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FEBRUARY 7
While affirming God’s sovereignty, one must understand His pleas for the repentance of the
reprobate as well-meant appeals—and His goodness toward the wicked as a genuine mercy
designed to provoke them to repentance (Rom. 2:4).The emotion displayed by Christ here (and in
all similar passages, such as Luke 19:41) is obviously a deep, sincere passion. All Christ’s feelings
must be in perfect harmony with the divine will (see John 8:29)—and therefore these lamentations
should not be thought of as mere exhibitions of His humanity.
“Your house is left to you desolate”(v. 38). A few days earlier, Christ had referred to the temple
as His Father’s “house”(21:13).But the blessing and glory of God were being removed from Israel (see
1 Sam.4:21).When Christ “departed from the temple”(24:1),the glory of God went with Him.Ezekiel
11:23 described Ezekiel’s vision of the departure of the Shekinah glory in His day.The glory left the
temple and stood on the Mount of Olives, exactly the same route Christ followed here (see 24:3).

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other side. And you shall make poles of aca-
February 7 cia wood, and overlay them with gold. You
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shall put the poles into the rings on the sides
of the ark, that the ark may be carried by
them. The poles shall be in the rings of the
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Exodus 25:1–26:37
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ark; they shall not be taken from it. And you
Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying: shall put into the ark the Testimony which I
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25 “Speak to the children of Israel, that will give you.
they bring Me an offering. From everyone 17 “You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold;
who gives it willingly with his heart you shall two and a half cubits shall be its length and a
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take My offering. And this is the offering cubit and a half its width. And you shall make
which you shall take from them: gold, silver, two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you
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and bronze; blue, purple, and scarlet thread, shall make them at the two ends of the mercy
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fine linen, and goats’ hair; ram skins dyed seat. Make one cherub at one end, and the
red, badger skins, and acacia wood; oil for the other cherub at the other end; you shall make
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light, and spices for the anointing oil and for the cherubim at the two ends of it of one piece
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the sweet incense; onyx stones, and stones to with the mercy seat. And the cherubim shall
be set in the ephod and in the breastplate. stretch out their wings above, covering the
8 And let them make Me a sanctuary, that I mercy seat with their wings, and they shall
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may dwell among them. According to all that face one another; the faces of the cherubim
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I show you, that is, the pattern of the taberna- shall be toward the mercy seat. You shall put
cle and the pattern of all its furnishings, just the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark
so you shall make it. you shall put the Testimony that I will give
10 “And they shall make an ark of acacia you. And there I will meet with you, and I will
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wood; two and a half cubits shall be its length, speak with you from above the mercy seat,
a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a from between the two cherubim which are on
half its height. And you shall overlay it with the ark of the Testimony, about everything
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pure gold, inside and out you shall overlay it, which I will give you in commandment to the
and shall make on it a molding of gold all children of Israel.
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around. You shall cast four rings of gold for 23 “You shall also make a table of acacia wood;
it, and put them in its four corners; two rings two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its width,
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shall be on one side, and two rings on the and a cubit and a half its height. And you shall
overlay it with pure gold, and make a molding
of gold all around. You shall make for it a
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frame of a handbreadth all around, and you
shall make a gold molding for the frame all
25:17 mercy seat. The lid or cover of the ark around. And you shall make for it four rings
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was the “mercy seat” or the place at which of gold, and put the rings on the four corners
atonement took place. Between the Shekinah that are at its four legs. The rings shall be
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glory cloud above the ark and the tablets of close to the frame, as holders for the poles to
Law inside the ark was the blood-sprinkled bear the table. And you shall make the poles
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cover. Blood from the sacrifices stood of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold,
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that the table may be carried with them. You
shall make its dishes, its pans, its pitchers, and
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