Friday, February 14, 2014

The Ark Part III: The Trojan Horse vs Independence

Standing on your own two feet!


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                                                                               The Ark     Part III

   
John Bunyan's book  Pilgrims Progress fantastic book!

           The devil knows the covenant and does everything he can to stop you. The devil wants you to take your eyes off of God, Jesus, the covenant, “The Ten Commandments”! He comes in the form of “men”. Sinners. Most every problem a Christian has was planned out by a sinner. Sinners make their own plans and goals!  Sinners plan on enslaving you, bossing you around, "lording over you, dominating you, they think they own you, (just like the devil), intimidate through the use of tyranny, fear! Lords, kings, etc.  Sinners plan on using you, taking advantage if you, call you a good friend and then stab you in the back! There is so much more!

       God is Free;
         Our Father is Free
           Jesus is Free
            The Holy Spirit is Free

        God sets us free as he is free, to love! Free to be loved!  God shares his freedom with us.     Now we are Free!!

        We are free to listen and worship God!   Men do not tell other men what to do anymore.  All men are free and equal to listen to God and worship him freely.  All men are free to obey God in all acts of life, government, education, work, marriage, children.  Men are free to obey God in everything they do, think,  and speak.   Men are free to obey God's laws, his leadership.

                        God Rules in our lives! 
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech,...............


The enemy is always a The Trojan Horse!   It's a "free Gift"
He is A great Guy!
 Here is an example of a snare, trap, a man, (who had help), who had a whole country turn away from God. They were free and independent, because they were totally Dependent on God. Then he enslaved them.
       In the early 1900's Rockefeller along with other "con-artists" helped establish and finance the Public School system.
Why would philanthropists, philandropists,(adulterer), and con-artists want to pay millions for public education?  To enslave people! Rockefeller wanted docile workers who would be “men pleasers” instead of strong Christians empowered by God who served God and him Only!
    
 Like President Obama saying health Care “is a gift” or Greeks given the City of Troy, The Trojan Horse Hitler, Communists, Socialists, the cult, so many others…….  Rockefeller gave millions, with a catch!  He wanted “workers”,  “not people who think for themselves”!
       
          He basically was buying the American People so they would no longer be free. This blog is not about Rockefeller it is about Freedom.  But in order to be free you have to realize that your great grandparents, your parents, and all children were bought and paid for by Rockefeller.  He was a con-artist.  Through corruption he made billions of dollars.  He wanted everything!  To own and operate an entire country you need to train people to "obey" you! You need everyone to see you as "Caesar" this great beneficiary!  {Which means you owe him now![ and he will collect worse than any loan shark]}!

  
synopsis or skip on past:     Rockefeller demanded that schools make docile obedient "workers".  This is why everyone has been taught the "work ethic".  The schools over the years have slowly forgotten this part of education. More and more people are getting set free!

If Rockefeller and Carnegie were the financiers, there were several men who took over American education and began to take God out and introduce the collective mind instead of the independent mind. John Dewey of the famous dewy decimal system pushed for the removal of God from children's minds and the introduction of the reliance upon the collective group with several self appointed leaders and teachers above them all. If you've ever seen Star Trek then you might recall a Federation enemy called The Borg. The Borg go about assimilating all other races and making them think, act, talk, dress, and live for the Collective- however, there is a supreme ruler who tells them all what to do. In this they hope to achieve perfection.

Sound familiar? Modern educators- ie- everyone who taught after the early 1900's-all preach that we can achieve social perfection through education. They say that it's a lack of education and finances that make the world a bad place. They ignore that man is a sinful being in need of a Creator. They ignore that children need to be taught right and wrong based on a system of eternal rewards or punishments and they see learning and science as the means to the proverbial garden of Eden. 
America the Great Experiment Classical Condition on Public School children.

John Dewey worked with the ideas of Ivan Pavlov whose famous dog salivation experiments showed how to condition people with physical responses.The Russians would use this psychological knowledge to begin to control the masses in what is known as psychological warfare. Dewey said "The Russian educational system is enough to convert one to the idea that only in a society based upon the cooperative principle can the ideals of the educational reformers be adequately carried into operation. " He actually supported that the government take over the role of family. " the role of schools in building up forces and factors whose natural effect is to undermine the importance and uniqueness of family life" in Soviet Russia. This is found in his book Impressions of Soviet Russia and the Revolutionary World. 

How did Dewey plan on revamping the entire US educational system? In his book Behaviorism he wrote 

"It's a foolproof system all right. Every grade-school teacher in the country has to go to a teachers' college or school of education; every teachers' college gives at least one course on how to teach reading; every course on how to teach reading is based on a textbook; every one of those textbooks is written by one of the high priests of the word method. In the old days it was impossible to keep a good teacher from following her own common sense and practical knowledge; today the phonetic system of teaching reading is kept out of our schools as effectively as if we had a dictatorship with an all-powerful Ministry of Education."

Dewey also wrote in his Pedagogic Creed of 1897 that was distributed to teachers,' Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right social growth. In this way the teacher is always the prophet and the true God and the usherer in of the true kingdom of Heaven." 

Remember, Dewey believed that the Christian religion was detrimental to childhood learning but obviously wanted to start a new American religion in the school room where teachers were gods and prophets. How true we see that today.  

This is where Rockefellar and Carnegie come in. Dewey had a small circle of social engineers. Geoffrey Botkin points out in his article Why the Public School System Teaches Revisionist History, that a man named Harold Rugg was part of this team headquartered at Columbia Teacher's College. They needed a war chest of multi millions of dollars. The Rockefellers and Carnegie foundations were just the ticket and basically became a fourth branch of government. 

Listen to The Rockefeller Educational Board General Letter Number One (1906)

"In our dreams people yield themselves with 

perfect docility to our molding hands

      The present educational conventions (intellectual and character education) fade from our minds and unhampered by tradition we work our own good work upon a grateful and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their children philosophers or men of science. We have not to raise up among them authors, educators, poets, or men of letters. We shall not search for embryo artists, painters, musicians, nor lawyers, nor doctors, nor preachers,politicians, statesmen, of whom we have ample supply. The task we set before ourselves is simple...we will organize children and teach them to do in a perfect manner what their mothers and fathers are doing in an imperfect way."   End quote

See The Under Ground History of American Education to get and eye opening recount of how all this happened!              The Underground History Of American Education

 
I could go on and on but let me sum up why the Carnegies, the Morgans, the Rockefellers, Rothschilds, and Cecil Rhodes wanted to control the outcome of education. INDEPENDENCE BREEDS COMMERCE. 

      America was nearly 100% literate up until the turn of the 20th Century. Innovators, entrepreneurs, and independent individuals abounded due to the wonderful Godly and independent education started in America with the Pilgrims. Like the above statement, these men joined forces with the teachings of Pavlov and Dewey to decrease "too many intellectuals." Dewey loved Communism and Socialism and his dream of paradise was the simple education of the masses to work collectively and not individually. 
 
This ideology fit hand and hand with the financiers who wanted to drive commerce and the market place to just a few wealthy barons while attempting to snuff out the majority of inventors. Ford fit right in as well. All felt eugenics and engineering mankind to be within their reach, where a few powerful people controlled the masses of diligent and faithful workers. 
                                              
                                                




                             Independence

                                         Standing on your own two feet!

     
     What would happen if teachers told their students that they did not need to listen to them anymore. “They were quite capable of standing on their own two feet.”  What if teachers didn't exist? Parents, (as God planned,) teaching their children that they were quite capable of standing on their own two feet?   What if children grew up knowing they didn't need anyone to take them by the hand 7 to 8 hours a day: "go to this classroom", "raise your hand", "When you get 100's or A's you can consider yourself a good person".  If you get "B's" or "C's" you should think of yourself as if you failed somehow and aren't a "good person", "now sit down", "now stand up", "now write", "now draw", "now exercise", "now read". Romans 6


   God said you can consider yourselves "good" when you are forgiven, transformed and lead by the "Holy Spirit".  When you listen to God speaking to you, you "KNOW" you are right. For you are now Holy, pure, ”The Ark of the Covenant”, the inward spirit, “The Ten Commandments”!

“I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them. ” 

“Remember these words when I am dead. First be sure you're right, then go ahead.”


          
 To be independent and to encourage independence in your children make sure they are always aware that God is speaking to them and "Jesus is the most important person" in their lives."   Children need to learn to never lean on someone else to lead them.  
Teach children they do not need anyone to "hold their hand" to lead them, guide them or teach them.  God is there in them.








  Only listen to Jesus! The anointing, (Jesus is the anointing), is the calling of God that is placed in them by the "Holy Spirit of God". God is everyone's teacher, leader, guide, "King".
Isaiah 10:27 And in that day his burden will depart from your shoulder, and his yoke from your neck; and the yoke will be broken because of the fat.” 
1 John 2:26 I write these things to you about those who are trying to deceive you.27 But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

               The most important person in our lives is                                            Jesus!
 
  Christians must talk to Jesus all the time. Ask Jesus "permission" for everything! Don't listen to anyone else. 

 John 10:4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. 5 A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” 

There are two different ways to be Independent.


Stand alone, with God!
1. Independence through God, Salvation. God sets you free from the devil's control over you. You grow in wisdom, knowledge, maturity, patience, love. Always lead by God by the Holy Spirit.

2. Independence from God. Lead by everything around you, and  by others. You stay the way you were born, and never grow up! (mature) (You remain like a two and three year old; I want this, do this for me, No!, anger, temper tantrums, hurting others, having  no self-control, wanting everything you see, touching everything, etc.), full of sinful desires, controlled by the Devil.

No one can boast or brag!

Either everything you do or have is because of God

or everything you do or have is because of the Devil!
In God you are Sound Minded                            With the Devil you are insane
If you are honest, kind, gentle, clean minded                        If you are mean, perverted, rude, lie
it is because of God.                                                             It is the power of the devil, sin in you.

If you do anything right it is because God in you,                   If you are cunning, crafty, a con, manipulator
God is "righteous". (right)                                              It is because the devil is controlling you.

It is because of God/The Holy Spirit                     When you lie you have to wait for the
                                                                        Father of all lies to tell you what to say.
If you are Healthy, it is to God's glory.      
                                                                                          If you are healthy the devil doesn't attack your  
If  you sing great, cook good, build wonderfully                        health because you work for him.
 it is a gift from God.
                                                                                            If you sing great, or you are a great actor,
 If you do anything Wisdom comes from God.                    it is because of the devil's power to deceive Christians
"draw men close to God".                                                   working in you. 

When people see you they think about "God".                    The devil gives men "worldly wisdom".
With Marriage, children, love are gifts of God                     with this wisdom, men kill, steal, and destroy.

With God's power men are made "whole".                             (Slavery, Pollution, wars, taxation, trillion dollar debts                                      Freedom, Liberty, Peace, Happiness comes from God.     drugs, addictions, abortion, child abuse, porn,  plastics, waste, debt,                                                                                                              pharmaceuticals over  pricing, most sciences are  "worldly wisdom")

God helps you think about "him" all the time.                           The devil keeps you from thinking about God
                                                                                                   The devil helps you to draw men away from God
                                                                                                 The Devil keeps you thinking only about yourself,
                                                                                               and you forces others to think about you or themselves                                                                                                        

   
 There are two forces in the world.  God and Satan.   

Two different types of "Independence".
       God gives freedom to all men as we turn to him and listen to his son, Jesus Christ.

Saint Peter preached the Gospel for the first time after Jesus died and basically said Repent or Die. 

Again Paul tells us that those who sin deserve to die. Proverbs 10:16 - the wages sin is death.
                                                                                 
Ben Hur
                                                   Conclusion 
1.    Live Free. Whoever you listen to, work for and obey is your master.  Whether it is God, sin that is in you, or another person.  Slavery to people or sin will always result in death. Obedience to "the anointing", to God, to Jesus leads to freedom and life.

        
   
Ben  Hur  Salvation meets Jesus

2. You are quite able to Stand on your own two feet with God!   You are the Ark of the Covenant! “The Glory of God”, “The Ten Commandments”.
Slaves to Righteousness
Romans 6:15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey—whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you have come to obey from your heart the pattern of teaching that has now claimed your allegiance. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
19 I am using an example from everyday life because of your human limitations. Just as you used to offer yourselves as slaves to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer yourselves as slaves to righteousness leading to holiness.20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.21 What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death! 22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

You are the Ark of the Covenant!

       You are the Holy Place, the Container of
                The Ten Commandments!


Acts 3:22 ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to him in whatever he tells you. 23 And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people.’ 


                                     
      The End!!!!!!!!!                

Scriptures and References

Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. 5 Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; 6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. 9 What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you.

Below: Hebrews is the teaching text for the New Testament, Covenant, Testimony, The Ten Commandments”,” The Ark of the Covenant”

Hebrews 10:8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ  had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,13 waiting from that time until his enemies should be made a footstool for his feet. 14 For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
15 And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for after saying,

16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws on their hearts,
and write them on their minds,”
17 then he adds,

“I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
18 Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer any offering for sin.
The Full Assurance of Faith
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, 20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, 21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God, 22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. 24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
26 For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins27 but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. 29 How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

1 Timothy 6:
2..................Teach and urge these things. 3 If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness, 4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5 and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain. 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain, 7 for we brought nothing into the world, and  we cannot take anything out of the world. 8 But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
   11 But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness. 12 Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. 13 I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, 14 to keep the commandment(b) unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, 16 who alone has immortality, who dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.
(b) 1 st Commandment: Love God, When every thought in you loves God, you do your duty to God and you obey everything in the Bible.

Jerimiah 3:15
 “‘And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. 16 And when you have multiplied and been fruitful in the land, in those days, declares the LORD, they shall no more say, “The ark of the covenant of the LORD.” It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again. 17 At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the LORD, and all nations shall gather to it, to the presence of the LORD in Jerusalem, and they shall no more stubbornly follow their own evil heart. 18 In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.

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Moses and Joshua bowing before the Ark, painting by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, c. 1900
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1728 illustration of the Ark at the erection of the Tabernacle and the sacred vessels, as in Exodus 40:17-19
After its creation by Moses, the Ark was carried by the Israelites during their 40 years of wandering in the desert. Whenever the Israelites camped, the Ark was placed in a special and sacred tent, called the Tabernacle.
When the Israelites, led by Joshua toward the Promised Land, arrived at the banks of the River Jordan, the Ark was carried in the lead preceding the people and was the signal for their advance (Joshua 3:3, 6). During the crossing, the river grew dry as soon as the feet of the priests carrying the Ark touched its waters, and remained so until the priests—with the Ark—left the river after the people had passed over (Josh. 3:15-17; 4:10, 11, 18). As memorials, twelve stones were taken from the Jordan at the place where the priests had stood (Josh. 4:1-9).
In the Battle of Jericho, the Ark was carried round the city once a day for seven days, preceded by the armed men and seven priests sounding seven trumpets of rams' horns (Josh. 6:4-15). On the seventh day, the seven priests sounding the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the Ark compassed the city seven times and, with a great shout, Jericho's wall fell down flat and the people took the city (Josh. 6:16-20). After the defeat at Ai, Joshua lamented before the Ark (Josh. 7:6-9). When Joshua read the Law to the people between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, they stood on each side of the Ark. The Ark was again set up by Joshua at Shiloh, but when the Israelites fought against Benjamin at Gibeah, they had the Ark with them and consulted it after their defeat.
Capture by the Philistines[edit]
The Ark is next spoken of as being in the Tabernacle at Shiloh during Samuel's apprenticeship (1 Sam. 3:3). After the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan, the Ark remained in the Tabernacle at Gilgal for a season before being removed to Shiloh until the time of Eli, between 300 and 400 years (Jeremiah 7:12), when it was carried into the field of battle, so as to secure, as they had hoped, victory to the Hebrews. The Ark was taken by the Philistines (1 Sam. 4:3-11) who subsequently sent it back after retaining it for seven months (1 Sam. 5:7, 8) because of the events said to have transpired.
After their first defeat at Eben-ezer, the Israelites had the Ark brought from Shiloh, and welcomed its coming with great rejoicing. In the second battle, the Israelites were again defeated, and the Philistines captured the Ark (1 Sam. 4:3-5, 10, 11). The news of its capture was at once taken to Shiloh by a messenger "with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head." The old priest, Eli, fell dead when he heard it; and his daughter-in-law, bearing a son at the time the news of the capture of the Ark was received, named him Ichabod—explained as "The glory has departed Israel" in reference to the loss of the Ark (1 Sam. 4:12-22).
The Philistines took the Ark to several places in their country, and at each place misfortune befell them (1 Sam. 5:1-6). At Ashdod it was placed in the temple of Dagon. The next morning Dagon was found prostrate, bowed down, before it; and on being restored to his place, he was on the following morning again found prostrate and broken. The people of Ashdod were smitten with hemorrhoids; a plague of mice was sent over the land (1 Sam. 6:5). The affliction of boils was also visited upon the people of Gath and of Ekron, whither the Ark was successively removed (1 Sam. 5:8-12).
After the Ark had been among them for seven months, the Philistines, on the advice of their diviners, returned it to the Israelites, accompanying its return with an offering consisting of golden images of the tumors and mice wherewith they had been afflicted. The Ark was set in the field of Joshua the Beth-shemite, and the Beth-shemites offered sacrifices and burnt offerings (1 Sam. 6:1-15). Out of curiosity the men of Beth-shemesh gazed at the Ark; and as a punishment, seventy of them (fifty thousand and seventy in some mss.) were smitten by the Lord (1 Sam. 6:19). The Bethshemites sent to Kirjath-jearim, or Baal-Judah, to have the Ark removed (1 Sam. 6:21); and it was taken to the house of Abinadab, whose son Eleazar was sanctified to keep it. Kirjath-jearim remained the abode of the Ark for twenty years. Under Saul, the Ark was with the army before he first met the Philistines, but the king was too impatient to consult it before engaging in battle. In 1 Chronicles 13:3 it is stated that the people were not accustomed to consult the Ark in the days of Saul.
In the days of King David[edit]
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Illustration from the 13th century Morgan Bible of David bringing the Ark into Jerusalem (2 Samuel 6).
At the beginning of his reign, King David removed the Ark from Kirjath-jearim amid great rejoicing. On the way to ZionUzzah, one of the drivers of the cart whereon the Ark was carried, put out his hand to steady the Ark, and was smitten by God for touching it. David, in fear, carried the Ark aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite, instead of carrying it on to Zion, and there it stayed three months (2 Samuel 6:1-11; 1 Chronicles 13:1-13).
On hearing that God had blessed Obed-edom because of the presence of the Ark in his house, David had the Ark brought to Zion by the Levites, while he himself, "girded with a linen ephod," "danced before the Lord with all his might" and in the sight of all the public gathered in Jerusalem — a performance that caused him to be scornfully rebuked by his first wife, Saul's daughter Michal (2 Sam. 6:12-16, 20-22; 1 Chron. 15). In Zion, David put the Ark in the tabernacle he had prepared for it, offered sacrifices, distributed food, and blessed the people and his own household (2 Sam. 6:17-20; 1 Chron. 16:1-3; 2 Chron. 1:4).
The Levites were appointed to minister before the Ark (1 Chron. 16:4). David's plan of building a temple for the Ark was stopped at the advice of God (2 Sam. 7:1-17; 1 Chron. 17:1-15; 28:2, 3). The Ark was with the army during the siege ofRabbah (2 Sam. 11:11); and when David fled from Jerusalem at the time of Absalom's conspiracy, the Ark was carried along with him until he ordered Zadok the priest to return it to Jerusalem (2 Sam. 15:24-29). In the Book of Jeremiah, it is referenced by Jeremiah, who, speaking in the days of Josiah (Jer. 3:16), prophesied a future time, possibly the end of days, when the Ark will no longer be talked about or be made again:
And it shall be that when you multiply and become fruitful in the land, in those days - the word of the LORD - they will no longer say, 'The Ark of the Covenant of the LORD' and it will not come to mind; they will not mention it, and will not recall it, and it will not be used any more.
Rashi comments on this verse that "The entire people will be so imbued with the spirit of sanctity that God's Presence will rest upon them collectively, as if the congregation itself was the Ark of the Covenant."[15]

    





     

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