If you opened the ark of the covenant would the same thing happen as it did in the movie Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark?

If the Ark of the Covenant, given to Moses by God during the Exodus from Egypt, is ever found, history will have to be rewritten. It is the strong consensus of historians that there was no Exodus from Egypt as described in The Bible, which means there should be no Ark of the Covenant.

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