Your Assignment for Session 17 - Ark of the Covenant

When the veil was torn apart, God opened up the Holy of Holies and invited people to come in. Through the blood of Jesus Christ, we can now enter the Holy of Holies where God's throne is.

I walk into the Holy of Holies and see the Shekinah glory. I see the throne of God. I see the Ark of the Covenant.

There I pray all the things I want to receive from the Lord and thank Him for them. I pray, "I am eternally forgiven. I am eternally declared righteous. I am eternally saved... I am eternally blessed by His blood covenant. I thank You dear Heavenly Father. I am now Your family member with my Father. I am His child and I take joy in the triune God. I am living in the Holy of Holies. Father, now I have many requests. I want You to hear them and help me." (then I pray all my personal requests)

Additional Information From Dr. Cho

In the Old Testament, God gave the Ark of the Covenant. Once a year the high priest brought the blood and sprinkled it on top of the golden plates of the Ark of the Covenant. That purchases Israel one whole year as God's chosen people. Notice one point very clearly. The high priest would come and make a yearly covenant with God. Through the sprinkled blood, God chose Israel as a chosen nation for one more year, but that blood only covered one year.

When the Israelites personally committed any sin, then they should come to the Brazen Altar and offer the element of blood every time. That was a personal relationship between them and God.

But as a nation, the high priest would come and make a covenant with the blood.

Jesus Christ shed His blood and sprinkled His blood on that golden plate in the Holy of Holies. The blood of Jesus is eternal, and His covenant is eternal. So when you cast the blood of Jesus Christ, your salvation is eternal. You are eternally forgiven. You are eternally declared righteous. You are eternally saved. You are eternally blessed. That is the difference between the Old Testament and the New Testament.

In the Old Testament, through the blood covenant, the people were beloved by God for one year. Every year, freshly, the high priest would go into the Holy of Holies and renew the covenant with the blood of animals. We don't need to do that now.

Jesus Christ went once, and His covenant is eternal; His sacrifice is an eternal sacrifice; His blood is eternal blood. So Jesus went into the Holy of Holies for us. He made a new covenant with God, and that covenant covers eternity; from eternity to eternity.

Whosoever trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ is covenanted with God eternally. The covenant is forgiving your sins without setting any conditions. That covenant is forgiving your sins without setting any conditions. That makes you righteous without any conditions and gives you salvation without any conditions. All you have to do is believe in God.

When you sin, then every day you must confess your sins. That is your permanent relationship between God and you. Through Christ's sacrifice in the Holy of Holies through the blood, you are eternally saved. If you don't renew your fellowship with God, everyday confessing your sins, then you will not have intimate fellowship with God. This is very, very serious.

When I was born into my family, I was born and named Cho. That is all. I was born in Cho's family so I am Cho. That cannot change. Still I must obey my parents to have fellowship with them. If I don't have fellowship with them, even though I am Cho, they won't give me any other thing. They feed me, but they won't answer my other requests. When I have good fellowship with them, then they give me everything, but if I don't have fellowship, then they won't always help me.

Through Jesus we are saved, but every day we must confess our sins and keep in good fellowship with Jesus Christ.

When I come to the Holy of Holies and see the blood on the Ark of the Covenant, I am in the presence of God. I am right in front of the throne of God.

So you come all the way through to the presence of God. There you can spend many hours if you would like to offer your heart to the Lord. Many people, when they come into the presence of God, just want to ask Him to do things for them. But it takes a long procession through: The Brazen Altar, the Laver, the Golden Candlestick, through the Shewbread, through the Incense Altar, then into the Holy of Holies. This is the process to approach the Heavenly Father. To approach the Heavenly Father, you must take the time to go through this procession step by step.