According to a dubious news source, World Net Daily, an Ethiopian church has been hiding the Ark of the Covenant for millennia, but they are just about ready to unveil it to the world. It was supposed to be revealed on Friday.
Now, they report, no one knows when it will be shown to the public. But they go whole-hog to report that it’s really there:
Next week, Cornuke will travel to Ethiopia for the 13th time since he began his search for the Ark. He told WND he believes it is possible Ethiopia could have the real artifact.
“They either have the Ark of the Covenant or they have a replica that they have believed to be the Ark of the Covenant for 2,000 years,” he said.
Cornuke said, if it is genuine, there’s a plausible explanation of how the Ark may have come to the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Ethiopia.
“The Ark could have been taken out of the temple during the time of the atrocities of Manasseh,” he said. “We have kind of a bread crumb trail that appears to go to Egypt, and it stayed on an island there for a couple hundred years called Elephantine Island. The Ark then was transferred over to Lake Tana in Ethiopia where it stayed on Tana Qirqos Island for 800 years. Then it was taken to Axum, where it is enshrined in a temple today where they don’t let anybody see it.”
Personally, I would be enthralled to see such an old and venerated object — even if it is a replica.
But, if it turns out to be real … we all know how well that worked out last time:
Grant Hamilton
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