[vladimir998]

“Um, the place Mary is situated...”

She is not sitting on the Mercy Seat. That was the false claim.

“is exactly where the mercy seat is, above the lid of the Ark of the Covenant proper.”

Jesus is there. Jesus is God. Jesus is in Mary’s womb - Mary is the New Ark of the Covenant.

“As the “moon” is in direct contact with the lid of the Ark, there is no room for another mercy seat between the Ark and the moon.”

God is above the Mercy Seat - as He always was. Mary is the New Ark of the Covenant.

[Boogieman]

“Mary is the New Ark of the Covenant.”

No, there is no “New Ark”, there is only one Ark of the Covenant, so anyone talking about a “New Ark” is telling fables created by men.

[boatbums]

Jesus is there. Jesus is God. Jesus is in Mary’s womb - Mary is the New Ark of the Covenant.

Mary may have been symbolically the Ark of the Covenant FOR NINE MONTHS, but after she delivered the incarnate Son of God, she ceased even being that.

Besides, IF Mary is the NEW Ark of the Covenant, then are you asserting it is she of whom Revelation 11 speaks?

"And the nations were enraged, and Your wrath came, and the time came for the dead to be judged, and the time to reward Your bond-servants the prophets and the saints and those who fear Your name, the small and the great, and to destroy those who destroy the earth." And the temple of God which is in heaven was opened; and the ark of His covenant appeared in His temple, and there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder and an earthquake and a great hailstorm. (Revelation 11:18,19)

Now, I know Revelation 12 comes right after that particular passage and it speaks of the sign in heaven of the woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head. She was pregnant and cried out in pain as she was about to give birth. Is this where Catholicism comes up with the idea that Mary will ALWAYS be the New Ark of the Covenant and do they contend it is SHE that will bring judgment down?