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The Mercy Seat(Exodus 2517-22)

• I. Description of the Mercy Seat.
• A. Instructions (Exodus 2517-22).

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The Mercy Seat(Exodus 2517-22)

• Mercy Seat
• Heb. Kapporet (tr6PoK1)
• from kpr (rpK)
• to cover over, pacify, propitiate

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The Mercy Seat(Exodus 2517-22)

• I. Description of the Mercy Seat.
• A. Instructions (Exodus 2517-22).
• B. To be on the ark in the most holy
  place (Exodus 2633-34).
• C. Construction (Exodus 31, 37).
• D. Moses put in place (Ex 4017-20).
• E. Aaron (Leviticus 162 13-17).

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The Mercy Seat(Exodus 2517-22)

• II. Function of the Mercy Seat.
• A. God promises
• 1. To meet with them there.
• 2. To instruct them there.
• 3. To appear to them in the cloud
  there.
• 4. To grant them mercy there.

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The Mercy Seat(Exodus 2517-22)

• II. Function of the Mercy Seat.
• A. God promises to meet, instruct,
  appear grant mercy there.
• B. God spoke to Moses from the Mercy
  Seat (Numbers 789).
• C. Joshua prays towards the Mercy
  Seat (Joshua 76,10).
• D. Solomon (I Chronicles 2810-12).

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The Mercy Seat(Exodus 2517-22)

• III. The Mercy Seat in the New
  Testament.
• A. Greek Old Testament (LXX).

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The Mercy Seat(Exodus 2517-22)

• Mercy Seat
• Gr. hilasterion (ßlastrion)
• means or place where sins are forgiven
• from hilasmos (ßlasmñw)
• means by which sins are forgiven

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The Mercy Seat(Exodus 2517-22)

• III. The Mercy Seat in the New
  Testament.
• A. Greek Old Testament (LXX).
• B. Used twice in New Testament.
• 1. Tabernacle (Hebrews 91-15).
• 2. Jesus (Romans 321-26).
• C. How is Jesus Our Mercy Seat?

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The Mercy Seat(Exodus 2517-22)

• How Is Jesus Our Mercy Seat?
• 1. We meet with God in Jesus (John 146
  Matthew 1127-30).
• 2. God appears to us in Jesus
  (John 147-9 John 118).
• 3. God instructs us through Jesus (Hebrews
  11-4).
• 4. Mercy is granted in Jesus (Rom 323-26).