Welcome to Bible Believers Fellowship and the ministry of bbfohio.com. I'm Pastor Greg and I welcome you to our ongoing study of angels and the spirit world with this study of the cherubims and seraphims. We take a very simple straightforward approach and simply read the King James Bible and discuss what it says and we find out that the extra biblical apocryphal books as well as the new versions and claims made by people who say they've seen angels along with books and textbooks even written by Christian teachers all must be tested by the scripture if you want to remain biblically accurate in your understanding of this and all other subjects. The conclusion of this study can be heard anytime by visiting bbfohio.com and scrolling down to our recent studies playlist. You will also find our contact and donation information there at bbfohio.com. And now we get right into our current events update and then our study titled Cherubims and Seraphims. We began in Genesis chapter 3 verses 22 through 24. This is part one of two. Brought to you by Meals on Wheels. Yes. And Soup by Jenny. Headline reviews in the news. Number one. The end time Jezebel revival continues. I always have to preface because the ladies get a little upset, think I'm picking on them. The men are bums too, I'm just saying. But this Jezebel revival is how Isaiah described it, that the children are your oppressors and women rule over you. So it's not Greg, it's prophecy. And that's one of the reasons the churches are dying. And Beth Moore is a prime example of that. She's leading silly women laden with sins by the tens of thousands into error. They are leaving good churches to go to churches where they'll hear their Moorish nonsense. And I just thought I'd point this out, because it's been going around. I've seen it posted, other people talking about it. She's urging Christian leaders to apologize for spreading misinformation. That's just really ripe coming from her. And the question is, what misinformation, you ask? Well, she's referring to those warning others about her fake ministry and false teaching. I say fake ministry because God has never called a woman to the ministry that Beth Moore has. So what does God tell us to do? That's the question. Not what Beth Moore tells us to do. What does God tell us to do? In Romans 16, 17 we're told, this is not multiple choice by the way, Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoid them. That's why if someone goes off the deep end, you mark them. That's what it says, doesn't it? You mark, that means you point them out. And you warn, and you call names. This idea that it's wrong for a preacher to ever call a name, not when that name belongs to somebody who's preaching a false gospel or promoting false teaching and error and changing God's word, people who aren't even God-ordained to do what they do, but it's like racism. The word misinformation is so abused that it has lost all of its meaning. Now everything that the liberals don't like that you say is misinformation. That's why this whole Joe Rogan thing. And I put up a video warning people, they're making Joe Rogan out to be a hero. He's not a hero. He's an American. He has a right to speak. We should defend his right to speak. They're trying to cancel him because they called the things he allowed on his podcast, which has a huge audience, they called it misinformation. Well, in the months since they accused him of that, a lot of the stuff he brought out on his podcast has been now confirmed to be the truth. So that's the problem you get in when you start deciding what speech is going to be free, what information is not misinformation and what is. That's what happens under communism and Nazism. So Beth then goes on to offer forgiveness to those who tell her to sit down and shut up. She goes on to say she's ready to forgive them without mentioning names. Moore noted that she was prepared to forgive Pastor blank. I'm leaving the names out, because it doesn't matter who. This pastor publicly denounced her at a pastor's conference, which is an exaggeration. He didn't really denounce her. But during a panel Q&A session, it was in 2019, at a conference at some particular church, a radio host, who will remain nameless, asked this pastor and other panelists to play a word association game. And so when Asquat came to mind when hearing the name Beth Moore, he replied, go home. And she's offering to forgive him for that, but that's actually biblical advice. Beth Moore is in trouble with God. If you defy God, you're in trouble with God. Amen? That's just the way it is. 1 Corinthians 14.34 says, Let your women keep silence in the churches, for it is not permitted unto them to speak, but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law. Now that doesn't mean a woman can never speak. But it is saying that a woman during times where she is supposed to be under the authority and teaching of the pastor, she should not be interrupting the services. And that evidently was happening in Corinth, if nowhere else. In 1 Timothy 2.12, Paul said, but I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. So in other words, it's not a woman's place to stand in the pulpit and teach as the pastor or leader of a church. Now, I don't know if I put, yeah, I'll come back to that in a second. Well, no, let's go ahead and, is it? ♪ Hark the herald angels sing ♪ ♪ Glory to God in the highest heaven ♪ So pastoral authority is to be male. And I always say this, just to kind of give you a picture of why that is. Who's supposed to bear children? Women. Women. Does it mean I'm less of a human being because you won't let me? No. You don't want to do it, trust us. And that's it. It just means God is called father, not mother. Jesus was a man. And the headship of God over the church is pictured in the headship of the local pastor who is leading the local church. It's to picture that. It's the same way in the home. The husband is to be head of the household. He's to picture the relationship that Jesus Christ has with His bride. And the husband is told to love his wife like Jesus loves the church and gave himself for it. So the husband is supposed to love his wife enough to protect her and be willing to die for her if necessary. And so, I just want to say this, I'm the pastor, but whenever someone else, like when John's teaching, whoever is up here and has the authority of the pulpit, as it's called. And I say it's OK for women to speak. It's OK for you to ask questions or whatever. But I've put down the rule, I ask you to raise your hand. And if I am trying to make a point or we're short on time, I will ignore you, male or female. Amen? Amen. It's been, I've been pastor in 17 years here, going on, I think it'd be 17 years in June, I think we talked about. And in those 17 years, we've never had a problem. But we have had other people complain about how we do things. And I'm just not one of those preachers who is all about getting as many people in here as possible. That may sound crazy, but what I want is as many people who are Bible believers who wanna study the word and wanna go along with our way of doing things without causing trouble. And so if somebody doesn't like the way we do things, well, yeah, go on. We'd love to have you, but we're just not gonna bow and all, I'm not gonna walk around with pins and needles trying to, you know, meet everybody's little whims and everything. I want everybody here, I've told them, I want everybody here to feel at home. Keep your shoes on. That's one of the rules. I don't want to smell your feet. Come here. You don't have to be clean as a whistle, but don't come in here stinking. I think I talk about Sunday. Come in here modest. You know, there are some basic rules, but other than that, the Bible says to do things in an orderly fashion and not to, you know, God is not the author of confusion, so we keep things in order, but you have some freedom here, but I kind of, you know, I am the benevolent dictator, amen? I get the last say, I get to say, you know, and that's what the Bible's teaching there. So secondly, as feared, conservative candidates are splitting the vote, giving Rhino DeWine an easy win in the gubernatorial primary here in Ohio. We're still, what, is it May? I keep asking that. We're still three months away. Here is the latest, I think it's pronounced Trafalgar group. They're supposed to be one of the most more accurate polling groups, which is why your local news media calls it right-leaning, because they're accurate. But they did this poll, and you can see that DeWine is getting 40%. Well, Jim Renese is getting 22.8, and Joe Blystone's getting 20.2. Combined, they'd beat DeWine. But they're splitting the vote. So DeWine. And now there is still 16% undecided. But if all 16 of those jump on Jim Rene's side, he still loses. So the only thing that's going to happen is either one of those men are going to drop out, or DeWine's going to be the Republican nominee, and then he'll run against a Democrat in November. Wow. That's how things, and my one question is, I don't know Jim Renacci very well. I voted for him for senator, I think. But is he doing this by design? Is he helping DeWine? I don't know. I don't, you know, he doesn't, I've seen him in interviews. I watched him talk to the Ohio's for medical freedom. And it was really strange because he was on there, and he was answering the questions. He gave all the right answers. And Blystone didn't even show up. They tried to get Blystone to be there as well, and it wasn't going to be a debate. They were going to ask each one of them questions and let him answer, but he didn't even show up. Why? You have to ask him. They didn't know either. So, you know, it's kind of real confusing right now. I'm, I've made it clear, I'm not telling you who to vote for. I'm just giving you the information that you need to make an informed decision. But if Renaci isn't doing this by design, Ohio conservatives are among the most inept in politics today. Conservatives in Ohio are constantly beating each other and then letting the rhino win. That happens all the time. That's why we've had Voinovich and Taft, you know, and those kind of people, Portman as senator, you know, and so forth. And also, I want to make this reminder, we do not endorse any particular political party. It's been a while, you might have heard me say this, but I think the Democrat Party is satanic and communist. But the Republican Party leadership is just as bad. They're a bunch of globalists. And so I'll admit that I vote for Republicans more often than I do Democrats, because I can't remember the last time I voted for a Democrat. But I don't care what party. I care what you stand for. And if you don't stand for the right things and you're a Republican, you're not getting my vote. There's a Constitution Party that I would like to support more often, but they got a lot of kooks, and then it's just a mess. Libertarian Party, I find a lot of agreement with them. They're pro-Second Amendment. They are pro-liberty. They're against all these mandates, but then they believe in killing babies and marrying sodomites. So that's why I wouldn't be a member of the Libertarian Party. The Green Party is just Democrat and Communist light. And they're even more whacked out in a lot of ways, believe it or not. So that's the situation. I don't endorse a particular political party, and we do endorse the most conservative constitutional candidates without needing to name them. I've had people come up and ask me, well, I know you don't want to say it in the pulpit, but who are you going to vote for? And I said, you know, I shouldn't even, you know, I'm going to vote for the guy who stands for the Constitution and in 99 out of 100 elections, especially national, the presidential, senatorial, congressional, Gubernatorial, you know, it's clear which guy is standing with the Constitution in almost every case. So there's no need to even endorse a person by name. You stand with the guy who stands with the Constitution, amen? And that's, and when there's issues and things, you do the same thing. All right, cherubims and seraphims, Genesis chapter three. Genesis 3, verses 22 through 24. Read the even with me. I'll read the odd verse. So start with us right there in verse 22. And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us to know good and evil. And now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live forever. Therefore, the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken. So he drove out the man, and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden cherubims, and a flaming sword, which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life. Amen? Now real quick, he did them a favor. They were sinful now, they were fallen, and if they had taken of the tree of life, it would have been like what we call zombies. They would have continued to get old and die, but never die. It would have been a mess. So we'll avoid much speculation and simply observe what God's word tells us. We looked at the cherubims in our first study, going back a few weeks now, to note the differences between cherubims and angels. Just two basic differences are pointed out. The cherubims have wings, angels do not. Also, cherubims serve at God's throne. Angels minister to Christ on earth and the saints. But we just saw, in addition to this, now cherubims do other things, including they serve almost like angelic Pinkertons. Because that's what they were at the Garden of Eden. If you don't know what a Pinkerton is, it's the security. So we are introduced to the cherubims at the fall. That's what we just read. It happened right after the fall, and they act as security. I tried to find a picture of an angel wearing a hat that said security, but I couldn't find one. But I do like this. This is, just to give you an idea, this is the drawings of Jack Chick, one of his tracks. And the only thing is, I agree with something Brother Johnny brought up, I can't remember which week, but he brought up, I do not believe that the cherub was holding the flaming sword. The Bible says, look what it says there in verse three, it says, a flaming sword which turned every way. So it says, he placed at the east of the Garden of Eden cherubims, comma, and a flaming sword which turned every way. So I think there was a flaming sword doing this or something, which probably would have been wild enough to see. And then you always see just one cherubim, or one cherub, but it says cherubims, so there were a number of them there. It doesn't say how many. So, you know, just always keep that in mind when you see art. Art isn't inspired of God. It's inspired of man. And so sometimes they may be careless or something, or maybe just don't have time to draw more than one cherub. I don't know. But that's good. I'm not knocking them. I think Chick's stuff is great. So let's look at the cherubims and seraphims. All right. So as you're turning there, I want to make this note before we jump in here. King James Bible translators use the double plural cherubims and seraphims for one simple reason. And they were really smart guys, these translators. Because they knew that few know that Ms in Hebrew is plural. And so they used a double plural version for plural, and that was smart. And you'll hear people, you see the new versions, they make it just cherubim and seraphim, and you'll always hear the guys that really want to show off their knowledge of Hebrew, like they're superior to the King James Translator's understanding of Hebrew. It isn't a problem with the King James Translator's understanding of Hebrew. If you ever read the biographies of the King James Translators, they knew ten times the Hebrew that the modern translators do. But they also knew humans. So a lot of their translation work is, the idea of translation is to be as accurate and understandable as possible. So that's what they did. So make a mental note of that as we compare scripture with scripture beginning in Ezekiel 1, 5 through 12. This is believed to be describing seraphims. Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures, and this was their appearance. They had the likeness of a man, and every one had four faces, and every one had four wings, and their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf's foot, and they sparkled like the color of burnished brass, and they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides. Get that? And they four had their faces and their wings. Their wings were joined one to another. They turned not when they went. They went every one straight forward. As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man and the face of a lion on the right side. And they four had the face of an ox on the left side. They four also had the face of an eagle. Thus were their faces, and their wings were stretched upward. Two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies. And they went every one straight forward. Whither the spirit was to go, they went, and they turned not when they went. So I think it's like, oh, they didn't turn. I can't wait to see it. They're facing all four directions with each face. I mean, one face this way, one... It's going to be something we're going to have to see to really grasp, I think, but that's a pretty amazing... You know, seraphims, that means burning ones, by the way, and we'll see why, I think, in just a moment. They had to handle some hot stuff. Isaiah 6, 1-4, Charlie, let's see before you read that. The seraphims are found above the throne of God worshiping. So that's pretty cool to think about. Go ahead and read that. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims. Each one had six wings. With twain he covered his face, with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that crieth, cried, and the house was filled with smoke. Just another one there, you're like, wow, I cannot wait to see this. But I wanted to say this, I don't believe that when it says they covered their eyes mean like this, it means they were covering their eyes from being seen. I believe only God saw their eyes. I believe that's why they're covering their eyes. And then they covered their feet. The feet in the Bible are considered unclean. And that would be the only biblical thing that I could think of why they cover their feet. But here they're covering their eyes so no one can see their eyes, but they can still see. It's kind of like a horse when they have the blinders on, you know? And then their feet are covered and then they've got wings flying. So they got, it's just amazing. We're gonna see it one day. So the fire around God's throne would explain their being called burning ones. Because they were actually, the fire around God's throne is a consuming fire. Meaning it's just a fire beyond anything we can imagine. But they're able to be in the midst of that fire. Yeah? What happened to their weight? Didn't it, the one said they had four, According to what we're reading in the text, it doesn't mean that every cherubim looks exactly the same, and every seraphim. So, it's just like, you don't look like me. I mean, you know, and there's differences between male and female, but we're still human beings. So I think it's a little narrow-minded that we tend to be when we see it says some things one way that, OK, it's always that way. Well, that's not true about our language. I mean, think about different animal species and kinds and all the differences, and yet, you know, Just compare Max, the great big black Labrador, compared to our little Shih Tzu, they're still dogs. And yet there's a big difference. So that's my take on it. When you read other books and things, they'll be dogmatic and say they were this way or this way, but I just don't think there's any reason to be that dogmatic when the Bible doesn't