During the reign of Amonhotep III, a statue of the god Amun, stood in a dark inner sanctum at the temple of karnak. Just like the Holy of Hollies where the Ark of the Covenant later stood in Solomon s Temple.
Only on special occasions would the statue be moved and even then only in a sacred container.This container was made of gilded wood and carried with poles inserted into rings on either side of the container.
The name of this container and the Ark is also interestingly similar. At the Temple of Medinet Habu in Thebes, there is a relief that depicts the god statue being carried in this container with a description that reads “The Divine Amun is carried on the sacred Bark.”
The words ark and bark have a common origin in the Egyptian word AK, meaning sacred container or vessel.This word was also used in Latin called barca, a royal boat. Eventually during the Roman era any small boat was called a bark. In modern English it’s called a barge.
The original word AK not only could be applied to inanimate objects; but also to a person through which a god spoke. In the title of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten which meant “ the vessel of the Aten”. Both the Egyptian bark and the Hebrew Ark were vessels for containing their respective Gods, or something that channeled their deities power.
It would make sense that the Hebrew religion would be influenced by the Egyptian religions because of their confinement of 450 years before the Exodus.
For a people forced into a nomadic existence wandering the Sinai wilderness for many years, it makes perfect sense for them to have adapted their version of the Egyptian Sacred vessel.
It enabled them to transport their most sacred possessions, in particular a mysterious object that allowed god to appear, the Mercy seat! Like the Egyptian statue of the god Amun which allowed god to convey his messages.
The Egyptian translation of mercy Seat, means wisdom and place of judgment, such as the “Kings seat” of power. In 1 Chronicles (28:11), the throne room of King Solomon is also referred to as the mercy seat. Perhaps it wasn't so much a chair as a place, from where wisdom was dispensed, judgments made and power wielded.
In Exodus (37:6) is the only description of the mercy seat: “and he made the mercy seat of pure gold: two cubits and a half was the length there of, and one cubit and a half the breadth there of”. These dimensions interestingly are also the same as the Ark. The mercy seat is thought to be the lid of the ark.
Whatever the mercy seat appeared to be, it was definitely the oracle of God! Just as the god Amun was the oracle of the Egyptian God, the portable golden Ark was the oracle of the Hebrew God. Could one have perhaps influenced the other?
We can now ascertain that there is historical evidence of a figure matching Moses profile, there was archeological evidence for the existence of the Hebrew Religion and the Ark fitted a historic image. Let’s take a closer look at this mysterious lost to history vessel.
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Was the Ark of the Covenant a radio for talking to God, perhaps, how about a supernatural weapon? There are close to two hundred references to the Ark in the Old Testament, between Exodus and the building of the Temple.
At the council of Nicea they tried to expunge all references to Extraterrestrial influence, they did a pretty good job of it, but they forgot a few areas.
They disposed of the Book of Enoch but it showed up 1500 years later, they tried to dispose of twenty-five gospels known today as the gnostic scripts, and if they would have known about the Dead Sea Scrolls, they also would have been expunged from history.
They made a major mistake by allowing the Book of Ezekiel into the Bible, a description of forty pages of measurements of a space ship and the measurements for the construction of a facility to house it.
The thoughts of the Ark were that it was in the possession of the Essenes, the Jewish sect that also John the Baptist and Jesus were also associated with. It is felt at some point around 597 B.C.E. Before the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem and plundered the Temple that the Ark was removed and placed with this very secretive sect.
Seventy years later when the Persians conquered the Babylons, the Holy relics taken from the Temple were returned, but the Ark wasn't among them.
The Essences were slaughtered by the Romans in 68 A.D. The only knowledge of this exclusive sect comes from Josephus and more significantly from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The Israelite's needed twelve precious “sacred” stones for the Ark. God told Moses how to build the Ark and gave him instructions for its use:
It could only be carried by members of the Levite priesthood, the only person other than Moses who could actually use the Ark was the high priest Aaron.
Upon his death only his successor could use it. The power of the Ark could only be summoned if the high priest wore a special sacred breast plate. This was referred to as the breastplate of Judgment.
The Breastplate of Judgment is described in detail in Exodus (28:15-30). it has a square design and made from twine golden linen, inlaid with twelve precious stones set in four rows.
The first row shall be sardius, a topaz, a carbuncle...the second row an emerald, a sapphire, a diamond...the third row shall be a ligure, an agate and an amethyst...The forth row a beryl, an onyx and a jasper.
The breastplate is sometimes referred to as the “jewels of gold” because they were originally set in gold. It was believed these stones had divine powers and were originally set in gold by God himself at Mount Sinai.
In the Book of Ezekiel they are referred to as stones of fire, and once possessed by Lucifer, but having been taken away by God. (EZ 28:13) They were later given to Moses because it is fatal to look inside the Ark without the stones.
In 1 Samuel (6:19) a description of a whole community of interested people being smitten for doing so:
“And he smote the men of Beth-shemesh, because they had looked inside the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and three score and ten men: and the men lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.”
The Ark was kept secluded for three and a half centuries after the time of Moses, it was finally opened under the direction of King Solomon in the Temple at Jerusalem.
The only items in it were the two stone tablets containing the ten commandments: once it was opened divine forces were released!
“ and it came to pass, when the priests were to come out of the holy place that the cloud filled the house of the Lord (the Temple of Solomon) so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of the Lord.” (1 kg 8:10)
By this time the breastplate itself seems to have perished and the stones were kept in a separate box which was held by the high priest when the Ark was used.
In 1 Samuel “ the Levites took down the Ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, where in the jewels of gold were kept.” The Bible does not say what happened to these sacred stones, however it is believed they remained with the Ark until its mysterious disappearance.
“The ancient Israelite's believed the Ark could summon angels”. Unlike the christen concept of angels Hebrews believed they were monstrous creatures that delivered the wrath of God.
It was an Angel that killed the Egyptian first born, when the Pharaoh wouldn't release the captive Israelite's, and another that released the torrents of Noah's flood.
It is said that when God sent an Angel to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, the devastation was so dreadful that all that was left was a hole in the ground where nothing would grow or live. All that was left was a pungent chemical odor.
It is said that Lucifer was suppose to have possessed the “stones of fire” before he displeased God, but wasn't he a angel before he was the Devil?
The story of Lucifer fall from grace is not told in the Old Testament but is told in the Tanak. The Essences relied heavily on the Tanak and believed they were the followers of the archangels Michael and Gabriel, they referred to themselves as the “sons of light.” Light being an allusion to angels.
When Lucifer was banished from heaven he was replaced by Michael and Gabriel who became the “kings of heaven”. They were the two angels represented on the Ark. The word cherubim in Greek means messenger. Angels were messengers from God.
Angels do Gods nasty work: the Hebrews called angels lights because they believed that shooting stars were angels coming to earth to do Gods bidding. The constellation of the Big Dipper, and the stars Betenash and Mizar represent the Archangels Michael and Gabriel.
The Bible portrays Lucifer as the original possessor of the stones of fire, Michael and Gabriel were Lucifer's replacement, the Essene were alluding to possessing the stones themselves.
If the Essennes possessed the stones then they must have possessed the Ark because the Ark and the stones were inseparable. It is thought that Lucifer was the chief angel who commanded other angels from mount Sinai, and the stones were sewn into Lucifer garments to protect him from other angels.
It is thought that the stones of fire could control the divine fire that came from the Ark of the Covenant. After Moses Exodus from Egypt God led Moses to mount Sinai where he gave him the stones of fire to protect him from the power of the Ark and instructed Moses on how to build the Ark.
When the Essene were slaughtered by the Romans in 68A.D. They had been ready for such an event, they had already hid the Dead Sea Scrolls in a cave in a ravine only assessable by rappelling down from above, it was hidden from sight and secure.
Some believe the Ark and its stones are also someplace close by, but the Judean wilderness was extensive and vastly catacomb with ravines and caves, many undiscovered to this day.

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