The Shedding of His Blood.

The arks; a tell-tale sign of a hidden pattern in the holy ark of the covenant and in the ark of Noah.

The ark of the covenant was described as needing to be built out of wood and overlaid with gold, inside and outside. Another structure to be built out of wood with an overlay of pitch, was Noah’s ark.

The same word, ark, is used to denote both structures. Both structures had a covering overlaid; the ark of the covenant and the ark of Noah. The structures have a mirror image. Wood overlaid with gold and wood overlaid with pitch. Pitch, the opposite of gold. Gold; precious, pitch; worthless. Gold; firm and shiny, pitch; sticky and dull. Gold; bright, pitch, dark.

Two wooden boxes overlaid with exact opposites. One large, one small.  One saves humanity, the other houses the word of God in the holy sanctuary. Both functions mirrored as well, in a reverse kind of way. God, entering man’s domain via the ark of the covenant. The other, man entering God’s domain via Noah’s ark, as the flood brought back the world without form.

Genesis 1:2; The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Each ark helps one of these beings live in the other’s world.

God; our world isn’t His place. Just because you haven’t seen Him, doesn’t mean He doesn’t exist. God the creator, lives outside the system in His own realm, beyond space and time. Man lives in space and time. He can’t live in the ark of the covenant. Man moves to live in Noah’s ark. God moves to live in the ark of the covenant.

God came and moved among the men, in the the ark of the covenant. Noah’s ark was man, moving in the formlessness of God’s world.

All of this, until Jesus came. Jesus, the Saviour of the world through the shedding of His blood, now lives within mankind. Both the ark of the covenant and Noah’s ark, obsolete and lost to humanity. Not needed any more, as we place our trust in Jesus.