Chapter 3 – The Cherubim in Genesis – by Fay Berry

I am just going to skim through the scriptures here and touch on the places where I believe the Cherubim or allusions to the Cherubim are mentioned.

Chapter 3 – The Cherubim by Fay Berry

In the days of Noah, the servant of God, the earth became corrupt and filled with violence, (Gen 6:13). And God spoke to Noah and told him that the “end of all flesh is come before me,” and that it was his intention destroy mankind from off the face of the earth because “the imaginations of man’s heart was only evil continually, (Gen 6:5,13). God told Noah to build an ark for the saving of himself and his family and representatives of all the animals “after their kind” that dwelled upon the face of the earth. He said he would establish his covenant with Noah (Gen 6:18) and save him from the floods that came upon the earth. God gave Noah a rainbow in the cloud as the “token of His covenant between God and the earth.” The rainbow and the cloud are integral parts of the symbology of the Cherubim of God as described in (Eze 1:28).

When it was nearing the time for Noah to leave the ark, God brought a wind upon the waters and dried up the last of the flood that had covered the earth. The “wind” of God is also a part of the description of the Cherubim (Psa 18:10), and so the Angel of the Cherubim would have moved over the waters, just as He did in the very beginnings of things, when “the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters” at the time of creation (Gen 1:2).

So God established his covenant with Noah and with his seed after him (Gen 9:9) and promised that a rainbow would become His token that He would never again flood the earth so as to destroy all mankind upon it (Gen 9:15). In the description of the Cherubim in Ezekiel 1 , the rainbow is part and parcel of the Cherubim from thenceforth.

With Abram God also made a covenant and told him to “consider the heavens” (Psa 8:3) and promised him that his seed would be as numerous as the “stars” in the heaven (Gen 22;17), and God changed Abram’s name to Abraham, “for a father of many nations have I made thee,” said God(Gen 17:5), and God commanded Abraham to be circumcised, (Gen 17:11) He he promised Abraham a “seed” and with that seed, God would establish an “everlasting covenant,’ and that covenant was with Abraham ad his son Isaac and his son, Jacob. God charged Isaac that he would not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan for Jacob but Jacob must go to Padan-Aram, to Bethuel his mother’s father and take a wife of the daughters of Laban his mother’s brother (Gen 28:2). Why? Because it was important to God that the lineage of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob should remain pure. So Jacob went out from Beer-Sheba towards Haran (Gen 28:10).

One night after the sun was set, Jacob was tired and he lay down with his head upon some stones and there he dreamed a dream. He saw a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven, and the Angels of God were ascending and descending on it (Gen 28:12). And the Angel of the Lord, stood above it and he promised Jacob that he would inherit all the land, north, south, east and west of where his head lay.

Now I would like you to imagine that you are there with Jacob, lying with your head upon some stones. If you look heavenwards, you will see the Angels climbing up the ladder past the stars, past the moon into a place that God calls “the house of God,” and the “gate of heaven.” In that place you see a throne in heaven (Rev 4:2), you see 24 elders sitting around the throne (Rev 4:3) and if you read on in the book of Revelation, you will have the complete description of the Cherubim of God as also described in the book of Ezekiel Ch 1. Way up in the heavens connected by a stairway the symbolic Cherubim sits over the sleeping Jacob, with Angels going up and down between heaven and the promised land upon which Jacob sleeps and dreams. When Jacob awoke, he called the place Bethel and set the stone that he had rested his head upon as a pillar and said, “this shall be God’s house,” and he promised to tithe his income for God from that moment onwards.

The symbology of the Cherubim describes the “heavens” of the Bible, (Deu 26:15) in which “dwells righteousness,” (2 Pet 3:13) and it is “the new Jerusalem” (Rev 21:2) that will one day come down from heaven to replace “the old heavens” that are due to “vanish away” (Isa 51:6) and thus fill the earth with the “glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea,” Hab 2:14.
Chapter 4 – The Cherubim by Fay Berry

God appeared to Jacob when he came out of Padan-Abram, and blessed him and changed his name from Jacob to Israel (Gen 35:10) and once again promised him that he would give to Israel and his seed the land belonging to “the house of God.” Israel as Jacob was now called, worshipped God at Bethel and made an offering to him there.

Time passed, and Joseph, Israel’s beloved son, now a ruler in Egypt, having saved his family from death in the great famine in Canaan, now sent for his father, Israel, and caused him to journey from Canaan towards Egypt so that Joseph could succour him there. Israel, delighted that his beloved son was still alive, travelled from out of the land of Canaan and journeyed to Beer-Sheba where he praised God and made offerings to him (Gen 46). Israel and all that was his arrived in Egypt where he was welcomed by Joseph and he and his settled in the land of Goshen. When Israel died, he made Joseph promise that after his death, his bones be brought out of Egypt and returned for burial in the land of Canaan.