Exodus 25:17 says, And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.  Moses was next told to build a mercy seat and what its dimensions were to be  We certainly need to come to the mercy seat of God today, and the only way to do so is through the cross of Jesus.  We no longer have a physical mercy seat that we carry around with us, but we have the Holy Spirit with us if we have accepted God's mercy through our faith in Christ.  Verse eighteen states,  And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.  There were to be two golden cherubim in the two ends of the mercy seat.  Verse nineteen adds, And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.  The cherubim were to be seated on each end of the mercy seat.  Then verse twenty concludes, And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces shall look one to another; toward the mercy seat shall the faces of the cherubims be.  The cherubim were to have their wings spread out covering the mercy seat, their faces toward each other and looking down at the mercy seat.  Matthew Henry said these cherubim, which represented God's holy angels, also represented God's mercy which was covered by the law.  God's mercy to us today is only covered by the blood of Christ, and once we accept this merciful gift, then His mercy is no longer covered by anything.  Verse twenty-one says, And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.  The mercy seat was to be on the ark, and the testimony, or law, that God was to give to Moses was to be in the ark.  This was to be a representation of God's law and mercy being with the people of Israel at all times.  We today have God with us at all times through the Holy Spirit, but and if we have accepted the mercy of God, we are also subjected to the law of God.  We are not saved by the law, but we are still to obey it.  Verse twenty-two states, And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel.  God said He would meet and commune with them from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim.  God was to teach them about His law, which he was going to give to Moses.  God today will speak to us from his mercy seat of we are a follower of Christ.  If we aren't, then He will speak to us strictly from His judgment seat.  Verse twenty-three says, Thou shalt also make a table of shittim wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.  Verse twenty-four states, And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.  Verse twenty-five adds, And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.  Verse twenty six continues, And thou shalt make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on the four feet thereof.  Verse twenty-seven says, Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.  Then verse twenty-eight concludes, And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.  The table was to be made according to God's design and was to be made so it could be easily transported.  Verse twenty-nine states, And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.  Verse thirty adds, And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.  The people of Israel were to make dishes to contain the shew bread, which would always be before God.  The table and dishes were not to go into the holy of holies as we shall see.