CORRECTION: Henry Gruver tells about Ron Wyatt
Jim Bramlett
May 29, 2008

Dear friends:
 
The other day I promised to share what Henry Gruver says about the late Ron Wyatt's claimed discovery of the Ark of the Covenant hidden beneath Golgotha.  It is in Gruver's book, "The Rebirth of Judah and the Glorious Church."  You can order a copy by calling 712-647-3104.
 
By way of review, Ron Wyatt claimed that he found the Ark while digging beneath the hillside where Jesus was crucified.  Below the location of the cross, he claimed, is a crack in the rock structure through which Jesus' blood seeped, and blood was found on the Mercy Seat of the Ark below, where it had dripped.  Blood tests reportedly show the blood to be a person without a human father, which of course would have been the virgin-born Jesus, the Lamb of God. 
 
The below is from Henry Gruver's book, pages 31-34:
 
Gruver tells about meeting Wyatt in 1989, when Wyatt said, "Henry, the Lord has told me I am allowed to tell you something."
 
He proceeded to share about how he first discovered the location when looking for gold coins with a detector.  "The detector suddenly peaked out.  He realized there was a tremendous presence of gold down there and foretold much more than coins…. Sometime later he broke into a chamber where he found, among other related things, a golden table, a seven-tiered candlestick made of one beaten piece of gold, and a sarcophagus (a stone burial cask) with a crack in the top of it. Right above the cask was what appeared to be a crack that proved to be the continuation of the crack to the left of the center cross-hole. (He had previously described this hole found where Jesus' cross had sat.)  As straight as a plumb line, he found the crack continued down until it positioned directly above the crack in the sarcophagus.  (He has on video the samples that appeared to be blood that he had scraped from above and scraped from the top of the sarcophagus by the crack.
 
 "He submitted the discolored material to six different laboratories, the first one being in Jerusalem.  It came back testing as human blood.  However, it also came back as blood that had never been seen before.  It had chromosomes that gave proof of an earthly mother, and that the blood was the blood of a son; but no chromosome giving proof of an earthly father."
 
Gruver goes on to explain, "Ron Wyatt and I were with Demos Shakarian, founder of the Full Gospel Businessman's Fellowship, Int'l. in Phoenix, Arizona.  I sat right next to a document specialist who had been called by the organization, from Los Angeles, California, to prove the validity of Ron's laboratory test certificates -- including the document concerning the blood.  The documents all included the seals of the laboratories that did the testing.  After careful examination, the specialist verified that the documents were indeed authentic….. "
 
Ron further explained that he found the blood directly under the center cross-hole in the archeological dig.  He also found it to be on top of the sarcophagus, which held the Ark of the Covenant.
 
(Skipping 2-3 paragraphs…)
 
Henry Gruver continues:
 
"In 1997, Israeli officials sent in six men to go into the chamber with flashlights and two-way radios, in order to be able to move the Ark of the Covenant and the Table of Showbread and the rest of the furnishings within the chamber.  All six of them were stricken dead. All six of them died instantly of a massive stroke.  It was reported in brief news items in newspapers all across America.  They simply reported that outside the old city walls of Jerusalem, six men died in a chamber containing artifacts of great antiquity.  The Jerusalem officials were afraid to go into the chamber after they lost radio contact with the men.  They called Ron, in America, asking him to come over and check it out. He agreed and they made immediate arrangements for him to fly in to Israel.
 
"He told me later that that when he came out of the tunnel to the chamber to tell the officials that all six of the men were dead in one heap inside the tunnel, some of the officials were trembling so badly that they had to sit down.  I think they were fearful that Almighty God was going to strike them with lightning.  They had wanted to move those furnishings.  God said, 'No, you're not!  You may have paid the soldiers off once to say that someone stole Jesus' body, but you are not going to get by with this one.'"

http://www.wyattmuseum.com/Zedekiahs%20Cave.htm
 
End of excerpt.