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The Greatest Mystery the World has Never Known
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Solomon built 2 'homes' 1 in Jerusalem, the Temple near the current location of the City of David and another 'house' in Lebanon.
The house in Lebanon is where the priests took the Ark of Covenant to prevent it's theft by Babylon before the deportation.
I think the OP is describing the house in Lebanon.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 76760905 No, I am talking about the temple which was at Jerub (also known as Jerusalem, Salem, and other names as well) The altar (or the ark, I can't remember)was taken to the temple there where Melchisidek was officiating. The area was still controlled by the Benjamites, but there were also edomites and Hittites who were believers in Jehovah. I haven't taken a google earth tour of it yet, but it was surrounded by seven hills, and it is quite possible that this is where the Ark of the Covenant and other things are hidden. Remember, all semblance of there ever being a city center and a temple there were erased centuries ago. The entire population was destroyed or taken into slavery--and all memory of Old Testament Tabernacle was erased from history and the mind--except in the Word of God and in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The discoveries have just begun and one will lead to another. Things are going to move fast. I agree with much of what you say OP with one glaring exception (unless I'm reading your take on things wrong). Melchizedek certainly was a tribal Priest-King of Salem ~ quite a bit of other scholarly work to support that. However, there were no worshippers of Yahweh. The Caananites & other Ugaritic cultures in that region were Elohists (as was Melchizedek who initiated Abraham into that priesthood). Yahwehists don't come into the picture until after Exodus when the Levitical priesthood arises (at least in my beliefs). There is a very distinct difference in theology between Yahwehists & Elohists. The general notion is that an Elohist royal priesthood was started with Abram (Abraham) & carried on down through the line of Solomon & David. From the Gnostic perspective, that line is carried on through the generations via the Nazarene priesthood of the Essenes until Jesus emerges (of the line of David). A case can be made that Ezra might have tampered with some of the books of the Old Testament to try & reconcile & merge this schism within the Hebrew community during the Babylonian exile. Chuck Missler makes an interesting argument for the 1st Temple having been built just outside Jerusalem (in the ruins of the City of David which makes total sense). I'm inclined to believe Moses was in fact Amenhotep IV (i.e: Akhenaten), "the Rebel Phaoroh" of the Hyksos, driven out of Egypt along with his followers. The main temple in the ruins of his city are an identical match for Biblical measurements of Solomon's Temple. Plus there is a vast body of evidence to support that theory. As to the whereabouts of the Ark, that's the million dollar question.
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