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The rabbi, the lost ark and the future of Temple Mount
The Telegraph ^ | 09/12/2013 | Jake Wallis Simons

Posted on 09/17/2013 3:08:59 PM PDT by Carbonsteel

Rabbi Chaim Richman shows me into a darkened room, strokes his beard and pulls out his smartphone. He has a specially designed app that works the lights. The room illuminates. He taps the screen again, and a heavy curtain slides open. There, resplendent in brilliant gold – and rather smaller than I expected – lies the Ark of the Covenant.

“This isn’t the real lost ark,” he says. “The real one is hidden about a kilometre from here, in underground chambers created during the time of Solomon.” I look at him askance. “It’s true,” he says. “Jews have an unbroken chain of recorded information, passed down from generation to generation, which indicates its exact location. There is a big fascination with finding the lost ark, but nobody asked a Jew. We have known where it is for thousands of years. It could be reached if we excavated Temple Mount, but that area is controlled by Muslims.”

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I would love to live long enough to be around when the real Ark is revealed to the world.

I just want to hear what the Muslims, Liberals, Atheists, and revisionist historians have to say when we have the actual Ark of the Covenant is staring them right in the face.

1 posted on 09/17/2013 3:08:59 PM PDT by Carbonsteel
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just want to hear what the Muslims, Liberals, Atheists, and revisionist historians have to say when we have the actual Ark of the Covenant is staring them right in the face.

BUSH DID IT...../s


2 posted on 09/17/2013 3:12:55 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( Un-Documented Journalist / Block Captain..Tyranny Response Team)
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To: Carbonsteel

Dang, those people can keep a secret. All those years, and now Rabbi Richman has to go and open his mouth.


3 posted on 09/17/2013 3:15:16 PM PDT by heartwood
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The real one is hidden about a kilometre from here, in underground chambers created during the time of Solomon.

About 45 million Ethiopian Orthodox Christians disagree.

4 posted on 09/17/2013 3:16:20 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (I love it when spell check highlights every single word.)
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To: Carbonsteel

Sounds like a straight line lead in—and walked into a bar...


5 posted on 09/17/2013 3:22:06 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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About 45 million Ethiopian Orthodox Christians disagree.

(shrug)

They can do that, I suppose.

6 posted on 09/17/2013 3:24:43 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (It's been over 90 days; time to start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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I've seen different versions of the ark. Usually the cherubim are shown in different positions on the mercy seat, wings at different angles, etc.

Do we, or does someone, know exactly what the ark looks like? The reason I ask is, well, how would we know the real one if we find it?

7 posted on 09/17/2013 3:26:15 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: Carbonsteel

The way the ME is going you may not have to wait too long.


8 posted on 09/17/2013 3:26:27 PM PDT by melsec (Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
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Well... we could let you touch it. If you fell down dead then we would know it was the real one.


9 posted on 09/17/2013 3:28:12 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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Oh, I’d think you would know.

Then again this could be a clever ruse.


10 posted on 09/17/2013 3:30:00 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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It could be reached if we excavated Temple Mount, but that area is controlled by Muslims.

Hmmm..... If those at war with Israel can dig long underground tunnels, why can't the Israelis? If they know where the ark is, don't the muzzies who control Temple Mount also know? Knowing muzzies, wouldn't they move it away to a more secure location (like Mecca) to keep it away from the Israelis?

They desecrate anything. Wasn't there a report a while back on them destroying Abraham's Tomb? You know, the father of Ishmael, who they are descended from (supposedly)?

11 posted on 09/17/2013 3:31:31 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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Well... we could let you touch it. If you fell down dead then we would know it was the real one.

LOL! I'm no Uzzah. But with so many representations of the ark out there, surely deniers will say, "That's not it!" It will have to be proven to them, and I would not want them touching it just to find out. No one is allowed to touch it - God's law.

12 posted on 09/17/2013 3:37:57 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To those who believe no proof is necessary. To those who do not no proof would ever be enough.

And the answer is no. We do not know what the ark looked like except for the description in the Bible. Remember it was carried covered. The only person who saw the ark was the High Priest and that only once a year.

13 posted on 09/17/2013 3:57:40 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Revenge is a dish best served with pinto beans and muffins)
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Ack, you beat me to it.

You could also have some Germans open it and if their face melts off, you’ve got it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m83JcNoNQ-4


14 posted on 09/17/2013 4:01:13 PM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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Jeremiah tells us that the ark of the covenant will be of no consequence.
“‘And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding. And when you have multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, declares the LORD, they shall no more say, “The ark of the covenant of the LORD.” It shall not come to mind or be remembered or missed; it shall not be made again. --Jeremiah 3

15 posted on 09/17/2013 4:09:14 PM PDT by Lee N. Field ("You keep using that verse, but I do not think it means what you think it means.")
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To: Carbonsteel

They will claim it is a fake.


16 posted on 09/17/2013 4:13:20 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (From time to time the tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of tyrants and patriots.)
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`We don’t get the Ark of the Covenant in here very often’,
said the bartender.


17 posted on 09/17/2013 4:18:17 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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Thanks Carbonsteel.
There is a big fascination with finding the lost ark, but nobody asked a Jew. We have known where it is for thousands of years. It could be reached if we excavated Temple Mount, but that area is controlled by Muslims.

18 posted on 09/17/2013 4:28:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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The real one melts Nazis.


19 posted on 09/17/2013 4:46:10 PM PDT by dinodino
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To: Carbonsteel

What YOU said!


20 posted on 09/17/2013 4:50:25 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Common sense is not a gift, it's a punishment. You have to deal with everyone who doesn't have it.)
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