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Dead Sea Scrolls Insights
00:02:18
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| And what you're telling us is the word is rooted like in the Dead Sea Scrolls. | |
| Goes way back. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Yeah, it goes way back. | |
| And so the Dead Sea Scrolls help fill in those blanks from the Bible. | |
| You know, we might have questions. | |
| The Bible doesn't tell us everything. | |
| If it did, it would be a book so large nobody would have time to read it in a lifetime. | |
| You know, we have a hard enough time just reading the Bibles that we have as it is. | |
| So any extra stuff would make that a little bit more difficult. | |
| But the Dead Sea Scrolls, for people who are interested in it, it doesn't change anything to the Bible. | |
| It doesn't give you any kind of secret esoteric knowledge about salvation or anything like that. | |
| It just adds context to what the Bible's already saying, and it helps us understand and interpret it a little better. | |
| Now, we talked about Esther not being the book of Esther. | |
| In the caves, were found all the Old Testament. | |
| Is that right? | |
| Yeah, except for Esther. | |
| Except for Esther, correct? | |
| Probably a male chauvinist or something. | |
| Didn't think women should talk in church. | |
| Well, I don't know. | |
| Do you have any other thought on that? | |
| Well, yeah, actually, they had the entire Old Testament. | |
| There are things that talk about the Persian period, just not the Book of Esther. | |
| And most of the scrolls are fragmented. | |
| So we're lucky to have pieces of some of them. | |
| So it's just missing in the collection, that's all. | |
| And there's actually scrolls that talk about the fact that the canon is classified. | |
| I wish we had some pictures of the scrolls. | |
| The pieces. | |
| They've pieced things together. | |
| They're digging down and finding the miracle is that all of this, all the basically Old Testament is there, which I don't know, but I'm concerned about people believing the word. | |
| Do you believe the word totally? | |
| Oh, absolutely. | |
| Old and New Testament. | |
| Amen. | |
| So, Ken, what do the Dead Sea Scrolls say about the Messiah? | |
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Age of Grace Begins
00:00:30
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| Very interesting. | |
| As a Christian, you're going to understand and interpret the Old Testament from the New Testament. | |
| They interpret it from the patriarchal writings that basically say the same thing. | |
| The Messiah is God incarnate. | |
| He comes to earth for the purpose of dying for our sins, not fixing a war. | |
| And they even give the date on when the Messiah is supposed to come. | |
| After he does this, the following Pentecost begins what's called the age of grace, and major changes happen. | |