The Preparation of the Ark, the house of God, where God met with His "preachers"..
Directions for the Ark's preparation are given in Exodus 25:10-15. This chest was three feet nine inches long, two feet three inches wide, and two feet three inches high, making it about the size of a small cedar chest. It was made of acacia wood with an overlay of "pure gold, within and without" (v. 11). Four rings of gold were on the sides to hold staves of wood, also covered with gold, by which to carry the Ark on the Israelites' journeys through the wilderness.
The Ark's top was a slab of solid gold called the Mercy Seat, with two cherubim at the ends,all made of one piece of beaten gold. The cherubim faced each other, with their wings stretched out over the Mercy Seat and touching each other. Here, God said "I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim with are upon the ark of the testimony" (Ex. 25:22).
The command for the Ark's construction.
Note God's command: "And they shall make an ark of shittim wood" (v. 10). The way to approach God and the place to meet Him come as a revelation from Him, not from the reasoning of man. "There is none that seeketh after God" (Rom. 3:11) except by the divine "drawing" of the Holy Spirit (Jn. 6:44). Man left to his own devices and wisdom will change "the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things" (Rom. 1:23). The tragedy is that,with all his wisdom and logic, man cannot realize his folly in turning to false gods, as God says in Isa. 44:14-19.
Noah was commanded, "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch" (Gen. 6:14). Reason said this was foolishness, for it had never rained and there was no place to float such an ark. But "by faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of righteousness which is by faith" (Heb. 11:7).
One other ark is mentioned in Scripture, the ark made by Moses' mother when she hid him from Pharaoh's death penalty upon all Israelite children. She covered this ark with pitch, even as Noah did; the Hebrew word root for "pitch" is also the root for "redemption". What a salvation! ABC Sumner
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