Here is Dean's response to my post regarding the Ark possibly being in Utah.
http://www.greaterthings.com/Word-Number/Ark/

I'm posting it along with other feedback to that page.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Mansfield" <jitschak70@...>
To: <sterlingda@...>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2000 11:10 PM
Subject: The Ark


Sterling,

I just read your posts concerning the Ark. (Anything I post,
by the way, please feel free to use. Whatever I put out on the
Net is free for whoever wants to use it. This sharing of know-
ledge is an amazing thing.)

There are many synchronicites that are very curious. For
instance, I have found the names of the tribes concealed in the
names of the 22 states west of the Mississippi, and the names of
the 22 letters of the Hebrew Alphabet alluded to in the names of
the states as well. The strange thing to me is that IDAHo-UtAH
contain IUDAH for Judah. Whereas MISSouRI-IowA contain letters
which spell SAMARIA. (WASHington-OREgon, ASHER; ColorADo-Wyom-
inG, GAD; etc.) They follow a 9/6 pattern. In other words, the
two states combining, with some individual states, numerologically
follow this sequence of 9/6. The borders of the Promised Land are
supposed to be the River of Egypt and the Euphrates. If you turn
a map of the Old World upside down and lay it over the New World,
match the Nile with the Mississippi and the Euphrates with the
Rio Grande and you will see they fit quite well. The Lord says
in Isaiah He will "turn the world upside down." So, west of the
Mississippi (corresponding with the Nile) and north of the Rio
Grande (corresponding to the Euphrates) there are these 22 states.

Why is it that Judah corresponds with Idaho-Utah? The best
I can figure it is that is where the New Jerusalem is to be placed
since Jerusalem is in Judah. Missouri--Iowa would then be the place
of Shiloh, the capitol of Samaria. What are Ephraimites, then,
doing in Judah? That is a question I do not have the answer to at
the moment.

But, getting back to the question of the location of the Ark,
I have reason to believe it is currently 17 feet under the earth
in a location in Texas. It may end up in Utah, if that is where
the New Jerusalem is to be located. But I believe Ammaron placed
it in the Hill Shim, near the city of Angola. There is an encryp-
tion in Jeremiah that appears to give the exact location, at least
within a lot size within a city block. I could be way off base.
My reading of the code is not fool proof. But I have found two
artifacts using the Code. Neither can be identified as to date or
what they are exactly. So I am going to experiment some more be-
fore I commit myself. Also, the block where I have tentatively
located the Ark is on private property. There is a house there and
I would assume if there is enough reason to believe the Ark is there,
the property would have to be purchased. Also, we would have to
find real Cohens to handle the Ark. Of late it has been proven that
Cohens have a certain DNA that others do not have. I would say that
is reason enough that none of us should even draw near the thing if
we are not true Cohens. Even the Cohens would have to be ritually
purified. A blood test can be done to check for the Cohen DNA.

There are more unanswered questions that answered ones, of
course, and your using different modes of "synchronicity" to find
clues is good. It is a Kabbalistic technique. The connection of
Lehi with the Ark in the Torah Code is undeniable. There had to
be a very good reason for him to leave Jerusalem because everyone
else was being told not to resist the king of Babylon, that the
exile was God's will and those who did not resist would fare well.
To save the Ark, maintain the original solar calendar, and go to
the Antedeluvian starting place where the gathering would be in
the last days, were some of the reasons for Lehi leaving, I am
beginning to think. There is a lot more to this, so we have to
keep on looking, right? Dean.