Posted on 04/27/2020 2:13:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Ethiopia was invaded by the Italian troops during a military campaign that lasted from 1935 to 1936. After Italy declared war on the United Kingdom in 1940, British forces invaded and took Ethiopia in 1941. At the time, Ullendorff was a British army officer who was also a young scholar with extensive knowledge of Ethiopian history and languages, Parfitt told Live Science.
"He went to the Church of Mary of Zion with a couple of soldiers," Parfitt said. He spoke to the monks in the church in Amharic, a language widely spoken in Ethiopia, asking to see the ark. His requests were refused. "They said, 'You can't go in, this is holy...'" said Parfitt, recounting the story. "He said, 'Well, I'm sorry, but I want to go in,'" and "he did go in with his soldiers behind him. They couldn't do anything to stop him," Parfitt said.
According to Parfitt, the army officer then walked over to the place where the ark was said to reside. "What he saw was what you find in any Ethiopian church, which is a model of the Ark of the Covenant," Parfitt said. Apparently, Ullendorff said that "it didn't differ in any way from many arks he had seen in other churches in Ethiopia," Parfitt said. "It wasn't ancient and certainly wasn't the original ark."
..."It would have been absolutely impossible for him to function in Ethiopia if he had said that your ark is not the genuine ark," Parfitt explained. In his interview with the Los Angeles Times in 1992, Ullendorff said that the model he saw was of "middle-to late-medieval construction, when these were fabricated ad hoc."
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in the next post, the rest of the Ark of the Covenant keyword, chrono sorted:
Ullendorff - heck of a name for an English officer during WWII/
Here is a hint of what has happened to the Ark of the Covenant.
Jeremiah 3:16
16In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “no longer will they say, ‘The ark of the LORD’s covenant.’ It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, NOR WILL ANOTHER ONE BE MADE.
The origins of the Ethiopian ark don’t match the bible, so I don’t believe in it anyway, but the opinion of an untrained military officer hardly establish much.
[1] One finds in the records that Jeremiah the prophet ordered those who were being deported to take some of the fire, as has been told, [2] and that the prophet after giving them the law instructed those who were being deported not to forget the commandments of the Lord, nor to be led astray in their thoughts upon seeing the gold and silver statues and their adornment. [3] And with other similar words he exhorted them that the law should not depart from their hearts.
[4] It was also in the writing that the prophet, having received an oracle, ordered that the tent and the ark should follow with him, and that he went out to the mountain where Moses had gone up and had seen the inheritance of God. [5] And Jeremiah came and found a cave, and he brought there the tent and the ark and the altar of incense, and he sealed up the entrance. [6] Some of those who followed him came up to mark the way, but could not find it. [7] When Jeremiah learned of it, he rebuked them and declared: “The place shall be unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows his mercy. [8] And then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord and the cloud will appear, as they were shown in the case of Moses, and as Solomon asked that the place should be specially consecrated.” (2 Maccabees 2:1-8)
“Ullendorff - heck of a name for an English officer during WWII”
Not when you consider that the English King’s family name was “Saxe-Coburg and Gotha”.
Of course not, it’s buried deep in a government warehouse waiting to be examined by ‘top’ men.
So, no. That could not be any sort of hint as to where it is today.
KInda like the US having a Supreme Allied Commander Eisenhower. :^)
Ullendorff - heck of a name for an English officer during WWII/
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How about the royal family... Wettin, Haus Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha.
Before changing it to Windsor during WW1 - Ullendorf does sound familiar though in reading WWII history. Also, the Kaiser was related to Queen Victoria as her grandson.
Who changed it to Windsor during WWI and they were fighting against Queen Victoria’s grandson, the Kaiser.
But in his book Graham Hancock said it is.
He wouldn’t tell me a tale, would he???
Yep...right across the aisle from ‘the orb’ from the ‘Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.’...
Parfitt is an interesting fellow. He went searching for the Ark of the Covenant himself and traced it to a small, dusty museum in Africa. It wasn’t anything like the elaborate golden thing so often portrayed. It was a huge African war drum that would have been carried into battle by four men and used to strike fear into the enemy.
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