Lake Tana with many small islands the
presumed hide out of the Arc of the Covenant!
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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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 even
a word mentioning the Arc anywhere in the Bible ! Isn't this
strange?
Just
before the
Jews start the journey back home after 52 years 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 were prepared and made a plan and they are obviously responsible
for the Arc's disappearance!
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 it
as the first clue as to what had happened!
There
is a suggestion that some 200 priests with their families in view of the eminent
Assyrian invasion, were
prepared and made a plan to leave the promised
land and somehow traveled to Elephantine island! This Jewish community
established there for about 200 years building a big Temple which the remains are excavated and
still visible! (see photo) The scholars think 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 king Kambysis who occupied Egypt at
that time! Kambysis had respected the
Jewish temple but he destroyed some Egyptian temples therefore creating hatred
between the locals and the Jewish new comers...
There
is an accurate account from the 'father of history'
Herodotus describing in detail how some Jews traveled from the
Elephantine island to Ethiopia!
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 electrical energy while on the move
and striking any intruder that came close at a certain distance with
terrible effects! We can only believe that Moses had a 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!
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... Can you thing why?
Many
incidents are described that people approaching were killed instantly
with fire or were deformed with a burned skin! To my understanding lightning or a huge spark,
electric discharge was the cause!
There is a 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
(it was made out of metal!) 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 srt 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"
then 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... 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!
* Please read 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 no mention about the Arc of the covenant at all! King Cyrus of Babylon, after an
incident (see Daniel) which made him respect the Jews and believe to
their 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 ! A list was found
and we have an accurate description of all items 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 can
combine this with the story of a Jewish
settlement with a temple discovered 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 in the thought that a number
of priests, possibly 300 including their families, seeing the eminent danger of
the Arc being lost, took it and went to a place that they new well:
Egypt!
Very interesting to read in Isaiah's book "the Oracle for Ethiopia" in chapter 18!
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 some other youths, took this precious relic back to Ethiopia!
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'!
The Templars, around 1095 AD and for
10 following years have
excavated underneath and all around the Temple in order to find that
relic! They had found a lot of scrolls which made them famous in Europe and
some of these scrolls are still hidden underneath the ST. Roselyn Chapel
in Scotland! How? this is an other story...
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Exodus
Herodotus an accurate account...
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The Jews of Ethiopia
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