"He's insane... He just likes playing in the sand."
Posted on 08/03/2005 1:59:54 PM PDT by CharlieOK1
Toronto-- Mark August 14, 2005 on your calendar as potentially momentous. It’s one day before Ariel Sharon’s planned removal of 8,000 settlers from the Gaza strip, a dramatic event no matter the outcome.
Providing even more drama of a coincidental kind is Dr. Vendyl Jones. With the kind of credentials that make him one of the world’s most renowned experts on Qumran and the Land of Israel, Jones last month announced on Israel National Radio that he hopes to reveal the long-hidden site of the Ark of the Covenant "by August 14."
Stirring human imagination down through the ages, the Ark of the Covenant is allegedly the acacia chest in which Moses placed the Ten Commandments.
Jones calls his project to reveal the site of the ark, "Project Petakh Tiquah", "Door or opening of Hope".
No single story could ever do justice to the amazing accomplishments of Vendyl Jones, who was the true-life inspiration for Indiana Jones of Raiders of the Lost Ark blockbuster movie fame.
The real heroes of life are not up on the silver screen, they’re out in the field conducting tireless missions, under funded, media mocked, but soldiering on. The true-life red-blooded version always dwarfs the movie version.
Dr. Vendyl Jones’ painstaking detective work pinpoints the long lost ark as being "hidden in a secret passage that runs 18 miles south of the Temple Mount into the Judean desert."
No Hollywood hype could provide the same level of anticipation.
Since 1972, Jones has conducted eight major excavations of Qumran, the area where the Dead Sea scrolls were discovered in 1947. The Shemen Afar Shimon, the Holy Annointing Oil from the Holy Temple, was found in April 1988 by Jones’ archeological team. With an investment of nearly $2 million, all of it donated by supporters of his Vendyl Jones Research Institute and none of it from government, foundations and grants, Jones’ digs involve over 300 dedicated volunteers.
Should Vendyl Jones find what he is looking for in the Judean desert, Indiana Jones, the flickering ghost of the screen will be replaced by truth-is- stranger-than-fiction immortality.
By Aug. 14, Jones and Company are going to drill a borehole into the chamber which they believe contains the ark, drop a pin-camera in and, hopefully reveal the find to a watching world.
Non-believers may be interested to know that Jones has already discovered some of the holy items associated with the ark.
A credible Torah teacher, who hails from Texas, Jones has represented the Israeli Foreign Minister in a two-year lecture series on college campuses with P.L.O. representatives.
Rabbi Adin Israel Steinsalz, head of the Institute for Talmudic research and thought to be the world’s most renowned Talmudic scholar called Jones’ work, "Scientifically valid research which may result in important findings for the Jewish people and the world."
Wherever you plan to be on or around Aug. 14, you could be front row center to the filmed discovery of one of the world’s greatest artifacts of all time.
Missing for centuries, the ark is believed to have disappeared with the destruction of the First Temple by King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon in 587 B.C. Indeed, the exact whereabouts of the ark have been shrouded in mystery ever since.
Incredibly the Ark of the Covenant has a pretender.
With the blessings of the United Nations, a bizarre ark knock-off, carried through Vermont farm fields and sailed by sloop to UN Manhattan headquarters, has been making the rounds as a show-and-tell exercise at public schools. Called the Ark of Hope, the replica carries, among other things, the Earth Charter, a replacement for the Ten Commandments as advocated by former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev and Kofi Annan right hand man, Maurice Strong.
The Earth Charter is "an international peoples’ treaty for building a just, sustainable and peaceful global society in the 21st century". (Philologos Bible Prophecy Research).
Even as you read this, the hidden location of the real artifact is underway with results possibly coming your way the summer of 2005.
Canada Free Press founding editor Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the media. A former Toronto Sun and Kingston Whig Standard columnist, she has also appeared on Newsmax.com, the Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, and World Net Daily. Judi can be reached at: letters@canadafreepress.com.
"He's insane... He just likes playing in the sand."
Or send in a team of liberals Senate democrats. 
Oh good. Another socialist manifesto. I wonder how many millions will die under this one.
A kewpie doll to the first person who can name the significance of my birthday [Aug 16, 1977]
very appropriate cartoons!
I searched and didnt find the article, although I figured it had been posted. However, I didn't think any of the other postings had mentioned this last little bit. You would think it would be a bigger deal that this was making a tour through American public schools
Elvis Died on that day!
The first time a Catholic Pope entered a Muslim mosque was about ten years ago when Pope John Paul went to see the head of John.
When I saw it in 1970 there were a number of Muslim holy men praying prostrated around it.
Worth seeing if you happen to be in Damascus.
But if they do find it....
Are you ready?
I just don't think men will find it:
Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.
Rev 11:19
I took a picture of it in the Masonic Temple here in Alexandria on my cell phone. The funny thing is, before we went in on the tour, I was kidding around saying that we'd find it in there. All I have to do is look out my office window and I can see the peak of the temple. (FYI, the Knights Templar stuff is all on the top floor of the temple.)
***DELUSIONAL ARCHAEOLOGIST PING***
I can't believe this "Endy" crap is going on again -- real life inspiration for Indiana Jones.
One last time. The original last name was going to be "Smith," not "Jones," but they didn't want any confusion with the old movie "Nevada Smith". And "Indiana" was George Lucas's dog's name (and in The Last Crusade, Sean Connery says that it was their dog's name.)
I do understand that there will be a documentary made about Vendyl Jones, though, called "Endy Jones and the Psychiatric Ward of Eternity".
If you can't visit Washington Monument at the mall, this is a good alternative.
Whenever I take visitors to the masonic temple, I tell them that I can touch the elevator doors with by stretching my arms.
It is impossible on the ground floor, but on top one can actually touch the the doors. (Elevators go up diagonally)
"Everybody knows that the Ark is locked up in a vault on Malta."
No, it's in a small church in Ethiopia. I saw it on TV.
Gotta keep up with this one. Thanks for posting it.
I thought that Princess Tea Tephi, daughter of Zedekiah, last King of Judah, Jeremiah (The Prophet... not the bullfrog) took it to Ireland where it lies buried in a hill at Tara (Ireland... not Georgia (the state... not the country)). ;-)
The ark seen in heaven by John is the original after which the earthly ark was patterned.
Hebrews 8:1-5, "Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount."
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