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There are currently many myths
about the ark of the covenant. Some say
that it is buried under temple mound in
Jerusalem. Others say that it is hidden in
Mount Sinai. For yet others, it is hidden in a
church in Ethiopia, secreted in the Vatican,
or sitting in a warehouse in Washington, D.C.
Yet, if we would only read the scriptures,
we would know exactly what happened to
it and where it shall next be seen!
But first of all, the ark itself and its contents shall be
described: Exodus 25:10-22 And they shall make an ark of
acacia-wood; two cubits and a half the length thereof, and a cubit
and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height
thereof. And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold: inside and
outside shalt thou overlay it; and shalt make upon it a border of
gold round about. And cast four
rings of gold for it, and put them at the four corners thereof,
that two rings may be upon the one side thereof and two rings upon
the other side thereof. And make staves of acacia-wood and overlay
them with gold. And put the staves into the rings upon the sides of
the ark, that the ark may be borne with them. The staves shall be
in the rings of the ark: they shall not come out from it. And thou
shalt put into the ark the testimony that I shall give thee. And
thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half
the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof. And
thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou
make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat. And make one cherub
at the end of the one side, and one cherub at the end of the other
side; out of the mercy-seat shall ye make the cherubim at the two
ends thereof. And the cherubim shall stretch out their wings over
it, covering over with their wings the mercy-seat, and their faces
opposite to one another: toward the mercy-seat shall the faces of
the cherubim be turned. And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above on
the ark, and shalt put in the ark the testimony that I shall give
thee. And there will I meet with thee, and will speak with thee
from above the mercy-seat, from between the two cherubim which are
upon the ark of the testimony, everything that I will give thee in
commandment unto the children of Israel.
2 Samuel 6:2 And David arose and went with all the people that
were with him from Baale-Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of
God which is called by the name, the name of Yah Veh Sabaoth who
sitteth between the cherubim.
1 Kings 8:9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of
stone which Moses placed there at Horeb, when Yah Veh made a
covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the
land of Egypt. (Also see 1 Chronicles 13:9-10.)
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2 Chronicles 5:10 There was nothing in the ark save the two
tables which Moses put there at Horeb, when Yah Veh made a covenant
with the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt.
Traditions have added other items such as a sample of manna in a
golden cup and Aarons staff, but the scripture is clear - There was
nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone which Moses placed
there!
The ark of Yah Veh Sabaoth was not to be taken for granted or
trifled with. When first Israels elite and then the people broke
Yah Vehs laws, bad things happened!
1 Samuel 3:11-14 And Yah Veh said to Samuel, Behold, I do a
thing in Israel, at which both the
ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. In that day I
will perform against Eli all that I have
spoken concerning his house; I will begin and make an end. For I
have declared to him that I will
judge his house for ever, for the iniquity which he hath known:
because his sons made
themselves vile, and he restrained them not. And therefore I
have sworn unto the house of Eli
that the iniquity of Elis house shall not be
expiated with sacrifice or oblation for ever.
1 Samuel 4:11-22 And the ark of Yah Veh
was taken; and the two sons of Eli, Hophni
and Phinehas, died. And there ran a man
of Benjamin out of the battle, and came to
Shiloh the same day, with his clothes rent and
with earth upon his head. And when he
came, behold, Eli was sitting upon the seat by
the way-side watching; for his heart trembled
for the ark of Yah Veh. And the man came
to tell it in the city, and all the city cried out.
And Eli heard the noise of the crying, and
said, What is the noise of this tumult? And the man came
hastily, and told Eli. Now Eli was ninety-
eight years old; and his eyes were set, that he could not see.
And the man said to Eli, I am he that
came out of the battle, and I have fled to-day out of the
battle. And he said, What has taken place,
my son? And the messenger answered and said, Israel has fled
before the Philistines, and there has
been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons
also, Hophni and Phinehas, are
dead, and the ark of Yah Veh is taken. And it came to pass, when
he mentioned the ark of Yah
Veh, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the
gate, and his neck broke, and
he died; for the man was old, and heavy. And he had judged
Israel forty years. And his daughter-
in-law, Phinehas wife, was with child, near to be delivered; and
when she heard the tidings that the
ark of Yah Veh was taken, and that her father-in-law and her
husband were dead, she bowed
herself and travailed; for her pains came upon her. And as she
was dying, the women that stood by
her said, Fear not; for thou hast borne a son. But she did not
answer, neither did she take it to
heart. And she named the child Ichabod (which means Where is the
glory? or No glory.),
saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because the ark of
Yah Veh was taken, and because of
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her father-in-law and her husband. And she said, The glory is
departed from Israel, for the ark
of Yah Veh is taken.
1 Samuel 5:1-12 And the Philistines took the ark of Yah Veh, and
brought it from Eben-ezer to
Ashdod. And the Philistines took the ark of Yah Veh and brought
it into the house (temple) of
Dagon, and set it by Dagon. And when they of Ashdod arose early
the next day, behold, Dagon
had fallen on his face to the ground before the ark of Yah Veh.
And they took Dagon, and set him
in his place again. And when they arose early the next morning,
behold, Dagon had fallen on his
face to the ground before the ark of Yah Veh; and the head of
Dagon and both the palms of his
hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the fish-stump was
left to him. Therefore neither the
priests of Dagon nor any that come into Dagons house (temple)
tread on the threshold of Dagon
in Ashdod to this day. And the hand of Yah Veh was heavy upon
them of Ashdod, and he laid
them waste, and smote them with hemorrhoids, Ashdod and its
borders. And when the men of
Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of
Israel shall not abide with us; for his
hand is severe upon us, and upon Dagon our god. And they sent
and gathered all the lords of the
Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark
of the God of Israel? And they
said, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about to Gath.
And they carried the ark of the
God of Israel about thither. And it came to pass that, after
they had carried it about, the hand of
Yah Veh was against the city with very great panic; and he smote
the men of the city, both small
and great, and hemorrhoids broke out upon them. And they sent
the ark of Yah Veh to Ekron.
And it came to pass, when the ark of Yah Veh came to Ekron, that
the Ekronites cried out, saying,
They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to
kill us and our people. And they
sent and gathered all the lords of the Philistines, and said,
Send away the ark of the God of Israel,
and let it go again to its own place, that it kill us not, and
our people. For there was deadly alarm
throughout the city: the hand of Yah Veh was very heavy there;
and the men that died not were
smitten with the hemorrhoids; and the cry of the city went up to
the heavens.
2 Samuel 6:6-7 And when they came to Nachons threshing-floor,
Uzzah reached after the ark
of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen had stumbled. And the
anger of Yah Veh was
kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error;
and there he died by the ark of
God.
1 Kings 11:4-13 And it came to pass when Solomon was old, that
his wives turned away his heart
after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yah Veh his
God, as the heart of David his
father. And Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the
Zidonians, and after Milcom the
abomination of the Ammonites. And Solomon did evil in the sight
of Yah Veh, and followed
not fully Yah Veh, as David his father. Then did Solomon build a
high place for Chemosh the
abomination of the Moabites, on the hill that is before
Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination
of the children of Ammon. And so he did for all his foreign
wives, who burned incense and
sacrificed to their gods. And Yah Veh was angry with Solomon,
because his heart was turned
away from Yah Veh the God of Israel, who had appeared to him
twice, and had commanded
him concerning this thing, not to go after other gods; but he
kept not what Yah Veh had
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commanded. And Yah Veh said to Solomon, Forasmuch as this is
done by thee, and thou hast
not kept my covenant and my statutes which I commanded thee, I
will certainly rend the kingdom
from thee, and will give it to thy servant: notwithstanding in
thy days I will not do it, for David
thy fathers sake; I will rend it out of the hand of thy son;
only, I will not rend away all the
kingdom: I will give one tribe to thy son, for David my servants
sake, and for Jerusalems sake
which I have chosen.
As was demonstrated above, Yah Veh would punish transgressions
with death and remove
both His blessings and His presence from an ungrateful people.
The ark of Yah Veh Sabaoth was
the point of contact between Yah Veh and Israel. But when He
decided to cut off all contact
with unfaithful remnants of Israel, the ark of Yah Veh Sabaoth
was no longer needed or wanted
by Yah Veh!
2 Kings 21 Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign;
and he reigned fifty-five years
in Jerusalem; and his mothers name was Hephzibah. And he did
evil in the sight of Yah Veh, like
the abominations of the nations that Yah Veh had dispossessed
from before the children of Israel.
And he built again the high places that Hezekiah his father had
destroyed; and he reared up altars to
Baal and made an Asherah, as did Ahab king of Israel; and
worshipped all the host of the
heavens, and served them. And he built altars (to pagan gods) in
the house (temple) of Yah
Veh, of which Yah Veh had said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
And he built altars to all the
host of the heavens in both courts of the house (temple) of Yah
Veh. And he caused his son
to pass through the fire (sacrificed his infant son to Molech),
and used magic and divination,
and appointed necromancers and soothsayers: he wrought evil
beyond measure in the sight of
Yah Veh, to provoke him to anger. And he set the graven image of
the Asherah that he had
made, in the house (temple) of which Yah Veh had said to David
and to Solomon his son, In
this house (temple), and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out
of all the tribes of Israel, will I put
my name for ever; neither will I any more cause the foot of
Israel to wander away from the land that
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I gave their fathers; if they will only take heed to do
according to all that I have commanded them,
and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded
them. But they would not hearken,
and Manasseh led them astray to do more evil than the nations
that Yah Veh had destroyed
from before the children of Israel. And Yah Veh spoke by his
servants the prophets saying,
Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and
hath done wickedly above
all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and hath made
Judah also to sin with his idols;
therefore thus saith Yah Veh the God of Israel: Behold, I will
bring evil upon Jerusalem and
Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the
line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab, and I
will wipe Jerusalem as one wipeth a
pan, wiping it and turning it upside down. And I will forsake
the remnant of mine inheritance,
and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall
become a prey and a spoil to all their
enemies; because they have done evil in my sight, and have
provoked me to anger, since the day
their fathers came forth out of Egypt even to this day. And
Manasseh shed very much innocent
blood, till he had filled Jerusalem with it from one end to
another; beside his sin with which he made
Judah to sin, in doing evil in the sight of Yah Veh. And the
rest of the acts of Manasseh, and all
that he did, and his sin which he sinned, are they not written
in the book of the chronicles of the
kings of Judah? And Manasseh slept with his fathers, and was
buried in the garden of his own
house, in the garden of Uzza; and Amon his son reigned in his
stead. Amon was twenty-two years
old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in
Jerusalem; and his mothers name was
Meshullemeth, daughter of Haruz of Jotbah. And he did evil in
the sight of Yah Veh, as
Manasseh his father had done; and he walked in all the way that
his father had walked in,
and served the idols that his father had served, and worshipped
them; and he forsook Yah
Veh the God of his fathers, and walked not in the way of Yah
Veh. And the servants of Amon
conspired against him, and slew the king in his own house. But
the people of the land smote all
them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the
land made Josiah his son king in
his stead. And the rest of the acts of Amon, what he did, are
they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Judah? And he was buried in his
sepulchre in the garden of Uzza; and
Josiah his son reigned in his stead. (Also see 2 Chronicles
33.)
2 Kings 22:3-20 And it cometh to pass, in the eighteenth
year
of king Josiah, the king hath sent Shaphan son of Azaliah, son
of
Meshullam, the scribe, to the house (temple) of Yah Veh,
saying, Go up unto Hilkiah the high priest, and he doth
complete the silver that is brought into the house (temple)
of
Yah Veh, that the keepers of the threshold have gathered
from
the people, and they give it into the hand of the doers of
the
work, the overseers, in the house (temple) of Yah Veh, and
they
give it to the doers of the work that is in the house (temple)
of
Yah Veh, to strengthen the breaches of the house (temple),
and
let them give it into the hand of them that do the work,
that
have the oversight of the house (temple) of Yah Veh; and let
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them give it to those that do the work in the house (temple) of
Yah Veh, to repair the breaches of
the house (temple), to the carpenters and the builders and the
masons, and to buy timber and
hewn stone to repair the house (temple). But no reckoning was
made with them of the money
that was given into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
And Hilkiah the high priest saith unto
Shaphan the scribe, -A book of the law (Torah) I have found in
the house (temple) of Yah
Veh; and Hilkiah giveth the book unto Shaphan, and he readeth
it. And Shaphan the scribe cometh
in unto the king, and bringeth the king back word, and saith,
Thy servants have poured out the
silver that hath been found in the house (temple), and give it
into the hand of the doers of the work,
the inspectors, in the house (temple) of Yah Veh. And Shaphan
the scribe declareth to the king,
saying, A book hath Hilkiah the priest given to me; and Shaphan
readeth it before the king. And it
cometh to pass, at the king's hearing the words of the book of
the law (Torah), that he
rendeth his garments, and the king commandeth Hilkiah the
priest, and Ahikam son of Shaphan,
and Achbor son of Michaiah, and Shaphan the scribe, and Asahiah
servant of the king, saying, Go,
seek Yah Veh for me, and for the people, and for all Judah,
concerning the words of this book that
is found, for great is the fury of Yah Veh that is kindled
against us, because that our fathers
have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according
to all that is written for us. And
Hilkiah the priest goeth, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan,
and Asahiah, unto Huldah the
prophetess, wife of Shallum, son of Tikvah, son of Harhas,
keeper of the garments, and she is
dwelling in Jerusalem in the second, and they speak unto her.
And she saith unto them, Thus said
Yah Veh, God of Israel, Say to the man who hath sent you unto
me: Thus said Yah Veh, Lo, I
am bringing in evil unto this place and on its inhabitants, all
the words of the book that the king of
Judah hath read, because that they have forsaken Me, and make
perfume to other gods, so as
to provoke Me to anger with every work of their hands, and My
wrath hath been kindled
against this place, and it is not quenched. And unto the king of
Judah, who is sending you to
seek Yah Veh, thus do ye say unto him, Thus said Yah Veh, God of
Israel, The words that thou
hast heard -- because thy heart is tender, and thou art humbled
because of Yah Veh, in thy hearing
that which I have spoken against this place, and against its
inhabitants, to be for a desolation, and
for a reviling, and dost rend thy garments, and weep before Me
-- I also have heard -- the
affirmation of Yah Veh -- therefore, lo, I am gathering thee
unto thy fathers, and thou hast been
gathered unto thy grave in peace, and thine eyes do not look on
any of the evil that I am bringing in
on this place; and they bring the king back word. (Also see 2
Chronicles 8-28.)
Psalms 74:7 They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have
defiled by casting down the
dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
Jeremiah 3:16 And it hath come to pass, when ye are multiplied,
And have been fruitful in the
land, In those days -- an affirmation of Yah Veh, They say not
any more, The ark of the covenant
of Yah Veh, Nor doth it go up on the heart, Nor do they remember
concerning it, Nor do they
inspect, Nor is it made again.
King Manasseh gutted the temple and set up idols throughout the
premises. For at
least 57 years, the worship of Yah Veh was forbidden and for
over 70 years the core of the
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Bible itself was lost to Israel. If Yah Veh had wanted to defend
His house from Manassehs
pagan invaders, He could easily have done so (as was
demonstrated above). No doubt the
disappearance of His shekinah glory from between the cherubim
was noted by the priests, but
there was nothing that they could do about it (Or for that
matter, they would probably never want
to admit that it was gone!). Without His presence, the ark was
nothing more than a piece of
gold covered wooden furniture. The Holy of Holies was burned,
the ark and its contents
were smashed, and its gold was probably melted down (if it hadnt
already melted in the fire). King
Manasseh probably thought that he had proven that he and his
gods and goddesses were
stronger than Yah Veh. But in reality, all that he had done was
to be the last straw and
provoke Yah Veh to anger so that He removed Himself and His
support for Israel.
So now the ark disappeared! When Nebechanezzer sacked Jerusalem
and destroyed the
temple of Yah Veh, the ark of Yah Veh Sabaoth was not among the
treasures carried off.
When Titus sacked Jerusalem and destroyed Herods temple, the ark
of Yah Veh Sabaoth was not
among the treasures carried off.
Many believe that the blood of the
Lamb of God was spilt on the
arks mercy seat in Heaven. But the
Jews never mention it again in
scripture until the book of
Revelation.
Revelation 11:19 And the temple
of Yah Veh in the heavens was
opened, and the ark of His
covenant was seen in His temple:
and there were lightnings, and
voices, and thunders, and an
earthquake, and great hail.
Of course, its so much
more fun to believe that the ark
of the covenant has magical
powers all of its own and all we
need to do is to find it and that we
shall somehow possess control of these powers as well!
Mysterious tales about the ark from the
Gemara, of the Illuminati, of the Knights Templar, and other
such myths can be so much
more entertaining and exciting than the truth. Hollywood is but
the most recent of those who
have made fortunes or gained power by perpetuating old or
creating new myths about the
ark. But the truth is that only the presence (shekinah glory) of
Yah Veh Himself gave His
ark power. And when He finally left the temple in Jerusalem, any
power that the ark had left
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with Him! Seek and ye shall find. With the scriptures and the
help of the Ruach HaKodesh
(Holy Spirit), everything shall be revealed in these
end-times!
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