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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:01,349 --> 00:00:05,153 A Biblical relic with incredible powers... 2 00:00:05,855 --> 00:00:12,025 the power to harm... the power to kill... 3 00:00:12,027 --> 00:00:16,298 even the power to talk to God. 4 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:18,501 The Ark of the Covenant, 5 00:00:17,803 --> 00:00:20,853 it's the ultimate high technology device of its day. 6 00:00:22,355 --> 00:00:24,939 People were terrified of this great and awesome Ark. 7 00:00:24,941 --> 00:00:31,345 Wherever it showed up, people would all of a sudden die. 8 00:00:31,347 --> 00:00:34,783 But is this mysterious gold chest truly of 9 00:00:34,785 --> 00:00:38,903 divine origin? Or might its power come from 10 00:00:38,905 --> 00:00:42,323 some even more otherworldly source? 11 00:00:42,325 --> 00:00:44,909 It's a type of super weapon that was being 12 00:00:44,911 --> 00:00:48,362 controlled or guided from an extraterrestrial. 13 00:00:48,364 --> 00:00:51,249 Millions of people around the world believe we have 14 00:00:51,251 --> 00:00:55,637 been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 15 00:00:55,639 --> 00:01:00,708 What if it were true? Did ancient aliens really help 16 00:01:00,710 --> 00:01:05,346 to shape our history? And if so, might the proof be 17 00:01:05,348 --> 00:01:09,818 found inside the Ark of the Covenant? 18 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:17,074 Advertise your product or brand here contact www.OpenSubtitles.org today 19 00:01:28,219 --> 00:01:31,219 corrections by bellows, sync by bjoernhund www.addic7ed.com 20 00:01:43,220 --> 00:01:47,220 The West Bank. July, 2013. 21 00:01:48,757 --> 00:01:51,926 Ten miles north of the Israeli settlement of Beit El, 22 00:01:51,928 --> 00:01:56,814 archaeologists unearth clay pots, stoves, and a portion 23 00:01:56,816 --> 00:02:02,403 of a wall dating back to around 1300 B.C. 24 00:02:03,405 --> 00:02:06,607 But the most mundane of their findings here may also be the 25 00:02:06,609 --> 00:02:13,681 holes carved into the solid rock ground. 26 00:02:13,683 --> 00:02:17,185 Based on the location and the date of the artifacts, they 27 00:02:17,187 --> 00:02:20,788 believe these holes may have once held the wooden beams used 28 00:02:20,790 --> 00:02:24,743 to support the Tabernacle at Shiloh. 29 00:02:25,145 --> 00:02:28,313 If true, it is the first physical evidence ever 30 00:02:28,315 --> 00:02:32,466 discovered of the ancient sanctuary built to house what is 31 00:02:32,468 --> 00:02:37,338 perhaps the most mysterious religious relic in the world: 32 00:02:38,540 --> 00:02:40,642 the Ark of the Covenant. 33 00:02:43,744 --> 00:02:44,745 The story of the Ark of the Covenant is one of 34 00:02:44,747 --> 00:02:50,468 the most fascinating and unexplored stories of the Bible. 35 00:02:51,170 --> 00:02:55,256 The Ark of the Covenant had some very mysterious powers. 36 00:02:56,458 --> 00:02:59,209 The Ark of the Covenant was what took me 37 00:02:59,211 --> 00:03:01,661 out of mainstream journalism. 38 00:03:01,663 --> 00:03:05,699 I began to wonder, what... what could this thing have been? 39 00:03:05,701 --> 00:03:08,802 Reproductions of the Ark of the Covenant can be 40 00:03:08,804 --> 00:03:14,840 found in churches, synagogues, and Masonic temples throughout the world. 41 00:03:16,542 --> 00:03:19,477 It has even been featured in popular culture. 42 00:03:20,679 --> 00:03:24,185 But just what is the Ark of the Covenant? 43 00:03:27,687 --> 00:03:31,959 Mount Sinai. The 15th century BC. 44 00:03:33,361 --> 00:03:37,413 According to the Bible's Book of Exodus, after the Israelites 45 00:03:37,415 --> 00:03:41,251 were released from Egypt, God summoned Moses to the peak of 46 00:03:41,253 --> 00:03:46,422 this holy mountain and gave him two stone tablets, carved with 47 00:03:46,424 --> 00:03:51,744 the Ten Commandments. He also gave him specific 48 00:03:51,746 --> 00:03:54,532 instructions for building the Ark of the Covenant. 49 00:03:55,934 --> 00:03:58,017 It was the box that was constructed to contain 50 00:03:58,019 --> 00:04:02,072 the two tablets of the Ten Commandments, which were 51 00:04:02,074 --> 00:04:06,159 irradiated with divine power because they had been touched by 52 00:04:06,161 --> 00:04:07,813 the finger of God. 53 00:04:09,915 --> 00:04:12,282 The covenant itself was a contract between 54 00:04:12,284 --> 00:04:17,236 "I will be your God and protect you, 55 00:04:17,238 --> 00:04:19,891 provided you keep my "commandments." 56 00:04:21,293 --> 00:04:25,628 Israel's end of the deal, then, was going to be kept in the box, 57 00:04:25,630 --> 00:04:27,931 which is the Ark itself. 58 00:04:31,533 --> 00:04:34,854 But the Ark of the Covenant didn't only carry the 59 00:04:34,856 --> 00:04:37,073 Ten Commandments. 60 00:04:37,075 --> 00:04:43,046 It was also said to be the throne of God himself. 61 00:04:43,048 --> 00:04:46,049 In the Book of Exodus, in the 25th chapter, 62 00:04:46,051 --> 00:04:49,302 the verse is very clear. God says to Moses, 63 00:04:49,304 --> 00:04:52,539 "V'Asu li mikdash v'shachanti b'tocham." 64 00:04:52,541 --> 00:04:54,206 "Have them make me a holy place" 65 00:04:54,208 --> 00:04:58,044 and I, God, I will dwell among "them." 66 00:04:58,046 --> 00:05:03,883 And wherever the Ark went, that power of God went with them. 67 00:05:03,885 --> 00:05:10,156 The Ark is built in a reflection of what's called 68 00:05:10,158 --> 00:05:12,358 a "heavenly ark." 69 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:16,863 It was built two-and-a-half cubits by one-and-a-half cubits 70 00:05:16,865 --> 00:05:18,731 by one-and-a-half cubits. 71 00:05:18,733 --> 00:05:22,368 So, the Ark would have been somewhere in the ballpark of 72 00:05:22,370 --> 00:05:26,289 about a three by five foot rectangular box. 73 00:05:26,291 --> 00:05:28,908 It was going to be covered with gold, on the 74 00:05:28,910 --> 00:05:32,462 outside and the inside. And it was to have two gold 75 00:05:32,464 --> 00:05:34,264 rings in each of the four corners. 76 00:05:34,466 --> 00:05:38,852 And it was carried with poles that were run through the rings. 77 00:05:38,854 --> 00:05:42,422 And the orders were that, uh, the poles should never be 78 00:05:42,424 --> 00:05:45,392 removed from the rings. And the lid was to be made out 79 00:05:45,394 --> 00:05:50,263 of gold, and on each end of the lid were to be, uh, cherubim or 80 00:05:50,265 --> 00:05:53,052 guardian angels, basically, with wings. 81 00:05:55,954 --> 00:05:59,372 But why was it so important that the Ark be 82 00:05:59,374 --> 00:06:03,460 constructed to such exact specifications? 83 00:06:03,462 --> 00:06:08,465 And why would God, a spiritual being, require a physical throne 84 00:06:08,467 --> 00:06:12,752 here on Earth? Perhaps there is an answer in 85 00:06:12,754 --> 00:06:19,690 the Bible's description of Moses after he returned from Mount Sinai. 86 00:06:20,292 --> 00:06:22,160 After Moses came down 87 00:06:22,162 --> 00:06:26,397 from Mount Sinai, he was glowing, the Bible says, that he 88 00:06:26,399 --> 00:06:28,085 had to wear a scarf over his face. 89 00:06:29,687 --> 00:06:32,521 I am fascinated with the idea that Moses... 90 00:06:32,523 --> 00:06:35,324 all of a sudden, his appearance changed. 91 00:06:35,326 --> 00:06:40,996 And so, the idea that Moses, all of a sudden, looked different... 92 00:06:40,998 --> 00:06:44,504 we have to ask ourselves why. 93 00:06:47,606 --> 00:06:52,375 Just what did Moses encounter on Mount Sinai? Was it God? 94 00:06:52,677 --> 00:06:57,163 Or was it someone or something else? 95 00:06:57,965 --> 00:07:02,935 God is clearly an entity not of this earth, 96 00:07:02,937 --> 00:07:05,187 and by definition, therefore, an extraterrestrial. 97 00:07:05,189 --> 00:07:08,774 Where does he come from? We must recognize that when the 98 00:07:08,776 --> 00:07:13,812 ancients are speaking about God, there is no other term that we 99 00:07:13,814 --> 00:07:19,499 can use to describe these experiences other than "extraterrestrial." 100 00:07:22,801 --> 00:07:24,589 After the Ark was built 101 00:07:24,591 --> 00:07:26,859 and the Ten Commandments placed within it, the Israelites 102 00:07:26,861 --> 00:07:31,612 carried it with them on their 40-year exodus through the desert. 103 00:07:31,714 --> 00:07:35,582 The Ark of the Covenant was considered powerful, 104 00:07:35,584 --> 00:07:39,339 because it was the meeting place of God and humanity. 105 00:07:39,340 --> 00:07:42,108 And so, it had to be carried on poles so that it could be 106 00:07:42,110 --> 00:07:43,729 conveyed without being touched. 107 00:07:45,230 --> 00:07:47,780 Certain people were allowed to carry it, 108 00:07:47,782 --> 00:07:50,083 and those people were ordained priests. 109 00:07:50,985 --> 00:07:55,270 Aaron, Moses' brother, and his sons were certainly priests. 110 00:07:55,272 --> 00:07:57,022 It was a prestigious job. 111 00:07:57,024 --> 00:07:59,360 But you had to know what you were doing. 112 00:08:01,262 --> 00:08:04,196 Now, the Ark would be covered while they're 113 00:08:04,198 --> 00:08:06,915 carrying it, with a cloth, so that they really couldn't see 114 00:08:06,917 --> 00:08:08,283 what they were carrying. 115 00:08:08,285 --> 00:08:11,837 And they were given strict orders that they should not lift 116 00:08:11,839 --> 00:08:16,043 up the cloth and look at the Ark and try to see it. 117 00:08:17,345 --> 00:08:21,714 But why was the Ark considered so dangerous 118 00:08:21,716 --> 00:08:25,434 that it couldn't be touched, or even looked at? 119 00:08:25,436 --> 00:08:28,804 According to the Old Testament accounts, the Ark of the 120 00:08:28,806 --> 00:08:32,358 Covenant was not only a powerful device on its own. 121 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:36,113 It also housed a number of other important religious relics. 122 00:08:37,815 --> 00:08:40,949 In addition to the Ten Commandments, it held Aaron's 123 00:08:40,951 --> 00:08:47,289 Rod, the staff that could miraculously turn into a serpent. 124 00:08:47,291 --> 00:08:52,295 It also held a jar of manna, an edible starch which, reportedly, 125 00:08:52,297 --> 00:08:54,015 came from the sky. 126 00:08:56,617 --> 00:08:59,418 What we begin to realize is that the Ark of 127 00:08:59,420 --> 00:09:01,387 the Covenant was a sort of tool kit. 128 00:09:01,689 --> 00:09:05,141 And once this tool kit was assembled, we have the fully 129 00:09:05,143 --> 00:09:08,677 functioning Ark of the Covenant. 130 00:09:08,679 --> 00:09:11,930 The ark went before them in the wilderness and made 131 00:09:11,932 --> 00:09:16,402 sure the place where the children of Israel were to go 132 00:09:16,404 --> 00:09:22,974 would be safe and able to provide for them in the desert. 133 00:09:22,976 --> 00:09:27,696 Anybody who's been to the Sinai Desert, you could hardly imagine 134 00:09:27,698 --> 00:09:33,752 two-three million people having any kind of sustenance 135 00:09:33,754 --> 00:09:38,624 in a desert. So therefore, what the Ark 136 00:09:38,626 --> 00:09:43,531 must have accomplished was profound. 137 00:09:45,633 --> 00:09:48,350 The Ark of the Covenant was said to have 138 00:09:48,352 --> 00:09:53,038 protected and provided for the Israelites during the Exodus, but how? 139 00:09:53,540 --> 00:09:55,524 What we can read in the Bible 140 00:09:55,526 --> 00:09:58,778 is that they were sustained by something 141 00:09:58,780 --> 00:10:01,848 called "manna." And the big question is where 142 00:10:01,850 --> 00:10:03,315 did this manna come from? 143 00:10:04,017 --> 00:10:09,655 Well, two engineers by a name of Rodney Dale and George Sassoon 144 00:10:09,657 --> 00:10:15,711 in the 1970s proposed that the Ark of the Covenant was nothing 145 00:10:15,713 --> 00:10:20,916 else but a container in which to store what they referred to as 146 00:10:20,918 --> 00:10:24,253 the Manna Machine. 147 00:10:24,255 --> 00:10:27,589 The Manna Machine was a nuclear-driven device that 148 00:10:27,591 --> 00:10:35,764 dispensed food, or manna, to the Israelites. 149 00:10:35,766 --> 00:10:38,650 The Ark of the Covenant is such a mystery. 150 00:10:38,652 --> 00:10:42,571 It could actually create food, supposedly, the-the manna that 151 00:10:42,573 --> 00:10:44,055 they were eating. 152 00:10:44,057 --> 00:10:51,864 It's like some kind of, uh, super engineering, duplicating energy machine. 153 00:10:51,866 --> 00:10:55,334 We have a concise description of it in the ancient 154 00:10:55,336 --> 00:10:59,671 Jewish text of the Zohar, which is a part of the Kabbalah where 155 00:10:59,673 --> 00:11:03,425 they describe the Ancient of Days. 156 00:11:03,427 --> 00:11:07,629 But in reality "the Ancient of Days" is a mistranslation. 157 00:11:07,631 --> 00:11:14,167 The correct translation is "the transportable one with the tanks." 158 00:11:14,269 --> 00:11:17,556 Since when is God transportable 159 00:11:17,558 --> 00:11:23,562 and why does He need tanks? So in the Zohar we have concise 160 00:11:23,564 --> 00:11:30,285 descriptions not of God but some type of a machine. 161 00:11:30,287 --> 00:11:34,039 Did the Ark of the Covenant really house a machine 162 00:11:34,041 --> 00:11:37,543 that provided food to the Israelites during their 40 years 163 00:11:37,545 --> 00:11:41,547 in the desert? According to ancient astronaut 164 00:11:41,549 --> 00:11:47,302 theorists and many religious scholars, the answer is yes. 165 00:11:47,304 --> 00:11:51,640 But that wasn't the only power the Ark possessed. 166 00:11:51,642 --> 00:11:57,679 For as the Ark could sustain life, it could also destroy it. 167 00:12:06,424 --> 00:12:11,324 The Jordan River, a 200-mile border separating the 168 00:12:11,417 --> 00:12:15,656 present-day Kingdom of Jordan from Israel and the West Bank. 169 00:12:18,258 --> 00:12:23,862 In 1400 B.C., this waterway represented one of the final 170 00:12:23,864 --> 00:12:27,315 obstacles to the wandering Israelites' long-awaited 171 00:12:27,317 --> 00:12:30,702 entrance into the Promised Land. 172 00:12:30,704 --> 00:12:33,788 The Ark of the Covenant comes into its own 173 00:12:33,790 --> 00:12:38,276 when Joshua is given the task of, uh, leading Israel across 174 00:12:38,278 --> 00:12:39,794 the Jordan River. 175 00:12:39,796 --> 00:12:44,215 And the story is that the Ark of the Covenant would go first 176 00:12:44,217 --> 00:12:47,969 and be carried into the Jordan River. 177 00:12:47,971 --> 00:12:52,590 The water would stop flowing. 178 00:12:52,592 --> 00:12:57,729 Some energy came forth from the Ark, causing the 179 00:12:57,731 --> 00:13:03,485 waters to literally stop and ascend and therefore creating 180 00:13:03,487 --> 00:13:10,475 dry land for the entire children of Israel to pass on off into the Holy Land. 181 00:13:10,477 --> 00:13:14,746 But if this biblical story is true, what 182 00:13:14,748 --> 00:13:17,832 kind of power could the Ark of the Covenant have possessed that 183 00:13:17,834 --> 00:13:22,203 would cause a raging river to stand still? 184 00:13:22,205 --> 00:13:25,656 What if the people who wrote these stories 185 00:13:25,658 --> 00:13:29,460 were simply reporting on what they were actually seeing? 186 00:13:29,462 --> 00:13:33,331 If that's true, then the Ark of the Covenant clearly represents 187 00:13:33,333 --> 00:13:38,219 a technology that is more advanced than anything we have now. 188 00:13:38,221 --> 00:13:40,688 If you want to part water, maybe a good way 189 00:13:40,690 --> 00:13:43,725 to do it would be with high-speed winds. 190 00:13:43,727 --> 00:13:46,611 'Cause if you blow enough air, you can get the water out of the 191 00:13:46,613 --> 00:13:50,365 way and you can actually maybe even form those two walls of water. 192 00:13:50,367 --> 00:13:52,700 There's some kind of technology that they're using 193 00:13:52,702 --> 00:13:56,571 and it's so that they can accomplish their goals and 194 00:13:56,573 --> 00:13:59,523 continue on their journey, and they're able to use this 195 00:13:59,525 --> 00:14:03,828 extraterrestrial technology to do it. 196 00:14:03,830 --> 00:14:07,698 According to the Bible's Book of Joshua, the Ark 197 00:14:07,700 --> 00:14:11,920 of the Covenant once again proved a powerful ally when 198 00:14:11,922 --> 00:14:15,223 the Israelites arrived on the western banks of the Jordan 199 00:14:15,225 --> 00:14:20,777 River, set on conquering the seemingly impenetrable walled city of Jericho. 200 00:14:21,179 --> 00:14:24,147 The reputation of the Israelites preceded them. 201 00:14:24,149 --> 00:14:25,767 People were terrified. 202 00:14:25,769 --> 00:14:28,319 They have heard the rumors of the power of this great and 203 00:14:28,321 --> 00:14:30,855 awesome ark. They now come to the city of 204 00:14:30,857 --> 00:14:33,524 Jericho. The people were commanded by 205 00:14:33,526 --> 00:14:36,744 God, march around the city walls. 206 00:14:36,746 --> 00:14:40,198 They march around the city once on the first day. 207 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:42,867 The next day, they do the very same thing. 208 00:14:42,869 --> 00:14:46,404 The third, fourth, fifth and the sixth day is the same thing. 209 00:14:46,406 --> 00:14:52,176 On the seventh day, they march around and then they blow the 210 00:14:52,178 --> 00:14:55,847 trumpets and all the people shout. 211 00:14:55,849 --> 00:15:00,468 Between the marching of the feet, the sounding of the 212 00:15:00,470 --> 00:15:04,806 rams' horns, the shofar, and with some power not described 213 00:15:04,808 --> 00:15:09,360 from the Ark, enabled the big stone mighty walls of the city 214 00:15:09,362 --> 00:15:13,781 of Jericho to somehow be vibrated with a earthquake-type 215 00:15:13,783 --> 00:15:19,437 force which caused them to collapse. 216 00:15:19,439 --> 00:15:23,241 When I hear that they had to walk around Jericho 217 00:15:23,243 --> 00:15:27,295 seven times and then the trumpets were the ones that 218 00:15:27,297 --> 00:15:31,883 allowed for those walls to crumble, one would have to ask 219 00:15:31,885 --> 00:15:37,255 yourselves, "Was there something else to it?" 220 00:15:37,257 --> 00:15:40,391 Knocking something down like a wall with pressure 221 00:15:40,393 --> 00:15:45,847 is not inconceivable. So you could imagine trying to 222 00:15:45,849 --> 00:15:48,433 do this. Now, when you look at things, 223 00:15:48,435 --> 00:15:52,437 think of standard examples that we experience. 224 00:15:52,439 --> 00:15:58,493 Wget the sonic boom, and you can feel it rattling the walls and 225 00:15:58,495 --> 00:16:02,864 you can actually hear it. That's far away. 226 00:16:02,866 --> 00:16:06,751 Imagine getting a sonic boom closer to the object. 227 00:16:06,753 --> 00:16:11,622 You might be able to do significant damage to the wall. 228 00:16:13,877 --> 00:16:18,796 Could the Israelites actually have 229 00:16:18,798 --> 00:16:22,266 witnessed an advanced technology, beyond even our own 230 00:16:22,268 --> 00:16:27,605 modern capabilities, a machine that could instantly part waters 231 00:16:27,607 --> 00:16:33,478 and bring down stone walls? Some ancient astronaut theorists 232 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:36,847 believe the best evidence that the Ark of the Covenant may have 233 00:16:36,849 --> 00:16:42,186 held alien technology can be found by studying events that 234 00:16:42,188 --> 00:16:46,657 took place 300 years after the sacking of Jericho, when the 235 00:16:46,659 --> 00:16:52,696 Ark was stolen. According to the Book of Samuel, 236 00:16:52,698 --> 00:16:55,833 when the Israelites went to battle with the mighty 237 00:16:55,835 --> 00:17:00,204 Philistine army around 1100 B.C., they brought out the Ark 238 00:17:00,206 --> 00:17:03,424 of the Covenant to aid them once again. 239 00:17:03,426 --> 00:17:07,878 But God had not given them instructions to do so. 240 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:12,767 Angered by their presumption 241 00:17:12,769 --> 00:17:16,320 that they could use the Ark as a weapon without His orders, 242 00:17:16,322 --> 00:17:21,307 He awarded victory to the Philistines, who captured it as a trophy. 243 00:17:23,096 --> 00:17:26,831 The Bible records very strange things then started to happen. 244 00:17:27,333 --> 00:17:31,502 Death, sickness broke out amongst the Philistines. 245 00:17:31,504 --> 00:17:35,923 Now, in ancient times, they had no understanding of energy or 246 00:17:35,925 --> 00:17:38,843 what we would maybe consider something similar to a 247 00:17:38,845 --> 00:17:43,214 radioactive sickness. They considered this to be 248 00:17:43,216 --> 00:17:44,515 displeasure of the god. 249 00:17:45,551 --> 00:17:48,269 They placed the ark next to a statue of one 250 00:17:48,271 --> 00:17:50,588 of their gods, Dagon. 251 00:17:52,691 --> 00:17:55,293 And they leave and when they come back, they see that 252 00:17:55,295 --> 00:17:58,362 Dagon's head has been decapitated and his hands have 253 00:17:58,364 --> 00:18:03,800 been taken off. So they say, "We've got to get rid of this thing." 254 00:18:04,002 --> 00:18:09,370 And so they loaded the Ark of the Covenant on a cart. 255 00:18:09,909 --> 00:18:14,445 And sent it off in the direction of an Israeli village 256 00:18:14,447 --> 00:18:18,833 called Beth Shemish. Of course everyone ran up to 257 00:18:18,835 --> 00:18:22,920 look at the Ark. And as a result, the Bible says 258 00:18:22,922 --> 00:18:28,626 70 men died when they looked at the ark. 259 00:18:28,628 --> 00:18:38,653 For those who have been fans of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and 260 00:18:38,655 --> 00:18:41,856 remember the last scene when Indy is shouting "Don't look, 261 00:18:41,858 --> 00:18:47,111 don't look, don't look." That's where that story comes from. 262 00:18:49,813 --> 00:18:51,582 The Old Testament 263 00:18:51,584 --> 00:18:57,321 contains numerous other examples of the ark's devastating powers. 264 00:18:57,323 --> 00:19:01,209 And ultimately depicts it as a deadly device capable of 265 00:19:01,211 --> 00:19:06,264 striking down anyone who does not follow God's rules. 266 00:19:06,266 --> 00:19:09,851 When Aaron, who was the high priest, his two sons 267 00:19:09,853 --> 00:19:15,139 approached to give an offering, it's stated that literally two 268 00:19:15,141 --> 00:19:19,510 beams of fire came forth from the Ark and went up their 269 00:19:19,512 --> 00:19:24,348 nostrils and burnt them from the inside, leaving their entire 270 00:19:24,350 --> 00:19:26,651 outsides intact. 271 00:19:27,253 --> 00:19:36,009 Beams of fire? Burning people from inside? 272 00:19:36,011 --> 00:19:42,199 Why would an instrument of God contain such deadly powers? 273 00:19:42,201 --> 00:19:46,937 If the Ark of the Covenant was truly divine, why would it 274 00:19:46,939 --> 00:19:51,274 strike down two people who were simply trying to make an offering? 275 00:19:52,376 --> 00:19:57,877 Wherever it showed up, people would all of a sudden die. 276 00:19:58,083 --> 00:20:04,505 In my opinion it was a storage container that housed some type 277 00:20:04,507 --> 00:20:10,294 of a nuclear device. And having a nuclear device in 278 00:20:10,296 --> 00:20:17,134 the hands of a technologically primitive society would result 279 00:20:17,136 --> 00:20:23,907 in people dying left and right. Naturally, people would refer to 280 00:20:23,909 --> 00:20:29,029 that as the wrath of God, when in reality it's nothing else but 281 00:20:29,031 --> 00:20:32,065 the wrath of atomic power. 282 00:20:32,067 --> 00:20:40,290 Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists 283 00:20:40,292 --> 00:20:43,961 suggest, that the Ark of the Covenant actually contained a 284 00:20:43,963 --> 00:20:49,132 nuclear device? One that was brought to Earth... 285 00:20:49,134 --> 00:20:53,921 not by God... but by visitors from another planet? 286 00:20:53,923 --> 00:20:56,306 It's possible that the Ark of the Covenant was some 287 00:20:56,308 --> 00:20:59,209 type of super weapon that was being controlled or guided from 288 00:20:59,211 --> 00:21:01,929 an extraterrestrial. 289 00:21:01,931 --> 00:21:04,481 Was the Ark of the Covenant actually a 290 00:21:04,483 --> 00:21:11,021 sophisticated, high-tech device ancient Israelites were unable 291 00:21:11,023 --> 00:21:14,858 to control it? Perhaps. 292 00:21:14,860 --> 00:21:18,561 But of all the Ark's alleged powers, there was one that was 293 00:21:18,563 --> 00:21:22,916 the most incredible... 294 00:21:22,918 --> 00:21:27,037 its ability to communicate directly with God. 295 00:21:29,681 --> 00:21:39,623 Petra, Jordan. At the summit of Jebel Haroun, 296 00:21:39,625 --> 00:21:46,329 a small white dome marks the tomb of Aaron, the brother of Moses. 297 00:21:46,331 --> 00:21:50,467 According to the Hebrew Bible, Aaron was chosen by God to be 298 00:21:50,469 --> 00:21:54,271 the first high priest of the Israelites... a title that came 299 00:21:54,273 --> 00:22:01,511 Aaron, Moses's brother, served as priest of the people. 300 00:22:01,513 --> 00:22:06,283 And then following Aaron, the line of the priests followed his genealogy. 301 00:22:06,285 --> 00:22:10,370 They were the ones designated to carry the Ark... 302 00:22:10,372 --> 00:22:14,374 and they were the ones permitted to come close to it in worship. 303 00:22:14,376 --> 00:22:21,531 The attire of the priests was beautiful, but it 304 00:22:21,533 --> 00:22:25,552 was also there for their protection. 305 00:22:25,554 --> 00:22:29,172 They had to wear a miter. They wore breastplate. 306 00:22:29,174 --> 00:22:32,926 They had to wear a long robe. They had to keep certain areas 307 00:22:32,928 --> 00:22:38,513 the head, the lungs, the heart, the genital area. 308 00:22:40,515 --> 00:22:46,184 The high priest would have to have these on to approach the Ark. 309 00:22:46,491 --> 00:22:49,909 And when he approached the Ark, he had to have a rope tied 310 00:22:49,911 --> 00:22:53,997 around his leg. Why? 311 00:22:53,999 --> 00:22:57,567 So if and when something ever went wrong and the Ark struck 312 00:22:57,569 --> 00:23:03,006 him or he died... no one would be allowed to go 313 00:23:03,008 --> 00:23:07,877 in to retrieve his body, 'cause they would suffer the same fate. 314 00:23:07,879 --> 00:23:14,601 On top of the Ark were the figures of two angels. 315 00:23:14,603 --> 00:23:19,189 And it was said in the Bible that God's presence came to rest 316 00:23:19,191 --> 00:23:21,676 in the tiny space between them. 317 00:23:21,778 --> 00:23:25,314 That was the place where Heaven and Earth touched. 318 00:23:26,615 --> 00:23:27,615 The space between 319 00:23:27,616 --> 00:23:32,202 the angels on the lid of the Ark was known as the Mercy Seat, 320 00:23:32,204 --> 00:23:35,872 upon which the image of God would allegedly sit when 321 00:23:35,874 --> 00:23:39,442 communicating with a Levite priest. 322 00:23:39,444 --> 00:23:43,797 But did the Israelites really witness an otherworldly presence 323 00:23:43,799 --> 00:23:48,951 between the two angels? And if so, was it literally the 324 00:23:48,953 --> 00:23:53,289 image of God... or something else? 325 00:23:53,291 --> 00:23:57,510 Based on the numerous accounts of the Ark's awesome power, some 326 00:23:57,512 --> 00:24:01,347 ancient astronaut theorists have proposed that it may have been 327 00:24:01,349 --> 00:24:07,835 an electrical capacitor, a device used for storing and transmitting energy. 328 00:24:10,337 --> 00:24:10,973 Some of the stories 329 00:24:10,975 --> 00:24:14,027 that have come out of history about the Ark of the Covenant, 330 00:24:14,029 --> 00:24:17,831 that it erupted in sparks and flames and people would touch it 331 00:24:17,833 --> 00:24:20,333 and die instantly, or that it leveled cities. 332 00:24:20,335 --> 00:24:22,502 And many people have theorized that this is some type of actual 333 00:24:22,504 --> 00:24:24,504 large energy capacitor. 334 00:24:24,506 --> 00:24:27,373 "Capacitor" is exactly the right word to use. 335 00:24:27,375 --> 00:24:31,177 It relies on static electricity. It's the simplest device. 336 00:24:31,179 --> 00:24:34,431 You just need two conductors with an insulator between them. 337 00:24:34,433 --> 00:24:37,634 You've got the outer gold, a very nice conductor, and then if 338 00:24:37,636 --> 00:24:41,803 you open this up and look to the inside, you'll see a second electrode. 339 00:24:41,805 --> 00:24:43,006 So what that's gonna look like... 340 00:24:43,008 --> 00:24:47,342 Okay, you have the outer side of your Ark. 341 00:24:47,344 --> 00:24:51,096 That's gonna, say, charge positive. 342 00:24:51,098 --> 00:24:54,649 Then you have your inner wall of the Ark coated in gold. 343 00:24:54,751 --> 00:24:57,285 And then you have an insulator in between... 344 00:24:57,287 --> 00:24:59,388 that's just the wood you make the Ark out of. 345 00:24:59,390 --> 00:25:01,842 Now what you got to do is get negative charges... 346 00:25:01,843 --> 00:25:05,928 here on the inner side. Now the question is how do I 347 00:25:05,930 --> 00:25:09,215 get my positive and negative charges onto my Ark? 348 00:25:09,217 --> 00:25:11,217 This is where the cherubs come in. 349 00:25:11,219 --> 00:25:13,553 You have one sitting on top here... that's attached to the 350 00:25:13,555 --> 00:25:16,923 outer side, and you can put charge on it and get your 351 00:25:16,925 --> 00:25:19,843 positive charge. The other cherub is going to be 352 00:25:19,845 --> 00:25:22,262 sitting here... it won't be connected to the outer layer, 353 00:25:22,264 --> 00:25:25,482 but it'll come in from a rod and connect to the inner side... 354 00:25:25,484 --> 00:25:27,984 and this is where we'll put our negative charge. 355 00:25:27,986 --> 00:25:29,936 So what that looks like over here at the Ark, is this cherub 356 00:25:29,938 --> 00:25:33,323 will not actually be attached to the outer conductor. 357 00:25:33,325 --> 00:25:36,058 There'll be an insulator there. It'll sit on it, and then it can 358 00:25:36,060 --> 00:25:39,028 have a rod that goes through and attaches to the inner conductor. 359 00:25:39,030 --> 00:25:41,564 Now, the Israelites claimed to have actually been 360 00:25:41,566 --> 00:25:45,084 able to see the presence of God between the two cherubs... 361 00:25:45,086 --> 00:25:48,121 a representation of God. Now, if they weren't actually 362 00:25:48,123 --> 00:25:51,407 seeing a representation of God, could this arc of energy have 363 00:25:51,409 --> 00:25:54,410 been some type of other energy device that they were seeing? 364 00:25:54,412 --> 00:25:56,412 So, when we're thinking about the Israelites 365 00:25:56,414 --> 00:25:59,415 seeing the image of God between the two cherub wings, one of the 366 00:25:59,417 --> 00:26:02,352 things to keep in mind, I think, is how the image of God was 367 00:26:02,354 --> 00:26:05,438 often described. We have smoke, fire... 368 00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:09,025 there's very rarely an actual, like, visual picture of a person. 369 00:26:09,027 --> 00:26:12,595 And so if you picture what arcs of electricity will be doing, 370 00:26:12,597 --> 00:26:15,481 there'll probably be a little bit of smoke, um, there will be 371 00:26:15,483 --> 00:26:18,151 the really bright light, there'll be a crackling noise. 372 00:26:18,153 --> 00:26:20,236 That could certainly be something that would be 373 00:26:20,238 --> 00:26:22,375 interpreted as an image of God. 374 00:26:25,576 --> 00:26:27,076 Is it possible that 375 00:26:27,077 --> 00:26:30,279 accounts of God's presence atop the Ark were actually describing 376 00:26:30,281 --> 00:26:35,385 electrical discharge? 377 00:26:35,387 --> 00:26:39,589 And if so, might someone... or something... have been sending 378 00:26:39,591 --> 00:26:42,892 electrical signals through the Ark of the Covenant to 379 00:26:42,894 --> 00:26:48,815 communicate with the Israelites? Ancient astronaut theorists 380 00:26:48,817 --> 00:26:52,819 believe such a notion is not only possible, but all the more 381 00:26:52,821 --> 00:26:57,273 plausible, given the biblical descriptions of a device known 382 00:26:57,275 --> 00:27:01,160 as "the Breastplate of Judgment." 383 00:27:01,162 --> 00:27:05,114 According to the Book of Exodus, it was worn by the priests when 384 00:27:05,116 --> 00:27:09,369 entering the Tabernacle, and was adorned with 12 sacred 385 00:27:09,371 --> 00:27:14,340 gemstones called "the Stones of Fire," which represented the 12 386 00:27:14,342 --> 00:27:19,095 tribes of Israel. And according to detailed 387 00:27:19,097 --> 00:27:23,933 accounts from sacred texts known as the Talmud, these gemstones 388 00:27:23,935 --> 00:27:28,803 played an important role when communicating with God through the Ark. 389 00:27:29,605 --> 00:27:31,274 Somehow there would be 390 00:27:31,276 --> 00:27:37,981 a pulsating sound emanating from on top of the cherubim. 391 00:27:37,983 --> 00:27:42,235 And these pulsating, high-pitched sounds would cause 392 00:27:42,237 --> 00:27:46,522 a vibration in the stones on his breastplate. 393 00:27:46,524 --> 00:27:52,128 The stones would actually start to light up. 394 00:27:54,498 --> 00:27:57,250 There seems to be a very complex, but very 395 00:27:57,252 --> 00:28:04,007 specific code happening here that God is communicating through. 396 00:28:04,009 --> 00:28:07,209 It was like some extraterrestrial Morse code that 397 00:28:07,211 --> 00:28:12,398 was being received from the Ark of the Covenant. 398 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:17,985 Jerusalem. 995 BC. 399 00:28:19,107 --> 00:28:23,192 Nearly a century after the Philistines returned the Ark to 400 00:28:23,194 --> 00:28:28,397 Judah, King David transports it to the capital city with plans 401 00:28:28,399 --> 00:28:32,053 to build an enormous temple in order to house it. 402 00:28:33,955 --> 00:28:37,373 It's Solomon, David's son, who built the 403 00:28:37,375 --> 00:28:41,177 Temple of Jerusalem and installed the Ark in the inner 404 00:28:41,179 --> 00:28:44,350 sanctum, the Holy of Holies. 405 00:28:46,851 --> 00:28:50,451 Once installed in the temple in 955 BC, 406 00:28:50,452 --> 00:28:52,254 the mysterious ark continued to 407 00:28:52,256 --> 00:28:56,526 serve the Israelites for another three-and-a-half centuries... 408 00:28:56,528 --> 00:29:04,100 until, suddenly... it vanishes from history. 409 00:29:04,102 --> 00:29:07,236 The Book of Kings describes the destruction of the 410 00:29:07,238 --> 00:29:11,407 city of Jerusalem, says nothing about the ark. 411 00:29:11,409 --> 00:29:15,277 It disappears from the literary history in the same way that it 412 00:29:15,279 --> 00:29:18,464 disappeared from material history. 413 00:29:18,466 --> 00:29:25,388 But what happened to it? Was it stolen? Destroyed? 414 00:29:25,390 --> 00:29:30,977 Or was it deliberately hidden? There are those who believe they 415 00:29:30,979 --> 00:29:36,816 know the answer, and that not only does the Ark still exist, 416 00:29:36,818 --> 00:29:43,356 but they are confident it will return. 417 00:29:48,580 --> 00:29:50,480 Mount Tsurugi, Japan. 418 00:29:51,784 --> 00:29:56,151 Every year, Shinto worshippers ascend this mountain... 419 00:29:56,223 --> 00:29:58,474 6,000 miles from the Jewish Holy Land. 420 00:29:58,476 --> 00:30:02,561 They carry an elaborate, gold-clad chest that, like the 421 00:30:02,563 --> 00:30:08,283 Ark of the Covenant, is believed to contain the spirit of God. 422 00:30:08,285 --> 00:30:14,456 Scholars in Japan look at the Old Testament. 423 00:30:14,458 --> 00:30:18,293 They also look at the kind of mythical foundational texts of 424 00:30:18,295 --> 00:30:23,382 Japan, like the Kojiki, and see certain similarities. 425 00:30:23,384 --> 00:30:27,302 And they like to think that these similarities are not just 426 00:30:27,304 --> 00:30:31,306 coincidences, but actually suggest ancient connections. 427 00:30:31,308 --> 00:30:36,228 Part of this theory is that these lost tribes of Israel 428 00:30:36,230 --> 00:30:40,933 brought the Ark to Japan, and it ended up at a sacred peak, Mount 429 00:30:40,935 --> 00:30:50,409 Tsurugi, and it lays hidden in the limestone caves underneath it. 430 00:30:50,411 --> 00:30:55,713 Could the Ark of the Covenant really be hidden in Japan? 431 00:30:57,015 --> 00:30:58,699 And might this explain why 432 00:30:58,701 --> 00:31:02,854 Shinto worshippers perform a ritual that's eerily reminiscent 433 00:31:02,856 --> 00:31:07,090 of the ancient Israelites carrying the Ark through the desert? 434 00:31:07,292 --> 00:31:12,213 One Japanese historian named 435 00:31:12,215 --> 00:31:14,968 Takane Masanori was so confident that the Ark of the Covenant was 436 00:31:14,969 --> 00:31:19,104 hidden in Mount Tsurugi, he actually performed excavations 437 00:31:19,106 --> 00:31:22,741 of the mountain in the 1930s. 438 00:31:23,343 --> 00:31:27,312 Excavations were started in 1936 on the 439 00:31:27,314 --> 00:31:32,234 peak, or near the peak of Mount Tsurugi, and this research went 440 00:31:32,236 --> 00:31:35,687 on for some decades, and then, it was all shut down, and the 441 00:31:35,689 --> 00:31:40,075 area is now a national park, so, further research is banned for 442 00:31:40,077 --> 00:31:42,461 environmental reasons, so we won't know. 443 00:31:43,631 --> 00:31:47,299 The Ark of the Covenant has not been found in Japan, but the 444 00:31:47,301 --> 00:31:52,087 legend continues. 445 00:31:52,489 --> 00:31:56,408 Is it possible that a lost tribe of Israel made 446 00:31:56,410 --> 00:31:59,661 their way thousands of miles across the Asian continent and 447 00:31:59,663 --> 00:32:04,633 brought the Ark to Japan? It is just one theory out of many. 448 00:32:04,635 --> 00:32:10,422 Some biblical scholars suggest 449 00:32:10,424 --> 00:32:14,059 that Israel's high priests, anticipating the destruction of 450 00:32:14,061 --> 00:32:18,513 the city, stashed the Ark deep in a cave under Jerusalem's 451 00:32:18,515 --> 00:32:25,353 Temple Mount for protection. It is also believed that, 452 00:32:25,355 --> 00:32:28,973 centuries later, the Ark was discovered in its hiding place, 453 00:32:28,975 --> 00:32:35,697 and was taken away to safety by a group known as the Knights Templar. 454 00:32:35,699 --> 00:32:39,084 The Knights Templar were monks who were trained to 455 00:32:39,086 --> 00:32:43,755 fight as soldiers in the Holy Land during the Crusades, from 456 00:32:43,757 --> 00:32:48,093 the 1100s up until the 1300s. 457 00:32:48,095 --> 00:32:50,662 They discovered a great treasure. 458 00:32:50,664 --> 00:32:55,383 They themselves describe it as a great biblical treasure. 459 00:32:55,385 --> 00:32:58,386 There are certainly legends throughout Europe, and 460 00:32:58,388 --> 00:33:02,006 specifically France, of where the Ark of the Covenant ended up. 461 00:33:02,008 --> 00:33:05,343 Some say it was buried beneath Chartres Cathedral in the crypt. 462 00:33:05,345 --> 00:33:09,681 Some say it was buried in the Languedoc region near Rennes-le-Chateau. 463 00:33:09,683 --> 00:33:13,401 And we know that the Nazis excavated in depth in these 464 00:33:13,403 --> 00:33:17,355 mountains, looking for the Ark of the Covenant. 465 00:33:17,357 --> 00:33:20,825 But some believe the Ark's journey didn't end in 466 00:33:20,827 --> 00:33:25,880 France, and that, eventually, it was taken even further to the north. 467 00:33:25,882 --> 00:33:29,718 There's been a rumor for years that the Templar 468 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,036 Treasure was actually taken through France by the Templars. 469 00:33:32,038 --> 00:33:35,873 And the story goes that it was then taken to Rosslyn Chapel in 470 00:33:35,875 --> 00:33:39,311 Scotland for safekeeping. 471 00:33:39,313 --> 00:33:42,046 Could the Ark of the Covenant still be hidden 472 00:33:42,048 --> 00:33:46,884 somewhere in Rosslyn Chapel? Or might it have been, as some 473 00:33:46,886 --> 00:33:51,439 ancient astronaut theorists suggest, taken far away to North 474 00:33:51,441 --> 00:33:58,563 America, where it was hidden deep underground, and still lies 475 00:33:58,565 --> 00:34:01,499 buried? Perhaps. 476 00:34:01,501 --> 00:34:06,435 But there are those who believe that the Ark isn't hidden at all. 477 00:34:08,737 --> 00:34:10,190 They claim its whereabouts have been 478 00:34:10,192 --> 00:34:15,281 well-known and well-guarded for hundreds of years. 479 00:34:17,083 --> 00:34:23,121 Aksum, Ethiopia. The Church of St. Mary of Zion. 480 00:34:23,123 --> 00:34:27,341 A solitary monk, who is not allowed to leave the grounds, 481 00:34:27,343 --> 00:34:31,963 is charged with guarding the church's holiest relic. 482 00:34:33,265 --> 00:34:37,700 It is a job he has devoted his life to, and one he will keep 483 00:34:37,702 --> 00:34:39,504 until his death. 484 00:34:40,906 --> 00:34:44,107 There's a cathedral there called the Cathedral of 485 00:34:44,109 --> 00:34:46,442 St. Mary of Zion. 486 00:34:46,444 --> 00:34:50,446 And I started talking to the monk who guarded the chapel. 487 00:34:50,448 --> 00:34:55,285 And he told me that lying in that chapel was the true, 488 00:34:55,287 --> 00:34:59,422 the original, Ark of the Covenant. Now, at first, it seemed to me 489 00:34:59,424 --> 00:35:03,143 like an incredibly tall story. But as I began to look into it, 490 00:35:03,145 --> 00:35:06,813 I realized that there was something to the Ethiopian claim. 491 00:35:06,815 --> 00:35:12,035 For example, why was there an ancient Jewish population in Ethiopia? 492 00:35:12,037 --> 00:35:15,471 It was like they were frozen in amber from an earlier time and 493 00:35:15,473 --> 00:35:17,524 caught in Ethiopia. 494 00:35:17,526 --> 00:35:22,245 And I got to know a succession of three different guardians of the Ark. 495 00:35:22,247 --> 00:35:25,248 Once appointed as guardian, they have a very short life span. 496 00:35:25,250 --> 00:35:26,416 They die very quickly. 497 00:35:26,418 --> 00:35:29,169 And one of them in particular pointed to the issue of his eyes 498 00:35:29,171 --> 00:35:33,089 to me in the way that the cataracts were creeping over his eyes. 499 00:35:33,091 --> 00:35:35,425 And I said, "What is causing that?" 500 00:35:35,427 --> 00:35:39,462 And he said, "It's the Ark of the Covenant that's causing "that." 501 00:35:39,464 --> 00:35:43,166 He said the Ark is a thing of fire. 502 00:35:43,168 --> 00:35:47,938 And there was such truth and power in his words that I began to feel 503 00:35:47,940 --> 00:35:54,108 very strongly that the Ethiopians could indeed have this object. 504 00:35:58,710 --> 00:36:03,719 Could the Ark of the Covenant really reside in a church in Ethiopia, 505 00:36:03,721 --> 00:36:09,541 in a location so publicly known and so modestly protected? 506 00:36:09,743 --> 00:36:13,579 If so, why has there been no proof? 507 00:36:15,281 --> 00:36:19,583 Is it an elaborate hoax? Or is there perhaps another reason? 508 00:36:19,585 --> 00:36:22,954 And could that reason be based 509 00:36:22,956 --> 00:36:26,341 on one of the other audacious theories concerning the Ark, 510 00:36:26,443 --> 00:36:29,228 that there are more than one of them? 511 00:36:31,630 --> 00:36:36,183 The Torah speaks that there were actually two arks. 512 00:36:36,185 --> 00:36:39,720 There was one ark, which was built by Moses when he first 513 00:36:39,722 --> 00:36:43,023 came down from Mount Sinai. 514 00:36:43,025 --> 00:36:45,609 And only later do we find in the Book of Exodus was the 515 00:36:45,611 --> 00:36:49,813 commandment given for a ark to be built by Bezalel. 516 00:36:49,815 --> 00:36:54,618 That was the ark that stayed in the Tabernacle. 517 00:36:54,620 --> 00:36:58,789 If the Ark really was a technological device, as 518 00:36:58,791 --> 00:37:03,210 ancient astronaut theorists believe, might there really have 519 00:37:03,212 --> 00:37:07,831 been more than one of them? And, if so, might the various 520 00:37:07,833 --> 00:37:11,752 myths and legends about the Ark and its whereabouts all be 521 00:37:11,754 --> 00:37:14,722 plausible? Perhaps. 522 00:37:14,724 --> 00:37:17,891 But whether there is one ark or many, two other important 523 00:37:17,893 --> 00:37:22,646 what was the Ark's true purpose? 524 00:37:22,648 --> 00:37:27,919 And what would happen if it ever returned? 525 00:37:32,368 --> 00:37:36,368 The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem. 526 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:43,881 This Islamic shrine sits atop the Temple Mount, once the site 527 00:37:43,883 --> 00:37:47,635 of King Solomon's Temple and the last known location of the 528 00:37:47,637 --> 00:37:55,643 Ark of the Covenant. In 1981, a small team of Israeli 529 00:37:55,645 --> 00:38:02,433 workmen secretly tunneled under this hotly disputed site. 530 00:38:02,435 --> 00:38:06,270 Rabbi Yehuda Getz, the preeminent Rabbi of the Western 531 00:38:06,272 --> 00:38:09,607 Wall, supervised the highly prohibited and politically 532 00:38:09,609 --> 00:38:14,061 inflammatory excavation. 533 00:38:14,063 --> 00:38:16,664 There was a pretty big problem with this because 534 00:38:16,666 --> 00:38:21,735 that is the number one sacred site for the Muslims as well, 535 00:38:21,737 --> 00:38:25,238 and these men believed strongly enough that the Ark of the 536 00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:28,876 Covenant had been located there that they were willing to take 537 00:38:28,878 --> 00:38:33,914 such great risks to try to locate the Ark of the Covenant themselves. 538 00:38:33,916 --> 00:38:36,917 When Arabs on the Mount heard noises from the 539 00:38:36,919 --> 00:38:41,555 cistern below, they confronted the work crew in what became a 540 00:38:41,557 --> 00:38:46,977 dramatic subterranean standoff. Police separated the two sides 541 00:38:46,979 --> 00:38:52,432 and ordered the tunnel to be resealed. 542 00:38:52,434 --> 00:38:56,870 To his dying day, Rabbi Getz believed he was just 40 feet 543 00:38:56,872 --> 00:39:01,959 away from finding the original Ark of the Covenant. 544 00:39:01,961 --> 00:39:05,746 But could such an audacious claim be true? 545 00:39:05,748 --> 00:39:09,049 Might the Ark really still be located where it was thousands 546 00:39:09,051 --> 00:39:14,388 of years ago, at the site of the Jews' most sacred temple, 547 00:39:14,390 --> 00:39:17,591 one of the holiest places on Earth? 548 00:39:17,593 --> 00:39:23,764 For ancient astronaut theorists, the answer may very well be yes, 549 00:39:23,766 --> 00:39:28,852 and for proof they point to reports of strange sightings 550 00:39:28,854 --> 00:39:33,824 over the Mount in recent years. 551 00:39:33,826 --> 00:39:39,029 In 2011, there was a very sensational UFO sighting 552 00:39:39,031 --> 00:39:42,666 over the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. 553 00:39:42,668 --> 00:39:45,318 Many will call it a fraud. 554 00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:46,954 Many will say it was not real. 555 00:39:46,956 --> 00:39:51,008 But it was witnessed that a ball of light came down over the 556 00:39:51,010 --> 00:39:54,428 Temple Mount... 557 00:39:59,001 --> 00:40:03,604 and just hovered there. 558 00:40:03,606 --> 00:40:08,974 And then all of a sudden a pulsating light went out from it, poof! 559 00:40:08,976 --> 00:40:09,860 Whoa! 560 00:40:09,862 --> 00:40:12,479 And then it ascended back up. 561 00:40:12,481 --> 00:40:15,449 Some speculate 562 00:40:15,451 --> 00:40:19,703 that this UFO sighting may have been energizing the Ark of the 563 00:40:19,705 --> 00:40:23,957 Covenant, which is still there in Jerusalem. 564 00:40:23,959 --> 00:40:30,764 Could it be a mere coincidence that the UFO 565 00:40:30,766 --> 00:40:34,301 sightings occurred over this particular site? 566 00:40:34,303 --> 00:40:38,705 Or could it be, as some ancient astronaut theorists claim, 567 00:40:38,707 --> 00:40:42,426 merely the first in a series of events concerning the Ark that 568 00:40:42,428 --> 00:40:48,432 are in fact the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy? 569 00:40:48,434 --> 00:40:51,568 There's a very interesting prophecy in the Book 570 00:40:51,570 --> 00:40:54,738 of Zechariah that states that there's gonna be a tremendous 571 00:40:54,740 --> 00:40:59,076 earthquake in Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives is to split. 572 00:40:59,078 --> 00:41:04,782 It is said that this earthquake is to be caused by some type of 573 00:41:04,784 --> 00:41:11,088 sonic vibration created from under the earth and that the 574 00:41:11,090 --> 00:41:13,907 powers from under the earth are then gonna arise out of this 575 00:41:13,909 --> 00:41:20,047 chasm with the Ark. This is then considered to be, 576 00:41:20,049 --> 00:41:23,967 "A," the return of the Ark and, "B," the famous, of course, 577 00:41:23,969 --> 00:41:26,804 coming of the Messiah. 578 00:41:26,806 --> 00:41:31,308 All three of the big three religions have prophecies 579 00:41:31,310 --> 00:41:36,280 about the end-time arrival of a messianic figure. 580 00:41:36,282 --> 00:41:40,433 And what we're told is that angels will help bring the Ark 581 00:41:40,435 --> 00:41:43,403 of the Covenant back to Earth. 582 00:41:43,405 --> 00:41:46,490 Could the lights seen over the Temple Mount 583 00:41:46,492 --> 00:41:50,577 indicate that some sort of extraterrestrial reactivation of 584 00:41:50,579 --> 00:41:52,613 the Ark was taking place? 585 00:41:52,615 --> 00:41:56,884 And, if so, might we be close to finally rediscovering this 586 00:41:56,886 --> 00:42:03,590 ancient relic and finding the source of its incredible power? 587 00:42:03,592 --> 00:42:08,512 If that device were ever to be found, then that 588 00:42:08,514 --> 00:42:12,015 will forever change the course of human history. 589 00:42:12,017 --> 00:42:16,353 Because if we look at our past, it already has changed the 590 00:42:16,355 --> 00:42:19,940 course of human history. 591 00:42:19,942 --> 00:42:22,943 If the Ark could be found and if it could be 592 00:42:22,945 --> 00:42:27,748 retrieved, the possibility exists that its technology could 593 00:42:27,750 --> 00:42:32,786 be understood and exploited and possibly even used to reconnect 594 00:42:32,788 --> 00:42:34,454 with whoever created it. 595 00:42:34,456 --> 00:42:37,674 If they were in fact extraterrestrial beings, then 596 00:42:37,676 --> 00:42:41,962 the reality is we might have a direct phone line to the E.T.s. 597 00:42:41,964 --> 00:42:45,883 We, as a culture, as a species, we seem to use most 598 00:42:45,885 --> 00:42:48,552 of our technology for war. 599 00:42:48,554 --> 00:42:54,007 And so it would be like giving a three-year-old a loaded gun. 600 00:42:54,009 --> 00:42:57,728 We can barely deal with the technology that we have now, so 601 00:42:57,730 --> 00:43:02,482 maybe it's good that, for now, it's hidden. 602 00:43:02,484 --> 00:43:05,819 Could the Ark of the Covenant, perhaps the most 603 00:43:05,821 --> 00:43:09,706 coveted of the world's lost relics, really be the ultimate 604 00:43:09,708 --> 00:43:14,494 proof of an ancient extraterrestrial encounter? 605 00:43:14,496 --> 00:43:19,800 If so, what was it? A sophisticated weapon? 606 00:43:19,802 --> 00:43:26,473 A communication device? A nuclear power source? 607 00:43:26,475 --> 00:43:29,876 Or was it something else entirely? 608 00:43:29,878 --> 00:43:32,980 Something beyond our comprehension? 609 00:43:32,982 --> 00:43:38,018 And if it is found, will it lead to mankind's destruction or to 610 00:43:38,020 --> 00:43:42,889 a reunion with our alien ancestors? 611 00:43:42,891 --> 00:43:48,061 One thing is certain: the search for the Ark will continue. 612 00:43:48,063 --> 00:43:54,883 And there are those who believe it will be found much sooner than we think. 613 00:43:55,305 --> 00:44:01,726 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 55157

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