From: 	 heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
Sent: 	 Tuesday, October 7, 1997 2:30 AM
To: 	 "Hebraic Heritage Newsgroup"
Subject: ARK OF THE COVENANT - DISCOVERED!?

>To:            heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com
>From:          Earl Duckett 
>Subject:       ARK OF THE COVENANT - DISCOVERED!
>
>Dear Eddie Chumney,
>
>  I have just sent an e-mail message to you with the same subject as
>this e-mail.  I received this amazing e-mail from Andrew Strom in New
>Zealand and didn't know if you had seen this report yet.  I find it
>both fascinating and exciting.  I would appreciate hearing your
>thoughts on its possible authenticity and any other additions you
>might add from your experience and contacts in Jerusalem.  Thanks.
>
>>From Eddie:
>**************
>
>         Earl,
>
>         I saw Ron Wyatt in person in the past year at a meeting 
> that he held in my local area. He is a 7th Day Adventist and holds to
> all the 7th Day Adventist doctrine. In the question/answer period,
> he gave some "anti-Semetic" answers to various questions during the
> question and answer period.  Also during the question/answer period,
> Ron gave reasons for some of the questions asked from the viewpoint
> of traditional 7th Day Adventist belief rather than out of scriptural truth. 
>  He also claimed during this time  that he would put the covenant on 
> display in the near future all over America. The reality of this is 
> perposterous.  Most respected Archeologists in Israel have ignored 
> Ron Wyatt and his discoveries.
>
>         In order to validate what I am saying, I would suggest that 
> you also talk with Randy Felton. Randy has been personally involved
> with various archeological digs in Israel in recent years.
>

To:            heb_roots_chr@mail.geocities.com 
From:        Randy Felton
Subject:       Re: ARK OF THE COVENANT - DISCOVERED!?

Dear Earl,

Well, here goes.

First I suggest you get a copy of  "In Search of Temple Treasures" by Dr.
Randall Price.  Dr. Price devotes a chapter to "discoveries" such as these
by Ron Wyatt.  The legitimate scholars and archeologists that I know and
have talked with in Israel totally discount the claims of Ron Wyatt.  To
date I have not seen any evidence of any finds he has made.  The photos
always come out underdeveloped or there is a bright light which obscures
the object or the camera fails or the governments won't let out any word of
the discoveries for security purposes, etc.  Ron Wyatt is not an
archeologist he is an anesthetist. I find it interesting that he claims to
have found all the aritcles that have been searched for over many years by
great numbers of people.

If you will read Numbers 19:9 you will find that the Red Heifer was a
sacrifice for sin.....it was done in front of the altar at a "clean place
outside the camp".   All sin sacrifices were in front of the altar.
Gordon's Calvary and the "Grotto of Jeremiah" are North and slightly to the
West of the Temple and altar.  This is not a fit site for a sin sacrifice,
it is in  the wrong location. 

The Tabernacle and the Temple were given to us as a pattern of what is in
Heaven and a shadow of things to come.  If all sacrifices were to take
place in a certain place then why would the ultimate sacrifice be at a
different location?   The site of the crucifixion had to take place near
the top of the Mt. of Olives to fulfill the ritual regarding the sacrifices.

It is my hope that Mr. Wyatt is simply wrong in his conclusions and
exhuberance, not as some others suggest.

Shalom,

Randy Felton

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