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YHVH's Covenant of preservation to Noah!
The finding of Noah's ark
By Judy Fenton; Daughter of Donald W. Patton

The finding of Noah's ark
By Judy Fenton; Daughter of Donald W. Patton

Maybe you realized that you may not have yet heard of the finding of Noah's ark. A man named David Fasold read Donald W. Patton’s book and he had a desire to find the remains of Noah's ark. He worked on looking at writings of the ancient Chaldean historian Berosus and the translation of his writings into Greek. Mr. Fasold realized that Berosus had been mistranslated. He was able to pinpoint the location of the ark and he traveled to Turkey and found the site. He rented sophisticated metal-detection equipment and walked the remains of the ark and found hand-hewn, ancient iron fittings in a regular pattern of the structural design of a boat of exactly the dimensions of the ark, measured in Egyptian cubits. The ark is on Mount Judi in the mountains of the Ararat range, and just a few miles from Mount Ararat. The ancient artifact had been mostly underground, but an earthquake occurred in Turkey on the day that Israel became a nation in 1948, and the ancient ark emerged from the ground. David Fasold's book, The Ark of Noah, is available on Amazon.com. (used copies)

There is also video has been produced on the discovery of Noah's Ark. In the video, Donald Patton is interviewed, and also David Fasold, a friend of Donald Patton named Sam Windsor who is a marine architect, and others. It's called "Discovery of Noah's Ark: The Best Evidence" (available on e-bay)
Unfortunately, the producer gives credence to the Muslim religion alongside Christianity and the Jewish faith, but the video is quite informative anyways!

Movie description This is not the sensationalized program aired on CBS in 1993 which depicted Noah's Ark protruding from the ice on Mt. Ararat. That program was later shown to have been based on falsified stories, myth, and bogus documents. This is the real Ark site. Noah's Ark has been found. Here is the evidence, including photographs and film footage, to prove it. With the aid of aerial reconnaissance, technologically advanced sensing devices, controlled chemical analysis and strict archeological field work, this program presents the evidence that suggests scientists have indeed found the final resting place of Noah's Ark as described in the Bible and the Book of Genesis.
(Source: UFO TV) (By Judy Fenton; daughter of Donald W. Patton)

The Location of the Ark..
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The Scripture does provide a general location for the landing site, but not a specific mountain peak. It simply says, "The Ark came to rest upon the MOUNTAINS of Ararat". The original indicates it came to rest in the REGION of Urartu. (The area we call Ararat today)

Believed is that one of the very positive result from the traditions that developed was the preservation of the remains, tradition actually led explorers away from the authentic site. Also, God worked in a miraculous way to preserve the remains for this generation. He simply hid it from human sight, until 1948.
One of the most fundamental reasons why the Ark could not have landed on Ararat is that the mountain had not developed to it's present height. Most Geologists will tell you the evidence indicates that the peak we call Ararat, is only 2,000 or less years in development. This means that it was not the dominant feature in the area 4,400 years ago, that it most obviously is today. And we know the flood waters were not over 17,000 ft in height as they would have needed to be, in order for the Ark to land on that mountain.

The mountain's development is due to volcanism, large lava domes are still present even today indicating major activity in the last 500 years. In 1848 the north west face blew out creating the Ahora Gorge, which interestingly is where most explorers search, and many claims have been made concerning evidence. The mountain is also very active, especially at about 14,000 ft as it is Turkey's second largest glacier. With all this development and movement over the centuries IF the Ark had landed there it would have been ground to pieces and totally destroyed. But God had other ideas in its preservation, and so he secured the Ark at a location that would allow its partial survival for this last generation. Also, Scripture indicates God used a strong wind to dry the waters from the Earth, the Ark would have needed to be in a harbor environment to survive that process, it would have been too exposed on the top or side of a large mountain.

With the tradition of the Ark being somewhere on the mountain, over the centuries individuals and locals have constructed various shrines or buildings there. So, it is not unusual to find wood fragments on the mountain, also, to keep the tradition alive, (for economic purposes), some have taken wood up the mountain, buried it in the snow, and retrieved it at a later date, claiming to have found wood at a certain elevation. This keeps the illusion alive and many come to continue the search. The fact is there has never been any petrified carboniferous wood found on the mountain!

The environment before the flood was much different than today. The archaeological record clearly reveals one universal temperature, greater oxygen levels, stronger electro-magnetic field, plus other advantages. The planet was like a large hyperbaric chamber, prolific for growth, thus the size of the people, animals, and vegetation were astounding. One consideration for us is the growing season for the trees. Before the great flood, Scripture indicates the lack of rain as we experience today. So, the wet/dry seasons that we experience today almost world-wide did not occur. This means that the wood used in the construction of the Ark would have a grain consistent to that of stone, we would not observe the typical rings that we see today in most trees.

Though we find a lack of evidence from the mountain and the theory that the mountain was not even there 4,400 years ago, still the search goes on. This illustrates the power of tradition.

For just 15 miles south-east in the region of Urartu, we find the remains of the hull of a man-made ship, the dimensions which correlate to those given in the Bible, made of Gopher wood, (Laminated petrified carboniferous wood), with evidence that it was a floating zoo.
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