Mercy
by Nancy Cupp
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Title
Mercy
Artist
Nancy Cupp
Medium
Painting - Watercolor And Acrylic Ink On 140 Lb. Watercolor Paper
Description
© Nancy Cupp, all rights reserved.
22 x 30 watercolor of the Mercy Seat by Nancy Cupp. This painting was started at Good shepherd Methodist Church in Benton Ridge, Ohio on April 14, 2013. Finished April 26, 2013. I was invited to paint during Pastor Rakay's church services while he preached from the story about God giving Moses instructions on making the tabernacle and the holy objects for the tabernacle. I painted this from my own imagination, based on the cherubims that guarded the Mercy Seat, which is the lid of the Ark of the Covenant. When I came home from church, I looked on the internet to compare what I had started at church with images of the Ark on the internet. I came across some websites that told about a man named Ron Wyatt, who claimed that he actually found the Ark directly below where Jesus was crucified. He said there was a cave about 20 feet straight down from the cross hole identified as the place where the crucifixion took place. He found dried blood that was in the cross hole that traveled through a crack in the bedrock that traveled straight down into the cave and dripped directly onto the Mercy Seat. It is a fascinating discovery, which you can research for yourself. Just look up Ron Wyatt and discovering the Ark of the Covenant. I added the cross, the blood, and water dripping down on the Mercy Seat, based on what I researched about the discovery of the Ark. I used my imagination, study of scripture, internet research, and artistic freedom to interpret it for this painting. The Mercy Seat is where the High Priest put the sacrificial animal blood on the Day of Atonement to pay for the whole nation of Israel's sins for one year. The blood paid for their sins. When God saw the blood, He had mercy on them and forgave their sins. The Mercy Seat also represented God's throne on Earth. It was where he dwelled. The Ark was the box that contained the law (stones of testimony), the gold pot of manna, and the rod of Aaron. The Ark represents the Old testimony and the Mercy Seat represents the New testimony. The book of Exodus called it the Ark of the Testimony...when a witness is asked to prove something in court, he gives his sworn testimony. The Ark was God's sworn testimony and proof that He visited Moses and wrote the ten commandments in stone with his own finger!
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