The Four Living Creatures (Lion, Ox, Man, Eagle) - Royal Oak, MI
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Quick Description: These four creatures appear many times in the Bible, representing many things. Here, they surround the top of the tower at the National Shrine of the Little Flower.
Location: Michigan, United States
Date Posted: 7/23/2008 7:36:43 PM
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Long Description:Ezekiel describes beings with the faces of all four beasts twice:
"As for the form of their faces, each had the face of a man;
all four had the face of a lion on the right and the face of a bull
on the left, and all four had the face of an eagle."
-- Ezekiel 1:10
"And each one had four faces. The first face was the face of
a cherub, the second face was the face of a man, the third the face
of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle."
-- Ezekiel 10:14
They also appear in the Book of Revelation:
"The first creature was like a lion, and the second creature
like a calf, and the third creature had a face like that of a man,
and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle. And the four
living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of
eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say,
'HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS
AND WHO IS TO COME.'"
-- Revelation 4:7-8
Some associate each of the beasts with one of the Gospels. Here,
each holds one of the Gospels: the ox has Luke, the eagle has John,
the man has Matthew, the lion has Mark.