Posted on 12/29/2005 6:54:10 AM PST by emiller
If Indiana Jones had done his homework, he would have found the Ark of the Covenant by raiding a church in the barren mountains of northern Ethiopia.
Many Ethiopians believe that the Ark, containing the stone tablets inscribed with God's Ten Commandments, rests in the church of St Mary of Zion, at the town of Axum, and some western scholars have
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And if this does come to war, what would you say was the cause?
I would say it is a good old fashioned pissin' match.
where do you get the idea that the ark is on this land?
It doesn't matter if I believe or have the idea that it is there. What matters is what the Ethiopians believe. And apparently they do.
Could you imagine if the Jews set up their temple again, and restarted the animal sacrifices? CNN would be all over that, and PETA would start blowing their whistles and throwing buckets of red paint here and there. Everyone on Brokeback mountain would swoon simultaneously.
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It might be the Hebrews' holiest relic, but if it even exists, Christianity can hardly lay first claim to it. That would be like the Jews asserting that the Holy Grail is their holiest relic.
I've seen several program on the Discovery channel and on the History channel dealing with this.
Hard to say if it still exists or not, but one of the guys who tracked down the evidence really made a strong case for it being in that church in Ethiopia. However, nobody is allowed to see it. The head priest (if that's what you want to call him) even wears the traditional garb that the High Priest was supposed to wear when entering into the Holy of Holies.
They won't let anyone in to see it however.
No I havent and thank you! will put it on my Amazon wish list!! I read the Name of the Road years ago, and enjoyed Eco's writing immensely.
I should say The Name of the Rose...hahahaha
Well, if you have an anthropology degree, know the legend of Prester John and have a tagline from FOTR, you can't help but enjoy Baudolino. I doubt you'll be able to read it all at one setting, but I'd be willing to bet there will be a few stretches were you find yourself incapable of putting it down....
"IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!"
Thank you - am always on the lookout for new books to read. Of course, at present, it will be in competition with my third pass through the Aubrey/Maturin books LOL
Wrong Mary.
Actually, according to Sha'ul (Paul), it will be the Temple of God (2 Th. 2:4)--that kinda automatically makes it a "good" thing in my book, the fact that the Adversary will invade and desecrate it (as Antiochus desecrated the Second Temple) notwithstanding.
Personally, I think the Ark is indeed most likely in Ethiopia, and that its return is in view of Isaiah 18. I also think that just as it represents God's throne in the tabernacle (see below) the Mercy Seat will be the throne on which the Messiah will sit after His return. That's just my speculation, however.
Thanks for the ping!
If the Ark was removed from the Kingdom of David, it probably happened when the pharaoh "Shishak" sacked the city. The Hancock version sez that Solomon's love child nonchalantly grabbed it and slid it right out of the country before anyone was onto him. And then the thief left it at Elephantine, for no apparent reason, where it stayed for (I think it was) 800 years, before it was removed to Ethiopia (again, for no apparent reason).
IOW, I think that it *isn't* in Ethiopia, unless it went there as war booty during the Ethiopian dynasty, after having been carried off by "Shishak".
There are those who think it was hidden, and that the details of its hiding place are themselves concealed in either the OT, or (according to at least one researcher) in the Copper Scroll.
IMHO, the most likely scenario is that the Ark was destroyed (the gold peeled off, the wood burned) when "Shishak" sacked Jerusalem, with a possibility that it was carried off as booty to Egypt. I don't think it was ever referenced in the Scriptures -- except in the past tense -- after "Shishak".
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