SAUL OF TARSUS AND THE ROMAN CULT OF MITHRAS

 (SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF THE SLAIN BULL)

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AND HOW THIS RELATES TO

RON WYATT'S "VISION",

 AND TO YOURS! 

SYMBOLICALLY TRUE

LEFT, Ron Wyatt -- RIGHT, Dr. Robert Holt, MD.  In the middle, a movie-actor "Jesus".

IT DIDN'T REALLY HAPPEN!

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     I got acquainted with Ron Wyatt back in 1988 and 1989 because of his search for the "Ark of the Covenant" which he was continuing his on-going search for in the tunnels that exist below the streets and houses and lots and cemeteries of Old Jerusalem.   His theory was that the prophet Jeremiah had managed to hide this Holy Golden Ark in one of these tunnels and walled up the tunnel and buried it so thoroughly just before the Babylonians had invaded that no one (but Ron) has ever been able to catch a glimpse of it since. 

    

       Ron Wyatt believed, along with General Gordon, who found this tomb in 1883, and thousands, perhaps millions of others, who have seen it since as religious tourists, that this ancient tomb near the Damascus Gate outside the walled city of Jerusalem, Israel, was where Jesus Christ was crucified, and buried, and rose from the dead after 3 days.

      However, Ron also had the unusual belief that as Jesus was hanging on a cross near here, and as he was dying, his blood dripped down through a crack connected with the hole in the rock his cross was anchored in, on a hidden object far below.

      October 12, 1989

     While three of us, Ron Wyatt, and Randy Osborne, and myself, Dr. Bob Holt, md, were engaged in trying to reach this ark with an electric jack-hammer drill and bring it to the surface, we were met by a "Man in White" who we later decided was Jesus himself dropping by to "Wish us success on our mission."

       An actor playing Jesus looked like this in one of the Jesus movies put out by Hollywood, but perhaps did not when Ron talked to him, or some other entity playing his role and making speeches for him that noon by Ron Wyatt's excavation near Gordon's Calvary.  He quite likely had a more modern appearance, as an artist has pictured him here.   I don't know because I was hidden a few feet away but heard both sides of the conversation clearly.

    The same week that we met the "Man in White," but before this encounter, Randy and I, but not Ron Wyatt, met two other "Angels" that looked and talked like humans at a place identified as Har Zin in the Negev Desert.

   This other encounter became more important to me than it was to Ron Wyatt, because it became the first of my own encounters with such "beings".  Encounters that continued for many years, some of which I did relate later on other pages.

The mountain called "Har Zin" as seen in the distance across the desert.

More  Mary Nell Wyatt's Account of her husband's "Vision of the Location of the Ark of the Covenant" as related in 2011, 40 years after it reportedly occurred in 1978!

Mary Nell Wyatt examines her husband's Garden Tomb excavation

The Discovery of the Ark of the Covenant by Ron Wyatt – The Search Begins

      "In 1978, Ron and his sons, Danny and Ronny, made two trips to Israel in order to drive down to the western shore of the Gulf of Aqaba in Egypt to search for chariot parts in the Red Sea. This was during the time that Israel was occupying the Sinai Peninsula and therefore, the place Ron believed to be the crossing site could only be reached by traveling from Israel instead of going through Cairo.
      "During his 2nd dive trip, he learned a very painful lesson. He swam for hours, searching the sea floor at
a depth of about 30 feet – believing that the water would filter out the sun’s harmful rays. However, this wasn’t the case and as a result, his legs and feet became painfully swollen to such an extent that he couldn’t get his fins on.

       "Unable to dive anymore, and with no motel in the area, he and the boys had no choice but to return to Jerusalem to wait until their flight from Tel Aviv left for the US.

       "One day in Jerusalem, after the swelling in Ron’s legs and feet went down a bit, he decided to go sightseeing in the immediate area around his hotel near the Damascus Gate. Walking along an ancient stone quarry, known to some as “the Calvary Escarpment,” he began conversing with a local authority about Roman antiquities.

       "At one point, they stopped walking, and Ron’s left hand pointed to a site being used as a trash dump and he stated, “That’s Jeremiah’s Grotto and the Ark of the Covenant is in there.” Even though these words had come from his own mouth and his own hand had pointed, he had not consciously done or said these things. In fact, it was the first time he had ever thought about excavating for the Ark.

       "The man with him, quite out of character, also reacted strangely. He said, “That’s wonderful! We want you to excavate, and we’ll furnish your permits, put you up in a place to stay and even furnish your meals!”

       "But Ron didn’t know what to think – he knew it was a “supernatural” experience, but was it of God, or was it of “someone else”? By this time, Ron had made major discoveries in Turkey, and had found numerous chariot parts in the Red Sea. But not once had he ever had an experience such as this. It was like a thunderbolt out of the blue on a perfectly sunny day. He had to decline the man’s offer, at least until he could figure out if there was any reason to believe the Ark could be in that location. So, he and the boys came on home as planned. But once at home, Ron began some serious research and study."

Another "Vision", Quite like Ron Wyatt's "Vision", but 2000 years ago-- Not at the Damascus Gate, but On the Road to Damascus! ---

      Acts 9:1 "And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went unto the high priest,  2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this WAY (another name for the Essenes, used consistently throughout Acts), whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem."

      3 "And as he journeyed, he came near Damascus, and suddenly there shined about him a light from heaven:--"

     4 "And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?"

     5 "And he said, Who art thou, Lord?  And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks."

     6 "And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do."

    7 "And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man."

 

  

2000 years later!

    It was while Ron was doing this "serious research and study" and the actual excavation there at and near the "Garden Tomb" that the rest of Ron's "Vision" of Jesus being crucified here, and his blood dripping on the Ark of the Covenant far below occurred to him.  Not all at once, but over a period of several years' time.

     This "Vision" was almost complete in its details by the time, 10 or 11 years later, when I, Dr. Bob Holt, md, was helping him with this project.

     I was there helping Ron try to dig straight down over the place where Ron had determined by using a Subsurface Interface Radar belonging to Sunbelt Bakery ("Little Debbie" Snacks) that this picture of Randy Osborn was taken. It was Randy's hard labor with an electric jack-hammer drill that made this square hole a great deal deeper during this 1989 trip to Jerusalem.

The Location of the Excavation

     "The quarry which contains the site Ron was to excavate is part of the northern extension of Mt. Moriah. On the east, south and west sides of Jerusalem are very deep valleys which protect the city from foreign invaders.

      "But on this north side, they were vulnerable. Therefore, a “dry moat” or trench was quarried out of “Mt. Moriah” on the north side to prevent an enemy from being able to simply reach and break through the wall along this ridge.

      "Then, at some unknown point in time, the northern portion of “Moriah”, now separated from the city, was used as a stone quarry. Starting on the south end of this now separated part of “Moriah”, on the western side, stone was cut out of the mountain, lowering the ground level to that of the trench which extends just outside of the north wall.

       "The site Ron pointed to was along the quarried face (escarpment) of “Mt. Moriah”. This cliff-face is referred to by some as “the Calvary escarpment” because it contains the “skull-face” that many believe was “Golgotha” or “Calvary” where Christ was crucified.

       "It also contains the site traditionally called “Jeremiah’s Grotto”, the “Garden Tomb” (where many believe Christ was buried) and St. Etienne which contains a large complex of Jewish tombs dating to the 1st and 2nd temple periods cut into the side of the mountain.

       "The escarpment is many hundreds of feet long. And it was Ron’s belief that this WAS the general area of the crucifixion, and the Garden Tomb, he also believed, was indeed that of Joseph of Arimathaea which had once held the body of Christ. But these things were not related to this project. He was now searching for the Ark of the Covenant.

The Excavation Begins

       "It was January, 1979 when Ron and the boys returned to Jerusalem. Snow was on the ground. He now had to decide how and where to begin. The site he had pointed to was being used as a trash dump and appeared to hold very little promise to the human eye. It was located along this escarpment where the ground met the cliff-face. He had investigated the area adjacent to the escarpment and realized that the ground was raised to a much higher level today, which meant that the rock floor was many, many feet below the present ground level.

      "In the past, Jerusalem has been destroyed many, many times. And the customary method of rebuilding these ancient cities was to simply build on top of the destruction level. Today, the debris is removed before rebuilding, but not so back then. This is why archaeologists are able to find evidences of many cities which have existed on the same site – they simply excavate through each successive level down to the next until they reach bedrock – which indicates that they have reached the first city to be established on that particular site.

       "The site Ron was to excavate had a ground level many feet higher than the quarry floor to the south before the city wall. So, he and the boys could do nothing but begin to dig straight down.

       "The original location that he had pointed to in 1978 contained an extremely large boulder just barely exposed above the surface, and Ron decided to begin digging several yards to the right. It was to be a job of mammoth proportions – Ron, Danny and Ronny, would eventually remove many tons of rock and debris, having to sift through all of it for any artifacts. This was a requirement of the Department of Antiquities which they would always comply with.

First Discovery – The Crucifixion Site?

       "They dug straight down along the cliff face, forming a steep wall with the earth they removed. Almost immediately, Ron noticed a “shelf-like” niche cut into the face of the cliff. Digging down further, he discovered there were 3 of these “niches” cut into the face of the cliff with a smaller one on the right side.

       "He was convinced that these were cut into the cliff-face to hold “signs” or notices. And because of the location – in the vicinity of the “skull-face”, and because there were 3 of these, he believed they were where the notices stating the crime of the crucifixion victim in 3 languages were placed."

1: THE TRUTH IS: NO ARK THERE!
  As Jewish Archaeologists found when they dug out the cistern where Ron had dug before
2: NOT ENOUGH BLOOD!
 Would be left in Jesus' heart to drip 20 feet!

August 2006

Ark of the Covenant Excavation Reveals Plastered Enclosure

         

       Excavations just completed in Jerusalem revealed what appears to be a 12,000 gallon Byzantine cistern. A circular plastered enclosure measuring approximately sixteen feet in diameter and approximately ten feet in height was partially excavated. The cistern having walls as much as six feet in thickness adjoins an un-plastered circular room which surrounds the crevice which Ron Wyatt associated with the crucifixion site.

     A date has not been established for the un-plastered room and at this time archaeologists are uncertain as to it’s function. Quoting one investigator: “I am perplexed. I have never seen anything exactly like this.”

     The photo at the top is a view of the excavation from the surface some thirty feet above.

     At the bottom and right side of the picture steel shoring frames are visible.

     At right-center the un-plastered circular room surrounding the “crevice” and “cross hole” area can be seen. Removal of the overburden, by way of the recent excavations, made it possible to reveal and define the circular nature of the room. In the past only portions of the walls could be seen on each side of the “crevice” and “cross hole.” A steel drilling platform which was employed in the excavation is seen in the center of the room.

      In the lower left an excavation opening is seen which leads into the cistern. This opening was created as a result of the recent dig and is in addition to an 2005 opening through a six foot thick cistern wall that is built on bedrock.

The elevation of the bedrock under the cistern wall gets higher as it extends to the north toward the cliff face. The man made portion of the cistern wall is five or six feet high where we cut through last year. Near the cliff face the bedrock is at a much higher elevation requiring less construction.


      It is interesting to note that we find the remains of a plastered floor at the elevation of the cistern rim. The wall of the circular room surrounding the “cross hole” and “crevice” seems to have been slightly higher than that of the cistern, as it extends above the plastered floor by about eighteen inches.

     It is also interesting to note that the “cross hole” and “crevice” is located in the center of the unidentified circular room.


     At the top-center sand bags cover a portion of a stone stairway.
The lower portion of the stairway is missing and seems to have been unintentionally removed by Ron Wyatt as he originally entered the area. Working underground and in a confined area it would have been impossible for Ron to have recognized the nature of the stones that had to be removed for access. Projecting down the existing stairs, the indication is that the stairway would lead into the cistern along it’s Northern walls.

      The second image is an overlay of the 2005 excavation along with the outline of the position of the circular walls as revealed by the recent excavation.

NOW THAT THE DIRECTORS OF THE "GARDEN TOMB" KNOW THERE'S NO ARK OF THE COVENANT HERE, NOR HAS THERE EVER BEEN, THE TOUR GUIDE SAYS THIS --

      "Whether this was the actual geographic location then became less relevant than the spiritual meaning of the story as the guide admonished us that if we went into the tomb looking for Jesus, like his apostles so many centuries before, we would not find him there. Accordingly, if we brought Jesus into the tomb with us, we should not leave him there, but bring him along with us as we went back out to face the world he came to save."

 

MOVIE ACTOR JESUS TOLD     ME THE TRUE STORY!

SO THAT I COULD TELL IT TO YOU, BUT IT TOOK HIM A WHILE TO DO IT!

PART OF THE DIFFICULTY WAS ON MY PART -- BECAUSE IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO BELIEVE IT MYSELF!

  I, JESUS  was indeed born as a human being quite like everyone else, -- TRUE!

       BUT: I was born into a strange SECT of HOLY MEN, the ESSENES!

       AND: It's a custom of the ESSENES not to get married to a woman who has not proved her fertility by becoming pregnant and staying pregnant for 3 months.

       AND: I was the PROOF of my mother Mary's fertility -- after 3 months her Essene husband Joseph married her because he knew I was his son --

       BUT: So that Roman believers in the ISIS religion, of which there were a lot in the Roman empire, could believe that I was a God -- equal to HORUS her Son -- who was also the SUN up in the sky daily -- and who HAS ETERNAL LIFE -- Joseph allowed others to say that not he, but the SUN (God) was my  Father, and ISIS (the Holy Spirit) was my real mother (not Mary, a human and an Essene "Virgin") ---

 I, JESUS was the first-born son of Jesus and Mary, not the only son of Mary and NOT the son of Joseph.  Both Jesus and Joseph went through a lot of grief and trouble because some in their day THOUGHT this to be true, which it wasn't.  All Jesus REAL brothers were younger than him and conceived AFTER Jesus and Mary were properly married, while Jesus was conceived before.   This can be proved by both the names and histories (given mostly in Acts) of all these other family members.

 I, JESUS was NOT born in a wooden or stone box (MANGER) out of which animals ate straw, but in an Essene building one kilometer from the monastery in which animals and women were allowed to have their babies.  The Essenes called the whole building a "Manger" because animals were fed there.

 I, JESUS was indeed born in what the Essenes considered to be a PART of Bethlehem of Judaea, but not the City of Bethlehem but only where Bethlehem shepherds grazed their sheep.  7 or more miles away.  By the Dead Sea.

MOVIE ACTOR JESUS TOLD     ME THE TRUE STORY!

SO THAT I COULD TELL IT TO YOU, BUT IT TOOK HIM A WHILE TO DO IT!

PART OF THE DIFFICULTY WAS ON MY PART -- BECAUSE IT WAS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO BELIEVE IT MYSELF!

  I, JESUS  did indeed give Saul of Tarsus a VISION, but both he and I were both ALIVE and in each other's presence when he heard and saw me.

      SAUL was an Essene, a member of THE WAY himself, and so was the HIGH PRIEST who gave him the letters to discipline other members of THE WAY.

      SAUL  was a member of a more strict group of the Essenes who felt that only Jews and circumcised Gentiles who became Jews in religious practice should be Essenes.  Jesus' Disciples allowed women and uncircumcised Gentiles to join also.

      SAUL went to Damascus to join up with others there who ALSO wanted to excommunicate those with liberal ideas ("put them to death" symbolically).  He met Jesus there unexpectedly.  The group was allowing Jesus to officiate as a guest "High Priest" in a Day of Atonement service.  Performed at NOON with the SUN behind him.

       SAUL  was brought up as a child in TARSUS, a Roman city in which a great number of Roman soldiers and sailors and also of  Roman citizens were members of the CULT of MITHRAS.  Jesus, at Damascus, was demonstrating to Saul, a guest from the Jerusalem Essenes, how powerful what he was doing in this "Day of Atonement" Service would be to Romans who already worshipped Mithras.

  I, JESUS, met Saul, who had made himself my ENEMY -- at Damascus, where I was acting as a guest Essene High Priest, and CONVERTED HIM to be my FRIEND and indeed my most powerful THEOLOGIAN throughout the Gentile World.  I did so by using his life-long familiarity with the MITHRAS CULT, and also his pride in being himself a Roman Citizen.   Romans, including even highly placed politically Romans would listen to him, and believe him, being members of the MITHRAS CULT themselves.

  I, JESUS, knew, as Saul knew, that members of the MITHRAS CULT met in caves and meeting halls that looked like caves,  Saul also knew that a part of the Mithras ritual involved killing a bull by stabbing a knife or dagger into the bull's heart or jugular vein and allowing all it's blood to bleed out into a container to be drunk as part of a ceremony by either the priest or members of the cult.  WINE could be substituted for this bull's blood.  And BREAD could be substituted for this bull's flesh. 

   I, JESUS, knew, as Saul knew, that I had already showed my disciples, the very ones that Saul was intent on persecuting when he went to Damascus, this very same religious ritual that the members of the MITHRAS CULT were practicing in their caves and halls that looked like caves.   I called it "The Lord's Supper", and suggested they do it in remembrance of my death on the cross of Calvary.  Saul knew how powerful this ritual was for Romans, who in their coliseum and theatres watched men kill each other for sport and entertainment.

   I, JESUS, also knew, as did Saul, who bought into this new possibility I offered him, that this celebration would actually be in honor of SOLAR INVICTUS, the "Invincible Sun", and not really in honor of ME, or my death on the cross, or of the Jewish Creater-God YAHWEH, but it would not matter.   It would give millions a God to worship, a reason to live better, and a Hope for ETERNAL LIFE.   The INVINCIBLE SUN appears to live on eternally!  Why should we not all do the same.  If we believe in the right God and say all the right words.  In Latin, the language of the Romans, perhaps!

   IT TOOK ALMOST 400 YEARS FOR MITHRAISM TO BE REPLACED ALMOST COMPLETELY BY "CHRISTIANITY".  AND EVEN LONGER FOR THE LAST VESTIGE OF THE GODDESS ISIS TO BE REPLACED BY THE "CULT" OF THE VIRGIN MARY.

   But nothing important much happens OVERNIGHT.  The important thing is, it happens.  And once it happens, most people forget how.  And why!

  I, JESUS, authorized Constantine the Great, the popes following his authority, the Jesuits, and Yes, finally even dedicated Protestants like the Adventists after 1888 and the 1950s like Ron Wyatt to teach these delusions to people who need them!

  I, JESUS, was promised by a God (but not Jehovah) 10 things --

     1. That I would be called the "Only Begotten Son of God"

     2: That I would be made a King of a Kingdom

     3: That I would rule an Empire.

     4: That I would be imagined as ruling an entire Astrological Age.

     5: That people would believe they were gaining ETERNAL LIFE in my Name.

     6: That people would believe all their SINS FORGIVEN in my Name.

    7:  That what I must do to gain these things was GIVE MY BLOOD, but not all of my blood -- in a word -- I must be CRUCIFIED.

    8: I must go through a painful CRUCIFIXION and appear to be dead.

    9: After this, I would still be ALIVE (appear to be RESURRECTED).

  10: Then I could go back to India, to Kashmir, to live out my life as a Real King.

  To DISCOVER the significance of this visit of the "MAN IN WHITE" in a much LARGER prophetic NUMEROLOGY SCHEME laid out by Jesus Christ in Revelation chapter 11-13, CLICK THIS LINE!

 

Why a Golden Calf?

AARON'S FOLLY?

WWinding Mountain Path

WHERE TO NEXT?

Ron Wyatt's Ark Search

 JERUSALEM

Wyatt's Man in White

JESUS CHRIST?

Wm Miller's Dream

DIRT  BRUSH

Rest of Story 1

PAUL HARVEY

Rest of Story 2

ISIS   JESUS

Ron's Deceits

False PROPHET

2 VISIONS

Angels Kept Coming!

8 ANGELS

Jesus the Cartoonist

THE PROPHET

Chasing Israel in Sinai Desert

UNLEAVENED

Under the Red Sea

SCUBA DIVING

Saul and Mithras

LOTS of BLOOD

Magdalene 1

HER GENEALOGY

 Magdalene 2

2HER SEDUCTION

NT Joseph Jesus' Father

QUMRAN-EGYPT