![]() Then the Lord will disclose these things, and the glory of the Lord will be seen in the cloud, just as it appeared in the time of Moses and when Solomon prayed that the Temple might be gloriously sanctified’” (2:6-8). When Jeremiah heard of this, he reproved them: ‘The place is to remain unknown until God gathers his people together again and shows them mercy. However, “Some of those who followed him came up intending to mark the path, but they could not find it. When Jeremiah arrived there, he found a room in a cave in which he put the tent, the ark, and the altar of incense then he blocked up the entrance” (2:4-5). ![]() The non-canonical book of 2 Maccabees reports that just prior to the Babylonian invasion, Jeremiah, “following a divine revelation, ordered that the tabernacle and the ark should accompany him and.he went off to the mountain which Moses climbed to see God’s inheritance. John’s glimpse of the ark is probably meant as a reminder that God has not forgotten His people, that He is present with them, and that true worship will soon be restored. Revelation 11 deals with the sounding of the seventh trumpet, which ushers in a final round of judgments upon the earth. We know that the articles in the tabernacle were “copies of the heavenly things” (Hebrews 9:23) and that the sanctuary itself was but “a copy and shadow of what is in heaven” (Hebrews 8:5). But the ark that John sees in his vision of heaven is probably not the same ark that Moses constructed. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a severe hailstorm.” This verse has led some to speculate that the ark was taken up to heaven to be preserved there. Interestingly, Revelation 11:19 mentions the ark as being in heaven: “Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. So what happened to the ark? Was it taken by Nebuchadnezzar? Was it destroyed with the city? Or was it removed and hidden safely away, as evidently happened when Pharaoh Shishak of Egypt raided the temple during the reign of Solomon’s son Rehoboam? (“Evidently” because, if Shishak had managed to take the Ark, why did Josiah ask the Levites to return it? If the Ark was in Egypt-à la the plotline of Raiders of the Lost Ark-the Levites would not have possessed it and therefore could not have returned it.) Less than ten years after that, he returned, took what was left in the temple, and then burnt it and the city to the ground. Forty years later, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon captured Jerusalem and raided the temple. That is the last time the ark’s location is mentioned in the Scriptures. In the eighteenth year of his reign, King Josiah of Judah ordered the caretakers of the Ark of the Covenant to return it to the temple in Jerusalem (2 Chronicles 35:1-6 cf. What happened to the Ark of the Covenant is a question that has fascinated theologians, Bible students, and archeologists for centuries.
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