Ark of the Covenant

• 1 min. read • grade level: 11

This is used Scripturally as a type of Christ; for the word “mercy-seat,” i.e., the cover of the ark, is only used twice in the New Testament, once in Heb. 9:5⁵And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. (Hebrews 9:5) and Rom. 3:25²⁵Whom 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; (Romans 3:25) (trans. “propitiation”) where it is applied to Christ. The shittim wood speaks to us of the humanity, the pure gold of the divinity, the sprinkled blood of the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ; while the contents of the ark—the law, the manna, and the budding rod—tell us of His sinless perfection, His lowly place on earth (John 6), and His priestly place in heaven.