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Post by Lee on Jan 9, 2014 3:27:55 GMT
“All the Saints with Yahweh Elohim” are “Yahweh’s mighty ones,” numerically represented by 144,000; these are the white cloud, or Cherub, upon which the Spirit rides (Psa. 18:10); or, in the language of the Apocalypse, “upon which one like to a Son of Man is sitting”.
Thomas, J. (1997). Eureka: An exposition of the Apocalypse (electronic ed.) (1). West Beach, South Australia: Logos Publications.
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Post by Lee on Jan 9, 2014 3:29:07 GMT
Cherubim-
We believe that the word is derived from the root rachav, “to ride” whether on an animal or in a vehicle. By transposing the first two letters and heemantively inserting wav before the last, we have “cherub” or that which is ridden—in the plural, “cherubim.” This convertibility of’ the verb rachav into the noun “cherub” is illustrated in Psalms 18:10, thus:
WY-YIRCHAV CHERUB-AL WI-YOPH
And-he-rode upon-a-cherub and flew
In Psalm 104:3, the clouds are styled Yahweh’s r’chuv or chariot, which is “ch’rub.,” with the first two letters transposed.
The “Cherubim,” then, constitute a vehicle, in and upon which the Eternal Power self-styled “Ehyeh” or “Yahweh,” otherwise “Jehovah,” rides as in a chariot. Hence, David, in speaking of them in 1 Chron. 28:18, terms them ham-merchavah hak-cheru-vim,” “the chariot of the Cherubim” which, he says, “spread out and covered the ark of covenant of Yahweh.” The Spirit is the rider, and the Cherubim the “clouds,” the “horses,” the “chariots,” the “living creatures,” the “wheels,” the “great waters,” the “winged host,” upon which He rides. Hence, of the Eternal Spirit it is said: “Behold, He cometh with clouds”—the clouds of His witnesses, of whom the present evil aion, or course of things, is not worthy (Rev. 1:7; Heb. 12:1; 1 Thess. 4:17); and again: “Was Thy wrath against the sea that Thou didst ride upon Thine horses, Thy chariots of salvation? Thou didst march through the sea with Thine horses, through the heap of great waters” (Hab. 3:8, 15); also, “Whither the Spirit was to go the living creatures went…. and they ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. And the noise of their wings was like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, as the noise of a host” (Ezek. 1:12, 14, 24; Rev. 1:15; 19:14). In this last citation, wings, great waters, Almighty, and host, all refer to the same company—a multitudinous embodiment of the Effluence of the Eternal Father, who soars on these wings of the Spirit. Wy-yaide-al chanphai ruach (Ps. 18:10).
But the Eternal Spirit not only “rides upon,” “soars upon,” and “flies upon,” but the Father by that Spirit also “inhabits the Cherubim.”
Thomas, J., & Mansfield, H. P. (1997). Phanerosis: An exposition of the doctrines of the Old and New Testaments concerning the Manifestation of the invisible eternal God in Human Nature (electronic ed.). West Beach, South Australia: Logos Publications.
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