Ark

Deuteronomy 9:27-10:1 – Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Overlook the stubbornness of this people, their wickedness and their sin. Otherwise, the country from which you brought us will say, ‘Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land he had promised them, and because he hated them, he brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.’ But they are your people, your inheritance that you brought out by your great power and your outstretched arm.” At that time the Lord said to me, “Chisel out two stone tablets like the first ones and come up to me on the mountain. Also make a wooden ark.

Joshua 7:9 – The Canaanites and the other people of the country will hear about this and they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. What then will you do for your own great name?”

Nehemiah 1:10 – “They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great strength and your mighty hand.

Exodus 25:10 – “Have them make an ark of acacia wood—two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high.

Application:

• ·         Joshua pleads, as Moses had, that God’s honor in the eyes of all the world was at stake in the fortunes of His people.
• ·         Although Israel had sinned and failed, they were still God’s people by virtue of His redeeming them.
• ·         Of all the tabernacle furnishings the ark is mentioned first, probably because it symbolized the throne of the Lord, the great King, who chose to dwell among His people.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV