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Exodus 25:20
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18 And you shall make two cherubim of gold; of hammered work you shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
19 Make one cherub at one end, and the other cherub at the other end; you shall make the cherubim at the two ends of it of one piece with the mercy seat.
20 And athe cherubim shall stretch out their wings above, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and they shall face one another; the faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat.  
21 aYou shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and bin the ark you shall put the Testimony that I will give you.  
22 And athere I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the mercy seat, from bbetween the two cherubim which are on the ark of the Testimony, about everything which I will give you in commandment to the children of Israel.  

The Table for the Showbread

23 a“You shall also make a table of acacia wood; two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height.  
24 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a molding of gold all around.
Commentaries:


No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Exodus 25:20.

Exodus 25:20-22

The mercy seat represented, symbolically, God's throne—the place where He sits and reigns over all that He has created.

The author of Hebrews here associates the throne of grace with mercy and the inference is obvious. The mercy seat and the throne of grace are one and the same. The mercy seat is that place, symbolically, from which God governs and judges. That is why the ark and its seat were shown in Revelation 11:19. God is shown symbolically sitting on the Ten Commandments. They are the legal basis of His judgments. The place is symbolic then of judgment and mercy being dispensed from the seat of God's government.

Excerpted from Deuteronomy (Part 1)



Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Exodus 25:20:

Matthew 9:10-13


 
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