A common misinterpretation of Ezekiel 10:22 divorces it from its context of God's glory reluctantly leaving the defiled temple due to Israel's sin, instead viewing it as a standalone description of mysterious creatures or even extraterrestrial beings based on their 'straight forward' movement and facial likenesses, ignoring the cherubim's role as throne-bearers of God's sovereignty and the vision's purpose to warn of coming exile and call for repentance.
Ezekiel 10:22
King James Version (1769)
22 And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.
Ezekiel 10:22 affirms the continuity of the prophet's visions, stating that the faces of the cherubim accompanying God's departing glory from the temple are identical to those seen earlier by the river Chebar, emphasizing the unchanging nature of these divine beings and the reliability of Ezekiel's prophetic revelations amid Judah's judgment for idolatry and unfaithfulness.