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Other Ark-seekers have advocated alternative theories. In the early 1980s, one group claimed to have found the Ark in a cave in Jordan. In the late 1990s, Texas-based Bible scholar-turned-archaelogist Vendyl Jones advanced the
possibility that the Ark might be buried in Israel, near the shore of the Dead Sea. But so far, no one
has produced it.
Vendyl Jones, a Texas Bible scholar who claims
to be the model for the movie character Indiana Jones, sits on part of
a biblical wall he uncovered near Jericho (out of frame), which he says
is part of an ancient Israelite city where the Ark of the Covenant was
once housed. Jones said he could unearth the Ark itself if Israel let
him.
Apocalyptic Christians don't have to worry about the Ark's location, because
they know that, according to the New Testament, the world eventually will
see it once again. Revelation 11:19 notes that after the seventh trumpet
is sounded, "Then God's temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple
was seen the Ark of his covenant. And there came flashes of lightning,
rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm."
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