Chapter 466 Forty years of sharpening a sword
The ark of the covenant was made like a reduced sedan, 113 cm long, 68 cm wide and 68 cm high. It is made of acacia wood. It is wrapped in gold foil on the outside and a thick layer of pure gold is paved with pure gold. On the top of the ark, there is a mercy seat made of pure gold that symbolizes God's "self", that is, a gold-shaped protruding platform with beautiful patterns. On both sides of the mercy seat is a living creature in the spiritual world, cherub, that is, an angel with wings, symbolizes the two great guardians of God. The space surrounded by the pure gold statues of the two angels symbolizes the residence of God and the place of heaven.
There is a passage in the Bible that quotes God's words to Moses, "O Moses, I will let you know that I am right there, and speak to you between two little angels on the cabinet, and above the cabinet of testimony."
It can be seen that God really lives in the Ark of the Covenant. When the Ark of the Covenant is, God is, wherever the Ark of the Covenant is, God is.
The ark is a holy object and a divine object, and no one can touch him, including Moses. After he made the ark, he did not dare to touch the ark because people came to the world with original sin, that is, people are dirty. Touching the ark is disrespectful to God and will be punished by God. Not to mention touching the ark, even if you look at the ark with your eyes, it will be considered disrespectful to God, the so-called "visual pollution". It is not a big deal. Moses blindfolded his eyes when he met with Lieshan and the fire ball transformed by God. However, God is not so ruthless. He stipulated that some people can contact the ark with their eyes, such as the high priest, because the high priest has to sacrifice to him once a year.
Since people cannot touch the Ark, how can they carry it?
God considered this and asked Moses to hang a golden ring on each of the four corners of the bottom of the Ark. In this way, insert the pole into the golden ring and can be carried, just like carrying a sedan chair. Similarly, the pole that lifts the Ark is not an ordinary pole, but must be made of acacia wood and wrapped in gold foil on the surface.
After the ark was made, Moses personally put the slab engraved with the Ten Commandments that God gave to him. In addition, there was a sprouting stick used by Moses and his brother Aaron, a pot made of gold containing manna ate when the Israelites lived in the wilderness. Manna symbolizes the gospel of God and the rain of kindness; Aaron used by sprouting scepter symbolizes that the gospel of God will sprout, blossom, bear fruit on the earth again.
Hey, is this God's gospel "again" a situation that the descendants "has been ruined again?"
Has God's gospel been widely used on earth?
This possibility is not ruled out, because the earth's civilization has been reincarnated at least seven times.
When the Israelites carried the Ark of the Covenant with two poles, they were just passing the gospel to the world! However, the Israelites did not do well enough to carry the Ark of the Covenant around the world, and only rubbed in the small and small land on the Middle East Peninsula. However, generations of missionaries spread the gospel of God all over the world on behalf of the Ark of the Covenant.
From then on, the Ark of the Covenant became the only ultimate link between God and mankind. Seeing the Ark of the Covenant is like seeing God himself.
Of course, the above is recorded in the Bible, and some are speculations by bricks and beasts. The specific details of the Ark of the Covenant are probably not like this. There are even many people who doubt the existence of the Ark of the Covenant. Let’s not doubt it for now, and then talk about the Ark of the Covenant.
The Ark of the Covenant is amazing. It looks like a cabinet on the surface, but it is actually just a cabinet. However, unlike an ordinary cabinet, it contains great power, the power of God. The mysterious power of the Ark of the Covenant is the first recorded when Moses led the Israelites across the Red Sea. If it were not for the Bible, no one believed this. Moses and the Israelites crossed the Red Sea, not by boat, but by two legs.
Although the Red Sea is not a small point smaller than the four oceans, it is also 1,000 kilometers long, with an average depth of more than 300 kilometers, with an average depth of 500 meters. One end connects to the Mediterranean Sea and the other end connects to the Gulf of Aden. It is slender and slender, like a river, which looks majestic than our China Yangtze River. It also said that the Yangtze River in China has been flowing several times in history, and it has been recorded clearly, which is really happening, which is incredible. Until now, the bricks and beasts have not found any of them.
If it is incredible that the Yangtze River in China has been cut off, then isn’t the “cut off” of the Red Sea even more incredible? And it’s incredible.
Under God's guidance and after several years of preparation, Moses finally put the great event of leading the Israelites out of Egypt to the promised land of Palestine, which was flowing with milk and honey.
The Bible records that the process of Moses and the Israelites leaving Egypt was full of ups and downs. After working hard in the wilderness for forty years, they had many fierce wars with Egyptian pursuers, and countless casualties were killed or injured.
I'm so obedient, I've been walking in the wilderness for forty years. This is the concept of a divine horse. Our Chinese Red Army seemed to have completed the 25,000-mile Long March after only two years.
At that time, the Suez Canal did not exist, and Egypt and the Arabian Peninsula were connected to the same land. However, this narrow land had been blocked by Egypt's heavy troops, waiting for the Israelites to fall into the trap.
You, the Israelites, have lived in our Egypt for hundreds of years, and have earned a lot of money for nothing. Now you can leave as soon as you say, and you don’t take us Egypt seriously.
"Damn, people can leave, and your life will be left!" Egyptian pharaoh said angrily on the throne.
As a result, it became difficult for the Israelites to leave Egypt.
Forty years later, the Israelites were forced to the Red Sea by Egyptian pursuers. Egyptian pursuers were led by Pharaoh, and all the soldiers were elite in the army, with combat effectiveness as wolves and tigers. The Israelites led by Moses had long been defeated, like a group of lambs to be slaughtered.
On the dark night, by the Red Sea, the Israelites who were rushing in the wilderness day and night were extremely tired, thirsty, hungry, and sleepy. They wanted to have a delicious meal and lie on the soft grass and sleep in the darkness of his sky. However, they could not do this, because the neighing of horse hooves and the sound of killing in the distance had already reached their ears, which meant that the armored pursuers of Egypt had arrived.
At this moment, the Israelites were trembling with fright and were ready to be slaughtered. Before he died, he cursed the initiator, Moses, after all, Moses took them away from Egypt.
Chapter completed!