Now as I looked at the living creatures, I saw a wheel on the earth beside the living creatures, one for each of the four of them.
The Prophet could not grasp the whole vision at once, though God gave him understanding by His Spirit. When Ezekiel fixed his eyes on the living creatures, the wheels appeared, one wheel beside each creature, positioned at right angles to one another. These wheels represent the constant changes of the world, which is like a tempestuous sea, subject to opposite winds and utterly unstable.
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God's glory shines not only in heaven's splendour but in the steadiness of His government below. Providence works like wheels in a clock, not moving of themselves but kept always in action by His direction. Faith discerns wisdom, power, and goodness in His administration of all things on earth; He judges and acts like Himself everywhere.
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Commenting on Ezekiel 1:15-25
Some explain these wheels as angels, others as the visible world and all things movable and uncertain. But the true interpretation comes from Revelation: the wheels are the twenty-four elders, representatives of Gospel churches. They move as the creatures move, stand as they stand, and rise as they rise, the perfect emblem of churches under the Gospel, round in form, a symbol of perfection.
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