William C. Chappell
This book entitled, Garden of Eden Found, is divided into three almost equal parts. Part I of the book is exactly what the title says. It reveals and explains the exact geographical location of the ancient site of the Garden of Eden. This is an absolutely new and a previously undiscovered site. People suppose that we must yet wait on a prophet of God to reveal its location, but this book explains that God through the prophet Moses said everything he could to explain the location of the Garden of Eden in the second chapter of Genesis. It is just that the names of the lands and rivers have changed.
The original thing in this work, however, is that the ancient site of the Garden of Eden was located upon the North American continent. Note that according to Genesis 1:10 each land was called earth. Thus, it could have been on any continent. There has never been one fact of evidence to show that the Garden of Eden was located in the Middle East anyway. This has only been a supposition of the so-called learned; even those who write the text books; and most of whom do not believe in God or in revelation. The author has simply put together the Genesis account of Eden with the latter-day revelations concerning Adam-ondi-Ahman in America.
Part II of this book reveals the ultimate meaning of the six days and the six nights and Sabbath of the creation account in Genesis chapter one. No one has ever discovered nor understood their ultimate meaning before this work. The author submits that this concept is the greatest concept that can be conceived by the mind of man concerning ultimate reality. This concept ties together the law of eternal progression, the order of the universes of the cosmos, and the days and nights of creation as one and the same thing. So the author begins Part II of his book with the following paragraph.
If I were a scientist and was speaking before my other colleagues, then, I would name my address, "The Number and Order of the Universes of the Cosmos." If I was a philosopher and was presenting this topic before my fellow philosophers, I would entitle my presentation, "The Law of Eternal Progression to Ultimate Continuum." But if I happened to be a theologian, and was preaching a sermon to my parishioners, I would call my message, "The Meaning of the Six Days and Six Nights and a Sabbath of Creation." This is because these three subjects concern the same ultimate reality. The first is scientific, the second is philosophical, and the third is religious.
Often the terms for universe and the cosmos are used interchangeably. Actually, this is the concept of mankind at the present time. Most people, including scientists, the philosophers, and the theologians, consider that the universe is the cosmos and that the cosmos is the universe. However, this is simply not the true case of the matter, for the cosmos is the sum total of the series of the twelve universes of the cosmos.
However, would anyone have ever entertained the idea that the answer is to be found in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis in the Bible? Who would have thought that God had hidden it in the simple account of the six days and the six nights and Sabbath of creation? I will attempt to show, in plainness and simplicity, that this is the true interpretation.
Part III of this book explains the historic meaning of the symbolism in the Book of Revelation. The new truth to understand is that they represent only natural things and historical events of the past two-thousand years of Christian history. There are three general principles that we must accept in order to understand the symbolism of the Book of Revelation. Let me now list the general principles in this order. The first thing to understand is that the prophecy of the Book of Revelation covers the past two-thousand years of western history. The second thing to understand is that the prophecy is only about Christianity. The third thing to understand is that the symbolism represents only natural things in the past history of Christendom. They do not represent unknown or unknowable things, for the world is full of them and we see them and hear of them everyday.
William C. Chappell, the author of this book, is originally from Tyner, Jackson County, Kentucky, and born in 1944. He was raised in a Christian family on a small farm among the rolling hills of Appalachia. William is a 1967 graduate of Berea College and has been a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since 1974. He retired from a career with the Kentucky state government in the year 2000.
The author has been blessed with inspiration, whereby he has come to the knowledge of the truths revealed in this book. He does not claim some special intelligence or righteousness. He does claim that these things have become known to him by the spiritual gift of the word of knowledge. The author‘s purpose is to reveal the exact location of the Garden of Eden, the meaning of the six days and six nights of creation, and the interpretation of the symbolism in the Book of Revelation.
Who has not wondered about where the Garden of Eden was located? What person who has ever heard of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden not considered where it might have happened? As well, what theologian or Biblical scholar was ever able to say, as a fact, where it was located? There has been not, simply because there is not one person upon the face of the whole earth who has ever known it. That is, except the few who witnessed it as a reality for themselves. It shall be shown in this book, however, that the prophet Moses did everything he could to reveal where the Garden of Eden was located in the second chapter of the Book of Genesis.
It is obvious that knowledge of the geographical location of the ancient site of the Garden of Eden is not to be learned from any of our educational institutions, nor found in the religious seminaries, nor from the theologians of our day. Therefore, it should be obvious that this knowledge must come through some other source, and by some other means, if one is to ever learn where the Garden of Eden was located. This book is an explanation of that other source and the other means, whereby the exact location of the ancient site of the Garden of Eden has been discovered.
The original thing in this work, however, is that the ancient site of the Garden of Eden was located upon the North American continent. Note that according to Genesis 1:10 each land was called earth. There never was any fact of knowledge to suppose that it is located in the Middle East anyway, nor anywhere else for that matter. That supposition was made because the rest of the Biblical account occurred in that region. However, there was the Flood of Noah long before those events occurred, and it does not say where Noah and the Ark came from, but only where it landed.
The author further submits that the Garden of Eden was not only on the North American continent, but that the site was located near the center, in the heartland, of the United States of America. The site had to do with four great rivers flowing from four lands upon this continent. But exactly where was the site of the Garden of Eden located upon this continent and within this country? This is the question that we will explore and to which we will find the answer. This knowledge should be of great worth unto all mankind, and to all religions, and more especially to Christians in America.
(But the foregoing was from only Part I of this book, which consists of about three equal parts, and three different subjects from the Bible. Part II explains the ultimate meaning of the six days and the six nights of creation. Part III reveals the true and historic meaning of the symbolism in the Book of Revelation. Both of these are equally original and interesting subjects. So let me quote a couple of paragraphs from Part II and Part III).
If I were a scientist and was speaking before my other colleagues; then, I would name my address, "The Number and Order of the Universes of the Cosmos." If I was a philosopher and was presenting this topic before my fellow philosophers, I would entitle my presentation, "The Law of Eternal Progression to Ultimate Continuum." But if I happened to be a theologian, and was preaching a sermon to my parishioners, I would call my message, "The Meaning of the Six Days and Six Nights and a Sabbath of Creation." This is because these three subjects concern the same ultimate reality. The first is science, the second is philosophy, and the third is religion.
However, would anyone have ever entertained the idea that the answer is to be found in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis in the Bible? Who would have thought that God had hidden it in the simple account of the six days and the six nights and Sabbath of creation? I will attempt to show, in plainness and simplicity, that this is the true interpretation.
Often the terms for universe and the cosmos are used interchangeably. Actually, this is the concept of mankind at the present time. Most people, including scientists, the philosophers, and the theologians, consider that the universe is the cosmos and that the cosmos is the universe. This is not true; for the cosmos consists of the series of the twelve universes of the cosmos. (And now for a sample from Part III of the book).
There are three general principles that we must understand in order to understand the symbolism of the Book of Revelation. Let me now list those three general principles in this order. The first thing to understand is that most of the prophecies of the Revelation cover the past two-thousand years of history. The second thing to understand is that the prophecies of the Book of Revelation are only about Christianity. They are not concerned with any communism, Nazism, other world religion, devil worship, or with anything else of that nature. They are only concerned with Christianity and with the peoples and nations of Christendom. Therefore, the symbolism represents a symbolic history of the past two-thousand years of Christianity.
The third thing to understand is that the symbolism represents only the natural things in the past two-thousand years of Christian history. They do not represent some unknown or unknowable things. The world is full of it, and we see them and hear them everyday. By using just these three general principles we can discover the meaning of the mysterious symbolism in the Book of Revelation. And we can learn what we are to do about it.
