Posted on 06/26/2009 4:19:36 AM PDT by Perseverando
Bible buzz begins as hunters wait to view Ten Commandments box
Ark hunters and Bible enthusiasts are buzzing about a report that the Ark of the Covenant, the ancient container that holds the Ten Commandments, is expected to be unveiled in Rome today.
As WND reported, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia says he will announce to the world the unveiling of the Ark, which he says has been hidden away in a church in his country for millennia, according to the Italian news agency Adnkronos.
Abuna Pauolos, in Italy for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI this week, told the news agency, "Soon the world will be able to admire the Ark of the Covenant described in the Bible as the container of the tablets of the law that God delivered to Moses and the center of searches and studies for centuries."
According to the Italian news agency, the announcement is expected to be made at 2 p.m. Italian time (8 a.m. Eastern) from the Hotel Aldrovandi in Rome. Pauolos will reportedly be accompanied by Prince Aklile Berhan Makonnen Haile Sellassie and Duke Amedeo D'Acosta.
"The Ark of the Covenant is in Ethiopia for many centuries," said Pauolos. "As a patriarch I have seen it with my own eyes and only few highly qualified persons could do the same, until now."
Bob Cornuke, biblical investigator, international explorer and best-selling author, has participated in more than 27 expeditions around the world searching for lost locations described in the Bible. A man some consider a real-life Indiana Jones, he has written a book titled "Relic Quest" about the Ark of the Covenant and participated in History Channel production called "Digging for Truth."
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I will wait for it to show up on eBay...
Oh well WND now joins the ranks of the API (African) as a completely unreliable news source.
I don’t understand why these news sites stoop to these levels...it completely undermines anything decent they are working on.
If we want to read this kind of stuff we can open up the Weekly World News and we can also see the B-52 bomber found on the moon!
Yeah, but can you narrow down which universe, please?
Thanks!
When I get steenkin’ reesh, I’ll go dere!
There is, by definition, only one.
It appears that it was a misunderstanding, and/or press-generated hyperbole.
Plus, I’m not a fan of them.
Apparently somebody else here has translated a correction from the original Italian report:
“I am not here to give proofs that the Ark is in Ethiopia, but I am here to say what I saw, what I know and I can attest to. I didn’t say that the Ark would be revealed to the world. It is a mystery, an object of veneration.”
Somehow that got twisted into it being revealed at 8 a.m. today.
Still, it pisses me off.....if it is an object of veneration, let us all see it.
Darned babelfish. I hate when that happens.
They didn't want to interrupt the MJ coverage with anything so mundane.
Wow! And the Egyptians were bitchin’ about a rain of frogs.
I bet those Ashodians were willing to trade big time.
Ping! to 32
Maybe Geraldo Rivera will be there to open the vault.
IIRC, the KJV is emrods.
I was just taught in Sunday School what that meant.
Or maybe it was before that in family Bible reading or some such.
LOL.
I doubt that any kosher, right standing priest carrying the Ark was anything but very blessed for his efforts.
Source?
Indeed.
Hmmmmm . . .
LOL.
Rev 11:19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament: and there were lightnings, and voices, and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
QUITE SO.
However, that Scripture does NOT indicate
1. whether THAT Ark is the original Heavenly model the earthly one was patterned after
nor
2. IF it were/is the earthly model, WHEN it was transported to Heaven. Plausibly, it could be just before the Abomination of Desolation.
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