Tales from Palm Beach: The Lost Ark

So last Friday, during our youth program, we studied the Ten Commandments. Obviously, this raises questions of the notorious Ark of the Covenant, which held the Ten Commandments. I received a question from one of kids: "Where is the Ark now?"

In a regular youth group: "No one knows. After the Babylonian conquest of Israel, all record of the Ark was lost. Many say it ended up in the Egyptian city of Tanis which was swallowed by a sandstorm. Some speculate it ended up in Ethiopia or Egypt, and some even say the Knights Templar took it to France."

In my youth group: "It's currently hidden in a government warehouse in Washington, D.C. following Indiana Jones's rescue of the treasure from the Nazi regime."

Chuckling broke out across the room. There were a few confused faces -- Sometimes I forget that they weren't raised in the 80s.