Gods Tabernacle Ark and Mercy Seat!

“Gods Mercy Seat”

Exodus 25:21

And thou shalt put the Mercy Seat above upon the Ark; and in the Ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

“The Lamb of God”

Revelation 5. The Divine Throne Room. The focus shifts from God Almighty on His Throne to the Lamb of God before the Throne. The Lamb is now the Centre of attention. As the scene opens, the attention of the universe is riveted on a great drama unfolding before the Throne. John sees God the Father Seated on His Throne, holding in His right hand "a book written within and on the back, sealed with seven seals" Revelation 5:1 In ancient protocol the right-hand side, especially of a Sovereign, always signified favour or-Highest standing. In other words, this Book has special significance. But its message is sealed.

Revelation 5:1

I saw in the right hand of Him who sat on the Throne a book written inside and on the back, sealed up with seven seals.

Colossians 1:19

For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell.

“The Ark points to Christ in three wonderful aspects”

Of all the types of Christ in the Old Testament, none is more remarkable than the Ark. The Ark was made of strong, indestructible acacia wood, overlaid with pure gold. As always, this speaks of Christ's Holy, sinless humanity and His deity. In Christ we see perfection in manhood and the setting forth of all that God was in a man. The Ark preserved all that was put in it. Christ is the Ark, and God has put all of His plans and purposes for man in Christ. God has revealed to us that He is going to have a universe of joy and happiness, headed up by His Son.

“God’s Tabernacle, Ark, and Mercy Seat’’

Ezra 3:11 

“And all the people shouted with a great joy, when they praised the LORD, because the Foundation of the House of the LORD was laid.” 

“Treasures in Jars of Clay”

2 Corinthians 14:7

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, so that the surpassing greatness of the power will be of God and not from ourselves; we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing.

“A preparing of our hearts and Lives for the Lord”

Therefore, wait in joyful anticipation and prepare your heart this Advent season for the return of your Good Shepherd.

Worship – Pray - intercede – Love - Serve. Do the work God has given you to do. In fact, let me send you on your way with the words King Saul used to send David on his way. 

“Go, and the LORD be with you!”

There’s a reason why Jesus is called “the Son of David” in the very first verse of the New Testament. There’s a reason why Zechariah prophecies that God “has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David”. There’s a reason why the people of Jerusalem cry out: “Hosanna to the Son of David”. There’s a reason why the Book of Revelation calls Jesus “the key of David”, “the Root of David” and “the Descendant of David”.

Matthew 1:1

This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the Son of David, the son of Abraham:

Luke 1:69

He has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of His servant David.   

Matthew 21:9

The crowds that went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" "Hosanna in the highest heaven!

Revelation 3:7

"To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds the key of David.

Revelation 5:5

"Stop crying," one of the elders told me. "Look! The Lion from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered.

Revelation 22:16

“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the Root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”

“Only in the Shed Blood of the Messiah The Root of David”

Matthew 13:35

"I will open my mouth. I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world."

For over 6000 years the DNA of humans and everything on the planet has been suppressed, and this has been by design and no fault of humans. From the records of Genesis chapter 3, the Serpent around the Tree of Knowledge (technology) of Good and Evil, We know that represents the DNA record keeper of humanity and the planet.

Adam and Eve lost their Glory- body as a result of the Genesis 3 encounter, which was a metaphor for genetic manipulation. Their original DNA, chromosomes and genetic markers language codes were disrupted and reprogrammed and their genetic sequences were thrown off. Therefore, they "missed the mark" – This is the definition for "sin" from the Greek New Testament’

The Bible is a prophetic book, with over 25% of it referring to future events. The most mathematically amazing Scripture is found in Daniel 9:25-26.In this Scripture the Angel Gabriel is foretelling the exact date when Jesus Christ, the anticipated Messiah, would come to Jerusalem. It is completely accurate to the very day!

Daniel 9:25-26

"So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. "Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.…

"Know and understand that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty - two weeks … then after the sixty two weeks the Messiah will be cut off.

2 Corinthians 3:18
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the Glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from Glory to Glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.

Isaiah 33:24

No one living in Zion will say, "I am ill"; and the sins of those who dwell there will be forgiven.

“The Root of David”

That reason is more than simple Bloodline. Jesus is “of the House and lineage of David - The Spiritual DNA of David - Luke 2:4, as the Christmas Gospel proclaims. But it’s more than that. For Jesus is the new and greater David. And He came to fight the bigger and stronger Goliath. He Came to destroy the works of the evil one!

“For the soul of all flesh, its life, is in its blood”

Leviticus 17:11
For the life of a creature is in the blood, and I’ have given it to you to make Atonement for yourselves on the altar; it is the Blood that makes Atonement for one's life.

“The Debt that could not be paid”

 

“Everyone there is mesmerized by the Almighty”

The four living creatures can't stop proclaiming His Glory. The twenty-four elders fall down before Him and worship. They know they're in the presence of the Maker of the universe, the Lord of lords, the centre of all things. He is the One who leads the galaxies in their synchronized celestial dance and who also touches lives on planet Earth. God, through John, invites you into His Throne Room.

A debtor, sinner
Definition: (a) a debtor, one who owes, one who is indebted, (b) one who has sinned against another (an Aramaism), a sinner - opheiletés- a debtor - Strong’s concordance

Colossians 2:14

Wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross –

“He Paid our Debt in Full”

Jesus' Blood originating from God, the sinless life of God His Father. His Blood pouring out from the Cross has the potential to Cleanse and Redeem whole of the human race.

 

Bethlehem begins at the foot of Mount Sinai, roughly fourteen centuries before the birth of Christ.

Moses had just received the Ten Commandments from the LORD’s hand. Soon Israel would begin making her way to the Promised Land. But first God wanted Moses to build a Tabernacle that He might visibly dwell among His people. And so, Moses took up a collection from the people and used their materials to construct the tabernacle and its furnishings. Then he put the Ark of the Covenant into the Most Holy Place and raised the curtain that separated this section from the rest of the tabernacle.

“To Dwell among His Covenant People”

 

“They did not know Him”

When everything was in its proper place, the Cloud of God’s Presence covered the Tabernacle’’

Genesis 1:1-2

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters

When everything was in its proper place, the Cloud of God’s Presence covered the tabernacle, and the Glory of the LORD filled it. From that day forward, the LORD of heaven and earth dwelt among His people in that tabernacle, concealed in the Glory cloud by day and the fire by night, enthroned on the Mercy Seat atop the Ark of the Covenant There, in that Most Holy Place, Heaven and earth overlapped.

19-11-21 Christ, the Glorious Head of the church, is described as on a white Horse, the emblem of Justice and Holiness. He has many Crowns, for He is King of kings, and Lord of lords. He is arrayed In a vesture dipped in His own Blood, by which He purchased His power as Mediator; and in the blood of his enemies, over whom he always prevails. His name is The Word of God; a name none fully knows but himself; only this we know, that this Word was God manifest in the flesh; but His perfections cannot be fully understood by any creature.

Angels and Saints follow, and are like Christ in their armour of purity and righteousness. Finally, recall David’s words to Goliath before killing him. “The LORD saves not with sword and spear. For the Battle is the LORD’s, and He will give you into our hand.” Is that not also how Jesus won the battle for you? Not with sword or spear. Not even “with gold or silver, but with His Precious Blood and with His suffering and death.

“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain”

Not only is Jesus the promised Seed of the woman. Not only is He the Sun of righteousness who rose with healing in His wings. He is Immanuel - “God with us”.

Matthew 1:23

Behold! "The virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel" which means "God with us".

In Christ, God came down to dwell with man once again. In fact, that is the whole point of John’s statement from today’s Gospel:

John 1:14

“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His Glory, Glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of Grace and Truth.”

That little word “dwelt” quite literally means “tabernacled”. Which is to say: “The Word became flesh and tabernacled among us.” Do you see the connection.

The Foundation Stone (Hebrew: אבן השתייה)

The occult and secret symbols merge together to de-evolve mankind and transform human DNA. The Triple Helix …

“The Foundation Stone”

The tables of the law were hewn from the same foundation stone that they would eventually rest upon when the Ark of the Covenant was placed inside the Holy of Holies, on Mount Moriah.

"The Well of Souls"

Sometimes translated Pit of Souls, Cave of Spirits, or Well of Spirits — is a partly natural/partly man-made cave located inside the Foundation Stone under the Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem.

The name derives from a medieval Islamic legend that at this place the spirits of the dead can be heard awaiting Judgment day the name of the rock at the heart of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. It is also known as the Pierced Stone because it has a small hole on the southeastern corner that enters a cavern beneath the rock

"Known as the Well of Souls"

It is the holiest site in Judaism (Midrash Tanhuma, chapter 10); Jewish tradition views it as the spiritual junction of Heaven and Earth. Jews traditionally face it while praying, in the belief that it was the location of the Holy of Holies in the Temple.

They will fence in the breaches of the walls of the Temple and construct a building on the site of the sanctuary”.

“The Tree on Fire”

Spiritual lessons from trees, for Tu B’Shvat

 

The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life in the Bahrain desert is located hundreds of miles from any other tree and survives its harsh environment by spreading its roots down hundreds of feet to aquifers. It is believed to be over 400 years old, and it is one of the loneliest trees in the world. From this tree we learn that we can survive difficult conditions and loneliness as long as we are connected to the life giving waters of the Torah that we can access even in the barest of desert “And it is one of the loneliest trees in the world”.

The Tree of Life exhibits another trait, in common with our scraggly, tiny tree on the edge of the Dead Sea cliff

‘’Things That Gain from Disorder’’

The lonely tree in the desert grew strong and survived because it was forced to develop a deep enough root system to reach the water hundreds of feet below the ground.

We can make the mistake of believing that we are fragile beings since our bodies are so vulnerable. But even our physical bodies only grow when they are stressed to a certain limit. Short high intensity workouts accomplish more than longer, moderate workouts. Our muscles need to be pushed to their limit to really grow.

The same is true in developing our spiritual muscles. Our souls want to reach the heights of the Giant Sequoia, yearning to grow like the Pirangi Cashew Tree, but they need to be challenged and stretched. They are anti-fragile-they grow stronger when pushed to break through their shell and go outside their comfort zone.

In the winter when the trees are bereft of their leaves and the ground is still frozen,

Similarity in appearance between the Menorah and a Tree is neither coincidental

Nor is it the product of artistic license. The shape of the menorah with branches foliating from its central stem is clearly patterned after a tree. The Jewish people have long believed that the menorah originally represented the tree of life. The Lamp stand is clearly a symbol of God’s Word, which was David’s “lamp unto my feet”

Psalm 119:105

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

“The Tree of Life”

Proverbs 3:18

She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retained her.

In the Apocalypse, God says that they who do His commandments Torah” have a right “to the Tree of life” - Even without its flames of fire, then, the Menorah contains supreme meaning, a message of God’s life-giving force and of the Divine foundation of all existence.

Revelation 22:14

Blessed are those who wash their robes, so that they may have the right to the Tree of Life and that they may enter the city by the gates.

“And your recovery will come quickly”

Isaiah 58:8

Then your light will appear like the dawn, and your recovery will come quickly. Your righteousness will go before you, and the LORD's glory will be your rear guard.

“The Light of Revelation”

“Believing in the Gift of God His Tabernacle on Earth”

Simeon's only desire in life was to look upon the face of the messiah.  Many years had passed and he was old and ready to die, but God had revealed to him that he would not die until he had seen the Messiah.  Even though the dark shadow of death had crept toward him, he believed without doubt in the promise of God. One day while in the Temple he met Mary and Joseph. Simeon took the baby in his arms and full of joy, he praised God. "Now I can die in peace," he cried out,

                         "For my eyes have Seen Your salvation, 0 Lord."

  

Simeon knew that this Beautiful light that descended from Heaven would beam down, not only upon Israel, but upon all nations. He professed that many would come to love the child and would receive happiness through Him, but there would be many others who would not believe in the divinity of Jesus.  The birth of the Holy Child (Ark) would cause some to fall and others to rise. Simeon professed many things as his aged eyes saw far into the future. He knew that Mary's joy was greater than anyone's joy, but in time, her sorrow would be more painful than a sword piercing the heart. When Simeon fell silent, another voice was raised. The new speaker was an old, gray woman, the prophetess Anna. She was an 84-year-old widow who spent every day  in the Temple.

God Bless

Josie Hagen