99:1 cherubims. The cherubim are evidently the highest in all the angelic hierarchy. Wherever they are encountered in Scripture, whether symbolically (e.g., Exodus 25:22) or actually (e.g., Ezekiel 10:19), they are seen to be guarding, as it were, the way into the presence of God (e.g., Genesis 3:24). Satan, or Lucifer, was originally the “anointed cherub” (Ezekiel 28:14), but forfeited this position when pride led him to sin against God (Ezekiel 28:16,17).