To those interested:

I personally met with Ron Wyatt in his home back in 1989.  He was a most gracious Christian man, an anesthetist by vocation and an archaeologist by avocation.  A friend who knew him also, and myself sat in his living room, and after prayer, I found myself  holding what purported to be a piece of Noah’s ark.  It was totally black, petrified wood, and very heavy.   It was approximately 10” x 10” by perhaps 3 feet in length.  I examined its end for any sign of a growth ring.  There was no such.  I examined a model of the ark as it was reconstructed from engineer’s modeling based on the site in the hills of Ararat.  The Turkish government accepted the site as legitimate and built a tourist center there.   I believed then that I was holding a piece of the ark.  Ron was very believable.  

He showed us 35mm slides of some of his work.  Among the photos were images of a dig beneath Golgotha, at the base of which the Garden Tomb is located.  We saw where he had purportedly found the ark of the covenant encased in a stone sargophagus, in a small room, along with the table of shewbread, and the candlestick from the Holy Place.  He believed that Jeremiah, the prophet had ordered the temple furniture hidden there at the time of the Babylonian captivity.  I believed him.  

He showed other things, such as artifacts of the chariot wheels that he said he found in the depths of the Red Sea, 250 feet down, saying they were from Pharoah’s chariots.  I believed him.  

Many have called him a charlatan.  I don’t think so.  God knows.

Maranatha

Gerry Almond