Cherubim The term "Sons of God" is, from the above, an order of beings, a rank, who are adherents of the Most High in some form of spiritual union. These Sons of the Most High God are all Elohim (from Psalm 82:1) in varying degrees. The Council of the Elohim is the council of judgment, and the Elohim, or new Morning Star of the planet Earth, has taken his place among the Elohim. The council appears, therefore, to be the council of planet or system commanders termed Morning Stars. The Morning Stars appear to be allotted duties as cherubs. Prior to his fall, the current Morning Star, Azazel or Lucifer was one of the covering cherubs. It appears from 2Samuel 22:11, Psalm 18:10 and Ezekiel chapters 1, 9 and 10 that the Eternal rides on four cherubs. The concept of having planetary commanders as space transporters is interesting to say the least. The concept is therefore probably allegorical, indicating vested authority. The Angel of Redemption carried also the name of the Eternal, as El and Elohim and was called Yahovah as distinct from Yahovah of Hosts or Eloah. This pre-Cartesian concept is perhaps most confusing to non-Hebrew thinkers. By carrying the names of God, the HaShem, the entity also carried the authority. This is the primary attribute of the Messiah (cf. Cox, How God Became a Family (No. 187), CCG). After the concept of the fall of man, where men had attained knowledge of good and evil, the Elohim said "behold, man is become as one of us, knowing good from evil." Here, the Elohim has been translated as the Lord God, and these forms are clearly wrong. The base problem is that the texts have been translated by scholars steeped in Athanasian and Chaldean theology, and they have consistently obscured the metaphysical structure by misconceptions and erroneous renderings. God, as a term is from the Anglo Saxon "good" and is singular only in the sense of the centrality of ultimate good. The Elohim placed cherubim east of the Garden from this time, to prevent man from eating of the tree of life and obtaining eternal life. Man therefore does not have eternal spiritual life. Man was created in the image of the Elohim by the Elohim from matter, and man is therefore not a spirit. Throughout the creation story, the creation is by the Elohim, speaking in the plural. Only at Genesis 6:5 is YHVH mentioned (conveying the singular) as observing the wickedness of man. The cherubs (Heb. cherubim) were allotted tasks from the council around the throne of God and we know from the biblical representation that there were at least two covering cherubim, and probably four as we see from Ezekiel. These figures had composite symbolism and where this composite symbolism is differentiated, they are noted as seraphim with 6 wings (Isaiah 6:2,6). These creatures wait on the throne of God (the Eloah), or Ancient of Days who "created all things and by your will they exist and were created" (Rev. 4:11). The Ancient of Days is the creator, and the Elohim, from this, created at the will of the Eloah (or Eternal) and in accordance with His design. We will not speculate here on the role of the ministering seraphim, nor on the corporate nature of the symbolism of the cherubim. The term in Revelation chapters 4 and 5 referring to the twenty-four elders is presbuteros, which means senior or old, and according to Strong’s Concordance, is used for a figure of the celestial council (see Greek Dictionary, p.60). This is the divine council of the Elohim. Christ is praised by them because he has redeemed men from the nations to God by the sacrifice of the Lamb, to be made kings and priests to their God, Theos the Almighty, the Ho Theos or the accusative ton Theon of John 1:1, 18, to reign on the earth. Both here and above, the term for God is in a distributive sense and may be singular or plural. The definite article renders it singular and refers to The God i.e. The Father. If singular, with the additional term, the Almighty, it would again mean the Most High God, (i.e. The God.) The term Theos can be thus hierarchical as is Elohim with the Highest Elohim, or Theos as Eloah or Ho Theos (accus. ton Theon of John 1:1,18). Because of its implications, this verse is blatantly mistranslated in some Bibles, (e.g. Knox, KJV, NKJV). It is almost as correct as English will allow in the RSV, NIV, New English, Jerusalem and Moffatt versions. The American Standard Version Committee corrected the KJV translation error in its version of 1901. See also at Hort, On the Words Monogenese Theos in Scripture and Tradition (B4), in Two Dissertations, UK, 1876, republished CCG, 2004. From Revelation 21, the centre of government is to move to the earth (cf. Cox, The City of God (No. 180), CCG). When the cherubim appear, they carry the Glory of YHVH and His brightness, and the sound of their wings is as the voice of the El and the Glory of the Elohim is above them. From Ezekiel 10:20, they support the Elohim, and it was the Elohim that he saw by the river Chebar. The spirit speaks from them. Ezekiel states that the spirit of Yahovah spoke to him giving a message from Adonai, here used in the sense of "my Lord." Yahovah is the spokesman or mediation of the Elohim, symbolically supported by the cherubim as part of the force of the Elohim. Yahovah (from Ezekiel 11) appoints himself as the Elohim of Israel, and at verse 7:21, curiously refers to Yahovah the Eternal in the deferential form of address used by subordinates; for example, by Abraham, when referring to him, i.e. as Yahovah. The use of Adonai and Yahovah here as a deferential, shows that we are being addressed by the Angel of Yahovah and not the Eternal or Eloah. In other words by the Elohim mediator, who bears his name as Yahovah. This concept is most important as the metaphysics depend on it, as does an understanding of the nature of the Godhead, the sequence of the creation and an adequate explanation of its purpose. This term Yahovah was applied to three different beings at the same time in the actions of Abraham and Lot at Sodom and Gomorrah. Abraham addressed them as Yahovah. Lot also addressed the two lesser deities as Yahovah (Gen. 19:18), and they called down fire on Sodom from Yahovah in Heaven (Gen. 19:24).
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 14:16:30 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015