Is This What The Ark Of The Covenant Really Looked Like? | Myth Hunters | Odyssey

e the Ark of the Covenant was sacred it contained the 10 commandments of God the ark was the most significant object that has ever existed on the face of the Earth the Bible speaks of its extreme power fiery sparks would fly out people would die if they touched it God made his power manifested through the ark was his throne on Earth, however the ark has been lost for over 2500 years but not forgotten, the ark exists today it is somewhere, where is it now? That's the million-dollar question that men have searched for throughout the centuries. the Ark in Egypt in the Arabian Desert or even in Ethiopia is like looking for a needle in the pile of Hy, but a man claimed to have found it in Jerusalem and pointed out where he thought it was, he was a charlatan or, as he believed, an instrument. from God God led us directly to it Ron Wyatt said he saw the Ark of the Covenant with his own eyes and lived to tell about it Lon Wyatt was from Kentucky, a poor but God-fearing state in the Bible Belt of the United States, he came from a very large family family that lived in rural Kentucky in the mountains a lot of poverty not many opportunities in life had to leave home when he was 12 or 13

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Ron knew about the ancient Middle East came from reading the Bible

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attracted the Seventh-day Adventist Church a devout Christian sect where Bible study is a lifelong pursuit He pursues a habit that he instilled in his own children a daughter and two sons Michelle is the oldest and attends

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Seventh-day Adventist Church near Nashville every Saturday dad was raised that way his whole life and we were all our lives and also his youngest son was named Ron Wyatt Jr. we were raised Seventh Day Adventists, uh, pretty strict, I mean, you know, we had to go to church, we had to go to Sabbath school.

Seventh-day Adventists believe that the Bible is the word of God and historically accurate, you have your Bible class, so you go by there and study all the different stories that are there about David and Moses. There was something else that you saw about what Jesus gave us and that is the little stars in At home every night we had worship, so we had Bible books that were like story books for children and dad read us a story every night, like

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that we took turns sitting on his lap while he held the book and read the book, so we grew up. entire lives to believe that all that is true, that is why we were always raised knowing the Bible, without a doubt, it is the truth that was a fact for us.

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My dad was pretty sure it was Noah's Ark because there was the only shape of a ship there. object on top of a mountain range in Turkey, right here is a piece of Noah's Arch, it's petrified wood, we found this right above the boat-shaped object, the next Bible story that ROM Wyatt decided to prove was true was The Parting of the Red Sea, so in 1978, after underwater training in a Nashville pool, Ron and the boys went diving in the Red Sea, they were looking for parts of the Egyptian Chariot to prove that Pharaoh's army that was pursuing Moses and the Israelites had been swallowed up when the divided Red Sea collapsed.

The Wyatts were inexperienced. Both in diving and in archaeology, but as soon as they started searching, they found what they were looking for. Me and my brother saw a cart wheel and we saw the back of a cart turned over and I found a gold cart wheel that my dad thought later. having been Pharaoh's chariot. I took a photo of it, but unfortunately that camera drowned, but Ron's seemingly successful search in the Red Sea was suddenly interrupted. Ron had severe sunburn and was unable to continue while he was convalescing. He went sightseeing in Jerusalem with Dany. and Ronnie, when something very strange happened, Ron suddenly stopped walking, raised his arm, pointed with his hand at an abandoned area when he spoke, his voice sounded strange, Jeremiah's growl was heard and the Ark of the Covenant is there.

I never heard him mention Jeremiah's father so that surprised him because he was saying man I don't know how I said that or why but that came out of my mouth Ron was convinced that God was speaking to him leading him to his greatest discovery of all Ron

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He believed that God was leading him to search for the Ark of the Covenant. Ron had no idea then that the search for the greatest of all Biblical Treasures would soon come to dominate his life but what was the Ark and why was it so important? The most important elements that ever existed in the world resided, namely the Ten Commandments in the Bible, the book of Exodus tells how Moses leads the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt and through the desert to Mount Si, as told by the story when Moses climbed the Mount.

If he remained 40 days and 40 nights without eating or drinking and then received two stone tablets from God and the 10 Commander was inscribed with the Finger of God then it

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was an object that you know created by God, something that came as the pr as a gift of supernatural power the importance of the Ten Commandments cannot be overstated not because of how they were written but because of what was written in them the law of God they would become the foundation of Western morality they are instructions for what should be done no other god before me remembers the Sabbath day to keep it holy and what not to do Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not steal The Commandments were half of a

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is a two-way agreement both parties have responsibility so God took responsibility for preserving the Jewish nation the Bible says that God commanded Moses to build a container to keep the The commandments in this era the ark by reading his Bible Ron would find a clear description of what it could really look like they will make an ark of wood AA two and a half cubits will be its length a cubit and a half its width and a cubit and half its height, a cubit, it is about half meter, so the ark was 1 m long, half a meter wide and half a meter high, small but exquisitely beautiful, you will cover it with pure gold inside and outside you will cover it and make it. a gold molding around it, God's most memorable specification included in the lid of the Ark, two golden statuettes of winged celestial beings cherubim, you shall make a mercy seat of pure gold and you shall make two cherabs of gold, the Bible describes not only a beautiful Great container for the 10 commandments, it was much more than the lid between the two golden cherubs it was the seat of God Himself.

The cherabs were absolutely remarkable because the presence of God emerged from between the two cherubs and this is the most important part of the entire legend. It says that the ark was an abode for God on Earth imparting unlimited wisdom and power and this was where his presence descended and dwelt it was his it was his throne on Earth people would die if they touched it because of the glory of God that no human being can survive while the ark was taken to Jerusalem, a man named usza wanted to stabilize it and because he touched the ark he fell dead, the ark was described as an object of immense power and we get representations like in the Indiana Jones movie, where upon discovering it This indescribable power was unleashed, such was the power of the ark that the Israelites carried it on poles before the advance of their army.

The Bible tells us about the use of the Ark. The ark was carried into battle as a symbol of God's power and the fact that God would be with them as they fought, but it was not just a weapon. The Bible tells how the ark facilitated the Israelites' path to the promised land. We are told how the ark was carried. the waters of the Jordan River as the nation entered the holy land and thanks to the presence of the Ark, the nation was miraculously able to walk on dry land. It is not the ark that has the power but it is the power of God that is Manifested through the Ark About 3,000 years ago, the Ark found a permanent home when King David finally settled the Israelites in Jerusalem.

The Bible says that David's son, King Solomon, built a great temple on a hill. The ark was to take its permanent place in deep Jewish ritual. inside in a place called the most holy place once a year on the holy day of yakim the day of atonement the high priest entered the most holy place which was the only day of the year in which he entered the most holy place on Earth to pray next to the ark, it is one of the great Mysteries of the world that this Most Holy object not only disappeared from sight but disappeared completely when Solomon built the temple.

We know where it was in the holy of holies in the back room of the temple. but at some point the Bible stops talking about the ark, what happened to it and where it is now these two questions have obsessed countless generations. There have been many stories over the centuries about what happened to the ark. Adventurers have hunted in fields as far away as Egypt. and Africa, but has never been found. The most popular theory is that the ark was lost in Jerusalem itself in a cataclysmic invasion. The destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in the early 6th century BC.

It is described in the Bible, it is described in the records of the Babylonians and through archaeology, Ron Wyatt learned that after Jerusalem fell to the Babylonians in 586 BC. C., nothing else is known about the Ark, the Babylonians took it or destroyed it, if they had done so, there would surely be a historical record of it. would have boasted about it, the Jews would have regretted having recorded it, so if the Babylonians didn't take it or destroy it, what happened to it? Ron decided that the clue was in his unintentional words, but who was Jeremiah Jeremiah, the son of Kilia of the people of Anathoth was one of the three great prophets of our people Isaiah Jeremiah and Ezekiel and had the tragic responsibility of preparing the people for the destruction of the temple Jeremiah was a priest in the Temple of Solomon and his duty, having foreseen the danger, was to protect the ark.

He had something to do with its disappearance. There is a source in the book of the second Macbes that says that Jeremiah took the ark and hid it from the Babylonians before the city was destroyed now this is a book that is not in most editions of the Bible today it is what we call the Apocrypha, the prophet Jeremiah, being warned by God, ordered that the Tabernacle and the Ark went with him, he found a hollow cave where he placed the Tabernacle, the Ark and the altar of incense and thus stopped the door. The second book of McCabes also relates that as soon as Jeremiah's workers sealed the Ark in the cave, they miraculously lost all idea of ​​where the Ark was.

It was safe from destruction, but it was lost, so when Ron spoke the words there There is Jeremiah's Grotto, was he actually indicating? the location of the cave where the ark was hidden in January 1979 Ron Wyatt had saved enough from his hospital salary to return to Jerusalem with his children Dany and Ronnie, he began his quest to unearth the Ark of the Covenant, but as His own film shows it. the area i had pointed out

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very unfavorable it was a garbage dump when we started digging there was a dead cat there and it ripped me and my dad apart we were the first two there and you know we were digging in a lot of dust we are on very soft ashik stuff , it's very smooth to dig down, I have a big cave and it led me here.

I could barely move, but you know, my head was out. I could breathe, but it just trapped me there, so they had to get me out of it. Ron was not one to let a lack of training or experience hinder his search for the ark. We weren't shoring up the cave while we dug it. Do not put boards over our heads or prop anything up. I had never dug a hole like that before we were lucky not to bury ourselves, probably yes, it's not the smartest thing, there are things that could have collapsed on us at any moment, it was very dangerous, although the Wyatts were inexperienced, they were lucky too that no one was hurt, but it seemed their luck had run out when they encountered a serious problem.

We were digging outside and we went into the mountain and cleared a bunch of rocks out of there. and they began to dig inside the mountain, now their work stopped instead of finding Jeremiah's Grotto and the Ark, they were faced with a wall of solid rock, once you passed allthe loose earth, it became Rock, so we were literally breaking the Rock, breaking the Rock to get to where. We went, we had three or four buckets and we kept filling them and crawling out of the tunnel. You couldn't stand up, so you crawled on your hands and knees.

My knees were bruised, very bruised and swollen from going in and out. there, but the Wyatts' biggest obstacle was not the injuries the Rock caused them, but the time added to the excavation. Unlike previous discoveries, this archaeological search was taking too long. Ron ran out of money and he and his children had to return home to In America, my father would run out of money and come home, work and save and then we would quit our job or our school and come back as soon as he had a ticket. I left, you know, yeah, that was his life.

Mission pretty much went back and worked, made money and then came back, we dropped anything to go do that because it seemed really important when they returned to Jerusalem the next year 1980 recovered and revitalized they applied themselves to the obstacle between them and the Jeremiah Grotto that contained the Ark of the Alliance the wall of solid rock dad prayed usually in the morning how to help us you know if we can find something we were constantly praying for during all of this on a daily basis, you know, because we knew we had no idea once again.

Ron seemed to experience a guiding hand. He made a comment to his sons that he was impressed in some indefinable way by cutting through solid rock. from The Cliff every time we came to an obstacle we had to pray and somehow we got around it and kept going, they got to work Faithfully chipping away at the solid rock of the cliff in an amazing way, they broke the rock into an open space. space could be a cave, but the 1980 digging season was ending, so Ron and his children again had to return to their home in Tennessee and wait now more than ever.

Ron believed that when he returned the ark would be waiting for him, but could the ark even have survived thousands of years buried in a cave even if he had discovered Jeremiah's Grotto? Ron might find only a handful of dust in the case of the Ark of the Covenant. 3,000 years have passed since it was made now we know for example that in Egypt in a very dry environment in which wood can survive we have wooden objects from Egypt in many different tombs the Bible tells how God specified that the ark be made of wood by ccia Acacia is exceptionally hard and very dense, it will last a long time in Egypt ACAA panels over 3,000 years old have been found if tutan carons Arch-shaped chests survive why not the ark in January 1982 after 3 years of digging Ron was still praying to discover the ark Digging in the place where God had taken him but his poor health followed his son and he had to send them home we got sick that time I had a really bad flu Danny got the flu and Danny stayed I think a couple more weeks after that and then came home even without his kids to help him Ron wouldn't give up he believed so strongly in what he was supposed to do that nothing would stop him no he never gave up he saw everything even if he almost lost his life he would regroup and go back and try again until he got to where he wanted to be, yes he wasn't afraid but now digging more than 20 feet underground even Ron realized that He couldn't work alone and had the help of a local young man.

Together they worked in the tunnels, he and his children. He had worked so hard to open a particular tunnel it was very difficult a narrow passage leading through a chimney a narrow vertical shaft so small that Ron had to exhale to get inside the tunnel Ron saw a very small opening in the rock wall only Ron's assistant was small enough to stand inside. Something about this space seemed to fill him with dread, dominated by pure terror. He fled never to return. Ron believed that his assistant must have experienced the power of the Ark. Ron widened the opening and stepped into the confined space he found.

He himself in a chamber full of small rocks saw flashes of gold, not the ark but ritual objects from the temple, now he was sure that the ark must be there somewhere dragging painfully over the rocks towards the back of the chamber. Ron saw a partially buried stone. If the lid was so close to the ceiling that he couldn't see inside, could it contain the ark? He had to find a way to see inside the stone box, see the ark, but now, Ron may not have been a professional archaeologist, but he was. a professional nurse and an atheist and now that he had taken advantage of his medical knowledge he wondered if a medical camera and probe designed to see inside the human body would allow him to investigate and identify the contents of the stone box only again in the chamber that Ron pushed.

The camera into a small hole he drilled in the side of the stone box and suddenly there he was Ron Wyatt was the first person to see the Ark of the Covenant lost for 2,000 and a half years. He was crying when he told me that he had just said that he couldn't believe it. Ron Wyatt announced to the world that he had found the Lost Arc of the Covenant. surprise the good news was not received with open arms professional archaeologists would need convincing evidence they would want to see what Ron had seen the Ark of the Covenant when it comes to any amateur enthusiast who claims they found something to do with the Bible my first question For them it's show me the data, show me your evidence.

Skeptics pointed out the fact that Ron Wyatt was alone when he found the ark. He had no witnesses. If you think you found the Ark of the Covenant, show me a photo, but Ron didn't present one. He claimed that he had documents and photographs, but was not allowed to show them in a series of conversations. He told people that the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) had made secrecy a condition of his excavation permit and he had not been allowed to give the exact location, but I will say that the Ark of the Covenant is exactly where I found it. and we have shown the Israeli Department of Antiquities that they have the permit and know that it has been found, but even the existence of a permit is questioned.

Dr. Damber, what was the Ark of the Covenant? District Director at the time I was Jerusalem District Archaeologist Ron Wyatt was in Jerusalem with his activities as far as I know, he never received any permission to excavate in Jerusalem Ron could have silenced his critics by simply showing them the Ark of the Covenant , why not just return to the Excavation with the Witnesses? But Ron had bad news there too. He said the access tunnel he had made had been sealed by authorities with reinforced concrete. The way you used to go through it through the garden tomb is closed you can no longer go through that path Ron Wyatt's claim to have discovered the Arch of the Covenant is not supported by any evidence in terms of hard data.

Ron was never able to present any evidence of the Ark of the Covenant to anyone and yes, he did. He tried, he tried with professional archaeologists openly expressing the opinion that Ron's discoveries were too good to be true, so while it takes years and decades to properly train as an archaeologist, where you can read the ancient text, the excavations interpret data and analysis. It seems like anyone can go out and try to find them now archaeologists know that's like looking for a needle in a haystack or rather a needle in many haystacks. Ron was the first to admit that he was an amateur and he believed God was responsible.

For his discoveries it is very obvious that I did not find them by my own intelligence or by my own intelligence. I don't think there was anyone on Earth smart enough to have found all of these, but God knew where they were from day one and He wanted everyone to see them, so what was the truth? The lack of evidence begs the question: if Ron Wyatt had made it all up as a person, he was a very nice person, but to this day I can't decide if he was a criminal or a naïve person, I say thief with reservations because I think Maybe he was naive and believed what he said.

I didn't know Ron was lying and um, I knew he was telling the truth, that was dad's whole mission, to show the truth, I mean, he didn't. It doesn't take archeology or anything, that's why archaeologists don't think it's legitimate, but God uses people, not necessarily professionals, to do his work. Those who doubt Ron Wyatt point to one fact in particular: he found exactly what he set out to find. Down to the last detail, even after the ravages of 3,000 years, the ark he described was exactly as shown in an illustrated book of the Bible. He produced a drawing of what it

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like covered in gold and with a decorated gold rim and two gold cherubs on the lid.

It's interesting that what Ron Wyatt says he discovered is the typical or conventional description of the Ark. In reality, if you find the Ark, It may look completely different, in fact there are two quite different biblical descriptions of the Ark. Exodus has the ark. Built by a bezel artist, this is the famous Rum Ark covered completely with the purest gold, its lid with gilded cherab and a decorated gold rim, but in another biblical story, not in Exodus but in the book of Deuteronomy, the ark is much simpler in Deuteronomy. Moses made the ark just a simple acacia wood box without any decoration.

This is a much more plausible container for a nomadic desert tribe to make and carry with them in the desert. This description of the Ark certainly lends itself to the belief that it is simply a storage box, uh, and we find in archeology in King Tut's tomb and elsewhere similar boxes according to professional archaeologists. Ron made a typical mistake: he went looking for a specific object to support a preconceived view that every Bible story is historically true. Trained archaeologists. He approached the subject with a more open mind, searching for artifacts that would help guide them toward what historic history could be.

I'm never sure what they might find. You might be searching for one thing, ask a question, and suddenly something else appears. exactly what has just happened to an eminent archaeologist Professor Yosi garfinkle of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem he is very different from Rome Wyatt but what he has found may forever change our understanding of the Ark this is the ancient city of kabet KFA on the Ila Valley famous in this valley about 3,000 years ago the boy David killed the giant warrior Goliath with a stone from his sling. Professor Garfinkle has been digging here for 5 years looking for neither David nor Goliath nor even the Ark of the Covenant.

I'm not trying to prove the Bible, you have the biblical tradition, this is a story written by people a few thousand years ago and what we can do as archaeologists is see what we are finding. Professor Garfinkle is looking for nothing and all as a result of his excavation here in In the summer of 2011 a fragmented clue was unearthed of what the ark may actually have been during the season. There were many quite interesting stone pot fragments, but as they were actually broken into many pieces, we didn't realize what it was, so it was very well packaged.

We sent all these artifacts to the laboratory for conservation. Highly trained conservators explored what could be done with all the pieces, sort of like solving a 3D puzzle of a fish without the picture on the box as a guide. What they finally rebuilt was extraordinary and when they arrived. When I saw it I really didn't believe my eyes, it was a beautiful box made of stone, something that had never been found before in any archaeological site in Israel or the ancient Near East. Professor Garfinkle knew little about the stone box at first, but during the investigation.

He began to tell his story. It seemed to be a model building of some kind. This artifact is made from a block of stone that was carved nicely into the shape of a building and then it was painted red. There are traces of red pigment here. I think there was a door. wood that was fixed here to the inside and there were little pegs that fixed the door in its location, but what exactly was this little model building used for? Inside you can see a small depression, probably a base where a statue or perhaps a symbol was located. of God, a small stone or something like that was placed, so that's how I understand it in an object like this where they kept gold symbols inside and it was portable and moved from one place to another according to needs and I understand it as a portable Sanctuary The thesis Professor Garfinkel's claim that it was a portable Sanctuary is supported when the small building with doors is compared to the biblical account of the Temple of Solomon where the ark rested.

They are very similar, so this is what we call triple gap door or Triple gap door frame and that's how it isexactly as the Bible describes Solomon's Palace and also the entrances to Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, but the Box could not be a model of the temple. Radiocarbon dating tells us it is older than that and much more. Most likely, the temple was a giant version of a portable shrine like this one. Then Professor Garfinkle, with extraordinary insight, asked a vital question: What did people call this Portable Shrine when they used it in ancient times? I think probably the people of ancient times called such an artifact the Ark of God and this is the biblical Hebrew name Aron Elohim Ark of God or closet of God.

Is this the truth about the ark that it was not a large, supernatural object in the Hebrew Bible? The Ark of the Covenant is the written habit of Aron Aon simply means chest or closet, a box to store things in Hebrew. Aron just means a box where you can keep anything inside, it is not necessarily something sacred once you put a symbol of God inside then the artifact becomes important. It's not that the artifact itself isn't just a book, what's important is the meaning that people gave it. In fact, Professor Garfinkle has found not just one Ark but two.

The second is made of ceramic and has a different shape, but it is also a. small building with pillars, roof, beams and a door. Garfinkle believes it is another portable Sanctuary, another Ark of God. He wasn't looking for anything like the ark or anything like that, but once we have them, we have to deal with them and interpret them, it's not just you. find something nice put it in the museum and go home you also need to understand what you are doing gle's work reveals that there were many arches in many places ritual shrines used by common people as part of their worship does this mean fabulous?

The golden Ark that Ron was looking for may never have existed, not necessarily when you have a big temple in Jerusalem, you have a big Kingdom, you have a very nice Ark, it can be made with gold and silver and all kinds of other things, but in the small towns. around it and in private homes people will not have such large artifacts made of such expensive materials, so it is true that the Ark of the Covenant carried by the Israelites through the desert could have been a simple object different from the previous one. built for the temple in Jerusalem no one knows for sure people can debate it people can say I'm wrong maybe I'm wrong but at least I can offer a new interpretation of what Ron Wyatt would make of this debate we'll never know died in 1999 until The end of his life was spent making many more controversial discoveries to prove that the Bible is fact He said he had a sample of Christ's blood from the crucifixion which proved that Jesus did not have an earthly father He claimed to have an encounter with angels In the chamber where he found his ark, tables and stones were found in the Ark of the Covenant.

We personally removed them with the help of Four Angels who lifted the mercy seat, which I would estimate weighs about 900 pounds solid. gold Ron Wyatt was a master at organizing Expeditions, he got the public interested, got money for Expeditions from him and created a large following, whether he was a charlatan, a fanatic or a Fool. It depends on individual people's opinions for those who believe he was none of those things. These he was a man inspired to do his work by his faith when I get to heaven I'm going to look around me and I want to see all of you there I feel really blessed to have had a father like my father and I have to do this work, It has been an amazing thing, we may never know the truth about the Ark of the Covenant, but stories of its legendary power and symbolic importance ensure that every generation will dream of finding it.

The Ark exists today. It's somewhere where we. Know that the ark has not yet been found in any place mentioned by ancient sources, that does not mean that it will not be found, if it is, it will be accidental, it will not be because someone went out to look for it. I've been searching, researching or digging for something completely different and lo and behold, there it will be.