Thought: the popularity of the "biblically accurate angel" thing over focusing on the Ophanim (the surreal angels described as "wheels within wheels" in the book of Ezikiel) really missed out on all the other angels that are biblically inaccurate in art and popular conception. Because biblically accurate Cherubs are absolutely so wildly off the mark from their depiction as chubby flying babies.
Cherubs were badass and fucking huge. The book of kings describes them as ten cubits tall, with wings measuring five cubits each. That puts their height and wingspand at over 15 feet (4.6 meters). They had 2-4 wings. Some had four faces.
The guardian of the tree of life and the gatekeeper to Eden? The angel with the giant flaming sword? Cherub. He was a Cherub. A big, fuck off terrifying Cherub.
There's also just vague implications that they're big as fuck. In the book of Psalms, David hitches a ride on a Cherub's back with god. This is treated as a normal thing, like Cherubs are big enough to give you a piggyback ride in the sky. Sometimes pairs of them link together to form a flying throne for God himself to sit on. They're fucking big.
But here's the crazy part. Are you ready?
So there's this Cherub that lived in Eden at on point before it was closed for business, that was known to be perfect and beautiful. He became corrupted with pride after becoming the king of Tyre, a human city, and spiraled downward to hell. This particular fallen angel is never named outside of his title as a king, but his lore is consistent with another fallen angel mentioned by name in the book of Isaiah and is thought by biblical scholars to be the very same character.
That angel's name? The Son of the Morning Star aka The Shining One aka Lucifer. That's right baby HE'S LUCIFERRRRRR. (Not Satan btw, totally different guy.*) Lucifer is a CHERUB!!! Big bad Lucifer is a CHERUBBBBB!!! The fallen angel of blinding burning light is a CHERUB.
Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk! Biblically accurate Cherubim were huge and imposing. Not chubby babies, also not weird eyeball circles. Just big motherfuckers with four wings and sometimes four faces. Powerful, supernaturally fast, and wielding big Dark Souls bossfight swords of fire. Carrying god himself through outer space and shit. Absolutely humongous. Wingspans bigger than Goliath. I really wish biblically accurate Cherubs caught on because they're very cool!!!
*Lucifer and Satan aren't the same guy, Lucifer got smacked down to hell for thinking about rebelling against god too hard then was never mentioned again outside of the Bible being like "lol Lucifer you used to be so cool, now look how hard you fell off, bitch". Satan actually directly rebelled and continued to get in God's shit every chance he got.
