Posted on 05/29/2005 1:28:15 PM PDT by wagglebee
This is the wrong time and place for a dispute over eschatology. The issues are the discovery and typology of the Ark, not whether there remains seven years to the Jewish dispensation.
"This is the wrong time and place for a dispute over eschatology. The issues are the discovery and typology of the Ark, not whether there remains seven years to the Jewish dispensation."
I responded to what was posted.
If you wish to rebuke someone, then rebuke the original poster.
The Ark was a type, a pre-figure or picture, of Christ (acacia wood symbolized His humanity, overlaid gold represented His deity, etc.). God laid down strict ordinances which the Jews were to follow when transporting from place to place. He did not hold others as accountable in following the laid out procedures as He did the Jews. In fact, prior to the rise of the monarchy (eg. Saul, David, Solomon, et. al.) the Philistines captured it in battle. They were not immediately struck dead as was done later to the Jew, non-priest, Uzzah, who dared to steady it as it wobbled on an oxcart.
The Philistines soon learned that whichever city kept the captured Ark, the people would be plagued with hemorroids. So they were anxious to move it from one city to another. Finally, they returned it to Israel on a cart.
Christ was the fulfillment of the foreshadow of the Ark and the Old Testament sacrifices. They are no longer regarded with the importance as they once were. It would be the same as giving adoration to a picture of your wife -- yet she is sitting across the room from you.
Sorry.
That is very good advice. I am getting way too bit bitchy on this thread. It's time for a long walk.
No problem.
I understand that you want to keep the discussion going the right way and I will honor your request.
You seem to ascribe to the heretical view that Christ had two beings, that he was a man who became God, rather than God who became man with both a Divine and human nature. Please correct me if I am wrong.
1. Did John see God the Father and the stone tablets? In which case he saw the OT ark.
or
2. Did John see God the Father, and His Son Jesus Christ? In which case the OT ark is a non-issue. And keep in mind that Mary's care was entrusted to John and arguably he would have been very close to her.
Well, that's all well and good, but I cannot quite see the significance of John's vision to archaeological questions about the Temple Mount.
Dglang, how exactly then do you approach the verse from Luke that I posted (#156). Anti-Catholics seem to avoid this as a matter of course.
Notwithstanding that it's a mosque and not a temple you're looking at there...if the national will existed to wipe the Dome of the Rock off the face of the earth, I estimate its lifespan at about ten minutes from the time the decision is made.
However, it would take an event of truly cosmic importance to unify Israel to that degree.
How many 500#ers would it take?
There are three distinct Covenants in Scripture:
1. The Flood: God made a Covenant with Noah to never again destroy all living creatures. The ark carried the people and animals to repopulate the earth.
2. The Law: God made a Covenant with Moses and gave him the Law inscribed on stone tablets. The ark carried the law.
3. Redemption: God made a Covenant with mankind through the Death and Resurrection of Christ. Mary was the ark that carried the Lord.
It is plain to many that there are three Covenants and three arks.
Oh...silly me! I thought your post had something to do with the thread topic. My bad.
No, I was originally responding to post #35, which had nothing to do with the thread topic.
I'm sure that we could get a work party put together.
I'll bring my Sawzall and wrecking bar.
Anyone else?
"The slaying of unbelieving priests who ministered is off as well"
Sorry .. you have the wrong person .. I never mentioned anything about "unbelieving priests".
Oh .. and by the way .. you and your tag-team mate are both rude. Who the HELL ARE YOU TO TELL ME "I'VE GOT TO HANDLE SCRIPTURE BETTER" ..?? Such arrogance!!
No. I hold the orthodox view on the hypostatic union.
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