June 26, 2009

• Today is the Day….

  Today is supposed to be the day of the unveiling of the Ark of the
  Covenant… or at least the announcement.  I hope we can get some “Ark” news today amidst all of the Michael Jackson stuff, (which
  was btw I think a sad end to a tragic life… but that is another
  story.)

  I came across another theory concerning the Ark.  It is the theory that
  Israel may secretly have it already… this comes from a fellow named
  Grant Jeffrey, (I am not very familiar with him, but below is what he
  says…..)

  Also, they interviewed a fellow who helped with Ron Wyatt’s search for
  the Ark.  He said he didn’t think the Ark was taken to Jerusalem
  because God dwelt on the “mercy seat”… and he would not be dwelling
  on a “replica”, so he essentially is saying he doesn’t think it has
  been found yet.

  Now, I do not think that God is still “dwelling on the mercy seat” of
  the Ark of the Covenant.  The Ark was only “a picture of Christ.”  It
  was an object lesson so to speak to point the Children of Israel to
  their coming Messiah….  The veil of the temple was torn from top to
  bottom at the crucifixion and all mercy and forgiveness of sin resides
  in the shed blood of Christ the Messiah who died that we may gain
  access to the Holy of Holies where God dwelt. 

  But if indeed… they do have the original Ark with the actual Ten
  Commandments and the other contents… there is no doubt something HUGE
  is going on, not only in archaeology, but in the Spirit realm also!

  Later… Bee

  “However, Grant Jeffrey, host of TBN’s Bible Prophecy Revealed and
  well-known author of “Armageddon: Appointment With Destiny,” does not
  believe claims that the Ark is in Ethiopia. He told WND he spoke extensively with Robert Thompson, former adviser to former Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie.
  
  
  
  Jeffrey said Thompson told him the Ark of the Covenant had been taken
  to Ethiopia by Menelik, purported son of the Queen of Sheba and King
  Solomon. When Menelik became emperor, he claims royal priests entrusted
  him with the Ark of the Covenant because King Solomon was slipping into
  apostasy. A replica was then left behind in Israel.
  
  
  
  “The Ethiopian royal chronicles suggest that for 3,000 years, they had
  been guarding the ark, knowing that it had to go back to Israel
  eventually,” Jeffrey said.
  
  
  
  He claims that after the Ethiopian civil war, Israel sent in a
  group of commandos from the tribe of Levi and the carried the Ark onto
  a plane and back to Israel in 1991.

  “It is being held there secretly, waiting in the eyes of the religious
  leaders of Israel, for a supernatural signal from God to rebuild the
  temple,” he said. “They are not going to do it before that. When that
  happens, they will bring the Ark into that temple.”
  
  
  
  Tennessee historian and “Time is the Ally of Deceit” author Richard
  Rives, searched for the Ark and participated in excavations beneath
  Mount Moriah outside the walls of ancient Jerusalem. His group was
  trying to verify claims by relic hunter Ron Wyatt that he actually saw
  the Ark there several decades ago after tunneling through a small
  passageway.
  
  
  
  While they found Roman ruins from the first century, Rives told WND
  they were unsuccessful in confirming Wyatt’s account. Nonetheless,
  Rives does not believe the story of Menelik obtaining the artifact or
  that Ethiopia ever had the real Ark.
  
  
  
  “God’s presence was on the mercy seat. That was the throne of God,” he said.
  
  
  
  If the account were accurate, Rives said God would have been dwelling on an Ark replica in Jerusalem.
  
  
  
  “I just don’t believe they could have persuaded him to sit on a fake Ark of the Covenant,” he said.
  
  
  
  Many theories exist about the ultimate fate of the Ark, including that
  it has been hidden in a still unknown location, it was destroyed by
  enemies of the Israelites, taken by Egyptian invaders to Egypt or
  removed by divine intervention.
  
  
  
  Cornuke said Ethiopians claim their purported Ark is kept in a large
  stone sarcophagus lined in ornately hammered silver. The Ark itself is
  made of acacia wood and laminated with a thin veneer of gold. The mercy
  seat sits atop the Ark and is made of pure, hammered gold and includes
  two cherubim facing one another.

  
  

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