Parfitt's final hunt for the ngoma, which dropped from sight in the 1940s, landed him in sometimes-hostile territory ("Bullets shattered the rear screen," of his car, he writes). Ark leads had guided him to Egypt, Ethiopia and even New Guinea, until one day last fall his clues led him to a storeroom of the Harare Museum of Human Science in Zimbabwe. There, amidst nesting mice, was an old drum with an uncharacteristic burnt-black bottom hole ("As if it had been used like a cannon," Parfitt notes), the remains of carrying rings on its corners; and a raised relief of crossed reeds that Parfitt thinks reflects an Old Testament detail. "I felt a shiver go down my spine," he writes.Honestly, I think this is really Time Magazine's attempt to capitalize on the new Indiana Jones movie to sell magazines. But it is interesting to see the search for the Lost Ark is still ongoing.
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FOUND: The Ark of the Covenant?
Make of this what you will. An archeologist has claimed to have found the Ark of the Covenant in an ancient town in Zimbabwe. he is unsure if it is the original ark, or a replica made during the Diaspora to replace a destroyed original, but he believes he has discovered it.
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It is generally thought, with good reason, that the ark was either destroyed or taken to Babylon when Nebuchadnezzar sacked Jerusalem (and later destroyed or melted down). In either case, when the Jews came back to Jerusalem, they didn't have the ark with them, and there was never an attempt to replace it. So I agree with you, this is probably a fake or a hoax, and is definitely Time trying to gin up more sales.
YanıtlaSilA Christian theologian might also note that if the Ark of the Covenant was intended to reflect "God's presence on Earth", then it became obsolete when Jesus came and then gave us the Holy Spirit to indwell God's people.
YanıtlaSilI do not believe that the Ark is still on the earth, nor is the other Ark that people spend so much energy and money looking for. Therefore, I doubt I would ever be convinced that anyone has found either. The Lord certainly knows that people would make an idol of either, and therefore, let them pass from this earth.
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