posted 09-03-1998 10:30 AM            

So in your wisdom Eben who is Ephraim?
Who is Judah? Do you even know this?
Who is Edom?
Who is Assyria?
Who are the nations of Gen 49?
Who is Moab?

As a prophet you should be able to tell us this.
As a prophet, which you connote yourself to be, you are either TRUE or FALSE.
How many fulfilled predictions have you made?
Or perhaps you are a clanging bell, with many opinions and no knowledge of YHVH?

Mentione was made about the Dead Sea Scrolls and Essenes.
I find NO real evidence that this community had anything to do with Essennes, but plenty that they were in no way Essennes.

Either Josephus , who had been an Essene, knew nothing about them
or this Qumran community was not Essene. His description of the Essenes does NOT fit Qumran.

The Last Prophet(synopsis)

 Important links of New Testament apostles John and Paul with the Dead Sea Scrolls community members.
 The promised "Elijah to come" Prophet (Mat 17:11, Mal 4:5)is described.
 The true messages and purposes of the Qumran writings are revealed.
 Leader and members of the community are identified and proven.
 Prophetic end of age messages are included and clarified.
 Puzzling Biblical Scriptures become understandable.

Synopsis:The world famous Dead Sea Scrolls are a modern mystery and have been so for almost 50 years. This puzzle is about to be solved using logic, history, and the Bible for clues which prove John the Baptist to be the mysterious "Teacher of Righteousness" leading the Qumran community. The role as leader of the community makes John the Baptist responsible for the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Baptist's leadership at Qumran will present an incredible dilemma for many modern theologians and religious leaders and demands difficult choices because much that the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal is contrary to many modern religious doctrines. Before now these writings of Qumran could simply be ignored or hidden away.

These Scrolls will now CRY OUT because John the Baptist was given unprecedented authority by Jesus Christ, and it will be difficult for anyone to dispute his writings. The Dead Sea Scrolls contain important messages concerning the LAST DAYS of this present age. These Biblically based prophetic writings provide great details of persons, nations, tribulations, and military conflicts involving three distinctive power blocks in this very time in which we live. While in prison John the Baptist completed at least one of the Dead Sea Scrolls recording the exact circumstances of his own arrest, with his arm out of socket, shackling, and details of his imprisonment. These circumstances conform to the recorded historical and New Testament accounts concerning John the Baptist.

Selected Qumran texts teach grace, truth, repentance, and forgiveness of sin just as the Baptist does in the New Testament. Many of these Scrolls also describe the birth of Jesus, His role as the begotten Son(i.e: New testament role as the fountain of eternal life, and circumstances of HIS next coming.

The Qumran Scrolls community of converts wrote that they expected to move to Damascus to keep the law of the NEW COVENANT. They also wrote that a special "interpreter" of the law known as the STAR would come to Damascus and instruct the members concerning the law. Within days of the news of John's death an important New Testament figure was strategically located TWICE in the area of DAMASCUS. You will learn who this special STAR was from New Testament evidence.

This Qumran group called itself THE WAY in their writings and this points directly to the Apostle Paul and a distinct and mysterious early Christian group later located in Damascus. This is written in the New Testament book of Acts after the group of John the Baptist's disciples had moved from Qumran to Damascus to keep the "New Covenant". The HEAD of JOHN the BAPTIST was taken by his disciples as they moved to Damascus and placed in a crypt in a building named the "Cathedral of John the Baptist". The location of John's head in Damascus along with additional evidence establishes the identity of the Dead Sea Scrolls group as John the Baptist's disciples and clarifies the Christian-Qumran connections which have puzzled researchers for over forty years.

John the Baptist as leader at Qumran is the former promised symbolic "Elijah" prophet, who prepared the way for the LAST COMING of Jesus and laid the groundwork for the NEXT COMING also by describing the Last Prophet("The Final Teacher of Righteousness"-DSS) and certain circumstances and events of the final days yet ahead of us. As the story unfolds a new time frame for the Baptist's expanded role and writings is clarified and charted. The unfounded but previously accepted date of 68 A.D. for the end of the Scrolls community is the single greatest mistake made over the years in the Qumran investigations and has prevented any reasonable explanation for the community.

The roles of both John the Baptist in his day and the final "Elijah" prophet concerning the "last days" are explored in detail. One of the main objectives of the Scrolls texts is to paint a verbal picture of this prophet/teacher who is to surface in the final years of this age. This individual is described in the Scrolls as the final "Teacher of Righteousness" to whom God gives ALL UNDERSTANDING of all that the prophets have written in the Bible, and who is to serve as a plumb line of distinction between good and evil.

This future "Elijah" will possess the VISION of the end, and many Jewish and Christian believers today expectantly look for this promised symbolic Elijah. It has been said that some Jewish Karaites have a chair reserved for him in their own homes. The Scrolls provide intimate details of the final prophet's personal life, problems, health, and certain physical descriptions. These details prove to be directly extracted from specific heretofore enigmatic Biblical Psalms. Even though inspired through John the Baptist these certain writings prove to be BIBLICALLY extracted by him.

The final prophet is quite different from John the Baptist. This yet to appear prophet is described as older, with weakening eyesight, in very poor health, scorned, and has suffered a loss of reputation unjustly due to betrayal by someone he trusted. "ALL WHO HAVE EATEN HIS BREAD HAVE LIFTED THEIR HEEL AGAINST HIM" as the scrolls reveal. Friends and family members stand aloof believing him to be a broken vessel. A large number of other identifying details are provided and we find God Himself SCOURGING this prophet for a definite PURPOSE in order to present a message to others. The mystery of his end time vision has been shared with others before it becomes public but has not been well received, bringing upon him more troubles because of it. After this God will begin to establish and reveal this prophet and his mystery.

The terminology peculiar to the Dead Sea Scrolls is used by only TWO New Testament writers-John and Paul. The employment of this particular style(from the teachings of the Baptist at Qumran) by the Apostle Paul and the Apostle John is due to their intimate contact with these disciples of John the Baptist. Paul was with the group three years in Damascus circa 37-40 A. D. The personal association of the Apostle John with John the Baptist as his disciple before he became a disciple of Jesus is explained. Similarities of the Qumran group to first Christians in belief, practice, and terminology is reviewed and elaborated on in the aspect of a completely new time frame. Other links are established between the Scrolls community of Qumran and Jesus and the Apostles of the New testament era.

Also included among the texts is mention of the 70 A.D. Roman destruction of Judea. John the Baptist and the Qumran members actually PREDICTED this military destruction to come upon Judea in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The Scrolls indicated military destruction would come in the area "about forty years" after the death of their leader, and history records this very fact. John the Baptist was killed about 29 A.D. and the Roman attacks came some forty years later, just as these converts wrote. Scrolls evidence and even more New Testament connections with the early Christians will be explored to show the relation of the Qumran scrolls group to the first Christians.

The cryptic meaning of the "Sons of Zadok", "Judah", and "Israel" as used by the Qumran community to identify themselves is explained relative to use and origin. Religious concepts and beliefs of the community are discussed and certain points of the Old and New Testaments are presented in a very different light. The "codewords" used by the community to deliberately retard the understanding of their messages are identified to MODERN nations such as the United States and Russia and to certain persons.

The symbolic Biblical prophetic names for persons and nations are discussed and certain nations are identified by clues provided by the Scrolls and the Bible. Modern nations as represented by prophetic Ephraim, Manasseh, Tyre, Sidon, Assyria, Edom, and others are identified from the Bible and the Scrolls texts. The Scrolls provide an incredible and surprising identification of a present day POWERBLOCK connected with the Lost Tribes of Israel represented in the image of the second chapter of the book of Daniel. This allows a composite illustration of the seven heads and all features of the heads, toes, and beasts of the books of Daniel and Revelation which fits perfectly into history and the Bible as NEVER BEFORE SEEN. This picture includes the modern nations of today in which a NEW EMPIRE is recognized.

The "Wicked Priest" turns out to be a well known world ruling leader yet to appear, who will try to kill the final prophet and the people who listen to him. The leader of a later powerblock called "Kittim Asshur" is known as the "Furious Young Lion" and may well be a man named Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the recently prominent Russian leader. Scrolls texts indicate the first end time event is an attack on Jerusalem, and the attackers and other involved nations are identified. The nature and sequence of end time events are provided.

The references to the strange "Book of Hagu" equates to the Biblical Psalms of Asaph(50 & 73-83) which specifically instruct in end time conditions. Certain popular modern day prophecies and religious beliefs such as found in the well known book Late Great Planet Earth by Hal Lindsey are discussed and compared to parallel accounts in the Dead Sea Scrolls last days commentaries. Quite a difference! According to the Scrolls the end time Beast Power is BABYLON not Rome as many expect, and there is the "crucible" for the people of God, not a rapture!

The end of age Beast Power is thoroughly discussed according to Scroll's revelations. Major religious doctrines such as the nature of the Holy Spirit are challenged head on by the Scrolls. The "ECHO" of the Dead Sea Scrolls for the end time prophecy is tied to certain key Biblical texts and examined with current and recent years events in mind. Recent developments in Russia, the Persian Gulf, and the Balkans are compared to the Scrolls' interpretations with surprising results. The seven churches of Revelation are also associated with certain Psalms by the Scrolls, and is related to the feeding of the two multitudes by Jesus. much more is covered as we look into the content of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Therefore judge for yourself my friend!

Contents:
 Chapter 1 Dead Sea Scrolls-the Qumran Community.
 Chapter 2 "The Way" at Qumran-Christian Connections.
 Chapter 3 Codewords Identified.
 Chapter 4 John the Baptist-"Teacher of Righteousness".
 Chapter 5 The final "Elijah"-Portrait of a Prophet.
 Chapter 6 Modern Prophetic ideas and a different Scrolls'message.
 Chapter 7 Scrolls End of Age "ECHO"-Voice from the Past.

The book entitled THE LAST PROPHET is online at website http://www.panola.com/users/brich/

posted 09-03-1998 12:38 PM            

Another good place to explore is James Trimm's site at:
http://www.nazarene.net/

James Trimm is a very knowledgeable person and a Nazarene believer in Yahweh. He is also working with Dr James Tabor on The Original Bible Project, a new bible translation.

Dr Tabor is an Ebionite believer and a Professor at University of North Carolina. His site is at:
http://niner.uncc.edu/~jdtabor/