When You See the Ark!

Submitted by: Joanne Cain

Bible Version: King James

In working on a new web site I made a logo that floats on the page saying: When “You” See the Ark! Yet in listening to this statement resonate within I am taken up with one thing…it does not say when they see it says when YOU. This sent me on a journey thru word definitions: Ark: A boat or a ship that resembles that in which Noah and his family were preserved from the flood. It is something that affords protection, the sacred chest representing to the Hebrews the presence of God among them, a repository traditionally in or on the wall of the synagogue. See: To have the experience of, to perceive or detect by sight, to discover, to come to know. Know/experience: to have the understanding of the importance, to recognize the nature of, to become, to have intimate relationship with, and to be convinced or certain of.

In the last several years of my walk I can honestly say I have only begun to understand what the above means on a day-to-day basis. Yet for some reason his mercy has healed and stripped and restored my path so many times to return to seeking nothing but the one true pattern set before us by Him. With that I am aware that the reason this is so; in me; has been a blindness of over familiarity with things that should have no common ground with that which is as come see or saw. I am aware too that the only way out of that pit has been to pull back and regroup…for in the midst when the mortar has become cracked and the ground hard and dry only his anointing can deliver the answer one needs. Hosea12: 1-6 

Mine came in a teaching on imputing recompense for at the same time I had been looking at the word catty, which means: a return of something suffered/sly or spiteful or malicious (intent to cause or see another experience pain.) This drew up the word conditional which means: subject to.Mal.3: 6 I am the Lord I change not there fore ye sons of Jacob ye are consumed not.

When I heard the teaching from our voice from the mountain top internet radio Pastor I was so stunned by the revealing; it immediately put in place a piece of the puzzle I had been seeking. Not only did I get the knowledge of though, it brought experiential change that is still whirling in me! Yet it is an unseen ark to the one with the natural eye and that can bring a wrestling that is to some seemingly unfounded yet it is said of Jacob he wrestled with the messenger until…Gen25: 26, 30- 34, Gen. 27:36.

Which like all apothecaries, this one does not end here but I feel to keep my words short and to the point…as it is one thing and one thing alone that is bellowing in me now. Hosea 6: 1-3 1 Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up. 2 After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. 3 Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth. Amen and Amen!