It’s always funny to me to see angels depicted in Art. It reminds me often of how the goddess Isis is depicted in Egyptian Art. A winged humanoid creature. But the Bible tells us what cherubs looked like and it wasn’t cute little babies with wings.
Check out Ezekiel’s description of Cherubim. 1:5-12
5 And out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance: they had the likeness of a man.
6 And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.
7 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 colour of burnished brass.
8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and as for the faces and wings of them four,
9 their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
10 As for the likeness of their faces, they had the face of a man; and they four had the face of a lion on the right side; and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four had also the face of an eagle.
11 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.
12 And they went every one straight forward; whither the spirit was to go, they went; they turned not when they went.
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