Cherubim, Seraphim, and the Secret of God's Throne Room
Two questions have been on my mind in thinking through a theology of angels. First, why is it that in the story of Jacob’s Ladder (and again in John 1:51) that the angels ascend and then descend? We would imagine they would first descend from heaven to what is lower—the earth—and then ascend. So, why the reversal of the movement of angels? The second question is deeply connected to the first: why does Peter tell us in 1 Peter 1:12 that the angels long to look into the mystery of the gospel?
To get at something of an answer to these two questions we looked at the two angelic choirs that are…
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