Starve.Org White Noise Usenet Archive: "Helping God find the Lost Ark. Pt. 125."

Mr. Gray graciously avers to his having kept silent about this pomegranate
for seven long years. He states that he did this "out of consideration for
Ron's personal safety." That, too, the implied threat to Mr. Wyatt is NEW!

Alas, Mr. Gray then states that he's privy to much more that he cannot at
present reveal. "The time is not yet," i.e., that's Adventist talk for
another book. His reason for revealing this most astonishing information,
that Ronald Wyatt is THE source of that pomegranate on display in the Israel
Museum is to offer PROOF that Wyatt did find those sacred objects below
Golgotha's brow. Why Mrs. Wyatt fails to hammer this obvious aspect home at
her web site I can't guess. It would have done much to shed the vulgar
demonization of her husband's reputation. I suppose the time is not yet...

Anything more that's NEW about the Ark discovery? Well, digging thru old
stuff, reworked, we chanced upon a nugget or two. Like the fact that Wyatt
must have mentioned in his video that a cave wall shelf does exist.
(I had doubted this since there's no reference to it at the web sites). Mr.
Bill White taped a conversaton with the dying Wyatt and in it there's
reference to a shelf. The angels, as he and White report, then placed the
stone Sinai Tablets atop this shelf. Later, they will take the video from
Wyatt and place it there also. If there's anything NEW here it is that we're
seeing Wyatt himself state that the Tablets AND that video tape are on the
shelf. I assume this material comes from the video that Wyatt later made
about his discovery.

As I've hinted before, we fans of the Wyatt Whopper Caper are not to any
longer assume that Mrs. Wyatt and sons hold a copy of that video tape. No
sir, not a single copy exists other than what's on that shelf in the Ark
chamber below Golgotha...

The sound you hear is my armchair being moved about.

Now Mr.Gray mentions something we had concluded in our, ahem, study, that
Wyatt did touch the Ark of the Covenant himself and lived to tell about it.
This isn't NEW! but I do want to comment briefly.

Only after I'd finished my last part did I recall that I saw Ronald Wyatt
when he visited Tulsa, Oklahoma in, I think, 1987. He was interviewed by a
man there who has a local TV program. Wyatt showed slides of some of his
discoveries. The one that most gripped me was - remember the year, okay? -
that of the small lenslike opening to the Ark chamber. We're shown a photo
of a rock wall surface in which is a vertical (?) opening. From this opening
streams a fantastically brilliant light! Principally yellow, as I recall.
The brilliance was astonishing. It streamed, poured, radiated from the
opening.

Wyatt explains to the gap-mouthed producer that, yes, it's the Ark of the
Covenant and we're planning to go back and enlarge that opening, etc. I was
stupified! He explained that the intensity of that light was the Shekinah
glory! I bought it hook, line and sinker. Really, I sure wish I had that one
photograph...

Was it the Shekinah glory of God? I now don't think so. Not that the Ark
wasn't beyond that opening (the stalactite that covered the hole must have
been removed) - it was, but we're being shown and told that this awesome
light is God's Shekinah glory shining forth. Now Wyatt found the Ark cave in
1981, so we're being told five years or six years later that he's planning
to enlarge that hole, etc. This is about the time that he had discussed with
that ill-fated Englishman who'd threatened to tell the world the location
(see above) of Wyatt's find. Not that t\here's a tie between these two
occurences but for him to discuss the Ark's finding with this Brit at this
time and yet to be telling potential donors (on TV) that he was going to
enlarge the opeing into the cave so that he could behold the Ark of the
Covenant somehow makes my armchair stir itself a bit...

Either Wyatt lied to the TV director at that filming in Tulsa or he meant
that he needed funds to enlarge a shaft he was then in the process of
digging to reach the cave, or he needed funds to explore for the tunnel that
led from the quarry to the cave. Why say this?

Because if that was THE Shekinah glory shining forth so powerfully then it
is NEVER AGAIN MENTIONED at the official WAR web site or at the two
unofficial web sites that provide some details about this matter!

How could it be so powerfully displayed then and not later (upon his
entering the cave and later working there) be just as powerful and worthy of
mention?

Ah, lads, methinks we've been had by Ronnie. But NOT, you unnerstand, in a
mean-spirited way. Not a'tall!
No. He DID find som'n of great value down below Golgotha's frowning face.
Was it the Ark of the Covenant?
Only his wife, sons and the good fellows over at the Rockefeller Institute
(home of the Antiquities department) plus certain rabbis, and maybe an
archaeologist or two at the Israel Museum, and others know for sure.

If there's an upward kick to this latest "book" on Wyatt's discoveries it's
that in a reprint of a WorldNetDaily.com article, undated,
we read one or two amusing comments. First, that Wyatt's refusal to offer
certain documents and photographs has resulted in "criticism from some."
Some? My God, the man's been criticized by almost everyone who's learned of
his findings at Golgotha! It's doubtful that a minyan, a Jewish requirement
that ten men be found to conduct a service, of true believers in Wyatt's
work at Golgotha exists in the entire world. Second, Wyatt who died after
giving this interview to WorldNetDaily.com's David. M. Breshnaham stuck to
that mysterious Twenty Foot interval between the Cross Hole and the Ark
Cave. I still thnk this figure has a "secret" or special significance known
only to Adventist brethren.

Ronald Wyatt was dying so he had "a deathbed opportunity" to come clean if
his story of finding the Ark of the Covenant was untrue in any aspect,
assuming the pain he was suffering at this time did not impair his memory.
That he stuck to his story should count for much even with those who refuse
to accept the fact that he did find the missing First Temple sacred
furnishings buried below the Site where Israel's Messiah was sacrificed.

Quite a story, this! And to tell the truth, lads, we've not even begun...