TEMPLE PRIEST ASSOCIATIONS IN THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS

The Biblical keepers of scripture and the Temple marginalized, mischaracterized, and hidden in fraud!

SONS OF ZADOK = 20 times

From the days of King Solomon, these are the Temple Priests. They are Levites and sons of Aaron both. However, they were given charge of the Temple worship and are the only Biblical keepers of scripture to the First Century. They never call themselves Essenes but they identify themselves over 100 times and any scholar confusing the two is no scholar. They remained holy according to Ezekiel:

Ezekiel 48:11 KJV

It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

They remained faithful when exiled from the Temple to Qumran and they will stand again in the End Times.

“The sons of Zadok are the elect of Israel, the men called by name who shall stand at the end of days.”

–The Damascus Document, p. 132 [22]

Scripture was found in their library meaning this was Bible canon kept by the Sons of Zadok as was Biblical tradition. Essenes are never mentioned in scripture and never a Biblical tribe, nor found in or near Qumran. That is blatant fraud!

Moses in Deuteronomy 31:25-26 KJV (Cf. Jubilees 45:16)

That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, saying, 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.

SONS OF AARON = 16 times

LEVITES = 71 times

SONS OF LEVI = 5 times

SONS OF LIGHT = 27 times

TEACHER OF RIGHTEOUSNESS = 53 times

“...this concerns the Wicked Priest who pursued the Teacher of Righteousness to the house of his exile...”

–COMMENTARY ON HABAKKUK, p. 515 [22]

“...the city is Jerusalem where the Wicked Priest committed abominable deeds and defiled the Temple of Elohim. The violence done to the land...”

–COMMENTARY ON HABAKKUK, p. 515 [22]

“Words of blessing. The M[aster shall bless] the sons of Zadok the Priests, whom Elohim has chosen to confirm His Covenant for [ever]”

– The Blessing of the High Priest, p.388 [22]

“When Elohim engenders (the Priest-) Messiah, he shall come with them [at] the head of the whole congregation of Israel with all [his brethren, the sons] of Aaron the Priests” – The Messianic Rule, p.161 [22]

*From a search of “The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English” by Geza Vermes [22]. Some are his mentions in commentary but that further affirms he knew who these were and still ignorantly concluded in fraud that these were Essenes with 0 mentions, 0 archaeology and Pliny indisputably placing them in Ein Gedi confirmed in archaeology. 0 =

ESSENES mentioned

When groups of scholars make themselves so stupid as to say this group were Essenes, you know they are only offering propaganda.