yeshuasavedme
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If the translators were familiar with the Book of Enoch, then they would NOT have translated "ophan"nim as "wheels".That is "possible" but there is nothing to prove it.
All English Bible translators are not aware of the book of Enoch?? seriously??
You will have to do better than that.
They are living creatures, terrible creatures, with eyes all around....
Enoch wrote about all the living creatures in heaven that he saw, besides the holy watcher angels. He saw seraphim, cherubim and ophannim.
Enoch 71:7 they sleep not and guard the throne of His Glory.
He does not call them all angels, and some are called "beasts" even by John, in Revelation.
Rev 5:11
And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;
Rev 5:14
And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
Rev 6:1
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
Rev 6:6
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and
Rev 7:11
And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,
Rev 14:3
And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.
15:7
And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and
And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.
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