Let's remind a narration thread: in the beginning the God was all in all. The world has not been created yet for the Son of God has not been still born, but existed in the God, in his bosom. Then God has said unto the Son: You are My Son, this day have I begotten You, Ps.2:7. Here I speak about birth of the Christ which was before world creation, as well as is written: «from the womb before Lucifer* like dew was Your birth» (Ps.109:3 in Russian Bible) or “from the womb of the morning thou hast the dew of thy youth” (Ps.110:3 in KJV). So, the Christ is born from the bosom of the Father and became the only begotten Son, John.1:18. The word "only-begotten" means «born only from the Father», besides born before any creature, Col.1:15, including before and “äåííèöû*”, the son of the morning (i.e. before Lucifer), Is.14:12. It was the dawn of God’s creation, a dawn of the future world. As apostle Paul writes: « For by him (by Christ) were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible … and he is before all things” Col.1:16,17. Needless to say, that during birth of the Christ from bosom of the Father, there was no still neither the heaven, nor an earth, people have not been still created, was not also Angels.
Having given birth to the Son, the God has given him glory. We know about it according to Jesus when He prayed such words: «And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee BEFORE THE WORLD WAS», John.17:5. That concept which people usually put in a word "glory", does not do in this case. Bible understanding of glory (and especially glory of God) is absolutely other. Only the few have received to see glory of God. Glory of God saw Moses, prophet Isaiah (Jn.12:41), Stephen (Acts.7:55), Apostles Peter, John, James (Luke.9:32). Glory of God decorates (Job, 40:10), sanctifies a place, on which it is (Ex. 29:43) and this is already action!
«And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on the top of the mount … », Ex. 24:17. Similarity of the glory of the Lord saw prophet Ezekiel: « And, behold … a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it … also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures … And every one had four faces, and … four wings. And their feet were straight feet, and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass. And they had the hands of a man under their wings … As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle. As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire… it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. … (And) behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces. The appearance of the wheels … like unto the colour of a beryl … As for their rings, they were dreadful … And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal … And above the firmament … was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it. And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness … As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud … This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord », Ezek.1:4-28.
An indispensable part of the glory of the Lord is these four animals. I would name them super animals; after all they are allocated by high reason. Apostle Paul names them «cherubims of glory », Heb.9:5 that once again emphasizes their accessory to God’s glory. A throne of the Lord also is an integral part of His glory. « A glorious high throne from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary», prophet Jeremiah, 17:12 writes. Creating the Heaven, the Lord operated himself, and only through the only-begotten Son born by him. In the beginning heavenly Jerusalem, which has become as the habitation of God’s glory, Is.63:15 have been created. In glory habitation throne of the Lord has been ennobled.
The cherub that covered (or Lucifer) was the first of the beings created by the God through the Christ. The birth of the Christ was still before the First Day of creation. Six days of creation described on the first page of the Bible, equally concern and creation of the Earth, and to Heaven creation, Gen.2:1. Creation of Lucifer I would date to the first Day of creation. When the God laid the foundations of the Earth, then still absolutely without form and void, God’s Angels exclaimed for joy. In the book of Job they are named by the morning stars and the sons of God, Job.38: 6, 7. It means, that some of Angels then have already been created, and the creation of the Earth occurred before their eyes. The Lord named them sons of God: this rather responsible and great name.