Look now at the preservation within the Ark. "And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee" (Ex. 25:16) Inside the Ark three things were kept as Israel traveled through the wilderness: "the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant: (Heb. 9:4). It is time to see what these things meant to Israel and what they should mean to us today.
The Law
First, there were the tables of the Law which God gave to Moses in the mountain. The first tables were broken by Moses when he came down from the mountain and saw that Israel was breaking the Law in worshiping the golden calf (Ex. 32:19). God told Moses to "hew...two tables...like unto the first; and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou breakest" (34:1). These tables were deposited within the Ark and kept there for years. Deuteronomy 31:24 says that after Moses finished writing the book of the Law, he instructed he Levites to put it in the Ark of the Covenant, "that it may be there for a witness against thee" (v.26).
Two things are to be learned from all this. First, the Law was ever present to remind Israel that they had sinned and needed the blood-sprinkled Mercy Seat or they would be condemned. Years later when Josiah was king, the Law was found in the house of God and read. The king was convicted, as were all the people, and they repented, turned to the Lord, kept the Passover again, and saw revival.
Second, the Law within the Ark speaks of Christ, who could say, "I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart" (Ps. 40:8). Again, "I do always those things which please him [my Father]" (Jn. 8:29). How wonderful it is to realize that "Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth" (Rom. 10:4). He came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill it for you and me. Now God looks at us as though we ourselves had kept the Law, for we are in Christ, and all that He accomplished is credited to us.
"For Christ in the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes" 1Cor 10:4
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