Ark of the Covenant may be hidden in Africa, biblical scholars believe

[Crow]

Gidday amigos

The well of souls usually have carpet laid over the tiles with in the cave below. recently the carpet was changed and their was a mother of all arguments nearly rioting over that imagine some one trying open up the sealed hatch over the shaft under the cave floor.



The hole in ceiling leads to the holy of holies the inner sanctum of the second temple where the ark of the covenant sat. Which the dome of the rock sits over now.



The well of souls is also known as cave of spirits. Legend say you could hear voices in the cave.



Now the caves sits on a natural shaft a sink hole that is intercepted at the bottom with Cannite tunnel from Gihon spring thus the tunnel has unique acoustic abilities you can hear voices far below in the water tunnel. That could be the solution that one time the shaft was used as access to water.

Question is is there any and side tunnels off this shaft

Crow

 

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[Crow]

I suspect in the well of souls was a well with access to Cannite water tunnel below. Some time in reign of Suleiman I, commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the West and Suleiman the Lawgiver in his realm, was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566. Under his administration, the Ottoman caliphate ruled over at least 25 million people. Paranoid these tunnels would be used to infiltrate the city he had many tunnels blocked off.

I suspect the shaft from the well of souls to the water tunnel below was one of them. What is interesting the shaft has never been explore and the possibilities are somewhere down that shaft could be a side tunnel? But a side tunnel to where?

Could the ark be in a side tunnel hidden away from world since the fall of the first temple?

Crow

 

[KANACKI]

Hola Crow

Do not forget the other possible entrance in Zedekiah's Cave below. Which covers 5 acres about 5 blocks of the old Muslim quarter above.



The cave entrance is outside the city walls but penetrates 5 acres square underground.



But unbeknown to most visitors in the cave there is a secret passage. Its usually covered with a slab of rock.





To a secret room archeologists have dated the wall from the 12th century. And believe it was Templar construction.Beyond this room the tunnel continues below.



And goes deeper into the mountain.



Which leads to a point where the tunnels is sealed. this was done by Suleiman the Magnificent in the 16th century. It believed this tunnel was a secret escape passage used by Templar fleeing the Temple mount.



Could this secret passage be connected to the shaft under the well of Souls on the temple mount?

Kanacki

 

[KANACKI]

Hola Amigos

I should add in 2016 an American tourist has been arrested in Israel after he apparently spent the night hunting mythical buried treasure in a cave, The 19-year-old man was found inside Zedekiah's Cave, below the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, after hiding in one of its crevices when it closed for the day.

Overnight, he dug holes in different areas of the cave in an apparent attempt to find centuries-old treasure that, according to legend, has been buried there. After his arrest, the teen, who was covered in mud when he was found by workers, was questioned and could not explain why he hid in the cave. Several worthless limestone rocks were found in his backpack..

The teen was released and has since left the country.Zedekiah's Cave, also known as King Solomon’s Quarries, is the remnant of what was once the largest quarry in Jerusalem, dating back at least to the Second Jewish Temple period, from the sixth century BC to the first century AD.

Several myths are associated with the site, including treasure supposedly buried there.Under Jewish tradition, King Zedekiah sought to escape through it during the destruction of the First Jewish Temple in 586 BC.

Never the less the search led to the above secret passage and strange 12th century Templar room and passage that has not been explored in 300 years.

Kanacki

 

[Crow]

Gidday Kanacki

Possible but until archeologists dig through the debris we never know? On the other side of the temple mount is warrens shaft it goes down to the Gihon spring. Half way up there is brick was closing off a rubble filled cavity there is Warrens bucket where he left it in 1888. but behind it is derbies fill passageway leading to the shaft below the well of Souls. Does this tunnel pass through the well of souls and continue down under Arab quarter into Zedekiah's Cave?

This could in hypothesis point to at least four closed off entry points to tunnels than run directly under the dome of the rock and second temple on the temple mount.



Since the 3 religions cannot agree about putting carpet down on the floor of the well of the souls. How can anyone expect them to agree and give permission to explore this tunnel network that even archeologist cannot get permission to explore.

So the question is a very valid one? Is the ark of the covenant hidden somewhere in this tunnel network under the temple mount?

Crow

 

[blauer]

The spirit in my ouija board told me that Bigfoot and Nessie took the AotC with them to Neptune to use as a beer chest (partying with aliens and they hope Jesus will show up).

 

[Crow]

The spirit in my ouija board told me that Bigfoot and Nessie took the AotC with them to Neptune to use as a beer chest (partying with aliens and they hope Jesus will show up).

Sure its not Uranus?

Crow

 

[KANACKI]

The spirit in my ouija board told me that Bigfoot and Nessie took the AotC with them to Neptune to use as a beer chest (partying with aliens and they hope Jesus will show up).

Hola amigo nah..... its in Area 51 we have Top men working on it.



Kanacki

 

[Rebel - KGC]

Hola amigo nah..... its in Area 51 we have Top men working on it.



Kanacki

What about Area 54...?

 

[ARC]

Hmmm... i thought it was buried on Oak Island.

:P

 

[potsherd_creek]

A few weekends ago, watched an episode of "Unexplained and Unexplored", they were on the hunt for the Ark of the Covenant. Ethiopia is rich in history, would be a cool place to travel to. Out of the many churches there, at least 35 are carved of of rock. One of them, the Abuna Yemata Guh is on a cliff, thousands of feet up. Some of the lost tribes of Israel are in Africa, if the Ark is to be found, Africa would be a possible.

 

[GoDeep]

In my humble opinion, never existed to begin with or was long ago plundered, but there's big money in Religion, so the story will live on for eternity....

 

[ECS]

They can not stand the facts.
The Ark of the Covenant of God is in the United States of America, the land of Providence.
This country was planned long before the explorers even knew it existed...

Firstly, who is they that "can not stand the facts"?
Secondly, how was this country "planned" and by whom "before the explorers even knew it existed"?
Thirdly, what are the "facts" of which you refer?

 

[ECS]

Hmmm... i thought it was buried on Oak Island.

One poster said it was but was removed by either the Pilgrims or the Founding Fathers depending on the current pseudo history book purchased, and then hidden in Philadelphia, Williamsburg, and eventually moved to Washington, DC.
Then again, there is NO evidence that the ARK of the COVENANT was ever taken to North America.

 

[Crow]

A few weekends ago, watched an episode of "Unexplained and Unexplored", they were on the hunt for the Ark of the Covenant. Ethiopia is rich in history, would be a cool place to travel to. Out of the many churches there, at least 35 are carved of of rock. One of them, the Abuna Yemata Guh is on a cliff, thousands of feet up. Some of the lost tribes of Israel are in Africa, if the Ark is to be found, Africa would be a possible.

Gidday Amigo Thanks for the amazing post. That place scare the crap out of me.

Abuna Yemata Guh is a jaw dropping insane place for a church or for better word hermitage. The entrance is reached by a steep and hazardous ascent with hand and footholds in the rock.Visitors have to cross a natural stone bridge with a sheer drop of approximately 250m on either side, and thereafter a final narrow wooden footbridge.A strenuous ascent is followed by a climb up a vertical rock wall depending entirely on hand grips and foot holds (without additional support) crowned with a walk over a 50 cm wide ledge facing a cliff of 300 metres (980 ft) sheer drop. You can see a picture of stone peak below.



In the picture below gives the scale of size of the peak



A close up to the entrance of the cave church.



An insane hidden away church that is perilous to get too.



inside are frescoes dating back to the 5th century.





Utterly amazing place but I cannot buy into the possibility of the ark being there at least. A gold plated ark is too heavy and bulky to carry to such a site.

Crow

 

[Crow]

Gidday amigo.

There is a lot of claims this clip might be some interest but asks more questions than answers.



Crow

 

[Crow]

Here is another clip on the ark. For them its more a state of mind the ark not so much an physical object.



Crow

 

[Crow]

Gidday Amigos it seems there was a Jewish settlement on The Elephantine island in the middle of the river Nile in upper Egypt. One of most amazing discoveries was of ancient papyri some of which I believe was now in the Brooklyn art Museum?


Elephantine papyri are caches of legal documents and letters written in Aramaic dating to sometime in the 5th century BC.These papyri document the presence starting in the 7th century BCE of a community of Judean mercenaries and their families on Elephantine who guarded the frontier between Egypt and Nubia to the south.

Following the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem in the 6th century BCE, some Judean refugees traveled south and, in what may be called an “exodus in reverse,” settled on Elephantine. They maintained their own temple (also see House of Yahweh), in which sacrifices were offered, evincing polytheistic beliefs, which functioned alongside that of Khnum.The temple was destroyed in 410 BC at the instigation of the priests of Khnum.

These papyri is a unique insight into Jewish life in Egypt outside of the claims of the bible.

For example....The papyri below was a "Petition to Bagoas" is a letter written in 407 BCE to Bagoas, the Persian governor of Judea, appealing for assistance in rebuilding the Jewish temple in Elephantine, which had recently been badly damaged by an anti-Jewish rampage on the part of a segment of the Elephantine community



In the course of this appeal, the Jewish inhabitants of Elephantine speak of the antiquity of the damaged temple:

Now our forefathers built this temple in the fortress of Elephantine back in the days of the kingdom of Egypt, and when Cambyses came to Egypt he found it built. They (the Persians) knocked down all the temples of the gods of Egypt, but no one did any damage to this temple.

The community also appealed for aid to Sanballat I, a Samaritan potentate, and his sons Delaiah and Shelemiah, as well as Johanan ben Eliashib. Both Sanballat and Johanan are mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah, 2:19, 12:23

Did this temple have its own ark of the covenant? Or held the one from the first temple? Or perhaps the Jewish people living on the island moved further up the Nile into the land of punt and Sheba which is present day Ethiopia?

In light of this it not hard to see oral traditions about the Ark are stronger there in Ethiopia than anywhere else in the world.

Crow

 

[KANACKI]

Hola Amigo Crow

The Ethiopian claim stems from a 14th century CE document which justified the then-current ruling family as descended from the Queen of Sheba and granted lordship by God. According to this text, the Queen of Sheba had an affair with King Solomon upon her visit to Jerusalem and bore his son who later returned to Jerusalem to see his father.

Somehow, his men managed to sneak the Ark out of the Temple and bring it to Ethiopia, where it was held in secret for centuries, and is now guarded in a Temple within a monastery where only one priest is allowed to view it.

Without commenting on the plausibility of Solomon sleeping with a visiting dignitary, I don’t like the chances of any foreign retinue sneaking the Ark out of the Holy of Holies, and I like even less the chances of them making it even a kilometer outside of Jerusalem without being slaughtered. The Ark isn’t exactly something one can stash in a saddlebag, after all.

In short, the Ethiopian claims fall into the category of “requiring extraordinary evidence”. Especially given the opportune timing of the revelation of the presence of this object in Ethiopia.

Kanacki

 

[KANACKI]

The Second Book of Kings 25:8–21 describes how the Babylonians utterly destroyed the First Temple. Here is the passage, as translated.

“On the seventh day of the fifth month, in the nineteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan commander of the imperial guard, an official of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. He set fire to the temple of the Lord, the royal palace and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every important building he burned down. The whole Babylonian army under the commander of the imperial guard broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

Nebuzaradan the commander of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the rest of the populace and those who had deserted to the king of Babylon. But the commander left behind some of the poorest people of the land to work the vineyards and fields.

“The Babylonians broke up the bronze pillars, the movable stands and the bronze Sea that were at the temple of the Lord and they carried the bronze to Babylon. They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes and all the bronze articles used in the temple service. The commander of the imperial guard took away the censers and sprinkling bowls—all that were made of pure gold or silver.”

“The bronze from the two pillars, the Sea and the movable stands, which Solomon had made for the temple of the Lord, was more than could be weighed. Each pillar was eighteen cubits high. The bronze capital on top of one pillar was three cubits high and was decorated with a network and pomegranates of bronze all around. The other pillar, with its network, was similar.”

“The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers. Of those still in the city, he took the officer in charge of the fighting men, and five royal advisers. He also took the secretary who was chief officer in charge of conscripting the people of the land and sixty of the conscripts who were found in the city. Nebuzaradan the commander took them all and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. There at Riblah, in the land of Hamath, the king had them executed.”

“So Judah went into captivity, away from her land.”

The archaeological record supports this account of absolute destruction. Although no one has excavated the remains of the First Temple because archaeological excavation on the Temple Mount is forbidden, archaeologists have found signs of devastation throughout the ancient parts of the city of Jerusalem that date to the time when the city is recorded to have been destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar’s armies.

“Maybe they smuggled it out!” Probably not…

The only way the Ark of the Covenant could have possibly survived the destruction of the First Temple would be if a group of extremely devoted and extremely stealthy Judahites somehow managed to smuggle it out of the city of Jerusalem before its destruction and hide it somewhere safe.

This is highly implausible, though. First of all, the Babylonians had the city completely surrounded. King Zedekiah tried to escape the city, but he was captured by the Babylonians, who butchered both his sons while he watched and then gouged out both his eyes and took him as a prisoner, along with all the men he had with him. There is no reason to think that men carrying the Ark would have fared any better.

Furthermore, Ark is described as quite a large object. It would have taken a whole team of men to carry it. It is hard to imagine that a group of at least four Judahite men carrying a massive gold chest could have escaped during the Siege of Jerusalem and successfully hidden that gold chest somewhere where it would be safe from destruction.

Even if they could have escaped, we have no reliable documentation that they did. The surviving accounts of the destruction of Jerusalem make no mention of the Ark whatsoever. You would think that, if the Judahites had managed to save the Ark, they would have written a whole detailed account of the Ark’s salvation into their account of the destruction of Jerusalem—but they did not.

Kanacki