The Glory of God

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In this chapter the Prophet reports, for us, two further instances of the work of the "Glory" of God in events that he saw in his vision of the destruction of Jerusalem.

1. The scattering of the coals of fire upon the city which were taken from between the Cherubim in the Temple.
2. The "Glory of God being removed from the Temple, mounted, as it were on wings and conveyed by wheels.

The events of this chapter are symbolically told. The judgment upon Jerusalem and the act of its destruction is told as an "allegory, fictional figures depicting human conduct. We must interpret this book like the Book of Revelation, an account of an actual event written as an allegory. Many of the descriptions in this book are used by John in the Book of Revelation.

The instrument of destruction here is still the "man in linen" who is aided by Cherubims and Wheels all of whom seem to have human abilities. Destruction is accomplished by fire carried by the man in linen and cast over the city. He received this fire by standing between the Cherubims who were accompanied by Wheels. Sometimes there appeared to be a Wheel within a Wheel. Each Wheel appeared to have four faces, one of a cherub, one of a man, one of a lion and one of an eagle. In Revelation the four creatures that surround the Throne of God appear as an ox, a man, a lion and an eagle. After the destruction the Cherubims and the Wheels rose from the earth and the Glory of God was over them. The four faces of the Cherubim were the same as Ezekiel saw before by the River Chebar in Babylon.

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