Fascinating Bible Study.....which if true, may mean that there will be no Ark in the coming Jewish Temple during the last week of Daniel. It is being saved by the Ethiopians.....who believe the scriptures tell them to guard this "gift" until the Messiah comes.....then it is to be given to the Messiah.
The Gift from Ethiopia
The Ethiopians believe that the relic presently in their trust will be the subject of a very prominent gift to the Messiah when He rules on Mt. Zion.
From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering. - Zephaniah 3:10
The word "bring" is yabal, to bear or carry, as in a royal procession; the word for "offering" is hxn>mi minchah, a gift, tribute, present. This apparently is the presentation by the Ethiopians which receives such special emphasis in Isaiah 18.14
Isa 18:7 ¶ In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
The Ethiopian Treasurer was sent by Queen Candace to Jerusalem to worship the Messiah, whom they had heard had arrived. Knowing that they have a Treasure to present to the Messiah, the Ethiopian was sent to Jerusalem to see if NOW was the time to present their gift to the Messiah. (What gift? The golden Mercy Seat.....which the Levites removed from the Temple during wicked reign of Manasseh.)But the Ethiopian Treasurer is shocked to find out that the Messiah had been killed.......leaving him confused. God sends Phillip to the Ethiopian to explain Isaiah 53 to him, and explain that the Messiah had come, died for all sins, but would still come again.See links above for the whole bible study.
Maranatha!
Deborah
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