ILLUMINATI COVER-UP -
PROOF: BIBLE IS FACT!
(Part 1)

        What IS mankind's origin? Evolution or Creation? Is there REAL scientific evidence supporting the Bible? The Story of Jesus? Could these really be the End Times? Should I trust My Government? My Church? The Media? Be forewarned: this report is NOT "politically correct." It scientifically examines documents that have been hidden away for centuries, exposing the conspiracy to suppress evidence PROVING there is a God! Who ARE the "Illuminati?" WHY would they do something so monstrous? Prepare yourself for some major shocks:

THIS IS NOT AN INVESTIGATION
FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!

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OLD TESTAMENT
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"So God created man in His own image,
in the image of GOD created He him;
MALE and FEMALE created He them."

                                                                                - Genesis 1:27

IN THE
BEGINNING...

        "AND THE LORD GOD SAID, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an HELP MEET (helper)* for him...And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him." - Genesis 2:18-20
        "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from Man, made He a Woman, and BROUGHT HER UNTO THE MAN. And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because SHE WAS TAKEN OUT OF MAN. Therefore shall a MAN leave his father and his mother,W and shall cleave unto his WIFE: and they shall be ONE flesh."R - Genesis 2:21-24

        [NOTES: *In the beginning, God created Man first - and then a woman. He did NOT create two women or two men. Woman was created to be a helper for the Man. In turn, Man - as the head - is suppose to be responsible for the Woman, and protect her.
       WThis was the very first wedding ceremony: God Himself created marriage by bringing woman unto the man. He then gave an incredible command: "Therefore shall a man leave his FATHER and his MOTHER..." Adam and Eve were the very first human beings. They had NO "father" or "mother!" This command plainly shows that God intended this mating process to CONTINUE with Adam and Eve's children, grandchildren, etc., etc., - until the Judgement Day: ONE MAN TO ONE WOMAN - FAITHFUL AND TRUE!
       RBut God made it even clearer: "...and shall cleave unto his WIFE: and they shall be ONE flesh." Note He did NOT say "WIVES." He did NOT say "GIRLFRIEND," "PARTNER" or "SIGNIFICANT OTHER." And we know that He intended this mating to be for the purpose of propagation because He blessed their union, then commanded them to: "BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY..." - Genesis 1:28 God Himself did indeed create SEX: a precious, enjoyable joining of two people for the purpose of creating new life - but nowhere in the Bible does it say He intended it to be used as "RECREATION!" Propagation is NOT POSSIBLE between two men or two women. A poisoned tree beareth no fruit - therefore, such mating is an assault on God and His Plan for carrying on the species. - OL]

SUNDAY-MORNIN'
SUPERMARKET CHRISTIANS

        Did church leaders REALLY make all this Bible stuff up, "to keep the people in line?" WAS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE? Back when I was just a pup, I attended one of these high-falutin' big-city-style World Council of Churches establishments. It was all gussied up and the people wore fancy clothes and drove even fancier cars. But in the midst of all this wealth, I saw an unbelievable amount of HYPOCRISY practiced by these Sunday-mornin' "supermarket Christians" (you know: the ones who pick out what they want to believe - and discard whatever makes them feel "uncomfortable!"), including RACISM - which confused me no end, since we were supposedly worshipping JESUS - who I always understood to be a color-blind JEW! Well, eventually, I became a Baptist and - by the grace of God - was "BORN AGAIN."

        "Now, between those times I went through the typical teen-age and young adult rebellion years, when I was ashamed to talk about God and His Son around my peers. If anybody asked, I would answer vaguely, "I'm an agnostic" - having been led to believe this meant that I neither believed, nor disbelieved. But, if you have a thesaurus on your computer and look it up, you will discover the last three definitions are "heathen," "infidel," and "atheistic." I had forgotten what my grandfather (a "native American") had taught me: "NO MAN CAN RIDE TWO HORSES!" When it comes to GOD, you are either WITH Him or AGAINST Him.

A MODERN
DAY MIRACLE

        Over the next decade or so, I suffered many hard times and on several occasions I witnessed what I eventually came to realize were authentic MIRACLES. On one such occasion, it was freezing cold and I was traveling through the Blue Ridge Mountains of Kentucky. At the top of the mountain, I ran out of gas (I had a little over a quarter-tank when I began my trip up the mountain). Putting it in neutral, I allowed it to coast down the mountain. Praying all the way, I made it to a small town at the bottom of the mountain and brought the car to a stop at a nearby gas station.

        I breathed a sigh of relief and thanked God! But my troubles weren't over yet: I was down to my last $5 and I still had to make it to Nashville for an important meeting. Glancing nervously at the attendent, I told him to give me some gas. "Please, Lord," I begged. "I need some help here!" Just then, the attendent put the nozzle in and started the pump. INSTANTLY, GAS BEGAN SPRAYING OVER THE SIDE AND ALL OVER THE ATTENDENT. Quickly shutting the pump down, he examined the tank, speculating that maybe I had an air "bubble" in the tank. After testing it, he turned to me and demanded, "Lady, whatever made you think you needed gas? Your tank is completely FULL." There wasn't even room to top it off! Thanking God profusely, I drove off to my appointment. My memories of that meeting have dimmed over time, but I can promise you, I will never forget that cold Kentucky night when GOD FILLED MY GAS TANK! Was this a genuine modern day MIRACLE? I believe it was - and I believe God was trying to get my attention.

SOLOMON'S
FORMULA

        And, HE DID - but despite this clear demonstration of divine intervention, I was still filled with questions. In all the time I attended that "politically-correct" church, I don't recall them mentioning
even one of the archeological finds that ultimately proved the Bible true. Shouldn't they have been broadcasting these discoveries from every pulpit in America? Good Heavens! Why NOT? Actually, they informed us that there was no "proof" - that a "good Christian" accepts everything he is told purely "on faith." My preacher even went so far as to warn us that it was SACRILEGE to ask such questions. ME? Not ask QUESTIONS? I figured he might just as well have sewed my mouth shut and be done with it!

        But, that got me to thinking: did GOD ever forbid us to ask questions or look for evidence? NO! Just the opposite: He told us we should worship Him with "all our hearts, all our MINDS, all our souls and all our bodies!" And He told us to ask for WISDOM and UNDERSTANDING (just as Solomon did - and look what it got him!) JESUS Himself promised that in the end times more and more "hidden" secrets would be disclosed. And, as always, He was true to His word: they ARE! But they weren't handed to us on a silver platter. Somebody had to be willing to LOOK for them - and put in a lot of old-fashioned hard work! Unfortunately, the American media (owned by members of the ILLUMINATI - the followers of Lucifer) are doing their level best to make sure these secrets STAY "hidden" in this country - for reasons which will soon become apparent.

THROUGH THE
LOOKING GLASS

        In the last few years, I have watched everything around me - including our most basic beliefs - turn topsy-turvy. I began to feel like Alice in Wonderland. How could this have happened to the "Greatest Nation on Earth" in such a short time? Have we somehow wandered THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS - or did somebody figure a way to TRANSPORT THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN TO AMERICA? Are we now a COMMUNIST country? I repeat: WHAT HAPPENED?

        Did our beliefs as a people change, of our OWN free will? Or was it changed FOR us - as part of someone else's agenda? Is that agenda PRO-American - or ANTI-American? Is there any real evidence supporting the Bible as GOD'S word? Oh, my! What if the Bible really IS the WORD OF GOD? Then that means THERE REALLY IS A GOD and JESUS MUST REALLY BE HISSON! OH! OH: that also means there must really be an ETERNITY and a HEAVEN and HELL! And if that's true, WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE ME?? Heaven help us! So many questions! Do you like SCIENCE? Well, you're going to LOVE this Report! And Atheists are going to be hard put to explain the following "scientific" facts. (Although you can bet they'll darn well TRY!)

THE
AUTHOR OF SCIENCE

        Now, it's an amazing fact of life that GOD (not Man) CREATED "SCIENCE." Every "discovery" ever made by man is already mentioned in the Bible (written THOUSANDS of years ago!), along with many they have not yet made. For most scientists before Charles Darwin and "his" theory of evolution, the Bible represented unquestionable truth they could rely on - and for some it triggered extraordinarily important discoveries.

        Even today an amazing number of leading scientists find the Bible's scientific information as current as today's weather news. Read completely and thoughtfully (ah! ah! ah! In order, please - don't just "pick and choose!"), the Bible provides an astonishing array of tips and insights on a wide variety of technical and scientific subjects - information that in some cases is thousands of years ahead of its time. As you are about to learn for yourself:

GOD: THE VERY
FIRST SCIENTIST

       EXAMPLE: After reading Isaiah 40:22 "He sits enthroned above the CIRCLE OF THE EARTH, and its people are like GRASSHOPPERS. He stretches out the heavens like a CANOPY, and spreads them out like a tent to live in," Christopher Columbus (a student of the Bible) was convinced that the earth was ROUND. Armed with this belief (and the conviction that he was on a mission for God), he began a journey that altered the history of the world forever. This took enormous FAITH, because at that time, everybody believed the earth was FLAT - and he would sail right off the edge of it into nothing! Dr. Hugh Ross, an astrophysicist and author of 'The Fingerprint of God,' explains the importance of this verse:

        "...Only a SPHERICAL earth would appear to be circular from above. This was not discovered or acknowledged until 2,200 years later when Columbus sailed the world, making the biblical prophet 2,200 YEARS AHEAD OF THE SCIENCE OF HIS DAY. Other biblical astronomy statements that were not confirmed until this century, are that the number of stars exceeds the BILLIONS (Jeremiah 33:22) (at one time astronomers actually believed that there were only 10,000 stars!), each star is DIFFERENT (1 Cor. 15:41), the earth FLOATS in space (Isaiah 40:22), and light is in MOTION (Job 38:19-20)."

A VIEW FROM
OUTER SPACE

       EXAMPLE: Job told his friends: "He spreads the northern skies over empty space, He suspends the earth OVER NOTHING." (Job 26:7) In 'Letting God Create Your Day' (ColorSong Productions 1991), Paul A. Bartz (editor of "Bible-Science News" and managing editor of the nine-volume 'Our Science Readers' Books' series) explains: "The word translated 'FIRMAMENT' in the King James Bible comes from a Hebrew root word which refers to the process of making a statue. In making a statue, the ancient artisan would take a soft metal-like gold and begin to pound thin sheets of it carefully onto a wooden form of the statue until the wood was completely covered by a THIN, FORM-FITTED LAYER of gold. The use of this word (firmament) puzzled many people until the earth was first viewed from space. Then we saw it: THE EARTH SUSPENDED ON NOTHING IN SPACE, SURROUNDED BY A THIN, FORM-
FITTED LAYER - OUR ATMOSPHERE." Every day we see this on pictures sent to us from our weather satellites - but how could someone know this WHO HAD NEVER BEEN TO SPACE?!

        Science educator, Dr. Richard Bliss (author of 25 scientific articles and several books, including 'Voyage to the Stars,' and 'Origin of Life') sums it up this way: "It seems that the authors of this book (Isaiah) had a clear understanding of what the shape of the earth must be. Interestingly, they speak of the circle of the earth and the PUNY nature of its inhabitants ("its people are like grasshoppers"). IT SEEMS AS THOUGH THE WRITER HAD A CLEAR SPACE PLATFORM FROM WHICH TO MAKE HIS OBSERVATIONS." Think about that for a minute: This was written back when the Biblical patriarchs were still traveling on CAMELS and DONKEYS!

GOD'S
WEATHERMAN

       EXAMPLE: "The WIND blows to the south and turns to the north; ROUND AND ROUND it goes, ever returning on its course." (Eccl. 1:6) Larry Vardiman (professor of atmospheric science at the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego) comments: "Ecclesiastes 1:6 tells us that winds blow in CYCLONIC patterns, something NOT CONFIRMED UNTIL THE LATE 1700s by none other than BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. This cyclonic wind pattern is now easily seen in today's satellite photos."

        Getting back to Job, check THIS out: In Chapter 36, verses 27 and 28, he is having a discussion with his friend Elihu, who is talking "on God's behalf." Elihu tells Job that "He (God) DRAWS UP the drops of water, which DISTILL as rain to the streams; the clouds pour down their moisture and abundant showers fall on mankind." In Chapter 26 Job's friends criticize him. He answers them in verse 8: "HE WRAPS UP THE WATERS IN HIS CLOUDS, YET THE CLOUDS DO NOT BURST UNDER THEIR WEIGHT." (Now, what would ancient man know about the stress a cloud needs to hold water?) Two chapters later, Job answers them again:

OUR FIRST
ASTRONAUT

       EXAMPLE: "God understands the way to it, and HE ALONE knows where it dwells, for He views the ends of the earth and SEES EVERYTHING UNDER THE HEAVENS. When He established the force of the wind and measured out the waters, when He made a decree for the rain and a PATH FOR THE THUNDERSTORM." - Job 28:23-26 Sounds like God was the Global Weather Service and Job was his official meteorologist - but how did Job know about wind velocity in relation to water flow - or how a thunderstorm moved? It seems unlikely he attended a weather college - but he was wise enough to listen to God, and therefore was better educated than the scientists, for according to Dr. Vardiman:

        "This whole HYDROLOGIC CYCLE was not correctly understood until the late Sixteen Hundreds, when Edmund Halley, the famous astronomer (for whom HALLEY'S COMET was named), discussed it conceptually. The full mathematical explanation of the rain cycle was not developed until the LATE EIGHTEEN HUNDREDS." So, either the old patriarchs of the Bible were space travelers long before the airplane was invented - or GOD WAS OUR FIRST ASTRONAUT!

SNOW IN
THE DESERT

       EXAMPLE: In Psalms 147:16,17, David wrote: "He spreads the SNOW like wool and scatters the FROST like ashes. He hurls down his HAIL like pebbles." And Job's friends asked him: "Have you entered the storehouses of the snow or seen the storehouses of the hail?" - Job 38:22

        Again: how in the world could residents of a DESERT region like the Middle East know about SNOW or FROST? The answer is they couldn't - unless they had SEEN IT for themselves! (This is probably what this region was like BEFORE the Flood. When the protection of the canopy of water was removed, it changed the entire ecological system all over the world - which, of course, is why we are still finding fossil remains of fish in the deserts and mountains today!) This means that collectively, either these Old Testament prophets had actually BEEN TO SPACE themselves - or THEY HAD GOTTEN THEIR INFORMATION DIRECTLY FROM GOD!!!

OPENING THE
LANES of THE SEA

       EXAMPLE: When Matthew Fontaine Maury was bed-ridden because of a stagecoach accident in 1839, he had his son read to him from the Bible. One afternoon, his son read from Psalms, Chapter 8. At verse 8, Maury interrupted him and demanded that he read it again. His son read: "The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the PATHS OF THE SEA."

        "It is enough,: said Maury. "If the Word of God says there are paths in the sea, THEY MUST BE THERE, and I am going to find them." Up to that time sailors had not yet chartered ocean currents, nor had they discovered the advantage of using ocean currents to navigate...Maury described his search as "nothing less than to blaze a way through the winds of the sea by which the navigator may find the best paths at all seasons." Today Maury is considered the DEAN of all physical geographers and a great contributor to the science of METEOROLOGY (the study of weather patterns). He has been called "THE PATHFINDER OF THE SEAS." His dream to perpetuate oceanographic knowledge brought into existence the famous U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY at ANNAPOLIS, Maryland. All of this happened in the life of Matthew Fontaine Maury - because HE TOOK THE BIBLE SERIOUSLY and determined to discover the reality of what it suggested in the scientific field. OK, scientists: how do you explain THIS?

THE WORLD'S
FIRST ARCHITECT

       EXAMPLE: In Job 38:4-6, God asked Job: "Where were you when I LAID THE EARTH'S FOUNDATION? Tell me, if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its FOOTINGS set, or who laid its cornerstone?"

        According to Walter H.G. Lang, founder of the Genesis Institute: "The Hebrew word there is 'edeenah.' This is not the regular word for foundation...it is used for the SOCKETS which held the staves of the tabernacle in place...In 1964, when the great Alaskan earthquake hit on Good Friday, with 8.6 violence on the Richter scale, seismographs were going off all over the world. When the people who manned and studied these instruments compared notes, they came to the conclusion...that MANTLE ROCK [the layer of hard rock surrounding the core of molten rock] is the FOUNDATION ROCK OF THE EARTH...When the Glomar drilling ship drilled in the Atlantic Ocean...five years later (1969), they hit mantle rock for the first time. Their seismographs showed that under the continents this mantle rock is THREE HUNDRED MILES DEEP, indicating a virtual SOCKET OF MANTLE ROCK under EACH of the seven continents. THIS IS A REMARKABLE CONFIRMATION OF A TRUTH FOUND IN THE BIBLE." ('Bible Science Relationships')

THE
SECRET TUNNEL

       EXAMPLE: As I have pointed out before, the Bible is the most historically-accurate account ever written, and in some cases, it is the information recorded in the Bible itself that leads to amazing discoveries archaeologists would never have thought of on their own: Second Kings 20:20 reports that in about 711 B.C. King Hezekiah of Jerusalem built a secret tunnel under the city to bring water into the city during a siege he was expecting from King Sennacherib of Assyria. BASED ON THIS BRIEF MENTION IN THE BIBLE, archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-foot tunnel cut through the rocks.

        The construction of this tunnel appears to have required either Herculean determination, or divine intervention: HEZEKIAH'S TUNNEL...is a remarkable engineering feat on a scale unkown in the rest of the world of Hezekiah's day. It took all the water from the Gihon Spring outside the city to an already fortified reservoir on the other side of the city through a 1,700-foot tunnel. According to archaeologist Dr. Amihai Mazar: "This tunnel runs under the ridge of the City of David in extraordinary S-SHAPED CURVES. The hewing was carried out by two groups of laborers working from OPPOSITE ends until they met at a point which is easily discerned..." (But, of course, that point wouldn't be so "easily discerned" underground!) Amazingly, "the almost 600-meter-long Hezekiah's Tunnel was cut WITHOUT verticle shafts, making the work exceedingly difficult...in the Siloam Inscription, incised on the tunnel's wall close to its end is written in poetic style...one of the longest and most important monumental Hebrew texts from the period of the Monarchy."

WILL "GAYS"
GO TO HEAVEN?*

        "And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the Plain of Jordan, that it was WELL-WATERED every where, before the Lord destroyed SODOM and GOMORRAH, even as the Garden of the Lord (Eden), like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar. Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other. Abraham dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom. But the men of Sodom were WICKED and SINNERS before the Lord exceedingly." - Genesis 13:10-13
        "But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both old and young, all the people from every quarter: And they called unto Lot, and said unto him, Where are the men which came in to thee this night? bring them out unto us, that we may KNOW them...And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. But the men put forth their hand, and pulled Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door. And they SMOTE THE MEN...with BLINDNESS, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:" - Genesis 19:4-12

        [NOTE: *After destroying them here on earth for their sins, what do you think the chances are
that God will then REWARD them by welcoming them into His Kingdom? - OL]

SODOM'S SINS

        "The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah BRIMSTONE and FIRE from the Lord out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground...And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord: And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke went up AS THE SMOKE OF A FURNACE." - Genesis 19:23-28

        "Behold, this was the iniquity of they sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her DAUGHTERS, neither did she strengthen the hand of the POOR and NEEDY. And they were haughty, and committed ABOMINATION* before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good." - Ezekiel 16:49

(The main two sins that brought down
the wrath of GOD upon Sodom were:

1.Selfishness
and
2. Perversion)

        "If a man also lie with mankind, AS HE LIETH WITH A WOMAN, both of them have committed an ABOMINATION: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them." - Leviticus 20:13

(And if you still aren't convinced, check out
Deuteronomy 23:17, 32:32; 1 Kings 14:24, 15:11-12, 22:41-46;
2 Kings 23:7; Job 36:14; Isaiah 1:9, 1:16-20, 3:9, 13:19;
Jeremiah 23:14; and Lamentations 4:6

        [NOTE: *Again and again God refers to homosexuality as an "abomination" because it is a perversion of His plan for propagation - something a homosexual act is incapable of producing. The definition of "Abominable" or "abomination" is: "detestable," "something worthy of causing extreme disgust and hatred." Bottom line: Anything we choose over GOD - which is what we do when we defy His wishes and His commandments - is considered IDOLOTRY and BLASPHEMY. - OL]

DON'T CALL ME
"BROTHER"

        Of course, these type of quotes set the critics on edge. One of them is Austin Miles, a former minister in the Assemblies of God churches and currently an author and speaker. His most recent work is entitled 'Don't Call Me Brother.' Here's what he has to say about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah: "SODOM AND GOMORRAH IS A MYTH CREATED BY THE CHURCH, and that illustration is used as a constant threat against the disobedient. Nor were Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed by FIRE and BRIMSTONE. This was INVENTED by the same minds that INVENTED HELLFIRE."

        Strange statement to come from a preacher-man. Especially an Assemblies of God one. I guess my first question to him would be "Are YOU by any chance gay?" and the second would be "Are you a member of the World Council of Churches (a creation of the United Nations). In any event, Pastor Miles, I'm afraid you are wrong. Hellfire was invented by GOD - not man - and it is REAL. Furthermore, there is HARD EVIDENCE to support not only that Sodom and Gomorrah were also real - but, even the details of HOW they fell:

THE
TELLTALE TABLETS

       EXAMPLE: Something like 20,000 clay tablets have been unearthed in northern Syria. Based on the information in these tablets, we know that the city of EBLA was at its height of power in 2300 B.C. with a population of probably 260,000 people. It was destroyed in about 2250 B.C., but in the ruins, this treasure trove of tablets - describing the activity of daily life in the ancient world - was discovered. According to Dr. William H. Shea (a medical doctor, medical school professor, and professor of Near Eastern studies at Andrews University):

        "When the EBLA TABLET discovery was first announced in 1976, there was some debate and discussion over whether the names of Sodom and Gomorrah were mentioned in these tablets. We have a more important tablet now to study. It's known as the 'EBLAITE GEOGRAPHIC ATLAS.' It contains a list of 290 place names. Of particular interest is name number #210. ADMAH in the old Canaanite form. That's ADMAH from the Biblical list of the cities of the plain from Genesis 14. The next name, number #211, is very interesting because it is written with signs that are unmistakably clear.

FIRE PROOF

        "SADAM, or SODOM, the Biblical Sodom...the debate is whether Sadam is really south of the Jordan, or somewhere else, like in Syria. AQABAH is obviously the GULF OF AQABAH, and that confirms that he had traveled through Sadam south of the Dead Sea. That's EXACTLY where the Biblical Sodom was located...why is this list of names from the Eblaite Geographic Atlas so important? One reason is that it is a diary of cities visited by a well-traveled merchant from the great city of Ebla of the Bronze Age just before the time of ABRAHAM."

        According to Hershel Shenks in the September/October 1980 issue of the "Biblical Archaeology Review:" "Beneath the rubble [of Bab edh-Dhra] there is clear evidence of a fiery conflagration." Referring to Numeira, a city near Bab edh-Dhra and possibly Gomorrah, Shenks writes, "Even without excavation, the archaeologists [Rast and Schaub] could see that the site had been BURNED. Spongy charcoal was all over the ground and could be scooped up by hand." Publisher-editor of 'Catastrophism in Ancient History,' Marvin Luckerman, says, "Sodom and Gomorrah certainly DID exist, and they were destroyed by a massive FIRE AND BRIMSTONE explosion, AS DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE."

DAY OF
DESTRUCTION

        We even know what date all this happened. According to Gene Faulstitch, founder of the Chronology-History Research Institute: "It is possible by comparing Biblical chronology with secular chronology and astronomical data (They MATCH - which means this actually happened!) to determine the exact day on which Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed...in that particular text it talks about the DOUBLE RISING AND SETTING OF THE SUN. It inspired our curiosity, so we checked to see if in that particular year there had been a SOLAR ECLIPSE. And, in fact, we found one - FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1952 B.C. During a solar eclipse, an EARTHQUAKE is more likely to occur. The extra gravitational pull exerted on that October twenty-ninth, during an eclipse, could have possibly contributed to the kind of earthquake scholars think destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah."

        "The earth's crust is divided into a number of rigid PLATES (sort of like the ones you see on armadillos - except, of course, much, MUCH larger) that interact with each other...The Middle East is an active area in which the plates are spreading apart in a V kind of action. The RIFT VALLEY, which extends from Syria down through the Sea of Galilee, the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea, and ultimately into the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea, is a spreading center. As the plates spread apart, a block of rock called the Graben Valley drops between the two plates. This is the Jordan Valley, the Dead Sea region. As the plates jostle and separate, there is considerable earthquake activity. The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, located at the southern tip of the Dead Sea, fits the description of typical EARTHQUAKE and VOLCANIC activity combined."

OIL & SALT

        This next part should come as no surprise. Everybody knows THE MIDDLE EAST IS OIL-RICH. What you might not know is that "The Dead Sea is very much like it was up to 4,000 years ago." According to Dr. Philip C. Hammond, (a professor of anthropology at the University of Utah), who studied Middle Eastern archaeology at Yale, spent two seasons doing field archaeology at the ancient site of Jericho with the American School of Oriental Research, and has been the referee for the National Geographic Society's Research and Exploration Committee:

        "The area is full of SULPHER, SALT, ASPHALT and BITUMEN coming out of the surface of the water. I've see pictures of people standing on blocks of asphalt in the Dead Sea. There are vapors all over the place. IT IS AN ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN." This also explains why Lot's wife "looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." - Genesis 19:26 Another expert, Shlomo Goren (Director of Information - Dead Sea Industries), tells us that "The MOUNTAIN OF SODOM...is about eight miles long...two miles deep and almost entirely composed of salt..." Erosion has cut this mountain into pinnacles and strange shapes. One of these is locally identified as "LOT'S WIFE." With the tremendous volcanic explosion coming from below the earth (brought about by the earthquakes), Lot's wife might well have been BURIED ALIVE BY A MASS OF FLYING SALT from the mountain.

FIRE
FROM HEAVEN

        Professor Randall Younker, director of the Horn Archeological Museum in Amman, Jordan reports, "Archaeologists have excavated at least three of the five sites along the DEAD SEA, and they have discovered that all three of them were apparently terminated abruptly before the end of the EARLY BRONZE AGE, at approxiately THE SAME TIME...the abrupt and complete destruction has intrigued scholars because it is not just a termination. There is actually an ASH LAYER on top of the city ruins, and this suggests that the city was destroyed by fire." Dr. Bryant G. Wood, Syro-Palestinian archaeologist makes an even more compelling case for the Biblical version of the destruction of these cities:

        "At the end of the life of the city, they buried their dead in buildings right on the surface. These are called CHARNEL HOUSES...a rectangular building made of mud-brick...The scholars...found that these charnel houses were all BURNED...But when they completed a very detailed study of a cross-section cut through one of these charnel houses, they found that the fire did not originate in the building itself, but rather on the ROOF of the building...FIRE RAINED DOWN FROM HEAVEN (exactly as the Bible describes it!) and destroyed these wicked cities."

RECORDS OF
THE FLOOD

       EXAMPLE: In addition, archaeologists have discovered evidence of NOAH'S ARK and The FLOOD: Over the years, numerous flood stories have been identified from ancient sources scattered around the world. Stories discovered on cuneiform tablets, comprising some of the earliest surviving writing, have obvious similarities. Cuneiform writing was invented by the Sumerians and carried on by the Akkadians. Babylonian and Assyrian are two dialects of the Akkadian, and BOTH CONTAIN A FLOOD ACCOUNT. While there are differences between the original Sumerian and later Babylonian and Assyrian flood accounts, many of the similarities are strikingly close to the GENESIS flood account. The Babylonian account is the most intact, with only SEVEN of 205 lines missing. It was also the first discovered, making it the most studied of the early flood accounts.

        "The EPIC OF GILGAMESH is contained on twelve large tablets, and since the original discovery, it has been found on others, as well as having been translated into other early languages. The actual tablets date back to around 650 B.C. and are obviously not originals since fragments of the flood story have been found on tablets dated around 2,000 B.C. Linguistic experts believe that the story was composed well before 2,000 B.C., compiled from material that was much older than that date. The Sumerian cuneiform writing has been estimated to go AS FAR BACK AS 3,300 B.C.

[Cont. in Part 2]

SOURCES

    'Ancient Secrets of The Bible' by Charles E. Sellier & Brian Russell - Dell Publishing 1994
    'Beyond and Back' by Ralph Wilkerson - Bantam Publishing - 6/77
    "The End Times & Victorious Living" Edited by Joseph R. Chambers, D.D., D.S.L. 5-6/01
    'Final Warning: Economic Collapse and the Coming World Government' by Grant R. Jeffrey -
     Harvest House Publishers 1996
    'The Holy Bible, King James Version
    "Personal Update" Edited by Chuck Missler - Koinonia House 12/97; 4/01; 6/01

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