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Part of the Tabernacle, where God's presence would dwell among his people, and there's so much

we could talk about here in the construction of the ark and the way, specifically, the

ark of the covenant was in the innermost part of the Tabernacle, in a place that only

the high priest could come once a year, and he would come to make atonement to offer

sacrifices for the people's sin at this mercy seat.

Which is why.

So now, I want to read from the New Testament, because Hebrews chapter 9 talks specifically

about the ark of the covenant and what we just read, the chairman of glory.

So Hebrews chapter 9 verse 5, above it were the chairman of glory, overshadowing the mercy

seat.

So this picture that we read about in Exodus was foreshadowing what would happen ultimately

when Jesus would come, and he would make mercy possible for you and I to enter into the

presence of God.

Hebrews chapter 9 verse 11 goes on to say, but when Christ appeared as a high priest of

the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent, not made

with hands that is not of this creation, not like what was happening in Exodus, he entered

once for all into the holy places, not by the means of the blood of goats and calves,

which is what would be sacrifice their blood, and that picture in the Tabernacle and the

ark of the covenant there, but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

For if the blood of goats and bulls and the sprinkling of defiled persons with the ashes

of a heifer sanctify for the purification of the flesh, how much more?

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