The Ark of the Covenant Study

going to cover this afternoon is actually the other half of what we did this morning and it could actually explain a little bit more about the campus and I actually did this one several years ago and it was quite interesting how it came about it's it's about the Ark of the Covenant and I always was curious what the ark was about you know what it represented and you know what what kind of things could we glean from that because after all we've seen a lot in history of you know the Ark and you know the movies have been done about it Raiders of the Lost Ark you know and there's all these fantasies about people finding it and such so I put this teaching together and then I kind of sat on it for a while because I really didn't have anything to do and I also I'm going to show you in a little bit here I actually have some acacia wood some Cheatham wood from the scene I and the first time I tried to get in it wasn't available and the next year the father said okay I want you to keep working on this I started working on it I thought you know I'm going to see if I can get some acacia wood and lo and behold I got some and it was the guy that I that I got it from it's just little pieces and I'll show you them in a minute here in a few minutes and it took 18 years for them to get a permit to cut down one tree and you all thought that Israel was in the desert for 40 years because of no it took 18 years for them to get the permit to cut down the tree to make the ark and then took him another 22 years to get the permit to take it out of the land I'm kidding but it was interesting that that I managed to get and some would actual from a tree from the scene I and I'll explain more about that and what it's about so what we're going to do is we're going to dive into the ark and covenant Raider of the Lost Ark that's what I've entitled this one what is the Ark of the Covenant really all about so again understand that there are multiple ways of looking at Scripture so I don't present this to you in saying this is the only way to look at this okay it's just another way to look at things and another way to understand things and then we'll we'll move forward from there and somebody else would come up with another teaching about the ark and there's nothing wrong with that this is one perspective and it actually ties in with what we just did today and I never intended it for but when Isaac asked me if I would please come and share this is what the father shared on my heart and when I started looking at the mid bar and started breaking it down I thought wow this is perfectly so here we go so in art it's the name of it is our own it denotes the chest or a copper in general but it is applied particularly to the gesture of the ark in which the testimony in the two tablets of the Covenant were laid up on the top of which was the proprietary or mercy seat and at the end which were the Pharaoh beam of gold between the who visible sign of the presence of God appeared as seated upon his throne I'm having there there we go if we break down the Hebrew letters in the Paleo Hebrew it will look like this the olive is an ox head strong power leader yes is the head of man first the top or the beginning and the noon is the seed or continues by the air and the Sun now as we start into this and you start it's the head or the kingship in a sense the strong leader that rash is the head of the man the first at the top of the being establishing that's duel and then the seed the air or the Sun so you can you can see the Son of God in this and we're going to we're going to go through this a little bit more now if we add the one letter who serves as the high priests in Aaron or our own we have to add the letter hey to this and Aaron is our own with the hay in it so if we add the hay to it the man with raised arms he's looking or is revealing he's breathing so Aaron reveals the kingship to the people the high priest is revealing this so that's just a kind of a breakdown of the words very simply or the letters in there you all familiar with paleo Hebrew because Isaac talks about it frequently right well by the way I got a text message from him too so they're doing great I can show you a picture it's got three in there one of them is they're standing on the Mount of Olives with Jerusalem behind them and the olive trees in ER that's pretty cool so all right did I skip one here by the way they're sleeping right now yes yeah let's call I don't think they'll answer so let's look at the history I just want to briefly go through the history of the Ark of the Covenant and just show you how much stuff has been surrounding this so the search of the Ark was fascinated man for centuries a list of people resources and lives spent trying to find and claim this item expands thousands of years great power and mystery have been assigned to the Ark what is the truth no biblical record of any power going out from the ark except with the slaying of ooza was the man that when they put the ark on the cart and he put his hand out to steady it that's the only record that you're going to find of anything of the ark actually doing something but yet I bet all of you have thought of the Ark is having this great power and maybe it had influence and all these different things but the only other place that has done anything and will cover it is when the statues fell down okay but other than that there's there's no record of anything so if you read in the second book of Maccabees chapter 2 you'll read of your Yahoo apparently hiding the ark and other temple items before the invasion of the Babylonians at what some say is Mount Nebo men almost immediately went out to find it and couldn't and we're berated by your Yahoo saying that as for that place it shall be unknown until the time that God gathers his people again together okay that's the book of one of the apocryphal books so we're just going through the actual history okay this is not the biblical history we need to biblical history in a second the short history the ark is as follows Moses told Bezalel to create the ark alternative and these are some alternative stories that have come up about the art we talk about people making up stuff and coming up with all kinds of things Moses copying an earlier Ark in Egypt that's what they say now these are all people that are trying to you know just get rid of everything the Ark stays in the first temple built by Solomon son of David the alternative queen of sheba son metalic stole the real art left a copy behind and went to Ethiopia okay some of this stuff's just funny Egyptian King she shocked took temple treasury 925 BCE implies look in the nearest Egyptian temple for the Ark you know we stole it it's over in Egypt that's where you going to find it not the Ark hiding place built into the design of the first temple late rabbi Getz saw the Ark under the Temple Mount Ron Wyatt saw the art near Calvary yummy Yahoo where others hid it away from the city of Jerusalem Bendel Jones archaeology dig in the cave near come run on the Dead Sea look around the Dead Sea and then the search by Orrin P Purcell in Jordan so the Ark is every place according to history the Babylonia destroyed the first temple in 576 BCE the Rome destroyed the second temple in 70 CE Titus art shows the candelabra as spoil from the temple but no Ark the Vatican inherited much of the Roman spoils the Knights Templar founded in 1212 or 1112 seee Common Era they controlled the Temple Mount for a while the claim of the Templars as they moved the Ark to France to claim the ark then went to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland but African Limbaugh's they have a drum that's named the ark and I've seen some stuff done some history on that and the drum by par feet that's the guy that wrote the article he studied so everybody's been looking for the ark and historical thing is all over the place there's all kinds of stories about where it is and what it is and but what is it really so the biblical history of the ark the first mention of the argues Exodus 25:10 two numbers 10:35 when the Israel and to make it up to where they finally move from out see 9 the next mention is that the border into the promised land when the people revolt and try to go into the land against the direction of Yehovah this is the first time where we see any indication of power residing with the ark numbers 14 44 but they presumed to go up to the top of the mountain nevertheless the Ark of the Covenant of Jehovah and Moshe a departed not out of a camp it did not go to war it didn't go to work it did go to war in Deuteronomy we have the overview of the making and commandments there are some specifics we will cover in a moment now we begin the active use of the Ark in Yahshua here's the real first use of the miracles and association with the argument I set that aside as miracles aside from the fact that that pillar of cloud came down on the Holy of Holies and everyone pretty much agrees that it came down on the place where the Ark of the Covenant was it actually came through as a cloud in the Holy of Holies from the mercy seat in the center that's pretty much the understanding but the Ark didn't really do anything God just sent the cloud and it descends in there in Yahshua 3:16 that the waters which came down from above and this is the yard and the Jordan and in one heat a great way off a tad on the city that is inside xerath on and those that went down toward the sea of the errata even the salt sea were wholly cut off and the people passed right over against Jericho after entering the land the artists place with the tabernacle at Shiloh so that's the that's the entering when the priests we're carrying the Ark and just as their foot went down on to the water the water goes along separates but they're carrying the ark the ark didn't really do anything God did if at the Ark's right there with them okay after entering the land the artists placed at Shiloh it is captured by the Philistines in the defeat of Israel in 1st Samuel 410 is taken to Ashdod it is returned to Israel to Beth Shemesh in 1st Samuel then moved to curiam in 1st Samuel where it stays for about 20 years yeah right and that's what I was mentioning what Debbie said she raised her hand and I said yeah that's the other that's the other issue the statues literally fell down twice right in the but that was brought on by God the ark didn't actually do it and see here's the thing well we could say that well let's go let's finish going through what the Ark is and when I get through with that when I get through with all this then you'll start to see maybe a little bit different picture of it but I think what's going on is God is actually doing these things the Ark is a representation and it's a picture as well and that's what I'm going to show you it's all contemplates bringing the ark up to the battle but Jonathan has already started the victory for Samuel David is the first to attempt to bring the ark to Jerusalem and finally bringing it up in Jerusalem in 2nd Samuel Solomon brings it into the temple ok the last reference of the arc in the Bible is Chronicle 35:3 with King Josiah King Josiah ruled about 642 609 BC the Babylonian captivity happened to progress on at least 597 576 some were a mere 30 to 250 years later the Ark and life to this point approximately 800 years that's how long it's been in existence at this point the art disappears from history and the speculation begins where to go what's going on so what does the Ark do what is the purpose of the ark okay from a biblical standpoint what is the purpose and now she'll put the mercy seat upon above upon the ark and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee and there I will meet with you and I will commune with you from above the mercy seat from between the two heralding which are upon the ark so it's a it's a mercy seat it's where you're going to put some items in there and it's also going to be a place where I meet with you and I commune with you okay those are those are the basic biblical structures of what is for it's also to seek your resting place numbers 1033 and they set forward from the mount of Jehovah three days journey and the Ark of the Covenant of your Hoeber went before them three days journey to seek out a resting place for them right now did the ark really seek out a resting place it was just something for them to focus on yeah we can discuss that to lead you'll saya 3:3 Joshua or rather and they commanded the people saying when you see the ark of the covenant of yahweh your elohim and the priests the Levites bearing it then you shall remove from your place and go after it they were to follow it it was something that they were to be following [Music] the purpose of the art continued and it came to pass and the people removed in their tent to pass over the yard and the priests that bear the Ark of the Covenant being before the people and when they that bear the ark would come into the Jordan and the feet of the priests that bear the ark were dipped in the brink of the water that the waters which came down from above stood and rose up in he verse 17 and the priests that bear the ark of the covenant of your hova stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the yard and and all Israel passed over on dry ground until all the nation were passed clean over the yard and accompanies the host of Israel to battle in 613 and seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams horns before the ark of Jehovah went on continually and blew the trumpets and the armed man went before them and the rearward came after the Ark of the Holga the priests blowing the trumpet as they went again the Ark is just with us it's not doing anything it's just with him repent before in Joshua 76 and Yahshua rent his clothes and fell to the earth upon his face before the Ark of Jehovah until the evening he and the elders of Israel and they put dust upon their heads they repented before the ark the witness 8:33 in all Israel and their elders and the officers and their judges stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests or the Levites that bear the ark of the covenant of yoga as well as the Sojourner as the home born half of them in the front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of the Mount at all as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded at the first that they should be blessed the people of Israel so it was a witness unto both of them it's for counsel the children is reactive Jehovah for the Ark of the Covenant of Elohim was in there those days and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the son of our own stood before it in those days saying shellay yet again go out to the battle against the children Binyamin my brother or shall I cease and you Hovis said go up you hold it said go up okay but he went to the arc because that's the meeting place that's where God's going to meet with you a comes against foreign gods this is what we were talking about earlier Dave you brought this up and Debbie Lee and when they they of Ashdod rose early on the morrow behold Dagon was following upon his face to the ground before their arc of yoga and they took daggone and sent him up in this place again and when they arose early on the morrow morning the whole dragon was not only following his face to the ground before the ark but in the head of Dagon and both palms of his hands lay cut off on the threshold that's where the Pope got his hat okay continued in the arc of your hova was in the country the Philistine seven-month Council with their priests and diviners don't be like Egypt wherefore ye shall make images of your tumors and images of your mice that Mar the land and you shall give glory unto the God of Israel they were they were being like Egypt he said don't and then they had the the hemorrhoids thank you and that but again I think this is the consequence of taking something that wasn't theirs that was holy had a specific purpose and God the consequences were upon them all us to the end of the purposes here and the manager honored with holiness and the men of curium came and fetched up the Ark of Jehovah and brought it into the house of abinadab in the hill and the sanctified Elliot ARS Eliezer his son to keep the Ark of Jehovah they anointed him and specifically set him to be in care over it it was something to be honored with holiness to be carried by people to have relationship to bless people and they set the Ark of God upon a new cart those who put forth his hand to Ark of God the anger of Jehovah was killed kindled against who'sa for his error and there he died by the Ark of God he died because he was in inappropriate relationship he weren't supposed to touch it it was not supposed to be on a cart yes [Music] here's our lineup team though whereas what it was replicated people as such this one right guys saying you should know not to so I would like yeah it's all literate community in charge right did you all hear that yeah said I have charged you with this you better make darn sure that you follow it so the point that she was that Debbie was making is that I'm sorry Tammy Tammy was making is that the loser should have known how he was to handle or not handle the arcade covenant he was responsible the pagans did not know and while they did suffer not in the same way it was it was like them you're dead the others they you know they had their statues knocked down they had em roids they had some other really uncomfortable things but they just didn't know didn't make it okay but you know we are responsible for what we know so when God tells us in his word and we don't choose to follow that we are responsible for it nobody else all right so what we're going to look at now so that's kind of the history of the arc and the purposes of the arc and you can go through and just read about it and you can just see with the different things that the arc was about and the purposes now there's more purpose to it but that comes in the form of a picture so what is the arc made of does it have any significance can it reveal anything to us we start with scriptures Moses is instructed to be very careful about copying what he saw in the heavenly tabernacle he was to make it exactly as he saw it there okay many comparisons in the tabernacle had been made many teachings done as to what all the implements represented so what could the ark resent what could it represent Yeshua and how would it so you guys have been through probably some of you have listened to different or seen different videos of how you enter into the tabernacle and you got the park or the the altar there you got the labor you got the the handle you got the showbread table you got the incense table you have the holy thing and all these things there's been multiple presentations about those and all of that yes very I'll do either boy white house it's a rhetorical question because we're going to answer it on this show and they shall make an ark of acacia wood acacia or she Tom wood is found in the sea 9 now the acacia tree this is a picture of it it's one picture of it notice that there's not much else around it it's kind of out on its own there are small groves sorry my computer is telling me notes here I had the now it's this is another one here picture of an acacia tree these were pictures I got off the internet so now it's telling me I can't find the internet so another picture of indication one of the things about acacia trees - they have thorns on them you can use there's a lot of things about the acacia tree that can be used they use the bark they use there's pods on it that can be used to feed animals and different things there is edible SAP on it the sap is edible there's medicines there's wood there's all kinds of things that the whole tree can be utilized for different things and it's a and if you can see there's really not a whole lot of perspective but some of these can get very very large and they use them as shade trees so in the desert they would be a perfect place for somebody to go get out of the shade but you let still have the breeze blow through on them okay let's see if this will move on yes it does this is some of the flowers that are on it when it flowers to get bees and different things that come out to the tree and collect honey and thing so it has a multiple person per puces and functions there I'm gonna have to zip this down manually now so the Acacia or sheet of wood is used in the making of the art it has many interesting properties it grows in the wilderness of Sinai in Arabia and it roll won't grow in agricultural areas it is prized for its cabinetmaking beauty and is durable and resists most all insects or infection of any kind ok acacia and Yeshua when your shoe is led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil and it was in the wilderness forty days tempted of Satan and he was with the wild beasts and the Angels ministered unto him he was out in a way he was in the wilderness okay now what I'm showing you is I'm just presenting to you something to say is it possible that the Ark of the Covenant could be a representation of Yeshua so what's the tree that it was made up first of all it was it was prized for his cabinetmaking but was the carpenter Yeshua's father you know you could say that's just the coincidence maybe maybe not it is in the wilderness that's where it's found in non agricultural areas now some more stuff on a share later about the occasion but I want to get through this one part right here and so we have in hype not a high priest that cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities but one that have been in all points tempted like as we are without sin that is Yeshua is the tree has to die before it can be used for the intended service Yeshua had a very specific purpose and he was willing to greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for his friends in order for that tree to become an ark it had to die it had to become a vessel after it was killed Yeshua became our high priest became our payment because he gave his life now he becomes in a sense we become a vessel for him in many ways but he died to himself now that the wood has been cut it has to be fashioned into a box it takes on a different characteristics than it had Yeshua moving into his ministry time and and he took on a different characteristic than when he started last week when I was talking about Matthew 7:23 and we started out with the beginning of his ministry he humbled himself and at the beginning of his ministry is very humble but at the end of his ministry he was very bold he went through a transformation he became even though he was the same person he became a different person to his disciples and everyone around him the beginning was humbled because that's what he was called to but as he developed in his ministry he got bolder and bolder to where he was actually confronting the Pharisees and Sadducees at the end whereas in the beginning when compared with his time in the desert and temptation in the adversary he wasn't telling the adversary he was very humble in that he had to go through those temptations but he transformed itself the box has to be transformed now he shall overlay it with pure gold gold represents purity gold is an interesting metal now when you look at the arc and I'll cover this in a second but I'll just say right now every single usage of talking about the arc being covered with gold it always says it's on the inside first and then the outside can you think of a verse that would go with that Yeshua said cleanse the inside of the cup first then the outside will be clean every single usage of that in the arc the gold is on in the inside and then the outside now let's take a look at gold for a minute Gold is the most interest metal has a fascinating history like no other metal in the world it's color is bright yellow with luster and is the only non-white colored metal gold is virtually indestructible and is the most nonreactive of all metals no other metal is a ductile that's malleable that's important you can form it 85% of all of the gold that was ever been in mind is still in use today could it be that you that are wearing gold that was used in the tabernacle some of you have a gold ring could it be we don't know Gold can be thin to five millionths of an inch in thickness or one ounce can be drawn into wire five microns in diameter at 50 miles long this diameter is only 1/10 the diameter of a human hair so you can see how much gold pin purposes and everything that it can have to the unaided naked eye we see but a narrow spectrum of light we don't see the infrared we don't see the ultraviolet or radio waves that are continually bombarded everything around us we see a very narrow spectrum have you ever wondered why gold has the color that it does golde only appears gold in color because it absorbs the color blue now that of itself may not seem like much but gold only appears gold in color because it absorbs of the color blue and reflects the other colors in the light spectrum Yeshua absorbed the blue the two helot of the zzo of the commandments and the Torah and he reflected gold he reflects the kingdom and the temple and had not the world in him the blue that's in yours eats eat this one is from Israel it's to hell it it's thought to be the traditional blue original blue but I thought it's interesting that gold absorbs blue it absorbs the commandments of God it absorbs the holiness and reflects everything else laughter the pantry when gold is put into baking okay did you hear a cranberry color out of gold if you added to glass gold will make it a cranberry color which if you crushed it up and they threw it into when Moses crushed it up the Golden Calf and threw it into the water and told what color would the water have been color of blood it is interesting to note a next to this twenty five eleven and now shall overlay it with pure gold within and without thou blind Pharisee cleanse the inside of the cup and the platter that the outside may become clean also in all the places of the tour describing this it is always the inside and then the outside and Luke 23 14 and Pilate said unto them you brought unto me this man Yeshua as one that perverted the people and behold I having examined him before you found no fault in this man touching these things where are you accuse him he was pure inside and out yes ma'am as your home for us and okay did everybody hear that the streets are paved with gold and then we will walk in perfect harmony with Torah walking on the streets of gold okay where did that come from Debbie okay okay so they were making analogies and such - yeah okay the arcing issue again and and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about it and the soldiers played at a crown of thorns and put it on his head and the radium and purple in Revelation six - and I saw and behold a white horse and he that sat thereon had a bow and there was given unto him a crown and he came forth conquering and to conquer so there's a crown around the top of the Ark of the Covenant so we have the acacia wood we have the gold inlaid inside and out we have a crown around the top of it representing can because we don't see any representation in the description of the Ark when you actually God doesn't say okay this is what the Crown's for this is what all the others he just says do this so I'm extrapolating this slightly and when we get done we're going to tie in a couple other things you can start seeing that yeah maybe it's possible and Exodus 20:5 an outcast four rings of gold for it and put them in the four feet thereof and two rings shall be on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it and stood and then Luke 7 38 and stood at his feet behind him weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and did wipe them with the hairs of her head kissed his feet and anointed them with the anointment oil there's other places where you talk about your shoe his feet and what he did and the Rings of the ark were to move it they were like feet they were a place for it to get up and go and now stomach stays of the case you wouldn't overlay them with golden now so put the stage into the rings on the sides of the ark wherewith to bear the ark the state should be in the rings of the ark they shall not be taken from it in a sensuous Ministry never ends it was always to be ready to move he was always about doing his father's business remember that he said I need to be about my father's business it was costly if you read when it was put into the Holy of Holies the stays were to stay in the Rings it was always to be ready to move and thou shalt put into the ark the testimony in which I give you number 1710 and Yasha and Hovis set into motion a put back the rod of our own before the testimony to be kept for token and Moses said to earn take a pot and put an omer full of manna therein and lay it up before you Hova to be kept throughout your generations so we have three things that are going in here you should put the testimony we should put the rod of Aaron and the Omer what are those three things the Omer is the bread who is the bread of life to show up the rod of our own is the high priest that was the thing that declared him the I appreciate a put all the the rods together and Aaron's was the one that budded representing him as the high priest chosen by God who is the high priest Yeshua the last thing is the testimony what is you sure about the Word of God is he not the living the Living Word so we have the Word of God the the high priest of God and we have the bread of life all three of them are Yeshua and they're all in the Ark of the Covenant they're all metaphors or representations of him in the article read Ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with gold wearin was a golden pot holding the manna and Aaron's rod that budded in the tables of the Covenant Hebrews 9 4 and they shall make a mercy seat of pure gold two cubits and a half's they'll be the length or oven two cubit and a half the breadth or ever now so make to share of beam of gold of beaten work shalt thou make them at the two ends of the mercy seat and make one Herald at the one end and one care of at the other end of one piece with the mercy seat shall you make the Harrow beam on the two in syrup and the Caribbean she'll spread out their wings on high covering the art the mercy seat with their wings with their faces one to another toward the mercy seat shall the faces of terylene be and thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark and in the ark thou shall put the testimony that I shall give thee now what's the purpose of the mercy seat mercy seat is where God would me and you shoe it when he was baptized went up straightway from the water and lo the heavens were opened unto him and he saw the Spirit of God descending as a dove and coming upon him and lo a voice of the heavens saying this is my beloved son who I'm well pleased and Yeshua full of the Holy Spirit turned back from the yard and I was brought in the spirit to the wilderness he became the presence of the holy spirit on him just as the cloud came down in the Ark of the Covenant in the meeting place Yeshua was that meeting place for his father he became that place where the father resided the Dove came down the Spirit came down everything is there and there I will meet with thee and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat today John 5:30 I can't of myself to nothing as I hear I judge and my judgment is righteous because seek not mine own will but the will of him that sent me he met with the father and he did the Father's will he listened to what the father said and he followed through with it hey John 15:15 for all things that I heard from My Father I have made known unto you verily I say to you the son can do nothing of himself again more confirmation of that John 12 49 but I speak not for myself but the father that sent me he hath given me a command that I should say and what I should speak just as Moses got the message so did you schewe he became a vessel for God he was the vessel for God the Ark is in the holy of holies and when the tabernacle was all built we have the pillar appear over the tabernacle most agree that the place where it lands is on a holy Holies this can represent the Holy Spirit in the communication link with our Heavenly Father when we study the Holy Spirit I've done a lot of work on that and one of the things that it becomes pretty clear is that the Holy Spirit is actually our connection point between God and us it is the communication link just like the cloud the pillar that landed on the ark it was both fire and cloud but you couldn't see the fire except at night because it's shown through the cloud but it was there on the ark it resided on Yeshua completely it was always on him the presence of the Holy Spirit he always walked with the father then he remembered Isaiah of 63 11 the days of old Moshe and his people saying where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the Shepherd's of his flock where is he that put his Holy Spirit in the midst of them and Yeshua was the holy spirit in the midst of the people then the Ark is the centerpiece of the tabernacle and the camp of Israel one of the main focuses of the entire setup is toward Jehovah the relationship of Israel with their elohim his provision and love for his children ultimately it points to yeshua so another this is the picture we had up first the ark down there underneath the cloud this is a pretty good representation the staves aren't a number right number and everything but it was I mean this is the night time what would be like to be in that camp and see this pillar of fire shooting up from there pretty amazing yeah it would be bright but what if there could be more to this so people can argue and say well you know you're kind of a weak point of whether the ark is you shoe okay I really think that you know I went through it really fast but we go through the points it it starts to line up but what if there's more to this and I said this is like the second half of this morning and I think you'll see why that is we've established a relationship with Yeshua but could there be more we know that in the Hebrew there's more than one way to look at things the blocking way of thinking and not linear so let's go back and I want to look at the ark again so the ark is made of a wood that comes from the wilderness this acacia or shittim wood has some interesting characteristics it grows all over the world in most all the main countries every continent except Antarctica acacia wood is in every continent except Antarctica its colors are white tan yellow red brown dark brown and black what are those colors it's people those are colors of people okay now and people are in every continent around the world there's people except Antarctica because nobody can live there well without a whole bunch of artificial health ok so just an interesting point yeah do you want to go to Antarctica used to be lived in like way back was going to add your arteries would in half like all the colors later well not necessarily they have different there's different types of trees and their acacia or sedum wood and trees and they're all over the world Australia has probably the most of them because they live in wilderness areas a lot okay but the interesting thing is and I just this is the questions that come to my mind I said you know God says well look up sedum woods so I spent a lot of time researching sedum wood acacia wood and this is the stuff that I found I was like oh that's really interesting and the fact that it's all over the world right now think of what he does with those he wants to be leaders he takes us to the wilderness as where everyone that is going to be a leader for God's people goes Noah Abraham Jacob Joseph Moses David Yeshua Paul everybody John the Baptist now go to the wilderness where's the tree grill in the wilderness the tree has to accept the wheat of corn of wheat fall into the ground and die it abideth alone but if it die it brings forth much fruit then we are shaped in fashion we have to die to ourselves in order to become a vessel for God in order to be obedient to him and then we are shaped and fashioned who shall change our vile body that we may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according to working whereby he is able to even to subdue all things unto himself we have to be shaded here's a raw material and he takes this and he says ok on the shape and mold you and make you into something a vessel for me ok is interesting to note in exodus 25 11 and thou shalt overlay it with pure gold again referring back to cleanse the inside and then the outside a new shoe it commands us that this is you've got to be clean inside before you're clean outside don't clean the outside of the vessel doesn't do any good o generation of vipers how can you being evil speak of good things for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh the inside a good man of a good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things and an evil man of the evil treasure brings forth evil things again every three back to gold and how it is to absorb the helot the blue the word in the heart of Yahweh that is what we are to do with our life we are to absorb the blue we are its absorb the commandments of God they should become an actual part of us to be purified pure refined and fire and covered with his gold the gold in the ark would have been like a mirror more on this in a moment and shall make upon it a crown of gold around about what is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing are not even you in the presence of our Messiah that is coming in second Timothy henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness but it passed out some of this you guys can just pass these around and look at them while we're doing this that is the pieces of sheet 'm would actually out of and you can see the colors in them and everything and for there is laid up for me a crown of rejoicing and now so cast four rings of gold for it and put them in the four corners their oven the two rings shall be in one side of it and two rings on the other side of it now shall make stays of sheet and wood and overlay them with gold and thou should put the stays in new york and that it may be borne of them the state shall be in the Rings of the Ark they shall not be taken from it they alluded to this earlier there's a scripture and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts would be ready always to give an answer to every man that asks you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear how much more shall the blood of Messiah who through the Eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your conscience from dead works to serve the Living God we are to be about our father's work we are to be ready at any moment to move just like this stays in the ark we are to be ready to move for him speaking do whatever okay [Music] and now shall put into the our contestant in which I give you the Ark of the Covenant overlaid round about with gold wherein was a golden pot holding the manna and Aaron's rod that budded and the tables of the Covenant we have Yeshua the bread of life in us we are supposed to have the royal priesthood in us and we also have the commandments of God his word those are things are supposed to be in us right those are the same things that go into the art we're supposed to be in us it's supposed to be a part of us and thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof they'll skip down we read this part already and thou shalt put the mercy seat above the Ark and in the Ark I should put the testimony and there I will meet with you God's always his desire is to be meeting with us his desire is to have fellowship with us when he came down on Mount Sinai and Israel said no we can't deal with this his desire there was to be one with them to dwell with each and every one of them okay and they couldn't deal with it so they said okay and set up a priesthood debt and they said all that thing up so there was an intermediary this is God's desire is to be with us when Yeshua died and was resurrected and the day of Pentecost came that's what happened we became a vessel for God to be with and to communicate with the mercy seat became on us in a sense the mercy seat of his pure goal is where you hobo communes with his children is where I believe the pillar ultimately rests and he communes with us through the ruach ha'qodesh he who hath also sealed us and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts he has given us that place to reside with the Father in whom he also trusted after that you heard the word of truth the gospel of salvation in whom also after that ye believed you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption you have been sealed as that place for the dwelling of the Holy Spirit is it a true representation let's look at another thing there's creation in six days there are six main items in the tabernacle in Exodus 25:10 it says they in the Holy of Holies something special happened once a year so these are kind of cryptic notes here so we had six days and I don't think I had so remember that the picture that we had up of the oval and the different layers that you had there so if you went from the Holy of Holies and you went out to the veil to the Holy of Holies that's one you went to the veil of the holy place that's two he went to the curtain that's three you went to the priests around it that's four and then we had three layers from there that's seven layers seven is holy perfection so you had two camps the three groupings of camps going around so you had seven layers to get through to get to the Holy of Holies to the ark okay and there are six is there are six main items in the tabernacle and they're lumped together as they and the Holy of Holies something special happened once a year the high priests good I've had to change this and I'm going to skip this because I did something that I missed but I want to I'll just bring this up to you so in the priest he had a gold plate across his forehead and what did it say on it anybody remember what it said holy unto Yahweh but what was significant about that as well as the stones on the breastplate and the ones on his shoulder had the names of the tribes on them right but what was special about those well they were made of different stones there was something about the writing on the forehead piece and the stones it was made like a signet ring now what does that mean that means that you would impress like a ring and wax and you're an impressive so when you pressed it into wax you would see it as whatever letters it needed to be but if you looked at it on the ring and you look at it here it's a negative it's all backwards you have to look into a mirror to see it right to see that you're holy to Yahweh you'd have to look into a mirror what a mirror would they be looking into what mirror would that be okay so the thing is when they one of the things I had to change on this was when they went into the Ark of the Covenant they were only allowed to wear linen pure linen that was it and they didn't wear anything else but just the linen garments and I first thought that they wore the you know the piece on their forehead and the stones and they would see the reflection and then they would be able to say oh I'm holy I am representing the whole priesthood I'm representing all of Israel I need to make sure I'm holy this is this is really important I'm representing these people and it's like right in his face but he's not going in with that but we do have we were talking about the labor earlier a couple others were talking about the labor and there was other gold things out there that were overlaid he would have seen the reflection of the headpiece and his stones and see the names of the children of Israel and the fact that he is holy to Yahweh and he's representing these people he would have seen the names now you say well where would he have seen that well interesting little thing I have here in this whole container so when I was putting this together I was like god I would really like to have somebody be able to gold plate a piece of this wood as it was done in me in Israel at the time I made some phone calls and I ran across the guy he knew how to do it according how they did it in Egypt with all the ancient materials and everything and what I had him do was this is a piece of the acacia wood and it's plated with pure gold and I'll pass this around and you can see that this is just a small one but you can actually see yourself it's a mirror it's so smooth and shiny that it actually acts as a mirror and you can see yourself in it so in the other implements besides just the Ark of the Covenant he would have been able to see a reflection of himself in there and it would have reminded him what he was about and what he was for now let's go back to the representation of the Ark of the Covenant if it's Yeshua Yeshua is would reflect to us who we really are we would look in the shoe and say Who am I but I the same token if it's of art if the Ark is a representation of us which I think is another way to look at it and I'm going to show you something else that ties into this morning that we are to be a reflection to each other of Yeshua I am to be a reflection to my brother Steve or Kevin or bill or Mary Ellen or anybody else I am to be a reflection of Yeshua and I'm also to reflect you and me too we are to be iron sharpening iron we are to help each other to be the brightness and the purity that we are supposed to be okay now if we're to guard ourselves first of all right but we're also to guard each other in the Holy of Holies we have the multiple layers we have that we have the holy curtain we have the curtain out here we have the door here going in which is guarded by moshe our own and his two sons around that you have the priests and around that you have the three layers of the camp if we took these and we flip them sideways we'd have Murari Dan Asher Nepali Moses and Aaron or this way we have Yehuda it's the card Zebulon we have from the center we have seven layers going out to the outside here seven being spiritual perfection in the center here is the Holy of Holies and I want to do something here if I could have let's see this let's bring moving Tami up here please could you come up here and then I would like to have five men just the first five Dave Dave bill Isaac Kevin right up here okay don't put Tammy in the middle I want you guys to turn around with your backs towards are facing out facing backs towards Tammy facing out okay just around just around her move over here a little bit there you go just turn around bill faced that way now this is a picture Tammy is the Ark of the Covenant you are her Guardians as the Ark of the Covenant is the presence of God living within her she is the most precious vessel that we have and you men standing around here or women but children of God your job is to protect her to protect the Ark of the Covenant you each and every one of you could now switch place with her and she could be out here and it would be the same situation remember the bristling of the 20 armed 20 years and older armed around the tabernacle that is what you guys are you are the armed guard to protect and each and every one of us is a holy vessel unto Yahweh and we are to protect and guard each other with our lives [Music] never letting anything get into the holy place because we are the dwelling place of our father every single one of us thank you in that she fold there there's just not one of us here this whole fence is made up of all of us and we're guarding the sheep we're guarding each other we're protecting each other the acacia wood the gold the crown everything the the the mercy seat the the rings around the staves you can say well you're kind of pushing Scripture maybe I am maybe I'm not but I see the picture of us and you tie it on remember last week I said there's three things there's context your content context and continuity so everything that we teach and everything that we share should be consistent with the rest of the word the content should be good it should fit within the context and it all should be consistent with the rest of the word I don't find anything inconsistent about Yeshua being the Ark of the Covenant nor us being the Ark of the Covenant because all the elements are there for each one of them and it doesn't mean that we contradict and take away from you schewe he came to give us the pattern we started out with the pattern of protection and the Ark of the Covenant being built and then everything around it we're built in His image and how should we approach each other how should I approach my brother Steve should I approach him with respect and honor and holiness or should I approach him like he's a piece of junk that's how we need to treat each other protect each other and treat each other as a special holy vessel yes yeah and where does that start what is that story it starts right up here starts right in our mind we change our thinking we change how we do things we check our spirit instead of saying that word that's a cross word or a hurtful word to my brother or having a thought you know when it says when Yeshua was confronted and he said you know you put in the he said how many times should I forgive my brother you know seven times seven he says no seventy times seven basically you should always forgive him okay and then he says if you bring an offering to the altar and what does it stay there if you if you bring an offering to altar and talks about your brother what does it say they may remember what it says if you have something against your brother exactly if your brother has something against you then you go and fix it it didn't say if you have something and that's the way I understood a tube for a long time to actually read it and said wait a minute it's talking about him having some against me what does that mean I go humble myself to my brother make it right not turn down or tear him up person or anything else grieve not the Holy Spirit of God whereby you are sealed unto the day of redemption let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice be kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as for God for Christ's sake has forgiven you I just are calling and I hope you can see this it's a it's a big picture it's a big metaphor in some ways not only are we to treat each other like this but how are we to treat our Messiah Yeshua has a special holy vessel not to be taken lightly not to be cast off he sees all things with his father how we how do we handle him do we handle each other properly do we put each other in a place of special holiness I don't know that you guys have a lot of problems with each other that's not the point of me bringing this in just whatever the father brought in my heart but this is one thing for those of us who have been around this for a while been around any congregation for a while this is one of the things that the enemy loves to get in and do and that's to tear us apart find a way to stick the knife in and twist it you know Dave said something to me and did you hear what he said did you know what he told me the other day no oh man and it starts right there instead of me protecting him and honoring him I start cutting them down and then the enemy starts getting us to divide we need to be that camp we talked about the corners when we have the corners out there how they become vulnerable to attack of the enemy we need to be oval and round we need to be locking arms together protecting the one next to us anybody that's been in combat or been around combat what's the main purpose of what you're out there fighting for what is it the guy next to you you're fighting for the guy next to you that's what motivates us that's what needs to motivate us as believers okay father thank you for your word thank you for the pictures however deep or shallow they might be that causes us to grow with you just claim that issue his name I mean you

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Published: Tue Jun 13 2017