SWORDS, CHERUBIM & DIRT

July 5, 2009 (YOUTH SUNDAY)
Mike Blume




  Scripture Text:


Genesis 3:14-15 KJV  And the LORD God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:  (15)  And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.

Genesis 3:22-24 KJV  And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:  (23)  Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.  (24)  So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.


  Message:



The serpent was a beast of the field.
  • The devil found a physical creature that had qualities he could twist and use to his benefit.
  • SUBTLETY- Sly; artful; cunning; crafty..
  • Evil was outside the Garden.
  • A bad domain.
  • Adam would KEEP the Garden -- keep bad stuff out.

Adam was even called SON OF GOD.

Luke 3:38 KJV  Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.


But Adam sinned.
  • Sin got INTO HIM now.
  • So God had to remove him out.
  • Creation is now OUTSIDE the Garden in this world.


Satan must have HISSSED, "YESSSS...."


Cherubims and a flaming sword were put to block the Garden.
  • Sword turned every way, like a whirling ball of fire.

Amidst all the curses mentioned by God, He tells satan that a Seed of the woman would bruise his head, while this son's heel would be bruised.
  • God cursed the serpent to eat dirt, and the head of the serpent would be bruised and in the process the heel of the Womans' seed would be bruised as well.


The bible tells us somewhere else that Cherubims had eyes all over them.

Ezekiel 10:9 KJV  And when I looked, behold the four wheels by the cherubims, one wheel by one cherub, and another wheel by another cherub: and the appearance of the wheels was as the colour of a beryl stone.

Ezekiel 10:12 KJV  And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.

EYES in the Bible represent UNDERSTANDING.
  • So, God put these beings at the Garden entrance beside the whirling sword of fire, WATCHING and UNDERSTANDING.

Man was now out in evil.
  • Why did not God put a WALL up at the entrance?
  • Why even keep the entrance there?
  • Why not remove the Garden?
  • Why such strange creatures?

And the sword would do a work itself, and cut down anyone who try to enter.
  • So why CHERUBIMS?

Ezekiel 1:6 KJV  And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings.

Ezekiel 1:10 KJV  As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

And at the END OF THE BIBLE, these beings are mentioned again, but called FOUR BEASTS.

Revelation 4:7-8 KJV  And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.  (8)  And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.


EYES ALL OVER THEM indicate INTENSE WATCHFULNESS.
  • And if watching means UNDERSTANDING, it is intense QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING.

(My Grade Eight teacher had an operation on both her eyes and her eyes were always wide open.
  • So we called her eyesight.  I cannot recall her name, but I remember EYESIGHT).

Cherubs are not CUPIDS - cute naked babies with bows and arrows.

It's like we are being told to UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND UNDERSTAND!

So at the Garden, by a flaming sword, CHERUBIMS WITH EYES ALL OVER THEM ARE WATCHING WATCHING WATCHING.

The Garden was where God put the man whom he told to rule the world and have dominion and conquer everything in the world and all its creatures.
  • It's like being with God in fellowship again to be in the Garden.
  • And with God, man has power and anointing.

Meanwhile the words the devil heard from God would eat away at him.
  • EAT DIRT.
  • Me eat dirt?
  • NO WAY!

AND THE FIRST BOY BORN must have reminded the devil about the promise of a Son from the woman.

THE CHERUBIMS keep watching... seeking to understand understand.
  • Watching for someone to come.
  • Something to happen.
  • WATCHING THE WORLD.

Cain and Abel bring sacrifices, probably at the entrance of the Garden.
  • Like going to a temple.
  • The place where God and man first lived around each other.

Genesis 4:1 KJV  And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

IS THIS THE SEED?

CHERUBIM WATCHED.
  • Would this boy remove the sword?

THE DEVIL ASKED -- "IS THIS THE SSSSSEED?"

But the sword remained.
  • Cain killed Abel.
  • Those eyes must have suffered at the sight of sin in the world.

WHEN WILL THE END OF EVIL COME?

SATAN:  Me eat dirt?  Rigggghhhht.

Noah comes along.
  • God has to destroy the world, but he puts beast, fowl and cattle in the ark.
  • Lion is king of beasts.
  • Ox is king of cattle.
  • Eagle is king of fowl.
  • So the four faces of the cherubims stand for the four kinds of animals mentioned in Noah's ark.

Genesis 2:20 KJV  And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

Genesis 9:10 KJV  And with every living creature that is with you, of the fowl, of the cattle, and of every beast of the earth with you; from all that go out of the ark, to every beast of the earth.

The cheurbims did not know how God would do it, but they saw God preserve the Garden and knew that some day He must be going to bring man back to that Garden.

SATAN caused the world to become so evil until all of man's thoughts were only evil.
  • "ME EAT DIRT?  I WILL MAKE MAN EAT DIRT!!!!"

WICKED WICKED SINS.
  • They say today that many of the children in American families have been abused by relatives and in some cases even parents.

CHERUBIM wondered when would sword be removed so man could go in and get out of this world of sin and get back in the Garden with God?

Kids minds get cooked on drugs today.
  • Dads and Moms cannot say I LOVE YOU to each other.
  • Ten year olds get in gangs by shooting someone.
  • Perverts in the world.

Satan says, "ME EAT DIRT?  I'm SURE!!"


MOSES comes along.
  • God tells him to build a holy building called TABERNACLE.
  • And in it will be a VEIL which looks like this:

Exodus 26:31-33 KJV  And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:  (32)  And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.  (33)  And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

CHERUBIM:  "THAT'S US!
  • They're blocking the room just like we block the GARDEN."

"Look, they're carrying a golden box, called ark of the covenant, past the veil with 2 of us on the ark of the covenant!"

"Hey, Remember Noah's ark?  God made a covenant with fowl, beasts, cattle and man, OUR FACES!"

"If Noah's ark carried creatures that we represent in our faces to safety, and there is another ARK Moses made that is going into the protected secret place or room...

"PUT IT ALL TOGETHER...."
  • "God is showing creation getting back into the GARDEN again!"
  • "Past us"
  • "Into paradise".
In Leviticus 9, the high priest makes his first offering.
  • He sacrifices blood on to the mercyseat, lid of the ark of the covenant.
  • HE LIVED AND DID NOT DIE!
  • He went in, past that veil that was like the blocked entrance of the Garden, when in and came back out again alive!
  • Fire fell outside and burnt up the sacrifice!
  • People fell on their faces!

Cherubim:  "Blood on the mercyseat, between us - blood!"

ONE CHAPTER LATER, in Lev 10, they watched.

"Is the way finally open?  Is the high priest's entrance an indication that the way for man into the Garden is opened again?"
  • The ark is in there!!

NADAB AND ABIHU are sons of high priest and they enter past the veil.

FIRE SMITES THEM!

"THE SWORD IS STILL THERE!!!!"

WHEN WILL IT BE GONE!!!!
  • We thought it was when Cain was born.
  • We thought it was when Noah's ark carried people out of evil.
  • We though it was here when a man walked past a barrier like we are part of!

SATAN:  "Me eat dirt?  RIGHT, GOD!"
  • "Where is it?
  • How about it, God?
  • NO mud meatloaf yet.
  • NO dirt dinner yet

MAN IS EATING DIRT!!!!



There was never a way past yet.
  • But the cherubims, with all their eyes, saw One coming.
  • Said something that struck the cherubims with wonder, that no one ever said before.

John 14:6 KJV  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

THIS MUST BE THE ONE -- THE SEED OF THE WOMAN!

And his voice was the same voice as God in the Garden in Genesis!

"Didn't they call him the SON OF GOD?"

Adam was called SON OF GOD, too.

Romans 5:14 CEV  Yet death still had power over all who lived from the time of Adam to the time of Moses. This happened, though not everyone disobeyed a direct command from God, as Adam did. In some ways Adam is like Christ who came later.

All the dirt the devil was dishing out to man, Jesus began dealing with.

But He had no dirt in Himself... so clean!

If we could see the unseen, we'd see sinners with slithery, slimy lizards crawling all over them.

Jesus preached KINGDOM!

Getting back to God.

BUT.....

To the amazement of the cherubims...

One day Jesus let them take Him to a cross!

And the cherubims saw something.
  • In the Spirit, cherubims can see things and understand things behind activities that go on in bible stories.

Jesus was actually in the Garden -- ANOTHER GARDEN -- and when he spoke of drinking a bitter cup, the cherubims could see in the Spirit that he began DRINKING MUD AND DIRT.

OUR SINS.

And as they led Him to the cross, it was like He walked up to the entrance of the Garden of Eden.
  • The cherubims eyes lit up!
  • Jesus was FILTHY! from head to toe!
  • He became sin for us.

Satan ran to the fiery sword as Jesus approached it.

The Lord was filthy.

SATAN:" What an idiot!
  • He could've went in since he had no sin or dirt."
  • But He puts dirt in Him!
  • He knows the sword cuts down anyone who is unclean.

Jesus marched and said no word.

Devil:  "OH THIS IS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE!
  • Come on, 'SONNY'!
  • What a fool!

The flaming sword burned brighter and whirled faster!

The sky blackened.
  • Never had one man had so much sin.
  • Demons filled the air.

Jesus had so much of our sin in him that He could not feel God.

Matthew 27:46 KJV  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

SATAN WENT CRAZY WITH JOY/

"HAHAHAHAHAHA ME EAT DIRT????  "Yeah, right!!!!"

The Lord screamed one more time.

CHERUBIMS COULD NOT BELIEVE IT.

"IT IS FINISHED!"

Matthew 27:51 KJV  And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

THE SWORD FLEW AT HIM WITH FURY AND CUT HIM DOWN!

THE EARTH QUAKED AND ROCKS SPLIT THUNDER SMASHED.

Satan got demons that would later possess heavy metal rockers and had a party in hell.

CRACK COCAINE POT
  • Rapes in hall, and filth and sick acts.

Cherubim could not believe it!

THE SWORD WAS STILL THERE!!!

Devil laughed.

"BUT THE VEIL RIPPED!"
  • "AND WE WERE ON THE VEIL"
  • "WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?"

For three days hell had a party.
  • SATAN: "ME EAT DIRT????  RIGGGHHHHHT.  LORD (ahem), YOU ARE DIRT!"

"GOOD MOVE, GOD.
  • YOU MANIFEST AS MAN.
  • TRIED HELPING PATHETIC PEOPLE.
  • IT WORKED A WHILE.
  • I THOUGHT I WAS DONE.
  • BUT (AND THIS WAS THE SMARTEST THING YOU DID YET...)
  • NOW YOU ARE DEAD!
  • OUT OF THE WAY!
  • AND NOW I'LL MESS THEM UP AND MAKE THEM EAT DIRT WORSE THAN EVER!"

Devil walked away proud and sat down.

But... something dripped on his shoulder.
  • He brushed it away.
  • "Must be a maggot or something."

>>DRIP<<

He touched it and looked at it -- BLOOD.

He slowly looked up over his shoulder behind him.

JESUS GRABBED THE DEVIL'S NECK AND HAULED HIM OFF THE THRONE.

"GUESS WHO IS BACK?!"

The earthquake that started the day he died in the physical, reverberated into the spirit and cracked the gates of hell.

DEMONS WERE SILENT.
  • LOOKING SHOCKED.

Colossians 2:15 BBE  Having made himself free from the rule of authorities and powers, he put them openly to shame, glorying over them in it.

The devil said, "BUT..."

Jesus said "QUIET" and slapped the devil.

"Good move, devils.
  • You did not think I meant it when I said you'd get it if you sin.
  • You followed this slime?

Devil:  "BUT..."

Jesus said, SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
  • >>SLAP<<

He dragged the devil back to the sword.

Let's go, devil.

Cherubims saw something coming.

IT IS JESUS!

He dragged the devil to the sword.
  • "Remember this scene?"

Satan, you killed me, but you forgot something.

Ezekiel 18:4 KJV  Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.

A sword came out of His mouth and slashed against the sword of fire and shattered it!

Cherubims:  "THIS IS WHY THE VEIL RIPPED WHEN HE DIED!
  • Remember the ark?
  • Noah and cattle, beasts and fowl, how they all got in and were saved?
  • Remember Moses' ark?
  • Of covenant?
  • Cherubims were on top of it as it was carried into the holiest.
  • PAST THE VEIL!
Now I know what the blood was there for!

JESUS IS THE ARK!
  • HIS BLOOD
  • BE HIS BLOOD HE WILL TAKE CREATION BACK.
  • BY THE BLOOD means Dying for us.

They SHOUTED "HALLELUJAH!"

HE IS THE WAY BACK!

WE DO NOT BELONG HERE BLOCKING ANY MORE!

SPOKE TO SATAN:  "Remember what I told you?"
  • "ABOUT EATING DIRT"
  • It's PAYDAY!!!
  • ENJOY....


BRUISED HIS HEAD.
  • "you messed up little girls' minds with incest.
  • And young boys!
  • You cooked the brains out of teens on dope.
  • Gave AIDS to kids fooling around with sex.
  • Needles in the arms, and sticking them in tongues, packing their noses with drugs.


DRUGS!  EAT DIRT!

INCEST, EAT DIRT!

Jesus kicked the devil past Pluto.


For all you youth, who ate dirt of fornication and weed and incest, with memories and nightmares...

Saying "I'LL NEVER BE FREE"...

COME ON IN!

Nightmares?  You can be free!

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