Seriously, folks, the Ark-- NOT MARY- contains the stone tablets that Moses had to carve out the second time (God caused him to do so because Moses got angry and threw them down and broke the ones God etched out!!!), a cup of manna which did not rot, and the budded staff of Aaron. This is Holy.
There are stories of David allowed a copy to be brought back to Ethiopia but switched it to the real one to confuse the enemies who would have liked it to be destroyed or capture it assuming it had “magic”, not to mention the gold .There are large numbers of Ethiopian jews who have the “cohen” gene necessary to identify to be a levite.(levites can become the high Priest who can enter the holy of holies in the third temple that will be built.
interesting, methinks.
However, there are 'rooms" well below the Temple Mount , one of which is supposed to house the Holy Ark. It has also been said it has been seen but little is spoken about it for fears of the more radical element of islam .
The building of the Third Temple is a very serious project which is under way now in Israel. The details and outright impossibilities that have been overcome could only be attributed by God’s intervention. I am quite confident that God will arrange for that Ark to once again be set down in it’s proper place within the temple.
All this must take place for the wonderful day when Jesus will sit upon the Throne of David in Jerusalem.
Very interesting. I rented from a wonderful Jewish man named Nahmais whose ancestors helped to rebuild the Temple. Then it was destroyed again.
Some hold that the Temple was rebuild again, that the building of the al Aqsa Mosque fulfills that prophecy, but then you get into all kinds of arguments and emotional reactions.
I looked it up on Wikipedia, just to get the history:
Al-Aqsa Mosque (Arabic:المسجد الاقصى al-Masjid al-Aqṣā, IPA: ʔælˈmæsdʒɪd ælˈʔɑqsˤɑ] ( listen), “the Farthest Mosque”) also known as Al-Aqsa and Bayt al-Muqaddas, is the third holiest site in Islam and is located in the Old City of Jerusalem. The site on which the silver domed mosque sits, along with the Dome of the Rock, also referred to as al-Haram ash-Sharif or “Noble Sanctuary,”[2] is the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, the place where the Temple is generally accepted to have stood. Muslims believe that Muhammad was transported from the Sacred Mosque in Mecca to al-Aqsa during the Night Journey. Islamic tradition holds that Muhammad led prayers towards this site until the seventeenth month after the emigration, when God directed him to turn towards the Ka’aba.
The mosque was originally a small prayer house built by the Rashidun caliph Umar, but was rebuilt and expanded by the Umayyad caliph Abd al-Malik and finished by his son al-Walid in 705 CE. After an earthquake in 746, the mosque was completely destroyed and rebuilt by the Abbasid caliph al-Mansur in 754, and again rebuilt by his successor al-Mahdi in 780. Another earthquake destroyed most of al-Aqsa in 1033, but two years later the Fatimid caliph Ali az-Zahir built another mosque which has stood to the present-day. During the periodic renovations undertaken, the various ruling dynasties of the Islamic Caliphate constructed additions to the mosque and its precincts, such as its dome, facade, its minbar, minarets and the interior structure. When the Crusaders captured Jerusalem in 1099, they used the mosque as a palace and church, but its function as a mosque was restored after its recapture by Saladin in 1187. More renovations, repairs and additions were undertaken in the later centuries by the Ayyubids, Mamluks, Ottomans, the Supreme Muslim Council, and Jordan. Today, the Old City is under Israeli control, but the mosque remains under the administration of the Palestinian-led Islamic waqf.
I’ve read a little bit about Bahai and I like what I’ve learned. I’m under the impression that you guys are rare though, right? I personally have never talked to one at least nor know of anyone who knows one.
