It has been known since that time where the Arc of the Covenant is. Some of the exiles heard from the Levites the story which was true that it has been hidden in a chamber in the Temple. That is where it was during the destruction, when the King and the Princes dug through the wall and escaped, before Nebuchadnezzar passed judgment on them at Riblah.
The Covenant had been broken by the Israelites of Samaria in the north and broken by the Judahites of Judah in the south by their whoring and prostituting after other religions. What has been persecuted since Moses was reinstalled by Solomon.
At Israel, Jeroboam, made the people to sin, by building the golden calf to worship, unless the people rejected him and returned to Jerusalem to worship God under Rehoboam of the Canaanitish woman wed to Solomon.
The Prophet Jeremiah was commissioned to tear down, to plant and to build. The world had been torn down and would be weighed, divided and scattered at Babylon for the coming of Cyrus the mule, the offspring of the Medes and Persian wedding. Jeremiah though would be ordered by God to remove the Arc and it's contents from the Temple chamber when he was set at liberty by the Babylonians under Nebuzardan, commander of Nebuchanezzar's forces.
Here the Prophet Jeremiah took from Jerusalem's rubble, thee Arc of the Covenant, the contents, the tent and the Altar of Incense.
The Prophet Jeremiah ordered the people to take that fire, naphtha, with them and to remember the Law and not be seduced by the gold and silver idols they would see in exile.
That Prophet, Jeremiah, took the Arc of the Covenant, the contents, the tent, the Altar of Incense and climbed the mountains to the east, to the place that Moses was shown the Promised Land, but could not enter due to the breach at Maribah when the people questioned God.
That Prophet, Jeremiah, went to the Abarim Mountains in Moab, in the children of Lot's daughter, and there at the place by Mt. Nebo, where Moses beheld the Promised Land, that Prophet, placed in a chamber in a cave there those things commissioned to him by God to be removed from the people as the divorce of the Fist Covenant was accomplished.
Some had followed the Prophet Jeremiah, but he chastised them and informed them that the Arc of the Covenant would not be revealed until the House of Israel and House of Judah were gathered again to the Promised Land, and then the Glory of the Lord would sanctify the place in a cloud as He did in the time of Moses and of Solomon dedicating the Temple.
That Prophet, Jeremiah, then with other Temple objects and Jacob's Pillar Stone, with the King's daughter went unto the exiles of Dan, who had taken ships in the exile and were planted by God in Ireland, for there in the Isles would God preserve Christ's Throne in David, until His return.
This is the story of the Arc, the New Covenant in Christ, and how that Arc was hidden away until the time foretold. Kept in the writings of the Maccabees and kept from the Protestants lest that Arc might become a temptation for them, like Rome with it's idols.
Become not the whore of babylon, lest you die too the worst death in divorced from the Second Covenant in Christ.
When His Advent comes, then will the Arc manifest.
Nethinim.
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