Posted on 11/27/2007 11:27:12 AM PST by BGHater
Wait, wasn't the ark like 450 feet long by 75 feet wide? How did they cram it into that little chapel?
Oh. Not that ark?
a lot of people get confused oar that.
Thanks! Man! I needed this!
(Sayyyy....you have some pretty good taste in beer...I’m impressed)
” . . . and has been guarded by a succession of virgin monks who, once anointed, are forbidden to set foot outside the chapel grounds until they die.”!!!!!!!
sucks to be them!
So that's how it works.
No reason to build the Third Temple in Jerusalem, unless it’s to house the Ark.
All this makes what’s happening in Annapolis very interesting. Will the City be divided once again?
There is one name of an Ethiopian in this article that caught my attention ...Abba Gebre!
Hmmmmm .... sounds familiar.
The Ark had no power of itself. It's a box. No magic. I hate it when mere objects get endowed with the power of God.
Read “The Sign and the Seal”.
It might change your mind.
The author states that the Ark of the Covenent was spirited out of the Holy of Holies during the reign of the evil King Manasseh by the Levites. He ran a search of the Bible with a computer and found no reference to it after that king’s reign.
When the Babylonians captured Jerusalem, a detailed list of the treasure they took is in the Bible. The Ark is not listed there. If it were there at that time, it most certainly would have been recorded.
One of the sins of Manasseh was to erect pagan idols in the Holy of Holies in Jerusalem, in the presence of the Ark, hence the need for its removal. He IS named as one of Israel’s most evil kings.
The author states that the remnants of a Hebrew Temple dating to about the time of Manasseh has been uncovered at Elephantine on the Upper Nile. Since the only Temple we know of at that time was in Jerusalem and its only purpose was to house the Ark, this is most curious.
Further, the Falashas practise a form of Judaism which is frozen in time - back to the time of Manasseh. Its not the form of Judaism practised today.
This is all circumstantial evidence to be sure, but the use of the Tabots in the rituals of the Ethiopian Christian Church as well as the curious remnants of Judaism in that very old (Ethiopia was one of the first Countries to adopt Christianity as its official religion) religion also tend to substantiate the story.
The Guardian of the Ark is selected once the last Guardian dies. Once he is chosen, he must spend his ENTIRE LIFE locked behind the Church of St. Mary’s where the Ark is alleged to be housed. That’s quite a sentence. He must believe the Ark is really there or nobody would bother to follow this ritual.
No, it doesn't sound familiar. Should it? Father Gabriel?
Read the Old Testament and what happened to people who profaned it.
It did have powers straight from God.
...and why the Ethiopian eunuch had the book he was reading, Isaiah, explained to him by the Apostle Philip. It was a divine meeting.
“Supposedly it was on the island in Egypt for 800 years or so..”
Elephantine, before being moved to the Island in the Middle of Lake Tana.
I think its there.
Thanks for the link.
“The most prominent of their victims was Emperor Haile Selassie, whose death, under circumstances that remain contested, was announced in 1975.”
Halie Selassie, I heard, was thrown out of a window by the Commies, and then his body was buried under a commode used by the Commie leader. They were very vile people. The Ethiopians are better off without them, although the number of Muslims is growing there.
Abba Grebe ... Abu Ghraib Prison ... Famous for U.S. panty torture.
Thought that was what you were trying to say...I don’t even see a similarity without a river spanning stretch.
You might be surprised at the skills & resources of people on this board.
Given enough motivation, we could be broadcasting live video from that room in 72 hours.
Hate to break the news, but the ark in and of itself is/was just a gilded wooden box. Any power associated with it was due to the fact that it represented the presence of God among His people. The power was God's, not the ark's.
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