Was the ark not needed for the new covenant? I'm thinking of Ron Wyatt's talk about the blood of Christ falling through the rent earth and dropping onto the ark, the blood of the covenant fulfilling scripture.
Ark needed for the new covenant? Yes but not in the same fashion as the Old Covenant! Think Jesus...
An interesting word in the Bible is “propitiation.” It is often translated “mercy-seat.” There is a connection between the imagery of the Old Testament system, and our Savior’s role in the redemption of man.
“And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of holies; having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak severally” (Heb. 9:3-5).
What is the significance of this? In the New Testament Christ, is designated as our “propitiation.”
“being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: whom God set forth to be a propitiation, through faith, in his blood, to show his righteousness because of the passing over of the sins done aforetime, in the forbearance of God” (Rom. 3:24-25; emphasis added).
Jesus is the covering for sin, as previewed by these Old Testament prophetic images. By means of his death, and our response to the requirements of “the faith” system, all our past sins are covered.
Later in Romans, Paul pinpoints precisely when this occurs.
“Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore with him through baptism unto death: that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life” (Rom. 6:3-4).
Um, the ark wasn't 'needed' for the old covenant, as it was established before the ark was constructed, and the comparison escapes me, sorry. The commandments weren't the covenant, they were symbolic of it, the most direct and lasting gift from God to his chosen nation, held with other sacred relics of His direct aid, in the ark, on an altar. They were outward signs of a divine reality ("sacrament"). I feel that the new gift of Himself eclipses the old, and so it made sense to me that the passing of old to new would be accomplished in the sacrament of the outpouring of His Blood - sign of the new and living covenant - onto the ancient altar that requested the old and held the venerable gifts. Nothing else, just sacramental closure.
Was the ark not needed for the new covenant? I'm thinking of Ron Wyatt's talk about the blood of Christ falling through the rent earth and dropping onto the ark, the blood of the covenant fulfilling scripture.
Ark needed for the new covenant? Yes but not in the same fashion as the Old Covenant! Think Jesus...
An interesting word in the Bible is “propitiation.” It is often translated “mercy-seat.” There is a connection between the imagery of the Old Testament system, and our Savior’s role in the redemption of man.
“And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of holies; having a golden altar of incense, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was a golden pot holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant; and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy-seat; of which things we cannot now speak severally” (Heb. 9:3-5).
What is the significance of this? In the New Testament Christ, is designated as our “propitiation.”
Jesus is the covering for sin, as previewed by these Old Testament prophetic images. By means of his death, and our response to the requirements of “the faith” system, all our past sins are covered.
Later in Romans, Paul pinpoints precisely when this occurs.
Um, the ark wasn't 'needed' for the old covenant, as it was established before the ark was constructed, and the comparison escapes me, sorry. The commandments weren't the covenant, they were symbolic of it, the most direct and lasting gift from God to his chosen nation, held with other sacred relics of His direct aid, in the ark, on an altar. They were outward signs of a divine reality ("sacrament"). I feel that the new gift of Himself eclipses the old, and so it made sense to me that the passing of old to new would be accomplished in the sacrament of the outpouring of His Blood - sign of the new and living covenant - onto the ancient altar that requested the old and held the venerable gifts. Nothing else, just sacramental closure.