هل تصدّق؟ الخزنة المذهّبة "The Arc of Covenant" التي اّوت أحجار الوصايا العشرة توجد بأثيوبيا؟

Quote: 'Tell me how this happened,' I asked. 'What I know of your traditions is only that the Queen of Sheba is supposed to have been an Ethiopian monarch. The legends I have read say that when she made her famous journey to Jerusalem she was impregnated by King Solomon and bore him a son - a royal prince - who in later years stole the Ark...' The monk sighed. 'The name of the prince you are speaking of was Menelik - which in our language means "the son of the wise man". Although he was conceived in Jerusalem he was born in Ethiopia where the Queen of Sheba had returned after discovering that she was carrying Solomon's child. When he had reached the age of twenty, Menelik himself travelled from Ethiopia to Israel and arrived at his father's court. There he was instantly recognized and accorded great honour. After a year had passed, however, the elders of the land became jealous of him. They complained that Solomon showed him too much favour and they insisted that he must go back to Ethiopia. This the king accepted on the condition that the first-born sons of all the elders should also be sent to accompany him. Amongst these latter was Azarius, son of Zadok the High Priest of Israel, and it was Azarius, not Menelik, who stole the Ark of the Covenant from its place in the Holy of Holies in the Temple. Indeed the group of young men did not reveal the theft to Menelik until they were far away from Jerusalem. When at last they told him what they had done he understood that they could not have succeeded in so bold a venture unless God had willed it. Therefore he agreed that the Ark should remain with them. And it was thus that it was brought to Ethiopia, to this sacred city... and here it has remained ever since.' 'And are you telling me that this legend is literally true?' 'It is not a legend. It is history.' 'How can you be so sure of that?' 'Because I am the guardian. I know the nature of the object that has been placed in my care.' We sat in silence for a few moments while I adjusted my mind to the calm and rational way in which the monk had told me these bizarre and impossible things. Then I asked him how and why he had been appointed to his position. He replied that it was a great honour that he should have been chosen, that he had been nominated with the last words of his predecessor, and that when he himself lay on his death-bed his turn would come to nominate his own successor. 'What qualities will you look for in that man?' 'Love of God, purity of heart, cleanliness of mind and body.' 'Other than you,' I asked next, 'is anyone else allowed to see the Ark?' 'No. I alone may see it.' 'So does that mean that it is never brought out of the sanctuary chapel?' The guardian paused for a long while before answering this question. Then, finally, he told me that in the very distant past the relic had been brought out during all the most important church festivals. More recently its use in religious processions had been limited to just one occasion a year. That occasion was the ceremony known as Timkat which took place every January. 'So if I come back next January will I have a chance of seeing the Ark?' The monk looked at me in a way that I found strangely disconcerting and then said: 'You must know that there is turmoil and civil war in the land... Our government is evil, the people oppose it, and the fighting comes closer every day. In such circumstances it is unlikely that the true Ark will be used again in the ceremonies. We cannot risk the possibility that any harm might come to something so precious ... Besides, even in time of peace you would not be able to see it. It is my responsibility to wrap it entirely in thick cloths before it is carried in the processions...' 'Why do you wrap it?' 'To protect the laity from it.' I remember asking my interpreter to clarify the translation of this last puzzling remark: had the monk really meant 'to protect the laity from it'? Or had he meant 'to protect it from the laity'? It was some time before I got my answer. 'To protect the laity from it. The Ark is powerful.' A great mystery of the Bible In early Old Testament times the Ark of the Covenant was worshipped by the Israelites as the embodiment of God Himself, as the sign and the seal of His presence on earth, as the stronghold of His power, and as the instrument of His ineffable will. Built to contain the tablets of stone upon which the Ten Commandments had been written, it was a wooden chest measuring three feet nine inches long by two feet three inches high and wide. It was lined inside and out with pure gold

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التي كشفت الكثير عن تاريخ الديانة امسيحيّة و طبيعتها.
(4), و الرواية الرابعة تري أنّ التابوت المقدّس موجود في مكان ما تحت مدينة القدس، داخل نفق
صخري.
)5( و تري الرواية الخامسة أنّ مأوي التابوت المقدّس هو: مكان ما تحت الموقع الذي إتفقت الرويات التاريخيّة أنّه شهد صلب المسح ، عليه السلام،
(6) و أخيرا تقول أحدي الروزايات التاريخيّة أنّ التابوت المقدّس مودجود تحت جبل المعبد:
The Temple Mount حيث ينتصب فوقه المسجد الأقصي ( هذا المكان الأخير المؤول لمأوي التابوت ا لمقدّس، بالمناسبة، هو الأكثر إثارة للجدل، و أخذه مأخذ الجد يعني أنّ يوما ربما يشهد حفريات تتم داخل المسجد الأقصي، المكان المقدّس للمسلمين، بحثا عن ذلك التابوت المقدّس في الديانة اليهوديّة ). و يعتقد بعض المتطرّفين اليهود أنّ معبد الجبل: The Temple Mount يوجد فث ذات المكان الذي يقف عليه المسجد الأقصي. و يرون أنّ التابوت المقدّس سيطهر بعد القيام بالحفريات و بناء معبد الجبل حيث يقوم المسجد الأقصي.

الأخ أحمد خالد: شكرا علي المعلومات القيّمة و الصورة الفخيمة للمعبد الذي يعتقد الأثيوبيين أنّه يأوي التابوت المقدّس: The Ark of the Covenant

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