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Bible Stories

Angels: Cherubim

Bible Stories

Matt Mullins

Scripture, Stories, Christ, Christian, Religion & Spirituality, Family, Bible, Jesus, Christianity, Story

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Artists depict cherubim as cute little children in diapers with chubby faces and pretty wings - the Bible paints a different picture; these angels are powerful, terrifying, and fearsome. In today's episode, we'll dive into Scripture to learn more about who these angels are and what role they play in God's kingdom.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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slash UK slash AI for people. An interesting thing happened between the medieval and Renaissance periods.

0:34.4

In medieval Europe, artists depicted angels as radiant adults with wings. But as time passed

0:40.6

and we entered into the Renaissance, artists were heavily influenced by Greco-Roman art and began to

0:46.4

lean on depictions of Cupid to represent angels. Cupid, of course, being the chubby winged child

0:52.0

we see every Valentine's Day. The Renaissance artist took

0:56.1

those sweet baby angels and gave them the name cherub, cherub, cherub being a singular of the biblical

1:02.1

word cherubim. However, as we will discover in today's Bible story, the cherubim of the Bible

1:08.2

are anything but cute, mischievous, or childlike as in the case of Cupid.

1:13.3

They are ferocious, terrifying protectors.

1:16.6

Today we kick off our series on Angels.

1:45.5

We're going to go out our series on Angels. Hello and welcome to Bible stories. Today, I am your host. My name is Matt Mullins. Your other host, Todd Heymans, is out today because of technical issues. So we apologize for that, but Todd will be back next week.

1:50.4

We, Todd and I are two friends and two ministers who love the stories of the Bible.

1:51.9

We can't wait to tell you about them.

1:56.5

And today we're beginning a brand new series on angels.

2:03.9

Angels are fascinating characters in the Bible, and they have a real impact in our lives today they're messengers warriors and witnesses and they're created beings that serve the lord today we have a lot of

2:11.5

common misconceptions about angels you know anything from people assuming that angels look like little cupids,

2:19.3

that angels all have wings. And of course, there's a big one that people believe that

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