And he rode upon a cherub, and did fly: yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind.
He rode upon a cherub - see note, Ezekiel 1:6. The cherubim are "the chariot" of God (1 Chronicles 28:18); they probably represent the ruling powers which are the administrators of His government and providence, both in the natural and the moral world. In the tabernacle, with their faces toward the ark, they guard the covenant which it symbolized. Being the two supporters of the ark on which the divine Shekinah glory rested between them (like the supporters of a shield in heraldry), they occupied so subordinate a place as to cause no risk of being made objects of worship). The cherub combined in itself the highest kinds of creaturely life. Thus, God here, riding upon the cherub, implies that He comes in all His majesty as Lord of all creation.