Daily Devotions
Ezekiel
"This was the living creature I saw by the River Chebar"
Text: Ezekiel 10:15
THE VISION OF THE CHERUBIM
Ezekiel was granted a special vision of the cherubim right at the start of his calling as a prophet of the LORD. In Ezekiel 1, he identified them as “living creatures”. He was given another opportunity to see the cherubim.
“Each one had four faces:
the first face was the face of a cherub, the second face the face of a man,
the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
And the cherubim were lifted up.
This was the living creature I saw by the River Chebar.
When the cherubim went, the wheels went beside them;
and when the cherubim lifted their wings to mount up from the earth,
the same wheels also did not turn from beside them.
When the cherubim stood still, the wheels stood still,
and when one was lifted up, the other lifted itself up,
for the spirit of the living creature was in them.”
Ezekiel 10:14-17
1. Ezekiel’s fascination about the cherubim.
a) He noted their faces.
b) Each cherub has four faces.
c) This was highly unusual:
i) The face of a cherub
ii) The face of a man
iii) The face of a lion
iv) The face of an eagle
d) The difference in Ezekiel 10 was that the word “ox” was replaced with “cherub”.
e) Ezekiel was mesmerised by this profound vision of the cherubim.
2. Clear identification
a) Ezekiel noted that these were the “living creatures” he saw earlier at the River Chebar.
b) There was no doubt at all though there may be a slight change in the words employed to describe them.
3. The cherubim and the Wheels.
a) The cherubim were lifted up.
b) The Wheels followed their every movement.
c) They were perfectly synchronized:
i) In their upward movement.
ii) In standing still.
iii) The Wheels did the bidding of the cherubim.
d) The spirit of the cherubim was in the Wheels in an amazing manner.