Where is the Ark?

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There a little issue that came up in my bible study class. Where are the artefacts of old? the ark, the cross, the tablet of the commandments? Is it really in Rome? (If this question has been answered before please kindly post the thread)
 
Regarding the physical Ark of the Covenant (and possibly the 10 Commandments), I believe, in accordance with Sacred Scripture, that they are right where Jeremiah left them, near Mt. Nebo:
You will find in the records, not only that Jeremiah the prophet ordered the deportees to take some of the aforementioned fire with them, but also that the prophet, in giving them the law, admonished them not to forget the commandments of the Lord or be led astray in their thoughts, when seeing the gold and silver idols and their ornaments. With other similar words he urged them not to let the law depart from their hearts.
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The same document also tells how the prophet, following a divine revelation, ordered that the tent and the ark should accompany him and how he went off to the mountain which Moses climbed to see God’s inheritance. When Jeremiah arrived there, he found a room in a cave in which he put the tent, the ark, and the altar of incense; then he blocked up the entrance.
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Some of those who followed him came up intending to mark the path, but they could not find it. When Jeremiah heard of this, he reproved them: "The place is to remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows them mercy. (2 Maccabees 2:1-7)
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Of course we know that, since our Lord came, the time of mercy is now, and that Mary is the New Ark of the Covenant (Revelation 11:19–12:5):
Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant could be seen in the temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and a violent hailstorm. A great sign appeared in the sky, a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars…She gave birth to a son, a male child, destined to rule all the nations with an iron rod. Her child was caught up to God and his throne.
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See also Mary, Ark of the Covenanant, by Steve Ray.
 
According to Indiana Jones they are in a crate in a warehouse at Area 51 😛
 
qchi said:
There a little issue that came up in my bible study class. Where are the artefacts of old? the ark, the cross, the tablet of the commandments? Is it really in Rome? (If this question has been answered before please kindly post the thread)
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We don’t know exactly where the Ark of the Covenant is (supposing it survived the destruction of Solomon’s Temple by the Babylonians), and many people usually point to various places such as underneath the Temple Mount, Mt. Nebo, the Dead Sea, Ethiopia, England, France, Ireland, South Africa, or even in heaven! 🤷
 
qchi said:
There a little issue that came up in my bible study class. Where are the artefacts of old? the ark, the cross, the tablet of the commandments? Is it really in Rome? (If this question has been answered before please kindly post the thread)
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Others have answered about the Ark (presuming you mean the Ark of the Covenant and the tablets it contained - Noah’s Ark is never recorded as having been moved from Mount Ararat, so if it is anywhere it is probably still there).

The cross? You mean the Cross of Christ? Many churches scattered all over the world have small portions of the Cross (many as small as a few splinters). The largest portion of the Cross is indeed in Rome, in the Church of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
 
LilyM said:
Others have answered about the Ark (presuming you mean the Ark of the Covenant and the tablets it contained - Noah’s Ark is never recorded as having been moved from Mount Ararat, so if it is anywhere it is probably still there).
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Which reminds me: the Bible does not say that Noah’s teibah was on a mountain named Ararat, but on the “mountains of Ararat”: Ararat was apparently the area where the mountains were located. 😉
 
Noah’s ark, a wooden structure marooned on an exposed hillside, would almost certainly have rotted away by now. Wood needs to be submerged and buried to be fossilized.

John saw the Ark of the Covenant in Heaven, and it was Our Lady. (Look at the end of Rev. 11 and beginning of 12, and remember that the chapter and verse breaks were added centuries after the text was written.) Of course there are people who are still searching for the Ark the Israelites carried into battle.

St. Helena (mother of the Emperor Constantine) is supposed to have discovered the Cross buried in or near the site of the Tomb, over which the Romans had constructed a temple to Venus after the sack of Jerusalem. The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which now stands at the site, does date back to her era (about 335). In the mid 300s this church was a popular pilgrimage site where people would venerate the Cross, held and guarded by two deacons to prevent people stealing bits of it.

Fragments of the Cross were prized relics and perhaps not surprisingly, were soon reportedly held in many locations - by the late 300s St. Cyril of Jerusalem commented that “the whole world is full of relics of the wood of the Cross,” by which he comments on the power of and impact of the faith but which we moderns may well take with some irony, as the skeptic Mark Twain commented that he had seen enough sacred nails from the Cross in churches throughout Europe to fill a keg. . . .
 
qchi said:
I wonder if I could get a piece of the Cross, 😃
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It’s the Age of the Internet: 😃

Ebay can offer you this one.

Or perhaps you’d be interested in this lovely bit? Actually that one’s been sold . . .

And no, I don’t know why a hydroponics store is selling antique religious art.

It’s intriguing that the ebay prohibition on sale of body parts impacts the sale of relics . . .
 
qchi said:
There a little issue that came up in my bible study class. Where are the artefacts of old? the ark, the cross, the tablet of the commandments? Is it really in Rome? (If this question has been answered before please kindly post the thread)
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do you mean Noah’s ark, or the Ark of the Covenant. Nobody knows the answer to either question
 
the ark of the covenant is in ethiopia the only thing is god dwells in you now and so worrry about the ark in your heart.
 
NHInsider said:
It’s the Age of the Internet: 😃

Ebay can offer you this one.

Or perhaps you’d be interested in this lovely bit? Actually that one’s been sold . . .

And no, I don’t know why a hydroponics store is selling antique religious art.

It’s intriguing that the ebay prohibition on sale of body parts impacts the sale of relics . . .
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Ooh, I hear someone named Simon rolling in his grave. 😃

By the way, isn’t it odd that eBay prohibits the sale of body parts, yet allowed the sale of consecrated hosts? Or does that mean that it doesn’t fall under the ‘body parts’ category since, after all, it is essentially the full Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity? 😛
 
qchi said:
There a little issue that came up in my bible study class. Where are the artefacts of old? the ark, the cross, the tablet of the commandments? Is it really in Rome? (If this question has been answered before please kindly post the thread)
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The Ark of the Covenant disappeared off of the pages of history by the time of the Babylonian Captivity.The explanation in the Apocrypha was that Jeremiah hid the Ark in a cave in Mt. Nebo before the Babylonian invasion, and that its location would not be revealed until God was ready for it to be found.

Now, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church claims to possess the original Ark of the Covenant. The object is now kept under guard in a treasury near the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, and used occasionally in ritual processions.

If you are referring to the Ark of Noah, it supposedly came to rest on Mount Ararat in Turkey.
 
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