The Ark of the Covenant

 

The Ark of the Covenant - There is No Justification for This – Premodern Barbarism - Trump demands J6 committee Be Tried for TREASON – Stoners Lose the Pot Vote - Bill Gates is Wanted in the Philippines - Signs Point to Imminent Israeli Attack on Iran - Antifa Terrorists Firebomb ‘Cop City’ - Polish TV Report and more.

Researched & Comments by Pastor Gary Boyd

March 8^th 2023

 

MAIL ON LINE: Trump demands January 6 committee members are tried for TREASON: Says 'political hacks & thugs' on panel should be thrown in jail for 'refusing' to show videos aired by Tucker Carlson - Trump claims the January 6 committee's work has been 'totally discredited’ - Says the footage aired by Tucker Carlson shows they should be jailed - DAVID MARCUS: The left was never interested in truth. They just wanted revenge - By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM - PUBLISHED: 07:57 EST, 8 March 2023 | UPDATED: 09:28 EST, 8 March 2023 – https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11835065/Trump-demands-January-6-committee-tried-TREASON-Tucker-Carlson-videos.html

Michael Jaco: J6 Lies Are Exposed! Everyone That Lied to the American People Should Now Be Arrested (Video) - Wednesday, March 8, 2023 14:00 - The truth is coming out and the list of those guilty of treason grows longer and longer.. In this video, Mike covers the recent exposure by Tucker Carlson and other truths that are coming into the light! https://beforeitsnews.com/alternative/2023/03/michael-jaco-j6-lies-are-exposed-everyone-that-lied-to-the-american-people-should-now-be-arrested-video-3789699.html

New Epidemic: People Dropping Dead From Vaxx! So Many Deaths, Media Can No Longer Hide Truth! - Wednesday, March 8, 2023 10:02 - A tsunami of vaxx deaths is here and everyone will soon know the truth! Dr. Sherri Tenpenny is back with Stew to report that as deaths soar the mainstream media can no longer conceal the truth about the deadly vaccines! So many people are willfully blind and don’t want to admit the vaccine kills. By the end of 2023 every single American will know at least 3 people who died suddenly. https://beforeitsnews.com/entertainment/2023/03/new-epidemic-people-dropping-dead-from-vaxx-so-many-deaths-media-can-no-longer-hide-truth-2676854.html

MAIL ONLINE: Ron DeSantis exposes the pornography in books in Florida schools: Florida Governor details sexually explicit scenes available to kids - and vows to fight teachers and ban them from the classrooms - The Florida governor warned of 'explicit content' ahead of press conference - The video depicted minors engaging in sexual activity in children's books - Even Twitter labeled the live stream as 'sensitive content' - By KATELYN CARALLE, U.S. POLITICAL REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM IN TAMPA, FLORIDA - PUBLISHED: 12:39 EST, 8 March 2023 | UPDATED: 14:38 EST, 8 March 2023 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11835973/Ron-DeSantis-airs-video-containing-sexually-explicit-content-childrens-books.html

MAIL ONLINE: Sorry, big cannabis, you can't buy our votes: Anti-pot campaigners celebrate SLAYING a $32 billion industry after Oklahomans reject recreational weed by a huge 62%-38% margin - Oklahoma joins Alabama and North and South Dakota in rejecting pot - The cannabis industry outspent the 'no' campaign by more than 20-to-1 - Some conservative states are a roadblock to nationwide legalization effort - By JAMES REINL, SOCIAL AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT, FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS - PUBLISHED: 11:12 EST, 8 March 2023 | UPDATED: 12:43 EST, 8 March 2023 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11835413/Campaigners-celebrate-SLAYING-32-billion-industry-Oklahomans-reject-recreational-weed.html

MAIL ONLINE: 45% cut in foreign aid, work requirements for Americans on food stamps or Medicaid, and a 43% slash in housing programs: Republicans propose their OWN budget slashing 'wasteful spending' as Biden prepares to announce his - President Biden is set to unveil his budget Thursday in Philadelphia - Key advisor to House Republicans wants to slash $37 billion from health - Sen. Rick Scott hit back at Biden, calling the president a 'liar' and a 'hypocrite' - By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR FOR DAILYMAIL.COM - PUBLISHED: 12:27 EST, 8 March 2023 | UPDATED: 14:54 EST, 8 March 2023 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11835547/45-cut-foreign-aid-43-housing-programs-Republicans-propose-budget.html

ALL NEWS PIPELINE: By Stefan Stanford - All News Pipeline - Live Free Or Die – March 7^th 2023 - While the kind of information emerging right now is the kind of info that in times-gone-by would surely have lead to Revolutions and 'lots of people losing their heads,' we're not living in 'those days' so stories like this one over at the Daily Mail reporting Dr. Anthony Fauci had himself commissioned the 2020 study he then used to 'prove' COVID hadn't leaked from the Wuhan, China lab are met with utter disbelief from the still dumbed-down masses still getting their lies from the mainstream media and the US government. With those dumbed-down masses, largely the ones who were poisoned by 'the jab' as they were the ones being scared to death into injecting the bioweapons into their veins, the people who SHOULD BE the most angry with all of the news now coming out proving the 'crazy conspiracy theorists' were right all along about COVID, if we were living in a different era, people like Matt Hancock, the former Secretary of State for Health and Social Care for the UK, would be among the first in line to 'lose their heads' for what we now know he said and did during the 'scamdemic' to keep the 'fear factor' going. https://allnewspipeline.com/The_Globalists_Deployed_The_Bioweapons.php

TUCKER CARLSON: There is no justification for this - Wednesday, March 8, 2023 7:33 - https://beforeitsnews.com/opinion-conservative/2023/03/there-is-no-justification-for-this-3656918.html

ISRAEL 365 NEWS: Israel engaging four Muslim nations to expand Abraham Accords - During one week he will make a firm covenant with many. For half a week he will put a stop to the sacrifice and the meal offering. At the corner [of the mizbayach] will be an appalling abomination until the decreed destruction will be poured down upon the appalling thing.” – DANIEL 9:27 - (THE ISRAEL BIBLE) – March 8^th 2023 - Israel is working to expand the Abraham Accords with four other nations, Israel Hayom learned this week. Foreign Minister Eli Cohen is working to normalize ties with Mauritania, Somalia, Niger and Indonesia, sources said. - https://www.israel365news.com/368083/israel-engaging-four-muslim-nations-to-expand-abraham-accords/

EU TIMES: Bill Gates is Wanted in the Philippines For Crimes Against Humanity – March 8^th 2023 - A Philippines court has issued an international arrest warrant for Bill Gates, as part of an investigation into the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out in the territory. Excess deaths have spiked in the aftermath of the vaccination drive in the Philippines with hundreds of thousands of citizens dying unnecessarily and many more injured and maimed, according to prosecutors. The judge said Gates, as the founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is “wanted in connection with hundreds of thousands of deaths, a number which cannot be estimated at present and is certain to increase exponentially in time. https://www.eutimes.net/2023/03/bill-gates-arrest-warrant-issued-in-philippines-for-premeditated-murder-linked-to-vaccine-roll-out/

ISRAEL TODAY: All Signs Point to Imminent Israeli Attack on Iran - Israel has been preaching a credible military threat against Iran for years. What’s happening that makes now the time to act on that threat? - By Israel Today Staff | Mar 6, 2023 at 8:00 am - https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/all-signs-point-to-imminent-israeli-attack-on-iran/

Polish TV Report: John Paul II knew of abuse as archbishop - 7 March 2023, 17:34 - Karol Wojtyla, who died in 2005, served as archbishop of Krakow from 1964 to 1978, when he became pope John Paul II. St John Paul II knew about sexual abuse of children by priests under his authority and sought to conceal it when he was an archbishop in his native Poland, a television news report has alleged. https://www.lbc.co.uk/world-news/a767869aa58f4530a06b727d123509ea/

ALL ISRAEL NEWS: Airport closed after alleged Israeli airstrike – March 7^th 2023 - Israeli fighter jets reportedly struck Aleppo International Airport in northern Syria, according to the Syrian state news agency SANA on Tuesday morning. While there were no reports of casualties, SANA claimed the airport was shut down because of material damages inflicted by the airstrike. - https://allisrael.com/syria-s-aleppo-airport-closed-after-alleged-israeli-airstrike

ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS: Nazis to the left of me; Muslims to the right of me: here I am, stuck in the middle, again - What we saw happen in Nazi Germany is happening in America. The Vanishing Jew. It is now about diversity and intersectionality.. Op-ed. - By Diane Bederman - Mar 6, 2023, 2:36 PM - During Roman times Jews made up 10% of the population of the Roman Empire. Today, there should be 200 million Jews. There are only 15 million in a world of 8 billion: There are 2 billion Muslims, 2 billion Christians and Catholics. Why is that? Could it be innate, systemic endemic Jew hatred? https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/368329

NATIONAL FILE: Antifa Terrorists Firebomb ‘Cop City’ Training Facility in Atlanta - Once again, hyper-violent Antifa terrorists have attacked the police training facility. - by FRANKIE STOCKES  March 6, 2023 - Antifa terrorists have firebombed the police training center being built in a forest outside of Atlanta, Georgia, which they have dubbed “cop city.” Violent Antifa members have been harassing the site for months, and have recruited left-wing militants from all over the country to descend on the area and destroy the facility, which is still under construction, all while attempting to murder police officers and construction workers. The burning of “cop city” occurred on Sunday evening and comes just weeks after a deadly shootout in the same location, in which Antifa terrorists attempted to murder Georgia State Troopers, wounding one before losing one of their own, and promptly declaring him a victim of police brutality and white supremacy. https://nationalfile.com/antifa-terrorists-firebomb-cop-city-training-facility-in-atlanta/

EXPOSE: WHO’s plans to become global health dictator move forward while we’re distracted with “lab leaks” and “lockdown files” - BY RHODA WILSON ON MARCH 7, 2023 • As World Health Organisation (“WHO”) dictators gathered to strategise on how to remove nations’ sovereignty by hijacking “public health,” US Senators pushed back with an effort to reinforce congressional power to authorise treaties and a UK Member of Parliament requested an urgent debate on the proposed “treaty.” - https://expose-news.com/2023/03/07/whos-plans-to-become-global-health-dictator/

GATESTONE INSTITUTE: The Philippines, Tired of China's Bullying, Restores Military Alliance with the U.S. - by Lawrence A. Franklin - March 8, 2023 at 4:00 am - Manila apparently ran out of patience. After a decade of suffering China's aggressive acts against Philippine vessels, fishermen and energy exploration efforts in waters within the archipelago country's Exclusive Economic Zone, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. recently welcomed an expanded US military presence. Marcos now has responded to continued Chinese belligerence by granting US forces access to five additional military bases on Philippine territory. - https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19469/philippines-military-alliance

AM GREATNESS - Life Among the Ruins - The few sowed the wind, and the many reaped their whirlwind. - By Victor Davis Hanson - March 6, 2023 - American society is facing three existential crises not unlike those that overcame the late Roman, and a millennium later, terminal Byzantine, empires. -- Premodern Barbarism -- We are suffering an epidemic of premodern barbarism. The signs unfortunately appear everywhere. Over half a million homeless people crowd our big-city downtowns. Most know the result of such Medieval street living is unhealthy, violent, and lethal for all concerned. Yet no one knows—or even seems to worry about—how to stop it. So public defecation, urination, fornication, and injection continue unabated. Progressive urban pedestrians pass by holding their noses, averting their gazes, and accelerating the pace of their walking…. https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/06/life-among-the-ruins/

 

 

The Ark of the Covenant Will it ever be found?

by Dr. David Reagan

Published on: January 7, 2013

Researched by Pastor Gary Boyd

March 8^th 2023

It was in the mid-eighties, and I was hosting a pilgrimage group on a tour of the Holy Land. We had made the long drive from the Sea of Galilee to Jerusalem and had arrived in “the city of the Great King” exhausted.

 

It seemed like I had hardly gone to sleep when I was jolted awake by the telephone. Assuming it was my wake up call, I lifted the receiver and mumbled, “Thank you.”

 

I was surprised to hear a familiar voice on the other end. “Hello, David, I’m calling from Texas!”

 

“From Texas!” I replied. “All the way from Texas?”

 

“Yep,” answered my friend, “and guess what? They’ve found the ark!”

 

“The what?”

 

“The ark!”

 

“Noah’s?”

 

“No, dummy, the Ark of the Covenant.”

 

Needless to say, that statement really woke me up.

 

A Startling Discovery

My friend proceeded to explain that he had just read in the Dallas Morning News about the discovery of the lost Ark of the Covenant. It had supposedly been found on Mount Pisgah (Mt. Nebo) in Jordan by a religious group from Kansas.

 

It all sounded a little far out to me. I suspected that someone had lost touch with reality after having seen the currently popular movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark.

 

Nonetheless, I rushed down to the hotel lobby to get the latest copy of The Jerusalem Post. Sure enough, there on the first page was the story. The writer evidently shared my skepticism because the headline read: “Thar’s an Ark in Them Thar Hills!”

 

A Suspect Discovery

The story was right out of Alice in Wonderland. Some end-time sect from Winfield, Kansas, calling itself the Institute for Restoring Ancient History International, had issued astatement claiming to have discovered the Ark in a sealed passageway inside Mt. Pisgah.

 

They offered no evidence, even though they claimed to have taken photographs. They also refused to reveal the exact location of their find.

 

The leader of the group, who had a reputation for being anti-Semitic, said he was going to prove his good will toward the Jews by turning all his evidence over to David Rothschild.

 

When asked why he had selected Rothschild, he replied that he considered Rothschild to be the leader of the Jews (an old anti-Semitic attitude!). He also explained that he felt Rothschild had the power to help his group in dealing with the Jordanian government and the Vatican.

 

A Provocative Discovery

The headlines have since subsided. The Kansas group has returned to its anonymity in the wheat fields. And the movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, has become an adventure classic.

 

But the incident and movie motivated a lot of questions, some of which relate to end time events. What was the Ark of the Covenant? Why was it so important to the Jews? What happened to it? Will it be found again? Is it essential for the rebuilding of the Jewish temple?

 

The Bible and the Ark

The origin of the Ark is to be found in Exodus 25:10-22. God ordered the Ark to be built to house the tablets of stone on which He had written the ten commandments. The Ark was a box approximately four feet long, two feet wide, and two feet high. It was made of acacia wood and was overlaid with gold inside and out.

 

The lid that covered the box was called the “mercy seat.” It was made of pure gold. Two gold cherubim were mounted on the lid, one on each end. The cherubim faced each other, and their wings were spread out toward each other, overshadowing the mercy seat.

 

According to Hebrews 9:4, two other items were later added to the contents of the Ark. One of these was a pot of manna, the miraculous food that God supplied the children of Israel in the wilderness (Exodus 16). The other item was Aaron’s rod that budded (Numbers 17).

 

The Ark was housed in the Holy of Holies, the innermost chamber of the Tabernacle of Moses. Once a year, on the Day of Atonement, the High Priest entered that Holy of Holies and sprinkled blood on the mercy seat to atone for his sins and the sins of the nation of Israel (Leviticus 16 and Hebrews 9). Because God had promised Moses that He would commune with Israel “from above the mercy seat” (Exodus 25: 22), the concept developed that the Lord of Hosts was enthroned on the cherubim of the Ark (see 1 Samuel 4:4 and Isaiah 37: 16).

 

The Symbolism of the Ark

Much has been made of the symbolism of the Ark, and rightfully so. Suffice it to say that every aspect of the Ark pointed to Jesus.

 

The acacia wood symbolized our Lord’s humanity. The gold overlay denoted His deity. The Law inside the Ark pictured Jesus with the Law of God in His heart, living in perfect obedience to it. The pot of manna spoke of Jesus as the Bread of Life or our life sustainer. Aaron’s rod that budded obviously prophesied the resurrection.

 

The mercy seat was also a symbol that pointed to the Messiah. It was representative of the fact that the work of Jesus on the Cross would cover the Law of God with His mercy. It is an illustration of how the divine throne was transformed from a throne of judgment into a throne of grace by the atoning blood that was sprinkled on it.

 

The Ark’s Pilgrimage

As the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness for 40 years, the Ark was carried before them on golden poles by the priests, following “the cloud of the Lord” in order “to seek out a resting place for them” (Numbers 10:33). The Ark was carried into Canaan when the Israelites crossed the Jordan, and it was instrumental in their victory over Jericho (Joshua 6). During the 400 year period of the Judges, the Ark was housed in the Holy of Holies at the Tabernacle that was erected at the religious center of Shiloh (1 Samuel 1:3, 3:3).

 

During the latter part of the period of the Judges, when apostasy was rampant in Israel, the decision was made to carry the Ark into a battle against the Philistines as a good luck charm (1 Samuel 4:1-4). This desecration of the sacred Ark enraged the Lord, and He allowed the Philistines to win the battle and capture the Ark (1 Samuel 4:5-11).

 

But the Ark proved to be a hot box for the Philistines. When all sorts of calamities began to afflict them, they decided to return the Ark (1 Samuel 5 and 6).

 

It was first taken to a small village called Bethshemesh which was located on the border between Philistia and Judah. When the people of that town ventured out of curiosity to look inside the Ark, a great number were struck dead (1 Samuel 6:19-21). They quickly decided to pass the Ark on to the village of Kiriath-jearim, located just a few miles northwest of Jerusalem (1 Samuel 7:1-2). It remained there for almost 70 years in the house of Abinadab. (The 70 years were the last 20 years of Samuel’s judgeship, the 40 years of Saul’s kingship, and the first seven years of David’s reign in Hebron, before he moved to Jerusalem).

 

When David arrived in Jerusalem, the first priority of his administration was to provide the Ark a proper resting place because He was anxious to bring the symbol of the presence of God back into the life of the nation (Psalm 132:1-5). The Ark’s return was an occasion for great rejoicing (1 Chronicles 15). David placed it in a tent on Mt. Moriah where it remained until his son Solomon built the Temple. The Holy of Holies in that Temple became the final resting place of the Ark (1 Kings 8 and 2 Chronicles 5).

 

The Lost Ark

No one knows for sure what happened to the Ark. The last time it is mentioned in Scripture is in 2 Chronicles 35:3. That passage makes it clear that the Ark was still in existence at the time of the spiritual revival led by the boy king, Josiah. Within 22 years after Josiah died, Judah fell to the Babylonians (586 B.C.), and the Ark disappeared.

 

Some scholars believe it was simply destroyed when the Temple was burned. Others believe it was captured as a prize of war, taken to Babylon, and probably melted down for its gold.

 

But the strongest tradition is that it was taken out of the Temple by Jeremiah and hidden. Some are convinced he hid it in the ground on the Temple Mount. But most who hold to the Jeremiah rescue theory believe he either hid the Ark in a great cavern beneath the Temple Mount (known today as Solomon’s Quarry) or that he hid it somewhere near Mt. Nebo in the modern day nation of Jordan.

 

The latter theory finds support in the apocryphal book of 2 Maccabees. The narrative in that book says, “the prophet, warned by an oracle, gave orders for the tabernacle and the ark to go with him when he set out for the mountain which Moses had climbed to survey God’s heritage. On his arrival, Jeremiah found a cave-dwelling, into which he brought the tabernacle, the ark, and the altar of incense, afterwards blocking up the entrance” (2 Maccabees 2:4-5).

 

Another theory regarding the fate of the Ark is that it was translated or raptured, being taken up to Heaven to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Chaldeans. This theory is based upon a reference to the Ark in Revelation 11:15. This passage is a flash-forward to the end of the Tribulation when Heaven opens and Jesus returns in wrath. The writer states that when Heaven opened “the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple.” Those who reject this theory argue that the Ark seen in Heaven in this passage is the heavenly reality of which the Ark of the Covenant was only an earthly shadow or copy (Hebrews 8:5).

 

The Forgotten Ark

Regardless of what happened to the Ark, the Scriptures suggest that it will never be found again. This comes as quite a shock to some Christians who have assumed that the Ark must be found before the Tribulation Temple can be built and animal sacrifice reinstituted. Others have simply assumed that the Ark would be replaced in the Holy of Holies when the Lord’s Millennial Temple is built.

 

But Jeremiah says point blank that “the ark of the covenant of the Lord . . . shall not come to mind, nor shall they remember it, nor shall they miss it, nor shall it be made again” (Jeremiah 3:16). The context of this passage is the Millennial reign of Jesus, so it does not rule out the possibility of a discovery prior to that time. Conceivably, the Ark could be discovered, and Satan could use its discovery to incite the rebuilding of a Temple where an apostate sacrificial system would be reinstituted. We know that such a Temple will be built, but I doubt if its construction will be motivated by the discovery of the Ark.

 

The important point to keep in mind here is that the rediscovery of the Ark is not essential to the rebuilding of the Temple. After all, the Temple was rebuilt by Zerubbabel following the Babylonian captivity, and the Ark had already been lost by that time. There was no Ark in the Holy of Holies during the time when Jesus worshiped in the Temple.

 

Nor is the Ark needed for the Millennial Temple. Ezekiel describes the Temple in great detail (chapters 40-42), and he never mentions the Ark. There is a Holy of Holies (Ezekiel 41:4), but it is empty, and it is not separated from the Holy Place by a veil.

 

Jesus has already entered the heavenly Holy of Holies in our behalf (Hebrews 4:14-16, 8:1-6). He has torn away the veil that separated us from God, and He serves as our High Priest, having offered His own blood as the perfect sacrifice for our sins (Hebrews 9:11-16). He serves as our Mediator before the Father’s throne (Hebrews 9:24-28).

 

Thus, during the Millennium, there will be no need for a human high priest or an Ark with a mercy seat. Jesus will continue to function as mankind’s High Priest, just as He will continue to serve as humanity’s Mercy Seat (Haggai 2:20-23).

 

The True Ark

With regard to this concept of Christ as our mercy seat, let me add a penetrating insight which I picked up from John MacArthur, one of this country’s greatest preachers. He pointed to a simple historical verse that contains a profound truth about Jesus being our mercy seat.

 

The verse is John 20:12. Speaking of Mary looking into the empty tomb of Jesus, the verse says, “she beheld two angels in white sitting, one at the head, and one at the feet, where the body of Jesus had been lying.” What Mary saw, MacArthur observed, was the new mercy seat, the perfect mercy seat.

 

Consider again what Mary saw. She witnessed two angels sitting at each end of the slab which had held the broken body of our Lord. That scene points us back to the Ark of the Covenant where two cherubim hovered over its blood splattered mercy seat!

 

There is no more need for the Ark. Jesus has fulfilled all that the Ark stood for. He was deity who took on flesh. He rendered complete obedience to the Law, being made perfect and becoming the source of our salvation (Hebrews 5:8-9). His blood was shed for our sins, and His victory is attested by the fact and the power of His resurrection.

 

Just as the Ark was designed to be a symbol of the presence of God in the midst of His people, Jesus is the ultimate expression of God’s love and care and presence. He is our Ark. He is our Law. He is our Manna. He is our Budded Rod. And, thank God, He is our Mercy Seat.