Ark of the Covenant Was Vital to the World

To save our world from becoming Hell on Earth with “Jewish channel” of Divine Grace, God had to save the Jews (genuine saviors of mankind) first. To save the Jews, God had to (1) make sure that Jewish people stick to the right behavior; and (2) supply the Jews with the necessary amount of Divine Grace per second.

And the whole world – via the Jews. The first objective was accomplished with Mosaic Law (God’s Laws imposed on the Jews via Moses); the second one – with the Ark of the Covenant (built by the Jews on God’s orders).

Mosaic Law is spread among the books of Exodus, Leviticus, and Numbers, and then reiterated and added to in Deuteronomy. It is quite comprehensive – it includes Ten Commandments followed by moral laws (on murder, theft, honesty, adultery, homosexuality, etc.); social laws (on property, inheritance, marriage, and divorce); food laws (on what is clean and unclean, on cooking and storing food); purity laws; religious feasts; instructions for the priesthood and the high priest and some other instructions.

The Ark of the Covenant (also known as the Ark of the Testimony or the Ark of God) was a large (3.75 x 2.25 x 2.25 feet) and heavy (about 200 pounds or 90 kg) wooden box (storage chest) decorated in solid gold accompanied by an ornamental lid known as the Seat of Mercy.

The ark contained three items: (1) Tablets of the Law – two stone tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments; (2) Aaron’s rod and (3) a pot of manna. However, it was not that important what the Ark was physically and what it contained – what was important was what it was.

The Ark of the Covenant was an integral part; a central component of the “Jewish channel” of Divine Grace. Which flowed from God the Heavenly Father via the Ark, Jewish High Priest and the Levites (Jewish priestly tribe) to the Jewish people and via Jewish people to the whole world – the whole mankind.

Thus, the Ark of the Covenant was, indeed, vitally, salvifically important to both the Jewish people and to the whole human civilization (even to diehard anti-Semites).