- The Ark of The Covenant -

Just getting some more downloads as I am meditating and pondering the greater Spiritual implications vs the lesser physical.

The written Torah was the lesser (physical), but the Living Torah is the Greater (Spiritual)

Brother Matthew Nolan spoke a few weeks about our bodies being the Ark of the Covenant, and how our hearts represent the two tablets of stone that were placed inside of the Ark.

He also, spoke about how we should be built or rather re-built from the inside outward.

Exodus 25:10-22 speaks of the construction of the Ark of the Covenant.

Exo 25:11 “And you shall overlay it with clean gold, inside and outside you shall overlay it. And you shall make on it a molding of gold all around.

Our bodies (The Ark) should be overlayed in clean gold of the Refiner's Fire of testing, trial, and Tribulation which burns away the dross of our flesh and we then become in the image of our Messiah, becoming a reflection of Him.

The four gold rings placed at the four corners of the Ark could represent the four Gospels, The Sabbath (with it being the 4th Commandment and the Door into Covenant living), could represent our betrothal (gold ring) to our Bridegroom that is witnessed within the two acacia poles of the New and Old Testament.

The Poles of Acacia wood represent to me very clearly the "Old" and "New" Testaments, two poles are required, slid through the four rings in order for us (The Ark of the Covenant) to remain well-balanced. (An unjust balance scale is an abomination to Yahuah)

These are the two-fold witness of The Book of the Covenant which was placed in the form of the two tablets of our hearts onto which He has written His Torah upon.

Without the well-balanced witness in our lives of BOTH the "Old" and "New" testaments, we become UNBALANCED and we stumble into sins and follow false doctrines.

They also represent our two legs which hold our body upright, how well could we walk or carry ourselves, on just one leg or the other?

The same is true Spiritually, we cannot simply walk on the leg of the "Old" Testament or the leg of the "New" Testament, but it HAS to be both.

2Sa 6:2 And Dawiḏ rose up and went with all the people who were with him from Baʽalĕ Yehuḏah, to bring up from there the ark of Elohim, that is called by the Name, the Name יהוה of Hosts, who dwells between the keruḇim.

2Sa 6:3 And they placed the ark of Elohim on a new wagon, and brought it from the house of Aḇinaḏaḇ, which was on the hill. And Uzzah and Aḥyo, sons of Aḇinaḏaḇ, were leading the new wagon.

2Sa 6:4 And they brought it from the house of Aḇinaḏaḇ, which was on the hill, with the ark of Elohim. And Aḥyo was walking before the ark.

2Sa 6:5 And Dawiḏ and all the house of Yisra’ĕl were dancing before יהוה, with all instruments of fir wood, and with lyres, and with harps, and with tambourines, and with sistrums, and with cymbals.

2Sa 6:6 And when they came to the threshing-floor of Naḵon, Uzzah reached out toward the ark of Elohim and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.

2Sa 6:7 And the wrath of יהוה burned against Uzzah, and Elohim smote him there for the fault. And he died there by the ark of Elohim.

Exodus 25:17 - Make a lid of Atonement or as Matthew would say, "At one ment"

Joh 17:21 so that they all might be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You, so that they too might be one in Us, so that the world might believe that You have sent Me.

His Atonement sacrifice on the tree COVERS the entire Ark.

"My Atonement for your sins shall cover you."

Why is it called a "mercy seat?" Because His Mercy covers us completely and protects the Ark of the Covenant.

Why the two cherubim?

Because His messengers/angels shall guard and watch over you.

"I shall meet you there." Exodus 25:22

I shall meet you where? In the Tabernacle? Tent of Meeting? The Temple?

No, but where does He meet us? Inside the Ark of the Covenant.

Where do you hear Him speaking to you?

Where do you feel His presence?

Where is His Torah written?

Where is the Kingdom of Heaven?

Luk 17:21 nor will they say, 'See here!' or 'See there!' For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you."

Jer 31:31 “See, the days are coming,” declares יהוה, “when I shall make a new covenant with the house of Yisra’ĕl and with the house of Yehuḏah1, Footnote: 1See Heb. 8:8-12, Heb. 10:16-17.

Jer 31:32 not like the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Mitsrayim, My covenant which they broke, though I was a husband to them,” declares יהוה.

Jer 31:33 “For this is the covenant I shall make with the house of Yisra’ĕl after those days, declares יהוה: I shall put My Torah in their inward parts, and write it on their hearts. And I shall be their Elohim, and they shall be My people.

Jer 31:34 “And no longer shall they teach, each one his neighbor, and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know יהוה,’ for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares יהוה. “For I shall forgive their crookedness, and remember their sin no more.”

*On going* I will edit and add more if/when I receive more insights.

Shalom and blessings