How did the ARK get to Ethiopia?
The story has been well publicized since 1935. In the "Saturday Evening Post" of September 21, 1935, an article called "The King of Kings" by Gordon MacCreaugh. In this article, the author had an interview with Haile Selassie. He tells of a record kept guarded in ancient churches, that the ARK is in a church in Aksum.
The record tells how the Queen of Sheba went to visit King Solomon, and later bore to Solomon, a son, named Menelik. When Menelik was a young man, he visited Solomon. Solomon so pleased with Menelik that he had an exact reproduction of the ARK made for this son.
At a farewell party given for Menelik, the priests were drunk, and the ARKS were switched. Menelik took the original ARK back to Ethiopia.
The Encyclopedia Britannica says under "Aksum, Ethiopia":
"It (Aksum) contains the ancient church where according to tradition the tabot, or ARK OF THE COVENANT, brought from Jerusalem, by the son of Solomon and the queen of Sheba, was deposited and is still supposed to rest."
The ARK is now in Aksum. This was the ancient capital of Ethiopia, in Tigre province. The city is at an altitude of 7000 feet on a mountain. This ARK is in the Church of St. Mary of Zion.
Shortly before Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, the B'nai B'rith Messenger reported:
"The tablets of the law received by Moses on Mt. Sinai and the ARK OF THE COVENANT, both said to have been brought to Ethiopia from Jerusalem by Menelik, the son of king Solomon and the queen of Sheba, who was the founder of the present Abyssinian dynasty have been removed to the mountain stronghold of Abyssinia for safe keeping because of the impending Italian invasion according to word received here from Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia."
The Hebrew word for "ensign" is the word "nes". It does not always refer to the same thing. In Isaiah 11:10, it refers to Christ. In Isaiah 11:12, it refers to a symbol of Christ. In Numbers 21:8-9, it refers to a pole, a symbol of Christ.
The ARK is a perfect "ensign" for it showed the glory of God as pictured by Jesus Christ:
being made of wood and gold, it shows the union of mankind and deity in the person of Jesus.
the ARK disappeared from Israel, so Christ ascended after His resurrection.
the ARK will be returned to Israel, and be placed on Mt. Zion, as Christ will soon return and put a throne on Mt. Zion.
for a time, a substitute Ark was honored by unsuspecting Jews... and during the tribulation, the Antichrist will be accepted as the Messiah by many Jews.
The Jews will return to Israel, even more than they have thus far. The return has thus far mostly been a physical return. There will be a spiritual return of the Jews to Jehovah.
Isaiah 10:21-22
"The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob unto the mighty God. For though Thy people Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return."
It is the returning of the "ensign"
that will spark the revival to Judaism.
Isaiah 5:26
"And He will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth, and behold they shall come with speed swiftly."
Isaiah 56:7-8
"Even them will I bring to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer: their burnt offerings and sacrifices shall be accepted upon Mine altar."
Isaiah 11:11-12
"And He shall set up an ensign for the nations and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth."
As this ARK is brought back to the land of Israel, the waters will part in the Red Sea, and the ARK will be carried over on dry ground.
Isaiah 11:15-16
"And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian Sea; and with His mighty wind shall He shake His hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men to go over dry shod."
Isaiah 27:12-13
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem."
Zechariah 2:5
"For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her."
The Antichrist (called the "Assyrian" by Isaiah) will initially be afraid of the ARK. This fear will make him willing to sign a treaty with them.
Isaiah 31:8-9
"Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, and he shall passover to his stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, Whose fire is in Zion."
This return of the ARK
will precede the millennium.
Ezekiel 37:28
"The heathen (there are no "heathen" in the millennium) shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore."
If a tabernacle of David needs to be erected when the ARK returns, then the Temple must not yet be completed at that time. The Temple will be defiled for 2300 days (Daniel 8:13-14, Matthew 24:15). The tribulation has two periods of 1260 days meaning 2520 days total. The Temple is cleansed 30 days later. That means 2550 days after the start of the tribulation, the Temple will be cleansed. If we subtract the 2300 days which will be the total of the defiling of the Temple, we find that the Temple must be defiled on the 250th day of the tribulation.
So the unfinished Temple (when the ARK is returned) is finished and defiled on the 250th day of the tribulation. Thus the ARK is found much before that.
The return of the ARK will announce the fact
that the second coming of Jesus will be soon.
Psalms 102:16
"When the Lord shall build up Zion, He shall appear in His glory."
WHAT DOES JESUS SAY
ABOUT THIS TEMPLE OF THE LAST DAYS?
Verse 16
Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains
When the Antichrist comes to Judea, after battling and defeating a resurgent Russia, he comes to the Temple. Israel is told then by Jesus to flee from him and go to the mountains of Edom and Moab, and there in Petra will they dwell till Jesus returns.
Contrary to popular belief, the Antichrist will not rule all of the world, even Edom and Moab escape the Antichrist.
Revelation 12:6 (KJV)
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Revelation 12:14 (KJV)
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Verse 17
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house
When Israel flees from Judea they will do it so hurriedly, that they need to not take their valuables, lest they be overtaken by the armies of the antichrist.
Verse 19
woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days
Jesus warns in this sermon that it will be hard on women with children, or women about to give birth, in this flight from the antichrist.
Verse 20
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day
Jesus expects these words of the sermon to be known and heeded, as encouragement to pray about the coming events of the last days. It would be more difficult in winter to flee, and their laws limit what they can do non the sabbath, for they could not travel more than one mile on the sabbath.
Verse 21
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be
These events which Jesus is foretelling here in this sermon, are going to happen in the last half of the tribulation, the last 3 and a half years of the seven year tribulation.
Verse 22
shortened
This means ‘curtailed’. The persecution time will be shortened, not the 1260 days themselves. God has prophesied how long the tribulation is, to the day, so that will not change, but the amount of that time under mistreatment will be shortened. They will rest safely in Petra.
Verse 23
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not
There will be false messiahs, for the devil is still seeking to deceive them.
For Verse 24
shew great signs and wonders
When they realize the antichrist is not the messiah, others will step in to show signs and wonders, using satanic powers, and try to mislead Israel.
Verse 26
he is in the desert... secret chambers
To try to lead Israel astray, one of the tactics will be to get them to leave Petra by promising the real messiah is out in the desert. Anyone claiming to be Christ (Mt. 24:23). Promising them that there are secret caves out in the desert where the messiah is supposedly hiding and can be found there, the lies of the devil are only meant to get them out of the safe place God has provided for them, i.e. Petra.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/torah-condition-for-3rd-temple-now-met/
The story has been well publicized since 1935. In the "Saturday Evening Post" of September 21, 1935, an article called "The King of Kings" by Gordon MacCreaugh. In this article, the author had an interview with Haile Selassie. He tells of a record kept guarded in ancient churches, that the ARK is in a church in Aksum.
The record tells how the Queen of Sheba went to visit King Solomon, and later bore to Solomon, a son, named Menelik. When Menelik was a young man, he visited Solomon. Solomon so pleased with Menelik that he had an exact reproduction of the ARK made for this son.
At a farewell party given for Menelik, the priests were drunk, and the ARKS were switched. Menelik took the original ARK back to Ethiopia.
The Encyclopedia Britannica says under "Aksum, Ethiopia":
"It (Aksum) contains the ancient church where according to tradition the tabot, or ARK OF THE COVENANT, brought from Jerusalem, by the son of Solomon and the queen of Sheba, was deposited and is still supposed to rest."
The ARK is now in Aksum. This was the ancient capital of Ethiopia, in Tigre province. The city is at an altitude of 7000 feet on a mountain. This ARK is in the Church of St. Mary of Zion.
Shortly before Mussolini invaded Ethiopia, the B'nai B'rith Messenger reported:
"The tablets of the law received by Moses on Mt. Sinai and the ARK OF THE COVENANT, both said to have been brought to Ethiopia from Jerusalem by Menelik, the son of king Solomon and the queen of Sheba, who was the founder of the present Abyssinian dynasty have been removed to the mountain stronghold of Abyssinia for safe keeping because of the impending Italian invasion according to word received here from Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia."
The Hebrew word for "ensign" is the word "nes". It does not always refer to the same thing. In Isaiah 11:10, it refers to Christ. In Isaiah 11:12, it refers to a symbol of Christ. In Numbers 21:8-9, it refers to a pole, a symbol of Christ.
The ARK is a perfect "ensign" for it showed the glory of God as pictured by Jesus Christ:
being made of wood and gold, it shows the union of mankind and deity in the person of Jesus.
the ARK disappeared from Israel, so Christ ascended after His resurrection.
the ARK will be returned to Israel, and be placed on Mt. Zion, as Christ will soon return and put a throne on Mt. Zion.
for a time, a substitute Ark was honored by unsuspecting Jews... and during the tribulation, the Antichrist will be accepted as the Messiah by many Jews.
The Jews will return to Israel, even more than they have thus far. The return has thus far mostly been a physical return. There will be a spiritual return of the Jews to Jehovah.
Isaiah 10:21-22
"The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob unto the mighty God. For though Thy people Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return."
It is the returning of the "ensign"
that will spark the revival to Judaism.
Isaiah 5:26
"And He will lift up an ensign to the nations from afar, and will hiss unto them from the end of the earth, and behold they shall come with speed swiftly."
Isaiah 56:7-8
"Even them will I bring to My holy mountain and make them joyful in My house of prayer: their burnt offerings and sacrifices shall be accepted upon Mine altar."
Isaiah 11:11-12
"And He shall set up an ensign for the nations and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth."
As this ARK is brought back to the land of Israel, the waters will part in the Red Sea, and the ARK will be carried over on dry ground.
Isaiah 11:15-16
"And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian Sea; and with His mighty wind shall He shake His hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men to go over dry shod."
Isaiah 27:12-13
"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the Lord in the holy mount at Jerusalem."
Zechariah 2:5
"For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her."
The Antichrist (called the "Assyrian" by Isaiah) will initially be afraid of the ARK. This fear will make him willing to sign a treaty with them.
Isaiah 31:8-9
"Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, and he shall passover to his stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, Whose fire is in Zion."
This return of the ARK
will precede the millennium.
Ezekiel 37:28
"The heathen (there are no "heathen" in the millennium) shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when My sanctuary shall be in the midst of them forevermore."
If a tabernacle of David needs to be erected when the ARK returns, then the Temple must not yet be completed at that time. The Temple will be defiled for 2300 days (Daniel 8:13-14, Matthew 24:15). The tribulation has two periods of 1260 days meaning 2520 days total. The Temple is cleansed 30 days later. That means 2550 days after the start of the tribulation, the Temple will be cleansed. If we subtract the 2300 days which will be the total of the defiling of the Temple, we find that the Temple must be defiled on the 250th day of the tribulation.
So the unfinished Temple (when the ARK is returned) is finished and defiled on the 250th day of the tribulation. Thus the ARK is found much before that.
The return of the ARK will announce the fact
that the second coming of Jesus will be soon.
Psalms 102:16
"When the Lord shall build up Zion, He shall appear in His glory."
WHAT DOES JESUS SAY
ABOUT THIS TEMPLE OF THE LAST DAYS?
Verse 16
Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains
When the Antichrist comes to Judea, after battling and defeating a resurgent Russia, he comes to the Temple. Israel is told then by Jesus to flee from him and go to the mountains of Edom and Moab, and there in Petra will they dwell till Jesus returns.
Contrary to popular belief, the Antichrist will not rule all of the world, even Edom and Moab escape the Antichrist.
Revelation 12:6 (KJV)
6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.
Revelation 12:14 (KJV)
14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.
Verse 17
Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house
When Israel flees from Judea they will do it so hurriedly, that they need to not take their valuables, lest they be overtaken by the armies of the antichrist.
Verse 19
woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days
Jesus warns in this sermon that it will be hard on women with children, or women about to give birth, in this flight from the antichrist.
Verse 20
But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day
Jesus expects these words of the sermon to be known and heeded, as encouragement to pray about the coming events of the last days. It would be more difficult in winter to flee, and their laws limit what they can do non the sabbath, for they could not travel more than one mile on the sabbath.
Verse 21
For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be
These events which Jesus is foretelling here in this sermon, are going to happen in the last half of the tribulation, the last 3 and a half years of the seven year tribulation.
Verse 22
shortened
This means ‘curtailed’. The persecution time will be shortened, not the 1260 days themselves. God has prophesied how long the tribulation is, to the day, so that will not change, but the amount of that time under mistreatment will be shortened. They will rest safely in Petra.
Verse 23
Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not
There will be false messiahs, for the devil is still seeking to deceive them.
For Verse 24
shew great signs and wonders
When they realize the antichrist is not the messiah, others will step in to show signs and wonders, using satanic powers, and try to mislead Israel.
Verse 26
he is in the desert... secret chambers
To try to lead Israel astray, one of the tactics will be to get them to leave Petra by promising the real messiah is out in the desert. Anyone claiming to be Christ (Mt. 24:23). Promising them that there are secret caves out in the desert where the messiah is supposedly hiding and can be found there, the lies of the devil are only meant to get them out of the safe place God has provided for them, i.e. Petra.
http://www.wnd.com/2014/06/torah-condition-for-3rd-temple-now-met/
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