Jesus and the Ark of the Covenant

[DarcyLu]

The Ark of the Covenant, the mercy seat of God, where God would come to meet and instruct His people in the Holy of Holies, inside the tabernacle, was where God manifested His glory.

The greek word for mercy seat is bilasterion, which also means sacrifice for atonement and propitiation, so if we read Romans 3:25 it would say “God presented (Jesus Christ) as a (mercy seat), through faith in His blood.†Jesus IS our mercy seat, He is the manifestation of God’s glory, and when He died the curtain was torn so we may enter into the Holy of Holies.

inside the ark was the manna, the budding staff of Aaron’s and the 10 commandments. Each one with it’s own significance but now each one fulfilled by Jesus Christ, just as He is now our mercy seat.

The Israelites were given manna (bread from heaven), to feed them physically. And now we have the real, living bread from heaven in Jesus Christ, straight from God’s own hand, to fill our hungry souls! What an almighty God He is! Jesus has now replaced the manna.

John 6:35 Jesus said unto them. I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall not hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

The budding staff of Aaron’s, was used by God to show the Israelites who their High Priest would be. Obviously, who can disagree, Jesus is now our High Priest. Jesus has now replaced the budding staff!
The third item(s) were the 2 sets of tablets of the 10 commandments, given to Israel, to teach them what sin was, this was actually the 2nd set of commandments because Moses broke the first ones, the spiritual context here would be that the law was and would continue to be broken until Jesus Christ came and fulfilled them.

Deu 5:29 Oh that there were such a heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

Jesus gave us greater commandments….

In Matthew 22:36 Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law? And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfill.

Each one of the items in the ark were significant for the Israelites and now they have all been replaced by One, in that we may rest in each one and be filled spiritually by the True Living Bread!

 

[Cornelius]

Num 17:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bare ripe almonds.

Almonds are a type for the first fruit Man Child in Revelation. They flower early. The wild almond also produces cyanide when crushed or chewed ( symbolic for "death to self" ) God allowed Aaron's rod to blossom, because he is also a type for the Man Child. He is from the house of Levi (priests) because the Man Child is a company of "priests" with Jesus the High Priest. Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

The ripe almonds on the staff, means that they represent the 100 fold fruit in Matthew : Mat 13:8 and others fell upon the good ground, and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

 

[DarcyLu]

Num 17:8 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses went into the tent of the testimony; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and put forth buds, and produced blossoms, and bare ripe almonds.

Almonds are a type for the first fruit Man Child in Revelation. They flower early. The wild almond also produces cyanide when crushed or chewed ( symbolic for "death to self" ) God allowed Aaron's rod to blossom, because he is also a type for the Man Child. He is from the house of Levi (priests) because the Man Child is a company of "priests" with Jesus the High Priest. Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: over these the second death hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

The ripe almonds on the staff, means that they represent the 100 fold fruit in Matthew : Mat 13:8 and others fell upon the good ground, and yielded fruit, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

C, i am amazed at how well you know the Word. i have learned yet again from your understanding.

 

[Cornelius]

The almond is not really a nut, its a drupe There are interesting parallels that we can see between this and the human on the path of salvation.

In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part (That is a clear description of a human ) (exocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone or pyrene) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries. The definitive characteristic of a drupe is that the hard, lignified stone (or pit) is derived from the ovary wall of the flower.
Other fleshy fruits may have a stony enclosure that comes from the seed coat surrounding the seed, but such fruits are not drupes.
Some flowering plants that produce drupes are coffee, jujube, mango, olive, most palms (including date, coconut and oil palms), pistachio, and all members of the genus Prunus, including the almond (in which the mesocarp is somewhat leathery), apricot, cherry, damson, nectarine, peach, and plum.
Drupes, with their sweet, fleshy outer layer, attract the attention of animals as a food (The flesh -life of a Christian gets eaten up by the Beast. Its through tribulation that our flesh dies to self and the seed gets to come forth ), and the plant population benefits from the resulting dispersal of its seeds. The endocarp (pit or stone) is often swallowed, passing through the digestive tract, and returned to the soil in feces with the seed inside unharmed; sometimes it is dropped after the fleshy part is eaten.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drupe

Yes, when the Beast has done with us, we drop to the ground and through death we get raised to a new life in Christ. Joh 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

There is more to the almond than meets the eye ! Look up almond in the Bible.

 

[DarcyLu]

yes, i have done the almond search before but perhaps i will do it again.
Exodus 25:34
And on the lampstand there are to be four cups shaped like almond flowers with buds and blossoms.

also the olive oil, olive branch study is good, too. :yes

 

[DarcyLu]

upon studying the word almond, i ran across the word almond is derived from the word shaqad, which means to wait and watch.

in Jeremiah 1:11 11 The word of the LORD came to me: "What do you see, Jeremiah?" "I see the branch of an almond tree," I replied. 12 The LORD said to me, "You have seen correctly, for I am watching to see that my word is fulfilled."

that is amazing! there is a play on words in this scripture. lol