by Bill Bishop

It was a little over a year ago, Shavuot 2018, when we had a group of friends come to stay and celebrate the feast with us at our home for the weekend.  Then on the Monday following Shavuot, six of us went to Cornersville, TN to visit the Wyatt Archeological Museum.  We were blessed to have Richard Rives be our personal host, and he shared many of his personal artifacts and memories with us in addition to the interesting museum exhibits.  Richard Rives is a notable author and teacher himself, and he was a personal friend of Ron Wyatt; he also worked with him on some of his research and archeological digs.  Richard has seen many of the discoveries Ron made and continued to verify what he is able to verify of Ron's archeological work.  Although the museum is small and quite humble, the history of Ron Wyatt's discoveries is astounding and profound.

So who is Ron Wyatt and what did he discover?  We view Ron Wyatt as one of the most remarkable Biblical archeologists of all time with several amazing, major discoveries to his credit.  Yet he also seems to be the most overlooked and unknown person to ever make any of these discoveries.  Other more famous researchers such as Bob Cornuke and Lennart Moller have had the benefit of his work to promote for themselves.  Ron passed away 20 years ago in 1999, so he isn't around to answer anybody's questions.  He did not seek fame or notoriety; he only wanted to bring the Truth of the Bible forward with his research and discoveries.  So just what did he discover?

• The location of Sodom and Gomorrah
• The petrified remains of Noah's Ark
• The place of the Red Sea Crossing
• The true Mount Sinai
• The Ark of the Covenant

Nobody has been able to substantiate Ron's claim to have found the Ark of the Covenant mostly because it seems to be hidden perhaps somewhat metaphysically.  His account of this particular discovery is an astounding story, and it invites plenty of scoffers and mockers.  Richard Rives has earnestly tried to find any evidence that could support the story of his old friend, but all he can say is that Ron was genuinely, sincerely convinced he had seen it.  No tangible evidence has been found to match up with Ron's story, and Israeli archeological authorities will not allow any permits at this time to dig where needed in the search to prove or disprove it.  It is clear in my mind that only Yahweh knows the truth, and He will determine if and when the Ark of the Covenant will be found.

However, Richard and many others have validated each of these other discoveries over the past 20+ years.  The Biblical Mount Sinai is now commonly believed by many, including the Saudi Arabians, to be in Saudi Arabia at Jebel al-Lawz (Mountain of Almonds.)  The local bedouins that helped the Wyatt's in 1984 even called it Jebel Musa which means Mountain of Moses.  Here is a video from Ron's wife, Mary Nell Wyatt Lee, telling her story about his discovery of the real Mount Sinai.

Here is a very well-made documentary that brings forth a recent "discovery" of the same Mount Sinai that Ron Wyatt brought to the world's attention 35 years ago.  Perhaps Ron was a little ahead of the curve, but now this discovery is getting some attention.

Here is a real "kicker" to all this big revelation about the real Mount Sinai.  This is truly a sign of the times:  Saudi Arabia is planning to build the world's largest, most advanced, technologically sophisticated and artificially intelligent city of man-made utopia right here on Jebel al-Lawz!  They are actually planning to build a completely artificial city to showcase the greatest of all mankind's achievements and advancements in the arts, engineering, entertainment, social equality, technology, education, etc.  I suppose this being the place of Mount Sinai ( which is also called the mount of God, Exodus 24:13) is simply a mere coincidence with their decision to build this city at this very spot.  Wow - this is way beyond Nimrod's plan!

I hope you enjoy watching these videos, and more importantly, I hope this post will accomplish two things for you:

1. Validate the historical truth of God's Word in the Bible.
   
2. Reveal the extensive and ongoing mission of our adversary to deceive and destroy.
   

Paul tells us in Romans 10:4 that “Christ is the end of the law”.  What on Earth did Paul mean by this?  In Deuteronomy 13:4 mankind is instructed to walk after our Heavenly Father and keep his commandments, cleaving to Him:

Deuteronomy 13:4
(4)  Ye shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.
 
The next verse says that no matter what signs and wonders are shown by a person, if that one draws us away from the instructions of verse 4 he is to be killed: 

Deuteronomy 13:5
(5)  And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.
 
This death sentence is presumably because the man drawing one away from God’s ways and His Law is a heretic regarding the doctrinal instructions established by God himself in verse 4. 
 
HERETIC – anyone who does not conform to an established doctrine, or principle.

If Paul tells us that the advent of Christ brought an end to God’s Law, then was he not teaching us to overthrow the instructions of Deuteronomy 13:4?  It appears that he would not only be heretical in his personal belief system, but he would be instructing others in his heresy.  Not only would he be usurping the words of God recorded by Moses, but he would also be discounting the words by Y’shua (Jesus) Himself:

Matthew 5:17
(17)  Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
 
Fulfill is the Greek word Strong’s G4137 – (pleroo) – cause to abound, render full and complete, execute, perform; fill to the top, to full measure, wanting nothing; consummate; carry into effect; carry out, accomplish, render perfect in every detail.  Now if Y’shua was our example, would this not give us the understanding we need to follow in His footsteps?  Did He accomplish this so we could be free to ignore it all?  If Paul was actually teaching that God’s Law no longer applies today, then he would (by God’s own words) be a heretic, and we should immediately stop reading anything more he has to say.

In many of today’s pulpits, pastors preach that Old Testament Law no longer applies in a New Testament era.  In the past when we read the Bible superficially, we likewise thought Paul’s words seemed to present such thoughts, and it was very troubling to us because teaching against God’s Law is heretical per Deuteronomy.  It was a conundrum that had to be resolved, or we felt we must discount all of Paul’s writings in order be right with our Father in Heaven.  After a great deal of studies, we have come to concur with others that have found that Paul never intended his words to be interpreted in this manner.  Actually, the very principles and structuring of God’s Truth would never allow for such an interpretation.

Translations are never perfect, and our English word “end” had created a spin that caused the confusion.  When we studied the passage as it was originally written, the meaning became clear to us.  The word “end” in this passage is the Greek word Strong’s G5056 (telos) - eternal; aim or purpose.  Rather than eliminating the Law, Y’shua provided the fullness of its aim or purpose for our example, and eternalized it.

Once we became aware that the Father’s Law was not supposed to be ripped from our Biblical text and thrown away during the New Testament era, we had to confront many other passages in Paul’s epistles as well.  “Look at what he says here!” we’d say.  “Where does he GET that???”  “HORRORS!”  “How are we supposed to deal with what he says there?” 

Can any of you out there identify with these sentiments?  We know now that all of Scripture is supposed to interlock harmoniously, but how are we supposed to rationalize Paul’s writings to the rest of Scripture?  What are we to do with some of Paul’s words? 

To get to the root of all that, we need to study a little bit more about this man – about how he related to his audience and what comprised the platform of doctrinal Truth he stood on.  We have a new two-part series in Short Articles titled Paul’s Paradox.  We think you just might enjoy it.  There will likely be further writings that at least loosely pertain to this same topic in the future, such as the Divine Patterns series previously posted under Other Writings, Short Articles also does.