Why would the discovery of the Ark of the Covenant be important (other than as a curiosity and historical relic).
We are now under the Covenant of the Christ.
The Ark lost all of it’s power when Christ died on the cross.
The Ark is in Heaven, it is described in the New Testament.
Thought it was in Ethiopia or are the monks lying?
For pre millenialists the ark and all things 3rd temple signifies the beginning of Rev chapter 4. As most items are completed( save the temple, the ark, and the heifer) some believe this, like no other time is quickly ending the church age.
It’s rumored the Ethiopians have the ark (it is one of the oldest Christian countries and its history with Israel goes back thousands of years):
Keepers of the Lost Ark?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/keepers-of-the-lost-ark-179998820/
To the Jews, the Ark is all important. They care not for Christ and deny him as the Messiah.
The red heffer doesn’t matter. They can build what they call a temple and kill an animal in it; but it will mot be a true temple because God will not have commissioned it as such — because Jesus ended temple sacrifices, and God now dwells in the hearts of those who believe in him.
It was lost when the Babylonians took it and presumably smelted the gold out. The legend of it being hidden away is later Jewish folklore not in the Bible.
And it never was "magic". God did miracles, not the Ark.
Yes.
The Ark was the very Presence of God. No, it didn’t contain Him, but His presence went with it.
The presence of God was manifest in the man, Jesus Christ, now exalted as King of Kings and Lord of Lords - He was the Messiah and is so eternally.
The presence of God is now in His ekklesia, the body of
Christ, which has little or nothing to do with what the world thinks is the Church.
It will never again be manifest to the Ark.
I personally believe that either the Ark will be hidden forever or God removed His presence from it as He did from the Jewish temple for their rejection of Him as their Messiah.
The land idolatry cult pretending to be Christian can’t answer that one.
really? did you read that in the bible somewhere?