Ezekiel 10:7

And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out. See , note. ONE CHERUB - one of the four cherubim. STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND - (, "They had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides"). WHO TOOK IT, AND WENT OUT - to burn the city....

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....

ONE CHERUB - The “cherub” who stood next the wheel by the side of which the man stood. The representative of the priestly office now gives up his post of reconciliation, and becomes simply a minister of wrath; another sign that God will turn from Jerusalem....

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 [ONE] CHERUB STRETCHED FORTH HIS HAND FROM BETWEEN THE CHERUBIM,.... One of the four living creatures, or cherubim, put out his hand from among the rest: UNTO THE FIRE THAT [WAS] BETWEEN THE CHERUBIM; so fire is said to go up and down among them, Ezekiel 1:13; to which the reference is here: AND TOOK [THEREOF], AND PUT [IT] INTO THE HANDS OF [HIM THAT WAS] CLOTHED WITH LINEN: denoting, as before observed, that it was for the ill usage of the ministers of God's word that wrath came upon the people of the Jews, and the destruction of their city by fire; so wrath will come upon antichrist, and the antichristian states, for their usage of the ministers and churches of Christ, and in consequence of the prayers, and by the instigation of such persons; see Revelation 6:9

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 ...

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_and_one _cherub_ lit, the cherub; the one on the side approached by the man. The cherubim interposed to hand the fire to the man in linen garments, who received it and went forth (Job 1:12; Job 2:7). The symbolism is suggested by Isaiah 6:6....

B. Jerusalem Destroyed by Fire 10:1-8 TRANSLATION (1) Then I looked, and behold, upon the platform which was above the head of the cherubim there appeared something like a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne. (2) And He spoke unto the man clothed in linen and said, Go in between the wheels under the cherubim[236] and fill your hands with coals of fire found between the cherubim and scatter them over the city. And he went in my sight. (3) Now the cherubim were standing on the right of the house as the man entered; and smoke filled the inner court. (4) And the glory of the LORD had arisen from over the cherubim and was over the threshold of the house. And the house was filled with the cloud, and the courtyard was filled with the brightness of the glory of the LORD. (5) And the sound of the wings of the cherubim was heard to the outer court, like the voice of alm...