Originally posted by adrenochrome
Hey Chrome ..it does say that these creatures that he is talking about have wings ..And as you pointed out they are not angels .....A living creature
is not the same as angels (not in the bible ...when they were talking about angels they said angels ...when they were talking about creatures or
beasts they called them creatures or beasts ...*These are Kings from Countrys ...these 4 Beasts are ...
Eze 1:4 ¶ And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness [was] about it,
and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
(((NOTICE IT SAYS A WHIRLWIND COMES OUT OF THE NORTH now read what those countrys from the North will do to Israel in Ezek 38 and Isiah and Daniel etc
...)))
Jer 1:14 Then the LORD said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Jer 4:6 Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.
Jer 6:1 O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire
in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
Jer 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
Jer 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will
bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make
them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jer 25:32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts
of the earth.
Aids
Hab 1:8 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and
their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle [that] hasteth to eat.
Hab 1:9 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up [as] the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.
((((This is a great war when the four beasts come against Israel they are comeing from the NORTH country .... Ezek,38))))))))
Eze 38:6 Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: [and] many people with thee.
Eze 38:15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company,
and a mighty army:
Eze 39:2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts, and will bring thee
upon the mountains of Israel:
[Here are the passages you quoted from ]
Eze 1:5 Also out of the midst thereof [came] the likeness of four living creatures. And this [was] their appearance; they had the likeness of a
man.
Eze 1:6 And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.
Eze 1:7 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.
Eze 1:8 And [they had] the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
Eze 1:9 Their wings [were] joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward.
Eze 1:21 When those went, [these] went; and when those stood, [these] stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up
over against them: for the spirit of the living creature [was] in the wheels.
Eze 1:23 And under the firmament [were] their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two, which covered on this side, and every one
had two, which covered on that side, their bodies.
Eze 1:24 And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings, like the noise of great waters, as the voice of the Almighty, the voice of speech, as
the noise of an host: when they stood, they let down their wings.
Eze 1:25 And there was a voice from the firmament that [was] over their heads,
Sounds to me like the same 4 Beasts in the book of Rev .
Dan 7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another.
Dan 7:4 The first [was] like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and
made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
Dan 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and [it had] three ribs in the mouth of it between
the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
Dan 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and
dominion was given to it.
Dan 7:7 After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth:
it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it [was] diverse from all the beasts that [were] before it; and it
had ten horns.
Dan 7:8 I considered the horns, and, behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up
by the roots: and, behold, in this horn [were] eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.
Now read Rev 6
www.blueletterbible.org...
I am not seeing them as literal creatures with wings ..I see them as wicked Kings out for war the wings meaning Swift or aircraft like fast jets .
Sorry about the bible studying ..just thought it was taken out of context.