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To: Aquinasfan
The Ark of the covenant had the mercy seat where God "rested" (seen as a pillar of fire or a cloud of smoke) in Hebrew that was called the Kapporet-translated as the place of atonement it is from the same base as the Jewish Yon Kippur ...The blood was poured over that Mercy seat to make atonement..to make me at/one/ment with God...

Are you suggesting that it is Mary that that despenses mercy and judgement? Are you suggesting that Mary held the sold place in the Holy of Holies? That the High Priest had to go to HER for the sins of the Jews?

That makes mary a god ..and I do not think you want to do that

Yes I see the manna as a type of Christ...a type of Gods provision for His people..A type of Gods mercy...

708 posted on 10/10/2002 8:51:58 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
The Ark of the covenant had the mercy seat where God "rested" (seen as a pillar of fire or a cloud of smoke)

Exodus 13:21

By day the LORD went ahead of them in a pillar of cloud to guide them on their way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so that they could travel by day or night.

1 Timothy 3:15

God's household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.


736 posted on 10/11/2002 8:16:01 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
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To: RnMomof7
Yes I see the manna as a type of Christ...a type of Gods provision for His people..A type of Gods mercy...

I see it as Jesus expressed it: "I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."

738 posted on 10/11/2002 8:59:59 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
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To: RnMomof7
The blood was poured over that Mercy seat to make atonement..to make me at/one/ment with God...

Are you suggesting that it is Mary that that despenses mercy and judgement? Are you suggesting that Mary held the sold place in the Holy of Holies? That the High Priest had to go to HER for the sins of the Jews?

Nope. I'd suggest that the Ark in this sense acted as a type of altar, so I would expect it, in this sense, to be a type for some kind of superior altar in the New Testament.

But the Ark acted primarily as a chest containing Aaron's staff, the manna and the stone tablets, each a type for Christ. Therefore, in the sense that the Ark was a chest or container for things foreshadowing Christ, I would look for a superior chest or container for Christ in the New Testament. Mary's womb is the only "container" for Christ that comes to mind. Moreover, as a sinless woman, she would be superior in holiness to the Ark which foreshadowed her.

742 posted on 10/11/2002 10:16:40 AM PDT by Aquinasfan
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