ARK (2) of the Covenant.

When God established formal worship for the Israelites whom He had brought out of Egypt, he instructed Moses to make a wooden box, overlaid with gold in which Moses was to place the tablets of stone engraved with the Ten Commandments, which God had given him. Also placed in the ark were Aaron's rod, and a sample of manna, the food that God had provided to sustain the people in the wilderness for forty years. These were the tokens of the Covenant, which God had made with Israel. On the top of the ark were two cherubim of gold. The ark was kept in the Tabernacle, or Tent of Meeting in the most holy place and it could only be approached by the high priest once a year in the course of his duties. God spoke to Moses from between the cherubim: "There, above the cover between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony, I will meet with you and give you all my commands for the Israelites." (Exodus 25:22).
When Israel were settled in the Promised Land, the ark had some temporary resting places, and featured in many events in Israel's history before it was finally installed in the Temple built by Solomon (see 1 Samuel 4:3; 5:2; 5:10; 6:15; 7:2; 14:18; 2 Samuel 6:10,12). The last mention of the ark's existence in the Bible is when King Josiah repaired the Temple. "He [King Josiah] said to the Levites… "Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built." (2 Chronicles 35:3).

Jeremiah the prophet promises Israel a time of future blessing for the faithful remnant when the ark will no longer have any significance for them as a representation of the Mosaic Constitution, which will have come to an end.

"…In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land," declares the Lord, men will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of the Lord.' It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made. At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the Lord, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the Lord." (Jeremiah 3:16-17).

The writer to the Hebrews tells us that Christ has come to replace Moses, and that Jesus Christ is now in the Most Holy Place-in heaven: "When Christ came as high priest of the good things that are already here [KJV: "good things to come"], he went through the greater and more perfect tabernacle that is not man-made, that is to say, not a part of this creation. He did not enter by means of the blood of goats and calves, but he entered the Most Holy Place once for all by his own blood, having obtained eternal redemption." (Hebrews 9:11-12).
In the book of Revelation we read of the time in the future, when Christ will reign over the whole earth in peace and righteousness: "The seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, which said: 'The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.'…. Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within His temple was seen the ark of His Covenant…." (Revelation 11:15-19).

All mankind will have access to God through Jesus Christ.

Abraham
Acts of the Apostles
Adam
Adoption
Affliction
Age, Aion
Almighty God
Altar
Amen
Angel
  1. Human angels
  2. "The angels who sinned"
  3. Immortal angels
  4. "Fallen angels"
  5. "Evil angels"
Anger
Anointing
Antichrist
Apocrypha
Apostasy
Apostle
Archangel
Ark
  1. Ark constructed by Noah
  2. Ark of the Covenant
Armageddon
Ascension
Assyria
Astrology
Atonement