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It is the passage where theologians originally got the whole idea of Cherubim being angels in the first place. The source of confusion is the mention of the Cherub in Ezekiel 28:14. The passage in question quite clearly declares that the person it is speaking about as the covering Cherub is the king of Tyrus, not an angel. Nevertheless, certainly, we can understand their logic, if not their entrenchment. They "assume" that because the reference here says the king was in the Garden of Eden, it has to refer to Satan as a fallen angel. And from this, they surmise that God is using the king as a type of Satan. However, without a Biblical warrant, we cannot make such a leap of faith in interpretation. The rule of thumb applies that "assumption is the mother of error." He was called the anointed cherub because he was a representative man, created in the likeness of God in Adam, and has fallen into sin and lost all semblance of the image of God. Clearly, the King of Tyrus was not in the Garden of Eden, nor perfect in beauty as Adam was, but he is representative of mankind and his degradation.
Ezekiel 28:12-16
1st Corinthians 15:20-22
Romans 8:29
Genesis 3:22
Genesis 1:26-27
Genesis 5:1-2
When God says, "Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus," He did not ask us to take lamentation for Satan, nor for fallen angels, which is absurd! Rather, we lamentation for a fallen man! When God says, "I will destroy thee, O covering Cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire," it speaks of the judgment of man, and how He has come under the wrath of God.
I hope that this post will help you think more about it. You may be wondering if Satan was not a fallen angel, then what is he really and where did he come from? I will plan to write about the origin and role of Satan, that old serpent, in the garden, Lord willing.
Ezekiel 28:12-16
- "Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.
- Thou hast been in Eden the Garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
- Thou art the anointed Cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
- Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.
- By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering Cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire."
1st Corinthians 15:20-22
- "But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
- For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
- For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."
Romans 8:29
- "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren."
Genesis 3:22
- "And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:"
Genesis 1:26-27
- "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
- So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
Genesis 5:1-2
- "This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created."
When God says, "Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus," He did not ask us to take lamentation for Satan, nor for fallen angels, which is absurd! Rather, we lamentation for a fallen man! When God says, "I will destroy thee, O covering Cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire," it speaks of the judgment of man, and how He has come under the wrath of God.
I hope that this post will help you think more about it. You may be wondering if Satan was not a fallen angel, then what is he really and where did he come from? I will plan to write about the origin and role of Satan, that old serpent, in the garden, Lord willing.