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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
Exod 25:17-22 "You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold; two and a half cubits shall be its length and a cubit and a half its width. And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it of one piece with the mercy seat. And the cherubim shall stretch out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and they shall face one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
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Yes, the FACES face each other. The mercy seat is a throne (
Hebrews 4:16). He entered the veil and thus into heaven and sat down. The wings are over the seat. Cherubic thrones were well known throughout the ancient near east.