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Just had a weird thought on the nature of "the powers that be" a.k.a. the Cabal. Are we dealing with a hierarchy that has adopted Abrahamic traditions as its cover and its foil?
Weird how this sculpture outside Nato looks like an Ophanim, which "in the Jewish angelic hierarchy, they are entrusted with defending God’s throne as the highest in Maimonides’ order and are the closest of angels to God."
We recently had this sculpture unveiled outside the UN, which other anons have noted as having an uncanny resemblance to the beast from Revelations 13.
"Ezekiel is able to paint a somewhat vivid picture of what these wheels looked like, but perhaps what makes them so stark, and fascinating is how elusive they are.
These wheels are not something that appears frequently throughout the bible and the fact that God allows Ezekiel to see them only teases the idea that they do have some significance that we are not grasping.
One interesting idea that further supports the notion that these wheels were the wheels of God’s chariot comes from a song of praise by David in Psalm 18, where we are told
“He (God) mounted the Cherubim and flew. He soared on the wings of the wind.”--- (Psalm 18:10)
Ezekiels vision of God - The Ophanim as the wheels of God directed by Cherubim
In this rather unique imagery, it could be said that Cherubim had more of a practical function as they served as God’s vehicle, or a means for which to transport him across the sky, or from heaven to earth.
The Cherubim, in this instance, become the chariot and by this, the wheels that they are seen to manipulate become the wheels of that very chariot.
But Ezekiel does not make this connection but is instead taken aback by what he continues to witness. He tells us,
“When the living creatures moved, the wheels beside them moved; and when the living creatures rose from the ground, the wheels also rose. Wherever the spirit would go, they would go, and the wheels would rise along with them because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When the creatures moved, they also moved; when the creatures stood still, they also stood still; and when the creatures rose from the ground, the wheels rose along with them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.”--- (Ezekiel 1:19-21)
Here, he essentially confirms the idea that the wheels were controlled by the Cherubim, and that they did indeed have power over these elements, and that wherever the Cherubim went, the Ophanim would go too.
He also adds that the very spirit of the Cherubim exists within the Ophanim, suggesting that on some level, perhaps these strange creatures are extensions of the angels, as opposed to being angels themselves.
Touching once again upon the chariot idea as hinted by the song of David in Psalm 18, one might also say that the Cherubim were the drivers of the chariot, and the wheels were merely just that---wheels.
With this idea, they are not angelic, and they do not have sentience, but instead are more along the lines of machinery.
Yet, the idea that the Ophanim were indeed angels ---perhaps, the weirdest of angels given their appearance—remains to be consistent within some communities and traditions.
We can agree from Ezekiel’s account that despite their association to the Cherubim, there is nothing particularly angelic about the Ophanim. They do not appear to have human characteristics like all other angels, they do not speak and bring prophecies and they do not appear to even have wings."
https://mythologyexplained.com/ophanim-in-the-bible/