Make 2014 a year of Sharing
“He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with
suffering.” – Isaiah 53:3a
He was running through
the hills as any young boy would do in that day. He and his cousin were climbing and rough
housing, throwing stones at the small stray goats on the ledge above him and
watching as they scampered over the hill.
Being raised in the hills of Southern Israel, he was quite familiar with
the footings and careful where he placed his foot as he moved about. Looking over the edge of the hill, he sees
another goat, picking up a stone, he tosses it in that direction. He is immediately surprised when he hears a
crashing noise. A stone upon other rock
or sand would not crash, and if he had hit the goat it would have been a
thump. As the two boys climbed over the
edge of the hill, they discovered a cave in the side of the cliff.
Looking down into the cave they see in the shadows a broken vessel, laying amongst a half dozen other vessels (each standing upright). Scaling down into the cave, the boys retrieve several scrolls, written upon animal hide and papyrus, written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. They return to their camp in the lower lands with their treasures. What they didn’t realize in 1947, was that they held in their hands, the “Great Isaiah Scroll”, which is the complete written word of God as captured in Isaiah 53. It has been carbon dated by multiple experts to be from the era 200 – 300 years BC. The single oldest fully complete manuscript found in all of time. Over the next several years segments from every Old Testament book of the bible (with the exception of Esther) have been discovered in the caves around the Dead Sea city of Qumran.
The Dead Sea Scrolls have provided a point of reference to the authenticity of the Old Testament. By looking more closely at the writings though, we find the prophetic messages of Isaiah, Daniel, Jeremiah, Zachariah and Malachi amongst others. These writings that describe in such detail the life that Jesus Christ would live some 400 years later, were written as if they were a newspaper article post tense. God’s Holy scriptures were captured on scrolls, written with a simple feather quill, and provided to the Jewish population of the time in order to prepare them for the coming Messiah. When the Messiah did come, He was not accepted by most for a multitude of reasons.
Today we have God’s Word which clearly tells us about the return of Jesus Christ and the end of times. It’s not a story, it is prophetic and intended to prepare us for these days. If you are looking at the Bible as just another novel on the bookshelf, I implore you to take another look. History has been played out through the pages and the future will play out just as God has told us through Revelations. There is no better means of encouragement when we look at the news of this day and age, than to know that our Savior is returning one day and we will be taken home.
Looking down into the cave they see in the shadows a broken vessel, laying amongst a half dozen other vessels (each standing upright). Scaling down into the cave, the boys retrieve several scrolls, written upon animal hide and papyrus, written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek. They return to their camp in the lower lands with their treasures. What they didn’t realize in 1947, was that they held in their hands, the “Great Isaiah Scroll”, which is the complete written word of God as captured in Isaiah 53. It has been carbon dated by multiple experts to be from the era 200 – 300 years BC. The single oldest fully complete manuscript found in all of time. Over the next several years segments from every Old Testament book of the bible (with the exception of Esther) have been discovered in the caves around the Dead Sea city of Qumran.
The Dead Sea Scrolls have provided a point of reference to the authenticity of the Old Testament. By looking more closely at the writings though, we find the prophetic messages of Isaiah, Daniel, Jeremiah, Zachariah and Malachi amongst others. These writings that describe in such detail the life that Jesus Christ would live some 400 years later, were written as if they were a newspaper article post tense. God’s Holy scriptures were captured on scrolls, written with a simple feather quill, and provided to the Jewish population of the time in order to prepare them for the coming Messiah. When the Messiah did come, He was not accepted by most for a multitude of reasons.
Today we have God’s Word which clearly tells us about the return of Jesus Christ and the end of times. It’s not a story, it is prophetic and intended to prepare us for these days. If you are looking at the Bible as just another novel on the bookshelf, I implore you to take another look. History has been played out through the pages and the future will play out just as God has told us through Revelations. There is no better means of encouragement when we look at the news of this day and age, than to know that our Savior is returning one day and we will be taken home.
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