The Mercy Seat
1. Read Exodus 25:17.
2. What purpose did the Mercy Seat serve?
3. How were the Mercy Seat and the Cherubim formed?
4. What happens to the Divine Substance that is in us?
5. Can human nature be "hammered into shape"?
6. Can the Divine Nature be "hammered into shape"?
7. What is perfection in the Christian experience?
8. What is the center of interest of each true saint?
9. What was the seventh holy furnishing of the Tabernacle?
10. Read Exodus 25:22; John 14:23.
11. What does John 14:23 teach us?
12. Who make Their abode in us?
13. What is the fullness of redemption?
14. Read John 14:19-21; 17:21-23.
15. Why is there no temple in the new Jerusalem?
16. Read I John 4:16; Revelation 3:12,21; 22:3-5.
17. What is brought into being when God in Christ in the Christian form one piece?
18. What do the seven furnishings of the Tabernacle portray?
19. What does the Altar of Burnt Offering typify?
20. What does the Laver typify?
21. What does the Table of Showbread typify?
22. What does the Lampstand typify?
23. What does the Altar of Incense typify?
24. What does the Ark of the Covenant typify?
25. What does the Mercy Seat typify?
1. Read Exodus 25:17.
As the place of appeasement and reconciliation, of atonement, of mercy, of pardon, of covering.
They were beaten out of one piece of gold.
The Divine Substance in us must be beaten into shape.
No.
Yes. We note that the Lord Jesus was perfected in obedience to the Father by the things He suffered.
The possession of God Himself.
Christ Himself.
The Mercy Seat
10. Read Exodus 25:22; John 14:23.
11. What does John 14:23 teach us?How the fulfillment of the Mercy Seat is wrought in the life of an individual.
The Father and the Son.
The coming of God and Christ to abide eternally with the completely reconciled saint.
14. Read John 14:19-21; 17:21-23.
Because the entire city is the Tabernacle of God. Each member of God’s true Israel will see the Lord face to face.
16. Read I John 4:16; Revelation 3:12, 21; 22:3-5.
17. What is brought into being when God in Christ in the Christian form one piece?The place of God’s Presence from which God can dwell and rule earth’s peoples. This is God’s eternal throne.
The manner in which we move through the program of redemption.
The blood of the cross of Christ, called to remembrance in the sacrament of Communion. It speaks to us also of our own consecration to the Lord Jesus.
The Laver portrays the need for separation from the filth of the world on the part of those who would be priests of God. Our baptism in water represents this aspect of the plan of redemption.
The continual presentation of the living Word of God, the body and blood of Christ, the eating of which builds Christ in the believer.
The wisdom and power of the Holy Spirit who creates the testimony of Christ given through the Church. The Spirit assigns and empowers the gifts of I Corinthians, Chapter 12, and brings forth the moral fruit described in Galatians, Chapter Five. The Spirit enables the Christian to overcome the lusts of the fleshly nature.
The prayers and worship of the saints—in particular their bowing down in death to self-will and self-seeking. It is the beginning of the assault by the Church on the kingdom of darkness.
The coming of the Lord Jesus with ten thousand of His saints. It speaks to us of the time when we are in the image of Christ, possessing in ourselves the discipline of the Spirit (Aaron’s rod); the body and blood of Christ (memorial jar of manna); and a pure moral character (the Ten Commandments). The Ark of the Covenant is David’s Tabernacle—Zion, of the Book of Psalms.
The rest of God. Our experience of redemption is climaxed by the coming of the Persons of the Godhead to abide in us forever. We are being brought toward perfect oneness, perfect reconciliation to the Lord God of Heaven.