The Book of Jubilees: The Torah Calendar eBook - Book - Page 34
I N T R O D U C T I O N
2. Witness of the Spirit in Historical Process
Blue Letter Bible quotes Pinnock who claims the canon is a matter of “historical
process.” (Clark Pinnock, Biblical Revelation, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House,
1973, p. 104) We would agree but Pinnock ignores the most obvious such history
and one must wonder how any scholar could do so. The Levite Library or Bible
canon found in Qumran serves as a time capsule for the canon of scripture for
the Old Testament long before there was a Catholic Church nor councils. It is
the most authentic historic process imaginable including massive archaeology
even. It supersedes all Catholic Councils and all Pharisee writings including
Josephus and the Septuagint in authority and significance. The Aaronic Temple
Levites maintain jurisdiction in that era on scripture not Pharisees ever. It was
transferred from the Temple with them because they are the Biblical stewards
of the Bible installed by Jacob and Moses with such administration. Pharisees,
Hasomoneans and the like never had Biblical authority to replace them in any
sense. John the Baptist was among them and Messiah Himself was baptized and
visited that library. How is it that we even have to have this conversation? Every
book in the modern Old Testament canon was found there except Esther proving
the Catholic Councils compiled nothing but added Esther and other books and
mislabeled some scripture as Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha without authority
to do so. It is Levite Priests who were the keepers of scripture and the Qumran
community identifies as such over 100 times. This Temple Priest order kept what
we would call the Bible canon today in a scroll library. There was no printing
press yet so a scroll library was their compilation and they were not Catholics.
Nothing found there was arbitrary as these were the Temple Levite priests
keeping the same writings they kept in the Temple thus Jubilees was used in the
Temple. Prior to the Qumran find, it is understandable that one would ask the
question as to what the Old Testament canon included. However, today, there is
truly little logical doubt. One cannot identify a better history of canon than the
very Levite library from the Temple with Jubilees included. This is it.
3. Acceptance of Yahuah’s People
Jubilees aligns with Torah in the significance of Israel. Though it’s time period is
the same as Genesis, it has the first direct and most powerful prophesies of Messiah
and appears the origin of portions of Revelation and End Times prophecy as
being quoted by Messiah, John, James, Peter, Paul, Luke and even an angel in
Heaven. A listing of such support would be pages long as there are many such
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