(End of the American Dream)—The remains of Noah’s Ark are contained in the Durupinar formation in the Mountains of Ararat. I have no doubt about this. The boat-shaped Durupinar formation has the exact same dimensions that the Bible says that Noah’s Ark had. Ground-penetrating radar has confirmed that the ship that is buried there has corridors, compartments and three distinct levels. Needless to say, the Bible says that the Ark was built with lower, middle, and upper levels. There are perfect right angles inside the formation that could not have been produced naturally.
What I have shared so far is just the tip of the iceberg, because there is so much more evidence. So how did an absolutely enormous three level ship that is roughly the size of a World War I-era aircraft carrier end up so far away from any major body of water in the Mountains of Ararat?
That is a very good question.
If you do not believe in Noah’s Ark, that will be exceedingly difficult for you to explain.
Skeptics are scrambling to come up with some sort of a theory that might work, because for most of them it is unthinkable to concede that the Bible is historically accurate.
Yesterday, the Daily Mail published an article that claimed that the resting place of Noah’s Ark has been 100 percent confirmed.
In response, one of the organizations that is involved with the scientific work that is going on at the Durupinar formation stated that “knowing what we know now, we are also 100% sure that they are not going to have to issue a retraction”…
So how can they be so confident?
An international team of researchers, geologists and archaeologists has been conducting an unprecedented scientific investigation of the Durupinar formation, and they are extremely excited about what they have found so far…
For centuries, travelers passed through these mountains.
With Mount Ararat rising behind the Durupınar formation, this region became an ancient crossroads between east and west, a route later traveled by merchants, pilgrims and travelers along the Silk Road.
And according to ancient traditions, some of those pilgrims came here because they believed the Ark had come to rest in these mountains.
There are even accounts of travelers taking pieces of wood from the Ark as sacred relics, pieces that were later preserved in churches and monasteries.
Today, the story is being investigated in a very different way.
Instead of simply collecting relics, our team is collecting data.
Radar. Core drilling. Soil samples. Geological analysis.
Generations of people have come looking for Noah’s Ark.
Now we’re using modern science to investigate what remains beneath the surface.
For years, researchers were prevented from doing this sort of work by Turkish authorities.
But now permission has been granted, and the team is being led by a couple of prominent Turkish professors…
The 2026 field program is led by Turkish Professor of Archaeology Prof. Dr. Cenker Atila of Sivas Cumhuriyet University and supported by Prof. Dr. Ahmet Şengönül, Rector of Sivas Cumhuriyet University with Noah’s Ark Scan’s Andrew Jones serving as Vice President of the Noah’s Ark Research Project. This Scientific Expedition is being conducted with official authorization from relevant Turkish government agencies. The Durupınar formation is a 157-meter (515-foot) boat-shaped feature first identified in 1959 by Turkish Army Capt. İlhan Durupınar.
This is a really big deal.
Never before have researchers been allowed to drill deep into the Durupinar formation to collect core samples.
According to Andrew Jones, at one point they were forced to stop drilling because they “struck a layer so hard that the drill bit broke”…
“For the first time in history, we are performing an extensive, permitted deep core drilling survey inside and outside the Durupınar Noah’s Ark site, recovering samples from depths of up to 18 meters, nearly 60 feet. We have so far recovered layers of rich organic material that we believe could be the decayed top tier remains of the Ark. We are encountering multiple cavities, including one filled with mud and water. No bedrock or solid limestone has so far been identified in the holes drilled inside the formation. These current findings challenge claims that this is simply a natural shape made of limestone or bedrock.
“In one of the holes drilled inside the boat, approximately 4–5 meters below the surface, The drilling system had already penetrated the overlying material, but at this layer, the operation stopped as we struck a layer so hard that the drill bit broke. Petrified or highly mineralized wood are both a possibility we want to investigate through third party lab testing.”
Petrified wood can be much harder than limestone.
I have an old friend that has actually been to the Durupinar formation.
He has personally confirmed to me that there is petrified wood at the site.
The good news is that the drill bit has been repaired and so the core drilling will be able to continue…
In addition to the core drilling that is being done, the team also intends to insert an underground exploration drone into “voids, tunnels, and corridors previously mapped by ground-penetrating radar”…
Second, researchers plan to insert the custom-built GOPHER underground exploration drone into voids, tunnels, and corridors previously mapped by ground-penetrating radar, electrical resistivity tomography, and related surveys. GOPHER, named for the “gopher wood” of Genesis, is equipped with a high-resolution camera, designed to enter narrow borehole access points without opening large excavation trenches.
That drone should be able to give us a tremendous amount of information.
In fact, I believe that what that drone reveals will shock the entire world.
Prior to all of this, months of important work has been going on at the Durupinar formation…
The drilling campaign follows months of baseline work at the site, including precision GPS mapping, three-dimensional digital modeling, soil sampling inside and outside the outline, and high-resolution subsurface imaging. Earlier scans identified linear features, right-angle intersections, layered anomalies, and elongated voids interpreted by the team as possible corridors and chamber-like spaces. U.S. Defense Scientist Dr. Khrosrow Bakthar, recently deployed BaktharRadar at the site and provided the core drilling coordinates to the Noah’s Ark 2026 expedition team. Dr. Bakthar’s preliminary report found no bedrock at the site, more details of the prestigious scientist’s report are expected to be released by Noah’s Ark Scans later this week.
To me, what the ground-penetrating radar has been discovering is particularly exciting…
The team has also found pottery near the Durupinar formation “that predates the flood”, and we are being told there are lots of seashells in the area that haven’t even fossilized yet.
That seems rather odd considering the fact that the closest major body of water is about 150 miles away.
So how did all of those seashells get there?
Of course all of the evidence that is being collected is simply confirmation of what locals in the area have known for thousands of years.
In fact, residents of that region have always been very proud of the fact that the resting place of Noah’s Ark is there.
And all the way back in the first century, Josephus identified that location as the resting place of Noah’s Ark.
So it isn’t as if we have suddenly discovered something new.
I suppose it would be much more accurate to say that we have rediscovered what others have known all along.
Noah’s Ark really does exist, and it is still sitting there in the Mountains of Ararat where it has always been since the days of the Flood.
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Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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