Lamentations 4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

For the last two days I have pointed eastward. For some all I had to do was point, that was enough for them to have understanding. For others I had to speak to what was hidden there. For them they gained insight and understanding. For some it was pointless. Nothing was seen or gained for them. For them it was a waste of time, if they even stayed until the end.

Song of Solomon 5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

He who sits upon the throne will not stay there. The mercy seat shall not stay occupied. In that day crying out for mercy and getting no answer shall come from that throne for He has taken on a new mission to serve His Father and finish prophecy.

If your hope lies in the hands of vain help, you shall watch and wait only to have lost even from the beginning of your trust in something or someone without power to save you from yourself. This overshadowing issue is about what is being ignored, given all that was seen is important.

We see torture and we want someone to end it. We see injustice and we want justice. We see disease and pain and suffering and we want to put an end to it. We hear the pleas of thousands who are powerless to do anything about any of it, as if we are the answer to those ills. At the same time we are bombarded with temptations of pleasures of all kinds, both attainable and unreal, all to distract you from the real danger, the slipping away of your opportunity for the saving of souls.

Is Jesus knocking at the door of your heart? Answer it and let him in before you find out the pain of SoS 5:6, that He has risen from the mercy seat and cannot hear your plea.

Hebrews 9:5 And over it the cherubims of glory shadowing the mercyseat; of which we cannot now speak particularly.

Why is it that the author of Hebrews could not speak particularly on the shadowing over the mercy seat? Is it perhaps because you cannot accurately report a conclusion without the issue being concluded, that it is in effect an ongoing issue?

Psalm 31:16 Make thy face to shine upon thy servant: save me for thy mercies’ sake.

Ephesians 5:14 This is why it is said: “Wake up, sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.” NIV

Speaking again of shadowing as there are no shadows without light, illumination. Even more telling it “save me for thy mercies sake”. Mercy takes on a quality of character if it can sake or forsake. Mercy can be seen as more than just an action performed.

Taking us back to Ezekiel 43, where is this King of Glory now since He has not yet returned?

Hebrews 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.

The right hand, the power seat, of might, and the justice hand, the smiting hand upon the throne, majesty, all this we think about, but where is mercy? Overshadowed in thought of mind as we picture Christ upon the throne, but He is mercy in quality of character as much as any other aspect of being. In this He remains perfect. It is we who overlook that unless we observe the scriptures which point us there.

The only question left is what happens to mercy once He gets up off that throne and returns as King of Kings in that day? I shall answer that by repeating Hebrews 9:5b of which we cannot now speak particularly.