BLOOD ON THE MERCY SEAT

In researching the history of King Solomon, we find on the essenes.crosswinds.net website that he married a daughter of Pharaoh Siamun. The site also indicated that Solomon must indeed have been allotted special privilege for such a union to occur, as intermarriage with foreigners (even powerful kings) was expressly forbidden to Egyptian royalty.

Per a writing called Chronicle of the Pharaohs by Peter A. Clayton, we find that Siamun reigned for about 20 years, beginning in about 978 B.C.. He accomplished much building in the Delta, and enlarged the temple of Amun at Tanis. Prior to this time foreign princesses had been allowed to intermarry into the Egyptian Kingdom, but it was not until this time frame that a marriage of an Egyptian princess outside the kingdom at this time was noted.

Thus we might piece together the timeline of this marriage. There was a great deal of significance to this marriage, as the Egyptians had knowledge that the family of God would need. Whether the Egyptian princess herself gave Solomon the knowledge, or whether it was given to him by her father, or maybe by others they knew, we will see that the receipt of their knowledge of physics and natural laws was of great importance to us.

Michael Rood, a Messianic Rabbi, spells out the process by which Solomon used this Egyptian knowledge to build an elevator shaft to conceal the Ark of the Covenant. His web site is michaelrood.com. I Kings chapter 7 hints at the process that Solomon apparently used. Rabbi Rood says that when one carefully reads this text, applying our understanding of physics, we will see evidence that an elevator shaft equipped with hydraulics had to be used to transport and conceal the Ark deep into an underground cavity which had been built for it. Here it would be safe when the Temple would be ransacked. Indeed this may have been God's plan, and these carefully engineered plans may have landed the Ark in the precise resting place for the second portion of the plan to occur. You see, atop this Ark was the mercy seat where the blood of the sacrificial animals had been sprinkled. Rabbi Rood explains that the blood from the goats, bulls, etc. of the Old Testament was to be sprinkled on one side of the mercy seat, leaving the other side untouched. These animals complied with the Old Testament Covenant. There would be a blood sacrifice for the New Testament Covenant as well, however. The mercy seat must also be sprinkled with the blood of this sacrifice. The means by which this was accomplished was presented briefly in another segment. We will present it here in a bit more detail.

Ron Wyatt was a renowned archaeologist who died a few years ago, but not until he had obtained a quite magnificent find. He claimed to have found the Ark of the Covenant. He felt that the Holy Spirit led him right to it. He found it directly under three square cut holes in the rock where he believes three crosses stood in days gone by. The location matches the Biblical criteria completely, and He firmly believed this location to be the crucifixion site of Yeshua. When the soldier pierced Yeshua's side, blood ran forth mixed with water. Mr. Wyatt believes that when the earthquake parted the rocks, the blood trickled down through the crack, and landed directly on the the mercy seat. In fact, Mr. Wyatt did find blood in the crack of the rock, as well as on the mercy seat. He took a sample of the blood, and had it tested. He believed the results to be conclusive that this blood was from the divine Son of God. He planned to have two unbiased geneticists go into the chamber and test the blood when the time was right, so his information could be verified globally. His death intervened.

Rabbi Rood, who has also been associated with this research, further asserts that the blood found by Mr. Wyatt on the mercy seat was on the side where no previous blood had fallen. Indeed, our God is a God of pattern and detail. If blood from the Old Testament sacrifices had to be sprinkled on the mercy seat, would God not arrange for the blood of the New Covenant to be sprinkled there as well?

I John 5:7-8 states:

You see, the essence of the Father, the Word (Son) and the Holy Ghost are ONE, and they bear witness of the fulfillment of the New Testament Covenant in Heaven. However, there is also a witness within the earth, which is the Spirit who resides atop the mercy seat, together with the water and blood of Yeshua which fell upon it. These three too agree in one accord, that the New Testament Covenant was ratified with the blessed blood of the Lamb of God in human form.

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