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The Madness of Moral Blindness . . . . . . 15
Why does it seem that every decision made in Washington Page 8 . . .
D.C., is “crazy”? In this Prophetic Mini-Study, Gary Stearman
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turn from God, they are plagued by the madness of moral blind- By Gary Stearman
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dicted an age when “perilous times shall come.” We are there.
America and the world have reached the “last days” where the
meaning of “perilous times” is revealed — “ragingly insane.” Page 15 . . .
Bob’s Corner . . . . . . 17 The Madness of Moral Blindness
Bob Ulrich reviews a new Christian movie: The Secrets of Jon- By Gary Stearman
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it has a timeless message that will never go out of style. Three
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Eschatology 101 (Chapter Six) . . . . . . 33
Bob’s Corner
This chapter covers the subject: “The Doctrine of the Great By Bob Ulrich
Sabbath.” J. R. Church comments on the “Millennial Day” con-
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a Synagogue on the Sabbath; healed people on the Sabbath; was
transfigured “after six days” — all pointing toward the establish- Page 33 . . .
ment of heaven’s kingdom in the seventh millennium.
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Pravda Quotes Scripture . . . . . . 37 By J. R. Church
Shortly after the eruption of Iceland’s volcano, an acidic cloud
of ash swept eastward across Europe. As the winds of the jet
stream drove it ever farther toward northern Europe and Rus-
sia, many expressed their fear that this natural disaster displayed Page 37 . . .
almost biblical proportions. Furthermore, they expressed deep
dread that a companion volcano, named Katla, might also erupt, Pravda Quotes Scripture
spewing ten times more gas and ash than the eruption in prog-
ress. Most surprisingly, a culture known for its atheistic tenden- By Gary Stearman
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The Evidence Is Overwhelming!
Has Noah’s Ark Been
Found At Last?
Edited by J. R. Church
What you are about to read will thrill you
beyond measure. At last, a Texan offers a
fascinating explanation for the location
of Noah’s Ark. Mr. Arch Bonnema, from
McKinney, Texas, brought back samples of
petrified wood from the 13,126-foot level
atop Mount Suleiman
(Solomon — said to
be the only mountain
in Iran with a Jewish
name), located about
50 miles north of Te-
heran. Arch Bonnema
sent his samples to
five prestigious labo-
ratories for analysis
and had the scientists all abuzz over what
they found. Gary Stearman interviewed
Arch Bonnema for our television program
(airing in June) and we offer his interview Arch Bonnema explains the rock containing animal DNA to J. R. and Gary on the set
as our cover story, along with pictures of of Prophecy in the News television program. Animal waste dropped to the bottom hull
petrified wood — and especially a piece of the ship, then became petrified rock. Hairs, feathers, etc., were embedded in it.
of animal waste that contains butterfly
wings, hair from tigers who live in India,
lions who live in Africa, and DNA from
several animals that currently live all over
the world. How did these animals all get
together in one place? The evidence is as-
tounding.
Gary Stearman and Arch Bonnema
Gary Stearman: Welcome to Prophecy
in the News, Arch.
Arch Bonnema: Thank you Gary. It’s
great to be here.
Gary: We’re going to first ask you about
the latest news item — Noah’s Ark discov-
ered in Turkey on Mt. Ararat. What do you
think about that?
Arch: Interesting, isn’t it? Everybody
says no one is interested in hearing about
God anymore, and yet it made worldwide
news when they found it. Unfortunately
for them, within three days it was proven
to be a fraud. A group of five Kurdish men The pile of rocks seen in the center of this picture is believed to have slid down
found a very old building by the Black the mountain from the 15,000-foot level during the earthquake that occurred here
Sea, took pictures inside that building, in the year 2000. Inset: Man-made planks of wood became petrified.
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and then raised money under the pretense
that this building was on Mt. Ararat, and
carried the boards up the mountain, as-
sembled them in a cave and took pictures.
Then they offered to show it to a Chinese
group for a huge sum of money. Well, the
funny thing is, the first pictures you look at
before they took it apart had cobwebs. At
13,000 feet, there should be no cobwebs!
It should have been the first sign. Dr. Ran-
dall Price has a pretty interesting story at
“worldofthebible.com.” He invested sev-
eral thousand dollars towards the expedi-
tion before he found out that it was a hoax.
On his website, he gives the evidence on
D
the fact that it was a fake. But, what I think
Sand stuck
what is interesting is that so many people
to asphalt
continue to go to Mt. Ararat in Turkey,
because the Bible is very clear on where
Noah’s Ark is, and Turkey doesn’t fit that
model at all.
Gary: We’ve had astronauts climbing
Mt. Ararat, and we’ve had satellite photos.
The world’s attention has been focused
on that particular mountain, which, by the
way, stands all by itself right out in the
middle of a plain.
D Asphalt
pitch
Arch: Genesis 8:4 says, “And the ark
rested in the seventh month, on the seven-
teenth day of the month, upon the moun-
tains of Ararat.” And it’s true if you look
on a globe or map it shows Mt. Ararat in
Turkey. What it doesn’t show is that it
wasn’t named Mt. Ararat until 4000 years
after the flood. According to “Wikipedia.
com,” in the 11th century the Armenians
D Sand stuck
to asphalt
started calling it “Noah’s mountain.” But in
the 13th century, Marco Polo was travelling
across Turkey on his way to China when
someone said, “This is Noah’s mountain
and Noah’s Ark is on this mountain.” He
Asphalt
pitch E
said, “Well, then that must be Mt. Ararat.”
And he wrote “Ararat” on the map in his The seams or cracks between these boards are filled with asphalt pitch. It looks
book and that was the first time that it was like sand, but when the team scratched the sand away, they found black asphalt
called Mt. Ararat. The Bible says that it pitch sealing the petrified wood. The reason this looks like a pile and not a ship is
landed in the mountains of Ararat, but it because the ship slid 2,000 feet down the mountain, piling up here.
doesn’t say Turkey. It says “mountains” Gary: So what you’re saying is that the James says, “from the east.” The Hebrew
plural. And except for Mt. Ararat, with recent claim was a hoax. text says, “from the east.” But the NIV
little Ararat being right alongside it, that’s Arch: In 1616, Sir Walter Scott wrote changed it. However, in 2008, after I had
the only thing that there is for mountains that it was impossible for Mt. Ararat to given this talk many times, I got a Bible in
out there. And the next verse is even more be in Turkey because of Genesis 11:2, the mail from the NIV publishers saying,
specific. “… on the first day of the month, which says, “And it came to pass, as they “Please don’t say that we’re saying it any-
were the tops of the mountains seen.” We journeyed from the east, that they found a more. We’ve changed the NIV Bible.” So
used to have military bases there, and I’ve plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt from 2008 forward, the NIV now says that
had pilots email me, write me, and call me there.” Well, if you’re travelling from the Noah’s sons travelled “from the east.”
saying, “We flew around Mt. Ararat and east, you’re headed west. Here’s the prob- Gary: So, if you go from the traditional
you couldn’t see anything for hundreds lem: Mt. Ararat in Turkey is northwest. So site of Mt. Ararat in Turkey, you have to
of miles.” I flew across it at 38,000 feet when the NIV was edited, someone looked go back toward the east.
and the pilot said, “Look out the right side at the map and said, “Uh oh, the Bible was Arch: Yes, if we go to Shinar and pro-
of the plane. You’ll see Mt. Ararat.” And written wrong,” they changed the NIV to ceed toward the east, we will find a range
sure enough, but as far as you could see at read, “Noah’s sons traveled eastward,” in- of mountains that, for more than 2000
38,000 feet, there were no other mountains stead of “from the east.” The problem is years, was called the region of Ararat. And
that could be seen. the Greek says, “from the east.” The King there are four maps dating from A.D. 900
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The Case for the Discovery of Noah’s Ark
With Arch Bonnema
Arch Bonnema brought back samples of petrified wood, soaked in an asphalt pitch, with barnacles and sea
anemones encrusted together; causing five U. S. laboratories to conclude that the pile of petrified wood dis-
covered at the 13,100-foot level near the top of Mount Suleiman, some 50 miles northwest of Tehran, Iran, came
from an ancient ship that floated in salt water for several months. But even more telling among the artifacts, was
a petrified sample that contains animal waste collected on the bottom floor of the ship. Found in the sample
was hair from tigers that live in India and lions that live in Africa. It also contains butterfly wings from butterflies
that are native to South America, feathers from several species of birds, and DNA from several more animals
from every continent in the world. This is the most compelling proof that the ship carried a cargo of animals.
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all the way back to 600 B.C. that show one
mountain that has Noah’s Ark on it — from
different explorers over a 1,700-year time
span. Four explorers claim to have found
Noah’s Ark. And that mount is Mt. Sulei-
man (Solomon), the only mountain in the
entire Middle East with a Hebrew name.
The 2006 Expedition
Gary: Now we get to the interesting
part of the story. Arch Bonnema has actu-
ally travelled to the “mountains of Ararat”
mentioned in the Bible. This is what you
believe you’ve done, and you have actu-
ally climbed one of those mountains. Tell
us how that happened, how you came to
climb that particular mountain, and what
you saw.
Arch: There was a group of 14 of us
that went there in June 2006, just a few
years ago. We climbed the mountain and
got to our base camp. We had five moun-
tain guides (a grandfather in his 70s, his
two sons in their 40s, and two grandsons
in their 20s). When the grandfather ap-
proached us he said, “Why are you at my
mountain? You’re the second group of
white people I’ve ever seen. The first ones
were Germans 35 years ago.” Well, be-
fore we left it looked like the war between
Israel and Iran was breaking out, so we
weren’t going to be talking about Noah’s Look closely at the petrified wood sample above and observe several varieties of
Ark, so we just said that we’re looking for sea anemones embedded in the piece. This proves that the ship was in salt water
an object. He lit up. He said, “You want to for several months. Examples of anemones are shown in the two photos beneath.
see Noah’s Ark?” We said, “Okay, why do that said S.S. Noah, but there wasn’t any. ship begins to lose speed because of the
you ask?” “Because it’s on my mountain.” The scientists, however, gave us three drag. And it takes a while for a barnacle to
He said, “I haven’t seen it for more than options. They knew we had a ship, but attach itself and grow there, and when you
50 years, but each year now the ice keeps how could you get a ship at 13,000 feet found this petrified wooden ship, it had
melting.” And he said, “This is the first up the side of a mountain? Of course, the saltwater barnacles attached to it.
time we can see it in more than 50 years.” lab technicians were right up front: they Arch: There was a big article in Iran’s
And that, of course, extraordinarily raised weren’t Christians; didn’t believe the story national newspaper, The Persian Times,
our anticipation and adrenaline level. of Noah’s flood; didn’t believe the Bible; within two weeks after we got back, claim-
Gary: What did you see as you came but they said, “Let’s just say one option ing these people as Texans, which I was,
upon this scene, which he claimed to be is Noah’s Ark. The second option is there and because that’s where our President
Noah’s Ark? are more than 70 religions that have the was from. These Texans claim to have
Arch: At 13,126 feet, we found the pet- story of a worldwide flood with someone found a ship on a mountain. Now, at that
rified remains of an ancient ship. We took saving them from it. So it could be a dif- time, we never claimed how big it was. We
more than 1,000 pictures as a group. We ferent ship, different religion, different just showed small pieces. They said, “We
brought back sixteen pieces of it. We sent time. But actually, the most probable thing looked at their small pieces on the inter-
five of the pieces to five different labs. All was that the ship got beamed up there by net, and if that really turns out to be wood,
the labs came back with the same answer. space aliens, maybe the ones that built the it’s probably remains of a sheepherder’s
They said, “You have the petrified remains pyramids.” Those are the options that they cabin.” How did a sheepherder’s cabin get
of an ancient ship,” based on three things. gave us! barnacles all over it?
First of all, it was petrified wood; secondly, Gary: The next item we have here is
two of the pieces had saltwater creatures The Samples a piece of the petrified material that you
that had burrowed deep into the wood and Gary: Modern mythology. Well, Arch, say has a sea anemone and, by the way,
became petrified with it; and finally, some you’ve brought some samples, and I’m it’s beautifully clear here. A sea anemone
of the pieces were soaked with pitch. The holding one here, which is a barnacle. Now, grows in saltwater.
only reason to soak wood with pitch is to everybody’s heard of barnacles. They are Arch: Yes, and it has seashells, all on
make a ship. Now the question is, which the plague of the U.S. Navy, because they this same piece. We actually came back
ship is it? attach themselves to the outside of a ship’s with many pieces that the scientists all
Gary: Yes? hull and they grow a shell. Eventually, you agree contained saltwater sea anemones
Arch: We looked all over for a plaque can become so barnacle encrusted that your and saltwater seashells.
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Asphalt Pitch
Gary: Now, you may hear claims that
somebody found Noah’s Ark. It came
through the news. All those photographs
of a wooden cabin that somebody said was
up on top of Mt. Ararat was a hoax. On the
other hand, to find the petrified remains of
a wooden ship at 13,000 feet — how did
it get up there? And here’s an interesting
thing. Between the timbers of this ship you
found a material that looked like sand at
first. Tell us about that.
Arch: Where the seams of the boards
came together, you can see sand in all the
seams. But, if you brush away the sand, it’s
all pitch — just like an asphalt road. You’ve
seen tar on a road where crews have put
seals in; that’s exactly what it looked like. The barnacle (above) attached itself to the hull of the ship, proving that this petrified
So, it was obviously remains of a ship. pile of wood found at 13,125 feet above sea level atop Mount Suleiman, northwest
Bingo! Animal DNA! of Tehran, was once a ship that floated on a saltwater ocean for several months.
Gary: Now, this brings us to something
else. I’m looking at a piece of animal
waste. We need to talk about this for quite
a while. This is a petrified something, and
it has wood grain on one side. This piece
appears to be a curved piece of petrified
wood. And when you brought this back,
you said that’s what you thought it was.
Arch: Actually, this is a piece that we al-
most didn’t carry off the mountain, because
everything we took off we had to smuggle
through customs. We had this one big piece,
but I just couldn’t put it down. We brought
about 30 pieces off the mountain and de-
cided that we were going to bring half of
them back. So I ended up taking this piece.
It looks like a chunk of wood.
Gary: It has a slight curve on it, mean-
ing that it came from a very large round
log-like chunk. Except it didn’t come from
a log. Tell us what it really is.
Arch: This was among the second batch Here is the most incredible proof that the ship carried animals from all over the
that we sent to the labs, because we thought world. Five U. S. labs examined the piece — all saying that it is petrified animal
it wasn’t that important. We sent the first waste that contains hairs, feathers, DNA, etc., from animals of every continent on
batch of artifacts to five labs. To hear the the planet — hair from tigers that roam the jungles of India, hair from lions that only
results, we had the scientists in a confer- live in Africa; and butterflies that live in South America, just to name a few.
ence call on the phone from all five labs, particle. They found that this is petrified people don’t understand that tigers are in
with all of our fourteen climbers listening, animal waste from the bottom of the ship. India and Southeast China; lions are in
while they told us what we had. And while Well, this is all packed into a wedge that Africa; they don’t normally live together.
they were, on one hand, making fun of us was taken out of the log and it took on the We found bird feathers that only exist in
because we thought we had Noah’s Ark, characteristics of the log; and that’s why it Africa. We found pieces of butterfly wings
on the other hand they were saying, “This looks like a piece of wood. But it’s not. If from butterflies that only live in South
stuff is really interesting. We’d like to look you cut it open, there’s nothing in here but America. And we found pieces of plant
at more.” They charged us a lot of money solid material, and it is all animal waste. material that only grows in the Southern
the first time, but they said, “If you have Gary: You might call it originally sort Pacific islands. And this is in northern Iran,
any more pieces, we won’t charge you. of a muck that precipitated down to the all in the same piece of rock. So, these ani-
We just want to look at them.” And that’s bottom of the hold; and then hardened af- mals were not only in the same ship, but
when we sent in this piece containing ani- ter it dried out; and then it became petri- there’s an enormous amount of DNA there
mal DNA. And here’s the interesting thing. fied. So, what is in that muck? from many different animals.
You can see they cut off one corner of it. Arch: Well first of all, we have cat hairs Gary: Now, let’s face it. You find a petri-
Out of this, they took it apart particle by of four different types of large cats. Many Continued on Page 38
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Continued From Page 7 altar; made a sacrifice; and the rainbow ap- Gary: The “mountains” — plural — of
fied something that’s made of timbers that peared. In verse 20, he planted a vineyard. Ararat. Now folks, let me just take a mo-
are coated with pitch. You find it at 13,000 Now, all of a sudden, Cambridge Univer- ment here and say that’s why it’s important
feet on Mount Suleiman, and then you find sity is saying, “Hey, that’s where the oldest to believe that the Bible is the divinely in-
a piece of petrified muck that is the com- grapevines are in the world — the same spired word of God, because the ‘s’ on the
bined waste of many different animals from place that the Bible says that Noah planted end of a word makes all the difference. A
many different climatic zones, and pretty a vineyard.” “mountain” is different from “mountains”
soon you begin to draw conclusions. Gary: The mother of all vineyards! plural. And the Bible says that the moun-
Arch: Here’s the interesting thing. Arch: Ten days later we got a call from tains appeared to Noah. I can just picture
From Mt. Suleiman, you can go fifty miles the U.S. DNA lab. These people were this in my mind. As the cloud receded, you
in any direction and find the climate for searching us out. “This is Dr. So-and-So can first see one peak, then another, then
any animal, because there’s a desert in one from the U.S. DNA lab, and just thought two more. It must have been phenomenal.
direction, there’s a tropical rain forest in you might find it interesting. I’m not a Arch: And we all commented about the
another direction, there’s a plains area in Bible believer; don’t believe in the story same time as we’re watching this. “Look
another section — so every type of animal of Noah’s flood. However, we traced the out here! This must be what Noah saw,”
in the world could live within 50 miles of DNA of horses, and the oldest horses in and I think God provided that for us to see.
Mt. Suleiman. the world come from that same area in Gary: That’s amazing. Now, what else
Gary: Is it too early to make the as- northern Iran where you found that ship.” would you like to tell us? To me, a saltwa-
sumption that this is a petrified piece of Gary: So they must have come off that ter barnacle in a petrified wreck at 13,000
Noah’s Ark, or dare we say that? ark. Wait a minute; we’re getting ready to feet is fairly convincing. What else did
Arch: We have petrified pieces of an say it here. Tell me what you told me ear- you see that really struck you? The pitch,
ancient ship! lier, because I think this is interesting. You this material that you brought back — did
Gary: Of an ancient ship at 13,126 feet go to public schools and you make this you find any metal artifacts or anything
in Iran, and it has animal waste from many presentation and you can do it because of that looked man made?
different types of animals that come from the way you present all this. Arch: Well, the whole ship looked man
many different types of climatic zones, Arch: Well, obviously, we cannot make made. I also want to say that we do not
plus vegetation that’s not native to Iran? a claim that we have found Noah’s Ark. believe that Noah’s Ark had a V- shaped
Arch: After we had the first samples We don’t know. We have scientific proof bottom, because the only purpose is to
done, and because we had to send the that we found an enormous petrified ship travel fast. To carry a lot of weight, Noah
five samples to all the different labs to go at 13,126 feet up that mountain that has would have built it in the shape of a barge.
through it; a year later, we set up a confer- DNA from animals all over the world. So, The Bible’s statistics would make the ark
ence phone call. All of the climbers were when I give the talk I say, “Let me give approximately 450 feet long, approxi-
on the phone, as well as all five labs. It you the evidence that we have, and then mately 75 feet wide, and approximate-
was supposed to be a fifteen-minute phone you decide what ship it is.” That way, I’m ly 45 feet high. And if it was a barge in
call. An hour and fifteen minutes later, as not making it a religious talk; it’s a scien- shape, it would easily hold all the animals
they were describing everything that they tific talk. School systems, even in the U.S., mentioned in the Bible. It is no longer in
found, they kept getting more excited. have allowed me to come speak because that shape today. According to the Iranian
Remember, these are the guys who said, it’s not a religious talk. guide, the ship originally landed 2,000 feet
“We’re not Christians; we’re scientists.” Gary: Arch, let’s talk more about your further up — at 15,000 feet; because that’s
Finally, after an hour and fifteen minutes, experience. Now, you’re up there; you’re where he saw it 50 years ago. Three of our
I said, “Okay guys, what is it that we did collecting these samples. You told me you guys went up the mountain and found the
find?” And it went silent on the other end. actually saw what Noah must have seen. altar. In the year 2000, there was an enor-
And then one of the guys, I don’t know This is an interesting story to me because mous earthquake that killed 64,000 people
who, said, “Mr. Bonnema, we’ve been the Bible talks about the waters receding in that region. That is when the ship slid
talking about this for months and we don’t and Noah witnessing a particular phenom- down the mountain. It hit solid rock and
see how it can be anything but Noah’s Ark, enon. started piling up on top of each other. So,
but don’t use our names.” Arch: In Genesis 8:5, it says, “As the today, it just looks like an enormous pile of
Gary: Now this is a commercial lab, waters receded, the tops of the mountains debris. But all those huge sections of wall
I take it a very reputable lab? People all came into view.” We’ve already dis- were obviously man made.
who know what they’re doing? And they cussed that from Mt. Ararat in Turkey,
weren’t Christians? there aren’t any other mountains. As we
Conclusion
Arch: Here’s another interesting thing. climbed this mountain (Mt. Suleiman), we Arch: Recently, as I was coming through
We had a call from Cambridge Univer- went through a snowstorm. As we were set- the Dubai airport, I saw an English speak-
sity’s DNA lab. And the call went, “Mr. ting up our camp; as the clouds started go- ing Arab newspaper. On the front page was
Bonnema, this is Dr. So-and-So from ing down — now if you’ve ever flown in a a big article that said, “We have just found
Cambridge University DNA lab. I’m not a jet where all the clouds are even — they’re the great Muslim prophet Noah’s ship.”
Christian. I don’t believe the Bible. I don’t level. They’re not like cumulous clouds all Guess where? Same place we found this
believe the story of Noah’s flood. How- piled up, they’re just level. That’s what one. Only now, it wasn’t the biblical No-
ever, we just finished a DNA research of the flood would have looked like. As the ah’s Ark. It was the Muslim Noah’s Ark!
grapes. And the oldest grape vines in the clouds went down the mountain, the tops They believe that it’s Noah’s Ark also, but
world come from the same area where you of all these mountains came to view. In that Noah was a Muslim.
found that ship.” In Genesis 9, Noah came fact, we counted 16 peaks over 14,000 feet Gary: Thanks for sharing your adven-
off the Ark; he built an altar; we found the that can be seen from Mt. Suleiman. ture with us at Prophecy in the News. u
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