The Los Lunas Rock
Deuteronomy 27:1-3a
And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day. And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over the Jordan unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaister them with plaister: And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee...
Did someone engrave the Ten Commandments, in ancient Hebrew, on a New Mexico rock 2,000 years ago?
In 1871, Indians showed New Mexico rancher, Franz Huning, a basalt boulder on his land. The boulder had strange writing on it. The Indians told him that the rock, with its writing, had been there long before their tribes ever came to the area. Scholars were brought in to look at the rock. They identified the writing as paleo-Hebrew script of the style in use between 500 and 100 B.C. What did the engraving say on what has come to be known as the Los Lunas Rock? It was an engraving of the Ten Commandments. But who could have made it?
There are additional finds that are even more astonishing and seem to make the answer obvious. Above the rock is a flat mountain top. On the mountain top are ancient ruins of stone structures that seem to be designed for defense. Its design has been compared to the ruins of Lachish, in southern Judea. Another Hebrew inscription on the mountain top names the God of Israel as "our Mighty One." An astronomical petroglyph indicates a partial solar eclipse that is known to have taken place in 107 B.C. This coincides with an archaeologist's dating of the engravings to about 2,000 years ago.
Did travelers from southern Judea settle in what is now New Mexico some 2,000 years ago? Exciting evidence supports that possibility and challenges modern stereo-types about the abilities and accomplishments of the humans of 2,000 years ago.
Prayer:
I pray, dear Lord, that our proud modern age may be increasingly challenged by the evidence that shows that the human beings You have created have always been highly intelligent, curious, and capable. Amen.
Notes:
Creation Science Fellowship Newsletter, Aug. 1992. p. 4.
