The Lost Ark: Not So Lost?
By Wyatt Earp | December 4, 2011
A leaky roof may lead us to our first view of the Ark of the Covenant.
The claimed home of the iconic relic – a small chapel in Ethiopia – has sprung a leak and so the Ark could now be on the move. The Ark – which The Bible says holds God’s Ten Commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai – is said to have been kept in Aksum, in the Chapel of the Tablet, adjacent to St Mary of Zion Church, since the 1960s.
No one has been allowed to see the holy object, described in scripture as being made from acacia wood, plated with gold and topped with two golden angels, except one solitary elderly monk, who must watch over the Ark for the remainder of his life, and is never allowed to leave the chapel grounds.
The water damage could mean the Ark will be moved for the first time in decades giving religious worshipers a chance to see it.
I’d give a year’s salary to be there when it is moved.
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They’re ultra-protective of it, so I doubt anyone will see it moved. They managed to squirrel it away during the wars in the 70′s and 90′s, with the Marxists actively hunting for it both times.
I’d still like to know what they actually have in there myself. Whatever it is tends to blind the priest put in charge of it within a few years, and they tend to die fairly early, even for Ethiopians.
I doubt the Ark is really there.
Everyone knows the Ark of the Covenant is in a giant warehouse under constant guard by “top men.”
“I’d give a year’s salary to be there when it is moved.”
Ditto.
But I don’t know if I’d like to be there if it was opened. (Saw “Raiders of the Lost Ark” too many times.)
Sebastian: That warehouse had to be commandeered to house Congressmen’s egos.
The Ark was moved to Area 51 in 1948
Proof, that’s what they WANT you to think!!!
The Ark is secretly under Lincoln’s mole on Mt. Rushmore.
Dr. Evil: Why do you think they had to concoct all those UFO rumors?
[...] Wyatt thinks he’s Indiana Jones [...]
Ranba – The movies were right, then!
Rick – I’d love to think it is. Or at least to hope that someone knows where it is.
Sebastian – “What men?”
Robert B. – We let Nancy Pelosi open it. Oh wait, it looks like she already did.
Proof – Great, now the aliens are poking into it.
Dr. Evil – Maybe they’ll uncover it when they remove Lincoln and replace him with Obama?
I don’t think it will ever be found, for the same reason that the original manuscripts of the different books of the Bible are not available: God knows we would worship the actual object rather than Who is behind it.
Picky – You’re right, but I’dd still like to get a glimpse of it being moved. Living history.
Confirmation for atheists and the “secular” of the Old Testament from the time of Moses would shake the world. Make that two year’s salary.
Murphy, I don’t think it would matter to atheists, et al, if they did find it. They could find Noah’s Ark on Ararat, and those people wouldn’t believe it.
One of my college professors said, “A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still.”
Wyatt:
Hey, if Harrison Ford, and Sean Connery show up, that might be worth a mention…’ya think?
(But I’m with SEBASTIAN here…”top men” indeed)
Roll safe.