06/29/2026
The Ark of the Covenant Points to Jesus
The Holy Spirit gave me this verse, Jeremiah 3:16.
Jeremiah 3:16
In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land,” declares the Lord, “people will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of the Lord.’ It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made.
Jeremiah was prophesying the moment when the physical ark that foreshadowed Jesus was no longer needed.
These items were contained inside the ark and they point to Jesus:
-The Commandments Tablets. Jesus fulfilled all the law.
Matthew 5:17
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Like the ark, now you carry the law in your minds, written in your hearts.
Jeremiah 31:33
“This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel
after that time,” declares the Lord.
“I will put my law in their minds
and write it on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
-Aaron’s rod, represents Jesus as the High Priest. Once a year the high priest would enter the innermost sanctuary where the ark was. The animal sacrifice blood was sprinkled over the ark lid (mercy seat, throne) for forgiveness of the sins. The moment Jesus died, the veil of the Holy of Holies was torn and gave us full access to God’s presence.
Today, when you come to Jesus and He lives in you, you are the tabernacle that contains the ark. You carry His presence.
1 Corinthians 3:16
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?
-Mana the bread that sustained the Israelites in the desert. Jesus is the bread of life.
The approximate dateline of the ark of the covenant:
1445 BC ark made with God’s blueprints given to Moses.
960 BC Solomon’s Temple was built.
587 BC The ark was lost or hidden when Solomon’s Temple was destroyed by Babylon.
516 BC The 2nd Temple was built, the ark was missing. Only the stone that was used to hold the ark was in the Holy of Holies.
430 BC the prophets were silent for 4 centuries.
20 AC Expansion of the 2nd temple by the Romans-Herod’s temple.
70 AC The 2nd temple was destroyed by the Romans. Some of the retaining exterior walls still remain in Temple Mount Jerusalem.
The Ark of the covenant is revealed in the heavenly temple.
Revelation 11:19
19 Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.