Jeremiah knew that the Ark was the house of God and he couldn't allow God's house, where God resided, to fall into the hands of the Hebrew's enemy.
Exodus (19:9-11)
“and the Lord said unto Moses, lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may here when I speak with thee...and be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.”
GOD WOULD MANIFEST HIMSELF WITH IN A THICK CLOUD OF SMOKE!:
Exodus (24:16-17) “and mount Sinai was altogether in a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the
smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly...And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mount.”
By the way the above is a perfect description of a rocket/ spaceship landing/launch.Each time God appeared on Mount Sinai, the cloud materialized and the presence of God which manifested within it is described as the “glory of the Lord” a divine fire!
“And the glory of the Lord abode upon Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud. And the sight of the glory of the Lord was like devouring fire on top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
Before the Israelite s left Mount Sinai to continue their journey through the wilderness, God ordered them to make the Ark. The Ark was made to contain God himself!
Exodus (25:8-10) “And let them make me a sanctuary; that I might dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.
And they shall make the Ark of shittin wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.”
The most important part of the Ark without question is the mercy seat, which God would be able to manifest: Exodus (25:17-22)
“And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold...And thou shalt put the mercy seat above upon the Ark...And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat.”
The presence of God was now within the Ark, for when they left Mount Sinai they were accompanied by a thick cloud that hung over it. Mind you from my point of view when ever we are talking about God, I am thinking we are talking about extraterrestrial’s most likely from the star system Sirius, based on the ancient Sumerian tablets.
Moses brother Pharaoh Akhenaten, I believe was of extraterrestrial origin, he believed he was, ancient pictorials and scripts, and sculptures, demonstrate non human feature, also of his wife and children.
If Moses and Aaron were his brother's I believe they would also be extraterrestrial hybrids along with the Levite priests, which is why only this group was allowed to be priests and be even close to the Ark, all others were smoten.
(NM 10:33-34)
“They departed from the mount of the Lord three days journey: and the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord went before them in the three days journey, to search out a resting place for them. And the cloud of the lord was upon them as they went out by day, when they left out of the camp.”
Each time the Israelite's made camp the Ark was put in the tabernacle, or a “tent of congregation” behind a special veil or curtain.
Exodus (40:1-3)
“And the Lord Spake unto Moses, saying, on the first day of the first month shalt thou set up thy tabernacle of the tent of the congregation. And thou shalt put therein the Ark of the testimony, and cover the Ark with the veil.”
The veil separated the Holy place of the Ark from the rest of the tabernacle: Exodus (26:33) “and thou shalt hang up the veil under the thatches, that thou mayst tither within the veil of the Ark of the testimony: and the veil shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
On Mount Sinai when God communed with Moses he appeared on the mount top, now he appears in the form of a cloud at the Ark, from behind the veil in the tabernacle. His presence could also be fatal as Moses brother Aaron was warned:
(lv16:2)
“ And the Lord spoke unto Moses, speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the mercy seat, which is upon the Ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
Exodus (40:34)
“Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.”
These Biblical passages show that the presence of the Lord is with the Ark where ever it goes when previously it was thought to exist only on Mount Sinai. Like the Egyptian bark that carried the Egyptian god Amun, the Ark of the Covenant was considered a means to carry God.
When the Solomon s Temple was built for the Holy of Hollies to house God something quite interesting happened as explained by King Solomon: “ The Lord said he would dwell in thick darkness. I have surely built thee a house to dwell in, a settled place for thee to abide in for ever.”
The importance of these passages is to demonstrate that the Israelite's considered the Temple to be the actual abode of God, and if the enemies of the Lord were to breach the city of Jerusalem and reduce the Lords house to rubble, then the Lord must be removed to his former residence, mount Sin ai for his and the Israelite's protection.
The Bible states that mount Sinai is somewhere in the Sinai wilderness, but doesn't state where. In Exodus (19:1-2):
“In the third month when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.”
The Sinai wilderness is a very large area 250 miles by 220 miles 55,000 square miles by the Christen era the location of the Mountain of God had been lost to history: it was rough stony inhospitable, and with few areas of water and vegetation.
Mount Sinai and Mount Horeb or just Horeb are one in the same. The Edom valley is known to the Arabs as “Valley of Moses” also known as “Wadi Musa”. It is said that this is the place that Moses created a spring by striking a rock with his staff.
The locals erected a Mosque over the site where even today there is a spring fed rectangular pool. “at the foot of the mountain there is a spring, which is said to never run dry. The people thereabouts say Moses, profit of god, peace upon him, did bring it forth with his staff.” (Arab chronicler Numairi)
If this was the spring from Exodus, then perhaps the mountain rising behind it was also the Mountain of God, Mount/Sinai-Horeb. The locals long considered the mountain to be a sacred place and they called it “Mountain of the Alter”.
There was an ancient alter over three thousand years old on the summit of the mountain. This mountain is so rugged that it is only accessible by horseback. The only entrance to the valley of Edom, was from the south, for the valley is surrounded by mountains just like a canyon.
To enter the valley without going over the mountains is through a narrow gorge about nine feet wide. It leads eastward through a mile of solid rock.
This gorge is called the “cold canyon” because sunlight is blocked by the sheer walls of the gorge hundreds of feet tall. After a mile through the gullies winding route you finally come into the sunlight with a magnificent view of a 150 foot structure, the alter, at the summit of the mountain.
Two towering columns, supporting a pediment of unbelievable dimensions, statue niches and a urn all carved into the mountains sheer cliff. You can see this structure in Indiana Jones movie the Last Crusade, where they find the Holy Grail guarded by the ancient Knight Templar, at the end they ride off through the gully I justdescribed.
This is thought to be a two thousand year old tomb. It had many large chambers and cut rooms within the structure now known as the treasury.
This site became known as the treasury because in the 12th century, knights Templar’s had discovered a vast treasure of jewels, gold, and artifacts, made out of pure gold.
This appears to be the site of the Mountain of God where Moses communed with God and received the Ten Commandments, and quite possibly the location of the lost Ark of the Covenant, which very well may be in the hands of the knights Templar’s!