The Dead Sea Scrolls on the Identity of Mashiach, the Chosen One of God
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Perhaps the prophet is referring unknowingly to Melchizedek here, but much more likely he is projecting his own feelings and emotions upon a God that he reveres but does not fully understand. The Urantia Book teaches us that it is our perceptions of God that change and that God is eternal and unchanging. Our fear evolves through awe, reverence, and appreciation, and finally to love. The Urantia Book tells us that "Jesus did not hesitate to appropriate the better half of a scripture…" and that he "appropriated the positive portion…" Paper All human truth is partial and incomplete.
We must always separate the wheat from the chaff, using both the external facts available and the internal guiding of The Spirit of Truth. Logic and intuition are both necessary and interdependent. The Urantia Book is the stone on which such a philosophy will be built. And so, we proceed, appropriating the best in scripture, as did Jesus himself.
The servant of Isaiah is the end of the age final prophet, the interpreter of the law of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the another and greater John the Baptist of the Urantia Book. He will startle nations and shut the mouths of kings because he will reveal and inform them of their soon to be ill-fated destiny as foretold by The Prophets if they fail to heed their warning. As always, the door will be held open for any that will turn from their way.
God desires man to correct his ways. He does not desire their punishment. However, the innocent must be protected, and poor choices have poor results. Secular humanism assumes that man is capable of building his own world and using his own rules and values. The only problem with this assumption is merely that it is false and is being proven false as we speak. Man not only should want God, but more importantly man needs God and is dependent on Him for everything. This layer of necessity will be laid bare for all to see. Man and God are incomplete without one another.
They are related as parent is to child. Now, Jeremiah asks the Lord: Why are the workers of treachery at ease? The above passages from the Dead Sea Scroll s, describe a group of people who: These individuals match up with what we already know about the elect from prior descriptions.
This group, by many names, is found consistently from among diverse sources of scripture including 1Enoch, Revelation, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Isaiah and Jeremiah among others. In fact, a high percentage of unfulfilled scripture, regarding the end of the age, is about this group and its experiences. Further, we have further scripture interpretation by the Teacher: Dead Sea Scrolls, Vermes. The reference in the first stanza 4Q to "the Priest and members of his party" is to the Messianic final prophet to come and "his party" is the "congregation of the elect. Probably because they reveal the truth about these corrupt leaders.
Further interpretation by the Teacher of Righteousness: DSC This Psalm 6: The divine protection of the elect and righteous, during the messianic period, is described over and over in scripture across many different sources. It has a very high probability of happening.
This is similar to the protection afforded the ancient Israelites by "the Lord" as his servant Moses led them out of Egypt. The end is very much like the beginning in sacred histor y. And he revealed hidden things to their eyes, and opened their ears so that they might hear deep secrets and understand all future things before they befall them.
It would appear that God is going to make available to those who elect God, and all who will listen, the events that will happen before they befall them. This is possibly mediated through His servant, the final prophet, who is said to reveal deep secrets and foretell all that will happen to the elect through the interpretation of the Prophets of Old. The answer to "Why allow evil to triumph? In addition, the prophet is told that justice will be achieved at the end of The Age, after the full harvest is reaped.
Everything has its season, "even if it tarries, wait for it still. Lets look at part of this passage from another source the Septuagint. I think the true flavor of this passage is caught in the Septuagint. Know therefore and understand that from the going forth of the ending of the age. Natural disasters, wars, famine, droughts, military events, and overpopulation are all becoming progressively worse. Will all of these mounting problems be solved by human beings before they reach a crisis? There really are no solid arguments or facts that support such an optimistic thesis?
Are world leaders committed to creating a peaceful, free, and healthy world? The Dead Sea Scrolls in speaking about the "last days" of the messianic period identify a figure they call "the Liar" who comes to power from among the gentiles of Ephraim, whom we have previously identified, generally as Christians and specifically as Americans: Its interpretation concerns the Liar who has led astray many by his lying words so that they chose frivolous things and heeded not the interpreter of knowledge in order to… II they shall perish by the sword and famine and plague.
Teacher of Righteousness The interpreter of knowledge here is the messianic prophet who is also referred to as the interpreter of the law. The people seem to heed "the Liar" and not the interpreter of knowledge. E nds of ages have a leader, character type that personifies deceit, here referred to as "the Liar. If so this would be another indicator of an ending age.
Interpreted, this concerns the wicked of Ephraim and Manasseh, the deceitful leaders who shall seek to lay their hands on the Priest and the men of his Council at the time of trial which shall come upon them. But God will redeem them from out of their hands. Teacher of Righteousness The Priest is another designation for the interpreter of the law, the messianic final prophet.
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The men of his council are the congregation of the elect. But you ask, "By what have we wearied Him? God explains through His prophet exactly what it is that "His people" do that He finds so displeasing. The lack of justice makes "many stumble at your rulings" God says to man. On top of it all, the people show no understanding of what they are doing wrong and "weary" God by excusing and confusing evil for good and asking incredible questions such as: In the second instance, the people project their own failings onto God Himself blaming Him for their own failures, thus washing their hands clean of all responsibility.
And so it is, we so easily deceive ourselves, preferring fantasy to reality. Living honestly and sincerely requires effort, courage, and self-sacrifice. Rather than an escape from reality, the opiate of the masses, true religion requires the full engagement of reality with body, mind, and spirit. Behold, He is coming, saith the Lord Almighty. God is speaking through Malachi: First Jesus, and then later Melchizedek in the Messianic period forthcoming.
Just as John the Baptist "prepared the way before" the Lord, Jesus; the "greater John the Baptist" to come final prophet will "prepare the way before" the Lord, Melchizedek.
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This verse, "Behold I send My messenger," can apply equally to both messengers prophets. This similarity between the two prophets is why The Urantia Book refers to the final prophet as "another and greater John the Baptist" to come. He does not want to see anybody suffer or "be punished. Malachi ends with the well known: God tells us in the final stanza that He will raise up and send a final prophet "Elijah" before the coming of the Lord Melchizedek. John the Baptist came before the Lord Jesus but he was not "the Elijah" to come.
In other words Jesus knew he himself was not the Messiah and that John was not the "Elijah" to come prophesied in Malachi. Jesus agreed to the use of the reference to Elijah only because he knew the apostles insisted on viewing himself as the Messiah. Elijah comes before the Messiah, identified previously as Melchizedek. Therefore, "Elijah" comes before Melchizedek and is the messianic final prophet. Also, ends of ages are very similar. John the Baptist was certainly the Elijah-type prophet for his end of the age, completed in 70 AD with the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans.
In fact, The Urantia Book tells us that: And so we can see that the Messianic final prophet will in some ways be like John the Baptist and also like Elijah in other ways as well. The Urantia Book calls the final prophet to come "another and greater John the Baptist" because this prophet, like John the Baptist, will also "prepare the way of the Lord," this time the way of the Lord Melchizedek instead of the Lord Jesus. But why is this final prophet called "Elijah" in Malachi?
First we need to know more about Elijah himself. The Urantia Book tells us: After hours of trying, no response is obtained. In summary, the main characteristics of Elijah are courage in the face of overwhelming odds, miraculous activities, being taken up in a "chariot of fire," and persecution by the highest leader in the land, King Ahab.
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He also stands up against the entire ancient world singlehandedly. Perhaps these will give us clues about the characteristics of the "Elijah" to come. The final prophet is referred to by many different name s. The Urantia Book calls him "another and greater John the Baptist. The names are different but the activities and the messianic time of his appearance are all the same.
Continuing on with the Teacher of Righteousness and his interpretations of scripture found in 11Q13 of the Dead Sea Scrolls, we find: Zion is…, those who uphold the Covenant, who turn from walking in the way of the people. And your Elohim is Melchizedek, who will save them those who uphold the Covenant from the hand of Belial. The Teacher of Righteousness tells us in his interpretation of Isaiah The final prophet is an "anointed one" whom God has put his spirit upon "Behold my servant…I have put My spirit upon him" Isaiah Elohim means divine being and is identified as Melchizedek by the Teacher.
The Lord of the Old Testament is Melchizedek when not referring to God , and he is the one who comes to deliver us at the end of the age messiah. The final prophet depends on the olden prophets to explain and interpret the events unfolding in the messianic age and to "make them the elect understand all the ages of time. He is also the "Elijah to come before the end" of Malachi. The Urantia Book calls this prophet "another and greater John the Baptist.
Remember that Jesus said that "there had not been any one greater man than John the Baptist" but that anyone who entered the kingdom of heaven "was greater than John. He was courageous, faithful, and steadfast, even in the face of death. But as a son of the living God, he had not yet entered the joyful and transcendent kingdom of heaven within. Therefore, greater means that the final prophet will have entered this kingdom of heaven within, which is the "true way" that he helps bring forth in Isaiah Family fault lines may sever; persecution, ridicule and danger could be ahead.
Such painful and trying choices will act to establish our priorities and expose them to view. This highway in the desert is a literal road, the Sacred Way, that will be used by the remnants to travel to Canaan to be reunited by Melchizedek. The term God in Isaiah Melchizedek is said to arrive at the beginning of the tenth Jubilee, on the day of atonement, as discussed in the last sentence of 11Q13; The Coming of Melchizede k.
There will be remnants coming from many countries all over the world. Their commonality will be their love and respect for God. Also note that both Egypt and modern Syria are slated to be foremost among the countries who come against Modern Israel during the near future. The leaders make the wars, but the people may still be among the faithful.
But who will make this road; this Sacred Way? God seems to make this road for His returning sons and daughters. The Teacher of Righteousness is the founder and leader of the Qumran community beginning sometime around BC. The Qumran community is the community that dwelled in the Judean desert; who preserved, copied, and sometimes authored the scrolls found by the Dead Sea.
Through the Thanksgiving Hymn s, the Teacher of Righteousness tells us much about his deep convictions, personal history, and intimate relationship with God. As such, much of what the Teacher of Righteousness says about his own experiences and convictions may be mirrored in those of the Final Prophet.
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Therefore, as we read the Thanksgiving Hymns, we are looking into the hearts and minds of both of these servants; the one who has been and the one who will be. Like all other prophets of God, the Teacher of Righteousness experienced ridicule, persecution, and wrath from the hand of man for telling them the truth about themselves and their world.
The Teacher of Righteousness suffers greatly from spiritual, emotional, as well as physical causes. His closest friends and family have rejected him. And now, the Teacher describes physical suffering as well. The last stanza above causes one to think of John the Baptist, imprisoned and chained in the dungeon waiting for death.
Both are persecuted by "the wicked of Ephraim.
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Perhaps both are imprisoned. Perhaps both confront iniquity boldly. Many of these characteristics also apply to John the Baptist as well, excepting only the role as prophetic interpreter. John the Baptist was a "Teacher of Righteousness" character type for his time. We are told in the Urantia Book that "sooner or later another and greater John the Baptist" will arrive, thus confirming this model of "character types" repeated through the ages.
The messianic age is a consummation and completion of the precursors expressed earlier in history. The number seven symbolizes this completion and is found frequently throughout the text of "Revelation. TR, Teacher of Righteousness my parentheses. Hard times will come and those that know and understand, the elect, will try to lead everyone to safety but many, and probably most, will not follow. Notice that the congregation of the elect depart from somewhere, possibly from America the home of Ephraim and the elect.
God is actively leading and protecting the elect throughout this trial period, just as he did once before when He led Israel out from Egypt to Canaan. The end is like the beginning. You shall eat the bread of toil; he shall feed those who love them in their sleep. The quote just above clearly demonstrates that the Teacher of Righteousness is referring to the future shall , the end of the messianic age, and not his own time.
He refers to the messianic prophet again as "the priest" and also as the Teacher of Righteousness, his own title. Before leaving the study of the Psalms and the Final Prophet, I would like to present to you a deeply penetrating portrait of the Final Prophet as revealed in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Biblical Psalms. The following quote is verbatim from pages 42 through 46 of a page text about a variety of prophecy subjects. With this and a few other interpretations I would disagree, but for the most part I find this portrayal of the Final Prophet completely convincing.
Remember, even the prophetic passages about Jesus were a "mixed bag," with some information specific to him and other information not specific to him. Also note that not all of the following piece, Final Prophet, by the Online Prophet is taken from the Psalms themselves.
In my opinion, some of the information in the Thanksgiving Hymns specifically reflects the life of the Teacher of Righteousness of Qumran, rather than the life-to-come of the Final Prophet. However, the lives and thoughts of the two prophets may be so similar that there may be a lot of overlap of the attributes of one to the other. With these qualifying remarks we can now begin.
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The italics and bold text stylings are my own. The third individual identified in the Thanksgiving Hymns is the latter "Elijah" yet to be manifested, and will be considered in the next chapter. This "Elijah" come alive is derived from the book of Malachi and the New Testament gospels. When you click on a Sponsored Product ad, you will be taken to an Amazon detail page where you can learn more about the product and purchase it.
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