The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows, Son of man, raise a dirge over the king of Tyre. Say to him, "The Lord Yahweh says this:
You were once an exemplar of perfection,
full of wisdom,
perfect in beauty;
you were in Eden, in the garden of God.
A thousand gems formed your mantle.
Sard, topaz, diamond, chrysolite, onyx,
jasper, sapphire, carbuncle, emerald,
the gold of which your flutes and tambourines are made,
all were prepared on the day of your creation.
I had provided you with a guardian cherub;
you were on the holy mountain of God;
you walked amid red-hot coals.
Your behaviour was exemplary from the day of your creation
until the day when evil was first found in you.
Your busy trading
has filled you with violence and sin.
I have thrown you down from the mountain of God,
and the guardian cherub has destroyed you from amid the coals.
Your heart has grown swollen with pride
on account of your beauty.
You have corrupted your wisdom
owing to your splendour.
I have thrown you to the ground;
I have made you a spectacle for other kings.
By the immense number of your sins,
by the dishonesty of your trading,
you have defiled your sanctuaries.
I have brought fire out of you to consume you.
I have made you ashes on the ground
before the eyes of all who saw you.
Of the nations, all who know you
are lost in amazement over you.
You are an object of terror;
gone forever". - Ezekiel 28:11-19 -
On your account Sheol beneath us
is astir to greet your arrival.
To honour you he rouses the ghosts
of all the rulers of the world.
He makes all the kings of the nations
get up from their thrones.
Each has something to say
and what they will say to you is this,
'So you too have been brought to nothing, like ourselves.
You, too, have become like us.
Your magnificence has been flung down to Sheol
with the music of your harps;
underneath you a bed of maggots,
and over you a blanket of worms.
How did you come to fall from the heavens,
Daystar, son of Dawn?
How did you come to be thrown to the ground,
you who enslaved the nations?
You who used to think to yourself,
"I will climb up to the heavens;
and higher than the stars of God
I will set my throne.
I will sit on the Mount of Assembly
in the recesses of the north.
I will climb to the top of thunderclouds,
I will rival the Most High".
What! Now you have fallen to Sheol
to the very bottom of the abyss! - Isaiah 14:9-15 -
Sacred Scripture/Holy Bible told of 'cherubs or cherubim' were used in the TABERNACLE in the wilderness. Two cherubs made of gold were stationed at the two ends of the MERCY SEAT, above the ARK OF THE COVENANT in the HOLY OF HOLIES.
Further you are to make a throne of mercy of pure gold, two and a half cubits long, and one and a half cubits wide. For the two ends of this throne of mercy you are to make two golden cherubs; you are to make them beaten gold. Make the first cherub for one end and the second for the other and fasten them to the two ends of the throne of mercy so that they make one piece with it. The cherubs are to have their wings spread upwards so that they overshadow the throne of mercy. They must place the throne of mercy on the top of the ark. Inside the ark, you must place the Testimony that I shall give you. There I shall come to meet you; there, from above the throne of mercy, from between the two cherubs that are on the ark of the Testimony, I shall give you all my commands for the sons of Israel. - Exodus 25:17-22 -
He gave him the plans for the chariot, for the golden cherubs with wings outspread covering the ark of the covenant of Yahweh - all this in accordance with what Yahweh with his hand had written in order to make the whole work clear for which he was providing the plans. - 1Chr. 28:18-19 -
When king Solomon built the Temple, he ordered that two cherubs or cherubim be made of olive wood and overlaid with gold. Each measured ten cubits (4.6 meters or 15 feet) high with a wingspread of ten cubits. Artistic designs of cherubs or cherubim decorated the ten curtains and the veil of the tabernacle. These gigantic cherubs or cherubim were placed inside the inner sanctuary or in the Most Holy Place in the Temple. Their wings spread over the ark of the covenant. The wood work throughout the Temple was decorated with engraved figures of cherubs or cherubim, trees and flowers. - Ex. 26:1, 36:8; 1Kin. 6:23-35, 7:29,36, 8:6-7 - 2Chr. 3:7-14, 5:7-8 -
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I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.
HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -
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