Maybe the best thing to do, is to go to the original language and see exactly what was being talked about in regards to the ark.
Word for Word, here a little there a little, precept upon precept, line upon line...is how we learn.
Forgive the length, but please bare with me.
Ark or "Coffer"
H727 'arown aw-rone' or laron [aw-rone']; from *H717 (in the sense of gathering); a box:--ark, chest,
coffin.
*H717 'arah aw-raw'
a primitive root; to pluck:--gather, pluck.
Covenant
H1285 briyth ber-eeth'...Look familiar? It should, say it with me..."Birth".
from *H1262 (in the sense of cutting (like *H1254));
a compact (because made by passing between pieces of flesh):--confederacy,
(con-)feder(-ate), covenant, league.
*H1262 barah baw-raw'
a primitive root;to select; also (as denominative from *H1250) to feed; also (as equivalent to *H1305) to render clear (Eccl. 3:18):--choose, (cause
to) eat, manifest, (give)
meat.
*H1254 bara' baw-raw'
a primitive root;(absolutely)
to create;
(qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes):-- choose, create
(creator), cut down, dispatch, do, make (fat).
*H1250 bar bawr
or bar [bar];from *H1305 (in the sense of winnowing); grain of any kind (even while standing in the field); by extens. the open country:--corn,
wheat.
*H1305 barar baw-rar'
a primitive root;
to clarify (i.e. brighten), examine, select:--make bright, choice, chosen, cleanse (be clean), clearly, polished, (shew self)
pure(-ify), purge (out).
All that for two English words, yet some don't find it important to actually know what was being said.
What is crazy to me, is people will stand up for God and say he is true, then disregard who God is for some figurine and disregard all truth...anyway
back to the covenant.
What you surely don't want to miss is this one little thing, a word actually and that word is "OF".
The Ark OF the Covenant directly translated is, "the vessel(coffin) made by passing between two pieces of flesh"...We store all of our hopes
and dreams in our children and we bare them up and protect them at all costs.
The Levities were in charge of this duty, keeping the ark, but again Levy just means "attached". I would say parents are very "attached" to
their children who are made in their image.
"My salvation is from Generation to Generation"
If people believe God is true, then they have to put down all of the untrue which many, many, many, grip on to. It is not there fault originally,
because we are fed fairy tales from the time we are born having the word twisted around. If someone is lying to you from the beginning, how do you
know it's a lie having never had any other resources to cross check? Not only that, but people telling you that "God would never let his word be
mistranslated" is just plain non-sense. That is a cop out and that is what the church does to people, it tells them to have Faith...not only faith,
but Blind Faith.
Jesus said, "anyone following a blind man falls into a ditch". Blind Faith is not faith, it's blind. True Faith is founded on the Rock (the peter)
and is seen in the light, by all men, so that they may know it is done "OF" God who is "OF" the LIVING.
Also he (He meaning Male which means "Remembered") is the most high, not as "mystical floating in the sky old man touching adam from a
cloud", but like "King of the Mountain", the Head, the highest Descended who is Ascended to the top, The Chief, the keeper of the family name and
the blood.
His (Remembered) salvation will never be a wish and a blind hope that one must wait to receive. Remembered requires blood at the hand of every man for
the souls of HIM(Remembered). Get life, give life, Don't give life, don't get life, the same deal from the beginning of the world. That is a
salvation that can be shown to people, the other is a fantasy and a wish. Remember true faith is MANifest, not invisible. No descendant, No assent.
Always remember..."OF" THE LIVING is God, not "for the living", but OF the living.
Every name in the bible holds a key to the text which unlocks the truth of the passage, be it a "person" or a "city, or a "river" or a
"Mountain" even "Satan". If you research the names alone, you will be much more in tune with what is being said, not only that, you will have
"unsealed" the book. We are sealed by our names, because any name that Adam named them, that they were named.
Only in Hollywood are people given New Names. "You were Norma Jean Baker, but now you shall be called "Marilynn Monroe" saith the Producer of the
Show".
You will also find that punctuation and many times Capitalization, thus importance regarding the sentence in English, is non existent in the original
texts as well as the tenses.
In the original Greek for instance, over 70% is spoke in Aorist tense. Aorist tense has no beginning and end, but is current always as in "to this
day".
Aorist (from the Greek: ἀόριστος, aóristos, "without horizon, unbounded") is an aspect or, used more specifically, a verb tense in
some Indo-European languages such as Greek. The term is also used for unrelated concepts in some other languages, such as Turkish.[1] In contrast to
the imperfective aspect, which refers to an action as continual or repeated, or to the perfect aspect, which calls attention to the consequences
generated by an action, the aorist aspect has no such implications, but refers to an action "pure and simple".[2]
In the indicative mood, the aorist refers to a past action, in a general way or as a completed event. It may also be used to express a general
statement in the present (the "gnomic aorist"). Used this way, it is described as the aorist tense. In other moods (subjunctive, optative, and
imperative), the infinitive, and (largely) the participle, the aorist is purely aspectual. In these forms, it has no temporal meaning, and acts purely
as an alternative to the other aspects.
The aorist aspect is used, for example, in the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:11, which says "Give (δὸς dòs, aorist imperative) us this day our
daily bread"), whereas Luke 11:3 implies a sense of continuation with "Give (δίδου dídou, present imperative) us day by day our daily
bread."
In Proto-Indo-European, the aorist may have originated simply as an aspect of syntactic inflection, but later it probably developed into a combination
of tense and aspect, a similar syntax being evident in Sanskrit. Many Indo-European languages, such as Latin, have lost the aorist as a distinct
feature.
Just a minor thing pastors forget to tell people, if they even know it themselves, only it's not minor, it's the difference between understanding
the verse or applying a fairy tail to the verse
Mork signing off Nabu Nabu Orson.
Peace
[edit on 3-1-2009 by letthereaderunderstand]