Kenneth, this is a good point. That the Templars had nothing to do with it, although of course I'm sure they spent many waking moments dreaming of finding it somewhere hiddien in the promised land. The poor Temple brothers get drug into EVERYTHING of any tiny little connection to anything end time that points somehow to something other than Jesus Christ--i.e., the satanic messiah of whom Shalom knows more of the concept planned than myself, the Aquarian Age, long, long anticipated by all New Agers, which is nothing more than the crowning of satan as god of the world once again. Most of us get bits and pieces of this whole thing in the daily news. It just is spoken of now as the Millenium, the word seeming to symbolize what is coming one way or another. I see it anyway, and don't know why everyone else can't, since it's getting really up front. There is now a whole TV show Friday night dealing with the return of Jesus Christ and the international conspiracy, and they have it all garbled, but not too much, believe me. That was a shocker, for me a real shocker. That that is how close we now are to the reality of either event.
You read the books which I will not mention for fear someone will be curious, pick them up, and truly Kenneth---want to know my take on the BRILLIANCE, the magnificence of mental design, the cunning of deceit of the network of them that refer to each other ONLY, only to each other for factual backup, because a lot of it has been made up and then brought from book to book as if the fact has been there since the beginning of time--my take is they could deceive a believer, they have been so masterfully constructed.
And who do they all have to have to somehow give them credence?
That the TEMPLARS (no longer really even seen in history as praying, dull Benedictine Monks, but seen as completely secular cigar smoking, beer drinking sinners almost) were well aware of these ancient deviations from Christ, were obsessed with these newly fabricated things which never existed in their time, and the whole message of the books is -- Hey! The Templars believed this, so you should to!
They were originally designed to draw all other men to serving and loving Jesus Christ. And they did that with great expertise.
700 years later they are the only good thing the devil can point to because he has nothing to point to that is not embarrassing. So he uses these men constantly know in all of his evil designs. So he screams, The Templars liked me, The Templars like me--I got them away from God. That's all that's going on. The truth is the preferred horrible languishing deaths, followed by be burned alive rather than have anything to do with satan.
I don't know if I can ever get this point across. It is so big that in trying to make it, it still seems like I'm getting nowhere close to the point.
You'll have to forgive me. On this subject I am unrelenting.
I know the Etheopian sequence of which you speak, and yes, it seems very plausible that somewhere around Solomon's time, right before the end, right at the end (?) that the highest Jewish officials, king and priests, would have had it spirited away, literally.
Etheopia is a great mystery today, by the way. TOO WEIRD.
I can't remember details now, and if I crack open Chronicles I will be there all day, I can tell.but I was looking for code in the Bible from that time through the very end when they were all carried off to now Iraq.
Without the presense of the Living God, which was to just receive a blast of the Holy Spirit going anywhere near the Temple, I'm sure, and probably that's the reason the High Priest alone was allowed to actually walk right near it, it was still the most prized art object of history. Witness the movie Indiana Jones.
We see this stuff all around us, and even we as believers don't quite get it sometimes, do you know what I mean?
The Ark would have made major headline news of that time, and history does not speak of it anywhere except the Bible. That mean it was NOT carried away as booty, and if so, that would have been taken to a king, who would have guarded it among the treasures of the kingdom. And now it would reside in some high-security museum, or even in a huge public vault. The theory that some king melted down the greatest treasure of the world, and one of the most highly prized "god" objects in a pagan god obsessed world of spiritual madness, all coveting each other's little pagan idol, is unthinkable.
It would be like ripping down the Chartes Cathedral to build a housing project with the stones. Just don't think they were any crazier back then than we are today. Art was as highly prized, and little god were the highest trophy of all. This was where the God actually LIVED.
So, I rest my case on the ark being melted down for gold. They had so much gold in those days they were drinking out of gold cups.
Good topic to think about, because it always leads back to scripture no matter how you study it. |
