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Ezekiel

Ezekiel 
Day 
Day 13

"The spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels"

Text: Ezekiel 1:21

THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING CREATURES

Like Man, the living creatures were created with a spirit as well. There are two main parts. The external has already been described (legs, hands, face, wings). The internal part is now the focus.

“When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them;
and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth,
the wheels were lifted up.
Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went;
and the wheels were lifted together with them,
for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood;
and when those were lifted up from the earth,
the wheels were lifted up together with them,
for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.”
Ezekiel 1:19-21

1. The wheels.

a) They represent the chariot.

b) The living creatures were driving the chariots.

2. The spirit of the living creatures,

a) The spirit of the living creatures directed the activities.

b) They affected the moving of the wheels.

c) They were wonderfully intertwined.

d) They spirit of the living creatures controlled the wheels.

e) They were “one”.

3. Movements

a) Spirit and wheels moved as one entity:

i) Going forward

ii) Standing still

iii) Lifted upwards

b) There was fluidity.

c) There was oneness in all movements.

4. Oneness

a) Hence the observation
“For the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels”.

b) This kind of oneness is seldom if ever seen in Man.

c) The living creatures continued to be a great source of inspiration to Ezekiel and to Man in general.