God Of Order
Those Who Hear Him Say Your Sins Are Forgiven!
Those Who Won’t Be Afraid But Will Start Fishing For People!
He took the tablets of the covenant law and placed them in the ark, attached the poles to the ark and put the atonement cover over it. Exodus 40: 20
When I saw the poles I thought why this order.
I would have put all the pieces of the box together and then add the poles.
Everything God did through the Israelite’s was to lead all people to the Savior of humankind.
Even the order that they put this ark together and each of its pieces revealed who and what saves mankind from eternal separation from God, our Maker, our Father.
The ten commandments is the law that mankind was given that we would know God’s requirements for holiness, perfection, our entrance into His Kingdom.
Blue letter Bible defines an ark as a wooden box or coffin.
Poles, long sticks, are meant for people to use to carry this ark around.
And the cover, called the atonement cover, covered the box/coffin.
This foreshadows the way that we could be with God again.
This foreshadows what we look like when we receive God’s gift of restoration that we be with Him again.
Jesus is called the word (in John).
Meaning Jesus is the ten commandments (also called testimony/revelation).
That Jesus His heart, His mind are these words, the words of God.
That Jesus His heart, His mind are this testimony of God, the revelation of Who God is.
They are placed in the wooden ark.
A wooden ark that means box or coffin.
Meaning this man, would die, would be placed in a coffin.
Then they attach poles to this death, to the coffin.
Meaning this death, that His dying, this truth, this fact, would spread, move, travel, be carried around.
Then this box/this coffin,
with the heart of the One who testified of God, the One who revealed God and His ways to us,
that travels around, that is carried around
is covered, with an atonement cover.
Meaning this death, that this truth of His death, that spread, that moved and traveled around, brings a covering, brings atonement.
For items and the order is meant to foreshadow what the Messiah, the Son of God, Jesus, Yeshua would be and do.
That He would be God’s truth walking around.
That He would be the one who testified of God, the One who revealed God’s ways to mankind.
That He would die.
That His death -this truth-would spread to the world.
That His death that would loose His Spirit.
That His death that would loose His Spirit that brings atonement.
That His death that would loose this covering for humankind.
And all this happened.
For it foreshadows how are reconnected to God our Maker.
That we believe in it.
That we believe in the One who did all this.
Jesus is the One who revealed God to us, revealed God’s words to us.
And Jesus is the One who died.
And this truth was spread throughout the world.
And Jesus is the One who then loosed His Spirit, the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit who brings, who is, the atonement for mankind.
And when we believe in this truth, we literally become this.
That we receive this testimony, this revelation of His words in our hearts.
That we receive His death. His actions for us.
That gives us the heart of this testimony, God ways revealed, His law on our heart. (testimony/ten commandments in coffin)
Then we are then carried by Him, led by Him and His ways. (poles)
And this is, has brought our our covering our atonement, our restoration to God our Father. (atonement covering)
May we know that we know that we know God so deeply wants all mankind to receive His offering, that He has spent generation after generation telling us what He would do, showing us through every piece, every word in the Bible, that when we saw it, when we heard of it, that we would believe in it.
May we know that we know that we know Jesus has already come and died and loosed His Spirit to all mankind offering this atonement that we be reconnected back to God our Father again.
May we know that we know that we know all we have to do to receive this reconnection back to to God is simply ask Jesus for this offering, that we become filled with His words, the truth of God, that we receive all that He did, that we receive His Spirit that carries us along on God’s good ways, that covers us with His atonement.
love kathlynn