The story of Moses and the burning bush on Mount Horeb is well-known in Judeo-Christian religions. However, the story itself is so extraordinary that I decided to take a closer look at it. For a man of the technical generation, living in the era of computers, global Internet, spaceships and artificial intelligence, the story of the burning bush looks completely different in our times. Otherwise, we can interpret it based on modern technology.
Exodus 3:1-5
1 Now Moses fed the sheep of Jethro, his father in law, the priest of Madian: and he drove the flock to the inner parts of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, Horeb.
2 And the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he saw that the bush was on fire, and was not burnt.
3 And Moses said: I will go, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.
4 And when the Lord saw that he went forward to see, he called to him out of the midst of the bush. and said: Moses, Moses. And he answered: Here I am.
5 And he said: Come not nigh hither, put off the shoes from thy feet; for the place, whereon thou standest, is holy ground.
Case one: the Angel of the Lord appeared to Moses – an unearthly being, of unknown origin, higher in development than earthly people.
Moses saw this being and talked to it, it was not an earthling, so it can be assumed that Moses had a close encounter with an extraterrestrial being who interfered with the development of people. It can be assumed that it was a representative of another, extraterrestrial civilization, who came to Earth in order to accelerate the development of people.
Case two: the extraterrestrial being appeared in a flame of fire. There are many similar stories recorded in various “holy books”, providing evidence that ancient people saw landing or take-off of space vehicles of an alien, extraterrestrial civilization quite often.
Case number three: the bush burned with fire, but did not burn. This may be another allegorical story of people who did not know higher technology, who saw the take-off or landing of an alien vehicle with their own eyes, but were unable to name the phenomenon they saw correctly. WHAT THEY SAW THEY CALLED WITH NAMES KNOWN TO PEOPLE OF THOSE TIMES! What Moses saw could not have been a burning bush, but fire from the engines of the landing vehicle.
Case number four: Moses wanted to take a closer look at the landing space vehicle, but its owner/pilot forbade him due to the possibility of being burned by the fire from the vehicle’s nozzles.
To sum up all the above, it is likely that Moses had a close encounter on Mount Horeb, not the first and not the last, with beings of an extraterrestrial civilization. Being a man of low technical education, he described it using the concepts known to him at his times, and the repeated oral transmission of this story, writing it down, multiple translations into other languages and misinterpretation resulted in the survival of this message in its current, allegorical form.
So the question for today is: did Moses have a close encounter on Mount Horeb with representatives of an extraterrestrial civilization?
As always, I leave the answer to each individual.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_bush
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