The Ark Of The Covenant: A Fearsome Weapon Of Destruction
The Ark of the Covenant must be thought of as two or even three separate things. First of all it is a box with a cavity in the middle of it that can contain a medium-sized object, such as an electrical device of some kind. Secondly, the ‘Ark’ can be that object inside of the box, something powerful and destructive. Thirdly, there is the Mercy Seat and Shekinah Glory that rest between the golden statues of two angels facing each other on a slab of gold, which is also the lid of the box. All three of these things have their functions but each is separate from the other. There is a further description of the Ark as a flying vehicle, which seems to be something completely different again.
Designs of the Ark of the Covenant ( Bruno Marques Designer /Pixabay)
Dimensions Of The Ark
Normally an ark was a chest of wood and metal that held a statue of a god, or other sacred objects, and was carried by four to six men in front of a marching army. The Egyptian army was well known to have an ark containing a statue of the god Amun which was carried in front a troop of Egyptian soldiers to the many forts at the edges of the Egyptian realm.
Exodus describes the Ark of the Covenant as a vehicle for Yahweh to communicate with Moses. As a vehicle for Yahweh, we know this about the Ark of the Covenant:
- Yahweh is a talking cloud of energy on Mount Sinai.
- Yahweh is also a cloud of energy between the golden angels on the Ark lid.
- Moses (and others) can hear this cloud talk to him.
- This cloud of energy can light up the room.
- This cloud of energy can zap people with energy and cause skin problems.
- This cloud of energy can zap people and kill them.
- The Ark can levitate and fly through the air.
- The Ark can part rivers and make thick city walls fall down.
- The Ark is the power and will of Yahweh, the Lord.
Given the construction of the ark, layered with gold and carried on gilded poles, it is possible that it could act as a simple electrical capacitor that would, over time, generate static electricity and focus it in a ball of light similar to St. Elmo’s fire in the central gold dish area between the two golden cherubim statues. As we are about to see, the Ark has more powers than a normal electrical capacitor. Remember, gold is a very good conductor of electricity. A soft metallic element, gold is indestructible and all gold from ancient times still exists today. It will not rust or oxidize like most other metals. However, gold is too soft to make machines with moving parts but is used instead for the highest quality electrical devices.
Basilica - Fresco (1771) by Johann Baptist Wenzel Bergl showing the transfer of the Ark of the Covenant by king David to Mount Sion. (Wolfgang Sauber/CC BY-SA 3.0)
As for the voice of Yahweh coming through the Ark, we might theorize that some sort of radio or cell phone transmission was coming through the Ark, and this was therefore part of the electrical device carried inside the chest. On the other hand, the supposed communication between Moses and Yahweh through the Ark may well have been fabricated by Moses to impose the will of YHWH on the great host of the Israelites, a de facto army marching around the Sinai and northwestern Arabia for decades. It would seem that the Ark was more of an energy device than a communication device, so we will focus on this aspect of the puzzle that is the Ark of the Covenant.
