This word's first two mentions also give us examples of the idea of covering. Its first appearance occurs in the account of Noah and the building of the ark. It also occurs in both a noun and a verb form. The second occurrence took place when the Israelites were slaves in Egypt and began to increase in number. Pharaoh sought to kill the Hebrew baby boys in Egypt. To save her son's life, Moses' mother, Jochebed, made an ark of bulrushes to save him.
In Hebrew, this is the same word that is used for the ark of Noah. In Noah's case, the pitch covered the sacred space's contents inside the vessel, preserving the lives in it, as was the same as the vessel in which Moses was placed. These connect us with the purpose of the ark-cover of the tabernacle structure of protecting its living contents.
We see the seed for this pattern of "covering," in the sense of guarding a sacred space that contained life, developed in the very first chapters of Genesis with the incident of the first sin committed in the garden. So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.
Just as cherubim guarded the way to the tree of life after the fall, so they were also displayed as the guardians of God's lifegiving holiness in the Tabernacle. Make two cherubim of gold; make them of hammered work at the two ends of the mercy seat. Make one cherub at one end and one cherub at the other end.
At its two ends, make the cherubim of one piece with the mercy seat. The cherubim are to have wings spread out above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and are to face one another. The faces of the cherubim should be toward the mercy seat. In the garden scene, humans had been driven away from the presence of God. In the Tabernacle, humans are brought near. Henry Soltau, mid's Bible scholar, in his book The Holy Vessels and Furniture of the Tabernacle , sums up the entire revelation of the cover along with the Cherubim's purpose as it concerns the garden event and salvation through the Lord Jesus.
They the cherubim no longer stand to debar man's approach to life, but they brood with outstretched wings over the place of mercy, whence life and blessings flow.
No longer are they connected with the flaming sword; but their faces now intently trun towards the place of grace the blood on the mercy seat God never proves Himself more holy than when He pardons sin; for that mercy and pardon are ever grounded upon His righteous judgments having been poured out on the head of Christ, on behalf of, and as the substitute for the sinner". There were three mentioned contents of the Ark of the Covenant.
According to the writer of Hebrews , these three connect with life. We will examine these in the next few sections. The heavenly manna illustrates how life connects to faithful obedience to God's Commands, Word, and Truth.
So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.
No man but Christ was able to fulfill this perfect obedience. Noah "walked" with God code for obeying God's commands but failed after leaving the ark in the drunk vineyard incident, which resembles the garden account in Genesis chapter three. Moses got right up next to the promised land and then failed just before entering it.
The manna pointed to the perfectly obedient One sent from heaven who could secure for us eternal life. Most assuredly, I say to you, in Me has everlasting life. Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
This is the bread which comes down from heaven, that one may eat of it and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world. The second noted item in the ark was Aaron's rod that budded. Aaron's rod shows a type of resurrection life. In this case, a dead rod sprouts new life compared to the other ones presented in a challenge concerning who had rightful authority in the priesthood.
See Numbers chapter 17 The budding rod authenticated and pointed to the only one was qualified to offer His life in death and be resurrected that we might walk in the newness of life. Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
This same connection was made with Aaron's rod in a previous account when Pharaoh's magicians challenged Moses and Aaron's authority by trying to duplicate the sign. For every man threw down his rod, and they became serpents. Again we see only one rod that qualified above all the others. A New Testament passage gives us the application of this particular scene as it pertains to a new life in connection with resurrection.
For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality death may be swallowed up by life. Contrary to the Indiana Jones movies, the Ark was not relocated in You need not carry it on your shoulders.
It is believed the Ark was destroyed during the destruction of Jerusalem at the hands of King Nebuchadnezzar. This new state of the church will reveal the mysteries of the word and its truths fully illuminated.
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Share this. The Hebrew Bible doesn't specify when they fled Egypt, and there is a debate among scholars as to whether there ever was an exodus from Egypt. The ark vanished when the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem in B. The ark has a number of seemingly magical powers, according to the Hebrew Bible. In one story, the Jordan River stopped flowing and remained still while a group of priests carrying the ark crossed the river.
Other stories describe how the Israelites took the ark with them into battle where the powers of the ark helped the Israelites defeat their enemies. When the ark was captured by the Philistines , outbreaks of tumors and disease afflicted them, forcing the Philistines to return the ark to the Israelites. Some stories describe how death would come to anyone who touched the ark or looked inside it.
There are two biblical stories describing the construction of the ark. The first, and most famous version, is found in the Book of Exodus and describes how a large amount of gold was used to build the ark. The second version, found in the Book of Deuteronomy, briefly describes the construction of an ark made just of wood.
Understanding the stories surrounding the ark is challenging because of the different accounts. Similar to His presence in the temple, Jesus visited synagogues frequently. He taught, gathered for prayer, and even healed people. It played a central role in Jewish life, when traveling to the Temple in Jerusalem was saved mostly for the major holidays.
And so these terms and places serve as a model for us as well. The writer of Hebrews had much to say about the tabernacle and the foreshadowing it provides of the greater priesthood that came through Jesus our Messiah. God has always desired to dwell among His people. Since the dawn of creation, the Father desired that His people would carry His presence.
To be carriers of His dominion, His power, and His authority. It is a glimpse of the promise to come for all of us. H e will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
Let us not forget that we are carriers of His Kingdom. We are that dwelling place of God in the Spirit Ephesians Estimated reading time: 7 minutes.
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