Fields Of The Wood
Fields of the Wood is a religious park of more than 200 acres in Cherokee County, North Carolina, owned by the Church of God of Prophecy. It is best known for its 300-foot-wide, mountainside representation of the Ten Commandments. History Fields of the Wood was the creation of A. J. Tomlinson (1865-1943), ultimate founder of the several Pentecostalism, Pentecostal Holiness denominations called the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), Church of God, five of which have headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee. In 1940, Tomlinson, as head of the Church of God of Prophecy, returned to the area to memorialize the place where he said God had revealed to him the true church in 1903—he having realized that in the same year he had founded the Church in the extreme southwestern county of North Carolina, the Wright Brothers had made their first successful flight in the extreme far eastern part of the state. Tomlinson believed that the same chapter in the Book of Isaiah had predicted both. Tom ...
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