II Chronicles 33-35
It’s the familiar story of
finding the word of God, King Josiah leading the people to repent and the
greatest celebration of faith ever.
Here’s what I didn’t know: chapter 35 records the last mention of the Ark
of the Covenant. The Ark was the holiest
of the holy objects in the Temple.
It was the Seat Of God, the symbolic object of His being with us, living
among us. It disappeared from
history and has never been seen since.
Where is it? Melted down in
some ancient Babylonian furnace?
Hidden in some cave waiting to be revealed at the Second Coming? No one knows. One of the great mysteries of mankind remains unsolved.
However, what brings us peace
even in the face of this mystery is that a God man, Christ the Lord, has
replaced the Ark. He now offers to
live in us as God’s promised to be with us and in us. It is the New Covenant and once you have faithfully
accepted Christ, He can never be lost.
“I (Jesus) give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one
will snatch them out of my hand.
My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all; no one can
snatch them out of my Father’s hand.
John 10:28-29
“For I am convinced that neither
death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future,
nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation,
will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.”
Romans 8:38-39
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