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Author Topic: How did they know what a cherubim looked like?  (Read 2607 times)

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Re: How did they know what a cherubim looked like?
« Reply #13 on: April 15, 2020, 11:27:33 am »


I'm sorry you saw my trying to apply your words to the topic at hand as me misrepresenting you...not sure how to avoid that though since all any of us has is comprehension based on the discussion at hand...when someone changes the topic without warning, it isn't the fault of the reader.

Now back to topic...the scriptures I posted talk about the symbolism....you can use concept if you want but I prefer scriptures understanding.

So, how do you think the people of the day knew what a cherubim looked like.

One of several reasons I am asking what people think about this is that I am writing a book that focuses some on angels (hard to explain in this short post) and as I was talking to a family member about the book and the nephilim she said that that makes  it hard to believe what scripture says.  As I thought about it, I came to the conclusion that there is much about the "earliest days" that we don't know and if we did, it might change some of our objections to things we don't understand...for example, if the people of Moses day were still seeing cherubim, then it would not be a stretch at all to understand that the nephilim could have been real.  That being said, I believe that many things in scripture have both a literal and a figurative or spiritual meaning....it isn't usually one or the other but often times both.
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I bolded what you say you believe above--

Yes, but not 'sometimes'  --- always.  There is always a duality of physical and spiritual, for this is our nature and how we were made.

The image above 'symbolically' might relate to a rodeo, or bronc' bustin' or something like that to anyone familiar, but as a concept it's much more as it relates to horse and rider which have meaning far beyond the symbolic usage.

The ark and the cherubim that 'hover' over it's cover of course are symbolic of a heavenly scene and anyone even today never having 'seen' the ark with their own eyes can recognize an image of what is used to represent the ark and relate it easily to the time of Moses, and then David and Solomon and so on.  To a person of the Jewish faith and tradition- the symbolism is enough and they relate it to God's presence in the tabernacle and then the temple and the cherubim are present with His presence.  They don't recognize the greater concept, which expresses the presence of God in us... the greater concept of us being His temple-- His ark our hearts, His presence overshadowing our lives through even such as angels who hover over US-- his physical footstool (that we are the physical expression of where He conceptually places His feet.  It's a much stronger concept and far beyond any simple symbolic usage.

As for literal?  Yes, there was a literal ark and tabernacle and temple... but these are not literally where He is/was present.  In the passage I posted earlier concerning Solomon's dedication of the temple, Solomon was clear on this understanding... God dwells in the heavens (spiritually) and on earth He rests his feet on the ark, but the gold-covered physical ark is no more again, than a symbol-- of you.
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