Posted on 08/26/2010 7:57:54 PM PDT by marshmallow
The world-famous Russian traveler and explorer Fyodor Konyukhov has become the first European to see the Ark of the Covenant where the stone tablets with the Ten Commandments communicated to Moses by God on Mount Sinai are believed to have been put.
The Ark is in an Orthodox church in Axum, the ancient capital of Ethiopia. Konykhov, who arrived in Africa at the request of the Ethiopian government to map out new tourist routes, has struck a deal with the authorities for the construction of an Orthodox Church of St. George-the-Victor in Addis Ababa.
An extensive traveler, he has made six solo yacht trips round the globe, climbed the Earths highest peaks, reached the North and South poles and circumnavigated Antarctica, before being ordained an Orthodox deacon a few months ago.
Yep, the tradition is that the ark was housed temporarily on Elephant Island and then to Axum where it is said to be.
They have several “replica” Arks, and have a procession with one of them each year.
I do not believe the Queen of Sheba tale and the tradition surrounding that.
In God’s due time the Ark will be available if needed. In my opinion it will not be needed then.
By all means it is time to rebuilt the temple.
amen!
Hummm. Charming too. Too charming?
I've done that myself!! Of course I was pretty close to the Equator at the time and doesn't that count as circumnavigating the North Pole at the same time? ;)
re: #23
ROFLOL!!!
Ark of the Covenant ping
ping
the ark itself, as described, is a fascinating item, performing deeds that were magic to the bronze-age writers who described them, but in some cases describing technologies or scientific properties that make an awful lot more sense today. the entire issue of its creation (the radioactivity quarantine around mt sinai) is intriguing as well. It reminds me a lot of reading a Hal Clement novel (maybe like Mission of Gravity) in reverse perspective.
As far as the place in ethiopia that keeps getting these single persons saying they saw it, , how do you even begin to respond to such uncorroborated claims? It is like the claims of having relics of various saints in the dark and middle ages - how do you disprove where the bone (where at least you might be able to see a bone or something) came from? Here the public cannot even see the alleged device in question.
The Ark of the Covenant destroys the impure who get near it.
I suppose it does, lol.
No one would believe it if they read it just once. That’s the ticket....
We have a family originally from Axum in our Orthodox parish. Had dinner with them a couple of Saturdays back and the Ark was one of the main topics of conversation.
I call BS.
The Orthodox deacon part is pretty impressive.
The rest of it can be done by just about anyone.
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BUT! Was he in Vietnam? Oh, wait. Nevermind..
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