Exodus 25:17
Hebrew Text— Exodus 25:17You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width.
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“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.
In him we have boldness and access in confidence through our faith in him.
He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.
Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.
So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”
Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
This is what Yahweh who made you, and formed you from the womb, who will help you says: “Don’t be afraid, Jacob my servant; and you, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.
Or do you despise the riches of his goodness, forbearance, and patience, not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.
let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having our body washed with pure water,
In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.
You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the covenant that I will give you.
I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tablets in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
There was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yahweh made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
“All this”, David said, “I have been made to understand in writing from Yahweh’s hand, even all the works of this pattern.”
They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
For through him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father.
Beloved, if our hearts don’t condemn us, we have boldness toward God;
As Yahweh commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
See that you make them after their pattern, which has been shown to you on the mountain.
He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its width.
But the goat on which the lot fell for the scapegoat shall be presented alive before Yahweh, to make atonement for him, to send him away as the scapegoat into the wilderness.
“Then he shall kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people, and bring his blood within the veil, and do with his blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the mercy seat and before the mercy seat.
For the life of the flesh is in the blood. I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement by reason of the life.
The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.
“You, son of man, tell the children of your people, ‘The righteousness of the righteous will not deliver him in the day of his disobedience. And as for the wickedness of the wicked, he will not fall by it in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither will he who is righteous be able to live by it in the day that he sins.
even as the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’
even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep.
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”
The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live to righteousness. You were healed by his wounds.
Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God, being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the Spirit,
But Noah found favor in Yahweh’s eyes.
The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.
He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.
The priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, and they shall be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering made by fire to Yahweh, and their sin offering before Yahweh, for their error.
They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.
When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “For this, moreover, I will be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them: I will increase them with men like a flock.
For, behold, the stone that I have set before Joshua; on one stone are seven eyes: behold, I will engrave its engraving,’ says Yahweh of Armies, ‘and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day.
for this is my blood of the new covenant, which is poured out for many for the remission of sins.
The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
and not for the nation only, but that he might also gather together into one the children of God who are scattered abroad.
whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;
Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don’t destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
But all things are of God, who reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and gave to us the ministry of reconciliation;
who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—
in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins.
not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.”
and above it cherubim of glory overshadowing the mercy seat, of which things we can’t speak now in detail.
Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
You shall put the mercy seat on the ark of the covenant in the most holy place.
the ark of the covenant with its poles, the mercy seat,
He took and put the covenant into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above on the ark.
So the people sent to Shiloh, and they brought from there the ark of the covenant of Yahweh of Armies, who sits above the cherubim; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, who are enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
Then David gave to Solomon his son the plans for the porch of the temple, for its houses, for its treasuries, for its upper rooms, for its inner rooms, for the place of the mercy seat;
Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness. Your law is truth.
After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
Most certainly, I tell you, he who believes in me has eternal life.
him, being delivered up by the determined counsel and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by the hand of lawless men, crucified and killed;
But the things which God announced by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.
Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
The saying is faithful and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am chief.
Let’s therefore draw near with boldness to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace for help in time of need.
For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.
By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
By faith, Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. Yes, he who had gladly received the promises was offering up his one and only son,
If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
They sang a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the book and to open its seals: for you were killed, and bought us for God with your blood out of every tribe, language, people, and nation,
If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.