The Ark Is In Heaven

 

Revelation 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.

• The ark of the testament is in heaven
• The ark of the testimony. It has seven names:
  Ark of the covenant of God, Numbers 10:33 And they departed from the mount of the LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.
  Ark of Adonai God, 1 Kings 2:26 And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark of the Lord GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
  Ark of God, Joshua 3:13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
  Ark of Elohim, 1 Samuel 3:3 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
  The holy ark, 2 Chronicles 35:3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel,
  The ark of Thy strength,  Psalm 132:8  Arise, O LORD, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.

Exodus 25:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

 

2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.

• You have to be willingly to do for God, from the heart or God will not use you

3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them; gold, and silver, and brass,

 

4 And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats' hair,

 

5 And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

 

6 Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

 

7 Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.

 

8 And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

 

9 According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.

 

10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

 

11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.

 

12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.

 

13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.

 

14 And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

 

15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

• You couldn't touch the ark without the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, if not they would be dead men.

16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee.

 

17 And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

• The ark contained the two tables of stone which witnessed against the sin of the people.
• The blood of sacrifice, sprinkled on the mercy-seat on the great day of atonement, intercepted, as it were, this condemning testimony, and effected reconciliation between God and His people.
• Romans 3:25 Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
• Hebrews 9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.
• Hebrews 9:11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
• 12 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
  13 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:
  14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.

 

19 And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

 

20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.

 

21 And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

 

22 And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.

 

23 Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

 

24 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.

 

25 And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.

 

26 And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.

 

27 Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.

 

28 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.

 

29 And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.

 

30 And thou shalt set upon the table shew bread before me always.

 

31 And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.

• Anointed = sons of oil = two witnesses in Revelation 11
• Who's Thou = Moses
• Candlestick = lamp stand
• Beaten work = beaten out of one piece work, upright, meaning whole piece
• Bowls = the  cup = The calyx of  a flower
• Shall be made = shall thou make
• Knops = spiritual shaped knobs

32 And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:

• Why did he said, six branch when it's seven branches?
• Six = number of man = or weakness of man
• Three = denotes divine perfection = "The Lord, our God, The Lord, is one," the three, Father, Son, and Spirit, are one.
• Three = when you hear the number three = God is in it
• Seven = spiritual completion

33 Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

• Three = note connection with four, making seven
• Almonds = The first fruits, because the symbolizes of the almond tree or nut; as being the earliest in bloom.

34 And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

• Four = Denotes creative works (3+1), and always has reference to the material creation, as pertaining to the earth, and things "under the sun", and things terrestrial.

35 And there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.

 

36 Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.

• Knops = knobs

37 And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.

• Seven = Spiritual Completeness and stands for the Covenant
• They = priest

38 And the tongs thereof, and the snuff dishes thereof, shall be of pure gold.

• Tongs = snuffers

39 Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

• Talent = Candlestick weight about 170 pounds and five feet tall

40 And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.

• What did they burn in the lamps? Leviticus 24

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25