Boy! Have you got things scrambled....
Where did I say that? I said that cherubs are the guardians and that the angel who became satan was there as a "covering cherub" in Eden according to Ezekiel. It is why he was there in the garden calculating the right time to do his best to sway the woman over to his argument, filling her mind with doubts and influencing her to break God's law. He obviously targeted the woman to get to the man.
Once that cherub became satan, he was no longer in the service of his God but had now become his adversary.
There are more than two cherubs. The ones God sent to guard the way to the tree of life were faithful angels...satan was not among them.
Both Ezekiel and John saw 4 "living creatures" (not beasts)....in both instances these guardians are cherubs all around Jehovah's throne. One in front, one in back and one at each side. These cherubs each have representations of God's 4 cardinal attributes....do you think that God would tolerate the devil as a guardian around his celestial throne?
Cheesh! These are the two carved (not living) cherubs that covered the the top of the ark of the covenant in the most holy compartment of the tabernacle and then the temple. God spoke to the Moses from above the cherubs.
There have been various suggestions about how the cherubs may have looked.
The Bible is God's word....all of it. It has one author and is one story from Genesis to Revelation. Referring to other books to back up what it says is not adding to it...it's reinforcing it.
But he didn't. The meaning of the Revelation was for God to reveal in his own due time.
They did not even have an understanding of what "the Lord's day" meant. The "sacred secret" has unfolded gradually as Jehovah's "great day" approaches.
This is "Babylon the great"....a 'greater' Babylon than the original city after which it is named, because it now encompasses the whole earth. Original Babylon is the springboard from which all false worship sprang. If you trace the beliefs that originated in Babylon, you will see a common thread running through all of the religions in the world. The core of their beliefs usually include a multiplicity of gods, especially trinities. There is belief in an immortal part of man that leaves the body at death. There is usually a place of heavenly bliss for the righteous, and a hell of eternal punishment, usually terrible suffering in flames, for the wicked. This core runs through all false worship in some form or another, and were taken all over the world after the flood when Nimrod became the first man to elevate himself as "a mighty hunter in opposition to Jehovah". The Tower that he built in Babel was more than likely a ziggurat that was to be used for false religious purposes. God put a stop to that, but the ideas that were adopted back then went with
Babylon the great gave birth to all her daughters....including Christendom. Her beliefs clearly identify her as part of a religious system that God views as a spiritual whore.
Before Christ Jesus came into this world Satan's true name was Lucifer and then Christ Jesus changed the name of Lucifer to Satan.
Luke 10:18--"And he ( Jesus) said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightening fall from heaven"
Isaiah 13:12--"How art you fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning"
Now according to what God has given in the book of Ezekiel 28:14-15,
14--"You are the anointed cherub that covereth"
15--"You was perfect in your ways from the day you was created"
What was that, that Lucifer covered at the Throne of God's?
Now in the book of 1 kings 6:23, there were only Two Cherubim's that stood by the throne of God's.
Lucifer was one, but who do you suppose would be the other one that stood by the throne of God's?
It's not hard to figure out who the other Cherubim is, Once you understand the book of Revelation, Who the other Cherubim is?
So there were only 2 Cherubim's that stand before the Throne of God's.
You said in your post above ( The Bible is God's word....all of it. It has one author and is one story from Genesis to Revelation. Referring to other books to back up what it says is not adding to it...it's reinforcing it.)
Maybe you should read Revelation again, There is no where in Revelation that Christ made any mentioning of any other books of the bible.
Why is that ?
Could be the book of Revelation is not like all the other books of the bible, that Christ is giving everything and is interpreting everything in Revelation himself.
So that there would be no reason or need, to go to any of the other books in the bible.
If to what your saying (Referring to other books to back up what Revelation says)
So what your saying is, that we shouldn't be taking Christ Jesus at his word on his Interpretation of Revelation.
That we need the other books of the bible, to help us to understand Revelation, because we can't take Christ Jesus word on his Interpretation of Revelation.
You can't be serious.
Let's take Revelation 17 for a good example.
We all know pretty much that God has angels as his messenger's,Ok
In Revelation 17:1 here we find an angel saying to John ( Come here, I will show unto you the judgement of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters)
So God thru his Angel throughout
chapters 17 & 18 is giving the interpretation of the Mother of Harlots to John, of who she is, what is to happen to her at God's Judgement seat.
So seeing God is giving the Interpretation of the Mother of Harlots
in chapters 17,18, Then why does anyone need any other books of the bible.
Seeing God himself is doing the Interpretation of who the Mother of Harlots is and what is to happen to her at the Judgement seat.
When you go to other books of the bible, All your doing is taking away from what God is sayng in the book of Revelation.
God doesn't need to have his word Reinforced in Revelation.
If God did, then God, himself would spoken about other books in the bible in Revelation, But God didn't, that's because God doesn't need to have his word to be Reinforce by other books of the bible.
When someone has to go to other books of the bible, all their showing is, that they can not take God at his word on his Interpretation of Revelation.
Can't you trust God at his word. If you have to go to other books of the bible to Reinforce what God is saying in Revelation.
That shows you can not take God at his word in Revelation.
You would to show by proof where God ever said anything about other books of the bible in Revelation.
If you have to go to other books of the bible, to try and explain The Mother of Harlots.
That shows you can not take God at his word of who The Mother of Harlots is, and what is to happen to her at the Judgement of God's.
God foretold to John in Revelation Chapters 17 & 18, who The Mother of Harlots is and what is going to happen to her at the Judgement of God's.
Seeing that God foretold everything that there is to know in Revelation, about The Mother of Harlots in Revelation 17 & 18, Then why is there need to go to other books of the bible.
When God already foretold it all in the book of Revelation himself.