Mercy-Seat

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The cover of the ark of the covenant in the holiest, from above which Jehovah communed with Moses (Ex. 25:17-2217And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. 18And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat. 19And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof. 20And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be. 21And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee. 22And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. (Exodus 25:17‑22)), atoning blood being sprinkled on and before it. Compare Heb. 9:55And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly. (Hebrews 9:5). Christ Jesus is said in Rom. 3:24, 2524Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: 25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; (Romans 3:24‑25), to be set forth by God, a mercy-seat through faith in his blood. It was from this place that Jehovah in virtue of the atoning blood that covered it could show mercy to His stiffnecked and rebellious people. It was not, however, until the blood of His Son replaced that of bulls and goats that this mercy-seat, as in Rom. 3:2828Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. (Romans 3:28), also showed forth God’s righteousness.