Break the Cycle
Writer Author Sylvia Huffnagle
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I think the Wheel in Ezekiel is referring to the cycle of life--the different emotions a person goes through and what the four main cycles can be compared to. If my analysis is correct, God wants us to know that our feelings and emotions are powerful to the point of effecting our whole life--steering our course. I show that when a Christian walks by the spirit and not by the flesh he/she is enabled to overcome the downers in life.
Ezek: 1:5-20: 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. And every one had four faces, and every one had four wings. 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. And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings. Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when they went; they went every one straight forward. 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. 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. And they went every one straight forward: whither the spirit was to go, they went; and they turned not when they went. As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. And the living creatures ran and returned as the appearance of a flash of lightning. Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they turned not when they went. As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four. And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them: and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.
I think that the wheel within the wheel spoken of in the above scripture is talking about human’s emotions and circumstances changing causing them to respond and react in a given way and these choices effect the person’s whole life. We (humans) go through a cycle of emotions and circumstances. Note the example below.
Say a person is knocked down by life’s blows and God gradually helps him or her up (for we are applying this to God’s people). Say this person’s emotions then, because of God’s encouragement, go way up and the person experiences a high-- soaring like the [the eagle]. The next stage, again because of God’s encouragement and because the person is on a high, he/she will be brave and strong like a [lion]. But life’s circumstances and the person’s own feelings about things cause him/her to be vulnerable [the ox - dumb brute] and eventually they are worn down and knocked down again. It’s a cycle and it causes the person a lot of trouble. Is there any way out?
Yes, praise the Lord, there is. Through Jesus we are more than conquerors. Notice in Ezek: 10:14: the ox is not there, there is a cherub [submissive to God] instead. When a Christian walks by the spirit and not by the flesh he/she is enabled to overcome the ox.
Ezek: 10:13-17: As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O wheel. 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. And the cherubims were lifted up. This is the living creature that I saw by the river of Chebar. And when the cherubims went, the wheels went by them: and when the cherubims lifted up their wings to mount up from the earth, the same wheels also turned not from beside them. When they stood, these stood; and when they were lifted up, these lifted up themselves also: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.
Sylvia Huffnagle
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