![]() ![]() At the Nutty Putty Cave, the equation went like this: John Jones needed and wanted to be saved and there were those who desperately wanted to save him but tragically, in the end, they were unable. Spiritually, there is One who is not only wanting to save you, He can save you – but He won’t do it against your own free will. Have you ever called out to be rescued? “Everyone who calls on the Name of the Lord will be saved.” (Romans 10:13)Ĥ. Spiritually, do you want to be rescued from the cave and trap of your sins or are you contented to live in your current ‘separated’ condition? John Jones wanted to be rescued. ![]() Are your choices leading you closer to the truth and to God or further from the good news of Jesus Christ?ģ. Spiritually, people make choices that lead them further from safety into zones of greater danger. Your #1 NEED is to be freed from your sins, as sin will keep you away from God in this life and out of Heaven forever.Ģ. Another relevant term is: WITHOUT STRENGTH or HELPLESS (Romans 5:6). Romans 3:23 says: “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” One of the Bible terms for your condition is: LOST (Luke 19:10). “The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast (tight) in the cords of his sin.” (Proverbs 5:22) Isaiah said our sins separate us from God and form an insurmountable barrier between us and God. 6 Fatal accident and closure On November 24, 2009, a man named John Edward Jones (Janu November 25, 2009) became stuck and subsequently died in the cave after being trapped inside for 28 hours. Spiritually, have you faced the fact that you are trapped in the dark crevice of your sins? The Bible teaches that we are trapped in our sins. You can search and make online donations to the John Jones Memorial Fund.įour Spiritual Life Lessons from this story:ġ. Emily is expecting their second child in June 2010. ![]() You can remember Emily (his wife) and daughter Elizabeth and the rest of the family in your prayers. It is now the final resting place of a young man who was just starting his life. The authorities, after discussing it with the Jones family, have decided to seal the cave forever. They still feel like there is work left to be done, that they didn’t bring closure to the Jones family.” He figured it was the most difficult rescue that he had worked on in 30 years. Tom Hodgson said: “It isn’t in our makeup to leave anything undone. The 137 rescuers were traumatized by their inability to save John Edward Jones. After 27 hours of trying to rescue the young husband and father, he was pronounced dead at 11:57 PM Wednesday evening. The rescuers lowered a stethoscope but there was no pulse. After relaying some messages to his family above, things became very quiet. The pulley system anchored in the ceiling broke loose and John Jones slipped back into the crevice head first again. ![]() They gave him water and food but the apparent freedom only lasted for 30 minutes. At one point during the 27-hour operation, with ropes around his feet, they pulled him free of that tight crevice. A pulley was anchored to the ceiling of the cave. The team was able to get very close to Jones and stay very close to him for many hours as they performed their rescue maneuvers. Over 130 people were involved in the rescue operation. Read the full story by logging in or becoming a member of StrangeOutdoors.The rescue team arrived with their equipment. Within days, Nutty Putty Cave was sealed with concrete forever as a memorial to John Jones. They tried desperately to get him out of the position he was wedged in. John eventually died on the evening of November 25, 2009, stuck upside down, in the narrow passage from heart failure after a huge rescue effort by over 100 volunteers. It was to be a fatal crawl in the deepest part of the cave and one that led to one of the most shocking and disturbing deaths imaginable. When they got into Nutty Putty, John made the unfortunate decision to split up and explore an un-mapped route within the cave system. The cave is west of Utah Lake and about 55 miles from Salt Lake City. So John and Josh and several friends headed to Nutty Putty Cave at around 8 pm on Tuesday, November 24, 2009. He suggested that they head out there for a bit of spelunking to relive their childhood experiences. They were picked up by Josh, who told John that the Nutty Putty Cave had been re-opened for six months, after a long closure due to safety and erosion concerns. John, 26, his wife Emily, and daughter Lizzie arrived in Utah to see family over the Thanksgiving weekend in 2009 at their parents’ Stansbury Park home. The recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems is known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing or just caving elsewhere in the world. When John Edward Jones was a kid, he often explored cave systems with his father, Leon, and his brother, Josh, in Utah. ![]()
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