Ark of the Covenant

[John 8:32]

I like this explanation. I remember there was some story somewhere about the priest and his sickle and cutting the stalk of grain for the wave offering. I was looking on the Internet ironically earlier today about this and could not find anything. I should have known all I would have to do is ask my buddy John 8:32! :yes Thanks for that. I agree that's how it all happened (i.e. with Christ raising from the dead) but like I said I just could not find it.

Tim, for you and anyone else interested in what the Wave Offering is all about...

http://livingtheway.org/wave2.html

 

[tim-from-pa]

Tim, for you and anyone else interested in what the Wave Offering is all about...

http://livingtheway.org/wave2.html

Thanks John! It's bookmarked and will be good bedtime reading tonight!

 

[nmwings]

Anyhoo, at His death (and He really did die) what happened to the veil in the Temple?

Mat 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;

so that the Holy of Holies was exposed.

I submit that the veil was torn so that the Father (who was sitting on His Throne -the Mercy Seat) could look out through the veil, over the Altar, through the Eastern Gate, across the Kidron Valley and see His Son being lifted up over the Altar (thus being SANCTIFIED by the Altar) on the Mount of Olives. If you have been led to believe the Altar doesn't mean anything (either then or now,) please remember that the Messiah scolded the Pharisees for putting the value of the gift over and above the Altar. Yes, His gift to us was enormus! But by ignoring the Altar we fall into the same pit the Pharisees were in. Also, it is worth noting that it is no coincidence that the very place Yeshua (Jesus) was crucified was the same place the Red Heifer was burned.

I think when we start talking about the offerings we're getting a little bit off topic. I don't want to trample the subject of this thread, so if you would like to continue our discussion on the Offerings, why don't you join me on my thread and at least consider the five, "REAL reasons for the Altar and Sacrificial System" in General Discussion. I look forward to your input.....

Anyhoo, back to the Ark.....
Has anyone seen an accurate representation of what the Ark actually looked like? I've Googled and Googled and can't seem to find even ONE! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Deborah13]

Someone earlier stated the 'wave' offering was never waived.

One thing a person who digs around a bit in Jewish spiritual thought is a very deep (and abiding) respect for 'eternal' God and His Hand showing in creation itself. In many ways the creation physical is an allegory of the spiritual in a reverse play on the literalist only slants.

The wave offering is waved in the field in which it grows. And waved so by the 'wind.' Grown by 'light.' Brought up out of and from beneath the darkness of the earth by 'rain' and the death and new birth of the seed itself.

No two individual grains are alike, ever. Their molecules are intimate to each grain and to each harvest there has yet to be two absolutely identical on a molecular scale. Every single thing that happens to each grain all the way up from the seed to the harvest is entirely unique to the seed and the ultimate produce of same. There is nothing in the entire process that is totally identical to any other grain. Quite incredible when you think about it, His Hand of eternity shown in this way.

The grain offering is also symbolic of 'harvested' mankind.

Matthew 3:12
Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

It's quite a set of very beautiful spiritual pictures. Just depends on how close a look one might be led to take. It is problematic to think of ourselves this way. But even post harvest there is also a bit of work that will still go on, like being ground to powder by the stone...:eeeekkk

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That's interesting about the seed. I hadn't thought of it in quite that way.

 

[Randy]

In the temple, behind the veil in the Holy of Holies was the Ark of the Covenant. Inside the Ark were the 10 Commandments written and engraved on stone. Once a year the high priest would enter the Holy of Holies to bring the blood of the sacrificial lamb to cover the sins of the nation of Israel for one year. The priest would sprinkle the blood on the ark.
Why did the priest do this?

Before the priest entered the Holy of Holies he would be sure to be right with God in all things. They would tie a cord to the priest so that if he died in there they would be able to pull him out. They could not enter the Holy of Holies.
Why might the priest die in the Holy of Holies?

Heart attack? The High Priest was most likely an elder (older fellow; advanced age) But whatever the reason he was the only one allowed in the Holy of Holies.

Randy