{"id":158472,"date":"2024-07-05T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T18:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=158472"},"modified":"2024-07-04T20:41:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T00:41:32","slug":"weekend-open-thread-504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=158472","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Open Thread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bible-cherub-cherubs-cherubim-20240629.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-158473 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bible-cherub-cherubs-cherubim-20240629.jpg?resize=300%2C273&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bible-cherub-cherubs-cherubim-20240629.jpg?resize=300%2C273&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bible-cherub-cherubs-cherubim-20240629.jpg?resize=366%2C333&amp;ssl=1 366w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Bible-cherub-cherubs-cherubim-20240629.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When many Christians hear &#8220;cherub&#8221;, they think of baby or children angels. However, cherubs were depicted as entities consisting of traits from two or more species. We get a detailed description of cherubs in the Book of Ezekiel, the entities carrying the chariot. They had the faces of four different species, had wings, etc. Angels, for their part, did not have wings and were sometimes mistaken as regular people. <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Enjoy your weekend!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When many Christians hear &#8220;cherub&#8221;, they think of baby or children angels. However, cherubs were depicted as entities consisting of traits from two or more species. We get a detailed description of cherubs in the Book of Ezekiel, the entities carrying the chariot. They had the faces of four different species, had wings, etc. Angels, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-Fe0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}