There going to pull it from the warehouse?
Posted on 12/05/2011 7:15:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A very British problem of a leaky church roof could be about to give the world the chance to glimpse the legendary Ark of the Covenant.
That's because 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. According to the Old Testament, it was first kept in the Temple
Since then it's been the goal of many adventurers and archaeologists to find it. Most-famously, but also fictitiously, Indiana Jones was shown in the 1981 Steven Spielberg film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
There has also been a long-running claim from the Orthodox Christians of Ethiopia that they have had the Ark for centuries, and since the 1960s it has apparently been kept in the chapel.
This small and curiously-styled building is surrounded by spiked iron railings, and situated between two churches, the old and new, of St Mary of Zion in central Aksum.
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.
But now the chapel - which was designed by the Ethiopian leader Emperor Hailie Selassie - has had to be covered in a tarpaulin to stop rain getting in.
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There going to pull it from the warehouse?
Hey, it’s raining in Ethiopia. Can they grow a crop there now?
You don’t suppose it’s been there all the time, do you? I just thought they were smoking too much ganja.
Some Brit on the History Channel was touting this idea and his supposed great find a while back. Someone else was sure the Ark was buried under a building’s corner stone or some such, then again it just might be under the temple mound in Jerusalem, anywhere so long as it’s inaccessible.
Was it invisible when it was Israel?
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.
This is the same church that claimed to have the Ark in 2010:
The Ark is not going to be revealed, says Gebremedhin [Orthodox leader: I never promised to show it]
Ark of the Covenant Story was Bad Translating, Hype
'Ark' revelation: Can they dig it? (Ark of the Covenant announcement 8 AM eastern)
'Ark of the Covenant' about to be unveiled (Friday June 26th at 2p.m Italian time)
'Ark of the Covenant' about to be unveiled?
'Ark of the Covenant' about to be unveiled?
My policy on tabloid headlines: When they end in a “?”, the answer is always “no”.
Are those three words really necessary?
Next time they might want to rethink a flat roof.
If it really held the ark, the gates would have been stormed long ago.
Rick, did you know I have a broom and can fly????? Yes, it’s true!
11:19 Then the temple of God in heaven was opened and the ark of his covenant was visible within his temple. And there were flashes of lightning, roaring, crashes of thunder, an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.
http://net.bible.org/#!bible/Revelation+11:19
Agghh you beat me to it!
Am I the only one who is thinking:
Why don’t they just fix the leak in the roof?
Wouldn’t it be neat.
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