Posted on 02/22/2008 2:35:00 PM PST by blam
A Lead on the Ark of the Covenant
Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008
By DAVID VAN BIEMA
The Ark of the Covenant is carried into the Temple
When last we saw the lost Ark of the Covenant in action, it had been dug up by Indiana Jones in Egypt and ark-napped by Nazis, whom the Ark proceeded to incinerate amidst a tempest of terrifying apparitions. But according to Tudor Parfitt, a real life scholar-adventurer, Raiders of the Lost Ark had it wrong, and the Ark is actually nowhere near Egypt. In fact, Parfitt claims he has traced it (or a replacement container for the original Ark), to a dusty bottom shelf in a museum in Harare, Zimbabwe.
As Indiana Jones's creators understood, the Ark is one of the Bible's holiest objects, and also one of its most maddening McGuffins. A wooden box, roughly 4 ft. x 2 ft. x 2.5 ft., perhaps gold-plated and carried on poles inserted into rings, it appears in the Good Book variously as the container for the Ten Commandments (Exodus 25:16: "and thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee"); the very locus of God's earthly presence; and as a divine flamethrower that burns obstacles and also crisps some careless Israelites. It is too holy to be placed on the ground or touched by any but the elect. It circles Jericho behind the trumpets to bring the walls tumbling down. The Bible last places the Ark in Solomon's temple, which Babylonians destroyed in 586 BC. Scholars debate its current locale (if any): under the Sphinx? Beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount (or, to Muslims, the Noble Sanctuary)? In France? Near London's Temple tube station?
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It was the flying buttresses that gave it away.
lol. I love the dry wit on these threads.
"Then I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will lead you with knowledge and understanding. In those days, when your numbers have increased greatly in the land," declares the LORD, "men will no longer say, 'The ark of the covenant of the LORD.' It will never enter their minds or be remembered; it will not be missed, nor will another one be made. At that time they will call Jerusalem The Throne of the LORD, and all nations will gather in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. No longer will they follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts." Jeremiah 3:15-17 (emphasis mine).
Here’s one story I saw on a documentary I saw years ago...
The ark was actually found by Israeli agents during a skirmish with Hamas many years ago. According to “legend”, the ark of the covenant MUST never be touching the ground, and was found hanging near a wall. Mossad SF then carried the ark unto a plane, and the entire trip was carried by the agents STANDING UP with the ark never touching the floor of the plane.
I forgot about the name of the series of this show but I saw it on the Sci Fi channel. Just another story to throw in..
The Lost Ark of the Covenant:
Solving the 2,500 Year Old
Mystery of the Fabled Biblical Ark
by Tudor Parfitt
True. There is also that 'angel' that is described in Ezekiel.
Also, some Hindu texts have writings on Vimanas ....flying vehicles used by their gods. The interesting thing is a battle between those gods in their vimanas, and how they would shoot flaming arrows that would follow other vimanas no matter how they tried to change direction, and a special arrow that was used that blew up and obliterated everything.
i wans’t aware of the hindo descriptions - I will look that up when I have some time and use of my brain - thanks!
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