Even cherubs – usually depicted today as chubby angel babies – did not start out that way. In the first book of the Bible, Genesis, cherubs (cherubim) are warrior sentinels with fiery swords ...

But is that really how the authors of the Bible imagined them ... a far cry from the humanlike angel Aziraphale of Good Omens. While the Thrones and Cherubim were categorized as angels in the ...