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Alexander Lennox

30^th Aug: 2008

 

Ark of the Covenant:

Replaced by God's New Covenant in (Jesus the Christ)

The Ark of the Covenant disappeared from the Jewish Temple somewhere before or during the Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem in 586 BC. In anticipation of the Ark's disappearance, the prophet Jeremiah wrote:

"And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more" (Jeremiah 3:16). Even before Jesus, Jeremiah's prophecy revealed that there would be no more need for the Ark of the Covenant in the future because God had a better covenant that he would bring to pass in His Son, Jesus Christ.

The ark was a receptacle that housed three things-:

1.     The word of God (ten commandments)

2.      Aarons rod

3.     The effigy of the manna.

By the time of David and Solomon, if one had looked in the Ark he would have seen only the word of God. The other two items would have been missing, the first of these being Aarons rod but we can only speculate as to why it was missing, perhaps it was lost during one the many times the Ark had been captured; as for the manna, it ceased   after the Israelites entered the promised land.

1. The Ten Commandments are “Gods Holy inerrant words”

2. The manna was heavenly food and speaks of “Heaven”

3. Aaron’s rod was a branch of the almond tree a product of the “earth”

“Conclusion”

Heaven and earth shall pass away but Gods words shall not pass away.

The Ark of the old covenant symbolised the Law and like John the Baptist it had to give way to Jesus the Christ, Like John, it paved the way for a better covenant in Christ Jesus.

“The Ark of the covenant is not lost” “it is no more” 

 

"And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more" (Jeremiah 3:16).

 

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