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RABBIT TRAIL FROM NYOBS 07 - ESCHATOLOGY

DEAD SEA SCROLLS – RABBIT TRAIL

• The Damascus Testament: Addressing those who God foreknew would reject the Messiah:  “And they kept NOT the commandment of their maker until His wrath was kindled against them”. – “For God chose them NOT from the beginning of the world and before they were formed He knew their works; and He abhorred their generation from old, and hid His face from their land till they were consumed”.  Sounds like Devine Election/ predestination to me, just saying.
• Taxo- Moses speaking – “Receive thou the writing that you may know how to preserve the books which I shall deliver unto thee.  And you shall set these in order and anoint them with toil of cedar and put them away in earthen vessels in the place which He made from the beginning of the creation of the world, that His Name should be called upon until the day of repentance in the visitation wherewith the Lord shall visit them in the Consummation of the End of the Days”.
• The Jeremiah letter- Jeremiah came and found a cavern in the rock, and there he brought in the Tabernacle, and the Ark, and the Alter of Incense; and he made fast the door – “Yea, and the place shall be unknown until God gather the people again together, and mercy come; and then shall the Lord disclose these things” –
• Habakkuk Commentary -“For the vision (the end time) is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak and not lie”- Gods secrets are wonderful, “but if it delays, wait for it:  for it will surly come, and will not tarry”.  The times of God will come in due time.

• The Dead Sea Scrolls are the final reference to the Ark of the Covenant and its location.  Other writing not found in the Bible suggest that Solomon, concerned about an invading army, built a replica of the Ark of the Covenant for protection and that the real Ark was sent to Ethiopia for safe keeping with his son that he fathered with the Queen of Sheba and is under guard there even today awaiting its return.

2 Chron 8:11

11 And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark of the LORD hath come. KJV

2 Chron 35:3

3 And said unto the Levites that taught all Israel, which were holy unto the LORD, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon the son of David king of Israel did build; it shall not be a burden upon your shoulders: serve now the LORD your God, and his people Israel, KJV

Isa 18:1

18:1 Woe to the land shadowing with wings, which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia KJV

Isa 18:3

3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth, see ye, when he lifts up an ensign on the mountains; and when he blows a trumpet, hear ye. KJV

Isa 18:7

7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. KJV

• There is an allusion that the Ark of the Covenant, referred to as God’s Glory and His Banner, will be returned to the Temple.  It will be returned before the invasion by Russia.

Ezek 39:21-23

21 "I will display my glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the punishment I inflict and the hand I lay upon them.

22 From that day forward the house of Israel will know that I am the LORD their God. NIV

Jer 4:6

6 Set up the “standard” toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction. KJV