This orb is what some call "The Watchers" or "The Ophanim" (Hebrew for "wheels"). Refer to the wheels seen in Ezekiel's vision of the chariot. One of the Dead Sea Scrolls construes them as angels; late sections of the Book of Enoch portray them as a class of celestial beings who (along with the Cherubim and Seraphim) never sleep, but guard the throne of God. In some systems of Christian angelology, they are one of the choirs (classes) of angels, and are also identified as "Thrones". source: o...