Prevailing Presence
“Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb, when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt. And it came to pass, when the priests came out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the Lord, so that the priests could not continue ministering because of the cloud; for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.” I Kings 8:9-11 NKJV The fact that the ark of the Lord or covenant represents the presence of the Lord among His people is an open secret even to the enemies of Israel. But when the scriptures say that “ Nothing was in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses put there at Horeb ”, it begs the undeniable attention on the correlation between the two tablets of stone and the prevailing presence of the Lord. Since the two tablets of stone contain the commandments of the Lord or God’s ordinances, statutes and the words of God, it implies that...