What Happened to Noah's Ark?

Genesis 8:3-4 The water receded steadily from the earth. At the end of the hundred and fifty days the water had gone down,  and on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

We believe the Bible is 100% truth and 100% accurate, therefore if it says that an object is at a specific location it should be there right? Well what about the Ark? The Bible clearly says where it landed, so why isn't it still there today?

Here is the shocking revelation...are you ready? It is still there!

There have been countless explorers who say they have spotted the remains of the ark on a Mountain in Turkey. On the TV Show, "Encounters with the Unexplained" they listed a  number of mountain climbers that date all the way back to 475 b.c. who claimed to have seen the hull of a huge barge, frozen in a crevice, against the mountain, visible only when the ice and snow melt.  In 1269 a.d. Marco Polo wrote in "Travels", that he had seen it, "Noah's ark rests high in the snowy reaches of Mt. Ararat.' In 1949 the U.S. Air Force took photographs of the Mt. Ararat site. The images revealed what seemed to be a structure covered by ice that fit the biblical proportions of the ark, but the pictures were held for years in a confidential file labeled "Ararat Anomaly." In 1975 a French explorer Ferdinand Navarra said he'd seen the ark at 13,000 feet and he brought back a 5-foot hand chopped wooden beam that he cut from the ice.  The wood tested in 3 different laboratories was found to be 5000 years old.  There was not the type of wood found in that area. In fact, there are no woods within 300 miles. Today in what's being called "Satellite Archaeology" various spacecraft are being used to take photos of the site, those pictures as well as declassified aerial and satellite images snapped by U.S. intelligence agencies have revealed some pretty amazing evidence. (Here is a photo taken of the site in by a Satellite in 2003)

  

                                                                             

   

Now unfortunately satellite archaeology is about the best we can do to validate this biblical account now because currently the Turkish government is denying requests by archaeological teams to explore Ararat. Wouldn't it be incredible if God preserved additional evidence to verify His word as we move toward the end?

But its not just geological and archaeological evidence that offer convincing proof, did you know that nearly every ancient civilization and culture tell the story about a cataclysmic flood that covered the earth? One historian suggests there are 272 mentions of a flood in other cultures.  Even the earliest written culture –the Sumerians, 3000 years ago had a written story of a man and family saved from a flood by getting into a boat. The Bible is a book of faith but there is empirical evidence to support it's validity. As one theologian wrote, "God isn't asking you to take an intellectual leap into the dark, He is asking you to humble yourself and take a step into the light." Carl Kuhl is a friend of mine and a great preacher in Baltimore he wrote, "Feelings and emotions can push us to Christ, but our logic and our brains must keep us there." I am so thankful that our faith is a logical one, not built on suspicion, but fact. The account of the flood isn't just a good bedtime story for kids, but it is a historical fact to be believed.

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