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.
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Yes it most definitely is. One of those rare glimpes we get into the scope of God's ability to bring His plan to fruition.
Isaiah 46:9-10, "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure."
Yea, I agree. I had no idea although, it comes as no surprise.
God Bless
It is in Ethiopia, and has been used in times of war by the Ethiopians to defend the nation, just as in the Old Testament, which is why Ethiopia was the only African land never to be colonized. Whatever is or is not in Israel is undoubtedly a knock-off.
Not at all difficult. How many Jews surnamed Levy, Levi, Levine, etc. do you know?
It isn't a Mosque. Its the Muslim occupied Catholic Basilica of St. John the Baptist.
A recommendation, if it interests you at all - The Complete Jewish Bible by David H Stern - great for Jewish perspective and context, as well as plain speech, which helps with KJV language difficulties that can sometimes muddy doctrinal concepts, imo.
Ohmigod! This is spiraling out of control quickly.
Is it just me, or is there something truly, revoltingly evil about these people and this whole "idea"?
I'm not the worlds strongest believer, but this smacks of great evil and mockery.
Call it for what it is...Satanism !
Around about the obscure period in Jewish history, i.e. circa 1150 bce (after the death of Joshua), there was internecine warfare among the tribes. On one occasion Benjamin was almost annihilated, as a result of a lawless incident which had taken place within the boundaries of the fledgling Israel. An attempt was even made by Abimelech, son of Gideon, to set up a monarchy, with it's capital at Schechem. But the national center of the country was Shiloh, where the national Palladium, the "Ark of the Lord" had found its home, and where the religious worship of the people had its focus.
P.S. The Messiah according to Jewish law must be a descendant on his father's side from King David via the Solomon line.
Will comment after Aug.14th
Patience is a virtue...
The Prince of Lies is extremely clever. He loves nothing more than to confuse people.
On April 18, 2005, following the death of Pope JPII, (then) Cardinal Ratzinger said the pre-Conclave Mass and delivered a stunning homily. In it, he says:
"How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true."
FULL TEXT of his homily.
God Bless
I should have mentioned this - it's the whole Christian Bible, translated by a Messianic Jew. :)
Doctrine is the same, just translated from Hebrew, with Hebrew names intact and from a more Jewish perspective.
Elvis
God Bless
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