Man, Hebrews chapter 2, the part that I want to focus on is beginning there in verse 7
where the Bible reads,
Thou madest him a little lower than the angels.
Thou crownest him with glory and honor, and didst set him over the works of thy hands.
Thou hast put all things in subjection under his feet, for in that he put all in subjection
under him.
He left nothing that is not put under him.
But now we see not yet all things put under him, but we see Jesus, who was made a little
lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor that he
by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
And this morning I preached a sermon that was called Angels That Are Human.
And tonight I'm going to preach a sermon called Angels That Are Not Human.
So when it comes to the subject of angels in the Bible, people get confused by the simple
fact that the word angel simply means messenger.
So because the word angel means messenger, it can apply to different things.
And that's why the word is just used several hundred times in the Bible.
And sometimes it's talking about human beings, and sometimes it's talking about other beings
that are not human.
And this morning, I'm not going to re-preach this morning's sermon, but I proved that the
definition of angel is messenger a few different ways.
And I also demonstrated some clear evidence in the Bible of angels that were for sure
human beings.
They were for sure people who lived on this earth, and I'm not going to re-preach all
that.
And then of course I went into a big thing about how Jesus Christ is sometimes in the
Old Testament called the angel of the Lord.
And of course Jesus Christ, a human being, he's the son of man.
So that was this morning's sermon.
Well tonight I'm going to show you evidence of angels in the Bible that are not human.
And having listened to this morning's sermon and tonight's sermon, you're going to be able
to walk away with the complete picture here, understanding that when the Bible says angels,
it can be referring to either of these things.
So here we see some evidence of the angels not being human beings because of the fact
that in verse 7 it quotes the book of Psalms saying, Thou made us Tim a little lower than
the angels.
Now in chapter 2 of Hebrews here, this is talking about Jesus.
And if we go back to the original Psalm where this is from, it's about man in general.
He says, What is man that thou art mindful of him?
I mean when I look up at the stars and I consider the heavens, you know, I just ask myself,
What is man that thou art mindful of him?
Or the son of man that thou visitest him?
Thou made us Tim a little lower than the angels.
Thou crownest him with glory and honor, and it set him over the work of thy hands.
Thou has put all things in subjection under his feet.
Talking about the fact that the animal kingdom is something that we have dominion over and
so forth.
So we see that here, that man is a little lower than the angels in that sense according
to Psalm chapter 8 and Hebrews chapter 2.
Look at verse 16.
This is again about Jesus Christ.
The Bible says, For verily he took not on him the nature of angels, but he took on him
the seed of Abraham.
Therefore in all things that behooved him to be made like unto his brethren that he
might be a merciful and faithful high priest and things pertaining to God to make reconciliation
for the sins of the people.
So again we see that Jesus Christ did not take on himself the nature of angels.
He took on himself the nature of the seed of Abraham, of a human being, of the lineage
of Abraham.
Jump back to chapter 1 and look at verse 4.
This is again contrasting Jesus with the angels.
Jesus Christ the Bible says in Hebrews 1 verse 4, Being made so much better than the angels,
as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
For unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten
thee?
And again I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son.
Now that right there shows that this can't be referring to human beings because there
are lots of human beings to whom it is said of God that they're his sons and that he's
their father.
The Bible says, Behold what manner of love the father has bestowed upon us that we should
be called the sons of God.
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, the Bible tells us.
So when it says here, unto which of the angels said he at any time, Thou art my son, this
day have I begotten thee?
This isn't talking about human beings that are acting as a messenger being called an
angel.
This is obviously talking about something different, isn't it?
That's why it needs two different sermons, angels that are human.
Now we're talking about angels that are not human because these angels that we're referring
to in Hebrews chapter 1 are not human beings because God said unto many human beings, You're
my son.
And of course to Jesus Christ specifically, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten
thee and Jesus Christ was a human being.
Now is Jesus Christ called the angel of the Lord?
Yes, but this is talking about something different.
That's why I'm saying when we read the Bible, there are certain words where we have to use
discernment and context to understand what they're talking about because they can mean
two different things.
Like for example, when we're reading about wine in the Bible, we have to discern, okay,
is this talking about an alcoholic beverage or is this just talking about fruit juice?
And when we're reading about angels in the Bible, we have to discern sometimes, you know,
is this just talking about a human being that God's using as an angel or is this talking
about an angel angel, the ones that are non-human, okay?
Let's keep reading and get more evidence here.
It says, and again, when he bringeth in the first begotten into the world, who's the first
begotten?
Jesus.
He bringeth in the first begotten into the world, he saith, and let all the angels of
God worship him.
And of the angels, he saith, who maketh his angels' spirits and his ministers a flame
of fire.
But unto the sun, he saith, thy throne, O God, is forever and ever.
A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.
So what does it say about the angels that God makes his angels' spirits and his ministers
a flame of fire?
Jump down to verse 13.
But to which of the angels said he at any time, sit on my right hand until I make thine
enemies thy footstool.
Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs
of salvation?
So according to the Bible, these angels that we're talking about in Hebrews chapter 1,
these angels are ministering spirits, okay?
And these are not human beings.
They're something else.
Flip back, if you would, to 2 Peter chapter 2, and let's see more evidence of this other
type of angel that's not human.
And by the way, while you're turning there, let's just have a little Trinity moment here,
okay?
You know, when we were just reading the Bible there in Hebrews chapter 1, did you notice
it calls Christ the first begotten?
Well, these people out there that want to deny the eternal sonship of Christ, or they
want to claim that the Son of God didn't exist until the New Testament, he didn't exist until
Luke chapter 1, that there's no Son of God in the Old Testament, you know, these people
who deny the Trinity or whatever and believe in this oneness garbage, well, how about this?
If Jesus Christ is the first begotten, if he's the firstborn, well then, he would have
to have been the Son of God before Genesis chapter 6.
You know why?
Because in Genesis chapter 6, we have who mentioned?
We have the sons of God.
You guys are a few chapters off there.
In Genesis chapter 6, we have the sons of God.
So if we're reading our Bibles and we get to Genesis chapter 6 and see the sons of God,
well, if Jesus isn't the Son of God yet, if Jesus isn't going to become the Son of God
until Luke chapter 1, then how in the world is he the firstborn or the first begotten?
Because this oneness doctrine is a lie, that's why, because Jesus Christ was already the
Son of God before Genesis 6, and you guys all brought up Adam.
And you know what?
You're right, because Adam is called the Son of God.
I didn't even think about that.
So that was great audience participation.
I was just focusing in on the fact that Genesis 6 talks about the sons of God, but you're
right.
Let's back it up to Genesis chapter 1.
So I guess, you know, I mean, if Adam's called the Son of God, then how can he be the first?
You know why he's the first?
Because in Genesis 1-1, he was already the Son of God.
That's why, because he was in the beginning with God, he was God, and he has shared glory
with the Father before the world began, according to John 17-5.
All right, I've got to get off that.
That's not what the sermon's about.
Probably should be, though.
But anyway.
All right, 2 Peter chapter 2.
We're talking about angels that are not human tonight.
Don't change the subject.
All right, 2 Peter chapter 2 verse 4, it says, For if God spared not the angels that sinned,
but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved
unto judgment.
Now, this is clearly not talking about human beings, right?
This is clearly talking about these other types of angels that are spirits, okay?
And then, you don't have to turn there, but in Jude verse 6, we have something similar,
when it says that the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation,
he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness, unto the judgment of the great day.
Look down at verse 11 right where you are.
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against
them before the Lord.
These angels that are greater in power and might, these angels where man is made a little
lower than the angels, these angels who Jesus Christ supersedes in every way, these angels
who are never called the sons of God ever, these non-human type angels, these angels
who kept not their first estate, these angels who sinned and were cast down into hell and
so forth, are not human.
If they're not human, what are they?
Let's talk about these non-human angels tonight, the angels that are not human.
Well, what we have them specifically known as in the Bible are the Cherubims and the
Seraphims.
This is who these non-human angels are.
Now go to Genesis chapter 3.
This is the first mention of Cherubims in the Bible.
It comes up right away, Genesis chapter 3, very early in the Bible.
And I want you to also get your finger in Revelation chapter 9, if you would, Revelation
chapter 9.
Now there are some people out there who say that Cherubims are never directly referred
to as angels in the Bible.
That's what a lot of people will say.
But still, most people agree that Cherubims are angels, that Seraphims are angels.
And there's other evidence for that that's more of an indirect evidence.
I personally believe, though, that there is a place in the Bible that specifically and
explicitly calls the Cherubims angels.
And I'm going to show you that place right now.
In Genesis chapter 3 verse 24 it says, so he drove out the man, Adam obviously, and
he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword which turned
every way to keep the way of the tree of life.
So the first mention of Cherubims in the Bible is when man is kicked out of the Garden of
Eden, God does not want man to be able to kind of slip back into the Garden of Eden
after hours and get a hold of the tree of life and eat it and live forever.
So he puts these four Cherubims in place to guard the tree of life with a flaming sword.
We'll look down at your Bible there in Revelation 9 if you've got your finger there.
In Revelation chapter 9 verse 13 it says, the sixth angel sounded and I heard a voice
from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God saying to the sixth angel which
had the trumpet, loosed the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates and
the four angels were loosed which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year
for to slay the third part of men and the number of the army of the horsemen were 200,000,000
and I heard the number of them.
Now I believe that these four angels bound in the great river Euphrates are the same
four Cherubims from Genesis chapter 3 and here's why that makes sense because if you
read Genesis chapter 2 and the Garden of Eden creation story it talks about how there's
a river that flows out of the Garden of Eden and it splits off into four heads and two
of the rivers that are mentioned there are completely unknown.
No one knows where those two rivers are.
They probably don't exist anymore.
They probably didn't even exist in the days of Moses.
It's probably a pre-flood thing but there are these four rivers mentioned but two of
the rivers that it mentions are well-known rivers of Hiddekel and Euphrates or Tigris
and Euphrates.
Well the Euphrates River is one of the rivers that's associated with the Garden of Eden.
So imagine this.
You've got the Garden of Eden, man is thrown out of the Garden of Eden and there are these
four Cherubims to guard the four different compass directions of the tree of life with
a flaming sword and then when the flood happens obviously the geography is going to be somewhat
reconfigured.
When you have a worldwide flood and the fountains of the deep are broken up and the windows
of heaven are open that's going to reconfigure things a little bit and I think that God purposely
did it in such a way that the Garden of Eden and the four angels ended up being at the
bottom of the great river Euphrates and these four angels are bound there unto this day.
Now you say Pastor Anderson how are they going to hold their breath for that long but that's
because they're not human.
They are not even flesh and blood in that sense.
They are spirits, right?
When it says of the angels he makes his angels spirits and his ministers a flame of fire.
Remember when we talk about the Cherubims and the Seraphims we are talking about that
which is not human but that which is a spirit, okay?
So there are angels all around us right now that we don't see because they're in the spirit
world.
I mean think about it.
The Bible says the angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him.
Do we see that?
No.
What about when Elisha has the enemy troops coming to arrest him and his servant says
what are we going to do?
And Elisha says oh there's more with us than there are with them and he says open the eyes
of this young man that he may see.
God gives him spiritual sight for a moment and he just sees the mountains all around
them just filled with just hosts of angels to protect him.
But they were spirits so they couldn't be seen by the human eye until God intervened
and gave him that miraculous vision.
So we have angels around us right now.
You know the Bible says that the angels are sent forth as ministering spirits sent forth
to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.
Well that's us.
We shall be the heirs of salvation.
You know you'd say is a guardian angel a real thing?
Yeah.
Because the Bible says the angels are there to minister for us to camp around those that
fear him and to protect us and they are there spiritually even though we can't see them
with our eyes.
So these four spiritual beings these four cherubims I believe that are down at the
river Euphrates are the same ones from Genesis 3.
If that's the case if I'm right which I believe that I am then that would be a direct reference
calling the cherubims angels.
Now more evidence of this if you're there in Revelation anyway flip back to chapter
8 is that we have evidence of angels flying.
Well if you fly you use wings to fly.
Human beings don't have wings and the angels that are human in the Bible they don't have
wings otherwise they wouldn't be mistaken for human beings all the time.
They walk up and they look like everybody else.
They're angels unawares.
They don't have wings.
But yet the Bible talks about angels sometimes that are flying.
Well guess guess who does have wings the cherubims and the seraphims have wings that they fly
with so that makes sense that they're angels.
Look at chapter 8 verse 13 and I beheld and heard an angel flying through the midst of
heaven saying with a loud voice woe woe woe to the inhabitants of the earth by reason
of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels which are yet to sound.
Chapter 14 verse 6 you don't have to turn there but it says I saw another angel fly
in the midst of heaven and then it talks about how in Luke chapter 16 when the rich man died
and Lazarus died that Lazarus was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom.
Also when the rapture takes place Matthew 24 the trumpets going to sound Christ will
come in the clouds and he'll send forth his angels and his angels the Bible says will
gather his elect from the four winds from one end of heaven to the other.
So at the rapture we will be gathered by the angels and taken up to be with the Lord in
the air.
So again these are spiritual beings not human beings.
These can fly because they have wings because they are cherubims, seraphims, those type
of creatures.
Okay so what do the cherubims look like?
Go to chapter 1 of Ezekiel the book of Ezekiel chapter 1.
Ezekiel has some really detailed descriptions of what cherubims look like and listen cherubims
are not just barely mentioned.
I think the word is used 95 times in the Bible cherub or cherubims.
So you know the Bible does give us quite a bit of information about the cherubims and
they don't look like what you might think that they look like.
Okay now here's why I say that because in the Renaissance or in the Middle Ages you
have the Catholic Church with all their wonderful artwork that's disgusting and one of the things
that they like to draw when they're not drawing their faggoty looking hippie Bible characters
where every Bible character becomes effeminate and queer looking and when they're not drawing
you know naked Adam reaching up to God in heaven and when they're not drawing long haired
hippie Jesus they would draw cherubims.
What they drew as a cherubim was a false god called Cupid.
So they draw this false god called Cupid and they say oh it's a cherubim and what it is
is basically like a baby faced creature with wings.
So it's like a human being but he kind of looks like a baby but he's like a grown up
baby thing.
It's kind of like this hybrid between an adult and a baby right plus wings and it's based
on Cupid but they call that a cherub and so a lot of people think right now oh that's
a cherub you know when they see this fat baby with wings they say that's a cherub you know.
Who knows what I'm talking about you're familiar with that image okay yeah so that's what I
think well let's see if that matches the Bible's description of the cherubim because let me
tell you something on the mercy seat of the Ark of the Covenant there weren't a couple
of fat naked babies all right that's not what was there.
So let's see what the Bible describes as look at Ezekiel chapter 1 verse 4 and I looked
and behold a whirlwind came out of the north a whirlwind is a tornado a great cloud and
a fire in folding itself and a brightness was about it and out of the midst thereof
as the color of amber out of the midst of the fire.
Now this scripture is a little hard to understand because of the fact that Ezekiel is beholding
some very strange things and he's just trying to put it into words but it's hard to put
this stuff into human language because what he's seeing is is very wonderful amazing supernatural
whatever you want to call it so it's tough to understand because you're trying to put
a very spiritual vision into human language that's hard to describe.
So he's kind of just throwing out metaphors of you know a fire in folding itself and the
color of amber and these different things and he says also out of the midst thereof
came the likeness of four living creatures now we're going to find out later that these
four living creatures are the cherry bims and this was their appearance here's what
they looked like they had the likeness of a man and everyone had four faces and everyone
had four wings and their feet were straight feet as the sole of their feet was like the
sole of a calf's foot and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass.
So basically in general they had the appearance of a man with a few differences though these
are the differences they have four faces we only have one face they have four wings we
don't have those and they don't have feet like we have feet they had straight feet like
a calf's foot right if you picture like a hoof they had a straight foot on the bottom
but when it says they had the likeness of a man it's saying you know their basic chest
and torso and legs were that of a man but then they just have these other differences
their faces are different their wings are different the feet are different and then
it also says that they had the hands of a man under their wings now these are not human
they're called living creatures later in Revelation they're going to be called beasts so they
have the hands of a man under their wings on the four sides and they four had their
faces and their wings their wings were joined one to another they turned not when they went
they went everyone straightforward as for the likeness of their faces they four had
the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side and they had the face of
an ox on the left side they four also had the face of an eagle so they have four faces
and these faces do not look the same one of the faces looks human one of the faces looks
like the face of an ox one of the faces looks like the face of an eagle and one looks like
a lion okay has everybody got this so far so this is quite a creature and it says that's
where their faces verse 11 and their wings were stretched upward two wings of everyone
were joined one to another and two covered their body so have you ever seen a bird when
it's not flying it has its wings covering its body right so these creatures have four
wings one set of wings covers their body and then the other set of wings is flying okay
and then it says in verse number 12 again it reiterates the fact that they went straight
forward whether the spirit was to go they went and they turned not when they went as
for the likeness of the living creatures their appearance was like burning coals of fire
and like the appearance of lamps it went up and down among the living creatures so they're
glowing like coals glow the brightness you know kind of glows and pulsates and it says
that the fire was bright and out of the fire went forth lightning and the living creatures
ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning so basically these creatures
can move at a supernatural speed like they just move from one place to another like lightning
they're just boom they're there and there's no turning it's just you know whatever what's
that yeah it sounds pretty scary that's true look at chapter 10 verse 7 so we're gonna
go to another description so everybody got that description from chapter 1 well he's
gonna see the same thing in chapter 10 and he's gonna point back and say hey this is
the same thing I saw back in chapter 1 basically so he's gonna give us some different details
some of the things are gonna be the same but in chapter 10 he realizes that they're the
cherry bibs so in chapter 1 it seems like he's unaware of that because he just says
they're living creatures in chapter 10 he gives us a little better of a description
and he says oh and then I knew that they were the cherry bibs so now he's calling them cherry
bibs because now he realizes that okay so it says in verse 7 because this is written
from the perspective of Ezekiel and one cherub stretched forth his hand we're in chapter
10 verse 7 and from between the cherry bibs under the fire that was between the cherry
bibs and took thereof and put it in the hands of him that was clothed with linen who took
it out who took it and went out and there appeared in the cherry bibs the form of a
man's hand under their wings and when I looked I'd be helped and when I looked behold the
four wheels by the cherry bibs one wheel by one cherub and another wheel by another
cherub and the appearance of the wheels was as the color of a barrel stone and as for
their appearances they four had one like this as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel
okay so basically there are these spinning circles that are with the cherry bibs and
they're like spinning it's like those rims that are spinning at two different rates you
know what I'm talking about this is where that comes from is that basically you know
the wheel within a wheel you know where the car stops and the wheels are still spinning
or they're driving and so you have the wheels spinning at two different rates that is like
unto the cherry bibs or the wheels that are with them that is okay so it says in verse
number 11 when they went they went upon their four sides they turned not as they went so
again this is what we talked about earlier keep saying over and over again they didn't
turn why is that weird because when we move around we turn right so if I'm gonna go forward
I go this way if I'm gonna go backwards I turn around and I go backwards or I could
turn to the left and turn to the right these ones just they just move they just move like
a crab basically right or they move backwards or they move forward because when you got
four faces you're facing all directions at once basically so you can just you don't turn
you know I mean Ezekiel is basically just pointing out what he sees about these creatures
how they move and he's trying to describe their appearance in a language that we can
understand and so it says in verse 12 their whole body and their backs and their hands
and their wings and the wheels were full of eyes round about even the wheels that they
four had as for the wheels it was cried unto them in my hearing oh wheel and everyone had
four faces and the first face was the face of a cherub and the second face was the face
of a man and the third the face of a lion and the fourth the face of an eagle and the
cherry bins were lifted up this is the living creature that I saw by the river of kebar
so you say this is what I saw in chapter one and when the cherry beams went the wheels
went by them okay now I I want to save a little time here I don't think that there's anything
else that we haven't already seen here he goes through a lot of the same stuff that
we already saw in chapter one you can read these chapters a little more on your own I'm
going to save a little time here by not finishing the chapter but basically here's what I want
to point out there's one major difference between the description in chapter one and
the description chapter 10 it's pretty interesting look at the list of faces in verse 14 and
look at the difference it says everyone had four faces the first was the face of a what
the face of a chair I thought this whole thing's a cherub right but it says it's a face of
a cherub a man a lion an eagle so what has been substituted for the cherub face the ox
right now elsewhere elsewhere it's called the face of a calf when we're talking about
these type of creatures a calf is just what a young ox so basically it's being described
as a face like a calf or a face like an ox but when Ezekiel has greater knowledge in
chapter 10 he realizes that's actually the face of a cherub that is the cherub face now
that tells me that the cherub face looks similar to the face of an ox or a calf because
that's what he described it as in chapter one and elsewhere in the bible and that makes
sense because what are the cherub's feet like they are like calves feet they are straight
feet like unto that of a calf now why is that significant well because the devil is a cherub
go to Ezekiel chapter 28 now we're learning about cherubims in what book of the bible
Ezekiel I mean chapter one we have this big chapter about cherubims chapter 10 we have
this big chapter about cherubims right well when we get to chapter 28 we learn about the
devil and we learn that he's a cherub that satan is a cherub he's a fallen angel now
this is more proof that the cherubims are angels for those of you who were skeptical
about my proof of genesis 3 compared with revelation 9 for those of you that were skeptical
about the angels flying through heaven that that means they have wings that means they
have the cherubims and the cherubims well think about this the bible says no marvel
for satan himself is transformed into an angel of light what marvel is it then if his ministers
are transformed into ministers of light so satan's ministers become ministers of light
satan is transformed into an angel of light why because he is an evil wicked angel he's
transformed into an angel of light because cherubims are angels demons are fallen angels
satan himself is a fallen angel and he is specifically a cherub look what the bible
says in Ezekiel 28 verse 11 moreover the word of the lord came unto me saying son of man
take up a lamentation upon the king of tyros and say unto him thus saith the lord thou
sealest up the sum full of wisdom and beauty and perfect in beauty thou hast been in eden
in the garden of god now some scholars and commentators will say that this is not about
the devil this is about the king of tyros but here's the thing the bible is speaking
in metaphor here because he is saying oh listen up king of tyros and he starts describing
the devil because he's comparing the king of tyros to the devil because the king of
tyros was not in the garden of eden he's talking about the devil he's using this as a comparison
because the king of tyros was one of those ancient kings who thought that he was god
on earth a lot of the pharaohs proclaimed themselves to be god roman caesars well the
king of tyre was like that where he claimed to be god and it talks about that in this
chapter that the king of tyre claimed to be god well why was the devil thrown out of heaven
because he said i will be like the most high isaiah chapter 14 so it says uh in verse
13 thou hast been in eden the garden of god every precious stone was thy covering the
sardius topaz and the diamond the barrel the onyx and the jasper the sapphire the emerald
and the carbuncle and gold the workmanship of thy tabrits what's a tabrit a musical instrument
a percussion musical instrument similar to like a tambourine or whatever thy tabrits
and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou was created thou art the anointed
cherub do you see that 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 was perfect
in thy ways from the day that thou was created till iniquity was found in thee by the multitude
of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence and thou has sinned
therefore i will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of god and i will destroy
thee oh covering cherub from the midst of the stones of fire thine heart was lifted
up because of thy beauty thou has corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness i will
cast thee to the ground i will lay thee before kings and they may that they may behold thee
thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries what do sanctuaries refer to the word sanctuary literally
means holy place see the devil has his holy places doesn't he oh he certainly does they're
called roman catholic churches they're called islamic mosques they're called buddhist temples
and hindu shrines he's got his little yeah and the jewish synagogue thank you you anti-semitic
one no i'm just kidding but anyway you know he's got his holy places he's got his houses
of worship right and he's got his music he's got his tabrets and pipes he's a musical creature
he's a beauty filled creature he appeals through the lusts of the flesh the lusts of the eyes
the pride of life he's a king over all the children of pride bible tells us so he said
here that his sanctuaries were defiled by the multitude of thine iniquities by the iniquity
of thy traffic traffic is when you're you know selling things importing exporting therefore
will i bring forth a fire from the midst of thee and it shall devour thee and i will bring
thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee and they that
know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee thou shalt be a terror and never shalt
thou be any more so we see that the devil in eden in the garden of god puffed up because
of his beauty he was a cherub now go back if you would to exodus exodus chapter 25 now
that explains why when the heathen worship bail and they want to worship a false god
what do they love to make as an idol more than anything else they love that golden calf
don't they why because it resembles their father the devil that's why because the devil's
face is the face of a cherub and the cherub's face is similar to the face of a calf or that
of an ox so therefore it makes sense why 1.1 billion hindus over in india have their holy
cows their sacred cow and when the children of israel uh get away from god and they want
to make false gods what is air and fashion for them a golden calf these be thy gods that
brought thee out of the land of egypt and then later when jeroboam the son of nebat
in that northern kingdom of israel wants to set up a false religion to compete with the
lord's religion down with the house of david and jerusalem what does he set up two golden
calves he puts one in dan and he puts one in bethel why does that golden calf that sacred
cow come up holy cow people stay they still say that right lost people say that wall street
has a golden really i didn't even know that wow wall street look wall street has a golden
calf for crying out loud you know so you know there's something about that calf that's significant
well now we know what the significance is right it has something to do with the devil
is what it has to do with right there and you know it's interesting because the love
of money is the root of all evil and cattle is like what represented wealth in the in
the ancient world as well and so we shouldn't love that or worship that and then what else
represents money gold so they make the calf out of gold and it's just it's just a perfect
representation of everything that we should not be worshiping right the devil possessions
money everything like that okay now i talked i gotta hurry up for sake of time but we talked
about the fact that cherubims are mentioned a lot in the bible like 95 mentions by name
and then other times they're mentioned not by name one of the most common mentions of
the cherubims is that they're mentioned as being a part of the arc of the covenant right
on the mercy seat let's look at that exodus chapter 25 this is one that comes up a lot
exodus 25 verse 18 and thou shalt make two cherubims of gold of beaten work shalt thou
make them in the two ends of the mercy seat and make one cherub on the one end and the
other cherub on the other end even of the mercy seat shall you make the cherubims on
the two ends thereof and the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high covering
the mercy seat with their wings and their faces shall look one to another toward the
mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be and thou shalt put the mercy seat above
the arc and in the arc thou shalt put the testimony that i shall give thee and there
i will meet with thee and i will commune with thee from above the mercy seat from between
the two cherubims which are upon the arc of the testimony of all things which i will
give thee in commandment unto the children of israel so here's what's going on the arc
of the covenant is a box that god told moses to make now the mosaic law has a lot of different
accoutrements that are made and they're all symbolic of heavenly things and that that's
a very complicated subject that takes a whole bunch of sermons from the book of hebrews
to explain and a whole bunch of sermons from the book of exodus explained that's outside
the scope of this sermon but i just want to give you just a quick crash course on the
arc of the covenant and the mercy seat okay so it's just basically it's a box that contains
the stone tablets with the law of god written by the finger of god the ten commandments
right ten commandments written with the finger of god in stone it also contained one golden
pot containing the manna that the children of israel ate in the wilderness and it contains
errands rod that budded and so those items are inside of this box and this box is made
out of wood but it is gold plated and has rings to be carried on to staves and if you
remember the levites would carry it on their shoulders and that's how they would move this
thing around and of course when this thing falls into the hands of the enemy god plagues
them and punishes them then when the israelites have it they decide to peek inside and they
all get killed right because they they looked into the arc this is something that is supposed
to be very uh revered and sacred and you don't mess around with it it's it's supposed
to be following certain rules okay carried a certain way and this is the the item the
arc of the covenant that goes deep into the tabernacle or deep into the temple in a place
that's called the most holy place or in the new testament's called the holiest of all
okay so it's like the most inner sanctum of the tabernacle or the or the temple where
this thing is located is everybody following so far now this box has a lid on it the lid
on the box is called the mercy seat and this lid that's also wood covered in gold it has
these two golden cherubims with their wings pointed inward and god is saying that he will
meet with the high priest there on the mercy seat he will basically meet with him and speak
to him from between the cherubim so often in the bible god is described as dwelling
between the cherubims okay now obviously god you know fills all the heaven and earth and
everything like that so he doesn't have a house that he actually lives in but his presence
would show up between the cherubims and meet with man at the mercy seat and of course that's
a whole sermon in of itself but some people struggle with this because they say well that's
a that's that's an idol you know that's that's a a molten image you know why did god tell
them to make these two golden cherubims on the mercy seat if we're not supposed to make
images if we're not supposed to make idols now keep in mind that yes the devil is a cherub
yes there are fallen angels but most of the angels are good angels most of the cherubims
are good cherubims most of the seraphims are are good seraphims it's only one-third of the angels
that went bad with the devil on two-thirds that stayed with the Lord but I would submit to you
that the golden cherubims are neither man nor animal god told us not to make images of man
God told us not to make images of fishes birds animals these are really not any of those things
so this is a special case where this particular creature was to be fashioned in this way and it's
not a direct violation because it's not a man and it's not an animal it's a cherry bim which
is its own classification of being so God allowed this and God commanded this to be made these two
images of cherry bims on the mercy seat so God would meet with them between the cherry bims now
the purpose for that is that up in heaven God is surrounded by the seraphims and cherry bims that
are praising him and bringing him honor and glory and so forth so this mercy seat is sort of
simulating that because what is a seat I mean when you hear the word seat that comes from the verb
sit right it's a place where a king or someone would sit right so this is basically a representation
of God's throne in that sense that basically God would show up and be seated there and meet with
them from between the cherry bims go to Psalm 18 let me just show you a few more things quickly on
the the cherry bims and then we'll touch on the seraphims and then I'll wrap it all up here
so it says in Psalm 18 and by the way let me just say this a lot of people when they see something
like this with the golden cherry bims and I talked about the fact that people struggle with this
because they don't understand what the difference is between this and an idol if God told us over
and over again don't make any graven image don't make any molten image don't make an animal don't
make a fish don't make a bird don't make a male or female don't make a human being shouldn't we
just not do it you know isn't that just kind of a no-brainer just don't do it don't make it well
but what about the cherry bibs but he said not to do it and look if God told that Moses hey make
these two cherry bims for the mercy seed and then he tells us okay now you don't make any animals
don't make any males don't make any females don't make any humans just don't do it don't you say
well you made charity bands so I mean I'm just gonna make a bunch of fat baby-faced cupids why
not you know I mean the Roman Catholics they make all their statues and when you try to point out
that it's idolatry those are well what about the cherry bibs what about the mercy seed okay yeah
let's just throw out the commandment against idolatry oh yeah that's what the Catholics did
they did throw out that commandment that's why they split the covet commandment in half
take so you can get back up to 10 again I mean the idolatry of the Catholic Church is is is
ridiculous graven images molten images and it's so biblically inaccurate with their depictions
of Jesus and depictions of cherry bims and didn't bother you know they that you know what the
Vatican there's a statue of Moses and he has horns like the devil did you know that who knew
who's ever seen this the Moses with horns yeah look it up on Google Images Moses with horns
because the Catholic Bible I believe it's the Douay-Rheims version in English that has this
if you get the Catholic Douay-Rheims version it says that when Moses came down from the mount
that he was horned instead of that his face shown you know the Bible says he came down in his face
shown they put down that he came down and his face had horns so then Michelangelo's like well
you know that's a good idea for a sculpture so he made Moses with horns so anyway Psalm 18 verse 6
in my distress I called upon the Lord and cried unto my God he heard my voice out of his temple
and my cry came before him even into his ears then the earth shook and trembled the foundations
also of the hills moved and were shaken because he was wroth there went up a smoke out of his
nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured coals were kindled by it he bowed the heavens also and
came down and darkness was under his feet and watch this and he rode upon a cherub and did fly
yea he did fly upon the wings of the wind and on and on the scripture goes here but there are
multiple references to God riding upon a cherub riding a cherub as his steed that's something that
we see for example second second Samuel 22 11 he rode upon a cherub and did fly second Kings
chapter 19 verse 15 you don't have to turn there if you would flip over to Isaiah 6 second Kings
19 it talks about how Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said oh Lord God of Israel which
dwellest between the cherubims thou art the God even thou alone of all the kingdoms of the earth
thou hast made heaven and earth okay so we're done talking about the cherubims now let's just
briefly touch on the seraphims now like I said the cherubims are mentioned by name 95 times in
the Bible the seraphims are rarely mentioned in fact I believe that there are only two mentions
in the entire Bible Isaiah chapter 6 and Revelation chapter 4 now the distinguishing
characteristic of the cherubims that they have four wings the distinguishing characteristic of
the seraphims is that they have six wings look at Isaiah 6 verse 1 in the year that King Uzziah
died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up and his train filled the
temple above it stood the seraphims each one had six wings with twain he covered his face and with
twain he covered his feet and with twain he did fly and one cried unto another and said holy holy
holy is the Lord of hosts the whole earth is full of his glory now this is the same thing we see in
Revelation 4 we see holy holy holy and we see what six wings so it's clearly the same creatures now
when we see the seraphim described in Revelation chapter 4 we see also four faces and it's the
same four faces the lion the calf the man and the eagle but this time basically each of the
four beasts or each of the four seraphims they each just have one of those faces so collectively
they have all four whereas the cherubims each has all four okay so that's the difference right there
so these seraphims seem to be there just to praise God they don't do it they don't seem to
do as many different actions as the cherubims the cherubims are coming up all the time because
they're doing all these different actions and showing up in all these different ways in the
Bible whereas the seraphims it seems like they're just there to glorify God you know I mean there
might only be just four I don't know or there there could be way more than that you know we
don't really know the Bible doesn't really give us the details on that but it does talk about the
seraphims flying because it says in verse 6 then flew one of the seraphims unto me having a live
coal in his hand which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar now how many angels are there
as far as these non-human type angels well we know that the Bible tells us that one-third of
the angels you know went with the devil right and it talks about in heaven God's heavenly host of
angels being 10,000 times 10,000 and thousands of thousands so that's over a hundred and two million
so there are probably at least like a hundred and two million of these things of these spiritual
beings that are non-human angels and that makes sense because there are 7.4 billion people on the
planet and so if these angels are gonna minister unto the saved and if they're gonna minister unto
people who are going to get saved in the future and if they do other functions of just praising
God and doing who knows what it makes sense that there are over a hundred million so there are a
lot of now the seraphims have a particular thing that they keep saying holy holy holy and that kind
of makes me think of the Trinity again because of the fact that God is holy for the Father holy
for the Son and a holy for the Holy Ghost right one for each of them holy holy holy that's why
the song goes holy holy holy merciful and mighty God in three persons blessed Trinity so anyway
let's conclude with Colossians chapter 2 Colossians chapter 2 this is the conclusion so we've learned
a lot this morning about angels that are not human and we've learned a lot there are I'm sorry
we learned a lot this morning about angels that are human and tonight we learned about angels
that are not human right and what are they they're they're cherry beams and seraphims they are
winged they're they're similar to man in their basic layout but their feet are different their
wings are different their faces are different and then we also learned that the devil himself is a
fallen angel particularly a cherub and their other fallen angels and their spirits they are
spiritual beings they are not flesh and bone you don't reach out and touch these beings the cherry
beams and seraphims they are spirits and so they are dwelling among us they're on this earth they
are guarding us or performing other functions just like we don't see demons do we I mean we
don't see devils and demons but they're there you know so it's the same thing with these what's the
lesson for us well a lot of people they fall into the error of worshiping angels okay and the Bible
warns against this it says in Colossians chapter 2 verse 18 let no man beguile you or deceive you
right and this reminds us again of Eve where the serpent beguiled her and he's a what you know
cherub let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshiping of angels
intruding into those things which he has not seen vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind so we want to
make sure that we don't intrude into those things which we haven't seen and get vainly puffed up by
our fleshly mind now what's an intrusion an intrusion is when we go somewhere that we don't
belong now the Bible has told us certain things about angels hasn't it he's explained us the basics
that is enough that's enough everything I need to know about angels I learned from the Bible
everything I need to know about demons I learned from the Bible let's not intrude into things that
we have not seen and try to just go deep into understanding the spirit world and say like you
know I got to learn about the Inca bus and the succubus and I got to learn about all these
different you know demons and angels and the spirit world never you know this is how people
get into some really wicked stuff and they get into this New Age stuff this mystical stuff the
Kabbalah whatever we don't want to intrude in that stuff we don't want to get mixed up in that stuff
and we don't want to get vainly puffed up by our fleshly mind see the carnal mind eats this stuff
up that's why the carnal mind loves you know sci-fi and fantasy and stuff like that so you
know we as human beings we naturally we think this stuff's pretty cool there's nothing wrong
with you know reading the Bible and think wow this stuff is pretty cool but we don't want to
get all fleshly puffed up thinking like oh man I'm gonna go even deeper than the Bible went you
know I'm gonna go really deep into the spirit world and angels and demons and the cherry
beams and you know and what does he say don't go beyond the scope of what God has given us and
what God has commanded us and we don't want to get to where we're worshipping angels let's focus
on the Lord let's focus on Jesus Christ and not focus on the cherry beams I mean look we don't
want to just get all caught up in the cherry beams that's like going to a wedding and you're
all caught up in the bridesmaids instead of focusing on the bride and groom you know what
I'm saying like the focus is supposed to be on who the bride and groom that's why my pet peeve
is bridesmaids who show up dressed like a hooker you know what they're trying to do they're trying
to take the emphasis off of where it should be right they're vainly puffed up in their fleshly
mind or they here's what I can't understand dressing like a slut at a funeral it's like your
loved one has died your grandfather has died your grandmother has died and there's just this woman
like in a short skirt and high heels and low cut it's like what's wrong with you what do you it's
like what is this a funeral we're here to celebrate our dead loved one you know and and and and you
know celebrate the fact that they're in a better place and and you know worship the Lord together
cry some tears of sorrow that they're not with us anymore why are you dressed like that you know
why would you go to a wedding and you're a bridesmaid you know but that try finding a
modest bridesmaids dress it doesn't exist because you know we have to deal with this when we're
planning weddings all the time and you know what the advice that I usually give to people that are
putting on a wedding is I tell them don't even bother trying to get a bridesmaids dress don't
even set foot in David's bridal whoever David is what's David doing making wedding dresses anyway
I bet he's a real manly dude but anyway you know you go to David's bridal you can't even find a
modest wedding dress you know what I tell them just buy dresses like just find some pretty dresses
find some pretty summer dresses or find some pretty dresses but if they're called bridesmaid
dress usually they're gonna be super immodest if they have bridesmaid in the name so just go get
nice dresses that match go get nice dresses that are all the same color is the advice that I give
because but what is that doing they're trying to take emphasis off of where it should be we should
be all you know celebrating what the bride and the groom that's the focal point of the ceremony
just like at a funeral the focal point is our loved one right well here's the thing with God
he's the focal point in all things he must have the preeminence and basically his heavenly entourage
it's similar to a wedding in the sense that it's called sometimes his train you know just like the
wedding party or the veil behind the bride is sometimes called the train right so when God
travels he travels with a big entourage you know when God shows up he's riding on a cherub he's got
the cherubims the wheels within a wheel he's got all the heavenly hosts of angels showing up with
them right and when you go up to the throne in heaven you know he's surrounded by seraphims that
are falling on their faces and worshiping God and there are 24 elders throwing crowns falling on
their face I mean God is worthy of a lot of praise and he's got quite an entourage I mean he's got
some serious bridesmaids and groomsmen in a sense you know that are his party basically that he has
there you know but he's the focal point just like at a wedding the bride and groom of the focal
point and then they've got their attendance right but here's what we want to do we want to keep God
the focal point and not start worshiping the attendance oh the cherubims are so cool oh the
seraphim no Jesus Christ is so cool you know why don't you focus on the Lord Jesus Christ why don't
you focus on the Lord of hosts instead of focusing on the hosts focus on the Lord of hosts get the
emphasis and the focus where it should be that's why he says don't worship angels and I love what
he says in 1st Corinthians 6 he says know ye not that we shall judge angels how much more things
that pertain to this life you know what that tells me is that right now we're a little lower than the
angels but someday they're gonna be a little lower than us someday we will judge angels just like
Jesus Christ was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death but now of
course all power is given unto him and he of course is above angels and principalities and
powers and so forth now look even in these two sermons I've barely even scratched the surface of
everything the Bible teaches on angels there's a lot of teaching in the Bible on angels but I hope
that this will kind of give you a basic framework and a basic understanding and maybe clear up some
of the confusion between some of the human angels and the non-human angels and that when you're
reading your Bible and you come across these things you'll at least know what the Bible is
talking about but remember we always want to keep the emphasis on the right place and you know what
back to the wedding illustration what did John the Baptist say he said I'm like the best man
basically he said I'm the friend of the bridegroom which we would call what the best man and John
said I'm the friend of the bridegroom he's the groom he said he must increase I must decrease
right that should be the motto of every bridesmaid by the way I must decrease okay I must decrease my
skin that's exposed right now okay that should be the motto so anyway you know keep the emphasis
where it belongs on Christ he's the star the morning star right he's the you know give him
the glory and the praise don't share his glory with angels and cherubims and seraphim they're
all there to bring him glory so put the glory where it belongs and worship God let's buy rides
father we thank you so much for your word Lord and for all these teachings that you've given
us Lord and I just pray that you would just help us as we study the Bible Lord to to understand it
please just guide us into all truth Lord through the power of your Holy Spirit Lord just