SCRIPTURE: Ezekiel 41:20 From the floor to the space above the door, and on the wall of the sanctuary, cherubim and palm trees were carved.
OBSERVATION: All throughout this temple described in great detail are two decorative figures: cherubim and palm trees. they are carved one after the other, with the two-faced cherubim looking at the pal trees -- one face looking at the palm tree to the left, and one face looking to the palm tree to the right. Both images filled this temple.
The thing that I find interesting is that one of these images is recognize able to human experience -- the palm tree -- and one of them is not -- the cherubim. The earthly and the heavenly both blend together to adorn this heavenly temple.
APPLICATION: There is a very old heresy that makes a stark distinction between 'worldly' and 'heavenly.' Anything earthly is automatically nonspiritual and anything heavenly is separate and spiritual. But God is able to blend together, in one mosaic, both elements for His purposes. Don't miss the spiritual significance of very common, ordinary things.
PRAYER: Father, help me to see you in everything, not just the 'spiritual.' Amen.
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