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Fulfilled Prophecy Revealed
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| Ken, was the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls predicted in Scripture, do you think? | |
| Yeah, I believe so. | |
| It's in Isaiah chapter 29. | |
| The church fathers and the Essenes basically said Israel would be ousted of their land twice and come back twice. | |
| And in Isaiah 29, it talks about Israel coming back for the second time, and there's immediately a war when that happens. | |
| And at that same time, the old ones would begin to speak out of the dust of the earth. | |
| And Church Father Irenaeus actually said that when Israel comes back, then more of the prophecies would begin to be fulfilled, and everybody will understand, and knowledge will increase, and people will run to and fro. | |
| Well, if you put those together, it's pretty interesting that in the last 20, 30 years, everyone's been running to and fro to find more scrolls, fill in the gaps. | |
| So we're there in that day now. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| According to the early church and according to the Dead Sea Scrolls. | |
| Josh, in your book, The Lost Prophecies of Qumran, you mentioned God's signature on inspired texts. | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| I want to know, what is God's signature? | |
| Yeah, there's actually a few of them. | |
| And I deal with this right in the beginning of the book because the question comes up, should the Dead Sea Scrolls be added to Scripture? | |
| And there's, you know, opinions are split on that. | |
| My personal opinion is they add a lot of context. | |
| I don't know about inspired, maybe inspired for the time, because one of the signatures that I write about in the book is fulfilled prophecy. | |
| So we know that biblical books, you know, they're from God because they tell the future. | |
| There's fulfilled prophecy. | |
| But actually, some of the Dead Sea Scrolls have fulfilled prophecy as well. | |
| But we don't find them in canon. | |
| So I think that they were for that time. | |
| But we can look back on that now and get more of a sense of. | |
| I'm going to ask you a terrible question. | |
| Oh, sure. | |
| What makes the canon the last word? | |
| You know what I'm saying? | |
| Why is something not allowed in the canon? | |
| Well, you know what we're doing? | |
| I'm going to challenge you because I believe, I know you well enough that you know these scrolls are from God. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Yeah, they're definitely from God. | |
| Yeah, and the Dead Sea Scrolls, they had fulfilled prophecy. | |
| The Pharisees were... | |
| Are you worried about evangelicals coming after you if you get too broad? | |
| No. | |
| No. | |