Understanding

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Understanding The Dead Sea Scrolls
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Dead Sea
The Scrolls Spring 1947
caves "jars filled with Manuscripts"
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Early Christian Writings "called Testimonia"
The Qumran site and the Dead Sea.
                                             

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Isaiah Pesher " A Kind of Commentary
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Rule of the Congregation
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Copper Scroll
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Qohelet
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Facts About The Bible

• The dead sea scrolls were not the original
  scrolls of what make up the Bible today
• Some of the actual parts of the original scrolls
  (copies were found such as the Book of Isaiah)
• They do offer proof that writings did support
  the fact that the other scrolls existed long
  before these were found and they supported the
  former documents

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Ancient Writings

• Stone, clay, wood, pottery, leather and Papyrus
  were found with ancient writings
• Leather (animal skins) appear to have been the
  material mainly used by the Hebrews for the Old
  Testament and papyrus (plant material) used for
  the first writings of the New Testament with the
  average roll being about 30 ft long and 9 to 10
  inches wide. At first it was read on the ground
  and then about 600 years later books for formed.
• For about 1000 years parchment was used in
  making of some of the first copies of the NT

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First Person Commanded to Write

• Moses (1500 BC) was the first person mentioned
  to write down Gods Commands but wrote about
  things many thousands of years prior to his
  birth.
• Ex 1714 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write
  this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in
  the ears of Joshua for I will utterly put out
  the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
• Ex 244 And Moses wrote all the words of the
  Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and
  builded an altar under the hill, and twelve
  pillars, according to the twelve tribes of
  Israel.
• Ex 3427 And the Lord said unto Moses, Write
  thou these words for after the tenor of these
  words I have made a covenant with thee and with
  Israel

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First Person Commanded to Write

• Num 332 And Moses wrote their goings out
  according to their journeys by the commandment of
  the Lord and these are their journeys according
  to their goings out.
• Deut 3124-26 And it came to pass, when Moses had
  made an end of writing the words of this law in a
  book, until they were finished, 25 That Moses
  commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the
  covenant of the Lord, saying, 26 Take this book
  of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of
  the covenant of the Lord your God, that it may be
  there for a witness against thee.

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The Bible Mentions Others

• Josh 2426 And Joshua wrote these words in the
  book of the law of God, and took a great stone,
  and set it up there under an oak, that was by the
  sanctuary of the Lord.
• 1 Sam 1025 Then Samuel told the people the
  manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book,
  and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel sent
  all the people away, every man to his house.
• Jer 362 Take thee a roll of a book, and write
  therein all the words that I have spoken unto
  thee against Israel, and against Judah, and
  against all the nations, from the day I spake
  unto thee, from the days of Josiah, even unto
  this day.

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New Testament

• Gradually penned by inspired writers over 50
  years from 50 to 100 A D some to churches and
  some to individuals.
• 1 Thess 527 I charge you by the Lord that
  this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.
• 1 Peter 411 If any man speak, let him speak
  as the oracles of God if any man minister, let
  him do it as of the ability which God giveth
  that God in all things may be glorified through
  Jesus Christ, to whom be praise and dominion for
  ever and ever.
• 1 Cor 46 And these things, brethren, I have in
  a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for
  your sakes that ye might learn in us not to
  think of men above that which is written, that no
  one of you be puffed up for one against another.
• 1 Cor 1437 If any man think himself to be a
  prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that
  the things that I write unto you are the
  commandments of the Lord.

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Invaluable to Determine Truth

• Acts 151-2 And certain men which came down from
  Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye
  be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye
  cannot be saved. 2 When therefore Paul and
  Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation
  with them, they determined that Paul and
  Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up
  to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about
  this question.
• Acts 154-6 And when they were come to
  Jerusalem, they were received of the church, and
  of the apostles and elders, and they declared all
  things that God had done with them. 5 But there
  rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees
  which believed, saying, That it was needful to
  circumcise them, and to command them to keep the
  law of Moses.6 And the apostles and elders came
  together for to consider of this matter.

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Invaluable to Determine Truth

• Acts 157-17 And when there had been much
  disputing, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Men
  and brethren, ye know how that a good while ago
  God made choice among us, that the Gentiles by my
  mouth should hear the word of the gospel, and
  believe. 8 And God, which knoweth the hearts,
  bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost,
  even as he did unto us 9 And put no difference
  between us and them, purifying their hearts by
  faith. 10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put
  a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which
  neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
• 11 But we believe that through the grace of the
  Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as
  they. 12 Then all the multitude kept silence,
  and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul, declaring
  what miracles and wonders God had wrought among
  the Gentiles by them. 13 And after they had
  held their peace, James answered, saying, Men and
  brethren, hearken unto me
• 14 Simeon hath declared how God at the first did
  visit the Gentiles, to take out of them a people
  for his name. 15 And to this agree the words of
  the prophets as it is written, 16 After this I
  will return, and will build again the tabernacle
  of David, which is fallen down and I will build
  again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up
  17 That the residue of men might seek after the
  Lord, and all the Gentiles, upon whom my name is
  called, saith the Lord, who doeth all these
  things.

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Invaluable to Determine Truth

• Acts 1525-31 It seemed good unto us, being
  assembled with one accord, to send chosen men
  unto you with our beloved Barnabas and Paul, 26
  Men that have hazarded their lives for the name
  of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who
  shall also tell you the same things by mouth.
  28 For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to
  us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these
  necessary things 29 That ye abstain from meats
  offered to idols, and from blood, and from things
  strangled, and from fornication from which if ye
  keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
  
• 30 So when they were dismissed, they came to
  Antioch and when they had gathered the multitude
  together, they delivered the epistle31 Which
  when they had read, they rejoiced for the
  consolation.

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All Matters Life Godliness

• 2 Peter 13 According as his divine power hath
  given unto us all things that pertain unto life
  and godliness, through the knowledge of him that
  hath called us to glory and virtue
• Not words of men
• 1 Thess 213 For this cause also thank we God
  without ceasing, because, when ye received the
  word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it
  not as the word of men, but as it is in truth,
  the word of God, which effectually worketh also
  in you that believe.

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It was wisely said . . . . . .

• Hebrew scriptures of old spoke of the NT in
  prophecy
• The NT is the Hebrew scriptures fulfilled
• Jer 3131-34 Behold, the days come, saith the
  Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the
  house of Israel, and with the house of Judah 32
  Not according to the covenant that I made with
  their fathers in the day that I took them by the
  hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt
  which my covenant they brake, although I was an
  husband unto them, saith the Lord
• 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will
  make with the house of Israel After those days,
  saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward
  parts, and write it in their hearts and will be
  their God, and they shall be my people.34 And
  they shall teach no more every man his neighbour,
  and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord
  for they shall all know me, from the least of
  them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord
  for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will
  remember their sin no more.

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Abraham Lincoln Once Said . . .

• I believe the Bible is the best gift God has
  ever given to man. All the good from the Savior
  of the world is communicated to us through this
  book.