artists paint different depictions of angels they wanted the images of the angels to be very appealing so they went with the greek depiction of cupid and pretty much said yeah that's cool we'll say that that's part of the god stuff sure cherubims do not look like this as a matter of fact they look like this cherubims are first witnessed by the prophet ezekiel and they're described throughout the entirety of ezekiel chapter NUMBER_TOKEN. during this time ezekiel is standing by the river whenever he begins to have a vision of a cherubim and other stuff we're going to get into but during this vision that ezekiel has he describes the cherubim as having four faces the face of a man the face of an ox the face of a lion and the face of an eagle furthermore he says that they have the body of a lion the feet of an oxen and that their wings themselves are again covered with eyes now about the whole eye thing because the eyes got mentioned with the seraphim and now they're being mentioned again with the cherubim it can't be a hundred percent confirmed if this is like a physical eye on their wings or if it's a sort of spot or moving ring that just appeared as an eye to the people viewing it i personally believe it was a quite literal eye because in the same breath whenever he talks about an angel we're going to talk about in just a second he says the eyes were used to view the works of god so if it's a thing he describes as an eye and it's used to literally look at something then it's probably an eye furthermore whenever ezekiel is describing this type of angel in ezekiel chapter NUMBER_TOKEN he describes that whenever they moved and wherever they went there was this bright fire that glue with glue glowed glow glue whatever it reflected with every color imaginable and out of this fire came strikes of lightning and thunder cherubims are also one of the most frequently referenced angels in the bible for what they do for example at the garden of eden which is the beginning of humanity with adam and eve whenever adam and eve committed the first sin and were kicked out of the garden god appointed a cherubim with a rotating fiery sword to guard the entrance of the garden itself because yeah if you know this thing is standing with a fiery sword at the place you want to get into you're probably not going to get into it furthermore whenever god told moses and the children of israel to build the ark of the covenant he specifically ordered that they build figures of two cherubims on either side of the ark and whenever's king solomon who is the son of king david builds the temple in jerusalem he builds several figures and statues of cherubims as an honor to god so why are cherubim specifically mentioned as the second highest as in literally closest to god within the bible remember that vision that i described of ezekiel well what happens in that vision is he sees the cherubims and then he sees the next kind of angel we're going to talk about and then above them he sees god himself sitting on the throne
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