Evils of Wheels

The above image was taken from film footage during an expedition to the dark and
murky bottom of the Red Sea. Chariots were found in a straight line exactly where we
could expect Moses to have participated in the parting of the waters. Each pharaoh had
made for himself a uniue style of chariot wheel. !n the chariot house of the pharaoh that
pursued !srael was found a lone chariot up on a block with one wheel" as if it were in the
process of being repaired. The chariot wheels at the bottom of the Red Sea match
perfectly the style of wheel in the chariot house of this particular pharaoh. This proves the
miracle and shows how #od disapproved wheels. !t is said that !srael walked on dry land.
This is a web address accessed in $%&% on how the chariots were found at the bottom of
the Red Sea' http'((www.worldnetdaily.com(news(article.asp)*RT!C+E,!-.//&01
The command of #od to not have man2made chariots is undeniable. 3or it is written that
#od caused chariots 4literally 2 any cart that rolls on the ground5 to have their axles
mysteriously bound and proceed with difficulty" or to get clogged and stuck in the mud"
as in Exodus &6'$7. Elsewhere #od demands that wheels be burned 2 8oshua &&'0" also
verse 9. -uring this time in history !srael had no chariots and was told by #od to
hamstring the enemies: horses of war. !t is in this manner that #od commanded Moses to
utterly destroy wheels. The prophet !saiah" speaking for #od at /&'& says" ;<oe to them
that trust in chariots.= Every person knows better than to trust in any wheeled contraption.
<heel use is incompetent. >ne reason for #od:s command to avoid wheels could have
been to keep the !sraelites from using the horses and chariots in their future battles and
then attributing their success to having the horses and chariots" instead of attributing it to
#od. !t seems likely that the !sraelites had no horses" based on the following three verses'
!n Exodus &7'&" $& the !sraelites praised #od for rescuing them from the Egyptians"
saying" ;the horse and its rider he has hurled into the sea.= #od promised to destroy such
inventions of pagan men" and these Egyptians are also described as riders of horses" in
contrast to the !sraelites. The people of #od are not allowed to be in charge of man2made
wheels in this world. !n -euteronomy $%'& #od tells the !sraelites" ;<hen you go to war
against your enemies and see horses and chariots and an army greater than yours" do not
be afraid of them.= The point is that the !sraelites have neither horses nor chariots" and
that having horses and chariots would make them considerably more reliant on the world.
!n 8udges &'&02$& we see that obedience toward #od is life" disobedience brings death.
Clearly" #od wanted the !sraelites to know they did not defeat their enemies with their
own strength 2 8oshua $6'&$. !n 8udges Chapter 6 we see how #od placed an army of
chariots" which some people might consider a great advantage" into the corrective hands
of !srael at Mount Tabor. The outcome of the evil2spirited invention is clearly explained
to us here. #od deliberately used a weak" small army to show his power on many other
occasions" most notably with #ideon 2 8udges ?'$2/. <hen is a horse ever really needed)
!t is true that by the command of pharaoh wagons were sent to enslave 8oseph:s family"
but ! do not see any wheel on the ground ever kept or controlled by a person in the full
favor of #od. <here men of #od did not destroy the wheel" #od does it for them. The
first historical record of the wheel in the bible is shown to be an invention of men for the
purpose of ungodly warfare" in order only to brutally conuer and spoil. !t is truly no
different today. @eople speed around" rushing here and there" without much if any care
towards the harm they cause" or being conscious of their terroristic violence. <heels are
suicide. !t is not difficult to attribute many harmful or deadly things to the evils of wheels.
Some believe that stories like the one in EAekiel &'&0 give allowance for wheel use. !n
instances like this we are seeing something otherworldly Bsome say a C3>D" which
merely has the ;appearance= of a wheel" as the context shows. <e are not to conclude
that instances like these are earthly man2made wheels that roll on the ground.
The record of CAAah" who was killed steadying the *rk of the Covenant" is recorded
twice in the Scriptures B$ Sam. 0" & Chron. &/D. #od commanded that the bars for the *rk
were always to stay in its rings" for the *rk was only to be transported while being carried
by walking men. Eever before this accident had the *rk been transported by wheels" the
*rk had been in a pagan land" the source of evil wheels. Fing -avid was so frightened by
this deadly accident that they did not immediately complete the Gourney and never again
did they use wheels to move the *rk. !t is important to note that they were also playing all
kinds of ungodly musical instruments at the time of the accident" if they followed the
instruction of #od no such accident would ever have happened. >f course" how can there
be any such thing as an accident in the first place) !t is only negligence.
!n Hechariah 9'&%" #od says that he will make sure there are ;no chariots in Ephraim...=
Tsar BFingD Solomon was prohibited / things. The hoarding of money" he kept for himself
000 talents of gold per dayI having many wives" he had hundredsI and lastly" possessing
chariots" he was the first king of !srael to wrongly keep wheels. <e see that -euteronomy
&?'&02&? warns that !sraelite kings must not acuire great wealth or many horses.
*t the time of Christ chariots were well known" yet Christ did not need one" choosing
instead to not ride on them" and we do not see any Christian or godly man making a
practice of utiliAing such an apparatus. <e should not think that the stone rolled in front
of the +ord:s tomb was a wheel" for a partial roll is not a wheel. * partial roll is all that
was needed. <e are reuired to be careful in all our ways" limiting ourselves in this world
to the bare minimum. 3or my part ! am almost finished with the wheel entirely. ! hate
riding on wheels and hate even more seeing how these evils harass the younger ones.
There are instances where #od can transport instantly" as with the case of @hilip who
miraculously arrived in a chariot" but it was halted uickly. !t is the only occurrence in the
Eew Testament of wheels. That chariot actually belonged to the pagans who were in
charge of the horses. The eunuch was most likely under their charge as well" for he was
not operating it" as he and the *postle were reading and studying the Scriptures. This
story is not suggested to be complete" so it is also very likely that @hilip rebuked wheel
use. Jy no means is this be taken as a license or permission to keep wheels. +et us not
spite #od" but only obey what is good" correct" honest and true in such matters.
*ncient fresco showing pagan chariot guards taking the eunuch
;#athering Clouds= is an account of the life of 8ohn Chrysostom" an ancient preacher
famous for his elouence. This story speaks of an acuaintance who asked 8ohn to travel
on a chariot. Ke gave a good reason as to why he could not. Kis comrade astonishingly
and violently seiAed him. 8ohn was then taken at high speed to Constantinople. !t was the
only chariot ride he ever took. *t the end of the Gourney he was forced to be the top
representative of the Church. !n this position he regularly preached against chariots.
-uring the ancient >lympics the most dangerous sport was the chariot race as can be seen
at timestamp &6'77 in the documentary" The First Olympics - blood, honor and glory.
*round 0%% *.-. the Kippodrome in >lympia Bwhere chariot races were heldD was
washed away when the *lpheus River changed course during a torrent. That happening
was no accidentI in fact it was seen as an act of #od. This assisted people to reason with
their common sense given by #od that Christian people ought not to ever have wheels.
!n Roy Robson:s book" OLD BELIEE!" in #ODE!$ !%""I&" there is a chapter on
Ritual @rohibitions and the epigraph mentions ;about railways.= * little further on in the
chapter it continues to say that the strong >ld Jelievers have a ritual prohibition on
;using railroads= as is specified in one of their Concords in the early &9%%:s.
*n ancient law exists for the oldest continuously surviving Christian community in the
world. !t forbids being built any ;road upon which a wheel can run.= !n $%&% this web
address attested to this fact' http'((www.chaitanya2monks.org(histories(mount2athos
+ubok are original political drawings in Russia that began centuries ago" they were
largely sarcastic. >ne shows some of the evils put on Russia by @eter the not so #reat.
That illustration references how @eter:s father had a good Christian law forbidding
wheels throughout all Russia. ! know that the practice of using wheels came to Russia
after @eter visited England" being influenced by their" oh so sorrowful" ways of the time.
>ne published work titled" 'arriages and 'oaches ( Their history and their evol)tion"
tells us that" ;carriage2building 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. +aws were passed as was the case in &$96I under @hilip
the 3air of 3rance forbidding people to ride in coaches" and sharp comparisons were
drawn by the satirists between the hardy horsemen of old and the modern comfort2loving
individuals who lolled...= The book goes on to say" ;So" too" in &706" @ope @ius !L was
exhorting his cardinals and bishops to leave the new2fangled machines to women" and
twenty2four years later 8ulius" -uke of Jrunswick" found it necessary to issue an edict
ordering his Mvassals" servants" and kinsmen" without distinction" young and old": who
Mhave dared to give themselves up to indolence and to riding in coaches...to take notice
that when <e order them to assemble" either altogether or in part" or to receive their 3iefs"
or when on other occasions they visit >ur Court" they shall not travel or appear in
Coaches" but on their riding Korses.: More stringent is the edict among the archives of the
#erman county of Mark" in which the nobility was forbidden the use of coaches Munder
penalty of incurring the punishment of felony.: The famous Jishop Kall speaks bitterly of
the Msin2guilty: coach' That great numbers of Kackney Coaches of late time seen and kept
in +ondon" <estminster" and their Suburbs" the general and promiscuous use of Coaches
there" were not only a great disturbance to his MaGesty" his dearest Consort the Nueen" the
Eobility" and others of place and degree" in their passage through the StreetsI but the
Streets themselves were so pestered" and the pavements so broken up" that common
passage is thereby hindered and more dangerous' <herefore <e expressly command and
forbid" That" from the feast of St. 8ohn the Japtist next coming" no Kackney or Kired
Coach" be used or suffered in +ondon" <estminster" or the Suburbs or +iberties thereof...=
So" this common form of transport is really nothing less than death on wheels. <heels
threaten more than they assist. <heels are a trap" they are gadgets and gimmicks. They
are a funky way to travel" a cause of forgetting the good ways" a cause of wrong hatreds
and pains" and thereby people have become a creature of the wheel and a temporal lord of
the infernal engines" of the machines. <e are duty bound to correct and rebuke wheels"
and by all peaceful means to resist and renounce them. The forbidden things like guns
and machines will be the destruction of the world. Revelation &&'&1 teaches us that #od
will destroy those who destroy the earth. *lternative power vehicles are not improving
things one iota. There are more cars than people" this extreme wickedness is absurd.
There are far more things to say" reports like this one can be easily made about other
types of modern transportation. <e see in >badiah" verse 6" ;!f you fly like the eagle" or
make your nest among the stars" ! will bring down" says the +>R-.= So the prohibition
against all aircraft and spacecraft are likewise uite unmistakable. <e cannot do such
things on our own. The curse has indeed started all over again because we have now" after
Christ" have offered evil on top of evil. These craAy and insane things multiply" but one
thing is absolutely certain" the +ord 8esus Christ certainly did E>T take the wheel.