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Bible Question:
What is the meaning of Ezekiel's vision in chapter one of Ezekiel? What kind of angels are those, are they the same as the angels in Revelation and what are they called? Are these angels also in some other book? tumblewood, God's Own |
Bible Answer: Question: What kind of angels are those, are they the same as the angels in Revelation and what are they called? First, angel means messenger. In the Apocalypse (Revelation) John calls the seven pastors of the seven churches angels (1:20.) Messengers can be men or supernatural beings, but they are all messengers. Second, while there is nothing wrong with your question. It reminds me of the President visiting a hotel and the news media interviewing the maids instead of the President. Our focus should be on Jesus not his messengers. Colossians 2:18 passes along this concept. “Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self-abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,” Third, a close read of Scripture gives many different forms of Spirit beings, for lack of a better word. Both Ephesians and Colossians give four separate and distinct spiritual groupings. EPH 6:12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. COL 1:16 For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities-- all things have been created by Him and for Him. Paul in Romans 8:38 mentions angels and principalities and possibly powers as being separate spiritual groupings. “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,” We know there are angels, archangels, seraphs, cherubs as four groupings of spirit beings. Fourth, A being that has a wingspan two times it’s height is probably a Cherub. A. Seraphs have six wings. Isaiah 6:2 “Seraphim stood above Him, each having six wings; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.” B. Cherubs have wings. Exodus 25:20 “And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.” C. Cherubs can fly. Psalm 18:10, “And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. “ D. Ezekiel 1 and 10 are a view of the throne room of YHWH. (10:4) and the beings are probably Cherubs (Cherubim is a Hebrew plural and Cherubims is an English plural, plural.) E. Revelation 4:8 And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come." The six winged spirit beings match Seraphs as we understand the question. F. There is much we don’t understand about spirit beings and I am far more interested in the One Speaking in Ezekiel 1:26-28 and between the lamp-stands in Revelation 1. Daniel 7, also has about the same view of what I see as my Savior. |
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