The Pre-Incarnate Christ: Jesus' participation in the pages of the Bible is evidently more prominent in his acts after the incarnation: he assumed human nature (John 1:14; Philippians 2:6-8), died for our sins (John 3:16), rose again on the third day and took his place at the right hand of God (Acts 2:32-33), is mediator and intercedes for us in the heavenly sanctuary (1 Timothy 2:5; Hebrews 9:24), and will one day return to complete his work of redemption (Hebrews 9:28; Revelation 1:7; 22:12). However, we cannot forget that Jesus is eternal and identified as the second person of the Trinity: "The Son exists because the Father exists,

Cherubim Introduction It is in the book of Genesis that we find the first mention of cherubim in the Bible (Gen. 3:24). The text does not express any clues about their appearance and form, however, it seems to outline a path to understanding their function: in the cited account, they act as “guardians of God’s creation” in order to “preserve the sanctity of the garden with its tree of life” (PRICE, 2020, p. 52). “After driving out the man, he placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden and a flaming sword that moved back and forth, guarding the way that led to the tree of life”