A Master Craftsman Tests the Baffling Ark of the Covenant
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- The Book of Exodus describes how the mysterious Ark of the Covenant was created by the Israelites. Using bronze tools, a master craftsman sets out to build his own.
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I was at a gun show in L.A. in the 1970s. One table had a man making parts for a muzzle loading gun. Using just files, small forge and cold chisel he made a functioning flintlock for a Brown Bess style gun in about four hours.
Knowledge of how to use small tools is more important then what tools you have. In 1986 I and two other guys skinned and butchered a buffalo with chert we broke in to small chips. We didn’t make flint knifes. just chips. And quickly worked up the carcass. Primitive tools and methods are not as primitive as many like to think.
No reliance on infrastructure. Sometimes the old ways are the best ways.
Good Lord, buffalos don't look all that easy to process with knives!
No, they are exactly as primitive as you think but primitive does not mean ineffective.
Where did they get all the material to make the ark? This is answered in the Bible itself--they took it from the Egyptians
Exodus 12:35-36
And the people of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed from the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and garments;
And the Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent them such things as they required. And they carried away the wealth of the Egyptians.
"Borrowed" = Stealing
Using the bible to prove the bible?
@@xavierid well actually if you read the text, the key words are "God gave them favor in the eyes of the Egyptians", something which believers call "grace", a word that unbelievers would never comprehend. And the other one is "the Egyptians GAVE... ", something that would never have been possible on a national scale IF it were stealing, because the narrative also tells of the huge and formidable Egyptian army at the disposal of the king that could have instantly "corrected" such an illegal activity on the spot, though all that "borrowing" had the verbal permission of the king when he told Moses and Aaron "take all you need", things which also included livestocks. But notice that many many hours after the Israelites had fled from Egypt that this same army went in pursuit NOT BECAUSE OF THE TREASURES, but because the egomaniacal king wanted to force the Israelites back into slavery and teach them a lesson of his might which, as history would later show us, failed and he, the king, and his huge army drowned and perished in the red sea crossing in AL Aqaba where relics of chariot parts belonging to the same dynasty have been discovered.
Archeology once again proves the Bible.
The Egyptians took it back after Solomon was gone
The Egyptian gave them every thing after all that was destroyed gold , silver and all there things .
As they was leaving Egypt.
There's still wheels and axles of chariots that can be seen to this day.
It seems some, most, have missed the point of the video and its exercise. The question to be answered is, was the technology available to the Israelite people of a level, that would have allowed them to construct, an ark, as described in Genesis. Clearly, the answer is, with the technology that was available at the time, yes. If some believe the account is a myth or other is irrelevant to the exercise of determining, could it have been done.
While I fully agree with you on the availability and feasibility of the technology to the Israelites at that time, I am of the opinion that "proving" it is rather redundant and this video becomes moot and merely academic in it's purpose. Like catering to the millenials' lack of comprehension of history.
Still though, I am glad it served it's purpose of visually explaining how it might have been done. It further tells us that mid bronze era people were not bereft of scientific knowledge and technology.
The Hebrews were part of the Egyptian labor force, which would definitely include artisans and metalworkers. Based on what we have seen in Tutankhamun's treasures, the Hebrews would be more than capable of constructing the Ark of the Covenant.
Worked without saws? Mabe not but seems to me those that had tools knew how to use those tools to an extent they could make things better than any saw ever could. I think we sell our forefathers short on their abilities. I also think there were tools available that we have no idea about today.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they had some form of saw. Its often credited to how they cut the stone blocks for the pyramids. But perhaps wood cutting techniques at that time did not use saws?
Splitting with wedges means the wood splits along the grain lines. The result is a piece that is stronger, straighter, and less likely to warp than a saw cut piece.
Our forebears knew as much about the materials they worked with as they knew about the tools they used.
God literally grants a couple of the Israelites expert knowledge in crafting. I think this knowledge probably extended towards the ability to make useful tools as well
Note...brass has to replace the "gold" for the staff holding rings...cause gold, while dense, is still soft.
brass covered with gold foil, like all of it was, except it was wood.
Oh my - I LOVE Todd's RUclips channel. So awesome seeing him here
Love the clay alchemical symbol on the gold melters earrings. The clay mould could be a pull away two sided, did that with tin in university sculpture.
i stopped as soon as they stated they substituted bronze for the gold. how to test the ark if u dont build it exactly?
It was about if they were hable to built the Ark in this time with the tools they have. If you want something about what your looking for.....look at the Hutchison effect!
because gold is way easier to work with than bronze. If you can do it with bronze you can do it with gold.
@@TheCsel Exactly. Bronze is actually slightly more difficult than gold to cast and gold can easily be cold worked.
The Israelites spoiled the Egyptians before they left ,so there was more than enough gold
Look how well he made that plank. 🤗
and they used sand and stone to smooth it and polish it.
Acacia wood is a very dense hardwood and not easy to cut.
but desert-dry is easy to split and sand smooth with the sandstone blocks and simple rubbing.
When I read this part of the Bible all I got out of it was “blue, purple, scarlet, gold, linen”
Narrator sounds like the voice actor for Ghost Recon Wildlands and the politician from CyberPunk
You may wish to reevaluate the weight of the Ark. Not discounting the 'plating' (not coating) of the Shittim wood box itself.... As I understand it, the lid of the Ark measured approximately three feet by five feet and three inches thick and was fashioned from pure solid gold. One cubic foot of gold weighs in at approx. 1,206 lbs. and there are over 2 cubic feet that comprise the lid alone. The Ark of the Covenant would have weighed in at well over 1 ton. How did two men carry that over vast distances using only two wooden carry rods while dressed in heavy insulation clothing?
TL;DR The story is BS....
I was at a gun show in L.A. in the 1970s. One table had a man making parts for a muzzle loading gun. Using just files, small forge and cold chisel he made a functioning flintlock for a Brown Bess style gun in about four hours. And
Experimental archaeology is pretty neat. But I think we can pretty much say ahead of time that it was physically possible to do all this with their level of technology. There are clear examples of cultures being able to work gold before them. Fun to experiment and work out how, but the narration is misleading.
Yes of course they did
1. It is a mercy seat. How could God sit on that one.
2. The Angels helped the Israelites. Read Exodus, lev, numbers. They need to read all of it.. Egypt gave them good before they left.. and much more..
Where did they get the gold? They had plenty of gold in the golden calf idol they made when Moses went up on the mountain to get the 2 tablets from God that wrote the 10 Commandments.
I hope he gets into alchemy and learns how to turn the bronze into gold 🧚🏽♀️
They also got gold out of the land of Egypt, they took from the Egyptians
Israelites didn’t use wedding ring and slaves wouldn’t have valuables
Wow😊
well he made a kinda ring hardly an arc
just a proof of concept.
The bible states they have saws and an engine mmmmmmmmmmm
Humans were infinite geniuses since the first day of Adam. We're made in God's image lol
They had master craftsman in their population. And with God's direction, made a work of art
Yeah people keep forgetting that God told them exactly what to do and even gifted them with craftsmanship skills
Total rubbish.
Bronze is not gold.
Total BS.
true, but gold is way easy to work with. In forming and casting. If you can cast it in bronze you can be sure its possible in gold and easier.
@@TheCsel is this a real feasibility test or not.
Substitutions decry the concept.
@@martynfrench7187 Okay. You go ahead and donate the $$$ to use pure gold in the experiment. Then we'll talk again.
@@TheCsel foolish response to the failure to produce a realistic video experience. Sorry for your loss.
"they melt down gold donated a community-pull". No. They took family religious artefacts by force and melted them down for the new religion.
Reference please
The ark of the covenant is in my ancestors homeland ithiopia😙
No it's not. It's under the site where Jesus was crucified.
You know exodus didn't really happen, right? Much like the great flood of Noah.
73whitezz It did happen
@@glane3962 how come theres zero evidence for exodus, it's only in the bible. How did no other person record this event of millions of people moving. The Egyptians were very good at keeping records, you would think they would have mentioned it. Mythology at its finest!
73whitezz There is plenty of evidence. I’ll add some links to the city found by archaeologists by using the bible
73whitezz Many cities such as Nineveh have been discovered that we’re only mentioned in the bible
@@glane3962 so does that mean spiderman is real? New York gets mentioned all the time in the comics featuring him. Mentioning cities that were around then is hardly strong evidence.
But hey, if it makes you happy & you're not hurting anyone. Good luck to you!
The Isrealites left Egypt wit a lot of Egyptian gold.
God tells them to steal, right before condemning theft in his laws. Kind of ironic actually.
That’s the back payment and interest gained for their years of slavery
@@cyn3rgy759 I'm lazy so I'd like to ask you where that part is
edit: never mind, someone answered it
@@johnmah8352 did give interest back to the slaves they took while killing off the Midianites?
@@cyn3rgy759 can you give the verse for this theft?
He keeps talking about the Israelites as nomads but there were master craftsmen among them who built pieces worthy of a Pharaoh’s approval. To this day we marvel at the craftsmanship of ancient Egypt.
Agree with Ben
ancient Egypt yes, and according to those same ancient Egyptians the Israelites were never there, and according to science there isn't any real proof that they ever were.
@@anunnakielohim2727 ancient nomadic slaves typically don’t leave a lot behind. I’m sure their dwellings weren’t anything that would stand the test of time, nor was the shame their departure brought on the Pharaohs something that they would want written about in their tombs. Besides that the Bible itself is evidence. there is no evidence? There is a book which has provided accurate information for tens of thousands of successful archeological digs, and that counts as nothing? To who? Also, there is evidence for the grain silos that Joseph had built.
@@ben-si3dk who was the bible written by? any bias there? kind of silly how the writers wrote off their main characters (Israel and Judah) Jeremiah 3:8, Jeremiah 11:10-11, Deuteronomy 28:15-68.
let's just say the bible was correct and these so called slaves fled as the bible says they did, well first off they couldn't have been slaves as they took gold and precious gemstones from the Egyptians so that means they took payment for their so-called work and couldn't have been slaves, so the book wrongly calls them slaves, the book has been proven wrong.
Moses lived in Egypt. There is an archaeological site that was found where the Egyptian pharaoh and Moses lived during the plague.
Theres entire trades that have been lost to time. The trades work they did like in building the pyramids still baffle us. When you have limited resources but a civilization and a milena or two its amazing what people can do.
i dont think baffle is exactly the right word, there is an older man in europe who specializes in ancient stone building and the structures he build buy himself and the size of stones he moves is amazing, he moves blocks weighing tons by himself.
"A group of nomads???".......MANY Israelites left Egypt along with non Israelites the Tanakh says..........Good Ole' Smithsonian, they sound so Atheist Humanistic
Oh....Egyptian swords were found with Electroplated silver on them.....Do you know how much tech goes behind Electroplation?
The question is a silly premise for a video... why WOULDN'T they be able to make the ark. It's not baffling in any way.
Torah you mean? The Tanakh says nothing about the story of exodus. You believe Egyptians had access to electricity? Name your source, please.
@@cyn3rgy759 No, the Tanakh (entire Old Testament) contains the Torah (first 5 books of Moses) and Electroplation requires high, high levels of heat not electricity.
@@stefos6431 right. So you believe that a stone age civilization had access to bronze chisels?
@@cyn3rgy759 Electroplation requires high temps....do the research yourself.
This exchange is over.
More likely it was gold leaf gilded, not solid gold hardware.
Some items were gold; some were brass; some were gold overlay! - The Ark was gold overlay!!!
@@michaelmcgregor1202 And do you know that for sure? If so, HOW do you know?
@@leelarson107 we have detailed instructions and details of ark of covenant the same place that the bible tells us about it in the first place
No. The Cherubim are not looking at each other, they are looking at the ark and their wings are arched up over the ark with the tips touching. And you’re leaving God out of the process 😏 The Egyptians gave them all their riches when they left. That’s where the gold and jewels came from
right - the angels have outstretched wings and they touch. also the poles are 20 feet long.
Are you sure that's the case? That said, your description of the the ark is how I've seen it depicted.
Go check out Ron Wyatt's videos on the Ark of the Covenant .
The 2 bodies were as the 2 backs legs of the seat. The 2 opposite wings were spread out as a back to the seat, and the 2 other opposite wings were as armrests. This is the only logical seat I've seen that makes sense.
What people fail to realize is that the Israelites were craftsmen look at the artwork from Egypt at the time
They built the wonders of Egypt, why would this be a problem for them??? The fine tools they had in Egypt, they probably took with them!
Were the EGYPTIANS primative? Were the Romans primative? Were the Greeks primative??? But some how the people of Yah are????????????
Wasn’t it the Queen of Sheba who marvel at all that Salomon had??????????
DaveyShofarאיל ancient people were not knuckle dragging cavemen like “science” would like us to believe. They make fun of people who believe in God and that He is our creator yet they believe everything happened when nothing exploded and created everything! Goes completely against their own science that shows everything goes from a state of order to disorder. It takes far more faith to believe that nonsense than it does to believe in a creator.
@Oftin Wong totaly agree with you! But when you put shofar in
your name and you have a story like that.....it show how peoples or deeply brainwash by one book....one side of the story!
I talked about this, spear destiny, curse of canan, also ham was cursed ! Cain married a relative, noahs ark found in turkey, 7 churches turkey, satans seat turkey, when jesus died, when he returns 2033 to 2040, king david 8 wives, giants, who built the pyramids and why, 4 horseman will jesus return on Pegasus? Peter's body is in rome Catholic church, things preachers and pastors dont talk about christ name mentioned many times,
Those ancient civilizations were, and is still alot more advanced than us. We can't even figure out how many of the wonders of world were built and how they're still standing for today
They aren’t more advanced that us. They were far more advanced than historians give them credit for though
"They" are we. We were 10x more advanced than we are today. The knowledge has just been lost@@austinbevis4266
This video is all wrong. You make many assumptions.
People forget however that God is the one who told them how to build the ark. Do you think he could not have been able to tell them how to make better tools to do so? I mean if they can build a vessel like the ark, I am sure they could come up with better tools. People try to put God in a small box (No pun intended) that he cannot do these things.
It's what's inside of the box that matters not the the box itself 🤪
I wish you would have tried making one exactly how it said it was done in the Bible with the technology we have now 😞
People are talking about it like its high technology. Its not. Its a box of acacia wood overlaid with gold topped by a decorated lid. This is hardly a high tech creation. And, just my opinion...even if the box existed, I'm very skeptical about the alleged "powers" it supposedly demonstrated. Excalibur was a sword with supernatural qualities, too. Mythology is replete with magical artifacts. But lets take the story of this box with the grain of salt we reserve for the magic sword.
American narration and production techniques are very irritating. 2 minutes and I’m out.
The Biblical story says they "borrowed" jewelries of silver and gold and raiments, from their Egyptian neighbors [EX11:2; EX12:35-36]... maybe their neighbors were leaving jewelry on open graves of loved-ones dying in the plagues... maybe the Jews were involved in healing crafts, cabala-solace, in addition to Moses' plague crafts... maybe they borrowed vicarious-avatar-jewels for a wilderness 'exorcism', but then did-not/could-not return.... (A reasonable 'guess' considering how many details need slight adjustment throughout the Bible: e.g. the Exodus number was of aleph-teams not thousands, though that, is, what a combat-aleph-team is worth; e.g. the number of years of Jacob/Israel's family in Egypt was only 238....)
Isnt "borrowing" a form of grave robbery?
A - couldnt return
B _ chose not to bother
C - took what they thought was rightfully theirs, Spoils of exile, god given, and or finders keepers?
D - all of the above
Bezalel was blessed by Yahweh with all the skills and means necessary to complete the construction of both the Ark of the Covenant *and* the Tabernacle...
Thank you. If you didn’t say it I was going to.
No saws? I thought saws were allready around back then.
Former slaves had gold wedding rings? Were wedding rings even customary then?
God is alive and well....as always
Faith... Is evidence... Of things... Unseen. Remember God gave Bazalel special understanding of how to do these things.
oh, Todd looks so young.
They got the gold and silver from the Egyptians. Yahweh had them "despoil" the Egyptians before they left.
This is amazing. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I also just read this today 🥰 The Isrealites also had gold and silver and tons of stuff from the Egyptian people when they left Egypt. Exodus 3:22 and 12:36.
To assume they wouldn't have had the technology is pure ignorance.
Modern humanity... over engineered
and God said not to build one like it. . . So my friend, what are you doing then??? God said not to try and build one, so why are you doing exactly what your creator said???? Lets have some answers.???
I see many Comments here where people are making firm and hard statements about what happened back then. Where is the proof of what they're saying? I hope they aren't going to wave a Bible at me and tell me that I have to 'have faith'. The workmen in the video are doing a physical task, and without dogmatizing over things.
That’s Tod, from Tod’s Workshop!
How about that. Getting some exposure, well done.
Maybe we should just look at it and see. It's not lost, the bible tells us where it is. Others know also but they would never reveal where, for if they did, it would pretty much prove the Bible to be true. They can't have that...not in this time.
The Bible does NOT tell us where it is... more twisting of the truth...!
"Line by line, precept upon precept, a little here a little there" this is the rule the Bible gives to understand what it is saying. We understand Johns vision that was sealed till the time of the end. We understand who the "man of sin" is (antichrist), we know what the "Mark" is. If you seek, truly, the truth, the Holy Spirit will lead you into all truth.
They focused on a ring!? The thing was coved in LEAF. A ring is easy. And what would the glue be
Could nomads have done this …. The Bible says God gifted them with the skills they needed
David ratte built one. Exactly replica. He's not a master.
Brainless Clickbait... 👎👎👎
The interesting thing is 1700 F is roughly the temperature to melt gold. Back in the day we used to cast gold at that temperature.
Well gold is also incredibly pliable😅 you don’t need to melt it to craft things with it, you just need some heat to make it more pliable after work hardening it
I crafted a replica of the ark of the covenant
God watches over all the people of the world.. amen
Fill it with hydrochloric acid
the ark is amazing
BS!
If this was the real Ark anyone that touches it would drop dead the moment they saw it o.o now that is the power of God
Demon core
Duh !
.... and then again it might have been a civilization thousands of years before the Egyptians...
If the biblical text is too long to read; it wasn't just a group of nomads that left egypt, built some stuff, and wandered the desert for 40 years because someone lost a quarter... There were millions of them, with an army of six hundred thousand men alone. Twenty thousand men had the sole responsibility on moving the Tabernacle (Ark + Tent). These millions of slaves, plundering as they left, were joined by an uncounted number of egyptians, also plundering as they left. They traveled to other cities and regions, warring, razing, recruiting, looting, and screwing... for forty years because there were complications with the first generation that left, complications being that they decided to start worshiping a giant gilded cow, and thus the first generation was deemed unfit to enter the promised land where there was supposed to be no idolatry.
Of course they made the ark and of course they didn’t do it on their own. God was With them and enabling them ,,,,, Exodus. 31 : 6Moreover, I have selected Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, as his assistant. I have also given skill to all the craftsmen, that they may fashion all that I have commanded you: 7the Tent of Meeting, the ark of the Testimony and the mercy seat upon it, and all the other furnishings of the tent-…
Why wouldn’t the Israelites be able to create the arc? Weren’t they Egypt’s craftsmen. Look up Primitive Technology and see what can be done. I mean really.
Israelites didn't have saw, didn't have tools, used the bronze age tools yet they're the ones who built the Pyramids too ?!!! Huh wonder how ?!
Rome shall fall and all stuff shall return to its rightfull hands....nation of israel
So what’s in the ark?radiation of some kind?
just an empty coke can
Guessing technics on building a non-existent object is very scientific...
not!
one stump equals one plank of wood one centimeter thick. technically economical for the smithsonian. something similar to one tree, one toothpick.
psalm 105:37 He brought out Israel, laden with silver and gold . . .
The area where Moses was travelling in Saudi Arabia there's no forests just rocky desert and mountains so the wood came from the wagons so chariots had to be sacrificed to make this ark . The blue sapphire was actually blue granite or shale rock and it was radioactive, the gold covering outside and inside was a protective shield so gold outside, wood inside and gold inside the whole thing must of weight 50 kg . Moses when coming down from Mount Sinai was glowing meaning radiating.
Stop trying to look for a scientific explanation. Speaking to God made Moses “radiate” he wasn’t radioactive. Irradiated people don’t even glow like how Moses was described to be glowing.
This is just drawing at straws....
They got it from.farogh .
Iron tongs tho...
The Bible says that God would cause the Egyptians to be kindly disposed toward the Hebrews so that they would voluntarily hand over to them gold and precious gems before they departed Egypt. That was one way the Hebrews would have had such wealth as described not only in making the ark but in all the items of the Tabernacle.
where did Israel get their materials? after the Pharoah said the could leave " and the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. and they spoiled the Egyptians."
Egypt had conquered Jerusalem and surrounding areas at the time, so the Israelite's escaped Egypt into more Egypt?
@Hineni John3:16 Interesting, I don't remember the Egyptians ever ruling Jerusalem, but I suppose anything is possible. I'm pretty sure it was part of the Ottoman Empire for a super long time.
Great craftsmanship but where did they get the knowledge to power the arc?
God
@@austinbevis4266 what was his name, Enki or Enlil, maybe Thoth the atlantean?
@@2DooR13 The God of Israel, The God of Abraham. The one who is, who was, and who is to come .
@@austinbevis4266 Moses just stole the ark from the Egyptians. That is why him and his people got chased down by the Pharo's army to the Sea of Reeds. Plus there are more than one ark. The last one we knew about was stolen from an Ethiopian church recently !
Why?
just totally wrong - just look at furniture from the time period found in tombs - and the gold was hammered, not poured. Just plain guesswork.
I would love to build an Ark from bronze tools. Jesus is Lord and YHWH is our Creator! Amen!
Maybe start off with something small like a fishing boat if you love to fish. Recreating historic replicas could be a hobby you enjoy.
And the Lord said " to moses i have already gave them the skills to make the ark
They had incredible knowledge of trades woodworking shipping trades dock buliding(don’t tell curse of oak island) water navigation prestos metals and possibilities of nucular fusion. Very high level of extreme buliding
““And I will make the Egyptians favorably disposed toward this people, so that when you leave you will not go empty-handed.”
Exodus 3:21 NIV
the Ark was gold gilded outside and inside. the wood and gold together were sheilding for the uranium tablets, along with a golden bottle of manna (edible gold), and Aaron’s staff.
Can you imagine? If the result of our entire species was the result of ignorance on lethal and highly radioactive material, used to build tablets.
An uneducated and primitive peoples would feel its "effect" and immediately think it must be "divine".
Manna is not edible gold. The Israelites could not have ate nothing but gold for 40 years straight. I also think manna is described as white and resembling coriander seed or frost.
...or ... the whole thing was a flight of imagination?
well its recorded in Egyptian history. I guess that nation imagined it?
@@RangerCaptain11A recorded where?
@@TheCsel 1) The Ibscha Relief from the tomb of Khnumhotep II, 2) a papyrus mentions a wealthy Egyptian lord whose 77 slaves included 48 of Semitic origin, 3) by the late Middle Kingdom era, around 3700 years ago, Canaanites had actually achieved power, in the form of a line of pharaohs ruling the Lower Kingdom, coexisting with the Egyptian-ruled Upper Kingdom. These Canaanite pharaohs included the mysterious "Yaqub," whose existence is attested by 27 scarabs found in Egypt, Canaan and Nubia and a famous one found at Shikmona, by Haifa.
so lots of breadcrumbs around to validate the Genesis narrative.
@@RangerCaptain11A interesting. thanks.