Passover Worship: The mercy seat on the Ark of Covenant

Passover: ruach speaks

14 Aviv 5785 - the day before Passover, and a shabbat.  We were worshipping and the song Yeshua started.  I was asking ruach hakodesh (holy spirit) which worship flag colours to use and expected a combination with orange as we usual have that colour with the song Yeshua.  But ruach hakodesh wanted wine red and Royal purple.  My ear was leaning towards ruach but my hands were reaching for orange when my gaze fell onto a woman in the stage area who had already started to dance prophetically in worship.  Her choice was a wine red and purple silk.  Seeing that, I dropped the orange flag and went with the wine red and Royal purple worship flags as ruach had wanted.  I checked with the other dancer and off we went. 

Yeshua in red

The song Yeshua is normally 12 minutes long.  But this time they only repeated the chorus a few times, then mixed in the chorus from another song before stopping to give room for prophetic words.  When a song stops, we normally get off the stage as a team but the woman in the centre lingered.  She didn't leave. That meant I couldn't get off nor the other dancer.  We just lingered while the prophecies were shared.  Normally the worship dancers face the assembly but because I was watching the other team members, I was now facing them.  

Kadosh, kadosh, kadosh

Then a new song started: kadosh, kadosh, kadosh (holy, holy, holy).  I sensed that I needed to express worship for this sound in humble adoration and knelt down while continuing to worship with flags.  The dancer on the other side followed and the woman in the centre laid one of her silks down.  Because the dancers were facing each other, we tried to mirror each other's movements.  As we were raising our arms up and down in a kneeling position, ruach gave revelation - we were expressing the kaporet (כַּפֹּרֶת) i.e. the mercy seat or place of atonement with our movements and flags. 

The Holy of Holies in the temple in Yerushalayim contained a chest called the aron habrit (Ark of the Covenant).  On top of the Ark was a golden lid with two cherubim facing each other and extending their wings towards each other.  This golden lid was the kaporet.  The shekhinah (G-d's weighty presence) rested in between the cherubim and once a year on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) the cohen gadol (high priect) sprinkled blood on the kaporet to atone for Israel's sins.  

Prophetic revelation

Knowing this, it was easy for ruach to reveal to us that our worship flag movement, our kneeling posture and facing towards each replicated the cherubim on the kaporet.  The Royal purple worship flag represented the shekhinah moving between the cherubim's wings and the wine red worship flag was the blood being sprinkled on the kaporet (mercy seat).   

We were celebrating Passover - the time G-d appointed for his people to remember that he spared them from death (the blood of the lamb over the door post) and brought them out of Mitzrayim (Egypt = place of confinement, captivity) into a place where they were free to worship Yah.  Yeshua spilled his blood, so that we are spared from death and can come into a place of freedom to worship Yah.  The spilling of Yeshua's blood was symbolised in the sprinkling of the blood on the mercy seat which enabled Israel to remain in covenant and the presence of G-d to dwell among them.  And our worship formation, flag colour and movements together with the sound and lyrics expressed all of that on the 14 Aviv, the day which Yah commanded that the Passover lamb is slaughtered.  

As soon we processed the revelation and how it replicated and confirmed over centuries and generations, WE WERE AMAZED!   Hallelu Yah! Hallelu Yah!

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Link to the worship video on YouTube in the Love To Worship channel (@love2worship).

You will see the 'wing movement' for the cherubim is made on both sides!