“The Priesthood was first given to Adam; he obtained the First Presidency, and held the keys of it from generation to generation. He obtained it in the Creation, before the world was formed, as in Genesis 1:26, 27, 28.” Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith Section Four 1839-42, p.157 “I saw Adam in the valley of Adan-Ondi-Ahman.” ibid pg.158
THIS LAND IS CHOICE
“I thrill when I see the flag. I hope you do, too. It stands for the USA. This is a land choice above all other lands. We have revelation on the subject. There’s nothing like the USA anywhere. There never has been, and I presume there never will be. The Lord has made that comment in respect to this earth. There are those who feel that we in the Western Hemisphere are the New World but, of course, we aren’t the New World at all this is where it all began; thus the USA is really the “Old World.”
It was on this continent, near the center of this continent (in fact, very near Missouri, which is the center of this continent), that the Garden of Eden was located. Life didn’t start off over in what they call the “cradle of civilization” or today’s Holy Land. No, it started in the central part of the United States. That’s where Adam and Eve were cast out of the garden. They moved out to earn their bread by the sweat of their brows. Also it was there that Cain slew Abel. It was there that Noah built an ark, in the middle of a continent like the United States. No wonder they thought he was a little bit “strange,” to say the least. It was there that he and his wife and his three sons and their wives embarked on the ark and floated for many, many days. The ark finally came to rest on top of Mount Ararat. They came down out of the ark, and civilization supposedly started from there. But that was the second start. Civilization had already started here.
The Book of Mormon says that, when the waters receded off of this land, it became a land choice above all other lands—a land of promise to those who would obey the God of this land, who is Jesus Christ. If the people would not obey the God of this land, then they would be swept off (see Ether 2:7–12). That has happened at least three times previously as far as we know. It happened in Noah’s time, certainly. It happened again to the Jaredite civilization. It happened again in the Nephite civilization, which included the Mulekites. It may have happened at other times. We’re not sure. We don’t have all the records that deal with this land, but what records we do have are consistent. The warning to us in this day and time is that unless we live these commandments, unless we serve the God of this land, we too can be swept from this land. I don’t believe that will happen again because this people, the Lord’s people, the Latter-day Saints, are going to keep the commandments of God. If they don’t, they will no longer be Latter-day Saints.” Hartman Rector Jr.
Editor’s Notes: This information from Elder Hartman Rector Jr is truth. Many scientists believe very differently. But it just makes sense that the area of Missouri is a promised land forever. What was this part of Missouri originally called? Look at Moses 6:17. “And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan. And Enos and the residue of the people of God came out from the land, which was called Shulon, and dwelt in a land of promise, which he called after his own son, whom he had named Cainan.” Not Canaan; that was near Jerusalem. Cainan is the New Jerusalem and Canaan is the Old Jerusalem.
The historical people of the Clovis Culture most closely fit the timeline of Adam and Eve’s posterity, what we sometimes call Adamites. No there were no Pre-Adamites and no cave men. Adam was the first Man placed on this earth and it was about 4,000 BC that this happened. This truth just makes sense to me.
Paleo-Indians
From Science Views.com
Archaeological evidence conclusively documents man verses mastodon in the Pleistocene epoch. As such, they lived in a land of giants. Hollywood depictions of over-sized creatures once were reality to man. The fierce saber-tooth, large woolly mammoths and mastodons, giant beaver, short-faced bear, and dire wolf were all part of their world. Who were these men, women and children who dealt with mega-fauna concerns to protect their families, not to mention survive the bitter weather, glaciers and terrain so long ago? What were their tools of defense, patterns of lifestyle, concerns and joys? A welcome change from the view of early man as the alley-oop style cave man has in fact turned to evidence of an adaptable, resourceful, intelligent humankind.
Pre-Clovis Sites – A Sampling
Important sites in North America were built on an assortment of locations among rivers, marshes, sand dunes, sinkholes, caves and prairies creating a growing list of cultural finds and information that continue to influence our understanding of early Man. Each place portrays a piece of the unfolding portrait of the ancient inhabitants.
Meadowcroft Rockshelter in western Pennsylvania is located in Avella, Independence Township, Pennsylvania on Cross Creek, a tributary to the Ohio River. This site officially became a National Historic Landmark on 5 April 2005. The Statement of Significance (as of designation – April 5, 2005) is recorded thus: “This site contains evidence of some of the earliest human occupations in Eastern North America. Meadowcroft Rockshelter demonstrates that humans have been in the Americas since at least 16,000 years before the present. The site was periodically utilized and reoccupied from the earliest Paleo-Indian times through the Archaic and Woodland periods by Native American peoples, and during the Historic period by European Americans. It has provided one of the longest, if not the actual longest, stratified sequence of cultures in the United States, and evidence for some of the earliest domesticated crops in the northeastern United States. Meadowcroft has revolutionized how archeologists view the peopling of the New World.”
More on Meadowcroft Rockshelter: “It may be the oldest known site of human habitation in North America, The artifacts uncovered in these areas give evidence of a village society with a tribal trade system culture that included limited cold worked copper. As of 2009, over 12,500 archaeological sites have been documented in West Virginia.” Extract from ”Catalogue of prehistoric works east of the Rocky Mountains by Cyrus Thomas 1891
ScienceViews.com continues below:
Cactus Hill, Virginia located on the Nottoway river near the small town of Stony Creek also had artifacts below the clovis level. A clovis and pre-clovis occupation present in the natural strata used raw materials primarily of quartzite and chert. Radiocarbon data that matched Meadowcroft Rockshelter made the prickly pear covered sand dunes a clear contender as one of the oldest archaeological sites in North America.
Saltville, Virginia salt marshes attracted inhabitants and wildlife dating to the Pleistocene epoch. A pre-clovis worked tibia possibly from a musk-ox, and other finds include 200 clam shells, 500 pieces of small vertebrate remains, charcoal and 125 pieces of leftover chipped stone waste.
Topper, South Carolina situated on the Savannah River in Allendale county produced blades and flakes matching those recovered at Cactus Hill and Saltville, Virginia. Below the pre-Clovis stratum was the “topper chopper,” an abstract animal, in this case in bird form, classic in design and common as an artifact in North American and European paleolithic works.
Sheridan Cave, Ohio is a significant sinkhole excavation site that extended about 50 feet underground beneath a dolomite ridge near Carey, Ohio. The record produced exceptional biodiversity in plant and animal remains of the Ice Age including rare and extinct species such as the giant beaver, the stag or elk moose, the short-faced bear and the peccary. The human record is among the earliest known evidence of man in this region.
Buttermilk Creek site in Salado, Texas is located just 250m downstream from the Gault Site where so much of the Clovis culture has been defined. Here, below the clovis level, a previously undisturbed strata disclosed a large and varied collection of some 15,528 stone artifacts. OSL mineral dating of the assemblage places it between ~13.2 and 15.5 thousand years ago. These finds offer considerable archaeological evidence to support the theory of human habitation in the area prior to Clovis technology; also adding important data for researching the origins of the Clovis culture.
The Manis site located in the Sequim-Dungeness valley, Washington inspired early inhabitants of the S’Klallam tribe long before the coming of the European to name the location east of Sequim “place for going to shoot.” It was great hunting for elk and waterfowl, but 800 years before the even earlier Clovis people, men were hunting mastodon. An osseous projectile point made of mastodon bone was found embedded in a rib of another mastodon. Due to additional bone growth around the projectile, it was determined not to be the wound that killed the animal. When analyzed, the unnatural position of the 14,991lb. fossil and other evidences suggested that it had been tampered with by man, making it one of the earliest locations evidencing mastodon/man interaction. Two other mastodon remains were also found to have been butchered at this 2-acre site.
Kenosha County, Wisconsin in the great lakes region of the midwest delivered mammoth discoveries on two adjacent farms in Paris Township. By 1992, after years of hunting, David Wasion put together clues that led to the rediscovery of mammoth bones once displayed and then packed away, lost to the knowledge of the community in the basement of the local Historical Society. The rediscovery and new observations of the clear cut and hack marks on the bones was a find of major importance. By 1994, subsequent digs brought to light a more complete picture of the Schaefer mammoth and a new Hebior mammoth that were ostensibly butchered by pre-clovis people. This electrified some in the scientific community because the Kenosha county digs dated much earlier than the 12,000 year Beringia barrier and the land bridge between Siberia and Alaska was broadly believed to have been inaccessible before that date. Other sites in Kenosha county contain unexcavated mastodon/mammoth remains in the area. The Mud Lake mammoth and the Fenske mastodon are among the “kill sites.”
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“Temporarily, we call it America. But it began with the single, primeval continent of Genesis, and the miracle of millennial healing will bring that unity again.”
A Promised Land” by Jeffrey R. Holland June 1976 Ensign
1. “The most sacred of places, then, will always be those locations which God has designated for holy and eternal purposes, locations where he is the ‘doer of the deed.’ These places are revered forever by his faithful children wherever they may be. America is such a place, but of course it wasn’t always called America nor has it always been identified by a distinctive continental shape.
2. “Originally it was simply a portion of that large, single land mass which God in his creative process called ‘Earth’ and which, when completed, was pronounced ‘good.’ (Gen. 1:10.) Whatever its name and geographical configuration, however, it was from the beginning a land of divinity as well as a land of destiny.
3. “The choicest part of this earthly creation was a garden ‘eastward in Eden’ where God placed our first parents, Adam and Eve. This resplendent place filled with paradisiacal glory was located on that part of the land mass where the city Zion, or the New Jerusalem of the earth’s last days, would eventually be built. (See D&C 57:1–3, D&C 84:1–3)
4. “After Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden, they dwelt at a place called Adam-Ondi-Ahman, located in what is now Daviess County, Missouri. In that region this first family lived out their days, tilling the soil, tending the flocks, offering sacrifices, and learning the gospel of Jesus Christ from on high.
5. “There Adam prophesied concerning all the families of the earth and, three years before his death, called together the righteous remnant of his posterity and bestowed upon them his last blessing. The Lord appeared unto this faithful group and Adam’s family rose up ‘and blessed Adam, and called him Michael, the prince, the archangel…’
6. “Never before had one spot of earth been favored with such a meeting, nor provided the stage for such sacred scenes from the drama of man’s ultimate destiny…
7. “The righteous Enoch helped save a city but the heavens wept over the wickedness of his generation, shedding their tears as the rain upon the mountains. (Moses 7:28).”
Full article here: A Promised Land, by Jeffrey R. Holland June 1976 Ensign (Color and numbers have been added).
