Join us for Mako Nagasawa sermon: Creation Tide 5: Holy Michael and All Angels
We continue this season of Creation Tide with a look at Ezekiel chapter 1.
Mako reflects on angels, their role, our relationship to them, and what they teach us because they too are part of God's creation. We look at how Ezekiel sees the angels in God's temple and how he reacts to them and what that means for our lives today. How we participate in what the Cherubim represent and what they signify for us. How the angels remind us that God does not give up on us.
From our scripture in Ezekiel chapter 1:
As I looked, a stormy wind came out of the north: a great cloud with brightness around it and fire flashing forth continually, and in the middle of the fire, something like gleaming amber. In the middle of it was something like four living creatures. This was their appearance: they were of human form. Each had four faces, and each of them had four wings. Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the sole of a calf’s foot; and they sparkled like burnished bronze. Under their wings on their four sides they had human hands. And the four had their faces and their wings thus: their wings touched one another; each of them moved straight ahead, without turning as they moved.
As for the appearance of their faces: the four had the face of a human being, the face of a lion on the right side, the face of an ox on the left side, and the face of an eagle; such were their faces. Their wings were spread out above; each creature had two wings, each of which touched the wing of another, while two covered their bodies. Each moved straight ahead; wherever the spirit would go, they went, without turning as they went. In the middle of the living creatures there was something that looked like burning coals of fire, like torches moving to and fro among the living creatures; the fire was bright, and lightning issued from the fire. The living creatures darted to and fro, like a flash of lightning.
We pray that you would invite Jesus to work the soil of your inner self.
History of Creation Tide: The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (Eastern Orthodox) proposed in 1989 that September 1st (the first day of the Orthodox Church year) should be observed as a day “of protection of the natural environment”.
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