Jim Bakker Show - Why Are The Dead Sea Scrolls Important | The Jim Bakker Show
Aired: 2021-12-31
Duration: 02:33


=== Dead Sea Scrolls Insights (02:18) ===

[00:00:00]  And what you're telling us is the word is rooted like in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
[00:00:09]  Goes way back.
[00:00:10]  Oh, yeah.
[00:00:11]  Yeah, it goes way back.
[00:00:12]  And so the Dead Sea Scrolls help fill in those blanks from the Bible.
[00:00:16]  You know, we might have questions.
[00:00:17]  The Bible doesn't tell us everything.
[00:00:19]  If it did, it would be a book so large nobody would have time to read it in a lifetime.
[00:00:22]  You know, we have a hard enough time just reading the Bibles that we have as it is.
[00:00:26]  So any extra stuff would make that a little bit more difficult.
[00:00:29]  But the Dead Sea Scrolls, for people who are interested in it, it doesn't change anything to the Bible.
[00:00:34]  It doesn't give you any kind of secret esoteric knowledge about salvation or anything like that.
[00:00:40]  It just adds context to what the Bible's already saying, and it helps us understand and interpret it a little better.
[00:00:47]  Now, we talked about Esther not being the book of Esther.
[00:00:54]  In the caves, were found all the Old Testament.
[00:00:57]  Is that right?
[00:00:58]  Yeah, except for Esther.
[00:00:59]  Except for Esther, correct?
[00:01:01]  Probably a male chauvinist or something.
[00:01:04]  Didn't think women should talk in church.
[00:01:08]  Well, I don't know.
[00:01:09]  Do you have any other thought on that?
[00:01:11]  Well, yeah, actually, they had the entire Old Testament.
[00:01:14]  There are things that talk about the Persian period, just not the Book of Esther.
[00:01:19]  And most of the scrolls are fragmented.
[00:01:21]  So we're lucky to have pieces of some of them.
[00:01:24]  So it's just missing in the collection, that's all.
[00:01:27]  And there's actually scrolls that talk about the fact that the canon is classified.
[00:01:30]  I wish we had some pictures of the scrolls.
[00:01:33]  The pieces.
[00:01:35]  They've pieced things together.
[00:01:37]  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.
[00:01:53]  Do you believe the word totally?
[00:01:55]  Oh, absolutely.
[00:01:56]  Old and New Testament.
[00:01:58]  Amen.
[00:01:59]  So, Ken, what do the Dead Sea Scrolls say about the Messiah?

=== Age of Grace Begins (00:30) ===

[00:02:05]  Very interesting.
[00:02:06]  As a Christian, you're going to understand and interpret the Old Testament from the New Testament.
[00:02:11]  They interpret it from the patriarchal writings that basically say the same thing.
[00:02:16]  The Messiah is God incarnate.
[00:02:18]  He comes to earth for the purpose of dying for our sins, not fixing a war.
[00:02:23]  And they even give the date on when the Messiah is supposed to come.
[00:02:26]  After he does this, the following Pentecost begins what's called the age of grace, and major changes happen.