Ezekiel 10:2

And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight. HE - Yahweh; He who sat on the "throne." SPAKE UNTO THE MAN - the Messenger of mercy becoming the Messenger of judgment (note, Ezekiel 9:2). Human agents of destruction shall fulfill the will of "the Man" who is Lord of men. GO IN BETWEEN THE WHEELS. [Hebrew, galgal (H1534), from gaalal (H1556), to roll, implying quick revolution; so the impetuous onset of the foe (cf....

Now the end of the vision is related, which I just touched upon, since God determined utterly to destroy the city; but this is described by a visible and external symbol. God therefore is said _to have commanded the wan who was clad in linen garments to fill his hands with coals, and to scatter them, on the city, _namely, that he might cause a general burning. Here, indeed, God’s name is not expressed, but shortly afterwards the Prophet more clearly relates what he here touches so briefly and so obscurely. It is evident that the person seated on the throne is here spoken of, and we may collect from the context, that this command cannot be referred to any but to God. But we must observe, that the angel commanded to mark the elect now assumes a new character. And hence we collect that the angels were so the ministers of God’s favor toward the faithful, that at the same time, whenever they...

1-7 The fire being taken from between the wheels, under the cherubim, ch. Ezekiel 1:13, seems to have signified the wrath of God to be executed upon Jerusalem. It intimated that the fire of Divine wrath, which kindles judgment upon a people, is just and holy; and in the great day, the earth, and all the works that are therein, will be burnt up....

Verse Ezekiel 10:2. _COALS OF FIRE_] These were to signify the burning of the city by the Chaldeans. It seems that the space between the _four_ wheels, which was all on fire, was that from which those coals were taken....

HE SPAKE - The person enthroned. THE CHERUB - The particular cherub who was to hand the coals to destroy Psalms 120:4; Isaiah 10:16; Revelation 15:8....

EXPOSITION EZEKIEL 10:1, EZEKIEL 10:2 THEN I LOOKED, etc. There follows on the work of judgment another theophany, like that of Ezekiel 1:15. In the "expanse," or firmament, like the "terrible crystal," there is seen as before the likeness of a sapphire throne (see Ezekiel 1:26, note). The form of THE MAN who is the manifestation of Jehovah is implied, though not named. It is he who speaks to the captain of the six ministers of vengeance, himself the seventh, and bids him go in beneath the "whirling wheels" that are beneath the cherub

AND HE SPAKE UNTO THE MAN CLOTHED WITH LINEN,.... That is, the God of Israel, or the glory of the Lord, that sat upon the throne before described; he gave orders to the man clothed in linen, who appears in another character, and represents the Chaldean or Roman army: AND SAID, GO IN BETWEEN THE WHEELS, [EVEN] UNDER THE CHERUB; the singular for the plural, the "cherubim"; the wheels were under these; the churches are under their ministers, their pastors, guides, and governors; or rather, since the wheels were by the cherubim, it should be rendered, as by some, "unto the cherub", or "cherubim" a: AND FILL THINE HAND WITH COALS OF FIRE FROM BETWEEN THE CHERUBIM, AND SCATTER [THEM] OVER THE CITY; these "coals of fire" were an emblem of the wrath of God against Jerusalem, and of the destruction of it by fire; and these being fetched from between the cherubim, show that the cause of this wra...

Ezekiel 10:1. Once more the glory vision appears. The linen clothed man who had done the marking in the previous chapter is now executing judgment. Who is He? Evidently more than an angel. That he is a supernatural being is clear. He held the place of pre-eminence among the other angels (Ezekiel 9:2). This angel is the Angel of the Lord, the same who appeared to the patriarchs, to Moses, Joshua, Gideon, Manoah, and to others. It is the Son of God in the garb of an angel. In the same form he also appeared to Daniel on the banks of the river Hiddekel. “Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz. His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet

THE BURNING OF THE CITY. But the guilty city must be destroyed as well as the people: so the awful carnage is followed by a no less awful conflagration prophetic of the fire, kindled later by Babylonian hands, which reduced the city to ashes (2 Kings 25:9). But this fire was kindled by supernatural hands which took it from among the flames that flashed and blazed between the strange creatures in the Divine chariot (Ezekiel 1:13); and again (_cf._ Ezekiel 9:3) the ominous note is struck of the departure of Yahweh, confirmed by the loud whirr of the wings. Very solemn was the moment when the linen-clad angel took the fire and went forth to scatter it over the guilty city. But over this scene, as over the other ...

MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14. Not the same word in verses: Ezekiel 10:8; Ezekiel 10:14; Ezekiel 10:21. _Ish_ is used of the man clothed with linen. BETWEEN. amid. THE WHEELS. the whirling [wheels]. The word here and in verses: Ezekiel 10:6 is _galgal._ Not the same word as in verses: Ezekiel 10:6; Ezekiel 10:9; Ezekiel 10:10;...