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Sinai and the Commandments
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The Sinai Discovery Story
Vatican Cover-up!
Has one of the two sets of the Ten Commandments, hewn by Moses and engraved with the finger of God, been found?
Several weeks after the Exodus from Egypt, according to the Bible account, the Israelite nation was gathered to Mount Sinai to hear God's eternal covenant with them - the Ten Commandments. Then Moses was called up the mountain to receive "two tables of testimony, tables of stone... and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables." (Ex.31:18,15-16)
When Moses descended the mountain and saw the shocking spectacle of what was happening on the plain below, he "brake them beneath the mount." (Ex.32:19) He was later given a replacement set which was placed inside the Ark of the Covenant.
But what happened to that first - the broken - set of tablets? The June 17, 1992, issue of the Shanghai "Liberation Daily" (Chinese official party organ) published a news item, entitled, "A 'Myth' from the Gulf War." "The Sun", a US newspaper, has also published a report on it. The two sources contain points that differ, but they generally agree on the essential facts. That two separate articles, with differing details, would appear on two separate continents, should be regarded as significant.
They both indicate that those first two inscribed stone tablets have been found?
The Story
During the Gulf War, heavy allied bombing of southern Iraq "caused a cavern about 100 feet deep to cave in, " explains Kurt Jenkins, a British archaeologist and one of the first called to the scene. He and his colleagues found a variety of items in the cavern, including, incredibly, the original tablets containing the Ten Commandments. "We just put everything on planes and flew them out of the country because we knew the Iraqis would not allow us to properly excavate the site," Jenkins says. The site was close to the Euphrates River, about 80 miles north of the Kuwaiti border.
Historically, there would be a good possibility that the broken set of the tables was later recovered from the lower slopes of Mount Sinai by a faithful Hebrew and taken to Canaan. Late, when the Jews were carried captive to Babylon (now in Iraq) in 606, 597 and 586 B.C.), the broken set of tablets could well have been taken by someone, in the hope of preserving them for posterity. By the time when the captivity was drawing to a close, the Jews had been so successful in business in Babylonia that their children and grandchildren, now so worldly-minded, few of them were interested in returning to the desolated home of their forefathers. Only a remnant returned. Overlooked, it was NOT later brought back to Judea. Forgotten it was ignored. When the town was flooded, a new village was built atop the old one. This went on for 2,500 years, until recently. (Jews lived in these riverside towns as well as in Babylon city.) This rebuilding as well as the continual river deposition would account for it now being so far under the surface.
According to the Chinese report, it was Western forces which recognised the tablets for what they were. Taken to US "for analysis" The "Sun" article reports that exciting as the discovery is, scientists are stunned by the way the words were inscribed on the tablets. "Although worn by centuries of erosion," says Jacob Arens, a physicist from the University of Jerusalem "the letters are clean with sharp edges.
No stonecutter could have done such a perfect job." Arens and other scientists from Europe and the US have subjected the tablets to a variety of tests, including x-rays and computer analyses.
"The letters were definitely burned into the rock," says Professor Ludwig Sales from Berlin University. "I'm not ready to say it was a laser beam, but some sort of cutting ray was used - something far beyond the skills of ancient Hebrews" (runaway slaves in the desert).
Vance Ferrell (USA) reports that a friend rang John Hopkins University sources and the people there
"appeared stunned that someone would have that information. Throughout the conversation, it was obvious that a secret needed to be kept, and they were surprised that the cat was out of the bag. At one point in the conversation, I asked, 'Do you have information on this?' The answer was something like this 'Well, we have information. I replied, 'Something in the affirmative or in the negative? 'Something in the affirmative,' came the response."
Significance of the find
Such a discovery would provide excellent advance notice to the world that the Ten Commandments are very real. If God wrote this Law with His own finger for us to know, then, surely, obedience to that Law must be very important. Prophecy tells us that the final showdown will come regarding obedience to His Law. How appropriate that the original, broken set should be found NOW! How awesome to be alive now, on the edge of the end of man's period of rule!
(My thanks to Barry White, Thames, N.Z., for alerting me to this.)
Jonathan Gray.Latest News Just In
Ron Wyatt has just announced the discovery of the second set of commandments still in the Ark of the Covenant. These will probably go on display in USA soon.
More News soon....
Vatican Cover-up!
We reported (above) the possible discovery of the original Mt Sinai set of stone tablets of the Ten Commandments.
David Lin subsequently announced from China:Now I have learned that world news agencies received orders from the vatican to suppress this item. I was told this by a newsman connected with the Shanghai news item, Wen Hui Hao. I had asked him to trace that news article to its source, and yesterday he told me on his own initiative that 'the Catholic church had suppressed this news.' So my suspicion is verified. . . .This will not be the last bit of information on this subject.
If the original Ten Commandments as God wrote them were truly found and put on display, some authorities would naturally be alarmed. In church catechisms, the ten Commandments have been tampered with. The 2nd is omitted and the 4th altered.
