The Temple in Ezekiel

In reading Ezekiel again, something about the temple stood out. While virtually everything was so precise that the pages could be used as blueprints, one thing stood out as precisely ambiguous:

Ezekiel 41:17-19
In the space above the outside of the entrance to the inner sanctuary and on the walls at regular intervals all around the inner and outer sanctuary were carved cherubim and palm trees. Palm trees alternated with cherubim. Each cherub had two faces: the face of a human being toward the palm tree on one side and the face of a lion toward the palm tree on the other. They were carved all around the whole temple.

It feels like which direction the lion face was pointing, and which direction the human face was pointing were left intentionally unknown, but it is known that each cherub had exactly one lion face and one human face. As I was reading the whole section regarding the temple, it felt like a temple replica was forming, but not like a mental image. It was more like I could sense that my speaking of the instructions aloud was being heard by a construction crew behind the blackness of my mind's eye, and they were constructing each detail precisely, even as each detail certainly slipped beneath my ability to picture them consciously. 

In the midst of the reading and construction process, this cherub part was flagged, but not like it was a problem, more like it was designed to draw the reader's, my, attention to the significance of the temple replica forming somewhere in my mind and the temple seen by Ezekiel. If the bearers of these two mental images met, in either location, it might be unclear which face was lion and which face was human, and there may even be disagreement if each witness were looking directly at the cherub, because each witness had taken an individual, uniquely realm crafted, path to arrive at that juncture. Rather than a problem, it feels as though this would provide flexibility, and the ability for these two nearly identical, but possibly disimilar, temple images to fit together like puzzle pieces or ropes/threads intertwined. 

I am unsure that I have done justice to how exciting this sudden attention drawing moment was, but in my mind it sparkles with potential.

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