Posted on 04/27/2010 8:28:30 AM PDT by evets
The remains of Noah's Ark have been discovered 13,000ft up a Turkish mountain, it has been claimed.
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers say they have found wooden remains on Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey.
They claim carbon dating proves the relics are 4,800 years old around the same time the ark was said to be afloat.
Yeung Wing-Cheung, from the Noah's Ark Ministries International research team, said: "It's not 100 per cent that it is Noah's Ark, but we think it is 99.9 per cent that this is it."
He said the structure contained several compartments, some with wooden beams, that they believe were used to house animals.
The group of evangelical archaeologists ruled out an established human settlement on the grounds none have ever been found above 11,000ft in the vicinity, Yeung said.
Local Turkish officials will ask the central government in Ankara to apply for UNESCO World Heritage status so the site can be protected while a major archaeological dig is conducted.
The biblical story says that God decided to flood the Earth after seeing how corrupt it was.
He then told Noah to build an ark and fill it with two of every animal species.
After the flood waters receded, the Bible says, the ark came to rest on a mountain.
Many believe that Mount Ararat, the highest point in the region, is where the ark and her inhabitants ran aground.
James Brolin (Mr. Barbara Streisand) was the lead actor in the movie, so that is very likely, LOL!
Fascinating.
Thanks for your excellent observations.
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Tar balls have started washing up on the beaches of Alabama.
Tar in the Bible is called pitch, and it occurs 19 times in the KJV.
The first occurrence is in Genesis 6, in connection with Noahs flood.
The second connection is with Moses when his mother covered a basket with pitch before putting him in it and casting them both adrift on the Nile.
Both connections are to judgment.
Noahs flood was a world-wide calamity brought about by the absolute wickedness of mankind and their sexual involvement with the fallen angels.
The second was specifically judgments upon Egypt and her gods as well as Pharaoh as Moses was directed by God to speak them.
Both instances of pitch, pitch on the ark and pitch on the basket, speak to a demarcation line or barrier between the righteous (Noah) on one side and the wicked on the other, the preservation of Gods anointed (Moses) on one side and judgments to come on the other. Pitch was used as a barrier between judgment upon the world and these men of God. The appearance of pitch may indicate coming judgments.
Tar/pitch is washing up on the coasts of Alabama (judgment begins on the coasts per the prophet Jeremiah), and Alabama just happens to be the state that was the first to declare the Ten Commandments as too judgmental for public places as Judge Roy Moore can speak about with firsthand knowledge.
There are two forms of wickedness: allowing sin in or keeping God out. Alabama certainly leaned towards the latter.
Other mentions of pitch in the Bible are with the pitching of tents, which is not in the same context as pitch/tar.
But Isaiah 34 mentions pitch as tar.
In my KJV Bible, chapter 34 is titled Judgment Against the Nations, and verse 5 says, For my sword will be bathed in heaven: behold, it shall come down upon Idumea, and upon the people of my curse, to judgment.
Idumea here means Edom or Esau and the descendants of Esau.
In A. A. Allens vision, he saw a large, deadly sword in the cup that Liberty was forced to drink. Here in verse 5, we see judgment coming upon two groups of people: descendants of Esau and the people of my curse.
This should IMMEDIATELY remind us of Genesis 12: 3.
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
There are a number of us who feel that by pressuring Israel to give up land that the God of Israel gave to her, we are cursing her and will suffer as a result.
“Now all the writers of barbarian histories make mention of this flood and of this ark; among whom is Berosus the Chaldean; for when he is describing the circumstances of the flood he goes on thus:- ‘It is said there is still some part of this ship in Armenia, at the mountain of the Cordyaeans; and that some people carry off pieces of the bitumen, which they take away, and use chiefly as amulets for the averting of mischiefs.’” - Josephus
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