Finding of 
The Ark of the Covenant











1978
Ron and His sons, Danny and Ronny, traveled to Israel.  From there they drove to the western shore of the Gulf of Aqaba for scuba diving in search of chariot parts in the Red Sea.
Ron became sun-burned and was forced to discontinue his diving in the Red Sea. 
While waiting for his return flight to the United States, Ron was walking along an ancient stone quarry, known to some as "the Calvary Escarpment."  As he was walking, he began conversing with a local authority about Roman antiquities. At one point, they stopped walking, and Ron's left hand pointed to a site being used as a trash dump and he stated, "That's Jeremiah's Grotto and the Ark of the Covenant is in there."
Even though these words had come from his own mouth and his own hand had pointed, he had not consciously done or said these things. In fact, it was the first time he had ever thought about excavating for the Ark.
The man with him, quite out of character, also reacted strangely. He said, "That's wonderful! We want you to excavate, and we'll furnish your permits, put you up in a place to stay and even furnish your meals!"
At that time Ron declined the man's offer until he could see if there was any reason to believe the Ark could be in that location.
Ron returned home and began some serious research and study.
Research:
Why Would the Ark Be in That Location?
In searching the Bible, Ron found the last mention in the Bible of the Ark's location in Jerusalem about the year 621 BC, just 35 years before the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by Nebuchadnezzar.
This indicated that the Ark disappeared from the Divine record sometime between 621 BC and 586 BC. Since the temple was completely destroyed, there is no doubt that it was NOT there after that time.
Ron found in 2 Kings 24:13, 2Kings 25:13-18, and Jeremiah 52:17-23, a very detailed account of the items taken to Babylon from the "king's house" and from the "house of the Lord"- it even mentioned small items like "spoons", etc.  But the Ark isn't mentioned. Neither is it mentioned in the lists of things brought back from Babylon in the book of Ezra.
We are told in Jeremiah 28:3 that everything taken to Babylon from the "house of the Lord" would be returned, and since the Ark wasn't among the returned items, this indicates that it was never taken there.
Shishak and Sennacherib also took items from the "house of the Lord" but they did not include the Ark of the Covenant.
Ron's Theory:
The Ark of the Covenant was hidden just prior to the destruction of the temple when the city was surrounded by the Babylonian siege wall.
The Ark of the Covenant was hidden somewhere within the confines of the city wall of Jerusalem and the Babylonian siege wall.
The entire city of Jerusalem and  the temple were destroyed in 586 BC by the Babylonians, so the Ark could have only escaped destruction or captivity by not being anywhere in the city.
The site Ron had pointed to was, he believed, outside of the ancient city wall and within the siege wall.
Two non-Biblical sources, 2 Maccabees and Parilipomena of Jeremiah, stated that the sacred objects from the temple were hidden by Jeremiah before the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar.
Ron's conclusion:
It was supposition based on study, but still only supposition. Yet, it was enough to base a decision on.  He decided to go ahead with the excavation.
The Excavation Begins
January 1979
Ron Wyatt and his sons Ronny and Danny return to Jerusalem and began the excavations.  They would eventually remove many tons of rock and debris, sifting through all of it for artifacts: A requirement of the Department of Antiquities which they were happy to comply with.
They began by digging straight down along a cliff face, forming a steep wall with the earth they removed. 
Almost immediately, Ron noticed a "shelf-like" niche cut into the face of the cliff. Digging down further, he discovered there were three of these "niches" cut into the face of the cliff with a smaller one on the right side.

"Niches"
As the location of the dig was in the vicinity of the "skull face", known to be a crucifixion site, Ron was convinced that these were cut into the cliff-face to hold "signs" or notices stating the crime of the crucifixion victims in three languages (Hebrew, Greek and Latin).
As Ron continued to dig he found a First Century building. 
His conclusion that it was a First Century building was based on the fact that the earliest coin he found in the dig was a Roman coin of Tiberius who was Emperor from 14 to 37 AD; the latest coins being from about 135 AD.
This building was built directly adjacent to the cliff-face and portion of the back wall extended along the actual face of the cliff. The foundations of the building were still in place.
Ron noticed a very unusual large rock which was  too symmetrical to be a natural-shaped rock. When he lifted it, he discovered that it was covering a squarish hole chiseled into the bedrock.

Stone covering "Squarish Hole"
As he examined this hole and cleared away the dirt around it, he discovered that it had a large crack extending out from it. As they removed more dirt and debris, he discovered a platform-like shelf of bedrock which extended out about 8 feet from the face of the cliff, and this squarish hole was chiseled in this "shelf."

"Squarish Hole" and crevice
His earlier conclusion that the cut-out niches were for signs, stating  the crucifixion victim's crime, was now supported by the fact that he had found more square holes, all about twelve to thirteen inches square, cut into the bedrock.  He was convinced that these holes once held crosses.
The building structure that remained intact showed that it originally covered the entire site.  He concluded, based on the evidence they'd found, that a Christian church had been built over the place of the crucifixion of Christ - the stone wall extended along the cliff-face directly behind the cross-hole that was on the "platform-like" shelf of bedrock. It appeared that this was the place where the "featured" criminal-victim was crucified, being elevated several feet above those crucified around him.  He believed that the one elevated above the rest (on the shelf-like platform of bedrock), held the cross of Christ.
The crack extending out from the cross-hole on the elevated "platform" appeared to Ron to have been caused by an earthquake.  It displayed no evidence of being chiseled.
As he removed debris from the cross-hole, he finally reached the bottom and measured it - it extended 23.5 inches into the solid bedrock, while the crack appeared to extend much deeper.
1980
By this time, Ron and the boys had been working here for almost two years. They had begun in January of 1979 and it was now late 1980.
They had explored the entire underground cliff-face, looking for an entrance into a cave or tunnel. If the Ark was in that location, it certainly would be hidden in a cave, he reasoned. Finally, as they continued to search, Ron made the comment to the boys that he was "impressed" that they should just break through the rock of the cliff-face. Ronny said he thought that was a good idea, but Ron resisted. That rock is extremely hard and he knew what difficult work it would be.
Finally, when Danny told his father that he, too, believed they ought to go ahead and break through the cliff face, Ron relented and agreed. It was the only option left.
With hammers and chisels, they began their work. It wasn't long before they broke through the rock into an open space. Enlarging the hole, they saw behind it a cave which was about 15 feet in height and of about the same width. Crawling through, they finally were inside the actual mountain called "Moriah."
Most people think that were the temple was is the highest point on Mount Moriah.  Actually the mountain keeps getting higher and higher up the area in which Ron was digging.
As the mountain kept getting higher, it was impossible for the northern walls of the city to be defended.  In order to alleviate the problem an escarpment or "a dry moat" was dug outside the northern wall so that an invading army would have to go down through the escarpment before approaching the wall.  Because of the escarpment, most people do not realize that the area known as "the place of the skull" is actually the highest point on Mt. Moriah.  Perhaps the place where Abraham was going to sacrifice Isaac? (See the Map Below)

Map of Mt. Moriah
Inside the Cave System
For almost two years, they had been tunneling underground, finding artifacts and uncovering exciting structures almost daily. But now, they were in a barren cavern that they would soon learn was only a very small part of a very extensive honeycomb of natural caves and tunnels within the mountain.
The Ark of the Covenant
January 1981
As 1981 came to an end, Ron and the boys returned to Jerusalem.  Even though it is cold there in the winter, the cave system was always a very comfortable and constant temperature, both in summer as well as winter.   The work, however, was beginning to take a toll on all three of them. They all began to develop a fever and slight chills and pneumonia-like symptoms.
On December 24th Ron had to send Ronny back to the US because he was so ill.  Danny had to follow on December 31.
Ron was sick too; but continued to work, for as he prayed, in his mind came the promise that he would find the Ark of the Covenant at that time.
January 1, 1982
Alone, without the boys, Ron needed some help.  Ron had met one young local man named "James".  whom he had discovered was very honest and trustworthy.  He began to use him in the actual excavation when Ronny and Danny weren't available.
Ron and the boys had explored most of the tunnels over the last year, but Ron's plan this trip was to leave no possibility unexplored.  He and "James" crawled through the vast system of tunnels, now much larger and extensive because of the passages they had opened up and the walls they had chiseled through.
Ron would decide where to go next and he and "James" would follow that tunnel. If and when they found a small opening, Ron would enlarge it enough for "James" to crawl through, and he would carefully check it out and report to Ron everything that he saw.
They followed one particularly difficult passageway which took them through a "chimney" which extended straight up and a tight tunnel which was so small that Ron had to exhale in order to squeeze through.  He had to stop to take a breath and when he inhaled, the tunnel was so tight he couldn't fill his lungs completely.

A tight tunnel


When they got through, Ron saw a very small opening in the wall of the tunnel they were now in. Directly in front of it was a stalactite about 16 inches long which almost appeared to be "guarding" the tiny hole.  He broke the stalactite off.
Enlarging the tiny hole enough to see in, Ron could see, with the aid of his flashlight, a cave chamber completely full of rocks, (all larger than "fist" size), with about 18 inches of clearance between the rocks and the ceiling.
The chamber did not look promising at first but leaving nothing unexplored,  Ron enlarged it enough for "James" to crawl through.
Almost as soon as "James" crawled through the tiny opening, he frantically came tumbling back out, shaking and shouting "What's in there? What's in there? I'm not going back in there!!"  Ron saw in his eyes sheer, complete and utter terror; yet James said he had seen nothing!
Whatever he experienced was real, for he left not only that chamber, but the entire cave system, never to return.
"James'" reaction sparked a hesitant excitement in Ron - he would have never given that chamber another look if not for "James'" terror.
Now alone in this vast cave system, he took his hammer and chisel and enlarged the hole, crawling through.  With only about 18 inches clearance, he had to lie on his stomach with nothing but his flashlight in his hand for light.


January 6, 1982 - 2 PM
Shining his flashlight down through the massive pile of large rocks, his eye caught a glimpse of something shiny.  He began slowly removing the rocks one at a time and discovered some dry-rotted wooden timbers just beneath the rocks, and then some also dry-rotted remains of animals skins that turned to powder when he moved them. The animals skins were covering a gold veneered table with a raised molding around the side which consisted of an alternating pattern of a bell and a pomegranate. It only took him a moment to realize that at the least this was an object from the first temple! But he was in such a confined space, he couldn't uncover the entire table. He later concluded, after closer examination, that this was the Table of Shewbread.
With great anticipation, he looked around to see what else he could see, which wasn't much. He shined his flashlight around the open area and then up to the ceiling. There, he saw something that caught his eye - it was a crack in the ceiling with a black substance within the crack.
Crawling slowly and painfully over the rocks to the rear of the chamber, he saw a stone case extending through the rocks. It had a flat stone top which was cracked completely in two and the smaller section was moved aside, creating an opening into the stone case. But the top was too near the ceiling for him to look inside. Yet he knew what was inside.
The crack in the ceiling was directly above the cracked part of the lid, where it was open, and the black substance had fallen from the crack into the case because some of it had splashed onto the lid.
It was at this time, as Ron recalls, as the instant realization of what had happened here dawned on him, that he passed out. When he realized that the crack in the ceiling was the end of the crack he had found in the elevated cross-hole many feet above him, and the black substance was blood which had fallen through the crack and into the stone case.
Ron then knew that the Ark of the Covenant was in the stone case:  But the most overwhelming realization was that Christ's Blood had actually fallen onto the Mercy Seat.
Ron Wyatt became the first witness to the literal fulfillment of the "type" represented by all the sacrifices made by God's people since Adam and Eve, and later specifically directed by God, Himself, in the laws of the sacrificial system.
When Ron came to it was 2:45 PM.
The condition of the chamber, completely full within 18 inches of the ceiling, made it impossible for Ron to do anything else. He could not foresee any possible way of bringing anything out unless the entrance to the chamber through which the objects were originally taken in was found.
He climbed out the small hole, back through the tortuous series of tunnels and sealed the passageway with a stone. To anyone looking through the tunnel, it would appear that it came to an abrupt end. However, the rock could and would be easily removed by Ron when he returned.
Ron did not report his experience to anyone at that time.  He had expected to find the Ark and bring it out, but that now seemed impossible.
He made several more trips into the chamber, and eventually reported to the authorities what he had found.


Inside the Ark of the Covenant
LATER...
Ron returned to the chamber.  Using a star tipped drill he made a 5/8 inch hole in the stone case.  Ron had brought with him a colonoscope (a medical device with a powerful light source used to look into the human body).  Inserting the colonoscope into the hole he could see the crown-molding around the top of the Mercy Seat and the flat golden side.
As the colonoscope doesn't allow viewing of a large area, and since he had little means to guide it other than a small latitude of rotation, he couldn't see a great deal. But he saw enough to know for sure that it was the Ark of the Covenant.

LATER...
During his several visits to the chamber, Ron tried to thoroughly explore the contents. He measured the chamber and found it to be 22 feet long by 12 feet on 2 sides, while the other 2 sides followed the line of the cliff-face, forming a chamber that narrowed down in one corner.
The objects he saw in that chamber that he feels confident in identifying are: the Ark of the Covenant in the Stone case; the Table ofShewbread; the Golden Altar of Incense that was in front of the veil; the Golden Censer; the seven-branched Candlestick holder, (which didn't have candles but had tiny, bowl-like golden oil lamps which are built into the tips of the candlestick); a very large sword; an Ephod; aMiter with an ivory pomegranate on the tip; a brass shekel weight; numerous oil lamps; and a brass ring which appeared to be for hanging a curtain or something similar.
There are more objects, but these are all Ron could positively identify. All of these objects were covered by the dry-rotted dark-colored animal skins, then dry-rotten wooden timbers on top of the skins, and finally the large rocks piled over everything.
On the back of the Ark is a small open cubicle which still contains the "Book of the Law" and is presumably the one Moses, himself, wrote.  Ron found the Scrolls, written on animal skins, to be in perfect condition.
The Original Passage Used
to Carry the Ark into the Cave
Before permanently sealing the passageway, Ron had gone into the chamber with the Ark and opened the original entrance to see if he could follow it to its point of origin.  When he opened it, he discovered on the other side a very large tunnel which extended in both directions. 
He observed that the tunnel appeared to be a natural tunnel that had been enlarged as he saw chisel marks.  It was completely blocked with large stones in both directions.
The problem now to be solved was determining the path taken by those who put the items in the chamber.
To resolve this question, Ron began by using simple reason. The items had been in the temple - that was their point of origin.  They were now in this chamber, many feet below ground level.  A great number of tunnels have been found under the temple mount and the city, but none that he knew of were heading in this direction.  Was the entrance into the tunnel within the city or was it somewhere across the street in front of the northern wall?   Ron had an idea as to where to begin his search.


"Zedekiah's Cave"
In the winter of 1854, Dr. Barclay, a physician and missionary, went for a walk in Jerusalem.  He was walking to the site of the traditional "Jeremiah's Grotto" which is along the same Calvary escarpment.  As he walked past the Damascus Gate, suddenly his dog, running ahead of him, vanished.  As he searched for his dog who didn't respond as he usually did to his owner's whistles, he heard a muffled barking coming from the direction of the city wall.  When he approached the wall, he noticed a deep hole and when he peered inside, he heard his dog's familiar bark.  And this is how "Zedekiah's Cave" was discovered (or rediscovered).
This vast cavern is located underneath the Muslim section of the city, extending 750 feet into "Mt. Moriah", beginning at the trench or dry moat separating the northern and southern portion.
It is 325 feet wide at the maximum point and the average height is almost 50 feet. It was clearly a stone quarry, but at what point it was in use, we really do not know.  There are those who believe its stone was used in the first temple, and that may be true.  But its existence was not a well known fact and most likely it was always kept completely sealed for fear of any enemies trying to tunnel into the city.  Little is known for sure about the giant quarry, but one point everyone agreed on was the fact that there was no entrance into the city from the quarry.
Viewing the diagram of its layout, the dark areas are pillars of solid rock left in place to support the ceiling, like the pillars left in a coal mine.  As the miners work their way back out of the mine after depleting it of all its coal, they remove these pillars of coal and the mine usually caves in.
These were obviously left in place to prevent the cavern from collapsing since part of the northern city is above it. 
As Ron examined the quarry carefully, he noticed one thing that did not make sense.  He tried to put himself in the "shoes" of the ancient stonecutters as he surveyed this massive quarry.
Seeing how deep into the side of the mountain the quarry extended, he thought about how much work it would have been to bring all that stone out of the quarry, carry it through one of the northern gates and into the city. It would have been easier to quarry it out of the quarry across the street than to haul it out of that cavern.  To Ron, the solution was obvious - to cut a hole through the ceiling of the quarry and simply haul the rocks up into the city.  The more he thought about it, the more obvious it became to him - yet, no one had ever found an entrance into the quarry from the city. 
Ron began to examine the rock pillars; and sure enough, he found one that wasn't a stone pillar at all.  It was a giant mound of earth and debris, piled up, he believed, to the ceiling and through the hole in the ceiling.  On the surface it would look like normal ground.  But unable to examine the section above ground, he didn't know if the rock had been cut in a manner that would allow the cut-out section to fit back over the hole like a "man-hole cover" or if it was only the piled up earth that filled the hole.  But he was convinced that the hole is there.
A Babylonian Cherub had been found carved into the wall of one of the passageways.  Ron believed that this Cherub was placed there to mark the entrance to the passageway that was used by Jeremiah to take the Ark of the Covenant outside the city walls by way of the underground cave system.  

The cherub from the cave wall, and illustration.


2003 JERUSALEM EXCAVATIONS CONFIRM RADAR ANOMALY

SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERIES 
IN ZEDEKIAH’S CAVE
SPECIAL NOTE: Wyatt Archaeological Research is sponsoring the excavation in Zedekiah's Cave under the full scientific directorship of Yehiel Zelinger of the Israel Antiquities Authority.  IAA is not party to the claims made by Ron Wyatt concerning the Ark.
As the work in Zedekiah's Cave is incomplete, this article is not intended, nor should it in any way be considered to be a conclusion, or an interpretation of the data collected.   It is simply an overview of the work that has been done to this point.


BACKGROUND:


Around 1450 BC a consuming fire descended upon Mt. Sinai. The Creator Himself came down and made a covenant with the Children of Israel. With His own finger, He wrote His covenant, The Ten Commandments, and instructed that it be placed in a golden receptacle known as the Ark of the Covenant, a container for the covenant and the very throne upon which His presence was to dwell.
In the presence of the Almighty, the chosen people of Israel became invincible "a kingdom of priests and a holy nation."
Some 800 years later, Israel had fallen away from it’s obligation to that Covenant; and, due to idolatrous abominations, the combining of pagan worship with that described in the first four commandments, the presence of God left the mercy seat, and with it the protection of Israel. In the year 586 B.C. the Babylonians took the city of Jerusalem, but not the Ark of the Covenant, for it had mysteriously vanished, seemingly without a trace. The Biblical accounts in 2 Kings chapter 25, and Ezra chapter 1, reveal that the Ark of the Covenant was not included in the spoils of Babylon.
In the late nineteenth century, while exploring the quarries of King Solomon under the city of Jerusalem, a French scholar, Charles Clermont-Ganneau , spotted a carving etched into the stone. Upon careful examination he discovered the body of a Lion, the wings of a bird, and the head of a man. The representation he found fit the description of a Biblical Cherub, not uncommon to find at the entrance of royal passageways.
Before his death in 1999, Biblical Archaeologist Ron Wyatt described an underground passageway that he determined to be that used by Jeremiah the prophet in transporting the Ark of the Covenant to a place of safety during the Babylonian siege. Ron found that the cherub, seen by Ganneau in King Solomon’s quarries, marked its entrance.
It is important to consider the fact that the information which Ron related was not a theory, but rather an eyewitness account. He believed that one day his account would be verified. As the official source of information relating to the discoveries of Ron Wyatt, Wyatt Archaeological Research - www.wyattmuseum.com - continues it’s leadership role in the Biblically prescribed principal of verification. Pursuant to that principal, the beginning phase of excavation was recently completed to locate and document the passageway of Jeremiah; a passageway which could play an integral part in events prior to the final revelation of the Creators Covenant with His people.


EXPLORATION:




In February 2003 Wyatt Archaeological Research conducted ground penetrating radar scans at the exact location Ron had described as the entrance to the passageway of Jeremiah. The Radar scans revealed a void behind a man made wall, and the project to locate Jeremiah’s passageway began. Excavation permits were obtained from the Israel Antiquities Authority and an appeal was made for volunteers to participate. The response was overwhelming. Not only were there those who offered to physically assist with the work; but others who offered financial support and most importantly their support by way of prayer.
Among those who supported the efforts of Wyatt Archaeological Research, an international team consisting of thirty plus volunteers physically participated in a concerted effort to locate the passageway of Jeremiah.
The project began with the use of the latest technology in Subsurface Interface Radar, a device that can actually peer below the surface and see what lies beneath. Having located an anomaly below a man made wall, which matched that seen in previous radar scans, the work began in earnest. Excavation began down the face of the wall in an attempt to find some opening which might lead to Jeremiah’s passageway. This effort led to a dangerous and unexpected discovery that would alter excavation plans, the discovery of what appeared to be the walls foundation only a short distance below the surface.











Once again, safety concerns became a factor. It was determined by the engineers assigned to the project, that once the excavation extended past the walls’ foundation, which now served as a ceiling, the tremendous weight of the loose material above could collapse in on the excavations; a potentially deadly scenario.
In an effort to make an accurate determination of how much material rested above, a survey crew was called in to calculate the exact position and elevation of the Wyatt excavation in relationship to the ancient walls of Suleiman, and the Old City of Jerusalem which lay above. After locating a survey benchmark outside the Northern wall of Jerusalem, the position of the city above was superimposed on the excavation map. The survey led to a startling discovery. 



To everyone’s amazement, not only was the excavation about to extend beyond the wall below, but beyond the towering outer walls of Jerusalem, a scenario in perfect agreement with the account of Ron Wyatt.



As the survey continued it was soon determined that more than 10 meters, some 40 feet of material, lay above the heads of the workers.
With the excavation schedule for the first phase of excavations nearing its end, it was agreed by all parties that the site should temporarily be secured. A decision which would not serve to end the project; but rather a new beginning, an essential step toward future success.
As archaeological engineering for continued excavation proceeds, discussions are underway about amazing options never before thought possible.
Reminded that Ron Wyatt worked for three and one half years before the realization of his efforts to locate the Ark of the Covenant, the Wyatt teams returns home with a sense of accomplishment and awaits another day for the key that will unlock the mystery of the cherub in Zedekiah’s cave, and the passageway that leads to the Ark of the Covenant.
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2005 OFFICIAL REPORT
ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY:



1. Location map.    



2. Plan and sections.    



3. Pottery.    



4. Glass finds (drawings).    



5. Glass finds (photograph).    
The Glass Finds 
Natalia Katznelson  
   
A few fragments of glass vessels were found, including the unique cylinder seal from the eighth-seventh centuries BCE. The seal was made of transparent, colorless glass, which is quite rare in such an object; it bears a wheel-cut pattern, depicting a cultic scene. A wide perforation in the center of the cylinder may indicate its secondary use as a bead. The other finds consisted of three fragments of vessels on bases with a thick wound trail along the edge (Figs. 4:1–3; 5), which belong to a well-known type of conical beakers or lamps from the fourth century CE. However, variants of beakers/lamps with similar bases are rare in excavated assemblages in the country. Other fragments, also dating to the Roman period (second–fourth centuries CE), included a beaker (Fig. 4:4), a bowl (Fig. 4:5) and a jug with a ribbed handle.


  

During August 2005 a trial excavation was conducted within the Garden Tomb compound, north of the Damascus Gate (Permit No. A-4549*). The excavation, on behalf of the Antiquities Authority and funded by two foundations from the United States––the Wyatt Archaeological Research (WAR) of Tennessee and the Biblical Archaeology Foundation (BAF) of Texas––was directed by Y. Zelinger, with the assistance of V. Pirsky (surveying), I. Berin (drafting), T. Sagiv (photography), N. Katznelson (glass finds), T. Ornan (cylinder seal), D.T. Ariel (numismatics), C. Hersch (glass and pottery drawings), as well as volunteers from around the world. 
The excavation was conducted south of a natural bedrock outcrop that was identified by General C. Gordon in 1883 as  Golgotha  (Fig. 1). During the 1980s, R. Wyatt excavated several underground chambers at the site. The current excavation cleaned and documented the former chambers and additional chambers were excavated. 
The underground complex was entered by way of a narrow natural shaft (L100; 1.0–1.2 m; Fig. 2), descending 5 m deep and opening into an irregular-shaped chamber (L101, 2 ×  3 m, 2.8 m high). A narrow opening (0.65 × 1.00 m) was breached in the southern wall of the chamber, leading into a rock-hewn corridor, aligned east–west. The passage westward was blocked by the collapse of earth and stones; eastward, it led into a circular building (L102; diam. 3 m) whose walls were built of fieldstones (0.3–0.4 m wide) and were founded on the steps of an ancient quarry, which descended vertically c. 2.5 m southward. The building’s function was not ascertained due to the limitations of the excavation. It was probably part of a residential structure or an industrial installation. The soil fill in L102 yielded an extremely worn coin that dated to the Umayyad period (697–750 CE; IAA 101943). Most of the potsherds from the fill in L102dated to
>  the Hellenistic–Byzantine periods––a spindle bottle from the Hellenistic period (Fig. 3:7), a cooking pot, a jar and a lamp from the Roman period (Fig. 3:5, 6, 8) and a bowl from the Byzantine period (Fig. 3:4). 
   
Other finds recovered from the fill included a krater dating to Iron Age II (Fig. 3:1), a jar of Iron Age I (Fig. 3:2) and a broken animal figurine (Fig. 3:3), which is well known in Iron Age II Jerusalem. A special find was a glass cylinder seal (diam. 0.75 cm, length 1.7 cm; the seal was identified as such by C. Hersch), dating to the eighth-seventh centuries BCE. The seal is in the local Neo-Assyrian style and portrays a worshipper in front of a crescent on a stick, representing the moon god, Sin of H  aran. 
The southern wall of the circular building was breached and led into another irregular-shaped chamber, which was not excavated due to safety issues. However, its curved western wall was probably the outer wall of a water cistern, revealed in a ground penetrating radar examination. 
   
The finds that were disturbed by the previous excavation and the conditions of the current excavation made it difficult to understand the remains. The earliest phase at the site was a quarry, survived by severance channels of the masonry stones. It was part of the extensive quarry known from the nearby Zedekiah’s Cave and Jeremiah’s Pit. The ceramic finds and cylinder seal from the Iron Age were perhaps debris from an Iron Age cemetery in the nearby St. Etienne, which had apparently extended over the area of the Garden Tomb as well. The respective amounts of ceramic finds recovered from the building indicate it can be dated to the Roman period. 










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THE BLOOD ON THE MERCY SEAT

Biblical scholarship today places the birth of Jesus Christ somewhere in 2 BC, with many believing that the actual date of birth being the Last Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles that year, being September 29, 2 BC. This would place the date of Conception around December 25, 3 BC. The Gospel of Luke (3:23) tells us that He was “about thirty years of age” when He was baptized by John. After a 3-½ year ministry, He was crucified on April 3, 33 AD. At the moment of His death, darkness came over the land, and the earth shook, terrifying all of the inhabitants.
Matthew 27:51 tells us that the Temple Curtain and the rock were torn in half. Little did any of the people there realize that the Rock of Calvary split right beneath the Cross and that Christ’s blood ran down through the cleft and dripped directly onto the Mercy Seat of the Ark!!!
The discovery of the Blood on the Mercy Seat is preparing us for the fulfillment of Hosea's "after two days" prophecy:
“Come, let us return unto the LORD (Yahweh): for He hath torn [the Curtain and the Rock], and He will heal us; He hath smitten and He will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. (Hosea 6:1-3.)
What has this got to do with 2009? II Peter 3:8 tells us:
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
A day for Yahweh is a thousand years for us!
Jesus Christ was born of a virgin 2,000 years ago! “Two days” in God’s time! Guess what? It is now 2,000 years later; and this discovery of the Blood on the Mercy Seat has finally been made public!!! Only rumors of this discovery have circulated up until now, but the Israeli-imposed shroud of secrecy is now over!!!
There can be no doubt in our minds that on the Day of the Crucifixion, GOD arranged for His Son's blood to drip onto the Mercy Seat, which is exactly where the Levitical High Priest would have placed it, had he been able to do so on that day!!!
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. (Exodus 25:22.)
And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee. (Exodus 30:6)
Now, after 2,000 years it has been revealed to us that Jesus Christ’s own Blood dripped onto the Mercy Seat on that fateful day, April 3, 33AD. What are the odds of such thing happening by chance? My spiritual calculator says that the odds are sixty kajillion to one!!! (I’ll leave the actual calculation to a statistical analyst!! (Grin!))
But this discovery was made in 1982!!! The entire world of Christianity has a vested interest in this knowledge. Yet, it has been kept from us by the Israeli authorities!!! 

Wouldn’t the Catholic Church, whose doctrine stresses the Virgin Birth, be intensely interested in this discovery? Is the Catholic Church ignorant of this discovery as well? Or are they helping the Israelis to cover it up?
Editor's note: Of course, the Catholic Church would keep this wonderful news covered up. It was created by Judaism. Read Alexander Hyslop's The Two Babylons.
Whatever the case may be, it is now UP TO US to make this information AVAILABLE WORLD-WIDE.



SATAN CAN'T STOP THIS KNOWLEDGE!
Since I expect no cooperation from the various clergies around the world, especially not from the rabbis of Judaism, for whom this discovery is a major doctrinal embarrassment, it is UP TO US, the Christian Laity, His Flock, to make this knowledge available to all the world!!!
Yahweh has provided us with a thing called THE INTERNET. And there is no way that any government, or even Satan himself, can stop us from shouting this knowledge from the housetops:





''TAKE THIS NEWSLETTER AND FORWARD IT TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS''

JESUS CHRIST IS RISEN – AND HIS HOLY BLOOD HAS BEEN DISCOVERED ON THE MERCY SEAT!!!
So, it is UP TO YOU, Dear Christian, to take this newsletter and forward it to all of your friends, associates and relations. LET THE COVER-UP EXPLODE INTO WORLD-WIDE ACKNOWLEDGMENT!
The time is now to act, before they can shut down the Internet, which is what the Beast would do, if he could!



HAVE A CHRISTIAN COFFEE KLATSCH!
Take this information, which is now in your hands, and call all of your friends, especially those who do not have the internet, and invite them to your home to watch the videos that we have made available. Especially this ten minute video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDBGuU4k6aM&feature=related
Watch this video yourself, and if you are just as moved as Skip Baker, I and others have been moved by this information, you will not hesitate to call all your friends and invite them over to your house for a Christian Coffee Klatsch. Let them watch the video and make up their own minds whether this explosive information is meaningful to them or not. Pick a night to have them over and watch this video together.


DO NOT WAIT TO TELL YOUR MINISTER ABOUT THIS. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL SATURDAY OR SUNDAY! Do it sooner, not later. HELP US TO SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH THE WORLD! The Christian world is counting on you to spread the word!!
More information is available at Ron Wyatt’s website:
https://www.anchorstone.com




Transcript of Ron Wyatt from “Zedekiah’s Cave”
These words came out of Ron Wyatt’s mouth, but he did not speak them:
“That’s Jeremiah’s grotto and the Ark of the Covenant is in there!”
But after making the great discovery that lay buried under Calvary for nearly two thousand years, the Israeli authorities told Ron to keep the discovery of the Ark secret, the reason being the enormous religious and political problems this discovery could create for Israel, which is already a fragile and explosive community, to say the least. They feared the possible violent reaction of some of the more extreme Jews if they learned that the Ark of the Covenant (the Scriptural residing place of the great “I AM” on earth) had been found. In previous times the struggle for the Temple Mount has created some bloody confrontations.





THE ANGEL'S  WORDS  -- a message to Ron from Heacven:

With this connection in mind it is interesting to look again at a quotation from 2 Maccabees. Here we are told Jeremiah and his men who hid the temple furniture in the cave, ‘The place shall remain unknown,’ he said, ‘until God finally gathers His people together and shows mercy to them.’” It is possible that the engraved cherub, which was found so close to the blocked entrance,
 is the mark that was made by Jeremiah’s men.
Ron was sitting close to the place they had found the niches and the cross holes. The man that had made Ron’s task so difficult was only sitting a few metres away, eating lunch under the shade of a large bush. The ground level where they were now sitting was many metres lower than the surrounding area.


Suddenly Ron heard a voice behind him saying, “God bless you in what you are doing here.” Ron swung around. At the top of a staircase stood a tall, slim man with dark hair. He was wearing a long white robe and head covering similar to those worn in biblical times. Ron had not told anyone what he was “doing,” and he wondered who this man was. He had a strange feeling that this man knew everything about him, and what he was doing. Ron tried to find out who this stranger was, and tried to make polite conversation. “Are you from this area?” he asked. “No,” was the simple reply, and then silence. “Are you a tourist?” Ron asked. “No.” Silence again. Ron did not know what more he could say, so he just sat there and looked into the friendly face. Then the man said, “I am on my way from South Africa to the New Jerusalem.” And he repeated his words, “God bless you in what you are doing here.” Then he turned and walked away.


Because he was sitting under the bush, Ron’s uninvited guest had not seen this man dressed in white, but he had heard the whole conversation. He exclaimed, “Ron, do you think we have been talking with an angel?” “At least,” replied Ron; for he was left with the impression that it could have been Jesus Christ Himself.


Even though Ron could not describe it exactly, the wall behind the Ark looked like crystal and radiated the colors of the rainbow. While he was looking at this, he suddenly realized he was not alone. Ron could feel the presence of angels. There were four young men with him in the cave, but they did not resemble how angels are popularly portrayed. All were dressed completely ordinarily. Ron stood frozen for several minutes, not moving or talking. He wondered what they were doing there and why they were there, but he found himself unable to speak.
One of the angels stepped forward and began to speak to Ron. They told Ron that they were the four angels (cherubim), assigned to guard the Ark since its fabrication. Ron approached the Ark, and was instructed to remove the Tables of Stone from the Ark, and the angel placed them in a niche in the wall, and proceeded to inform Ron of various important matters.The Tables of Stone were not going to be put on public display until after a law would be passed, that would eventually spread throughout the entire world. A law that would force everyone to receive “the mark of the beast.”


Before Ron set up his video camera to begin taping, he withdrew the Tables of Stone from the Ark of the Covenant. Having documented these items on video, he took his camera and the video tape and left the cave through the original entrance. By following this tunnel he found his way out of the cave system and onto the street. He hurried to his hotel room and checked the footage. The Ark, the angels and the Tables of Stone were all clearly visible and Ron was delighted it had turned out so clearly. But Ron’s happiness suddenly turned as he remembered what the angel had said. This was not going to be shown before “the mark of the beast” law was passed. Ron knew the nature of the law he was referring to, and knew the meaning behind the angel’s words. What was he going to do with the video tape until this time? Where would it be safe?


Ron, not knowing what to do, decided to return to the chamber and ask the angel what he should do with the video tape. When he entered the chamber, Ron told the angel that he did not have a place adequately safe to keep the video tape. The angel took the video from Ron’s hand and placed it by the Tables of Stone, which were still standing on the niche.


 By the late 1990s, Ron was nearing his seventies. He was tiring with all the pressures of his work as well as battling cancer. Still he persisted, working hard, and doing whatever he could to help people spread the message that these discoveries had for the world, and the message of the living Christ. On August 4th, 1999, Ron Wyatt died of cancer in Tennessee, USA.





THE BLOOD TEST
Ron again tells the story to an audience in Zedekiah’s Cave, “After I had been in there [the cave with the Ark of the Covenant] three times, the fourth time I came in, there were four young men standing in there, that if I had met them on the street I would have seen no difference between them and anybody else. One of them said, “We’re the angels that have been assigned to the Ark of the Covenant, and we’ll tell you what God wants done with this, and we’ll help you do what He wants done with this.” They wanted me to take a sample of the blood and have it analyzed. All I had with me was a film cartridge, a camera and a pull tab from a Coke Cola can. So I took this pull tab and straightened it out to make a little bit of a scoop with it, and I collected about 3⁄4 of that little canister full of this dried blood. We had this analyzed. We put an amount of this blood in some normal saline at body temperature, and we swirled this gently for
>  72 hours. And this was part of the instructions I got from the angel. When we put this in a growth medium for another 72 hours and put it under a microscope the white blood cells were dividing. We were able to get a chromosome count.
There were 24 chromosomes. 23 Christ got from Mary. He got one which was the sex-determinant, or the y from His heavenly Father for a total of 24. All of us have 46. We get 23 from our mother and 23 from our father. Now this blood folks was still alive after almost 2000 years. The people that did the test thought I had pulled a fast one of some kind on them. Never in their lives had they ever seen any dried blood that was still alive. There’s a Scripture text talking about Christ. It’s in Psalms, it says, “You will not leave my soul in hell, and neither will you let my body see corruption. So after almost 2000 years, Christ’s blood was very much alive, and still is. So the Spirit, the blood and the water are bearing witness on earth.”
(Ron Wyatt, Zedekiah’s Cave. November 1996)
Final Note from Pastor Eli James
Skip Baker and I are working on a new website, which will be devoted to publicizing the Blood on the Mercy Seat. It will be called the THIRD DAY MINISTRY.
As soon as that website is operational, we will publicize the address. The site will be devoted to spreading this story to the world, with updates as more information becomes available.
PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD.
In the Name of Our Lord, Savior and King, Jesus Christ,
AMEN!


Spirituality
Blood on the Mercy Seat
The Story of Ron Wyatt and the Blood of Jesus Christ
Special Report
By Eli James and Skip Baker

“After two days He will revive us. In the third day He will raise us up and we shall live in His sight.” - Hosea 6:2.
Introduction, by Skip Baker
The staggering news that the archeologist Ron Wyatt discovered the Ark of the Covenant in 1982 UNDER the exact spot where the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ was when He was crucified stark naked, and His own blood dripped down onto the Mercy Seat, exactly the way Daniel prophesied in the 9th chapter said it would, is just beyond mind blowing!
To think that “Israel” has kept this secret all these years proves it’s not a hoax. If it had been a hoax it would have been all over “the news” here in America and around the world, where the media is always looking for sensational stories!! Yet, here is the most sensational story in history, besides the Crucifixion itself! The most staggering information to come out in 2000 years, and they don’t tell us!
In 586 BC the prophet Jeremiah hid the Ark away in a cavity on Mount Zion, evidently not knowing that the Lamb of God would one day hang naked on a cross, just above where he had hid the Ark of the Covenant and the Mercy Seat. God’s Providence is so exact that when He says the blood of His Son will be sprinkled on the Mercy Seat, you can trust what YHWH (Yahweh) says.




Transcript of Ron Wyatt’s Discovery of the Blood on the Mercy Seat
It was back on January 6, 1982 when Ron Wyatt realized what he had found during the excavation of the Ark of the Covenant.
"I just went from stunned to more stunned I guess," he described. "When I started making the excavation I wasn't looking for the Ark of the Covenant. I had no idea or intent to be looking for the crucifixion site, so as I proceeded with the excavation and found this crucifixion site, it was a thrill and a happy set of circumstances, and I didn't make the connection with the blood on the mercy seat until I actually saw it."
He said the significance of the find took on a new meaning when he actually found the crack which extended from the Mercy Seat all the way up through solid rock to the location he had found above where the crucifixion took place.
Wyatt claimed that he was authorized to make his excavations by the Antiquities Department, but that bureaucrats within that agency insisted that his findings must be kept secret. He was told that Jewish extremists might view the discovery as a sign that it was time to rebuild the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. The Muslim Dome of the Rock now sits on the site that Jewish fundamentalists believe must one day be destroyed and a new Jewish temple built. Ron Wyatt was told that this would lead to violence – as has happened before over this particular site – and that this must be avoided at all costs. Wyatt, not understanding that the TRUE MOTIVATION of the Israelis is to utterly suppress this discovery, accepted this explanation and had cooperated with the Israelis up to his death in 1998!!!
Wyatt has made public a significant amount of his research and findings, but he has withheld certain documents and photographs to comply with the agreement he made with Israeli officials. His refusal to provide everything resulted in criticism from some.
The day after the death of Wyatt, one detractor sent an Email to WorldNetDaily saying, "The world has lost one of the most colorful charlatans of all time." He predicted that nothing will ever come of the discoveries and even claimed that Wyatt is not with God now because he must account for his lies.
Regarding such defamatory statements, Wyatt told World Net Daily,
"There's nothing can be done to prevent ridicule that I'm aware of. I don't think it would be appropriate to deny people the opportunity of using ridicule because I think that's part of showing their true character."
Wyatt said he did not believe the Jews will ever successfully rebuild the Temple because they would want to resume the practice of blood sacrifice within the Temple, something that he says God would not permit to happen.
"I believe that if they do set about to do a Temple thing, it will be part of Satan's deception," he added.
[Indeed, the New Testament states very clearly that Jesus was the LAST SACRIFICE. If the Jews were to build the “Third Temple,” Yahweh God would consider it “blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.” His wrath would certainly be brought down upon the Israelis for this blasphemy!!! It’s bad enough that the Jewish religion refuses to recognize Christ’s Messiahship and Atoning Sacrifice. Setting up the “Third Temple” for the purpose of reinstituting animal sacrifices would be nothing short of sacrilege. – Pastor Eli]
Wyatt said that when the Ark of the Covenant and the Temple furnishings were moved to the hidden chamber, that location became the Temple of the Lord, or the Holy of Holies. It remained untouched and undefiled so that Christ could complete his ultimate sacrifice.
He is confident they remain where he found them. He does not believe they have been secreted away. Regarding the political sensitivity of this astounding archeological find, Ron Wyatt had this to say:
"Let me say this, and this is a touchy point and I try to avoid it. There's some 14 to 16 individuals that have died because they have tried to in some way to manipulate this."
https://www.returnofthenephilim.com/RonWyattTestimony.html
 


Ark Undefiled by Man or Satan
God made wonderful provisions for this Ark. No man could defile it; only the high priest could come nigh unto it, and even then, if he did not comply with God's requirements, he too would be struck dead. It remained the only place on earth that could receive Christ's Blood as the sin offering, for it was the only object on this planet that had not been defiled by man. God would not allow man to defile His earthly Throne, nor did He allow man to destroy the Tables of the Law beneath that Throne. The payment of every sin was made just above that eternal Law.
PSALM 89:14 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.
Perfect "justice" demands the death of the sinner. But perfect "mercy" provided a substitute for the truly repentant sinner.
PSALM 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
The mercy of God the Father, which could never have been seen without the existence of sin, is finally manifested for all mankind when He allowed His only begotten Son to die. The "truth" of His Law was covered with the Blood of His Son- and provided salvation for all mankind from the condemnation of that Law through the righteousness of Christ.



Christ's Blood Didn't Shatter the Tables of Stone
What does the discovery of the Ark of the Covenant mean today? What is the connection with what we have just discussed?
The Ark was built to hold the precious Law and above the Law was the Mercy Seat where God's Presence was manifested. The Perfect Law required perfect obedience; anything less demanded the death of the sinner. God's Presence and His Law are inseparable. No man can come nigh unto Him and live- except through Christ, Who shed His Blood on that very Mercy Seat, between God's perfect Law and God Himself. Christ's Blood didn't shatter those Tables of Stone. It shattered the chains which bound us to sin and death:
PSALM 85:10 Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other. 11 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
"Mercy and truth" met together on that mercy seat. "From the earth" shall spring "Truth" when the Ark and the Tables of Stone can be revealed to all the earth.
[This is what the Israelis are trying to prevent - BECAUSE THE TWO TABLETS OF STONE ARE CONTAINED INSIDE OF THAT ARK! THE JEWS CANNOT ALLOW THIS INCREDIBLE FIND TO BE REVEALED, BECAUSE IT VERIFIES THAT JESUS CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD! This is proof that the rabbis of Judaism have been wrong about Jesus for the last 2,000 years! Judaism is the rejection of Christ. Ron Wyatt's story destroys Judaism's claims. - Eli]
And as we sit here today, our "Righteousness" is looking down from Heaven, as our great High Priest pleads His Blood on our behalf before His Father.
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Analysis by Pastor Eli James
Biblical scholarship today places the birth of Jesus Christ somewhere in 2 BC, with many believing that the actual date of birth being the Last Great Day of the Feast of Tabernacles that year, being September 29, 2 BC. This would place the date of Conception around December 25, 3 BC. The Gospel of Luke (3:23) tells us that He was “about thirty years of age” when He was baptized by John. After a 3-½ year ministry, He was crucified on April 3, 33 AD. At the moment of His death, darkness came over the land, and the earth shook, terrifying all of the inhabitants.
Matthew 27:51 tells us that the Temple Curtain and the rock were torn in half. Little did any of the people there realize that the Rock of Calvary split right beneath the Cross and that Christ’s blood ran down through the cleft and dripped directly onto the Mercy Seat of the Ark!!!
The discovery of the Blood on the Mercy Seat is preparing us for the fulfillment of Hosea's "after two days" prophecy:
“Come, let us return unto the LORD (Yahweh): for He hath torn [the Curtain and the Rock], and He will heal us; He hath smitten and He will bind us up. After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we shall live in his sight. (Hosea 6:1-3.)
What has this got to do with 2009? II Peter 3:8 tells us:
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
A day for Yahweh is a thousand years for us!
Jesus Christ was born of a virgin 2,000 years ago! “Two days” in God’s time! Guess what? It is now 2,000 years later; and this discovery of the Blood on the Mercy Seat has finally been made public!!! Only rumors of this discovery have circulated up until now, but the Israeli-imposed shroud of secrecy is now over!!!
There can be no doubt in our minds that on the Day of the Crucifixion, Yahweh arranged for His Son's blood to drip onto the Mercy Seat, which is exactly where the Levitical High Priest would have placed it, had he been able to do so on that day!!!
And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. (Exodus 25:22.)
And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee. (Exodus 30:6)
Now, after 2,000 years it has been revealed to us that Jesus Christ’s own Blood dripped onto the Mercy Seat on that fateful day, April 3, 33AD. What are the odds of such thing happening by chance? My spiritual calculator says that the odds are sixty kajillion to one!!! (I’ll leave the actual calculation to a statistical analyst!! (Grin!))
But this discovery was made in 1982!!! The entire world of Christianity has a vested interest in this knowledge. Yet, it has been kept from us by the Israeli authorities!!! Wouldn’t the Catholic Church, whose doctrine stresses the Virgin Birth, be intensely interested in this discovery? Is the Catholic Church ignorant of this discovery as well? Or are they helping the Israelis to cover it up?
Editor's note: Of course, the Catholic Church would keep this wonderful news covered up. It was created by Judaism. Read Alexander Hyslop's The Two Babylons.
Whatever the case may be, it is now UP TO US to make this information AVAILABLE WORLD-WIDE.





Final Note from Pastor Eli James
Skip Baker and I are working on a new website, which will be devoted to publicizing the Blood on the Mercy Seat. It will be called the THIRD DAY MINISTRY.
As soon as that website is operational, we will publicize the address. The site will be devoted to spreading this story to the world, with updates as more information becomes available.
PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD.
In the Name of Our Lord, Savior and King, Jesus Christ,
AMEN!
 
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NEW CLAIM OVER DISCOVERY OF THE LOST ARK OF THE COVENANT


An archeologist who claims to have found the Ark of the Covenant directly below the crucifixion site of Jesus Christ has died after giving a deathbed interview to WorldNetDaily.
Noah’s Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Ark of the Covenant, the crucifixion site of Jesus Christ, and more have been the subject of controversial claims made by an archaeologist who spent much of his life documenting sites and events from the Bible.
Ron Wyatt died after a lengthy battle with cancer last Wednesday, but his quest to provide information that would lead to more people accepting the teachings of the Bible continues at Wyatt Archeological Research, a non-profit, non-denominational organization in Tennessee.
Reached just before his death, the telephone interview with Wyatt was to last only a few minutes because of his very weak condition. He actually spoke for nearly an hour. A few days later, Wyatt succumbed to the disease.
The evidence of the various finds Wyatt claimed to have made has been debated by religious leaders, scholars and lay people, for at least a decade. There are many who believe his findings are genuine, and there are a few who are not so willing to accept his claims.
According to Wyatt, he was able to physically locate the Ark of the Covenant, the container for the original tablets of the Ten Commandments, with the Mercy Seat intact on the top. It was found in a chamber just outside the walls of ancient Jerusalem about 20 feet below what Wyatt also claimed was the actual site of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Wyatt said he found an earthquake crack directly below where the cross would have been. It extends down through the rock to the resting place of the Mercy Seat atop the Ark of the Covenant, he told WorldNetDaily. The blood of Christ would have flowed through that crack after his death and after his side was pierced by a soldier’s spear.
The site of the crucifixion appears to have evidence that it was once enclosed in a first century building, apparently a church. The site includes a large round stone which perfectly fits the Garden Tomb — accepted by many as the place from which the body of Christ rose from the dead.
The Bible teaches the concept of sacrifice of animals, symbolic of the actual blood sacrifice Christ would make. The act of Christ, regarded by some as the great High Priest, permitting himself to be sacrificed and placing his own blood upon the Mercy Seat was the great and final act in the process of blood sacrifice, according to the writings of Wyatt.
Wyatt believed that the Ark of the Covenant, along with other sacred objects from the first Temple in Jerusalem, were all secreted away just prior to the entrance of the Babylonians into the city about 600 years before the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. There are many tunnels beneath Jerusalem even to this day. These most sacred objects were protected in a chamber and the entrance was sealed and hidden.
“When Christ died, the earth quaked. The rock was split right below His cross and this crevice extended right down into the hidden chamber which contained the undefiled ‘earthly’ Throne of God — the Ark with its Mercy Seat,” explained Wyatt in one of his research letters. “After He was dead, when the centurion stuck his spear into Christ’s side and pierced His spleen, the blood and water came out, falling down through that crack and was sprinkled on the Mercy Seat.”
Wyatt explained that in the former Temple service, the high priest sprinkled the blood of the sacrifice on the Mercy Seat. Wyatt said Christ, as the great High Priest, was the only one who could physically sprinkle the blood on the Mercy Seat. It was an act of God that everything was in the right place, and that there was an earthquake which enabled Christ to spill his own blood onto the Mercy Seat in fulfillment of this ancient rite, he explained.
Wyatt did not make any claims of grandeur, nor did he claim to be a prophet. He said his only role was to be a willing servant.
“God has a way of communicating his wishes to people, and I’m not the only one able to do that so I don’t flatter myself to think that I’m something special. I was there, I was willing, so therefore God allowed me this privilege. There are others who are in communication with him. There are others who are familiar with this material who will see that it is presented,” Wyatt told WorldNetDaily by phone just before his death, indicating that more of his evidence and findings will soon be made public.
It was back on Jan. 6, 1982 when Ron Wyatt realized what he had found during the excavation of the Ark of the Covenant.
“I just went from stunned to more stunned I guess,” he described . “When I started making the excavation I wasn’t looking for the Ark of the Covenant. I had no idea or intent to be looking for the crucifixion site, so as I proceeded with the excavation and found this crucifixion site, it was a thrill and a happy set of circumstances, and I didn’t make the connection with the blood on the mercy seat until I actually saw it.”
He said the significance of the find took on a new meaning when he actually found the crack which extended from the Mercy Seat all the way up through solid rock to the location he had found above where the crucifixion took place.
Wyatt claimed that he was authorized to make his excavations by the Antiquities Department, but that bureaucrats within that agency insisted that his findings must be kept secret. He was told that Jewish extremists might view the discovery as a sign that it was time to rebuild the ancient Temple in Jerusalem. The Muslim Dome of the Rock now sits on the site that Jewish fundamentalists believe must one day be destroyed and a new Jewish temple built.
Wyatt has made public a significant amount of his research and findings, but he has withheld certain documents and photographs to comply with the agreement he made with Israeli officials. His refusal to provide everything resulted in criticism from some.
The day after the death of Wyatt, one detractor sent an e-mail to WorldNetDaily saying, “The world has lost one of the most colorful charlatans of all time.” He predicted that nothing will ever come of the discoveries and even claimed that Wyatt is not with God now because he must account for his lies.
“There’s nothing can be done to prevent ridicule that I’m aware of. I don’t think it would be appropriate to deny people the opportunity of using ridicule because I think that’s part of showing their true character,” Wyatt told WorldNetDaily of those who have attacked his claims.
This discovery of the Ark of the Covenant and the crucifixion site are more important to the non-Christians than to the believing Christians, according to Wyatt. He believes the discovery will help to bring people of other faiths to Christ.
“They’ve been taught something else all their life. So God is doing this show-and-tell through these revelations and these discoveries to prove to them real quick that the Bible is historically accurate and divinely inspired,” Wyatt explained. He quoted from Jeremiah 16:19-22 predicting unbelievers will come from all parts of the earth to learn of the discoveries.
“Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit. Shall a man make gods unto himself, and they are no gods,” quoted Wyatt.
“This last revelation is for the inhabitants of the earth who don’t have a clue, as well as for those of us who do have a clue and have been commissioned by Christ to reach out to help bring these people who don’t have a clue into the fold. So these are tools that God has given the believers to strengthen their faith and to reach out with. They are tools that will be extremely effective in these the last pouring out to the entire population, all inhabitants of the earth,” he explained.
Wyatt has been involved in a number of significant archeological studies of biblical sites and artifacts. These have included Noah’s Ark, the crossing of the Red Sea by Moses, Mount Sinai, Sodom and Gomorrah, and others. Nothing else has the significance of the Ark of the Covenant and its tie to the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, he explained.
“My personal assessment is that this is the culmination of the whole plan of salvation. I believe it’s the finishing off and the final proof and evidence for what has happened here on this planet. And I think that it’s being presented at a time just before probation’s closed while people can still decide to go along with God,” Wyatt stated.
WorldNetDaily made contact with sources within the U.S. intelligence community that have been reliable in past investigations. Experts on both Israeli and Muslim politics and beliefs were contacted to determine their assessment on the impact of Wyatt’s discoveries.
Both sources expressed disbelief that the Israeli government wanted to hide the discovery for the reason they gave Wyatt. Instead both agreed that it was likely the Israelis are concerned that when Jews learn of the connection of the crucifixion site with the Ark of the Covenant there could be large conversions which would threaten Jewish control of the government, assuming that the discoveries are true. Neither source was aware of the discoveries previously.
WorldNetDaily was not able to convey that assessment to Wyatt prior to his death for his reaction.
Wyatt did say that he did not expect the Ark of the Covenant would ever be removed from its current resting placed. The access tunnel used by Wyatt’s archeological team has been sealed. The pictures and videos of the find are what he said would soon be shown worldwide.
“The blood and all of that part will be shown, all of that, on video. The only thing that will be shown typically that people will be able to have a look at and maybe touch, you know I don’t know what the restrictions will be on that, and that’s the tables of stone,” said Wyatt, referring to the tablets containing the Ten Commandments found inside the Ark of the Covenant itself.

“I believe that if they do set about to do a Temple thing, it will be part of Satan’s deception,” he added.
He said that when the Ark of the Covenant and the Temple furnishings were moved to the hidden chamber, that location became the Temple of the Lord, or the Holy of Holies. It remained untouched and undefiled so that Christ could complete his ultimate sacrifice.
He is confident they remain where he found them. He does not believe they have been secreted away.
“Let me say this, and this is a touchy point and I try to avoid it. There’s some 14 to 16 individuals that have died because they have tried to in some way to manipulate this,” he explained without providing the details.
“Some have had to do with withdrawing a permit and others have had to do with, shall we say, trying to actually get in there and move the furnishings. So I believe that God has adequately demonstrated, at least to me, that He is not going to allow this to be moved. I do know this, and that is that nothing will happen to this that is not in God’s plan because this is the most important part of the plan of salvation that has been carried out. This is it, the heart and soul of it. There’s no way he’s going to allow people, demons, or any other forces to interfere with it being done exactly as he wants it done,” he stated.
The crucifixion site was found on the side of the Golgotha hill, or Place of the Skull just outside the old north wall of Jerusalem, not far from the Garden Tomb. It was discovered under many feet of soil with actual holes in the rock where crosses were placed, and niches in the rock wall behind where three signs were placed. The large circular stone used to cover the garden tomb was also located there, and it was all surrounded by the foundation of a first century building. The central, main cross hole has an earthquake crack beside it.
Photographic evidence was obtained, and then the site was covered back over with 12 feet of dirt and a garden established. Wyatt says it was landscaped to avoid controversy. The entrance to the system of caves and tunnels, found by the Wyatt team in the cliff wall was also sealed over.
In conclusion, Wyatt was asked to describe his spiritual growth since his discoveries. What is the difference in his gospel understanding before the discoveries and since?
“Basically, getting to know God and complying with his required character changes and all of that. I was experiencing those things, and of course I had a hunger and a thirst. I had a big curiosity. To be perfectly honest that may have outweighed the other consideration and then the difference between what I felt then and now is I believed what the Bible said. I believed what it says to be true, that’s the Authorized King James by the way. However, now I know that what it says is true,” he concluded.
Wyatt added that it has been his role to do more than just dig up interesting artifacts. He accepted the added responsibility to explain the religious significance of the items he found.
The Wyatt Archeological Research group
  maintains a small museum in Tennessee where the evidence and work of Ron Wyatt can be examined and studied. The death of Mr. Wyatt is not expected to stop the effort of telling the world about the findings, according to a spokesman.
WorldNetDaily has examined extensive evidence regarding the various claims and discoveries made by Wyatt for several weeks. Several critics have been found who have voiced their opinion that the work of Wyatt Archaeological Research is fraudulent, but evidence to support those charges cannot be found.
The evidence is sufficient to conclude that Wyatt’s team conducted the claimed archeological digs and investigations. WorldNetDaily is not qualified to determine the value of the evidence.
Wyatt was given a deathbed opportunity to either reaffirm or recant his claims. He chose to reaffirm all that he has claimed without hesitation.
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