The Ark That Wasn’t There

“Found!” proclaimed Lawrence Blaser, referring to the actual cave where David accidentally happened upon King Saul near the spring at Ein Gedi on the shores of the Dead Sea. David could have killed King Saul, but instead he simply cut off the hem of his robe to make the point (1 Samuel 24). Blaser’s search began in 1958 after he read the works of Ellen G. White, a 19th-century prophet of the Seventh Day Adventist church. In Volume 4 of her Spiritual Gifts, Blaser, a home builder from Englewood, Colorado, read that shortly before the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem […]