Lesson date: 10/2/5859AA

Immediately, and I mean immediately, something hit me for the first time that, for some unknown reason, never had before. Let me show you:

Beautiful isn’t it? Is it beautiful because it is made of gold or is it beautiful because of what it represents? It is the resting place of our broken Ketubah, the one that Mosheh broke upon coming down the mountain with Torah in his hands closely followed by Yehoshu’a. This got me to thinking about what Hasatan has done to “supplant” the message of Yeshu’a. As beautiful and complete as modern religion, whether you are Catholic, Baptist, Methodist etc. appears to a lot of people, it like the image above, are wrong. Wrong? Where? How? It is wrong at the very foundation. Look at the very foundation of the Ark, its feet and what do you see? Here is a big hint, where are the poles attached? Verse 3 says that the rings are for its feet, not half way up or just below the Lid of Atonement.

Can you believe that a good little Jewish boy like Steven Spielberg got that wrong? I looked at over 375 images of the Ark on the internet and only one had the rings in the correct location and 6 had them located “near” the bottom. If our faith is founded in error how far wrong will it be when it gets near the top?

Here is another facet of the Ark we should consider; Exo 37:3 And he cast four rings of gold for it, for its four feet,

The feet were not of beaten gold but rather cast, why? Pure gold that is beaten is very soft and would be crushed by the weight of the Ark itself so, Betsal’el had to mix the gold with some other metal that would give it the necessary strength to support the weight of the Ark. We are not told what metal was used to give the gold the tensile strength necessary but we know it was not iron and I feel that it may have been cast with bronze. Why bronze? Because bronze represents judgment and the feet would bear the weight of the entire Ark like Yeshu’a bore the weight of the sin of Yah’s people: Luk_22:44 And being in agony, He was praying more earnestly. And His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

Do you know why I am so fixated on this one tiny aspect of the Ark? Fear! If I am wrong about this one tiny detail of the Ark, how many other things am I wrong about? In December of 2013 I began praying that YHVH remove the Greek that was so deeply embedded in my life and replace it with the Hebrew standard of wisdom. I realized at that time that my Point of View (POV) was Greek and therefore wrong.

Just so that you know, none of what I have written above was in my plan to write about for a study guide. Reading Verse 3 completely did away with any preconceived idea that I had about what to study, what to write. I was going to talk about how the Ark was at the heart of the Holy of Holies, like Yeshu’a is at the heart of our faith, having redeemed us from mystery Babylon, Mitsrayim and at the heart of the Ark was the broken Torah, our Ketubah but then I realized that all of that was incorrect because the very foundation of the Ark were the rings that held the poles to carry the ark.

What you are probably saying is what I said when I realized how wrong I was on this one detail: “Big Deal.” It is a huge deal. Do you see how much this explains. Look at the two illustrations above and think about why we imagine the rings somewhere in the body of the Ark. Center of gravity. The Lid of Atonement makes the Ark top heavy so naturally we would want to balance the center of gravity so it would not fall over: 2Sa 6:6 And when they came to the threshing-floor of Naḵon, Uzzah reached out toward the ark of Elohim and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled.

2Sa 6:7 And the wrath of יהוה burned against Uzzah, and Elohim struck him there for the fault. And he died there by the ark of Elohim.

Now do you understand why the Ark almost fell over? Do you now understand why Uzzah was struck dead? Do you now understand why David became afraid of YHVH: 2Sa 6:9 And Dawiḏ was afraid of יהוה on that day, and said, “How shall the ark of יהוה come to me?”

David had the best of intentions and returning the Ark to the center of worship, Yerushalayim, but his best intentions were not in accordance with YHVH’s command on how the Ark was to be transported, on the shoulders of the Levites, not in a wagon drawn by oxen. That one little detail caused the death of Uzzah, whose best intention was to keep the Ark from falling. I suspect that the poles were not in the rings because if they had been in the rings the Ark would not have been in any danger of falling. Look at how the Ark sat in the Holy of Holies: 1Ki 8:7 for the keruḇim spread two wings over the place of the ark, and the keruḇim covered over the ark and its poles.

1Ki 8:8 And the poles extended so that the ends of the poles were seen from the set-apart place, in front of the Speaking Place, but they were not seen from outside. And they are there to this day.

Now we know why they were not seen outside because the poles were on the floor, not mid way up the Ark. Is the Ark of our faith resting on a solid foundation, with the poles still inserted into the rings, so that our Ark is not in danger of tipping over caused by a misstep?

What is inside our Ark? Do we still have the pot of manna? How about Aharon’s rod that budded? What about the broken two tablets of our Ketubah? Scripture says that only the 2 broken tablets were left in the Ark. If Uzzah died because he touched the Ark then who removed the pot of manna and Aharon’s rod? 1Ki 8:9 There was naught in the ark, only the two tablets of stone which Mosheh put there at Ḥorěḇ, where יהוה made a covenant with the children of Yisra’ěl, when they came out of the land of Mitsrayim. ((Who removed the Lid of Atonement to peak inside?))

Personally, I believe the Angel of Elohim, Yeshu’a, removed them and here is why: Joh 6:55 “For My flesh is truly food, and My blood is truly drink.

Joh 6:56 “He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood stays in Me, and I in him.

Joh 6:57 “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me shall live because of Me.

Joh 6:58 “This is the bread which came down out of the heaven, not as your fathers ate the manna and died. He who eats this bread shall live forever.”

In order for Yisra’el to receive the true manna the type and shadow of its coming had to be removed and instead of Aharon’s almost staff Yeshu’a will have a rod of iron: Rev 19:15 And out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should smite the nations. And He shall shepherd them with a rod of iron. And He treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Ěl Shaddai.

I am sure that what I wanted to write about this chapter would have been very insightful and possibly profound and instead what you have are the rantings of someone who realizes that they made a mistake about something very basic, the Ark of our Covenant with YHVH. Can you visualize it in your heart? Is it resting on the rings and poles for stability?

Ahavah vberakhot