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Is the ark of the covenant mentioned in

Revelation 11:19 Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark
of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of
lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail.
( ESV )

same as the ark of shittim wood mentioned in

Exodus 25:10 And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits
and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the
breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. (KJV)

?

As to the ark of shittim wood and gold, Jeremiah says of it :

They shall say no more 'The ark of the covenant of the Lord' neither shall it come to mind : neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall it be done any more. Jeremiah 3: 16.

Nor was it, for scripture mentions it no more after his words.

But such things - the artefacts made in the wilderness and constructed in Jerusalem - the writer to the Hebrews describes as :

... the pattern of things in the heavens [Hebrews 9 : 23, KJV.]

And he says that :

Christ is now entered into heaven itself. [Hebrews 9 : 24, KJV]

What John saw in vision is not another pattern, nor a material construct in heaven. He saw a vision. The vision is imagery given that we may have a concept in our mind. Else, we cannot process things through our mind.

It is a concept. Not material.

For heaven is a spiritual place and Christ, himself, is now there.

But such things are beyond our comprehension so we are given imagery, just as before - all men upon earth were given the visible artefacts, the pattern, the representation.

There shall be new heavens and a new earth but of them we are told that eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor hath it entered into the heart of men to conceive of such things, I Corinthians 2 :9, KJV.

Till then we have the written record of artefacts and we have the imagery given to John.

According to 2 Macc 2, the prophet Jeremiah hid the ark just before the final siege of Jerusalem where it is supposed to be still be hidden. There are several other competing theories about what happened to the ark, and no one knows for sure. The Maccabees account appears to be the most credible but we are not sure.

In any case, there are two possibilities about the ultimate fate of the earthly ark originally constructed by Moses during the Exodus:

• It remains hidden somewhere (Jerusalem or taken to Babylon??)


• It was captured by one of the invading armies but later destroyed.

This was the earthly ark of the covenant that was some sort of representation of the heavenly (Ex 25:9, 40, 26:30, Acts 7:44, Heb 8:5). Whether this earthly ark was a copy of the literal actual or was some kind of symbolic representation is not clear. In either case, the heavenly ark would have been greater and grander and not part of this creation (Heb 9:11).

Thus, the ark seen Rev 11:19 was either the actual heavenly ark in the heavenly temple or a symbolic representation of it. In either case, it was not the actual earthly ark of the covenant. By John's time, the earthly ark may have been destroyed.

Is the “ark of the covenant” mentioned in Revelation 11:19 same as the “ark” mentioned in Exodus 25:10?

In short "Yes".

John saw the Ark in a vision in the heavenly Temple of God, not in an earthly temple. The Ark was the visible presence of God with his people,the Israelites, first in the Tabernacle then in the Temple build by Solomon. It was kept in the Most Holy and was only seen by the High Priest on the Day of Atonement.(The other were not allowed to see it)