[circlecity]

"The beauty of statues and icons move us to the contemplation of the Word of God as he is himself or as he works in his saints."

Using the Cheribum of the temple is not an example of this at all as the Cheribum were not designed or intended for this purpose. In fact they were specifically hidden from everyone in Israel except one person who only saw them once a year.

[michaelmas]

What about when the ark was carried outside? There were hundreds of years between the ark band the temple