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Exodus 25

God goes into great detail in describing the appearances and use of the tabernacle and items that would be contained within. To a jr. higher it might appear that God is just trying to fill up pages for his "book." Combine that with some geneology scattered throughout the bible and you could fill up few pages!

But these things were very important to God. The Tabernacle is where he would minister to his people through his high priest. The Ark contained reminders of Gods power, and was the place where Gods presence would manifest. This is also known as the Mercy Seat.

This is all pretty interesting stuff but we have to ask, "what's the point?" The point we fnd out later on in a letter to the Hebrews take time to read this link:

Hebrews Chapter 9

So the design of the Ark ultimately is a representation of something in heaven. Actually the entire tabernacle is representative of something in heaven.