Ark of Mercy
Blue v1-7 Ch 6 2 Samv1-2 David...and his men set out...to bring up from Baalah the Ark of God.
v6-7 When they came to the threshing floor... Uzzah reached out and took hold of the Ark of God, because the oxen stumbled. The LORD's anger burned against Uzzah because of his irreverent act; God struck him down and he died there beside the Ark of God.~The Ark represents the Presence of God (v2).
~The ox represented the power or strength of man {(Deu 25:4/1 Tim 5:18/Matt 13:26, 30); Don't muzzle an ox (God sent messenger) while it treads out the grain (to separate the wheat from the tare)}.
Oxen are messengers/ministers sent by God to help us find God but even messengers have a flesh side who need salvation from sin so in this we see all will always need God Who alone maintains Holiness 24/7. If Uzzah wanted to help then he should have stayed in his realm and laid hands on the ox (the man that stumbled) and not the Presence of God in Whom is no darkness (Jms 1:17) or an ability to stumble and fall. The hand of sin cannot be laid on the Presence of Holiness with the idea that it is going to impart some deliverance. This is backwards altar ministry.
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The right way to approach The Ark; The Presence of God; is to run to the Mercy Seat then bow down for help because as fallen man, we are the ones that need help when stumbling.
It is still merciful of God to show through using Uzzah as an example of what not to do so that afterward many lives may be saved having been taught, or learned through this lesson of "who to help and what realm to stay in" so that in this we can see how Father God already turned Uzzah's bad around for good by letting this also become good fruit that would follow him into his death and not just the mistake Uzzah made that made God mad for Uzzah's careless thinking that led him into irreverent behavior, so here we know that Uzzah is not forever lost because God's Ways are still higher than ours (Isa 55:8).
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