Golden Box: Ark of the Old Covenant
Mary: Ark of the New Covenant
The ark traveled to the house of Obed-edom in the hill country of Judea (2 Sam. 6:1-11).
Mary traveled to the house of Elizabeth and Zechariah in the hill country of Judea (Luke 1:39).
Dressed as a priest, David danced and leapt in front of the ark (2 Sam. 6:14).
John the Baptist — of priestly lineage — leapt in his mother’s womb at the approach of Mary (Luke 1:41).
David asks, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?” (2 Sam. 6:9).
Elizabeth asks, “Why is this granted me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?” (Luke 1:43).
David shouts in the presence of the ark (2 Sam. 6:15).
Elizabeth “exclaimed with a loud cry” in the presence of the Mary (Luke 1:42).
The ark remained in the house of Obed-edom for three months (2 Sam. 6:11).
Mary remained in the house of Elizabeth for three months (Luke 1:56).
The house of Obed-edom was blessed by the presence of the ark (2 Sam. 6:11).
The word blessed is used three times; surely the house was blessed by God (Luke 1:39-45).
The ark returns to its home and ends up in Jerusalem, where God’s presence and glory is revealed in the temple (2 Sam. 6:12; 1 Kgs. 8:9-11).
Mary returns home and eventually ends up in Jerusalem, where she presents God incarnate in the temple (Luke 1:56; 2:21-22).
When the ark was completed, the glory cloud of the Lord (the Shekinah Glory) covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle (Ex. 40:34-35; Num. 9:18, 22).
The Spirit comes upon the Virgin Mary and “overshadows” her, so that she might conceive and give birth to Jesus. On the mountain of Transfiguration, the Spirit in the “cloud came and overshadowed” Jesus, Moses and Elijah, Peter, James and John, and “a voice came out of the cloud, saying, ‘This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!”’ Finally, the cloud took Jesus out of the sight of the disciples on the day of his Ascension and will reveal him as Son of man in glory on the day of his final coming.
The stone tablets of the law — the word of God inscribed on stone.
The body of Jesus Christ — the word of God in the flesh.
The urn filled with manna from the wilderness — the miraculous bread come down from heaven.
The womb containing Jesus, the bread of life come down from heaven (John 6:41).
The rod of Aaron that budded to prove and defend the true high priest.
Jesus, the actual and eternal High Priest.
Hope this helps.
Not to get off the track here, but the Hindu prophecies and then lives of their messiahs (two in relatively recent times, and maybe more than 2 in the antedeluvian period) follow essentially the same pattern, and have the mothers doing many of the same things we see in the Judeo-Christian prophecies.
This particular pattern was curious enough to the Moslem scholars in the early period 8th/9th century that they ended up writing some quite extensive evaluations of it ~ and pulling together elements of the Koran and the Hadiths to show where it seemed to be implicit in their own literature.
BTW by about 1000 Islam was finished with any sort of exegesis and it's been down hill all the way ever since. A few years back an islamic group in Alexandria VA got reinvolved in these matters and had many of the 8th century tracts translated and published. I had a customer who worked for the printer and he provided me some 'fresh stuff' ~
There does appear to be a common pattern to Messianic appearances. Moses' life isn't necessarily a derivative of Sargon (the last Sumerian king of Sumer), nor is prophecies regarding Christ something picked up by the Jews in the 1000 BC to 300 BC period, nor are the extant prophetic appearances of messianic beings in Indian similar just because that's how HIndus tell the story.
This is the issue being addressed with the question about "Appolo" appearing in the midst of the New Testament's materials. But I kind of wonder if there isn't still a Greek Messiah out there somewhere whose time has not yet come. They need one real bad!
We all await the NEXT COMING ~ guaranteed!
Im tired of this, so I’m not about to waste any more time.
If you could only see without your Roman glasses.