{"id":685,"date":"2017-11-15T06:25:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2017-11-15T06:25:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:25:11","slug":"devotion-revelation-46b-8-who-are-the-four-and-what-do-they-mean-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Devotion Revelation 4:6b-8 Who Are the Four And What Do They Mean Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Revelation 4:6b\u00a0<\/b>–\u00a0In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures,\u00a0and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.<\/span>\u00a07\u00a0The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle.<\/span>\u00a08\u00a0Each of the four living creatures\u00a0had six wings\u00a0and was covered with eyes all around,\u00a0even under its wings. Day and night\u00a0they never stop saying: \u201c\u2018Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,\u2019 who was, and is, and is to come.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn the center, around the throne, were four living creatures,\u00a0and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back<\/span>.<\/span>\u201d\u00a0 We first see these four in\u00a0Ezekiel 1 and 10<\/b>.\u00a0 In these verses it is revealed that these four are cherubim.\u00a0 We are first told of cherubim as the guardian with a flaming sword to keep Adam and Eve from re-entering the Garden of Eden to eat from the tree of life (Exodus 3:24<\/b>). \u00a0In\u00a0Exodus 25:18-22<\/b>, cherubim are to be on the cover of the Ark of the Covenant.\u00a0 These cherubim serve the same purpose as the cherubim in the Garden of Eden.\u00a0 In the Garden of Eden they cherubim guarded Adam and Eve from coming and eating from the tree of life, but also from trying to sneaking back into the garden to live in this paradise in which they communed with God.\u00a0 They didn\u2019t want to leave.\u00a0 Who would?\u00a0 But the fellowship between God and man had been broken by man.\u00a0 God\u2019s message, God\u2019s word to mankind is sacred.\u00a0 Since God is always sincere and God cannot lie (John 17:3, 14:6, Numbers 23:19, 1 Samuel 15:29, Hebrews 6:18<\/b>), when He speaks to man the Word that He shares is sacred.\u00a0 It is not only a message to us, but it is Him revealing Himself to us (2 Corinthians 2:15-16, John 1:10, Exodus 3:14, Isaiah 45:5, Isaiah 44:24<\/b>).\u00a0 Yes, it is to reveal His plan for us to us, but it is also an intimate message from Him to us where He bares His heart to us.\u00a0 We may, in our human frailty, think of it in this way.\u00a0 Imagine that you love someone greatly.\u00a0 What we do with one that we love is we give ourselves to them.\u00a0 We, with the peril of rejection looming, bare our heart and our mind to the one we love.\u00a0 The words we tell them are intimate.\u00a0 Our words that we share are indeed who we are.\u00a0 We open our chests and our minds and say to that person this is who I am.\u00a0 The vehicle of revealing is our words.\u00a0 But those words are definitely us.\u00a0 If we open up and the one we love rejects us, we are deeply wounded.\u00a0 That is why we are guarded about whom we will share so intimately with.\u00a0 If the person scoffs at our words from us about who we are, we do not merely consider that a rejection of our words, but indeed a rejection of us, of who we are.\u00a0 These words are not detached from our essence, they are part of it.\u00a0 This is true of us and much more true of the Word of God that He has shared with us.\u00a0 He has opened His heart and mind and said to us \u201cHere, I AM.\u201d\u00a0 Adam and Eve did not merely \u201cdisobey\u201d God, but when they, who had such close intimate communion with God, went against His Word, they went against Him.\u00a0 They rebelled not merely against His Word, but against the intimate bond that He had created with Him.\u00a0 They did not merely turn their face from God, but, in essence, shoved away from Him who sees all, to proclaim their right to self-rule and rejecting God\u2019s rule over their heart.\u00a0 The Lord God had loved Adam and Eve without reserve and they pushed away from Him.\u00a0 His Word, just as precious as our Bible, was shoved aside for their own will.\u00a0 They rejected His right of rule over them.\u00a0 Just as Israel so often did, and just as we, sadly, so often do.\u00a0 So God gave them what they asked for in their rebellion, a separation between God and mankind.<\/p>\n

Cherubim prevent the re-entrance into the Garden of Eden.\u00a0 No longer did man have a place there.\u00a0 The cherubim at the entrance to the Garden of Eden is a guardian, and also a reminder.\u00a0 So is the cherubim on the lid of the Ark of the Covenant.\u00a0 The cherubim on the covenant are representative that the righteous relationship between God and man was broken.\u00a0 They are representative that man could no longer walk beside God as Adam and Eve could.\u00a0 The Ark of the Covenant cherubim were to harken us back to the cherubim at the Garden of Eden.\u00a0 They reminded the people that, although they could have the High Priest bring an offering for forgiveness of sins, they themselves could not come into His presence.\u00a0 The High Priest offered up blood from innocent animals to secure a less than perfect and less than eternal forgiveness from God.\u00a0 This allowance was never meant to be the complete and final answer, but a pointing to what was to come. It pointed to who was to come.\u00a0 It was pointing to the day that He who was rejected by man, who exposed His heart and mind to man, only to be rejected by Him, would come to earth to be what only He could be.\u00a0 That is the perfect and final sacrifice that once again allows mankind to have Shalom (perfect peace and unity with God) (Colossians 1:20<\/b>).<\/p>\n

Cherubim are angelic beings who do the will of God.\u00a0 These cherubim are before the throne of God.\u00a0 We have seen them as guardians, as posts at the door that prevent entrance.\u00a0 Why are these Cherubim here surrounding the throne?\u00a0 What will of God are they executing.\u00a0 One thing we know, is that God does not need to be protected.\u00a0 These cherubim are executing His will and representing His will to us.\u00a0 They are a reminder that the man who is not covered by the blood of Christ does not have union with God.\u00a0 All this is so very exciting.<\/p>\n

Family, God so loved the world that He gave us His Word, which is a very intimate part of Him. Jesus, His Son, came to us as His Word in the flesh.\u00a0 Nothing that God says is trivial. All is given with intent, purpose and gravity.\u00a0 It is not to condemn us, but to bless us (John 3:17<\/b>).\u00a0 His Word is Him sharing Himself with us.\u00a0 Yes, it tells us how to live, but more importantly, it draws us back to intimate and eternal fellowship with Him.\u00a0 It is calling us to intimacy with God.\u00a0 Jesus is God calling us home, forever.\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n

Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0– But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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