Ark of the covenant

The Ark of the Covenant is described in the Bible as a sacred container, wherein rested two stone Tablets containing the Ten Commandments as well as Aaron's rod and a golden jar containing manna. According to the Biblical account, the Ark was built at the command of God, in accord with Moses' prophetic vision on Mount Sinai (Exodus 25:9-10). God communicated with Moses 'from between the two cherubim' on the Ark's cover (Exodus 25:22). The Ark was constructed using acacia wood which is also known as the “tree of life”. This chest was said to be a cubit and a half broad and high, and two and a half cubits long 4.27 ft. x 2.56 ft. x 2.56 ft. (27.93 ft. cu.). The Ark was covered all over with the purest gold. Its upper surface or lid, the mercy seat, was surrounded with a rim of gold. On each of the two sides were two gold rings, wherein were placed two wooden poles (with a decorative sheathing of gold), to allow the Ark to be carried. Over the Ark, at the two extremities, were two cherubim, with their faces turned toward one another. Their outspread wings over the top of the Ark formed the throne of God, while the Ark itself was his footstool.

The Ark was the most important symbol of the Jewish faith, and served as the only physical manifestation of God on earth. There was nothing dangerous about the Ark. What was dangerous was the failure of the Israelites to live by the Covenant and to incur God's anger. We all know that our God is a loving God and he loves his children dearly. There is no way a God kill’s person who looks at the Ark, make them blind or burn them to death. That is not the characteristic of our God. Indeed God wants us to be near to him, obey him and love him dearly. The Ark of the Covenant was man made and it’s true inside the Ark lies the tablet of God’s Commandments. Logically the Commandments were to teach humans the law of God. There is an interesting theory that the Ark contains massive radiation. The ‘stone’ tablets which had Gods commandments written on them.

16. And it came to pass on the third day, when it was morning, that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of a horn exceeding loud; and all the people that were in the camp trembled. 
17. And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. 
18. Now Mount Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly 
19. And when the voice of the horn waxed louder and louder, Moses spoke, and God answered him by a voice 
20. And the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, to the top of the mount; and the LORD called Moses to the top of the mount; and Moses went up. 

A radioactive meteorite falling onto Mount Sinai could be a valid explanation as to why the Ark could have such properties. The stone tablets could have very well been made out of radioactive meteorite. It was also referenced that the Ark was used as some kind of ‘beacon’, or source of light: The Ark could have acted as a giant conductor of electricity. Gold, being one of the best conductors could have been super charged with the heat and even touching it could have been fatal. This electrical theory could explain why it wasn’t allowed to touch the floor, making contact with the floor would ‘ground’ it and it would lose all its stored charge.

Another theory is either the Babylonians tore up the Ark for the gold and burnt the rest with the temple, or God removed it from the temple by His power. Whatever happened we know that the Ark never existed again as part of the rebuilt temple. Remember that the Jews had defiled the covenant that the Ark was a testament to its existence. When the Temple was destroyed and all its treasures taken to Babylon, the Ark of the Covenant was not among them. God evidently would not allow the Ark and its contents — especially the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments — to fall into pagan hands again, so He translated it (like Enoch and Elijah) directly to the heavenly temple.  It was only by God's mercy that any of the Jews came back and rebuilt Jerusalem.

Obviously looking for the Ark is a waste of time because Apostle John was the last eyewitness to have indisputably seen the Ark. He saw it more than 600 years later when he himself was translated into the distant future of the end times (Revelation 11:19) Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and the ark of his covenant was seen within his temple. There were flashes of lightning, rumblings, and peals of thunder, an earthquake, and heavy hail. The only place we can find the Ark of the Covenant is in Heaven.