[dfwgator]

There going to pull it from the warehouse?

[SeekAndFind]

Leaking roof: The Chapel of the Tablet in Ethiopia that holds the Ten Commandments and has the water damage. The St Mary of Zion church, that originally held the tablet, can be seen in the foreground

[DManA]

Hey, it’s raining in Ethiopia. Can they grow a crop there now?

[Genoa]

You don’t suppose it’s been there all the time, do you? I just thought they were smoking too much ganja.

[count-your-change]

Some Brit on the History Channel was touting this idea and his supposed great find a while back. Someone else was sure the Ark was buried under a building’s corner stone or some such, then again it just might be under the temple mound in Jerusalem, anywhere so long as it’s inaccessible.

[Pan_Yan]

Will this be the first time the world sees the Ark of Covenant?

Was it invisible when it was Israel?

[Pan_Yan]

IN Israel. Spell check works. Brain, not so much.

[Alex Murphy]

A very British problem of a leaky church roof could be about to give the world the chance to glimpse the legendary Ark of the Covenant. That's because the claimed home of the iconic relic - a small chapel in Ethiopia - has sprung a leak and so the Ark could now be on the move.

The Ark - which The Bible says holds God's Ten Commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai - is said to have been kept in Aksum, in the Chapel of the Tablet, adjacent to St Mary of Zion Church, since the 1960s.

This is the same church that claimed to have the Ark in 2010:
The Ark is not going to be revealed, says Gebremedhin [Orthodox leader: I never promised to show it]
Ark of the Covenant Story was Bad Translating, Hype
'Ark' revelation: Can they dig it? (Ark of the Covenant announcement 8 AM eastern)
'Ark of the Covenant' about to be unveiled (Friday June 26th at 2p.m Italian time)
'Ark of the Covenant' about to be unveiled?
'Ark of the Covenant' about to be unveiled?

[babble-on]

My policy on tabloid headlines: When they end in a “?”, the answer is always “no”.

[ShadowAce]

Most-famously, but also fictitiously, Indiana Jones was shown in the 1981 Steven Spielberg film Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Are those three words really necessary?

[bgill]

Next time they might want to rethink a flat roof.

If it really held the ark, the gates would have been stormed long ago.

[JRios1968]

Just don't look at it

[Altariel]

11:19 Then the temple of God in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was visible within his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, roaring, crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

http://net.bible.org/#!bible/Revelation+11:19

[rfreedom4u]

Am I the only one who is thinking:

Why don’t they just fix the leak in the roof?

[fatima]

Wouldn’t it be neat.

[GreenHornet]

I fully expect someone to bring it into the shop one night on “Pawn Stars.”

RICK: “Yeah, well, before I can make an offer on this, I’ll have to bring someone in to authenticate it. Chumley.....get the Pope on the phone!”

[nonsporting]

It might be an interesting "relic", but the Ark of the Covenant is now simply one of the "figure(s) for the time then present" (Hebrews 9:9). It was symbolic, representive to the Truth.

But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us. (Hebrews 9:11,12)

This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. (Hebrews 10:16,17)

Jesus is our Ark, Christ in us.

[Cicero]

As a matter of fact, there is fairly good reason to think that the Ark of the Covenant MAY be in that little church. There was quite a persuasive article in First Things a number of years ago, which I can’t seem to locate at the moment. If true, then it was removed from the Temple at an early date, well before the Crusades, and moved south to an island in the upper Nile and then to Ethiopia.

Curiously, the Ark as a symbol still plays a significant role in the Ethiopean version of Christianity.

If so, then I’m not sure that it’s terribly smart to mock it, given the fates of those who did in ancient times.

[Ken H]

I thought it was buried in one of the end zones at Giant Stadium...

[Shadowstrike]

I don’t know what people are going to see, but it won’t be the Ark of the Covenant. That’s with God, and He isn’t here yet.