Dr. Gene Kim thinks there are several people asking this question concerning the four cherubims at Ezekiel 1, because they seem to be put in a positive light. So then you know that when Dr. Gene Kim teaches to you about Satan being as a fifth cherub, Dr. Gene Kim taught you that he is known to be the ox. It makes a lot of sense when you look at Baal worship, bull worship, especially in a lot of things concerning Egypt, mythology, and the conspiracy realm. One of these four cherubims is known to be as the ox, and Dr. Gene Kim tied that to Lucifer.
Not only that, it seems there are some beliefs out there and questions where people said, “Don’t the four cherubims match with the four gospels?” So with Jesus Christ, with ox, eagle, man and lion, matching with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Dr. Gene Kim thinks that in those aspects they’re trying to match with his deity, his kingship, his servanthood and his manhood. So then the ox would represent as a servant because it’s known to be as servitude. The Bible mentions about “not muzzling the ox” because the ox is used for service as a servant.
Here are three possibilities; let’s cover them.
Possibility 1: How Lucifer was created
The first possibility is that, yes, it is used as a positive aspect because we got to understand Lucifer: he was originally created like that – he wasn’t created as evil.
But the best answer is this. When it comes to prophecy, you have to understand this: this is timeless. So when God speaks in prophetic language, He will use present tense a lot of times. But when he’s speaking in the present tense, he’s not speaking right now. It can be referring to the future or even to the past. Therefore, when Ezekiel has his prophetic vision, it is very possible to say that through this prophecy of these four cherubims, Ezekiel was looking somewhere at the past, where Lucifer used to be in his beautiful, perfect form, serving God around the throne.
Revelation 1:3 “Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.”
Revelation 1:19 “Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;”
Thou hast seen: past tense; the things which are: present; and the things which shall be hereafter: future. That’s what prophecy is: it covers past, present, and future. So, we have to understand this: it is very possible that what Ezekiel saw was Lucifer in his positive, good form, sinless state before he fell.
Possibility #2: Evil and good creatures are in prophetic vision
Sometimes when people have prophetic visions and they see certain angelic or spiritual creatures, they automatically assume it must be positive. That can be dangerous thinking, because sometimes when God gives prophetic visions concerning certain celestial, angelic, or alien creatures, et cetera, not all of them are positive.
For example, an easy example is the book of Daniel. Daniel saw in his prophetic vision spiritual creatures and beasts rising up out of the sea. Were they positive creatures? No, they were definitely negative. One of them is actually going to be the antichrist kingdom. If we can believe something satanic within that prophetic vision, what’s hard to believe concerning Lucifer within that prophetic vision?
Sometimes evil creatures can be with the angelic, good creatures in that same vision. Michael the Archangel is going to fight Satan the dragon at Revelation 12, which is a prophetic vision.
Zechariah 5:5 “Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.”
Notice right here we get a positive, good creature: the angel. But now look at verse 7:
Zechariah 5:7 “And, behold, there was lifted up a talent of lead: and this is a woman that sitteth in the midst of the ephah.”
Well, she must be a good creature? No, look at verse 8:
Zechariah 5:8 “And he said, This is wickedness. And he cast it into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.”
And verse 9:
Zechariah 5:9 “Then lifted I up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came out two women, and the wind was in their wings; for they had wings like the wings of a stork: and they lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven.”
Notice in verse 11, they’re carrying it to the land of Shinar. Shinar—is in Babylon.
So these female creatures, kind of like succubi are referred to as evil creatures in this passage. So you’ll notice that we see evil and good creatures mingled within the same prophecy. Thus, just because the ox can be the bad guy and then the three are the good guys, doesn’t make this guy the good guy.
Possibility #3: Lucifer is a different class altogether
Let’s say for argument’s sake that the calf is the same being as the ox. It doesn’t change the fact that there is a fifth cherub and that Lucifer has to be the ox. How so?
Look at Revelation 4. There were undoubtedly five cherubims and the fifth one has to be the ox.
Revelation 4:7 “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.”
Notice there were the four cherubims right here: calf, man, eagle, lion. And let’s say this calf is the ox at Ezekiel 1. So let’s assume that Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4 are the same creatures.
Well, that doesn’t mean Satan is not a fifth cherub and he’s not the ox. Because you still got four good creatures here, and Lucifer in Ezekiel 28 is called a cherub. So you still have to argue a fifth cherub.
Ezekiel 28:14 “Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.”
Ezekiel 28:15 “Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee.”
So this is referring to Satan. Now notice what he’s called: this is a key why we call him the ox. He is called cherub, right?
Ezekiel 1:10 “Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.”
And he sees four creatures.
Ezekiel 1:14 “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.”
Ezekiel 10:14 “And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.”
The first face was a face of a cherub, not ox. Because he’s called a cherub, the Bible calls cherub an ox. Therefore Lucifer is the ox.
Now, some people still have a problem with this because what they would like to say is, “Well, Satan, I believe more that he covers the aquatic reptilian class.” So then that’s why they’ll probably say that his head is more like a fish rather than the ox. The only ones that are missing are aquatic reptilian animals—in plainer words, cold-blooded animals.
He is an aquatic reptile. But what does the Bible call a reptile?
Genesis 3:14 “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:”
Serpent is covered within the cattle category here. This cherub is a unique cherub and class. Doesn’t Satan cover the lion as a roaring lion? Devils are likened to birds, and then he comes as an angel of light, so he comes in as a man, and then he’s called the ox. Lucifer is undoubtedly a totally different class of angelic creature right there.