Atonement Cover

Leviticus 16:1-2 – The Lord spoke to Moses after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before the Lord and died, and the Lord said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat that is on the ark, so that he may not die. For I will appear in the cloud over the mercy seat.

Exodus 40:34 – Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

Exodus 25:17 – “You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two cubits and a half shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth.

Application:

• ·         Blood sprinkled on the lid of the ark made atonement for Israel on the Day of Atonement. In the Septuagint the word for atonement cover is the same one used of Christ and translated sacrifice of atonement.
• ·         When the glory of the Lord entered the tabernacle, the great series of events that began with the birth of Moses and his rescue from the Nile, which foreshadowed the deliverance of Israel from Egypt, came to a grand climax.
• ·         That God’s symbolic throne was capped with an atonement cover signified His great mercy toward His people—only such a God can be revered.

All Scripture verses taken from ESV