THE HOPE OF ISRAEL - The Preterist Archive

224 The Hope of Israel: What Is It?
no priests, but only Levites, whom David appointed
"to minister before the ark of the Lord, and to record,"
that is literally to make mention of, or bring to remembrance,
or in other words to proclaim or preach the
mercies and the marvellous acts of God, "and to thank
and praise the Lord God of Israel" (1 Chr. 16 :4)
. This
was a very remarkable suspension of the system of
worship of the Law, and an equally remarkable foreshadowing
of that of the Gospel. And so it was during
the greater part of King David's reign, during all the
years the ark of God dwelt in the Tabernacle of David.
Chiefly it is to be observed that this sojourn of the
ark on Mount Zion is the foundation of the many references
in the Psalms and the Prophets to Zion, as
the dwelling place of Jehovah, and is what gives to the
terms "Zion" and "Mount Zion" their high spiritual
meaning. And it is a most significant fact, whereof we
must take due notice if we are to understand some
of the most important of the prophecies, that never
thereafter was Mount Moriah, where Solomon's magnificent
temple stood, referred to as Jehovah's dwelling
place, but always Mount Zion; and that when God
speaks by His prophets concerning things to come in