The Chosen Key Word in this Chapter is “Cherubims” it comes from the Hebrew Word “keruv” which means “cherub.”
Ezekiel witnesses God’s glory beginning its ominous departure from the corrupted temple. Welcome to Bible Life Basics Chapter Reviews, I am Chris and this is Ezekiel 10.
Ezekiel describes looking, and behold, in the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne, and He spoke to the man clothed with linen, instructing him to go in between the wheels, under the cherub, and fill his hand with coals of fire from between the “cherubims,” “keruv” in Hebrew, and scatter them over the city.
Ezekiel describes the glory of the Lord going up from the cherub, and standing over the threshold of the house, and the house being filled with the cloud, and the court being full of the brightness of the Lord’s glory, describing the sound of the cherubims’ wings being heard even to the outer court, as the voice of the Almighty God when He speaks, describing these cherubims as the same living creatures he saw by the river of Chebar.
Ezekiel describes the glory of the Lord departing from off the threshold of the house, and standing over the cherubims, the cherubims lifting up their wings, and mounting up from the earth in his sight, when they went out, the wheels also being beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the Lord’s house, and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above, this ominous, gradual departure of God’s glory, moving stage by stage away from the temple, providing a deeply sobering, visual confirmation that God’s manifest presence was genuinely, actively withdrawing from a temple and city no longer worthy of hosting it.
This chapter’s ominous, gradual departure of God’s glory, moving stage by stage from the temple’s inner sanctuary toward its outer gate, provides a deeply sobering visual confirmation that divine presence was genuinely, actively withdrawing rather than the temple simply being destroyed while God’s presence remained. This departure’s connection to the same living creatures Ezekiel saw in his opening vision reinforces that God’s mobile, transcendent glory was never confined to any single physical location, even one as sacred as the Jerusalem temple.
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