Your thoughts: The cherubs above the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant who are these creatures and why was God so specific that when finished the faces of these creatures should always be toward the mercy seat?
Ref: Ex: chapter 25,26,36 and 37.
1Pe_1:12 Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which
things the angels desire to look into.
The Mercy and Justice of God meet in Christ Jesus. The Mercy Seat is over the Law of God. The question Lucifer raised, is How can God be both Just and the Justifier of the sinner, or transgressor of His Holy and eternal Law? Satan declared that if God was Merciful He could not be Just, and if God were Just, He could not be at the same time Merciful.
Job 4:18 Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
Lucifer was removed from Heaven for his sin (Isaiah 14; Ezekiel 28; 2 Peter 2:4), and now asks, how can sinners enter from earth (even seen in the disputing over Moses in Jude)? The answer is found in the Gospel itself, which is Mercy and Justice combined at Calvary.
Psa_85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other.
The penalty for sin was satisfied, the Law of God upheld forever (Isaiah 42:21), and at the same time Mercy was granted.
Angels of the highest intellect are studying out God's plan of redemption, which had been hid in the mind of God from eternity past, until being worked out in Christ Jesus.
Dan 10:21 But
I will shew thee that which is noted
in the scripture of truth ...