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[ Man Narrating ]
A biblical relic...
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with incredible powers-
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the power to harm...
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the power to kill...
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even the power to talk to God.
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The Ark of the Covenant- it's the ultimate
high technology device of its day.
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People were terrified
of this great and awesome Ark.
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Wherever it showed up,
people would all of a sudden die.
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[ Narrator]
But is this mysterious gold chest...
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truly of divine origin?
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Or might its powers come from some
even more otherworldly source?
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[ Man ]
It's a type of super weapon...
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that was being controlled or guided
from an extraterrestrial.
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[ Narrator]
Millions of people around the world...
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believe we have been visited
in the past...
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by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens
really help to shape our history?
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And if so, might the proof be found...
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inside the Ark of the Covenant?
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[ Narrator]
The West Bank. July 2013.
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Ten miles north
of the Israeli settlement of Beit El...
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archaeologists unearth
clay pots, stoves...
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and a portion of a wall
dating back to around 1300 B.C.
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But the most mundane
of their findings here...
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may also be the most significant-
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holes carved
into the solid rock ground.
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Based on the location
and the date of the artifacts...
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they believe these holes
may have once held...
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the wooden beams used
to support the tabernacle at Shiloh.
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If true, it is the first physical evidence
ever discovered...
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of the ancient sanctuary
built to house...
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what is perhaps the most mysterious
religious relic in the world-
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the Ark of the Covenant.
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The story of the Ark of the Covenant...
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is one of the most fascinating
and unexplored stories of the Bible.
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The Ark of the Covenant
had some very mysterious powers.
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[ Man ] The Ark of the Covenant was what
took me out of mainstream journalism.
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I began to wonder,
what- what could this thing have been?
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[ Narrator] Reproductions
of the Ark of the Covenant...
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can be found in churches,
synagogues and Masonic temples...
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throughout the world.
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It has even been featured
in popular culture.
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But just what is
the Ark of the Covenant?
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Mount Sinai.
The 15th century B.C.
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According to
the Bible's Book of Exodus...
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after the Israelites
were released from Egypt...
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God summoned Moses
to the peak of this holy mountain...
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and gave him two stone tablets...
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carved with the Ten Commandments.
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He also gave him
specific instructions...
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for building the Ark of the Covenant.
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It was the box that was constructed
to contain...
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the two tablets
of the Ten Commandments...
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which were irradiated
with divine power...
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because they had been touched
by the finger of God.
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The covenant itself was a contract
between God and the Israelites-
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"I will be your God and protect you...
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provided you keep my commandments."
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Israel's end of the deal, then,
was going to be kept in the box...
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which is the Ark itself.
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[ Narrator]
But the Ark of the Covenant...
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didn't only carry
the Ten Commandments.
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It was also said to be
the throne of God himself.
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In the Book of Exodus,
in the 25th chapter...
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the verse is very clear.
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God says to Moses-
[ Speaking Hebrew ]
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"Have them make me a holy place...
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and I, God- I will dwell among them."
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And wherever the Ark went,
that power of God went with them.
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The Ark is built...
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in a reflection...
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of what's called a "heavenly ark."
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It was built two-and-a-half cubits
by one-and-a-half cubits...
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by one-and-a-half cubits.
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So the Ark would have been
somewhere in the ballpark...
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of about a three-by-five foot
rectangular box.
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[ Downing ] It was going to be covered
with gold on the outside and the inside.
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And it was to have two gold rings
in each of the four corners.
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And it was carried with poles
that were run through the rings.
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And the orders were
that, uh, the poles...
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should never be removed
from the rings.
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And the lid
was to be made out of gold...
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and on each end of the lid
were to be...
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cherubim or guardian angels,
basically, with wings.
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[ Narrator]
But why was it so important...
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that the Ark be constructed
to such exact specifications?
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And why would God,
a spiritual being...
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require a physical throne
here on Earth?
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Perhaps there is an answer
in the Bible's description of Moses...
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after he returned from Mount Sinai.
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[ Tzadok ] After Moses
came down from Mount Sinai...
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he was glowing, the Bible says...
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that he had to wear a scarf
over his face.
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[ Tsoukalos ]
I am fascinated with the idea...
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that Moses, all of a sudden,
his appearance changed.
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And so, the idea that Moses,
all of a sudden, looked different...
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we have to ask ourselves, why?
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[ Narrator] Just what did Moses
encounter on Mount Sinai?
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Was it God?
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Or was it someone
or something else?
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[ Tzadok ] God is clearly
an entity not of this earth...
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and by definition, therefore,
an extraterrestrial.
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Where does he come from?
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We must recognize that when
the ancients are speaking about God...
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there is no other term
that we can use...
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to describe these experiences
other than "extraterrestrial."
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[ Narrator]
After the Ark was built...
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and the Ten Commandments
placed within it...
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the Israelites carried it with them...
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on their 40-year exodus
through the desert.
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The Ark of the Covenant
was considered powerful...
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because it was the meeting place
of God and humanity.
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And so, it had to be carried on poles
so that it could be conveyed...
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without being touched.
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Certain people
were allowed to carry it...
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and those people
were ordained priests.
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Aaron, Moses' brother,
and his sons were certainly priests.
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It was a prestigious job.
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But you had to know
what you were doing.
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[ Downing ] Now, the Ark would be covered
while they're carrying it, with a cloth...
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so that they really couldn't see
what they were carrying.
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And they were given strict orders
that they should not lift up the cloth...
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and look at the Ark
and try to see it.
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[ Narrator] But why was the Ark
considered so dangerous...
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that it couldn't be touched
or even looked at?
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According to
the Old Testament accounts...
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the Ark of the Covenant was not only
a powerful device on its own.
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It also housed a number
of other important religious relics.
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In addition to
the Ten Commandments...
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it held Aaron's rod...
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the staff that could miraculously
turn into a serpent.
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It also held a jar of manna...
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an edible starch which, reportedly,
came from the sky.
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What we begin to realize
is that the Ark of the Covenant...
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was a sort of tool kit.
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And once this tool kit was assembled...
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we have the fully functioning
Ark of the Covenant.
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The Ark went before them
in the wilderness...
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and made sure the place
where the children of Israel were to go...
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would be safe and able
to provide for them in the desert.
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Anybody who's been
to the Sinai Desert...
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you could hardly imagine
two to three million people...
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having any kind of sustenance
in a desert.
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So therefore, what the Ark
must have accomplished...
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was profound.
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[ Narrator] The Ark of the Covenant
was said to have protected...
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and provided for the Israelites
during the Exodus.
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But how?
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[ Tsoukalos ] What we can read in the Bible
is that they were sustained...
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by something called manna.
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And the big question is,
where did this manna come from?
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Well, two engineers by the name
of Rodney Dale and George Sassoon...
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in the 1970s proposed...
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that the Ark of the Covenant...
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was nothing else but a container...
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in which to store what they referred to
as the Manna Machine.
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The Manna Machine
was a nuclear-driven device...
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that dispensed food, or manna,
to the Israelites.
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[ Man ] The Ark of the Covenant
is such a mystery.
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It could actually create food,
supposedly...
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the manna that they were eating.
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It's like some kind of, uh...
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super engineering,
duplicating energy machine.
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[ Tsoukalos ]
We have a concise description of it...
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in the ancient Jewish text
of the Zohar...
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which is a part of the Kabbala...
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where they describe
the Ancient of Days.
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But in reality, "the Ancient of Days"
is a mistranslation.
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The correct translation is...
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"the transportable one with the tanks."
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Since when is God transportable...
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and why does he need tanks?
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So in the Zohar...
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we have concise descriptions
not of God...
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but some type of a machine.
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[ Narrator] Did the Ark of the Covenant
really house a machine...
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that provided food to the Israelites...
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during their 40 years in the desert?
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According to
ancient astronaut theorists...
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and many religious scholars...
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the answer is yes.
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But that wasn't the only power
the Ark possessed.
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For as the Ark could sustain life...
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it could also destroy it.
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[ Narrator]
The Jordan River.
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A 200-mile border...
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separating the present-day
kingdom of Jordan...
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from Israel and the West Bank.
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In 1400 B.C....
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this waterway represented
one of the final obstacles...
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to the wandering Israelites'
long-awaited entrance...
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into the Promised Land.
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[ Downing ] The Ark of the Covenant
comes into its own...
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when Joshua was given the task
of, uh, leading Israel...
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across the Jordan River.
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And the story
is that the Ark of the Covenant...
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would go first and be carried
into the Jordan River.
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The water would stop flowing.
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Some energy came forth from the Ark...
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causing the waters to literally stop...
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and ascend...
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and therefore creating dry land...
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for the entire children of Israel
to pass on off into the holy land.
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[ Narrator]
But if this biblical story is true...
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what kind of power could
the Ark of the Covenant have possessed...
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that would cause a raging river
to stand still?
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What if the people
who wrote these stories...
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were simply reporting on
what they were actually seeing?
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If that's true,
then the Ark of the Covenant...
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clearly represents a technology...
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that is more advanced
than anything we have now.
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If you want to part water...
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maybe a good way to do it
would be with high-speed winds.
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If you blow enough air,
you can get the water out of the way...
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and you can actually maybe even
form those two walls of water.
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[ Childress ] There's some kind
of technology that they're using...
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and it's so that they
can accomplish their goals...
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and continue on their journey...
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and they're able to use
this extraterrestrial technology to do it.
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[ Narrator] According to
the Bible's Book of Joshua...
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the Ark of the Covenant
once again proved a powerful ally...
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when the Israelites arrived
on the western banks of the Jordan River...
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set on conquering the seemingly
impenetrable walled city of Jericho.
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The reputation of the Israelites
preceded them.
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People were terrified.
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They have heard the rumors of the power
of this great and awesome Ark.
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They now come to the city of Jericho.
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The people were commanded by God,
march around the city walls.
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They march around the city once
on the first day.
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The next day,
they do the very same thing.
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The third, fourth, fifth and the sixth day
is the same thing.
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On the seventh day,
they march around...
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and then they blow the trumpets
and all the people shout.
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[ Tzadok ]
Between the marching of the feet...
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the sounding of the rams' horns,
the shofar...
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and with some power not described
from the Ark...
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enabled the big, stone mighty walls
of the city of Jericho...
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to somehow be vibrated
with a earthquake-type force...
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which caused them to collapse.
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When I hear that they had to walk
around Jericho seven times...
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and then the trumpets were the ones...
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that allowed for those walls
to crumble...
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one would have to ask yourselves,
"Was there something else to it?"
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[ Dennin ] Knocking something down
like a wall with pressure...
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is not inconceivable.
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So you could imagine
trying to do this.
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Now, when you look at things, think
of standard examples that we experience.
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When the space shuttle lands,
we get the sonic boom...
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and you can feel it rattling the walls,
and you can actually hear it.
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That's far away.
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Imagine getting a sonic boom
closer to the object.
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You might be able to do
significant damage to the wall.
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[ Narrator] Could the Israelites
actually have witnessed...
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an advanced technology...
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beyond even
our own modern capabilities...
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a machine that could
instantly part waters...
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and bring down stone walls?
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Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe...
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the best evidence
that the Ark of the Covenant...
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may have held alien technology...
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can be found by studying events...
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that took place 300 years
after the sacking of Jericho...
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when the Ark was stolen.
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According to the Book of Samuel...
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when the Israelites went to battle
with the mighty Philistine army...
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around 1100 B.C....
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they brought out the Ark of the Covenant
to aid them once again.
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But God had not given them
instructions to do so.
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Angered by their presumption...
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that they could use the Ark
as a weapon without his orders...
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he awarded victory to the Philistines...
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who captured it as a trophy.
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The Bible records very strange things
then started to happen.
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Death, sickness
broke out amongst the Philistines.
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Now, in ancient times,
they had no understanding of energy...
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or what we would maybe consider
something similar to a radioactive sickness.
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They considered this
to be displeasure of the god.
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They placed the Ark next to a statue
of one of their gods, Dagon.
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And they leave,
and when they come back...
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they see that Dagon's head
has been decapitated...
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and his hands have been taken off.
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So they say,
"We gotta get rid of this thing."
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[ Downing ] And so they loaded
the Ark of the Covenant on a cart...
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and sent it off in the direction...
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of an Israeli village
called Beth Shemish.
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Then, of course, everyone
ran up to look at the Ark.
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And as a result, the Bible says...
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70 men died
when they looked at the Ark.
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For those who have been fans
of Raiders of the Lost Ark...
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and remember the last scene
when Indy is shouting...
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"Don't look, don't look, don't look"...
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that's where that story comes from.
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[ Narrator] The Old Testament
contains numerous other examples...
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of the Ark's devastating powers...
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and ultimately depicts it
as a deadly device...
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capable of striking down anyone
who does not follow God's rules.
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[ Tzadok ] When Aaron,
who was the high priest...
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his two sons approached
to give an offering...
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it's stated that literally
two beams of fire...
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came forth from the Ark
and went up their nostrils...
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and burnt them from the inside...
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leaving their entire outsides intact.
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[ Narrator]
Beams of fire?
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Burning people from inside?
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Why would an instrument of God
contain such deadly powers?
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If the Ark of the Covenant
was truly divine...
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why would it strike down two people...
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who were simply trying
to make an offering?
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[ Tsoukalos ]
Wherever it showed up...
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people would all of a sudden die.
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In my opinion,
it was a storage container...
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that housed some type
of a nuclear device.
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And having a nuclear device...
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in the hands of a technologically
primitive society...
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would result in people dying
left and right.
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Naturally, people would refer to that
as the wrath of God...
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when in reality, it's nothing else
but the wrath of atomic power.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible,
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest...
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that the Ark of the Covenant
actually contained a nuclear device?
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One that was brought to Earth
not by God...
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but by visitors from another planet?
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[ Martell ] It's possible
that the Ark of the Covenant...
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was some type of super weapon
that was being controlled or guided...
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from an extraterrestrial.
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[ Narrator]
Was the Ark of the Covenant...
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actually a sophisticated,
high-tech device...
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that was so advanced
that the ancient Israelites...
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were unable to control it?
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Perhaps.
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But of all the Ark's alleged powers...
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there was one
that was the most incredible-
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its ability to communicate
directly with God.
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[ Narrator]
Petra, Jordan.
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At the summit of Jebel Haroun...
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a small white dome
marks the tomb of Aaron...
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the brother of Moses.
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According to the Hebrew Bible...
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Aaron was chosen by God to be
the first high priest of the Israelites...
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a title that came with
enormous responsibility.
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[ Feinstein ] Aaron, Moses' brother,
served as priest of the people.
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And then following Aaron,
the line of the priests followed his genealogy.
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They were the ones
designated to carry the Ark...
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and they were the ones
permitted to come close to it in worship.
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[ Carter ] The attire of the priests
was beautiful...
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but it was also there
for their protection.
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They had to wear a miter.
They wore a breastplate.
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They had to wear a long robe.
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They had to keep certain areas
of the body protected-
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the head, the lungs,
the heart, the genital area.
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[ Tzadok ] The high priest
would have to have these on...
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to approach the Ark.
353
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And when he approached the Ark,
he had to have a rope tied around his leg.
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Why?
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So if and when something
ever went wrong...
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and the Ark struck him or he died...
357
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no one would be allowed
to go in to retrieve his body...
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'cause they would suffer
the same fate.
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[ Feinstein ] On top of the Ark
were the figures of two angels.
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And it was said in the Bible...
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that God's presence came to rest
in the tiny space between them.
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That was the place
where heaven and earth touched.
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[ Narrator] The space between
the angels on the lid of the Ark...
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was known as the Mercy Seat...
365
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upon which the image of God
would allegedly sit...
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when communicating
with a Levite priest.
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But did the Israelites really witness...
368
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an otherworldly presence
between the two angels?
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And if so,
was it literally the image of God...
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or something else?
371
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Based on the numerous accounts
of the Ark's awesome power...
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some ancient astronaut theorists
have proposed...
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that it may have been
an electrical capacitor...
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a device used for storing
and transmitting energy.
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Some of the stories that have come out
of history about the Ark of the Covenant-
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that it erupted in sparks and flames...
377
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and people would touch it
and die instantly...
378
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or that it leveled cities-
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And many people have theorized
that this is some type...
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of actual large energy capacitor.
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"Capacitor" is exactly
the right word to use.
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It relies on static electricity.
It's the simplest device.
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You just need two conductors
with an insulator between them.
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You've got the outer gold,
a very nice conductor...
385
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and then if you open this up
and look to the inside...
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you'll see a second electrode.
387
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So what that's gonna look like, okay-
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You have the outer side of your Ark.
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That's gonna, say, charge positive.
390
00:24:57,414 --> 00:25:00,667
Then you have your inner wall of the Ark
coated in gold.
391
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And then you have
an insulator in between-
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That's just the wood
you make the Ark out of.
393
00:25:05,255 --> 00:25:08,133
Now what you got to do
is get negative charges...
394
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here on the inner side.
395
00:25:10,093 --> 00:25:13,763
And the question is: How do I get
my positive and negative charges...
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onto my Ark?
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00:25:15,432 --> 00:25:17,100
This is where the cherubs come in.
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You have one sitting on top here
that's attached to the outer side.
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And you can put charge on it
and get your positive charge.
400
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The other cherub
is going to be sitting here.
401
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It won't be connected
to the outer layer...
402
00:25:28,653 --> 00:25:31,698
but it'll come in from a rod
and connect to the inner side.
403
00:25:31,781 --> 00:25:34,201
And this is where
we'll put our negative charge.
404
00:25:34,284 --> 00:25:36,703
So what that looks like
over here at the Ark...
405
00:25:36,786 --> 00:25:40,040
is this cherub will not actually
be attached to the outer conductor.
406
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There'll be an insulator there.
407
00:25:41,958 --> 00:25:45,212
Then it can have a rod that goes through
and attaches to the inner conductor.
408
00:25:45,295 --> 00:25:47,881
Now, the Israelites claimed
to have actually been able...
409
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to see the presence of God
between the two cherubs...
410
00:25:51,468 --> 00:25:53,220
a representation of God.
411
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Now, if they weren't actually seeing
a representation of God...
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could this arc of energy have been...
413
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some type of other energy device
that they were seeing?
414
00:26:01,144 --> 00:26:03,772
So, when we're thinking about
the Israelites seeing the image of God...
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00:26:03,855 --> 00:26:05,565
between the two cherub wings...
416
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one of the things to keep in mind,
I think...
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is how the image of God
was often described.
418
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We have smoke, fire.
419
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There's very rarely an actual,
like, visual picture of a person.
420
00:26:15,533 --> 00:26:18,870
And so if you picture
what arcs of electricity will be doing...
421
00:26:18,954 --> 00:26:20,914
there'll probably be a little bit of smoke...
422
00:26:20,997 --> 00:26:23,166
um, there will be the really bright light.
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There'll be a crackling noise.
424
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That could certainly be something that
would be interpreted as an image of God.
425
00:26:31,341 --> 00:26:35,428
[ Narrator] Is it possible that accounts
of God's presence atop the Ark...
426
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were actually describing
electrical discharge?
427
00:26:41,518 --> 00:26:45,105
And if so, might someone...
or something...
428
00:26:45,188 --> 00:26:49,150
have been sending electrical signals
through the Ark of the Covenant...
429
00:26:49,234 --> 00:26:51,861
to communicate with the Israelites?
430
00:26:53,238 --> 00:26:57,826
Ancient astronaut theorists believe
such a notion is not only possible...
431
00:26:57,909 --> 00:27:00,620
but all the more plausible...
432
00:27:00,704 --> 00:27:03,957
given the biblical descriptions
of a device known...
433
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,584
as "the breastplate of judgment."
434
00:27:07,544 --> 00:27:09,462
According to the Book of Exodus...
435
00:27:09,546 --> 00:27:13,133
it was worn by the priests
when entering the tabernacle...
436
00:27:13,216 --> 00:27:16,177
and was adorned
with 12 sacred gemstones...
437
00:27:16,261 --> 00:27:18,805
called "the stones of fire "...
438
00:27:18,888 --> 00:27:22,309
which represented
the 12 tribes of Israel.
439
00:27:24,060 --> 00:27:29,149
And according to detailed accounts
from sacred texts known as the Talmud...
440
00:27:29,232 --> 00:27:31,693
these gemstones
played an important role...
441
00:27:31,776 --> 00:27:34,904
when communicating with God
through the Ark.
442
00:27:36,323 --> 00:27:39,326
Somehow there would be
a pulsating sound...
443
00:27:39,409 --> 00:27:42,620
emanating from on top
of the cherubim.
444
00:27:44,331 --> 00:27:47,667
And these pulsating,
high-pitched sounds...
445
00:27:47,751 --> 00:27:52,088
would cause a vibration
in the stones on his breastplate.
446
00:27:53,214 --> 00:27:56,051
The stones
would actually start to light up.
447
00:28:01,097 --> 00:28:06,061
There seems to be a very complex,
but very specific code happening here...
448
00:28:07,270 --> 00:28:09,856
that God is communicating through.
449
00:28:11,107 --> 00:28:13,360
It was like some
extraterrestrial Morse code...
450
00:28:13,443 --> 00:28:16,321
that was being received
from the Ark of the Covenant.
451
00:28:19,449 --> 00:28:23,161
[ Narrator]
Jerusalem. 995 B.C.
452
00:28:26,039 --> 00:28:30,460
Nearly a century after the Philistines
returned the Ark to Judah...
453
00:28:30,543 --> 00:28:33,838
King David transports it
to the capital city...
454
00:28:33,922 --> 00:28:37,884
with plans to build an enormous temple
in order to house it.
455
00:28:40,845 --> 00:28:44,891
It's Solomon, David's son,
who built the temple of Jerusalem...
456
00:28:44,974 --> 00:28:48,478
and installed the Ark
in the inner sanctum...
457
00:28:48,561 --> 00:28:50,563
the Holy of Holies.
458
00:28:52,899 --> 00:28:56,611
[ Narrator] Once installed
in the temple in 955 B.C....
459
00:28:56,694 --> 00:28:59,656
the mysterious Ark
continued to serve the Israelites...
460
00:28:59,739 --> 00:29:02,200
for another
three and a half centuries...
461
00:29:04,369 --> 00:29:06,329
until, suddenly...
462
00:29:07,330 --> 00:29:09,666
it vanishes from history.
463
00:29:11,209 --> 00:29:14,379
Book of Kings describes
the destruction of the city of Jerusalem.
464
00:29:15,171 --> 00:29:18,091
Says nothing about the Ark.
465
00:29:18,174 --> 00:29:20,552
It disappears
from the literary history...
466
00:29:20,635 --> 00:29:23,721
in the same way that it disappeared
from material history.
467
00:29:25,306 --> 00:29:27,016
[ Narrator]
But what happened to it?
468
00:29:27,851 --> 00:29:30,353
Was it stolen, destroyed?
469
00:29:31,521 --> 00:29:33,731
Or was it deliberately hidden?
470
00:29:35,525 --> 00:29:38,820
There are those who believe
they know the answer...
471
00:29:38,903 --> 00:29:42,240
and that not only
does the Ark still exist...
472
00:29:42,323 --> 00:29:44,451
but they are confident...
473
00:29:44,534 --> 00:29:46,870
it will return.
474
00:29:56,129 --> 00:29:58,756
[ Narrator]
Mount Tsurugi, Japan.
475
00:30:00,091 --> 00:30:03,970
Every year, Shinto worshippers
ascend this mountain...
476
00:30:04,053 --> 00:30:06,598
6, 000 miles
from the Jewish holy land.
477
00:30:08,224 --> 00:30:11,436
They carry an elaborate,
gold-clad chest...
478
00:30:11,519 --> 00:30:16,524
that, like the Ark of the Covenant,
is believed to contain the spirit of God.
479
00:30:18,401 --> 00:30:22,697
Scholars in Japan
look at the Old Testament.
480
00:30:23,823 --> 00:30:27,827
They also look at the kind of mythical
foundational texts of Japan...
481
00:30:27,911 --> 00:30:29,787
like the Kojiki...
482
00:30:29,871 --> 00:30:31,956
and see certain similarities.
483
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:35,585
And they like to think
that these similarities...
484
00:30:35,668 --> 00:30:40,006
aren't just coincidences,
but actually suggest ancient connections.
485
00:30:40,924 --> 00:30:42,675
Part of this theory...
486
00:30:42,759 --> 00:30:47,013
is that these lost tribes of Israel
brought the Ark to Japan...
487
00:30:47,096 --> 00:30:50,850
and it ended up at a sacred peak,
Mount Tsurugi...
488
00:30:50,934 --> 00:30:55,605
and it lays hidden in the limestone caves
underneath it.
489
00:30:59,943 --> 00:31:03,780
[ Narrator] Could the Ark of the Covenant
really be hidden in Japan?
490
00:31:04,989 --> 00:31:07,742
And might this explain
why Shinto worshippers...
491
00:31:07,825 --> 00:31:10,703
perform a ritual
that's eerily reminiscent...
492
00:31:10,787 --> 00:31:14,791
of the ancient Israelites
carrying the Ark through the desert?
493
00:31:17,669 --> 00:31:21,256
One Japanese historian
named Takane Masanori...
494
00:31:21,339 --> 00:31:24,050
was so confident
that the Ark of the Covenant...
495
00:31:24,133 --> 00:31:26,135
was hidden in Mount Tsurugi...
496
00:31:26,219 --> 00:31:30,932
he actually performed excavations
of the mountain in the 1930s.
497
00:31:32,684 --> 00:31:35,603
[ Young ]
Excavations were started in 1936...
498
00:31:35,687 --> 00:31:39,399
on the peak, or near the peak,
of Mount Tsurugi...
499
00:31:39,482 --> 00:31:42,527
and this research went on
for some decades.
500
00:31:42,610 --> 00:31:44,737
And then it was all shut down...
501
00:31:44,821 --> 00:31:48,366
and the area is now a national park,
so further research is banned...
502
00:31:48,449 --> 00:31:51,619
for environmental reasons,
so we won't know.
503
00:31:52,996 --> 00:31:55,957
The Ark of the Covenant
has not been found in Japan...
504
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,376
but the legend continues.
505
00:32:01,588 --> 00:32:04,424
[ Narrator] Is it possible
that a lost tribe of Israel...
506
00:32:04,507 --> 00:32:08,344
made their way thousands of miles
across the Asian continent...
507
00:32:08,428 --> 00:32:10,888
and brought the Ark to Japan?
508
00:32:12,056 --> 00:32:14,767
It is just one theory out of many.
509
00:32:17,061 --> 00:32:19,439
Some biblical scholars suggest...
510
00:32:19,522 --> 00:32:21,441
that Israel's high priests...
511
00:32:21,524 --> 00:32:24,110
anticipating the destruction
of the city...
512
00:32:24,193 --> 00:32:27,864
stashed the Ark deep in a cave
under Jerusalem's Temple Mount...
513
00:32:27,947 --> 00:32:29,866
for protection.
514
00:32:32,410 --> 00:32:35,163
It is also believed
that centuries later...
515
00:32:35,246 --> 00:32:37,624
the Ark was discovered
in its hiding place...
516
00:32:37,707 --> 00:32:42,045
and was taken away to safety by a group
known as the Knights Templar.
517
00:32:44,505 --> 00:32:47,008
[ Phillips ]
The Knights Templar were monks...
518
00:32:47,091 --> 00:32:51,304
who were trained to fight as soldiers
in the holy land during the Crusade...
519
00:32:51,387 --> 00:32:55,350
from the 1100s up until the 1300s.
520
00:32:57,602 --> 00:32:59,646
They discovered a great treasure.
521
00:32:59,729 --> 00:33:02,482
They, themselves, describe it
as a great biblical treasure.
522
00:33:04,692 --> 00:33:06,653
[ Coppens ] There are certainly legends
throughout Europe...
523
00:33:06,736 --> 00:33:10,823
and specifically France,
of where the Ark of the Covenant ended up.
524
00:33:10,907 --> 00:33:13,951
Some say it was buried
beneath Chartres Cathedral in the crypt.
525
00:33:14,035 --> 00:33:17,246
Some say it was buried in the Languedoc
region near Rennes-le-Château.
526
00:33:18,915 --> 00:33:22,919
And we know that the Nazis
excavated in depth in these mountains...
527
00:33:23,002 --> 00:33:25,004
looking for the Ark of the Covenant.
528
00:33:26,673 --> 00:33:28,549
[ Narrator]
But some believe the Ark's journey...
529
00:33:28,633 --> 00:33:30,593
didn't end in France...
530
00:33:30,677 --> 00:33:34,347
and that, eventually, it was taken
even further to the north.
531
00:33:35,556 --> 00:33:38,559
[ Bara ] There's been a rumor for years
that the Templar treasure...
532
00:33:38,643 --> 00:33:41,562
was actually taken through France
by the Templars.
533
00:33:41,646 --> 00:33:45,191
And the story goes that it was then taken
to Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland...
534
00:33:45,274 --> 00:33:47,276
for safekeeping.
535
00:33:48,361 --> 00:33:50,071
[ Narrator]
Could the Ark of the Covenant...
536
00:33:50,154 --> 00:33:53,157
still be hidden somewhere
in Rosslyn Chapel?
537
00:33:54,283 --> 00:33:58,413
Or might it have been, as some
ancient astronaut theorists suggest...
538
00:33:58,496 --> 00:34:01,207
taken far away to North America...
539
00:34:03,292 --> 00:34:08,256
where it was hidden deep underground
and still lies buried?
540
00:34:08,339 --> 00:34:09,924
Perhaps.
541
00:34:10,007 --> 00:34:13,845
But there are those who believe
that the Ark isn't hidden at all.
542
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:19,225
They claim its whereabouts
have been well-known...
543
00:34:19,308 --> 00:34:22,478
and well-guarded
for hundreds of years.
544
00:34:25,732 --> 00:34:27,817
Aksum, Ethiopia.
545
00:34:27,900 --> 00:34:30,486
The Church of St. Mary of Zion.
546
00:34:31,571 --> 00:34:35,408
A solitary monk,
who is not allowed to leave the grounds...
547
00:34:35,491 --> 00:34:38,995
is charged with guarding
the church's holiest relic.
548
00:34:40,830 --> 00:34:43,624
It is a job he has devoted his life to...
549
00:34:43,708 --> 00:34:46,544
and one he will keep until his death.
550
00:34:49,380 --> 00:34:51,048
[ Hancock ]
There's a cathedral there...
551
00:34:51,132 --> 00:34:54,093
called the Cathedral
of St. Mary of Zion.
552
00:34:54,177 --> 00:34:58,097
And I started talking to the monk
who guarded the chapel.
553
00:34:58,181 --> 00:35:01,309
And he told me
that lying in that chapel...
554
00:35:01,392 --> 00:35:04,520
was the true, the original
Ark of the Covenant.
555
00:35:05,521 --> 00:35:08,775
Now, at first, it seemed to me
like an incredibly tall story.
556
00:35:08,858 --> 00:35:11,319
But as I began to look into it,
I realized...
557
00:35:11,402 --> 00:35:14,197
that there was something
to the Ethiopian claim.
558
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:19,118
For example, why was there
an ancient Jewish population in Ethiopia?
559
00:35:19,202 --> 00:35:22,955
It was like they were frozen in amber
from an earlier time...
560
00:35:23,039 --> 00:35:24,957
and caught in Ethiopia.
561
00:35:25,041 --> 00:35:29,629
And I got to know a succession
of three different guardians of the Ark.
562
00:35:29,712 --> 00:35:32,465
Once appointed as guardian,
they have a very short life span.
563
00:35:32,548 --> 00:35:34,050
They die very quickly.
564
00:35:34,133 --> 00:35:37,720
And one of them in particular
pointed to the issue of his eyes to me...
565
00:35:37,804 --> 00:35:40,515
and the way that the cataracts
were creeping over his eyes.
566
00:35:40,598 --> 00:35:42,600
And I said, "What is causing that?"
567
00:35:42,683 --> 00:35:45,812
And he said, "It's the Ark of the Covenant
that's causing that."
568
00:35:47,772 --> 00:35:50,191
He said, "The Ark is a thing of fire."
569
00:35:51,526 --> 00:35:54,612
And there was such truth
and power in his words...
570
00:35:54,695 --> 00:35:57,073
that I began to feel very strongly...
571
00:35:57,156 --> 00:36:00,326
that the Ethiopians
could indeed have this object.
572
00:36:05,248 --> 00:36:10,670
[ Narrator] Could the Ark of the Covenant
really reside in a church in Ethiopia...
573
00:36:10,753 --> 00:36:15,591
in a location so publicly known
and so modestly protected?
574
00:36:16,634 --> 00:36:19,720
If so, why has there been no proof?
575
00:36:20,429 --> 00:36:22,849
Is it an elaborate hoax?
576
00:36:22,932 --> 00:36:26,102
Or is there perhaps another reason?
577
00:36:26,936 --> 00:36:30,523
And could that reason be based on
one of the other audacious theories...
578
00:36:30,606 --> 00:36:32,567
concerning the Ark-
579
00:36:32,650 --> 00:36:35,236
that there are more than one of them?
580
00:36:37,238 --> 00:36:41,325
[ Tzadok ] The Torah speaks
that there were actually two Arks.
581
00:36:41,409 --> 00:36:44,161
There was one ark,
which was built by Moses...
582
00:36:44,245 --> 00:36:47,540
when he first came down
from Mount Sinai.
583
00:36:47,623 --> 00:36:50,501
And only later do we find
in the Book of Exodus...
584
00:36:50,585 --> 00:36:54,922
was the commandment given
for an ark to be built by Bezalel.
585
00:36:55,006 --> 00:36:57,842
That was the ark
that stayed in the tabernacle.
586
00:37:00,761 --> 00:37:03,806
[ Narrator] If the Ark really
was a technological device...
587
00:37:03,890 --> 00:37:07,351
as ancient astronaut theorists believe...
588
00:37:07,435 --> 00:37:10,271
might there really have been
more than one of them?
589
00:37:11,272 --> 00:37:15,192
And if so, might the various myths
and legends about the Ark...
590
00:37:15,276 --> 00:37:18,404
and its whereabouts
all be plausible?
591
00:37:18,487 --> 00:37:19,989
Perhaps.
592
00:37:20,072 --> 00:37:22,241
But whether there is one Ark or many...
593
00:37:22,325 --> 00:37:25,202
two other important questions remain:
594
00:37:25,286 --> 00:37:27,872
What was the Ark's true purpose?
595
00:37:29,498 --> 00:37:33,336
And what would happen
if it ever returned?
596
00:37:43,095 --> 00:37:45,765
[ Narrator]
The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem.
597
00:37:48,559 --> 00:37:52,563
This Islamic shrine
sits atop the Temple Mount...
598
00:37:52,647 --> 00:37:55,274
once the site
of King Solomon's temple...
599
00:37:55,358 --> 00:37:59,028
and the last known location
of the Ark of the Covenant.
600
00:38:01,697 --> 00:38:05,993
In 1981, a small team
of Israeli workmen...
601
00:38:06,077 --> 00:38:09,413
secretly tunneled
under this hotly disputed site.
602
00:38:12,124 --> 00:38:13,834
Rabbi Yehuda Getz...
603
00:38:13,918 --> 00:38:16,295
the preeminent rabbi
of the Western Wall...
604
00:38:16,379 --> 00:38:21,050
supervised the highly prohibited
and politically inflammatory excavation.
605
00:38:24,136 --> 00:38:25,638
There was a pretty big problem
with this...
606
00:38:25,721 --> 00:38:31,477
because that is the number one
sacred site for the Muslims as well...
607
00:38:31,560 --> 00:38:33,688
and these men believed
strongly enough...
608
00:38:33,771 --> 00:38:36,524
that the Ark of the Covenant
had been located there...
609
00:38:37,233 --> 00:38:39,986
that they were willing to take
such great risks...
610
00:38:40,069 --> 00:38:42,905
to try to locate
the Ark of the Covenant themselves.
611
00:38:44,073 --> 00:38:47,785
[ Narrator] When Arabs on the Mount
heard noises from the cistern below...
612
00:38:47,868 --> 00:38:50,913
they confronted the work crew...
613
00:38:50,997 --> 00:38:54,375
in what became
a dramatic subterranean standoff.
614
00:38:55,501 --> 00:38:57,712
Police separated the two sides...
615
00:38:57,795 --> 00:39:00,256
and ordered the tunnel
to be resealed.
616
00:39:02,466 --> 00:39:05,261
To his dying day,
Rabbi Getz believed...
617
00:39:05,344 --> 00:39:09,849
he was just 40 feet away from finding
the original Ark of the Covenant.
618
00:39:11,934 --> 00:39:15,187
But could such
an audacious claim be true?
619
00:39:15,271 --> 00:39:17,565
Might the Ark really still be located...
620
00:39:17,648 --> 00:39:20,484
where it was thousands of years ago...
621
00:39:20,568 --> 00:39:23,696
at the site of the Jews'
most sacred temple...
622
00:39:23,779 --> 00:39:26,490
one of the holiest places on Earth?
623
00:39:27,950 --> 00:39:33,122
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer may very well be yes.
624
00:39:34,623 --> 00:39:37,043
And for proof, they point to reports...
625
00:39:37,126 --> 00:39:40,963
of strange sightings over the Mount
in recent years.
626
00:39:42,131 --> 00:39:43,883
[ Voices Speaking Foreign Language ]
627
00:39:43,966 --> 00:39:48,596
In 2011, there was
a very sensational U.F.O. sighting...
628
00:39:48,679 --> 00:39:51,223
over the Dome of the Rock
in Jerusalem.
629
00:39:52,850 --> 00:39:56,604
[ Tzadok ] Many will call it a fraud.
Many will say it was not real.
630
00:39:56,687 --> 00:39:59,065
But it was witnessed
that a ball of light...
631
00:39:59,148 --> 00:40:02,193
came down over the Temple Mount-
632
00:40:03,903 --> 00:40:06,363
[ Man Speaking Foreign Language ]
633
00:40:09,575 --> 00:40:11,702
and just hovered there.
634
00:40:13,662 --> 00:40:15,706
And then all of a sudden...
635
00:40:15,790 --> 00:40:18,167
a pulsating light
went out from it- poof!
636
00:40:18,250 --> 00:40:19,585
[ Man ]
Whoa!
637
00:40:19,668 --> 00:40:21,212
And then it ascended back up.
638
00:40:23,672 --> 00:40:26,550
Some speculate
that this U.F.O. sighting...
639
00:40:26,634 --> 00:40:30,096
may have been energizing
the Ark of the Covenant...
640
00:40:30,179 --> 00:40:32,515
which is still there in Jerusalem.
641
00:40:37,478 --> 00:40:39,271
[ Narrator]
Could it be a mere coincidence...
642
00:40:39,355 --> 00:40:43,067
that the U.F.O. sightings occurred
over this particular site?
643
00:40:44,527 --> 00:40:48,280
Or could it be, as some
ancient astronaut theorists claim...
644
00:40:48,364 --> 00:40:52,284
merely the first in a series of events
concerning the Ark...
645
00:40:52,368 --> 00:40:57,164
that are, in fact, the fulfillment
of an ancient prophecy?
646
00:40:58,374 --> 00:41:01,794
[ Tzadok ] There's a very interesting
prophecy in the Book of Zechariah...
647
00:41:01,877 --> 00:41:06,465
that states that there's gonna be
a tremendous earthquake in Jerusalem.
648
00:41:06,549 --> 00:41:08,717
The Mount of Olives is to split.
649
00:41:10,511 --> 00:41:13,514
It is said that this earthquake
is to be caused...
650
00:41:13,597 --> 00:41:17,226
by some type of sonic vibration...
651
00:41:17,309 --> 00:41:19,937
created from under the earth...
652
00:41:20,020 --> 00:41:24,233
and that the powers from under the earth
are then gonna arise out of this chasm...
653
00:41:24,316 --> 00:41:26,110
with the Ark.
654
00:41:27,736 --> 00:41:31,240
This is then considered to be
"A," the return of the Ark...
655
00:41:32,074 --> 00:41:35,244
and "B," the famous, of course,
coming of the Messiah.
656
00:41:37,246 --> 00:41:40,749
All three of the big three religions
have prophecies...
657
00:41:40,833 --> 00:41:44,628
about the end-time arrival
of a messianic figure.
658
00:41:46,630 --> 00:41:48,632
And what we're told
is that angels...
659
00:41:48,716 --> 00:41:51,760
will help bring the Ark of the Covenant
back to Earth.
660
00:41:53,721 --> 00:41:56,223
[ Narrator] Could the lights
seen over the Temple Mount...
661
00:41:56,307 --> 00:42:00,436
indicate that some sort of
extraterrestrial reactivation of the Ark...
662
00:42:00,519 --> 00:42:02,605
was taking place?
663
00:42:02,688 --> 00:42:08,068
And if so, might we be close to finally
rediscovering this ancient relic...
664
00:42:08,152 --> 00:42:11,614
and finding the source
of its incredible power?
665
00:42:13,782 --> 00:42:17,536
[ Tsoukalos ] If that device
were ever to be found...
666
00:42:17,620 --> 00:42:21,207
then that will forever change
the course of human history.
667
00:42:22,082 --> 00:42:24,335
Because if we look at our past...
668
00:42:24,418 --> 00:42:28,047
it already has changed
the course of human history.
669
00:42:30,132 --> 00:42:34,386
[ Bara ] If the Ark could be found
and if it could be retrieved...
670
00:42:34,470 --> 00:42:38,432
the possibility exists that its technology
could be understood...
671
00:42:38,515 --> 00:42:41,602
and exploited
and possibly even used...
672
00:42:41,685 --> 00:42:44,188
to reconnect
with whoever created it.
673
00:42:44,271 --> 00:42:47,066
If they were, in fact,
extraterrestrial beings...
674
00:42:47,149 --> 00:42:50,986
then the reality is we might have
a direct phone line to the E.T.'s.
675
00:42:51,946 --> 00:42:54,240
We, as a culture, as a species-
676
00:42:54,323 --> 00:42:58,118
we seem to use most
of our technology for war.
677
00:42:58,202 --> 00:43:03,207
And so it would be like giving
a three-year-old a loaded gun.
678
00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:07,086
We can barely deal with
the technology that we have now...
679
00:43:07,169 --> 00:43:09,713
so maybe it's good
that, for now, it's hidden.
680
00:43:12,841 --> 00:43:14,760
[ Narrator]
Could the Ark of the Covenant...
681
00:43:14,843 --> 00:43:18,430
perhaps the most coveted
of the world's lost relics...
682
00:43:18,514 --> 00:43:23,519
really be the ultimate proof
of an ancient extraterrestrial encounter?
683
00:43:24,853 --> 00:43:27,147
If so, what was it?
684
00:43:27,856 --> 00:43:30,276
A sophisticated weapon?
685
00:43:30,359 --> 00:43:32,403
A communication device?
686
00:43:33,487 --> 00:43:35,489
A nuclear power source?
687
00:43:36,282 --> 00:43:39,576
Or was it something else entirely?
688
00:43:39,660 --> 00:43:42,121
Something beyond our comprehension?
689
00:43:43,038 --> 00:43:45,082
And if it is found...
690
00:43:45,165 --> 00:43:48,502
will it lead to mankind's destruction...
691
00:43:48,585 --> 00:43:52,131
or to a reunion
with our alien ancestors?
692
00:43:53,048 --> 00:43:55,134
One thing is certain-
693
00:43:55,217 --> 00:43:57,553
the search for the Ark will continue.
694
00:43:57,636 --> 00:44:00,931
And there are those
who believe it will be found...
695
00:44:01,724 --> 00:44:04,226
much sooner than we think.
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