Ellen White Comments

Inspired Comments on the Tables of Stone
and the Ark of the Covenant

by Ellen White

THE TABLES OF STONE IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH,

BOTH ARE TO BE PRESENTED TO THE WORLD

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Why do the SDA leaders and archaeologists reject Ron Wyatt's work? The same happened to the shepherds at Jesus' birth:

"The priests and elders of Jerusalem were not as ignorant concerning the birth of Christ as they pretended. The report of the angels' visit to the shepherds had been brought to Jerusalem, but the rabbis had treated it was unworthy of their notice. They themselves might have found Jesus, and might have been ready to lead the Magi to His birthplace, but instead of this....Now pride and envy closed the door against the light. If the reports brought by the shepherds and the wise men were credited, they would place the priests and rabbis in a most unenviable position, disproving their claim to be the exponents of the truth of God. These learned teachers would not stoop to be instructed by those whom they termed heathen. It could not be, they said, that God had passed them by, to communicate with ignorant shepherds or uncircumcised Gentiles. They determined to show their contempt for the reports that were exciting King Herod and all Jerusalem. They would not even go to Bethlehem to see whether these things were so. And they led the people to regard the interest in Jesus as a fanatical excitement. Here began the rejection of Christ by the priests and rabbis. From this point their pride and stubbornness grew into a settled hatred of the Saviour. While God was opening the door to the Gentiles, the Jewish leaders were closing the door to themselves." DA 62.

THE EARTHLY ARK AND TABLES OF STONE WERE HIDDEN IN A CAVE

"Because of Israel's transgression of the commandments of God, and their wicked acts, God suffered them to go into captivity to humble and punish them. Before the temple was destroyed, God made known to a few of his faithful servants the fate of the temple, which was the pride of Israel, and which they regarded with idolatry, while they were sinning against God. He also revealed to them the captivity of Israel. These righteous men, just before the destruction of the temple, removed the sacred ark containing the tables of stone, and with mourning and sadness, secreted it in a cave where it was to be hid from the people of Israel, because of their sins, and was to be no more restored to them. That sacred ark is yet hid. It has never been disturbed since it was secreted." 4SGA 114

THE EARTHLY ARK WAS HIDDEN IN A CAVE (Similar to above quote)

"Among the righteous still in Jerusalem, to whom had been made plain the divine purpose, were some who determined to place beyond the reach of ruthless hands the sacred ark containing the tables of stone on which had been traced the precepts of the Decalogue. This they did. With mourning and sadness they secreted the ark in a cave, where it was to be hidden from the people of Israel and Judah because of their sins, and was to be no more restored to them. That sacred ark is yet hidden. It has never been disturbed since it was secreted." PK 453

EARTHLY TABLES OF STONE TO BE BROUGHT FORTH DURING SUNDAY LAWS

"By these words Christ has placed this matter beyond all the sophistry of human conjecture. 'And He [Christ] gave unto Moses, when He had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God' (Exodus 31:18). Nothing written on those tables could be blotted out. The precious record of the law was placed in the ark of the testimony and is still there, safely hidden from the human family. But in God's appointed time He will bring forth these tables of stone TO BE A TESTIMONY to all the world against the disregard of His commandments and against the idolatrous worship of a counterfeit Sabbath." MR 8, 100

DURING THE INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT THE EARTHLY TABLES OF STONE WILL BE BROUGHT FROM THEIR HIDING PLACE TO CONVICT PEOPLE OF THE TRUTH BEFORE THE CLOSE OF PROBATION.

"When the judgment shall sit, and the books shall be opened, and every man shall be judged according to the things written in the books, then the tables of stone, hidden by God until that day, will be presented before the world as the standard of righteousness. Then men and women will see that the prerequisite of their salvation is [NOTE TENSE] obedience to the perfect law of God. None will find excuse for sin. By the righteous principles of that law, men will receive their sentence of life or of death." RH 1909/01/28 Note: This cannot be the great White Throne judgment for everyone there will receive death.

JESUS' BLOOD WAS TAKEN TO HEAVEN AND APPLIED TO THE MERCY SEAT

"Still bearing humanity, he ascended to heaven, triumphant and victorious. He has taken the blood of his atonement into the holiest of all, sprinkled it upon the mercy-seat and his own garments, and blessed the people. Soon he will appear the second time to declare that there is no more sacrifice for sin." {Youth’s Instructor, July 25, 1901.}

“As Jesus died on Calvary, He cried, "It is finished," and the veil of the temple was rent in twain, from the top to the bottom. This was to show that the services of the earthly sanctuary were forever finished, and that God would no more meet with the priests in their earthly temple, to accept their sacrifices. The blood of Jesus was then shed, which was to be offered by Himself in the heavenly sanctuary. As the priest entered the most holy once a year to cleanse the earthly sanctuary, so Jesus entered the most holy of the heavenly, at the end of the 2300 days of Daniel 8, in 1844, to make a final atonement for all who could be benefited by His mediation, and thus to cleanse the sanctuary.” {EW 253}

"The cleansing, both in the typical and in the real service, must be accomplished with blood: in the former, with the blood of animals; in the latter, with the blood of Christ. Paul states, as the reason why this cleansing must be performed with blood, that without shedding of blood is no remission. Remission, or putting away of sin, is the work to be accomplished. But how could there be sin connected with the sanctuary, either in heaven or upon the earth? This may be learned by reference to the symbolic service; for the priests who officiated on earth, served “unto the example and shadow of heavenly things.” Hebrews 8:5." - The Great Controversy, 417-418.

Hebrews 9 says this: "Saying, This is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you. Moreover he sprinkled with blood both the tabernacle, and all the vessels of the ministry. And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us:

per R. F. Cottrell in the Adventist Review and Sabbath Herald

“Now, kind reader, I shall relieve your patience. May you and I ever live in obedience to that law which is “holy, just and good.” And through the blood of Jesus Christ the Mediator of the new covenant, which is applied on the mercy seat over the ark of God’s covenant in the sanctuary in heaven, obtain remission for our past transgressions, and finally with the redeemed stand upon Mount Zion.” ARSH May 13, 1862, page 189.19 R F Cottrell

Below from SDA Bible Commentary:

“However, it was not the blood as such that atoned, but the blood shed and applied. No atonement could have been effected in the sacrificial service by having an animal killed and the blood poured out on the ground. It was to be caught in a vessel, after which the priest ministered it by sprinkling and otherwise . It was the sprinkled blood that effected atonement, not the unused portion of the blood later poured out on the ground (see on ch. 4:7). The atonement was made by the blood that was put on the horns of the altar, not by that which was poured out on the ground (Ex. 29:12; Ex. 30:10; Lev. 4:7, 18, 25, 30, 34). It is unfortunate that Christians stress the 'spilt blood', an expression not found in the Bible, and forget the 'sprinkled' blood, which alone effected atonement.... Paul speaks of 'the blood of sprinkling' (Heb. 12:24), that is, the blood that was ministered." SDA Bible Commentary volume 1, page 730, 731.

[The blood of Christ just couldn't have spilled on the ground to atone. It had to be sprinkled on something most holy to atone for sin.]

THE SPECIFICATIONS OF THE ARK

"After the building of the tabernacle was completed, Moses examined all the work, and compared it with the pattern, and directions he had received of God, and he saw that every part of it agreed with the pattern; and he blessed the people. God gave a pattern of the ark to Moses, with special directions how to make it. The ark was made to contain the tables of stone, on which God engraved, with his own finger, the Ten Commandments. It was in form like a chest, and was overlaid and inlaid with pure gold. It was ornamented with crowns of gold round about the top. The cover of this sacred chest was the mercy-seat, made of solid gold. On each end of the mercy-seat was fixed a cherub of pure, solid gold. Their faces were turned toward each other, and were looking reverentially downward toward the mercy-seat, which represents all the heavenly angels looking with interest and reverence to the law of God deposited in the ark in the heavenly sanctuary. These cherubs had wings. One wing of each angel was stretched forth on high, while the other wing of each angel covered their forms. The ark of the earthly sanctuary was the pattern of the true ark in Heaven. There, beside the heavenly ark, stand living angels, at either end of the ark, each with one wing overshadowing the mercy-seat, and stretching forth on high, while the other wings are folded over their forms in token of reverence and humility." 1SP 272

A SET OF COMMANDMENTS IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH

Fundamental Principle XI 1872

"God's moral requirements are the same upon all men in all dispensations; that those are summarily contained in the commandments spoken by Jehovah from Sinai, engraven on the tables of stone, and deposited in the ark, which was in consequence called the "ark of the covenant," or testament. That this law is immutable and perpetual, being a transcript of the tables deposited in the ark in the true sanctuary on high...."

CHRIST'S BLOOD BEFORE THE HEAVENLY ARK. EARTHLY TABLES OF STONE ARE A COPY

"They had by faith followed their High Priest from the holy to the most holy, and they saw him pleading his blood before the ark of God. Within that sacred ark is the Father's law, the same that was spoken by God himself amid the thunders of Sinai, and written with his own finger on the tables of stone. Not one command has been annulled; not a jot or tittle has been changed. While God gave to Moses a copy of his law, he preserved the great original in the sanctuary above. Tracing down its holy precepts, the seekers for truth found, in the very bosom of the Decalogue, the fourth commandment, as it was first proclaimed: ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.’"[1 EX. 20:8-11.] 4SP 273

THE EARTHLY OR HEAVENLY TABLES OF STONE WILL COME OUT FROM THEIR HIDING PLACE.

"And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God." There are abundant evidences of the immutability of God's law. It was written with the finger of God, never to be obliterated, never to be destroyed. The tables of stone are hidden by God, to be produced in the great judgment-day, just as he wrote them." RH 1908/03/26

SINAI TABLES READ THE SAME AS HEAVENLY TABLES

"And I saw that if God had changed the Sabbath; from the seventh to the first day, he would have changed the writing of the Sabbath commandment, written on the tables of stone, which are now in the ark, in the Most Holy Place of the Temple in heaven; and it would read thus: The first day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. But I saw that it [heavenly tables] read the same as when written on the tables of stone by the finger of God, and delivered to Moses in Sinai, "But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God." I saw that the Holy Sabbath is, and will be, the separating wall between the true Israel of God and unbelievers; and that the Sabbath is the great question, to unite the hearts of God's dear waiting saints." RH 1851/07/21

THE TABLES OF STONE ARE HIDDEN IN THE ARK AND PRESERVED

"At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up into me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood. And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou breakest, and thou shalt put them in the ark. And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. And he wrote on the tables according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you out of the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly; and the Lord gave them unto me. And I turned myself, and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the Lord commanded me." Yes: there they were to be hidden and preserved, to justify the obedient and condemn the disobedient. Those who choose to disobey will surely receive sentence according to their works." KC 150

TABLES OF STONE HIDDEN IN ARK IN HEAVEN

"Sacrilegious minds and hearts have thought they were mighty enough to change the times and laws of Jehovah; but, safe in the archives of heaven, in the ark of God, are the original commandments, written upon the two tables of stone. No potentate of earth has power to draw forth those tables from their sacred hiding-place beneath the mercy-seat. The fourth precept of the decalogue remains unchanged, holding the same claims upon man, as when the ten commandments were thundered, amid smoke and flame, from the holy mount." ST 1878/02/28

HEAVENLY TABLES BROUGHT FORTH FROM THEIR HIDING PLACE

"When God's temple in heaven is opened, what a triumphant time that will be for all who have been faithful and true. In the temple will be seen the ark of the testament in which were placed the two tables of stone, on which are written God's law. These tables of stone will be brought forth from their hiding place, and on them will be seen the ten commandments engraved by the finger of God. These tables of stone now lying in the ark of the testament will be a convincing testimony to the truth and binding claims of God's law." MR 1469-3, letter 47, 1902

HEAVENLY TABLES BROUGHT FORTH IN JUDGMENT

"What is the test of true religion? Knowing and doing the will of God, in accordance with every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. There is a sanctuary, and in that sanctuary is the ark, and in the ark are the tables of stone, on which are written the law spoken from Sinai amidst scenes of awful grandeur. These tables of stone are in the heavens, and they will be brought forth in that day when the judgment shall sit and the books shall be opened, and men shall be judged according to the things written in the books. They will be judged by the law written by the finger of God and given to Moses to be deposited in the ark. A record is kept of the deeds of all men, and according to his works will every man receive sentence, whether they be good or whether they be evil." MR 1437-5, Bk 20 p 68

HEAVENLY TABLES CONVICT WICKED AFTER PROBATION CLOSES

"With His own finger God wrote His commandments on two tables of stone. These tables were not left in the keeping of men, but were placed in the ark; and in the great day when every case is decided, these tables, inscribed with the commandments, will be placed so that all the world will see and understand. The witness against them will be unanswerable. And upon those who have taken upon them the work of shepherds of the flock, will be visited the heaviest judgments, because they have presented to the people fables instead of truth. Children will rise up and curse their parents. Church members, who have seen the light and been convicted, but who have trusted the salvation of their souls to the minister, will learn in the day of God that no other soul can pay the ransom for their transgression. A terrible cry will be raised, ‘I am lost, eternally lost....’" MR 1401-5, p265, 266

ORIGINAL LAW WILL BE PRESENTED TO MAN

"But the original law of God is safely deposited in the ark in the heavenly sanctuary, and will be presented to man just as God engraved it on the tables of stone. To the king on his throne and the humblest of his subjects, the law of righteousness will constitute the standard of character, and by its precepts will every work be tried and every thought be brought into examination. The fourth commandment will be found in the bosom of the Decalogue just as it was written by the finger of God, and every soul who has presumed to exalt the false sabbath above the Sabbath which was sanctified and blessed and given to mankind for respect and observance, will be found out of harmony with the law of God. God gave the Sabbath to be a sign between him and his people, that they might know that it was the Lord who was their sanctifier. Those who have knowingly trampled upon the true Sabbath, while they have exalted to its place a spurious institution, will have to answer for their action before the Lord who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is therein. God has proclaimed himself a jealous God." ST 1895/11/14

HEAVENLY TABLES OF STONE APPEAR IN THE SKY

"While these words of holy trust ascend to God, the clouds sweep back, and the starry heavens are seen, unspeakably glorious in contrast with the black and angry firmament on either side. The glory of the celestial city streams from the gates ajar. Then there appears against the sky a hand holding two tables of stone folded together. Says the prophet: "The heavens shall declare His righteousness: for God is judge Himself." Psalm 50:6. That holy law, God's righteousness, that amid thunder and flame was proclaimed from Sinai as the guide of life, is now revealed to men as the rule of judgment. The hand opens the tables, and there are seen the precepts of the Decalogue, traced as with a pen of fire. The words are so plain that all can read them. Memory is aroused, the darkness of superstition and heresy is swept from every mind, and God's ten words, brief, comprehensive, and authoritative, are presented to the view of all the inhabitants of the earth." GC 639

HEAVENLY TABLES APPEAR IN THE LAST GREAT DAY

"Thus it is in our time. A departure from right principles will bind the understanding as to what is truth. The Holy law of Ten Commandments, written on tables of stone by the finger of God, and placed in the ark, is the standard of righteousness. Before the obedient and the disobedient it will appear in the last great day, and all the wicked will be convicted. They will see that their actions proceeded from a depraved character. They will see that the part they acted served to carry on the rebellion begun in heavenly courts. The will see all the cruelty and all the wickedness that have dishonored their Creator and brought about the wretchedness that fills the world." MR 1074, Bk. 13, p 381

FOURTH COMMANDMENT HAS HALO OF LIGHT IN HEAVEN

"In the autumn of 1846 we began to observe the Bible Sabbath, and to teach and defend it. My attention was first called to the Sabbath while I was on a visit to New Bedford, Massachusetts, earlier in the same year. I there became acquainted with Elder Joseph Bates, who had early embraced the advent faith, and was an active laborer in the cause. Elder B. was keeping the Sabbath, and urged its importance. I did not feel its importance, and thought that Elder B. erred in dwelling upon the fourth commandment more than upon the other nine. But the Lord gave me a view of the heavenly sanctuary. The temple of God was opened in heaven, and I was shown the ark of God covered with the mercy seat. Two angels stood, one at each end of the ark, with their wings spread over the mercy seat, and their faces turned toward it. My accompanying angel informed me that these represented all the heavenly host looking with reverential awe toward the holy law which had been written by the finger of God. Jesus raised the cover of the ark, and I beheld the tables of stone on which the Ten Commandments were written. I was amazed as I saw the fourth commandment in the very center of the ten precepts, with a soft halo of light encircling it. Said the angel: "It is the only one of the ten which defines the living God who created the heavens and the earth and all things that are therein. When the foundations of the earth were laid, then was laid the foundation of the Sabbath also." 1T 75; 2SG 82

AARON'S ROD AND POT OF MANNA ARE IN THE HEAVENLY ARK

"In the holiest I saw an ark; on the top and sides of it was purest gold. On each end of the ark was a lovely cherub, with its wings spread out over it. Their faces were turned toward each other, and they looked downward. Between the angels was a golden censer. Above the ark, where the angels stood, was an exceeding bright glory, that appeared like a throne where God dwelt. Jesus stood by the ark, and as the saints' prayers came up to Him, the incense in the censer would smoke, and He would offer up their prayers with the smoke of the incense to His Father. In the ark was the golden pot of manna, Aaron's rod that budded, and the tables of stone which folded together like a book. Jesus opened them, and I saw the Ten Commandments written on them with the finger of God. On one table were four, and on the other six. The four on the first table shone brighter than the other six. But the fourth, the Sabbath commandment, shone above them all; for the Sabbath was set apart to be kept in honor of God's holy name. The holy Sabbath looked glorious--a halo of glory was all around it. I saw that the Sabbath commandment was not nailed to the cross. If it was, the other nine commandments were; and we are at liberty to break them all, as well as to break the fourth. I saw that God had not changed the Sabbath, for He never changes. But the pope had changed it from the seventh to the first day of the week; for he was to change times and laws." EW 32; B3 1847/04/07; RH 1851/07/21 1

THE APOCRYPHA STATES THAT JEREMIAH HID THE ARK IN A CAVE

(We know the Apocrypha is not a totally inspired book. In this quote, the wrong mountain is referenced, as apposed to Mt. Moriah, the correct mountain.)

"Prompted by a divine message, the prophet [Jeremiah] gave orders that the Tent of Meeting and the ark should go with him. Then he went away to the mountain from the top of which Moses saw God’s Promised Land. When he reached the mountain, Jeremiah found a cave-dwelling; he carried the tent, the ark, and the incense-altar into it, then blocked up the entrance. [Today in Zedekiah’s cave there is a blocked-up entrance to a tunnel that leads 370’ to the cave.] Some of his companions came to mark out the way, [Today near the entrance to the tunnel that leads to the Ark is a plaque of an Ephod that was carved in stone and has since been removed.] but were unable to find it. When Jeremiah learned of this he reprimanded them. ‘The place shall remain unknown’, he said, ‘until God finally gathers his people together and shows mercy to them. Then the Lord will bring these things to light again, and the glory of the Lord will appear with the cloud, as it was seen both in the time of Moses and when Solomon prayed that the shrine might be worthily consecrated.’" 2 Maccabees 2:4-8

EARTHLY TABLES OF STONE TO BE BROUGHT FORTH DURING SUNDAY LAWS

THE EARTHLY OR HEAVENLY TABLES OF STONE WILL COME OUT FROM THEIR HIDING PLACE.

DURING THE INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT THE EARTHLY TABLES OF STONE WILL BE BROUGHT FROM THEIR HIDING PLACE TO CONVICT PEOPLE OF THE TRUTH BEFORE THE CLOSE OF PROBATION.

REMNANT WILL VISIT THE MOST HOLY PLACE IN HEAVEN

"It was represented to me that the remnant followed Jesus into the most holy place and beheld the ark and the mercy seat, and were captivated with their glory. Jesus then raised the cover of the ark, and lo! the tables of stone, with the ten commandments written upon them. They trace down the lively oracles, but start back with trembling when they see the fourth commandment among the ten holy precepts, with a brighter light shining upon it than upon the other nine, and a halo of glory all around it. They find nothing there informing them that the Sabbath has been abolished, or changed to the first day of the week. The commandment reads as when spoken by the voice of God in solemn and awful grandeur upon the mount, while the lightnings flashed and the thunders rolled; it is the same as when written with His own finger on the tables of stone: ‘Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.’ They are amazed as they behold the care taken of the ten commandments. They see them placed close by Jehovah, overshadowed and protected by His holiness. They see that they have been trampling upon the fourth commandment of the decalogue, and have observed a day handed down by the heathen and papists, instead of the day sanctified by Jehovah. They humble themselves before God and mourn over their past transgressions." EW 255

THE HOLY OF HOLIES WAS THE LINK BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH

"Beyond the inner veil was the Holy of Holies, where centered the symbolic service of atonement and intercession, and which formed the connecting link between heaven and earth. In this apartment was the ark, a chest of acacia wood, overlaid within and without with gold, and having a crown of gold about the top. It was made as a depository for the tables of stone, upon which God Himself had inscribed the Ten Commandments. Hence it was called the ark of God's testament, or the Ark of the Covenant, since the Ten Commandments were the basis of the covenant made between God and Israel." PP 348; RH 1905/11/09

ARK OF COVENANT HOUSES GOD'S COVENANT BETWEEN GOD & ISRAEL

"In the inner apartment was the ark, which was the most sacred object connected with that system of worship. It was a chest of precious wood, overlaid within and without with pure gold, and having a crown of gold about the top. In the ark were placed the tables of stone upon which God had engraved with his own finger the Ten Commandments. It was made expressly for this purpose, and hence was called the Ark of the Covenant, and the ark of the testament, since the ten commandments were God's covenant, and the basis of the covenant made between God and Israel." ST 1880/06/24

THE MERCY SEAT REPRESENTS JESUS' MERCY FOR REPENTING LAW BREAKERS.

"Do not be led astray with the error of the wicked. The tempter's voice will be heard on every side, telling you that you are not now required to keep the law of God. This is a device of Satan. God has a law, and men must keep it. If they disregard these rules, they will not have that perfection of character that will give them an entrance into the mansions above. None need to make a mistake in regard to the character required to become members of the royal family, children of the heavenly King; for God wrote these ten holy rules on tables of stone and kept them in the ark made for them, called the ark of God's testimony. The cover of this ark of pure gold, was called the mercy-seat, to signify that although death was the penalty for transgressing the law, mercy came through Jesus Christ to pardon the repentant, believing sinner." YI 1886/08/18

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Friends, Ron Wyatt was an instrument of God in discovering Noah's ark, Sodom and Gomorrah, the Red Sea crossing site, and the real Mt. Sinai. Each of these discoveries has irrefutable evidence as to their authenticity. It is evident that God was using this man to reveal the truth of the Bible, to a world which doubts the Word of God. The world will soon have to take an eternal stand for truth or error, the seal of God or the mark of the beast. God will use a simple show-and-tell demonstration of archaeology to prove the Bible is God's Word.

God also used Mr. Wyatt, who believed 100 percent in the Bible and Spirit of Prophecy, to also find the Ark of the Covenant before his death in August 1999. All the proof has not been presented to the world relating to this discovery, as the Ark of the Covenant and the Ten Commandments will be revealed to the world during the Sunday laws. To those who say Mr. Wyatt has not discovered the Ark of the Covenant, it could be said that God would not use someone to reveal all the other authenticated discoveries, who would then perpetrate a lie about the Ark. As the Spirit of Prophecy says, the Ten Commandments will be brought out of their hiding place and present them to the world before the close of probation, to be a witness to the truth. God uses human agents to do His work here on earth. Is it not proper that God has chosen a commandment keeper to be His messenger?

The Ten Commandments found by Ron Wyatt have writing on both sides of the tables of stone. The writing is in the Proto-Aramaic language. Each commandment is written without any spaces between the words, which may be why the Bible mentions the ten words of the law. The writing looks as if someone wrote it with a hot instrument in butter then turned it to stone.

Mr. Wyatt has taken the tables of stone out of the Ark of the Covenant, with the help of heavenly messengers, and they are in a safe place. God is waiting for the Sunday laws to show the Ten Commandments to the world. We have been blessed with a sneak preview of what the whole world will soon learn about in a very short time.

Christ was sacrificed directly above the cave which held the Ark of the Covenant and the other furnishings of the wilderness tabernacle. When Christ died there was a great earthquake, which split the bedrock under the cross. Christ's blood fell through the fissure in the rock, extending 20 feet through the rock, and fell onto the mercy seat of the Ark in the cave. Christ "anointed" the Ark with His own blood, see Dan. 9:24. I John 5:6-9 speaks of the water and blood as a witness to Jesus being the Son of God. The blood on the Ark is totally unique. It has only 24 chromosomes, unlike any other human, as we have 46. He had an earthly mother who provided 23 chromosomes and a heavenly Father who provided the "y" sex determinant chromosome. This evidence will prove to the world that Jesus was the Messiah. All mankind will have to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior and confess their sins to Him, prior to the close of probation, in order to be saved.