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| Standing on your own two feet! |
Isaiah 58 Ministries February
Pastor: Leah Svensson
The Ark Part
III
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| 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.
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| 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| 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,”
“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 works, 25 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
sins, 27 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.
Mobile vanguard
Moses and Joshua bowing before the Ark, painting
by James Jacques Joseph Tissot, c. 1900
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]
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 Zion, Uzzah,
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]
