The Ark The Tabernacle Tent Golden Lampstand Veil

The Ark

The Tabernacle Tent Golden Lampstand Veil or curtain Altar of Incense Ark of the Covenant Table of Showbread Holy Place Most Holy Place (Holy of Holies)

The Ark of the Covenant

Constituted the Core of the Mosaic Economy

The Ark of the Covenant v The Ark was made of acacia wood and overlaid with gold, inside and out with a gold crown or molding set around the edge of the top. v Four gold rings, one on each leg, were placed for the carrying poles. v The poles were acacia wood overlaid with gold. v The Mercy Seat was set on top of the Ark.

The Ark of the Covenant (Exodus 25: 10 -16) BACK

The Ark of the Covenant The contents of the Ark are listed in Hebrews 9: 4 v The stone tablets with the Ten Commandments v A pot of manna v Aaron’s rod

The Ark of the Covenant The contents of the Ark.

The Mercy Seat (Exodus 25: 17 -21) BACK

The Mercy Seat v The Mercy Seat was made of pure gold. v It had a winged cherub on each side, facing each other with wings outstretched above them, towards each other. v The Mercy Seat was beaten or hammered from one solid piece of gold. v It was placed on top of the Ark.

Numbers 7 v 89 “Then he heard the voice of one speaking to him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of the testimony, between the two cherubim”.

Hebrews 8 v 5 “Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee on the mount”.

Hebrews 10 v 1 “For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect”.

1 Corinthians 2 v 14 “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. ”

Romans 8 v 7 “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. ”

Hebrews 5 v 8 “Though he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered. ”

1 Peter 1 v 14 “As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance. ”

Psalm 37 v 30 “The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgement. ”

Psalm 98 O sing unto the LORD a new song; for he hath done marvellous things: his right hand, and his holy arm, hath gotten him the victory. The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath he openly shewed in the sight of the heathen. He hath remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

Psalm 98 With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King. Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. Let the floods clap their hands: let the hills be joyful together Before the LORD; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

Psalm 99 The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved. The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people. Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy. The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob. Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy. Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the LORD, and he answered them.

Psalm 99 He spake unto them in the cloudy pillar: they kept his testimonies, and the ordinance that he gave them. Thou answeredst them, O LORD our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them, though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions. Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.

Bro R Roberts: “That all these truths should have received representation in so simple a manner in the contents of a simple object like the ark of the testimony is something more than beautiful: it is sublime: it is divine. ”

Leviticus 16 v 12 “And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail. ”

Hebrews 9 v 11 -14 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

Bro R Roberts Every true son and daughter of the Lord God Almighty is a miniature tabernacle or temple, as saith Paul, "Ye are the temple of the living God. If any man defile the temple of God, him will God destroy", Our minds should be a holy place lined with the gold of a tried faith, in which the one Christ-sacrifice for sins is continually offered, and the smoke of grateful incense, kindled by the fire of the altar, continually ascending, while deeply secreted in the innermost ark of the heart is the law of God in its remembrance, the scriptures in their affectionate study, the institutions of divine appointment in continual reverence, and the bread of God in its continual eating. Continued…

Bro R Roberts Continued… Thus shall we be the sons of God in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, misunderstood by all, hated by many, despised and rejected of men, persevering in a bitter probation that will end at last in life and light and joy everlasting, when "the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people. . . and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away".