Posted on 12/05/2011 7:15:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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. According to the Old Testament, it was first kept in the Temple
Since then it's been the goal of many adventurers and archaeologists to find it. Most-famously, but also fictitiously, Indiana Jones was shown in the 1981 Steven Spielberg film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
There has also been a long-running claim from the Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia that they have had the Ark for centuries, and since the 1960s it has apparently been kept in the chapel.
This small and curiously-styled building is surrounded by spiked iron railings, and situated between two churches, the old and new, of St Mary of Zion in central Aksum.
No one has been allowed to see the holy object, described in scripture as being made from acacia wood, plated with gold and topped with two golden angels, except one solitary elderly monk, who must watch over the Ark for the remainder of his life, and is never allowed to leave the chapel grounds.
But now the chapel - which was designed by the Ethiopian leader Emperor Hailie Selassie - has had to be covered in a tarpaulin to stop rain getting in.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
George Burns! LOL, good one. :)
RE: it won’t be the Ark of the Covenant. That’s with God, and He isn’t here yet.
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What does ‘That’s with God’ mean? Are you saying it’s not anywhere here on earth? If so, what reliable source tells us that?
As for He isn’t here, isn’t God Omnipresent?
Playback the viewing of it on all of the MSM networks....
Reliable source for those who believe is the Bible.
As for He isn’t here yet, I mean as being where we can be in the same space / time that He is.
You have heard He’s coming back...right?
RE: Reliable source for those who believe is the Bible.
Where in the Bible does it say that God took the Ark away from the earth?
A chapter and verse will be helpful.
As for Christ’s PHYSICAL, BODILY return, I am not referring to that. I am referring to Christ’s spirit being ever present every where.
Some thanks he gets for trying to be helpful.
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