This is a depiction of a Cherubim… Does this look like an angel to you?
The scene in Revelation 4 depicts 4 living creatures on each side of the throne. They have eyes all over them, on the front and their back. They have 6 wings, and eyes all over them… Does this look like and angel to you?
And imaging God’s holiness…
Rolf Jacobson from Luther Seminary argues that the singing angels did in Heaven is not actually melodic sounds but shrill cries because of God’s holiness. God’s holiness is so great that the angels can not stand to be in it… Can you image what it will be like for us?
How about the scene we got yesterday in Isaiah 6 of Isaiah standing in the temple of God and realizing where he has. And Isaiah says that Isaiah said, “Woe is me for I am a man of unclean lips.” If that would have been me, I probably would have said, “Oh no I’m done for!” Remember the scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark where the ark of the covenant is opened? The only ones who did not get their faces melted where the ones who did not look. All hell broke lose, or was it hell or was it God’s Glory? God’s holiness was contained there in and that is what did the damage. He is so holy we will not be able to stand in His presence.
What can you do to be able to stand or survive in the holiness that God exudes?
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