Exodus 37:7-8 Then he made two cherubim out of hammered gold at the ends of the cover.
He made one cherub on one end and the second cherub on the other; at the two ends he made them of one piece with the cover. (The cover of the ark of the covenant, would be the earthly throne of the Lord which God would call the atonement cover, to show us that, when He looks on our failure to live up to the Ten Commandments inside, all He sees is His atonement for us. Bezalel, the Lord's chosen craftsman, was instructed
to mold the atonement cover of the ark along with two heavenly forms to sit at each end of the atonement cover out of pure gold. Cherubim had been commanded earlier in Genesis to guard the entrance to the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve had been expelled from it because they had eaten of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. There the cherubim were to guard the entrance to God's perfect creation to keep it open for man's later reentry and also to guard man from an even worse fate that would result from eating from the Tree of Life, an outcome that would cause man to live forever in his sinful state. The Lord leaves no detail unaddressed. These cherubim figures atop the atonement cover would be one with the cover itself to show that heaven carefully guards the atonement of man that the Lord has provided and that that protection is always present. He makes sure that today He still guards us against all the forces of darkness that would deceive us, that would stead our inheritance in Him, and that would cause us defeat and pain. The atonement covering that God has provided for us through Christ stands forever to provide His redemption covering over us.)
