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“There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets that Moses put there at Horeb” 2 Chronicles 5:10

What’s up with the ark? Well, God sat enthroned atop the ark, from whence he reigned among the people of Israel. Incidentally (or was it?) the throne covered something, the commandments. Perhaps… No, it can’t be. But yes. It must be. The mercy seat, where mercy was dispensed, covered the peoples’ sins of commandment breaking.

But it didn’t really, did it? Only the blood of Jesus washes away sin (Heb 10:4). I suppose we have to take this as yet another figure of the atonement; the text forces us once again to consider Jesus Christ and him crucified. Jesus ascended to the true throne of grace once for all for all of us, and our law-breaking is covered by his reign of grace. Gone. All gone! Let us go to the throne of grace today to receive grace to help, that we may run in the way of God’s commandments with the heavenly joy and energy that come from divine forgiveness, full and free.