The Mercy Seat
The Ark of the Covenant has a covering called "the mercy seat." It is a lid that has 2 cherubim facing each other on top of it. In Exodus 25:22 , God said “ There I will meet with you , and from above the mercy seat , from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, I will speak with you about all that I will give you in commandment for the people of Israel.” In 1 Sam 6:19 , seventy Bethshemesh people (most likely Levites) died, as they looked into the Ark Covenant. "And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the LORD" (KJV). Why did God smite the men? It's because they open the seat of mercy and looked inside the ark, where the tablets of the ten commandments are. God told them that he will meet them on top of the mercy seat; but instead, they remove the mercy seat and looked inside, and they were judged and died according to the law. If God had said we meet at the law tablets, then all of us would have d...