forbids being built any “road upon which a wheel can run”. This Christian rule comes to us from none other than the famous Mount Athos “Gathering Clouds” is an account of the life of St. John Chrysostom. While he was a priestmonk an acquaintance asked him to travel on a chariot. He gave a good reason as to why he could not go. Then his comrade astonishingly and violently seized St. John against his will. He was greatly agitated about being entrapped by the chariot. Being unaware of the purpose he was taken at high speed to Constantinople. It was the only chariot ride I know of that St. John ever took. At the end of the journey he was forced to be Patriarch. Afterward, as Patriarch of Constantinople, he often preached against chariots. St. John Chrysostom died as he was being forced to walk into exhile. I am sure that more than one person was caused to stop and think a little at this next reference, Isaiah 3:18. “In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon.” In this instance the King James Bible is not very accurate, and the meaning of round tires more closely means things that are put on the body to make ourselves ornate, like jewelry or perfume. It is said to mean a crescent moon shaped pendent. Even though this particular verse does not actually apply I thought to mention it here towards the bottom and say that the rest of the content on this web page does clearly show the evils of wheels. But there are perhaps instances where God can transport us instantly, as with the case of Philip who instantly arrived on a chariot. It was quickly halted with no further record of the chariot being used by Christians. It is the only occurrence in the New Testament and shows that the eunuch made a practice of using wheels only prior to becoming a Christian. Philip himself was not driving, nor did he ever chose himself to use wheels. God is over all creation and can suit Himself, knowing best what to do when, as He knows everything and we do not. Perhaps God used this rare, exceptional and temporary case to protect the eunuch from further harm. By no means can anyone take this as a license for the practice of using wheels. Let us not spite God, but only obey Him. Another thought is that we should not think that the stone rolled completely around in front of the Lord’s tomb, for a partial roll was all that was needed. This is certainly not an example of a wheel. The source of such a rolling stone is no doubt from the Roman pagans. We need to be careful in all our ways and only involve ourselves in the ways of this world to the extent absolutely necessary. For my part I am about done with wheels entirely. One published work titled “Carriages and Coaches : Their history and their evolution...” tells us that, “carriage-building in the sixteenth century was for a time retarded in various places by a widespread feeling of distrust against anything that could be thought to lead to an accusation of effeminacy. Laws were passed as was the case, for instance, in 1294, under Philip the Fair of France forbidding people to ride in coaches, and sharp comparisons were drawn by the satirists between the hardy horsemen of old and the modern comfort-loving individuals who lolled...” The book goes on to say, “So, too, in 1564, Pope Pius IV was exhorting his cardinals and bishops to leave the new-fangled machines to women, and twenty-four years later Julius, Duke of Brunswick, found it necessary to issue an edict (it makes quaint reading now) ordering his ‘vassals, servants, and kinsmen, without distinction, young and old,’ who ‘have dared to give themselves up to indolence and to riding in coaches ... to take notice that when We order them to assemble, either altogether or in part, in Times of Turbulence, or to receive their Fiefs, or when on other occasions they visit Our Court, they shall not travel or appear in Coaches, but on their riding Horses.’ More stringent is the edict, preserved amongst the archives of the German county of Mark, in which the nobility was forbidden the use of coaches ‘under penalty of incurring the punishment of felony.’ So, also, we have the case of Rene de Laval, Lord of Bois-Dauphin, an extremely obese nobleman living in Paris, whose only excuse for possessing a coach was his inability to be set upon a horse, or to keep in that position if the horse chanced to move. This was in 1550. In England there was a similar feeling of opposition. In 1584 John Lyly, in his play Alexander and Campaspe, makes one of his characters complain of the new luxury. In the old days, he says, those who used to enter the battlefield on hard-trotting horses, now ride in coaches and think of nothing but the pleasures of the flesh. The once famous Bishop Hall speaks bitterly of the ‘sin-guilty’ coach : ‘Is’t not a shame to see each homely groome Sit perched in an idle chariot roome That were not meete some pannel to bestride
Sursingled to a galled hackney’s hide ?’ That the great numbers of Hackney Coaches of late
time seen and kept in London, Westminster, and their Suburbs, and the general and promiscuous use of
Coaches there, were not only a great disturbance to his Majesty, his dearest Consort the Queen, the Nobility, and
others of place and degree, in their passage through the Streets; but the Streets themselves were so pestered,
and the pavements so broken up, that the common passage is thereby hindered and more dangerous ; and
the prices of hay and provender and other provisions of stable, thereby made exceeding dear : Wherefore We
expressly command and forbid, That, from the feast of St. John the Baptist next coming, no Hackney or
Hired Coach, be used or suffered in London, Westminster, or the Suburbs or Liberties thereof...” Charlton Heston was in a film about biological warfare and he used vaccines. There was martial law and then almost everyone was wiped out. In Los Angeles the last common person still living was Charlton and the White Zombies said of him, “...one creature, caught...nothing to live with but his gadgets, his cars, his guns, gimmicks. The whole family cannot bring him down out of that funky paradise... Forget the old ways, all your hatreds, all your pains...that Creature of the Wheel, that lord of the infernal engines, the machines.” When another zombie suggests to use nitro on the destroyer (Charlton) the leader of zombies says, “Then the curse would start all over again...he will be destroyed, but not by guns, not by machines, not by the evil forbidden things, the tools that destroyed the world, they destroyed the world.” From this link at about the six minute mark in the YouTube video you will see that section. In the previous clip it says, “...machines threaten more than they offer.” In the life story for St. Sergius of Radonezh it explains how he refused to ride anything, even if the prince arranged transportation. Sergy would just as soon walk, which is exactly what he always did, even when in traveling the long distances to his several monasteries. So he is another good example for this topic. We will find in the opening sequences of the 1967 version of the fictional film “Dr. Doolittle” the suggestion that for all Irishmen it is against their religion to do violence like pushing a cart in the evening. No doubt this is said in jest, but there is often more than a hint of truth to such statements. It is just something more to think about. The first record of the wheel in the Bible is shown as an invention of men for the purpose of ungodly warfare, to divide, brutally conquer and spoil by blood thirsty means. It is really no different today. People speed around, rushing here and there, without much care towards the harm they cause, or being conscious of how truly violent wheels really are. Wheels are suicide. People in my family have been harmed and killed by them. All this goes to show that our most common form of transport is really nothing less than death on wheels. See my page Wrecks on Wheels for more illustration. I made a posting to my blog about how in the End Times there will be no blessing from God for modern travel, I plan to update it from time to time.
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