Dead Sea Scrolls Bible Study #6: Q&A on Magic, Purity, Eschatology, Zionism, & the Essene Messiah
Channel: Dead Sea Scrolls Religion
Date: 2015-11-06

In this study, I discuss:

1.The Urim and Thummim's purpose and the distinction between magic, miracles, and science.

2.I show from Scripture examples of the righteous communicating with the dead (Jeremiah in 2 Maccabees and the Transfiguration in the Gospels).

3.The story of Noah's birth when Methuselah calls to Enoch for help.

4.Laws about clothing in Leviticus and how to be righteous in our  clothing in our modern world.

5.Why I believe the Messiah will not be coming back until around 2170 AD. I explain how so many prophecies still are unfulfilled and therefore the end cannot come until these things happen first.

6.I go through the Syriac Apocalypse of Daniel and I read the prophecies which I believe prove that we are still a long ways away from the time of the Messiah coming back.

7.I explain why we must conclude that the Messiah was an Essene. In both in the DSS and the NT (includes the NT of the Ethiopian Bible), we see: 3 year conversion process. Mandatory communism. Anti-rich and sell everything you have. Similar canon/bible as Scripture. Polygyny is a sin and is adultery. It is a sin to marry your niece. Holy feast of pure bread. Extra holy days. Another priesthood and their own sacrifices outside of the Jerusalem worship. 

8.Why I support Israel and the Scriptural principles that Zionism follows.

9.Why we should fast before baptism.

10.Why we must conclude that the Messiah and the Apostles accepted the extra books of the Apocrypha and "Pseudepigrapha" with full authority equivalent to the regular Bible and divinely inspired.