The Cherubim are a celestial order of spirit-beings. They are to be distinguished from the symbolic figures of them, which were made to represent them.
Though heavenly, or celestial and spiritual in their nature and character, they are distinguished from the angels that are used as messengers. They never seen apart from the Throne.
In Genesis 3:24 were placed to keep or guard the way to the tree of life (Christ), and preserve the hope of re-genesis for a ruined creation.
Their presence on the Mercy Seat binds this hope of atonement, and with Israel.
Satan is a Cherubim (he is an angel) who guarded the Mercy Seat. However, he became proud of himself and instead of guarding the Mercy Seat (Christ's Seat) he wanted to sit on it (Ezekiel 28).
After his fall the four Cherubim that keep or guard the Mercy Seat are "programmed" to obey the Lord. They don't have a choice like Satan did.
The Cherubim cannot be a symbol of the church or any portion of redeemed humanity, for they are distinguished from them in Rev. 5:9-10.
They are four in number, and four is the number of creation.
They are represented by the symbolic heads of the four great divisions of animate creation : the lion (of wild beasts), the ox ( of tame beasts), the eagle (of birds), man (of humanity).
They are beneath the Throne, for the earth is Yahaveh's footstool.
We conclude therefore, that the Cherubim are spirit-beings associated in some way with the embodiment of creation's hope as expressed in Romans 8:19-23. The emblematic representations made of them connect that hope with "the hope of Israel" and associate it with the blood-sprinkled Mercy Seat, and the rent veil (Hebrews 10:10,20).
GOB BLESS
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