The 3 Things In the Ark of the Covenant

The three things that were in the ark:

1. The two tablets of testimony = THE WAY

2. The pot of manna = THE TRUTH

3. Aaron's rod that budded = THE LIFE

Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the Life, and no mans comes to the Father, but by me." John 14:6

Until you find the Son or the Christ of your being, you cannot know the Father - this is what Jesus meant when he said that "I and the Father are One." The Father is our Source and the Son is that Source manifesting.

1. Jesus the man was a way pointing to the WAY which is Christ. Isaiah says he is the Sign Son and we know that signs only point to something or speak of something. It also says "Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are for signs and for wonders [that are to take place] in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion."

Our friend David shares with us the following illustrations: It would be like a dying man in the desert coming upon a sign that says "Water" with an arrow pointing in the direction it is. But the man in his delerium thinks that the sign is where the water is and stops there. "The sign can of its own self do nothing", but what it points to can do all things.

Or a water bottle with a label that says W-A-T-E-R. It is not the label you want or its container, but what’s in the bottle. So it is with Jesus. Billy uses the caterpillar and butterfly example beautifully to illustrate this too.

Billy, you made me think of this scripture too when you said on your latest post of how we are going to think of Jesus differently.

John 16:25
I have told you these things in parables (veiled language, allegories, dark sayings). The hour is now coming when I shall no longer speak to you in figures of speech, but I shall tell you about the Father in plain words and openly - without reserve.

We are no longer going to see the Father which is what Jesus came to reveal, either as the Old man in the sky, or a Being sitting on a throne somewhere up in the heavens as something separate and apart from his creation.

2. The Manna is the Bread that came down from heaven. "It is My Father who gives you the true, heavenly bread" John 6:32

What came down from heaven?

"GOD was in Christ (Christ being the expression or extension of the Father called the Son) reconciling the world unto himself"

Timothy calls God the Savior of the World. So it was the Father or God or the Unmanifested Invisible God making himself visible by coming as the Son or Christ nature.

3. The Life is what happens when you eat the True Bread that comes down from heaven. "I am the Bread of Life - that gives life, the Living Bread." This is “Zoe” life, or God Life, “I am come that you might have life and life more abundantly."