Lost Civilzations in North America by Art Bulla on #BlogTalkRadio - http://tobtr.com/s/1193095

Original Air Date: August 19, 2010

Lost Civilzations in North America

The Lord told me 30 years ago that when the colonists first landed there were mounds and remnants of the former civilization which covered the land from sea to sea everywhere. These have been plundered, destroyed, ignored, farmed under as the Gentiles also covered the land. "Science" has mocked or ignored these artifacts. Batcreek Stone and Decalogue Stones discussed (see http://artbulla.com/zion/Michigandsl.wmv and http://artbulla.com/zion/batcreek.html), amazing discoveries circa 1815:, Joseph Merrick Esq., a highly respected character in Pittsfield, Massachusetts: That in 1815, he was leveling some ground... He ploughed and conveyed away old chips and earth to some depth. After the work was done, walking over the place, he discovered...a black strap, as it appeared about six inches in length, and one and a half in breadth, and about the thickness of a leather trace to a harness. He perceived it had at each end, a loop of some hard substance, probably for the purpose of carrying it. He conveyed it to his house, and threw it into an old tool box. "After some time, he thought he would examine it; but in attempting to cut it, found it as hard as a bone; he succeeded, however, in getting it open, and found it was formed of two pieces of thick rawhide, sewed and made water-tight with the sinews of some animal, and gummed over; and in the fold were contained four folded pieces of parchment. They were of a dark yellow hue, and contained some kind of writing. The neighbors, coming in to see the strange discovery, tore one of the pieces to atoms, in the true Hun and Vandal style. The other three pieces Mr. Merrick saved, and sent them to Cambridge, where they were examined, and discovered to have been written with a pen, in Hebrew, plain and legible. The writings on the three remaining pieces of parchment were quotations from the Old Testament. See Deut., Chapter 6, from 4th to 9th verses inclusive, also Chapter 11, (Parley P. Pratt, A Voice of Warning , p.79-,82-83

Batcreek Stone

In the Smithsonian upside down in a glass case for one hundred years, the Bat Creek Inscription is a small stone approximately 4.5 by 1.75 inches which was found in 1889 by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology. Excavator John W. Emmert was excavating Indian burial mounds in Bat Creek, Tennessee, about 40 miles south of Knoxville.

In one mound was discovered 9 skeletons, eight with their heads pointing north, and one with its head facing south. Under the head of the one facing south was found the Bat Creek Stone and 2 bracelets.

The inscription was originally thought to be Cherokee and was annotated as such. The stone was then archived in the Smithsonian for almost 100 years. However, in the 1960s, some researchers noted that when a photo of the stone was held upside down, it looked like Phoenician and Canaanite scripts. Professor Cyrus H. Gordon of Brandais University was sent a photograph of the stone, and he immediately recognized it to be Hebrew and translated it "Unto Judah". The letters were similar to those used in the 4th century BC on letter seals and in the 11Q paleo Leviticus in the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Stump with Hatchet Found on Stump Eighty Feet Below Ground While Digging a Well in 1826.
A gentleman who was living near the town of Cincinnati, in 1826, on the upper level, had occasion to sink a well for his accommodation; he persevered in digging to the depth of eighty feet without finding water, but, still persisting in the attempt, his workmen found themselves obstructed by a substance, which resisted their labor, though evidently not stone. They cleared the surface and sides from the earth bedded around it, when there appeared the stump of a tree, three feet in diameter and two feet high, which had been cut down with an axe. The blows of the axe were yet visible. It was nearly of the color and apparent character of coal, but had not the friable and fusible quality of that substance. Ten feet below the water sprang up, and the well is now in constant supply and high repute.
In Morse's Universal Geography, first volume, p. 142, the discovery of the stump is corroborated: "In digging a well in Cincinnati, the stump of a tree was found in a sound state, ninety feet below the surface; and in digging another well, at the same place, another stump was found at ninety-four feet below the surface, which had evident marks of the axe, and on its top there appeared as if some iron had been consumed by rust."
We might fill a volume with accounts of American antiquities, all going to show that this country has been inhabited by a people who possessed a knowledge of the arts and sciences, who built cities, cultivated the earth, and who were in possession of a written language. But the things which we have here introduced are abundantly sufficient for our purpose. If a few characters in Hebrew have been found in the earth in America, written on parchment, then it is just as easy to admit that a whole volume has been found in the earth in America, written on plates in Egyptian characters. The astonishing facts of the stumps found eighty or ninety feet under the ground at Cincinnati, and similar discoveries in many other parts of North and South America, such as buried cities, and other antiquities, all go to prove that there has been a mighty convulsion and revolution, not only of nations, but of nature; and such a convulsion as is nowhere else so reasonably accounted for, as in the following extraordinary and wonderful account of events which transpired in this country, during the crucifixion of Messiah, which we extract from the Book of Mormon, 3 Nephi 8:5.
"And it came to pass in the thirty and fourth year, in the first month, on the fourth day of the month, there arose a great storm, such an one as never had been known in all the land. And there was also a great and terrible tempest: and there was terrible thunder, insomuch that it did shake the whole earth as if it was about to divide asunder. And there were exceeding sharp lightnings, such as never had been known in all the land. And the city of Zarahemla did take fire. And the city of Moroni did sink into the depths of the sea, and the inhabitants thereof were drowned. And the earth was carried up upon the city of Moronihah, that in the place of the city thereof, there became a great mountain. And there was a great and terrible destruction in the land southward. But, behold, there was a more great and terrible destruction in the land northward; for behold, the whole face of the land was changed, because of the tempest and the whirlwinds, and the thunderings and the lightnings, and the exceeding great quaking of the whole earth; And the highways were broken up, and the level roads were spoiled, and many smooth places became rough. And many great and notable cities were sunk, and many were burned, and many were shaken till the buildings thereof had fallen to the earth, and the inhabitants thereof were slain, and the places were left desolate. And there were some cities which remained; but the damage thereof was exceedingly great, and there were many in them who were slain. And there were some who were carried away in the whirlwind; and whither they went, no man knoweth, save they know that they were carried away. And thus the face of the whole earth became deformed, because of the tempests, and the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the quaking of the earth. And behold, the rocks were rent in twain; they were broken up upon the face of the whole earth, insomuch that they were found in broken fragments, and in seams, and in cracks, upon all the fact of the land.

(Parley P. Pratt, A Voice of Warning , p.79-,82-83)

The Decalogue Stone

from Midwestern Epigraphic Journal, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1993

"An Annotated Transcription of the Newark Decalogue Stone"

by J. Huston McCulloch, Ph.D.

"The Newark Decalogue stone was found during 1860 in an ancient burial mound

ten miles south of Newark Ohio. ... The inscription on the stone has been

translated by McCarty, Naveh, Bloom, Polansky, and others, as containing an

abridgement of the Exodus 20 version of the Ten Commandments or Decalogue.

The text begins at the top of the arch over the head of the robed and

bearded figure identified as Moses, ...

The text is run on, with no spaces or word dividers. No terminal letter

forms, consonant points, or vowel points are used. ...

...

Wyrick, who found the stone, is accused by many (e.g., Lepper 1990) of

having personally forged the inscription, copying it from a Hebrew Bible in

his possession. However, a careful comparison of my transcription to

Wyrick's woodcut shows that Wyrick made no less than 38 significant errors,

in which he either made a legible letter illegible, or turned a legible

letter into a different letter. This is a 14.8% error rate. He routinely

confuses D with R, T with H, and W with Y, and inverts several letters. In

only one of these 38 cases (letter 10.9, which he read as Y instead of the

actual W, an error he frequently makes elsewhere) does his woodcut give the

expected letter where the stone gives an unexpected letter. Yet, the

pamphlet in which this garbled text appeared was Wyrick's best attempt at

convincing the world that the stone was a genuine Hebrew artifact. Wyrick

clearly did not even understand the inscription's peculiar, yet consistently

applied, alphabet, and therefore could not have been its author.

The inscriptions on the four sides:

· Qedosh Qedoshim "Holy of Holies"

· Melek Eretz "King of the Earth"

· Torath YHWH "The Law of God"

· Devor YHWH "The Word of God"

Book of Mormon inscribed on golden plates and buried in the ground by Moroni. What?!!! A Golden Bible in a Stone Box?

Artifacts of a Highly Developed People

"Well, all is not lost. There are those who have begun to read and understand some of these records of the ancient people, and more and more of these artifacts are coming forth which will probably be read. In time, if accurate, these interpretations of histories left in the dust may tell us the truth about those ancient people. We will accept these interpretations until a better interpretation comes along.

So far it has been estimated that up to 30,000 slate, copper, brass, and clay tablets have been unearthed, mostly from the state of Michigan. To my knowledge, none have been read or translated by the Indians. Some of those who have started reading some of these believe there may be up to five languages used on the tablets.

Along with the writing on each tablet, to help the reader better understand, it appears that in most cases there are cartoon-type engravings, in most cases depicting what is being written. In most cases the drawings are plain and easy to understand.

Most depict events recorded in religious history from the creation of man-stories of which even the Indians and the world do not have a clear knowledge.

The samples, which follow, were found mostly in Michigan. To begin with we present a map of Michigan which shows the number of mounds that had been found in the various counties up through the year 1924. This map is found in the book “Michigan Prehistory Mysteries” by Betty Sodders and is available through the foundation.

So far it has been estimated that about 30,000 tablets have been found, mostly from mounds in Michigan. But there are many more thousands of mounds found throughout most of the eastern half of the United States starting just west of the Mississippi River and running to the Atlantic Ocean. I wonder how many more have been found of which we are not aware and how many could be found if we put forth the effort to bring more of this information to the forefront." BMS Foundation.

Words Which Jesus Spake Depicted Above

12 Ye are my disciples; and ye are a light unto this people, who are a remnant of the house of Joseph.

3 Nephi 15:13
13 And behold, this is the land of your inheritance; and the Father hath given it unto you.

3 Nephi 15:14
14 And not at any time hath the Father given me commandment that I should tell it unto your brethren at Jerusalem.

3 Nephi 15:15
15 Neither at any time hath the Father given me commandment that I should tell unto them concerning the other tribes of the house of Israel, whom the Father hath led away out of the land.

3 Nephi 15:16
16 This much did the Father command me, that I should tell unto them:

3 Nephi 15:17
17 That other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

3 Nephi 15:18
18 And now, because of stiffneckedness and unbelief they understood not my word; therefore I was commanded to say no more of the Father concerning this thing unto them.

3 Nephi 15:19
19 But, verily, I say unto you that the Father hath commanded me, and I tell it unto you, that ye were separated from among them because of their iniquity; therefore it is because of their iniquity that they know not of you.

3 Nephi 15:20
20 And verily, I say unto you again that the other tribes hath the Father separated from them; and it is because of their iniquity that they know not of them.

3 Nephi 15:21
21 And verily I say unto you, that ye are they of whom I said: Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

3 Nephi 15:22
22 And they understood me not, for they supposed it had been the Gentiles; for they understood not that the Gentiles should be converted through their preaching.

3 Nephi 15:23
23 And they understood me not that I said they shall hear my voice; and they understood me not that the Gentiles should not at any time hear my voice--that I should not manifest myself unto them save it were by the Holy Ghost.

3 Nephi 15:24
24 But behold, ye have both heard my voice, and seen me; and ye are my sheep, and ye are numbered among those whom the Father hath given me.

Chapter 16

3 Nephi 16:1
1 And verily, verily, I say unto you that I have other sheep which are not of this land, neither of the land of Jerusalem, neither in any parts of that land round about whither I have been to minister.

3 Nephi 16:2
2 For they of whom I speak are they who have not as yet heard my voice; neither have I at any time manifested myself unto them.

3 Nephi 16:3
3 But I have received a commandment of the Father that I shall go unto them, and that they shall hear my voice, and shall be numbered among my sheep, that there may be one fold and one shepherd; therefore I go to show myself unto them.

3 Nephi 16:4
4 And I command you that ye shall write these sayings after I am gone, that if it so be that my people at Jerusalem, they who have seen me and been with me in my ministry, do not ask the Father in my name, that they may receive a knowledge of you by the Holy Ghost, and also of the other tribes whom they know not of, that these sayings which ye shall write shall be kept and shall be manifested unto the Gentiles, that through the fulness of the Gentiles, the remnant of their seed, who shall be scattered forth upon the face of the earth because of their unbelief, may be brought in, or may be brought to a knowledge of me, their Redeemer.

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"But we ask, does it remain for a people who never had faith enough to call down one scrap of revelation from heaven, and for all they have now are indebted to the faith of another people...does it remain for them to say how much God has spoken and how much He has not spoken?" Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Two 1834-37 Pg.60
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Six 1843-44 Pg.365
When a man goes about prophesying, and commands men to obey his teachings, he must either be a true or false prophet.
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"All men are liars who say they are of the true Church without the revelations of Jesus Christ and the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which is after the order of the Son of God." Joseph Smith; TPJS p. 376
"He that can mark the power of Omnipotence, inscribed upon the heavens, can also see God's own handwriting in the sacred volume: and he who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand wherever he can see it...." (T.P.J.S., p. 56)

· 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. (New Testament | Galatians 1:10 - 12)