Ping!
Maybe this will refocus attention on the significance of the Temple Mount which has been aggressively hijacked by Mohammedans while Jews and Christians lend meek complicity
Bill Clinton, "No President has worked harder than me to try and restore these lost ancient treasures. The Bush Administration hasn't done anything in 6 years on this subject until now."
Do you think they're going to start digging?
The ironic part - The Romans saved these treasure from absolute destruction as eventually Jerusalem fell to the islamic hordes...
He's just trying to sell books.
Ping!
He has discovered that it was taken to Carthage, Constantinople and Algeria before being hidden in the Judaean wilderness, beneath the Monastery of Theodosius.
Uh, "WILL herald" is more like it - provided that the Catholic Church releases that which doesn't belong to it - I don't think that G-d has a Statute of Limitations on stealing, and the possession of property known to have been stolen from another is, well, stealing.
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Here I thought it was buried in my back yard.
Hmmm, who will host a party and drink out of the Temple treasures?
Daniel 5:1-6
1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords, and drank wine in front of the thousand:
2. Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver utensils which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his lords, his wives, and his concubines, might drink from them:
3. Then they brought the golden utensils that were taken out of the temple of the house of God which was in Jerusalem; and the king, and his princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank from them:
4. They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone:
5. In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand appeared, and wrote opposite the lampstand upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote:
6. Then the king's color changed, and his thoughts so troubled him, that his limbs gave way, and his knees struck one against the other:
So this is a promotional ad for a book!
What is this, like, another Da Vinci Code?
bejewelled Table of the Divine Presence
The 'Table' was not 'bejewelled'.
What treasures there were would have had to survive greedy Romans, Byzantines, and various other looters of Rome.
And those specific 'treasures', whatever they were, are not needed at all in the rebuilt Temple.
As an aside, the Menorah depicted on the Arch of Titus does not match the shape of the Menorah in the Temple.
On a related note, Hamas and Hizballah refused to recognize the treasure and vowed to push it all into the sea.
The author seems to be off on some of his facts:
He has discovered that it [the treasure] was taken to Carthage . . .
Not intentionally, IINM: the Vandals carried it off with them after they sacked Rome in 410.
The Arch of Titus, built a decade later, depicts Roman soldiers bearing the sacred spoils on their shoulders. The Jews were expelled from Jerusalem and dispersed throughout the world.
Again, IINM, while many inhabitants of Judah were taken off to Rome, the actual expulsion was ordered in about 132 A.D. by Emperor Hadrian after the Bar Kochba rebellion.
Candelabra?
The candles that luminated the Ark? That had the golden bowls?
Whatever happened to the guy who was supposed to dig up the Ark in Israel this year?