Daily Devotions
Ezekiel
"Take fire from among the wheels"
Text: Ezekiel 10:6
FIRE FROM THE CHERUBIM
The LORD gave a direct command to the man clothed in linen. He was the angel-scribe who had marked all the righteous and faithful believers in Jerusalem.
“Then it happened, when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying,
‘Take fire from among the wheels, from among the cherubim,’
that he went in and stood beside the wheels.
And the cherub stretched out his hand from among the cherubim
to the fire that was among the cherubim,
and took some of it and put it into the hands of the man clothed with linen,
who took it and went out.
The cherubim appeared to have the form of a man’s hand under their wings.”
Ezekiel 10:6-8
1. The sacred coals of fire.
a) They were with the cherubim.
b) They were kept in the wheels of their chariots.
c) These were sacred coals of fire.
2. The angel-scribe.
a) He obeyed the LORD’s word.
b) He went to the cherubim.
c) He stood beside the wheels.
d) He would wait for the cherubim to give him the sacred coals of fire.
3. The cherubim
a) The cherubim were very highly ranked angels.
b) Thus, the man clothed in linen had to humbly wait for the coals to be given to him.
c) One of the cherubim took some of the coals and then gave them to the angel-scribe.
d) The cherubim had hands under their mighty wings.