God’s Glory Exits the Temple
And I looked and saw above the expanse, above the heads of the cherubim, the likeness of a throne of sapphire. Exo 24:10Ezk 1:22-26Rev 1:13Rev 4:2-31Pe 3:22Eph 1:20Ezk 10:20Ezk 11:22 And the LORD said to the man clothed in linen, “Go inside the wheelwork beneath the cherubim. Fill your hands with burning coals from among the cherubim and scatter them over the city.” And as I watched, he went in. Rev 8:5Ezk 1:13Ezk 10:16Exo 9:8-10Ezk 1:15-20Ezk 10:7-13Ezk 20:47-48Ezk 9:2-3
Now when the man went in, the cherubim were standing on the south side of the temple, and a cloud filled the inner court. Ezk 43:4Ezk 9:3Ezk 8:16 Then the glory of the LORD rose from above the cherubim and stood over the threshold of the temple. The temple was filled with the cloud, and the court was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD. Ezk 1:28Ezk 9:3Rev 15:82Ch 5:13-14Exo 40:35Ezk 10:18Ezk 11:22-231Ki 8:10-12 The sound of the wings of the cherubim could be heard as far as the outer court, like the voice of God Almighty 1when He speaks. Ezk 1:24Job 40:91Ki 7:9Deu 4:12-13Exo 19:16Exo 19:19Exo 20:18-19Job 37:2-5
When the LORD commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from within the wheelwork, from among the cherubim,” the man went in and stood beside a wheel. Ezk 10:2Psa 80:1Psa 99:1 Then one of the cherubim reached out his hand and took some of the fire that was among them. And he put it into the hands of the man clothed in linen, who received it and went out. Ezk 1:13Ezk 10:6Ezk 41:23-26Mat 13:41-42Mat 24:34-35Mat 13:49-50 (The cherubim appeared to have the form of human hands under their wings.) Ezk 1:8Ezk 10:21Isa 6:6
Then I looked and saw four wheels beside the cherubim, one wheel beside each cherub. And the wheels gleamed like a beryl stone. Dan 10:6Ezk 1:15-17Rev 21:20 As for their appearance, all four had the same form, like a wheel within a wheel. Ezk 1:16Psa 104:24Psa 36:6Psa 97:2Rom 11:33 When they moved, they would go in any of the four directions, without turning as they moved. For wherever the head faced, the cherubim would go in that direction, without turning as they moved. Ezk 1:17Ezk 10:22Ezk 1:20Mat 8:8-10
Their entire bodies, including their backs, hands, and wings, were full of eyes all around, as were their four wheels. Ezk 1:18Rev 4:6Rev 4:8 I heard the wheels being called “the whirling wheels.”
Each of the cherubim had four faces: the first face was that of a cherub, the second that of a man, the third that of a lion, and the fourth that of an eagle. Rev 4:71Ki 7:36Ezk 10:211Ki 7:29Ezk 1:6-10
Then the cherubim rose upward. These were the living creatures I had seen by the River Kebar. Ezk 1:5Ezk 1:13-14Ezk 1:3Ezk 10:18-20Ezk 11:22Ezk 43:3Ezk 8:6Hos 9:12 When the cherubim moved, the wheels moved beside them, and even when they spread their wings to rise from the ground, the wheels did not veer away from their side. Ezk 1:19-21 When the cherubim stood still, the wheels also stood still, and when they ascended, the wheels ascended with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. Ezk 1:20-21Rom 8:2Ezk 1:12Gen 2:7Rev 11:11
Then the glory of the LORD moved away from the threshold of the temple and stood above the cherubim. Psa 18:10Mat 23:37-39Psa 78:60-612Ki 2:11Ezk 7:20-22Gen 3:24Hos 9:12Jer 6:8 As I watched, the cherubim lifted their wings and rose up from the ground, with the wheels beside them as they went. And they stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the house of the LORD, with the glory of the God of Israel above them. Ezk 1:17-21Ezk 1:26-28Ezk 10:1Ezk 11:1Ezk 11:22-23Ezk 43:4Ezk 8:16
These were the living creatures I had seen beneath the God of Israel by the River Kebar, and I knew that they were cherubim. Ezk 1:1Ezk 10:151Ki 6:29-351Ki 7:36Ezk 1:22-28Ezk 1:5Ezk 3:23 Each had four faces and four wings, with what looked like human hands under their wings. Ezk 1:6Ezk 10:14Ezk 41:18-19Ezk 1:8-10Rev 4:7 Their faces looked like the faces I had seen by the River Kebar. Each creature went straight ahead. Ezk 1:10Ezk 10:11Ezk 1:12Hos 14:9