Chapter 20 | Examining Extra-Biblical
Texts Used in this Book
The entire modern Old Testament canon was found in Qumran with the exception of the Book of Esther. For many of these books, these are the oldest copies found and some were complete such as the 24foot long Isaiah Scroll. After over 70 years, we still know little about this community yet the archaeology, writings of the community and the large compound found there confirm these were the Aaronic Levite Priests, the sons of Zadok, who had been exiled to the Wilderness of Judaea by the Hasmoneans and Pharisees. They were the Temple High Priests replaced by a new unbiblical order. However, today, the world allows the Pharisees to teach us about this community. No wonder we know so little. This was the base of operations for John the Baptist and his disciples where he baptized Jesus(Yahusha) and was visited by Him later privately. It is among the most well-documented New Testament communities on record and the church does not even know because it is too busy defending a control narrative that the other books found with the Old Testament are somehow cursed when Jesus(Yahusha) and John the Baptist set this library as a time capsule. In 1947, the voice in the wilderness cried out yet again. Did you hear it? In this book, we have used three principal resources outside of the modern canon of the Bible – the Books of Jubilees, 2 Esdras and Enoch 1. Some may not be familiar and some may vehemently object not because they have read these books for themselves and tested them likely, but because they have heard they are scary. We understand as we used to proclaim the same things until we began following the edict to “prove all things.” Remember, we are using these for geographic and historic purposes mainly. However, having tested them far beyond such, we wish to address things you should know and may not have learned in seminary nor from churches. We did not. 327
