Matthew 16:18 - a Puzzle Cache

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Hidden On: 18 Jun 2004
Waypoint (Landmark): N017D1
Open Cache:  Non-commercial use only
Cache type:  Normal
Cache size:   Normal

Difficulty:  (easy)
Terrain:  (moderate)

Misc:

Comments:
Parking may be tight if it is Sunday morning or if there is a wedding or a funeral going on. On the other hand, if the buildings are open, you will have access to water and restrooms.

You will not find the cache at these coordinates! You may have guessed it's at a church, but there are at least five churches within a half-mile of the coordinates. You'll have to solve the puzzle below to find the cache.

The coordinates of the ammobox are:

(Although we chose only fairly secular verses from the Old Testament, that either offered an insight into the sport of geocaching or referred directly to the finding of this cache, we recognize that some people may not be comfortable with using a bible to solve this puzzle. If you are offended or uncomfortable, please read no further, and take this cache off your hunt list.)

Puzzle hint: if the chapter or verse is a single digit number, that will be indicated by a single letter to find; if it is a double digit number, there will be two letters, and so on. A pair of letters does not indicate that both digits in the number will be the same (ex. "MM" might indicate either "22" or "97".)

Another hint: "II" is a double digit number, and the first digit is the last number of the latitude's coordinates while the second digit is the first number of the longitude's coordinates.

WARNING: DO NOT PARK along the busy, shoulderless road to the east of the final coordinates! There is plenty of safe parking northwest of the final coordinates.The property managers have given permission for this cache to be placed, so don't worry about the owners seeing you walk to the cache. It IS a busy site with lots of drive-by traffic, though, so try not to reveal the cache's location to geomuggles who might plunder it.

The original trade goods follow a non-evangelical, non-denominational, positive thinking/good wishes sort of theme, and we ask that people do not leave items of a proselytizing nature.

(Here, in response to a reader's request, we include the meaning of the word, proselytize:

1 : to induce someone to convert to one's faith
2 : to recruit someone to join one's party, institution, or cause.)

While this puzzle cache requires finding clues in a book that is used as a reference document by several organized religions, it is not the intent of this cache or the web site to promote any particular belief system or viewpoint.

The clergy and the churchwardens have given their permission for the cache to be placed. The mowing crew says to bring leather work gloves and watch out for copperheads (there's a hint for you: it is not a church of snake-handlers!) We placed the cache in an area that collects wind-blown trash, so some CITO (Cache In, Trash Out work) would be nice.

This cache may also be logged as a Geocaching.com find.

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This cache was placed by two Tulsa Area Geocachers

Clues:    decode

• Where to begin? 
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• Any more hints? 
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• More help, if you still need it: 
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• Local geocachers: 
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• If all else fails: 
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One of my all time favorite caches. Found back on 12/13/04.

I always enjoy that which is related to our Bible. Fun Search and interesting clues

I did not see the part about watching out for snakes when I went to get this cache. If I had, I probably never would have gotten this one. It had fallen way down in a hole and I had to lay on the ground and blindly reach my arm in to fetch it out.