Covenant Reformed News – October 2021 • Volume XVIII, Issue 18
This article provides detailed exegetical analysis of Ezekiel 10, focusing on the description of God's divine chariot, its cherubim steeds, wheels, platform, and throne. The author employs careful textual examination and comparison with biblical parallels to illuminate the symbolic and literal features of Ezekiel's prophetic vision.
God’s Chariot Departs From the Temple In the last issue of the News, we saw that the four cherubs or living creatures or angels of Ezekiel 10 each possess four faces and four wings. Now we note that every one of them has hands (1:8; 10:21). Probably these cherubs had two hands each since angels in Scripture are presented as having a largely human form: “the hands of a man” (21). Next month, we will say more about the important use to which one angel’s hand is put, DV. Here we merely observe...