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Where Is the Ark of the Covenant?
The Algemeiner via RealClearReligion ^ | 02/16/2018 | Pini Dunner

Posted on 02/21/2018 11:32:32 AM PST by Kid Shelleen

Last month, if you were visiting Adis Ababa in Ethiopia, you would have witnessed an astonishing sight.

Every January, the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church celebrates a festival called Timkat, during which their senior priests parade through the streets of Ethiopia’s capital. They carry a replica of the Ark of the Covenant, as onlookers drop to their knees in reverence.

This obscure branch of Christianity has approximately 50 million adherents, most of whom live in Ethiopia. Aside for this sect’s curious affinity to the Hebrew Scriptures and Jewish practices — evident in their observance of kosher laws, separation of the sexes in their churches, and the treatment of Saturday as Sabbath rather than Sunday — they also make the extraordinary claim that the Ark of the Covenant, Judaism’s most revered object, is in their possession — and has been for almost 3,000 years.

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TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: ark; arkofthecovenant; ethiopia; levites; ronwyatt; uranus
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Welding shield


21 posted on 02/21/2018 11:50:43 AM PST by lump in the melting pot (Half-brother is Watching You!)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Indy really could tread water.


22 posted on 02/21/2018 11:51:05 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

8 posts, that’s disappointing.


23 posted on 02/21/2018 11:51:49 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Dilbert San Diego
You know what I never understood about that movie? We have this long adventure and journey to find the ark, but Indy told Marion to not look at it, they had to keep their eyes shut. How did Indy expect to open and study the ark himself, if you experience death of you look at it??

Maybe it only did it to Nazis.

24 posted on 02/21/2018 11:52:57 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Kid Shelleen

The Area 51 warehouse.


25 posted on 02/21/2018 11:53:17 AM PST by kaehurowing
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To: Kid Shelleen

The TRUE Ark with the Throne of Grace - Jesus Christ - is in Heaven at the right hand of the Father dispensing the New Covenant of grace replacing the vanished Old Covenant about which the Lord found fault (Hebrew 8:7-8, 13) and its ark.


26 posted on 02/21/2018 11:54:31 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Good one.


27 posted on 02/21/2018 11:54:54 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: dainbramaged

Rick and Marty are still punching massive holes in the ground looking for it. No joy so far.


28 posted on 02/21/2018 11:55:15 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (We need common sense FBI reform.)
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To: Our man in washington

Groan....


29 posted on 02/21/2018 11:56:24 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (We need common sense FBI reform.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Amy Farrah Fowler pointed out:

“Indiana Jones plays no role in the outcome of the story. If he weren’t in the film, it would turn out exactly the same… If he weren’t in the movie, the Nazis would still have found the Ark, taken it to the island, opened it up, and all died, just like they did.”

Here’s a decent rebuttal:

Once it becomes inevitable that the Ark should be removed from its resting place, the only suitable ending is for it to wind up in another resting place where it will never again be disturbed. And it never would have made it to the unnamed warehouse without the efforts of the redoubtable Dr. Jones.

Source: http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/2013/10/19/the-big-bang-theory-gets-it-wrong/


30 posted on 02/21/2018 11:57:08 AM PST by treetopsandroofs
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To: Kid Shelleen

Very odd that the author of the piece would refer to a Church with 50,000,000 faithful and existing already almost 2,000 years as an “obscure group” and a “sect”. There are more Christians in Ethiopia than in almost any European country (except Italy, Germany, and Russia). Would he say “the obscure Irish Catholic Church” or the “obscure Swedish Lutheran Church” sect?


31 posted on 02/21/2018 11:58:27 AM PST by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: Kid Shelleen

The Ark of the Covenant in Axum? Some think so. I’ve read about the story. In my opinion, it is not very important whether it is or not. It will be where it needs to be when the time comes.

In 1993 a book named “The Sign and the Seal” was written by Graham Hancock. I bought it then, it’s in my library.

Here is a short review of the book:

http://ggreenberg.tripod.com/ancientne/signseal.html


32 posted on 02/21/2018 11:58:50 AM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Dilbert San Diego

stop introducing logic into movies. What’s wrong with you? LOL


33 posted on 02/21/2018 11:59:29 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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To: Kid Shelleen

Oak Island?


34 posted on 02/21/2018 12:00:52 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.cwom/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M5)
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To: Our man in washington

God’ll get you for that, Walter.


35 posted on 02/21/2018 12:01:23 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: Kid Shelleen

You know, this is spooky weird, but I had a dream last night about the Ark of the Covenant in which I was talking to a Jewish guy who laughed and said,

“The Kohanim have the Ark. They have always had it. Does anyone really think the Jews would somehow misplace the most Holy of all Holy objects? The Ark will stay hidden until the Third Temple is built and consecrated, after which the Kohanim will convey it to its proper place.”

Weird...


36 posted on 02/21/2018 12:02:32 PM PST by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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To: bmwcyle

Just like those insufferable French that said they already had a Holy Grail! ;-)


37 posted on 02/21/2018 12:09:15 PM PST by HombreSecreto (They never thought that she would lose - God had other plans)
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To: Kid Shelleen

I thought I saw the ark in a Vegas pawn shop


38 posted on 02/21/2018 12:10:38 PM PST by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
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To: Kid Shelleen

The best book on the subject is “The Search for the Ark of the Covenant” by Randall Price.

The honest answer nobody likes to hear is “no one knows.”

And no, it’s not in Ethiopia. They have a Middle Ages Christian treasure chest behind that veil.


39 posted on 02/21/2018 12:10:41 PM PST by pcottraux ( depthsofpentecost.com)
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To: treetopsandroofs

He figured that they were digging in the wrong place. Also, they followed him to Marion in Tibet, where that one doctor burned his hand on that staff head.


40 posted on 02/21/2018 12:16:06 PM PST by castlegreyskull
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