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Originally Posted by rrford
However, during the preparation of my thesis I was perplexed be the cherubim’s that dwelt on the lid of the ark. The Bible tells us plainly that their wings spread across the top of the ark and touched in the center. Their heads were bowed and they looked down upon the surface of the lid that covered the ark. I searched in vain for some type or shadow that these golden angels represented. It wasn’t until an Easter season several years removed from Bible College that the Lord allowed me to stumble upon the significance of the location and position of the cherubim’s in the Holy of Holies.
While reading the Gospel accounts of the Resurrection I was startled by something I had previously not noticed in the 20th chapter of John. Verse 12 tells us “And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.” Maybe it hasn’t hit you yet. Remember in the tabernacle there were the two cherubim’s? One at the head of the ark, the other at the foot. They bowed towards the lid and constantly looked upon the place where the High Priest would sprinkle the blood year after year. Their eyes were continually fixed on the shed blood of an innocent. Year after year the same event occurred in order to cover the sins of Israel.
Here, in this garden tomb, a ledge of stone became the lid to the Ark of the Covenant. It was upon this ledge that the bleeding and bruised body of Jesus Christ was lain. It was here that God dispatched two angels to look once again upon the shed blood of an innocent. But thanks be to God that here the similarities end. This event would never be repeated again. The blood sprinkled on the stone ledge would be a propitiation for sin, once and for all time. With resurrection power the lifeless body of Jesus Christ lived again holding the keys to death, hell, and the grave in His hand.
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I got goose bumps reading this! Wow.
