Lake Tana in Ethiopia with many small islands, the
presumed hide out of the Arc of the Covenant for many centuries!
One of the founders of the Templar,
note the 'Croix Pâté' which is engraved
on
many monolithic Churches in Lalibela!
ST. Georges Church in Lalibela, a marvel of
architecture! A single 12 meters high rock-
hewn inside-out serving a regular Holy Mass
everyday!
ST. Emmanuel, one of the most elegantly
build
church in Lalibela! This monolithic Church is carved out of one rock and
Holy mass is performed everyday!
Old painting on goat
skin depicting the story of Queen of Sheba meeting King
Solomon a story written in the Old
Testament!
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The
Arc construction
The
Arc's powers!
The Arc's whereabouts...
Reading the
Bible carefully, the Arc
of the covenant is adequately described and its whereabouts well
documented in several chapters and from various
people but only until the reign of King Solomon 970 to 931 BC. After that you can not find
much mentioning the Arc in the Bible ! Isn't this
strange?
Just
before the
Jews start the journey back home after 52 years of captivity in Babylon, around
the year 535 BC, a royal decree was issued from king Darious to locate a list of all looted
items from the Temple; the list was found and everything described
in it was given
back to the returning Jews! Surprisingly the Arc was not included in
this list
of the returned items and also there was no complain from any body,
nor was anything mentioned in any scripture about the missing Arc! Soon
after, a
new temple was build but without containing the Arc as it was missing
still without any complaint registered from any body... Strange isn't
it?
There
is no report that the Arc was stolen, destroyed or hidden somewhere
underground! Is
that not surprising for something so precious to the Jews to vanish
without a trace?
That
leaves us then to believe that sometime between king Solomon's reign
and the Babylonian invasion at 589 BC by king Nebuchadnezzar, the Arc of the
covenant was secretly hidden away, or more possible, taken to an
other land where it would be more safe! The High Priests in view of the eminent
Babylonian invasion made a plan and were prepared; they were obviously responsible
for the Arc's disappearance!
There
is also an other suggestion that at the beginning of king Manasseh's
reign at 687 BC the High
Priests took the Arc and escaped to a safer place! King Manasseh
embraced an other religion and placed an idol of 'Asherah' in the Holy
of Holies inside the temple... Many were persecuted and left the high
priests no other choice but to escape to another land!
Reading about the findings of Joachim Krekler, the
German archeologist who excavated the remains of a Jewish settlement on
the
Elephantine island
near Aswan in the
river Nile,
we can easily see that this is the first clue as to what
may have happened!
There
is a suggestion that the Levites and priests with their families either
because of the eminent Babylonian invasion or because of king Mnasseh's
wrath, made a plan and left to a safer place: Egypt. Somehow they
settled at Elephantine island where they would
be safe and isolated! This Jewish community was established there for
about 200 years building a Temple which remains were r4egantly excavated and
still visible! Bezaleel Porten who took part at the excavations
there, thinks that there would not be a need
for a Jewish Temple if they did not have the Arc with them!
Unfortunately their settlement was burned and they were forced out
presumably after the departure of the Babylonian invader Cambysis who occupied Egypt
for 5 years! Cambysis had respected the
Jewish temple but he destroyed some Egyptian temples therefore creating hatred
between the locals and the Jewish settlers...
There
is an accurate account from the 'father of history'
Herodotus describing in detail the route and how some Jews traveled from the
Elephantine island to Ethiopia!
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_._._ The
Arc construction
The
way the Arc was constructed is well described in the book of Exodus.
Having an engineering background I can see that the way it was made,
it formed a huge capacitor capturing huge electrical energy while on the move
and striking any intruder that came close at a certain distance with
terrible effects! Also the cherubim mounted on top, formed the necessary
poles to discharge the electrical load! We can only believe that Moses,
because of his education with the high priests, had a very good knowledge of
physics!
In another passage we can read instructions that the Levites,
the official Arc bearers, had to wear long dresses touching the ground
with golden threads woven in them (?) in order not to be affected with the Arc's enormous
powers! To my understanding, simply they were physically
being well earthed in order to be protected!
Many scholars believe that
the Arc had 'unknown' powers and even in a documentary I recently
seen in National Geographic channel an American professor insisted on
that! But I have read and studied all the incidents described in the
Bible the Arc had caused and with certainty all happened due to high
voltage!
Please read next paragraph
Arc's powers!
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Numbers 16 . You could probably understand Moses motive and the way
he used the Arc to control the Israelites!
Often a low fuzzy cloud is described to
be seen gathered above it... The wandering Israelites developed a
habit of moving on when the cloud was lifted and rest while the cloud
was there...
Many
incidents are described that people approaching were killed instantly
with fire or were deformed with a burned skin!
--> To my understanding,
a high voltage electric discharge was always the cause giving lightning, a huge
spark, or at times according to humidity reportedly a fuzzy cloud
was forming around it!
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The
Arc's powers!
A very well documented event
in our Bible,
Numbers 16 describing an
incident where some 200 Israelites joining
forces were ready to revolt against Moses and Aaron
in the wilderness of Sinai. They questioned Moses and Aaron's
authority saying
"You take to much on yourselves; all
our community is consecrated and Yahweh is also leaving among them; why
then you put yourselves higher?"
Moses was very upset and after a
while he asked them to participate in a test; to prove who among them was really
consecrated and 'Holy'. He suggested that each of them comes the
following morning holding a censer to burn incense in front of the
tent where the Arc was placed. (censers were hanging on a chain and all
of it was made out of bronze !!!)
The following morning all of them came holding
a censer burning incense... Moses and Aaron were in front of the
Tabernacle, where the Arc was kept, leading the way; suddenly and when everybody was close
enough Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground while "there
came from the Arc a 'fire' consuming (burning) the two hundred fifty
men who were offering incense!!!
An
other well documented
incident involving king Uzziah (781-740BC) described in the Bible 'Chronicles' chapter
26 where he insisted to have a 'burned offering' holding the incense burner
(again made out of bronze!) approaching the Arc and while the high
priest Azariah and his assistants were objecting to this informal offering, king Uzziah head was struck and suffered a sort of burning in his skin
described by the bystanders as 'leprosy' ! Later on he died
as a result from that incident...
Reading
from the Bible Psalm 68:1 and in Numbers 10:35
"Whenever the Arc
set out, Moses would say: Arise Oh Lord, let your enemies be scattered
and your foes flee before you"
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The Arc's whereabouts...
Reading
from the Bible in Psalm 68:31
"Let bronze be
brought from Egypt; let Ethiopia hasten to stretch out its hands to GOD"
This Psalm includes
a hidden message about the Arc of the Covenant and the prediction of
Ethiopia embracing the Jewish faith...
As there is no 'bronze' in
Egypt, scholars think this is a hint of the Arc coming back from its
hiding place... I
think that if a reference is made from a scribe who wrote this Psalm
many hundred years BC, there should be knowledge at least between the
priesthood about the whereabouts of the Arc at
Elephantine island in the Nile!
* Read please in
your Bible Psalm 68:31
As
usual, there is a lot debate and arguments between scholars and
historians as to what had really happened. The fact is that after king
Solomon reign (915) BC,
there is very little mention about the Arc of the covenant! King Cyrus of Babylon, after an
incident (see book of Daniel) which made him respect the Jews and believe to
GOD, decided to let all
Jews return to their homeland. He had also commanded his treasurer to return all looted items from the Temple of Solomon !
After a royal decree was issued, a list was found
and we have an accurate description of all items taken from the Temple
of Solomon without any mention of
the Arc of the covenant! Also
nowhere in Bible's Old
Testament
is there any complain about the Arc's disappearance!
That sounds very confusing and one can only think of a conspiracy orchestrated
between the high priests of the temple of Solomon!
Now if you
combine this with the discovery of a
big Jewish
settlement including a temple by a German
archaeologist
(Joachim
Kreckler) on the Elephantine
island in the middle of the river Nile near
Aswan Egypt , then a lot of speculation is apparent! The thought that a number
of priests, possibly 300 including their families, seeing the eminent danger
from invading Babylonians of
the Arc being lost, took it and went to a place that they new very well:
Egypt!
It is very interesting to
read in Isaiah's book "An Oracle for Ethiopia" in chapter 18!
Joachim
Kreckler and Bezaleel's
Porter extended account describes the destruction of this
Jewish settlement 'as a result of the sympathy shown to the Jews from a
Babylonian invader who occupied Egypt for 5 years(541 BC)'. The report
goes on that when Cambyses left Egypt, the local Egyptian population
revenged the Jews by burning their settlement and their Temple because
Cambyses had burned all the Egyptian temples and left only the Jewish
one standing! There is an other detailed report from
Herodotus the father of History about the existence of the
Elephantine settlement and the travel to Ethiopia from there!
The
Arc of the covenant is believed to be in Ethiopia.
But how could this
important item mentioned in the old testament be there? In Kebra Negast,
the Ethiopian legend written long time ago, Menelik the son of King
Solomon and Queen of Sheba, returned back to Jerusalem and with the help
of other youths, took this precious relic back to Ethiopia!
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Meanwhile
Lalibela, a religious person and would be king of Ethiopia, was at the
same time in Jerusalem escaping his half brother's plans to poison him
back in Ethiopia! Now Lalibela apparently was telling the Templars that
every Sunday and during the Holy mass, the priests are parading the Arc of
the covenant out in the Church
again! He was quite convincing because the Templars followed him in the
kingdom of Roha establishing first Lalibela as king and then much to
their joyful surprise, help the priests carrying the Arc at the Sunday
mass! This of course is an hypothesis, shared by many at this stage and
not a far fetched suggestion as a lot of events before and after are
pointing at that direction!
During
the 20 years stay in Lalibela, the Templars build the 11 famous Rock hewn
Churches! This is again a suggestion in itself but if you travel to
Lalibela (the place is named after this famous king) you can
see your self these architectural marvels created by master architects or
more accurately: masons!
As
you are reading on Graham Hancock's the 'Sign & the Seal' you will be
surprised about this conspiracy and how many people were looking for it
through the centuries! First the Templars or the knights of
the 'Holy Temple of Solomon'. Then John Bruce, a Scottish mason,
traveled to Ethiopia in the 17th century 'under cover' and with the
excuse to find the 'source of the Blue Nile', but always having in his
agenda to locate the Arc of the Covenant'!
Later on many people were inspired from Prophet
Jeremiah's own account in the book of Macabies and start looking in
caves at the mountain Nebo! In the same location, one American located a
cave with a sealed entrance and a second wall in a narrow passage. With
difficulty he opened a hole and made some pictures of the strange case
was seeing and believed at first to be the lost Arc... Later in the US a
journalist visiting his home, described the pictures taken with detail
and it was known that this particular object was put together with
screws... False alarm: the precious relic was not found yet!
The Templars, around 1095 AD and for
10 following years have
excavated underneath and all around the Temple in order to find that
relic! In the tunnels discovered, they have found a lot of scrolls which made them famous in Europe! Now
some of these scrolls are still hidden underneath the ST. Roselyn Chapel
in Scotland!
How? this is an other story... Have
look at the
knight Templars
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Numbers 16
Copied from King James authorized
copy.
Revolt of Korah
Korah, son of Izhar son of Kohath
son of Levi, along with Dathan and Abiram sons Eliab,
2
took
two
hundred and fifty Israelite men, leaders of the congregation, chosen
from the assembly well known men to confront Moses.
3
They assembled against Moses and
Aaron saying to them: "You have gone to far! All
the congregation is holy, every one of them and the Lord is among them!
So why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the Lord?"
When Moses heard that he fell on the ground face down!
5
Then he said to Korah and and all
his companions: "In the morning the Lord will make known who is his and
who is holy and who will be allowed to approach Him; the one whom
he will choose, he will allow to approach Him.
6
Do
this: take censers, Korah and all your companions and tomorrow lay
incense in them and put fire before the Lord; the man whom the Lord
chooses shall be the holy one! You Levites have gone to far!"
8
Then
Moses said to Korah, "Hear now you Levites: Is it too little for you
that the Lord of Israel has separated you from the congregation of
Israel, to allow you to approach him in order to perform the duties of
the Lord's Tabernacle and to stand
before the congregation and serve them?
10
He has allowed you to approach Him
all your brothers Levites with you; yet you seek the priesthood as well!
Therefore you and all your companions have gathered against the Lord!
15
Moses was very angry and said
to the Lord: "Pay no attention to their offering; I have not taken one
donkey from them, i have not harmed any of them"
16
Then Moses said to Korah "As for you and your companions, be present
tomorrow before the Lord you them and Aaron;
17and
let each one of you bring a censer and put incense in it presenting it
before the Lord, two hundred fifty censers you and Aaron, each his
censer"
18
So each man took his censer putting incense and fire and stood in front
of the entrance of the tent of meeting... And the glory of the Lord
appeared to the whole congregation!
20
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and
Aaron saying: 21
"Separate your selves from this congregation so that I may consume
them...
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