The Ark of the Covenant is the gold covered box which held the most sacred artifacts of all. The Law of God to man. The stone tablets which had been restored upon which was written the Ten Commandments. Also the rod of Aaron which budded, (Moses brother,Aaron, was selected by God and confirmed by this rod, as High Priest) and finally a jar containing the manna that fed approximately three million Jews for forty years. There is more to all this than I can cover here, but let me do what I can do.
       On top of the box, was a cover upon which were placed two Cherubim. They faced each other with upstretched wings, and looking down at the cover itself. The name of this lid was the mercy seat, which denotes that it was not JUST a lid, but a throne. Here we see a righteous God sitting upon the foundation of His law. Justice is writen all over the symbolism. The Ark was placed in the last room which was approximately fifteen feet wide by fifteen feet long by fifteen feet high. It sat alone in the center and was considered unapproachable and never to be touched by human hands after its creation. The long poles that carried it were never to be removed from their rings, just in case there was any doubt.
       This is where the High Priest alone, came once a year, carrying a hysop plant (like a corn stalk) dipped in the blood of the atonement sacrifice. He would pray and ask the Lord for forgiveness of sins for himself first, and then the rest of Israel as a whole. Then he would sprinkle the blood upon the pure clean mercy seat. "Without the shedding of blood there is NO remission of sins."
 
 
         The Messiah is our High Priest. But He offers a sacrifice that is only needed ONCE for all! His own pure blood, is the only thing that will suffice. That is what makes him our Savior. Even the High Priest in the day of Jesus said it,
  John 11:49 Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, "You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish." He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the Jewish nation, and not only for that nation but also for the scattered children of God, to bring them together and make them one.
 
  When Jesus died, he descended into hell (death & the grave) He preached and emptied out paradise and led captives in his train to heaven. In heaven he walked into the heavenly tabernacle and the true mercy seat of God. He sprinkled the only acceptable offering for the sins of the world; His own sinless blood, shed on the cross. And on the third day............HE ROSE! This as proof that God has victory over death, hell and the grave, and Salvation truly is of the Lord.
 
  "For God so loved the world, that he sent His only begotton Son, that whosoever should believe in Him, shall not perish, but have eternal life."
 
 
 
  I hope you have walked through this Tabernacle and seen things you have never seen before. I hope that whosoever you are, wherever in the world, that you have heard the Spirit of the Living God talking to your heart and letting you know that this is the truth. And that the truth has set you free. Jesus, Yeshua in Hebrew, IS your Messiah, if you believe in Him, accept Him, and invite him. In the New Covenant it says, "That if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved!" Amen.
 If you find this to be true right now. Won't you take a moment, and talk to Him, the One True God. Ask His forgiveness for your sins, His help to turn from them, Invite Yeshua, Jesus into your heart and life to be not just Savior, but Lord as well. And then thank Him, because it has been done! You have been bought and payed for by the Lord of Glory. And then tell someone !  e-mail me  or tell someone close to you. Find a Bible believing, Spirit filled Church. If you are Jewish by heritage, you are still Jewish! Jesus was a Jew! You are now a completed Jew, a Messianic Jew. Praise the Lord! I pray you will find a place of worship that God has prepared for you.
 
 Thank you for coming. And may the Lord bless you with the knowledge of Him. I am His servant, and yours, Pastor Chris Tyler, 1998. (site remade, Aug. 2000)(and again 2002)