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| 'Ark' revelation: Can they dig it? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 26 2009, 01:40 AM (932 Views) | |
| XNavyGunner | Jun 26 2009, 01:40 AM Post #1 |
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Ark hunters and Bible enthusiasts are buzzing about a report that the Ark of the Covenant, the ancient container that holds the Ten Commandments, is expected to be unveiled in Rome today. As WND reported, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia says he will announce to the world the unveiling of the Ark, which he says has been hidden away in a church in his country for millennia, according to the Italian news agency Adnkronos. Abuna Pauolos, in Italy for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI this week, told the news agency, "Soon the world will be able to admire the Ark of the Covenant described in the Bible as the container of the tablets of the law that God delivered to Moses and the center of searches and studies for centuries." According to the Italian news agency, the announcement is expected to be made at 2 p.m. Italian time (8 a.m. Eastern) from the Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome. Pauolos will reportedly be accompanied by Prince Aklile Berhan Makonnen Haile Sellassie and Duke Amedeo D'Acosta. "The Ark of the Covenant is in Ethiopia for many centuries," said Pauolos. "As a patriarch I have seen it with my own eyes and only few highly qualified persons could do the same, until now." Bob Cornuke, biblical investigator, international explorer and best-selling author, has participated in more than 27 expeditions around the world searching for lost locations described in the Bible. A man some consider a real-life Indiana Jones, he has written a book titled "Relic Quest" about the Ark of the Covenant and participated in History Channel production called "Digging for Truth." Next week, Cornuke will travel to Ethiopia for the 13th time since he began his search for the Ark. He told WND he believes this artifact may be authentic. "They either have the Ark of the Covenant or they have a replica that they have believed to be the Ark of the Covenant for 2,000 years," he said. Cornuke said, if it is genuine, there's a plausible explanation of how the Ark may have come to the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Ethiopia. "The Ark could have been taken out of the temple during the time of the atrocities of Manasseh," he said. "We have kind of a bread crumb trail that appears to go to Egypt, and it stayed on an island there for a couple hundred years called Elephantine Island. The Ark then was transferred over to Lake Tana in Ethiopia where it stayed on Tana Qirqos Island for 800 years. Then it was taken to Axum, where it is enshrined in a temple today where they don't let anybody see it." Cornuke said he traveled to Tana Qirqos Island and lived with monks who remain there today. "They unlocked this big, four-inch thick wood door," he said. "It opened up to a treasure room, and they showed me meat forks and bowls and things that they say are from Solomon's temple. When the History Channel did this show, they said it was one of the largest viewed shows. People were fascinated." He said Ethiopians consider the Ark to be the ultimate holy object, and the church guards the suspected artifact from the "eyes and pollution of man." "In Ethiopia, their whole culture is centered around worshipping this object," Cornuke said. "Could they have the actual Ark? I think I could make a case that they actually could." However, he said reports about Friday's unveiling are somewhat perplexing because Ethiopia has traditionally shielded it from public view. "That's the surprise for me," Cornuke said. "I have always thought that they would keep it under wraps." He explained that a special guardian lives inside the church and never leaves. Once a guardian is appointed, he stays until he dies and another man replaces him. "We know for a fact that there have been 30 guardians in history who have never left that enclosure," Cornuke said. "I know the guardian. When CNN and BBC went over there, he wouldn't see anybody but me. So I went and talked to him, and he's getting very aged. He told me they have the real Ark and he worships 13 hours a day in front of it. When he gets through, he is covered in sweat and he's exhausted." He said he met a 105-year-old man who claimed to have seen the Ark 50 years ago when he was training a replacement guardian. "It frightened him to death when he got a glimpse of it." Cornuke said he also met with the president of Ethiopia nearly nine years ago and had a one-on-one conversation with him in his palace. He asked if Ethiopia had the Ark of the Covenant. According to Cornuke, the president responded: "Yes, we do. I am the president, and I know. It's not a copy. It's the real thing." However, Grant Jeffrey, host of TBN's Bible Prophecy Revealed and well-known author of "Armageddon: Appointment With Destiny," does not believe claims that the Ark is in Ethiopia. He told WND he has spoken extensively with Robert Thompson, former adviser to former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie. Jeffrey said Thompson told him the Ark of the Covenant had been taken to Ethiopia by Menelik, purported son of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon. When Menelik became emperor, he claims royal priests entrusted him with the Ark of the Covenant because King Solomon was slipping into apostasy. A replica was then left behind in Israel. "The Ethiopian royal chronicles suggest that for 3,000 years, they had been guarding the ark, knowing that it had to go back to Israel eventually," Jeffrey said. He claims that after the Ethiopian civil war, Israel sent in a group of commandos from the tribe of Levi and the carried the Ark onto a plane and back to Israel in 1991. "It is being held there secretly, waiting in the eyes of the religious leaders of Israel, for a supernatural signal from God to rebuild the temple," he said. "They are not going to do it before that. When that happens, they will bring the Ark into that temple." But author and Bible teacher Chuck Missler, founder of Koinonia House, told WND the theory of Menelik obtaining the Ark is not biblical, though he believes there is a possibility that the Ethiopians may have the real deal. "The fact that the Ethiopians may have been guarding the Ark of the Bible is very possible," he said. "They cling to a belief that is clearly not biblical in terms of how the Ark got down there. But that doesn't mean they don't have it. Missler said there is no biblical basis for the Menelik account, and he believes there was a reason for that version of events. "What everybody overlooks is that there's a reason that particular story was cooked up in early times," he said. "It was to give their kings Solomonic descent. There's reason why they would try to sell that. But just because the official belief in how it got down there is not biblical, doesn't mean they don't have it." Tennessee historian and "Time is the Ally of Deceit" author Richard Rives, searched for the Ark and participated in excavations beneath Mount Moriah outside the walls of ancient Jerusalem. His group was trying to verify claims by relic hunter Ron Wyatt that he actually saw the Ark there several decades ago after tunneling through a small passageway. While they found Roman ruins from the first century, Rives told WND they were unsuccessful in confirming Wyatt's account. Nonetheless, Rives does not believe the story of Menelik obtaining the artifact or that Ethiopia ever had the real Ark. "God's presence was on the mercy seat. That was the throne of God," he said. If the account were accurate, Rives said God would have been dwelling on an Ark replica in Jerusalem. "I just don't believe they could have persuaded him to sit on a fake Ark of the Covenant," he said. Many theories exist about the ultimate fate of the Ark, including that it has been hidden in a still unknown location, it was destroyed by enemies of the Israelites, taken by Egyptian invaders to Egypt or removed by divine intervention. The artifact received additional publicity in 1981 when actor Harrison Ford searched for it in Steven Spielberg's "Raiders of the Lost Ark." Cornuke said Ethiopians claim their purported Ark is kept in a large stone sarcophagus lined in ornately hammered silver. The Ark itself is made of acacia wood and laminated with a thin veneer of gold. The mercy seat sits atop the Ark and is made of pure, hammered gold and includes two cherubim facing one another. Whether the artifact is real or simply a copy, Cornuke said unveiling might leave the world with more questions than answers. "We have only typology to go on," he said. "We could probably have some people analyze the wood samples and come up with some kind of dating protocol on it because it is acacia wood to see if that is it." Rives said a close inspection of the Ten Commandments would be necessary to ensure they are in accordance with true text and not in accordance with later versions of the Ten Commandments. Cornuke said experts would also need to determine whether the artifact itself fits the biblical description and trace its path to Ethiopia. "We are peeking behind the veil of history," he said. "We're taking a glimpse of an artifact that could be a very holy object." Source If this is the real deal, it will shake up the whole world. |
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| Max | Jun 26 2009, 05:27 AM Post #2 |
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Pickle barrel, pickle barrel, Kumquat!
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Oh,this is Huge! So many possibilities.................. |
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| Varlok | Jun 26 2009, 11:15 AM Post #3 |
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That would really be amazing. |
![]() http://www.blogtalkradio.com/arimoose "Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance." -- Albert Einstein | |
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| WReck | Jun 28 2009, 05:07 AM Post #4 |
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I’m not sure what I think about all this I think there’s way too much excitement over it. I mean 1st off it’s not like I actually get to see the ark as a result. I realize there’s also a lot of excitement because people think this proves something. It doesn’t though I mean I have not only heard of dream catchers but seen several that doesn’t prove the native Americans beliefs true it just proves that dream catchers are real. Finding the ark only proves that you found the ark. If you believe in everything said about the ark I’m pretty sure this can only be viewed as a bad thing. I could be wrong but I believe this is one of the event signifying the end of the world. |
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| Ashley Star Child | Jul 15 2009, 12:59 AM Post #5 |
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Well, unless it has the Book of Enoch, and Jubilees in it it's defianantly a fake because those two books ARE in the Ark. |
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| Wabbit | Jul 15 2009, 01:40 AM Post #6 |
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Fragments of the book of Enoch and a quarter of the book of Jubilees were discovered in the dead sea scrolls, the rest of the book of the Jubilees apparently being destroyed to suppress them. According to the Bible, the two tablets of stone constituting the "testimony" or evidence of God's covenant with the people (i.e. The Ten Commandments) were kept within the Ark itself. A golden jar containing some of the manna from the Israelites' trek in the wilderness, and the rod of Aaron that budded, were added to the contents of the Ark (Ex. 16:32-34; Heb. 9:4), but apparently were later removed at some point prior to the building of Solomon's temple, as I Kings 8:9 that there "was nothing in the Ark save the two tablets of stone." While Heb. 9:4 states these items were placed "inside" the Ark, Ex. 16:33-34 and Num. 17:10 use the expression "before" the Ark; some see a contradiction here, as the correct meaning of these phrases is open to interpretation. A Rabbinic tradition states that Moses also put the broken fragments of the first tablets of the Law into the Ark.[1] Some scholars have argued that the plans to the Tabernacle were contained in the Ark. I can find no reference to either the book of Enoch or The Jubilees being placed in the arc at any time. It is also interesting to note that there were in fact two arcs, a temporary one made by Moses, and a later one made by Bezalel, his grandnephew. |
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| GRAVEYARD HOUND | Feb 3 2011, 04:46 PM Post #7 |
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If it was, it didn't draw much of a crowd.
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"While hiding out in Cairo,... I'm a desperate man...Send lawyers, guns, and money,... the shit has hit the fan".(Paraphrase from "LAWYERS, GUNS AND MONEY") "...We die at such a place; some swearing; some dying, some crying for a surgeon; ....some upon their wives left poor behind them; ...some upon the debts they owed; some upon their children rawly left. I am afeared there are few die well that die in battle..." KING HENRY V. ActIV.Scene i | |
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