“LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.”
Isaiah 37:16 (NIV)
As we seek to have the view of God that Amos had and that David had - we read in Isaiah 37 that Hezekiah shares this view. With the enemy all around him, camped outside the city gates, their fingers on his neck - he takes their letter into the temple and spreads it open before the LORD and prays to the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. Isaiah knew God’s personal Name and knew that He was God over a host of angels as well as God over Israel. When Hezekiah called God enthroned between the cherubim, he was referring to God’s presence in the temple, in the Holy of Holies, above the Atonement Cover that rested on the Ark of the Covenant. This Atonement Cover had a golden cherub on each end of the cover with wings stretched towards the other, and God promised that He would meet His people there. (Ex 25:17-22). Yet this man-made cover is a shadow of the reality in heaven, for whenever a vision of God in His heavenly sanctuary was revealed to a prophet, that prophet would see God surrounded by angels. He is the God of angel armies, He has a host of angels, thousands upon thousands, ten thousand upon ten thousand. Hezekiah’s prayer was not that God would give him and his people strength to defeat the enemy surrounding them (his hope was different than David’s). Hezekiah’s hope was that God’s angels would defeat the enemy, and that is exactly what the bible says happened; vs 36 - Then the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! The LORD Almighty sits among the cherubim, He is the LORD of hosts, the LORD of angel hosts! Be encouraged today by these Words found in Hebrews 1:14 Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
Who are we that He is mindful of us?
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