If Jews know where the Ark is, why wasn’t it in the Second Temple?
Hey, pass that over here, Rabbi.
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!