Jonathan Whitcomb
Through My Savior
Verse 3
Now in the morning of shadow waning,
Like when the light of morning filled a tomb,
Grant us forgiveness, both giving, gaining;
Fill us with light: Dispel avenging gloom.
Once in a garden the blood was dropping;
Once on a cross the voice of mercy said:
“Oh, my Father, forgive my brother;
I forgive him with the blood I shed.”
Verse 4
Through thine Anointed we seek forgiveness,
Grasping thy mercy, casting off our sin,
Through our election of his atonement:
Touching Perfection, cleansing us within.
Though opposition may feign to hinder,
Like thine Anointed we begin to be.
Oh, my Father, I now remember
My Redeemer gave his life for me.
Through my Savior I come to thee.
“Through my Savior” Copyright 2011 Jonathan Whitcomb
(but may be used for noncommercial home and church use)
(Web site) copyright 2011-2019 Jonathan David Whitcomb
Jonathan Whitcomb introduced the word “adahmeve” into the
English language on June 28, 2013, soon after a United States
Supreme Court decision concerning marriage in California.
Whitcombs, late 20th century
With James Greene in Long Beach, 2010
(Whitcomb interviewed the eyewitness
and friend who saw the Marfa Lights)
Fear not the light of unfamiliar hue.
Washing sand at first,
Then penetrating the depths,
It bids a hidden feast emerge at last.
What flies in the night
As it glows?
Bigger than fireflies and bats
Who knows?
Bigger than barn owls
Dark as the crows
But never with feathers
Who knows?
The Ropen
By Jonathan Whitcomb
JW
North-Whitcomb wedding, Salt Lake Temple
(Jonathan & Gladys are on the right of the couple)
Whitcomb with Luke Paina, as they waited for
the ship to take them to Umboi Island (a ropen
expedition in Papua New Guinea, late 2004)
Garth Guessman on a MonsterQuest episode
(Whitcomb consulted with MonsterQuest as the
producters prepared for their 2009 expedition)
Jonathan Whitcomb videotaping at the
Montgomery-Whitcomb wedding
photo session, Los Angeles Temple
(Jonathan and Gladys were also married
in the L. A. Temple. The word for the
husband-wife marriage: “adahmeve.”)
By Jonathan David Whitcomb
1971 Pterosaur Sighting in Cuba
From early 2010 through the summer of
2011, Whitcomb had several interviews
with Eskin C. Kuhn (who now lives in
Ohio). Kuhn had observed, in clear day-
light, two long-tailed pterosaurs at close
range, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
In 2011, another eyewitness, the R.N.
Patty Carson, of Southern California,
came forward with her report of a very
similar flying creature seen at the same
military base in Cuba, but in 1965.
Whitcomb was then informed of two
more eyewitnesses of the apparent
pterosaur called “Gitmo pterosaur.”
Sketch by the eyewitness Eskin Kuhn, who many years
later was interviewed, by phone, by Whitcomb
Eskin Kuhn, U.S. Marine, at Guantanamo
Bay, Cuba, around 1971. In February of 2010,
he received a surprise phone call from Jonathan
Whitcomb, who checked the credibility of Kuhn,
confirming to the cryptozoologist that it was a
valid sighting and not any kind of hoax.
Jonathan and Gladys in July of 2003,
soon after celebrating twenty-five
years of adahmeve. They have lived
in Long Beach, California, since
1980, and raised three daughters.
Paul Nation, of Texas, has explored in Papua
New Guinea more than any other cryptozologist
who has searched in those jungles for the flying
creatures that eyewitnesses describe like pterosaurs.
He assisted Whitcomb in preparing for the first 2004
expedition and Whitcomb helped Nation find the
essential funding source that made possible the
historic 2006 expedition on the PNG mainland.
Within days of Paul Nation’s return to the United States, Whitcomb flew to
Texas and interviewed the cryptozoologist, then returned to California with
what may have been the first substantial physical evidence, ever brought back
to the United States, for the bioluminescence of large flying creatures that may
be living pterosaurs. The video footage was analyzed by the missile defense
physicist Clifford Paiva, who concluded that the two glowing objects were
not camera artifacts, not car headlights, not fires, not airplane lights, and not
from any paste-on hoax. (expedition, interview, and analysis: 2006-2007)
Late in 2006, near a remote
village on the mainland of
Papua New Guinea, Paul
Nation videotaped two of
the flying lights that the
natives call “indava.” It
was not the only encounter
that explorers experienced
on that expedition, for the
native Baptist minister
Jacob Kepas, in daylight,
saw one of the giant flying
creatures sleeping high on
a cliff, in that same general
area: near Tawa Village.
Gitmo Pterosaur
of eastern Cuba
The doctrine that little children don’t
need baptism is found clearly in the
Book of Mormon (another testament
of Jesus Christ, alongside the Bible)
Follower of Jesus Christ, husband, father,
grandfather, brother, uncle, cousin, friend,
nonfiction author, musician, composer, poet,
chess teacher, dissenting-scientist, neighbor,
consultant for cryptozoology documentaries
Jonathan and Gladys Whitcomb, Ensign Peak, Utah
“Responding to a strange idea by negatively labeling its advocate—
that can blind us or at least blur the border between truth and error,
even if our concept is better. When in human history has one person
always been wrong? And when one pearl is found in the mud of an
old oyster bed, expect another.” (Introduction, Searching for Ropens
and Finding God, fourth edition)
Albert Starr Spaulding