The Ark of the Covenant

The carrying poles always remained in the receptacles on the sides of the Ark, even when Israel camped and the Tabernacle of the Congregation was set up.

8.
What is the significance of the fact that the poles were left in the rings of the Ark of the Covenant?

The saint is always to be pressing on toward the fullness of God's Glory in Christ.

9.
What is characteristic of the acacia tree?

It is thorny.

10.
What does wood symbolize in the Scripture?

Humanity.

11.
Is God actually making the heart of the saint His eternal throne?

Yes.

12.
Are we Christians actually made partakers of the Divine Nature?

Yes.

Read Exodus 25:11.

14.
What is characteristic of acacia wood?

It is thorny, hard, and durable.

15.
What is the meaning of the gold-covered wood?

Humanity totally covered with Divinity.

16.
What is the goal of our life?

To be re-created in the image of Christ, God's Son, in spirit, soul, and body, in order that we may be filled with all the fullness of God.

17.
What does the number six signify?

Mankind.

18.
What transforms human character into the Substance and image of Christ?

Continued exposure to the Glory of God in the face of Christ.

19
. What are human beings being created?

The resting place of the almighty God.

20.
What is revealed by the fact that the Mercy Seat and the Ark were placed together as a unit?

The mutual, interdependent rest of God and the believer.

21.
What does the Ark portray?

The completion of the process of redemption.

22.
What is typified by the three elements contained in the Ark of the Covenant?

The fully-developed Christian character.

23.
What does Aaron's rod signify?

The Christian has learned to flow with the resurrection life that proceeds from the Father—the Life of the Holy Spirit of God.

24.
What brought about the miracle of the rod?

The rebellion of Korah.

25.
What must each of God's saints come to know?

The power of Christ's resurrection.

26.
What else must each saint come to know?

The fellowship of His sufferings.

27
. On what is Christ' high priesthood based?

The power of an indestructible life.

28.
What always is the source of resurrection?

Crucifixion.

29.
In what condition is God's power perfected?

Our confusion, our weakness, our helplessness.

30.
What are we brought to every day?

The dying of the Lord Jesus.

31.
Where does God create eternal truth?

In the deepest parts of the personality.

32.
What are fashioned in us while we are subject to the problems of this life?

Death with Christ and resurrection with Christ.

Read II Corinthians 4:10,11.

34.
Why does God bring us into the death of Christ?

So His resurrection life may be revealed in us.

35.
What has resulted from the Apostle Paul's willingness to follow Christ into the fullness of death to self?

The fullness of the Life of Jesus being brought to the nations of the earth for two thousand years.

36.
When shall we be redeemed completely?

When resurrection life clothes our mortal body.

37.
In view of our coming total redemption, what should we be doing in the present hour?

Sowing to the Spirit of God and not to the lusts of our flesh.

38.
What happens to the Christian who spends his days in fleshly pursuits?

He will die spiritually even though he is a Christian.

39.
What must each of us do?

We must allow God to place us as He will "before the Ark of the Covenant," before His Presence.

40.
What is the first responsibility of the Christian discipleship?

To wait on God.

41.
What does it mean to "wait on the Lord"?

To give time to seeking the Lord each day, seeking Him in single-mindedness of heart.

42.
What are we not to do?

To run ahead of God, attempting to build the Kingdom of God by our own wisdom, strength, and desires.

43.
What should we do when we are not sure of God's will?

Place all our alternatives in the Presence of His holiness.

44.
What will take place if we hold our decisions before the Lord?

The wisdom He has chosen for us will bloom with His Life.

45.
What other power is equal to the power of the resurrection of Christ our Lord?

No other power in Heaven or on the earth—angelic or human.

46. Read Ephesians 1:19-21

47. Read Exodus 16:33

48.
What was an important characteristic of the manna?

It could not be kept from one day to the next.

49.
Why did the Lord have Moses place a jar of manna inside the Ark of the Covenant?

To remind the Israelites of their prolonged lesson of dependence on Him.

50.
When will the "manna cease" for the saint?

When we see the Lord face to face.

51.
What will have become true of us because of our "wilderness wanderings"?

Engraved in our spirit will be the realization of the need for continual reliance on the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

52
. What does Christ associate with the manna of the Old Testament?

His own body and blood.

53.
What is the life of the saint?

The body and blood of Christ.

54.
What is the Communion service?

A practice in the physical world representing the fact that in the spirit realm the Lord Jesus is continually nourishing us and imparting to us His body and blood so that we are becoming one with Him in every aspect of our personality and behavior.

55.
What must the saint learn?

To live by Christ as He lives by the Father.

56.
The Ten Commandments were placed in the Ark. What do they typify?

The transformed moral character of the saint.

57.
The Ten Commandments were known as the testimony. What testimony is God concerned about?

The moral law.

58.
What testimony must the world see and hear?

What we ourselves have become—the transformed moral nature.

59.
What will people do when they see the light of Christ in the saints?

They will glorify the Father in Heaven.

60.
What is the miracle of redemption?

The re-making of the sons of Adam into the image of God.