Messengers (angels) aren’t little babies with wings flying around shooting arrows at people. If you go for an accurate biblical description some messengers look like this.
This type of messenger would be an Ophanim and is of the creatures that Yehezqel/Ezekiel saw and described as a wheel within a wheel covered in eyes.
These beings are terrible (frightening) to behold and there’s a reason the messengers always say “Do Not fear.…this says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 …” when they first appear to a man.
Ophanim אופנים
Ophanim in Hebrew means wheels, and refers to the wheels seen in Yehezqel/Ezekiel’s vision of the heavenly chariots.
They appear to be the very chariots of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 .
15. And I looked at the living creatures, and saw a wheel on the earth beside each living creature with its four wings.
16. The appearance of the wheels and their works was like the appearance of beryl, and all four had the same form. The appearance of their works was, as it were, a Wheel in the middle of a wheel.
17. When they went, they went in any one of four directions, they did not turn aside when they went.
18. And their rims were high and awesome, and their rims were covered in eyes, all around the four of them.
19. And when the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them. And when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up.
20. Wherever the spirit was to go, they went, because there the spirit went. And the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures were in them.
21. When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood. And when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures were in the wheels.
Ezekiel/Yehezqel I:15-22
The ophanim in Yehezqel/Ezekiel’s vision reveals Aluah as the Supreme over the entire universe.
The multidirectional wheels themselves remind us we serve an Aluah who is omnipresent, able to be in all places at all times.
Author: Esua Calaway
