The rabbi, the lost ark and the future of Temple Mount

The Telegraph ^ | 09/12/2013 | Jake Wallis Simons

[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.”

[Monkey Face]

And Nazis SHOULD be melted, dang them.

[Salamander]

Ha!

;D

[Campion]

If Jews know where the Ark is, why wasn’t it in the Second Temple?

[onedoug]

Hey, pass that over here, Rabbi.

[NYer]

Central to the collection is a high priest’s costume made out of azure and gold thread with a breastplate featuring 12 large gems. Cost: £160,000. There are also intricate silver trumpets and wooden lyres, pans to collect the blood of the sacrificial lamb and a large stand for the ritual bread. Outside, on a platform overlooking the Western Wall, stands an ornate 1.5-ton candelabra covered in 90kg of gold worth £1.3 million.

Makes papal vestments look mediocre ; - )

[colorado tanker]

Maybe check it out with some directional tunneling? That would really piss the muzzies off.

[onedoug]

I thought it funded Papal vestments.

[Mr. K]

ok here’s something weird...

Recently there was a lot of talk (within the last 5 years or so??) about the Ark being in some church in Ethiopia. And they even sent a camera crew to go talk to the guy who lives alone in the place where it is stored...

But here’s the weird part

I was listening to an OLD Art Bell broadcast about a time traveler named single-7 (johnathan titor) and it was recorded in 1998. In it he mentions The Ark being located in... Ethiopia.

This is years before it began to be talked about as being in ethiopia.

Or am I mistaken?

(yes I believe everythign I hear on Art Bell show- don’t you? - especially the stuff about Bob Lazaar)

[Squidpup]

Or here is another possibility:
Copper Scroll Project

...
An award-winning investigator discovered the secret to the most treasure laden and mystifying map in history.

Artifacts from the Tabernacle of Moses, sacred possessions from Jerusalem’s Temple and massive treasures listed on the Copper Scroll chill prophecy experts, electrify historians and enrage the financial elite. The potential of this mysterious and illusive discovery also holds the most frighteningly unpredictable influence on Middle Eastern and world stability. After a 2400 year absence, the moment the world lays eyes on “the Ark of the Covenant,” the universe will change.

There is no doubt that the treasure locations listed on the Copper Scroll are identified in Jim Barfield’s research. Rabbis, archaeologists, historians and even Israel Antiquities Officials have confirmed the enormous probability that “the Oklahoma investigator is correct”…but do the items remain in place at the popular historic national park in Israel?

January 2013 Jim submitted required paperwork and a report for electronic testing of the historic site after his presentation to the Director of the Archaeological Department of the Civil Administration. The director explained the requirements for the simple scan then blocked it cold. Why?

A renowned Doctor from Hebrew University preparing to work with Jim and the ADCA said, ”I have been doing surveys like this for decades with no problems.” Jim asked, “So what is the problem?” After several seconds he offered a bewildered answer, “Mr. Barfield, they are afraid of what you will find…”

[GiovannaNicoletta]

It's been said by a credible source that the Jews know to within a few meters where the Ark of the Covenant is.

The Jews have everything else they need for the third temple which will be built and be in use during the Tribulation. If the Ark of the Covenant is required to be part of that, then God has preserved it and either has made it's location known to the Jews or will make it's location known to the Jews at the perfect time.

[Hot Tabasco]

Central to the collection is a high priest’s costume made out of azure and gold thread with a breastplate featuring 12 large gems. Cost: £160,000. There are also intricate silver trumpets and wooden lyres,... Outside, on a platform overlooking the Western Wall, stands an ornate 1.5-ton candelabra covered in 90kg of gold worth £1.3 million.

Sounds more like Liberace's home.....

[mdmathis6]

Humans, filled with the Holy Spirit, and given knowledge and understanding become Living Arks as the laws of God are written in their hearts. HIS presence dwells in them forever! Why have need of a physical ark?

[Lee N. Field]

HIS presence dwells in them forever! Why have need of a physical ark?

Or, for that matter, a reconstructed physical temple, "made with hands"?

[mdmathis6]

Prophecy states a third temple is built but what is noticeably absent are statements that God has blessed the building of it. Indeed, the Beast commits the final act of abomination of desolation there, throwing down the gauntlet before God!

[mdmathis6]

Times of the gentiles...the second temple was built but the Jews were never entirely free of foreign influences after the ‘return”. Probably was better to keep it hidden. The ark itself brought death and curses when it was mishandled when the ark was captured by Philistines after the death of Eli’s son’s. The ark in Roman hands might have destroyed their own empire. It was God’s mercy that the ark should have been hidden after Israel’s apostacy, lest the world itself be consumed!

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

You are mistaken. The supposition in the west that the ark is in Ethiopia is very old. Several hundred years at least. I first read about it in the mid-eighties.

Of course in Ethiopia it is much older.

[wildbill]

Now that quote from Jeremiah is new information to me, but I’m not a Biblical scholar by any stretch of the imagination.

Now we know why the Jews who know where the Ark is don’t resurrect it from its hiding place: though it was once an important part of the Jewish religion, it is now irrelevant.

Dang, I was sure hoping these knowledgeable fellows would bring it forward.