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The Ancient Dead Sea Scroll Calendar: AND THE PROPHECIES IT REVEALS
The Dead Sea Scrolls speak about a mysterious 364-day solar calendar used by the ancients from the time of Creation to about 170 BC. In the second century BC, it was replaced with a lunar calendar by corrupt Jewish priests. Today we know this corrupt lunar calendar as the modern Jewish calendar. In this book we will learn about God’s original solar calendar and discover what prophecies it reveals. Most Christians know that the Jewish festivals teach prophecy. Festivals like Passover, teach about the First Coming of the Messiah. The fall festivals, Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles, prophesy about the Second Coming and the Millennial Reign. The Dead Sea Scrolls reveal summer festivals that were deliberately hidden from us and point to the Age of Grace. Two of these festivals are the Festival of New Wine and the Festival of New Oil. Learn about these prophetic festivals and how to start using the original calendar God gave us.
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169 pages, Paperback
Published March 5, 2020
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Ken Johnson
139 books88 followersKen Johnson was born in 1965 and became a Christian at the age of 12. He quickly realized there were differences in doctrine in various denominations and sought out to prove to himself the correct interpretation of these issues that divide Christians. After an intensive study of the first century church he sought to bring back the teaching of the disciples of the 12 apostles. He has authored numerous books and made ancient Jewish scrolls available to the English speaking world.
He currently travels to churches inside the USA, speaking on these and other topics. He currently attends Calvary Chapel of Johnson County, located in Olathe Kansas.
He currently travels to churches inside the USA, speaking on these and other topics. He currently attends Calvary Chapel of Johnson County, located in Olathe Kansas.
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January 28, 2021
There has been considerable amount of interest in the studies of the Dead Sea Scrolls since they were first discovered in 1947. It is a sad part of scholarship that the first people who discovered these destroyed several of them. There is one semi-verified story in which the goatherd, having discovered some leather scrolls, took them back to his village with the idea of making some sandals from the leather. Finding the leather too dried out, he gave them to some children with which to play a game of kick-scroll. It is hard to imagine these valuable writings being destroyed in such a way, but it happens more often than one might think.
Fast forward to a number of scholars trying to make sense of thousands of fragments along with some better preserved metal and leather scrolls. Occasionally there was something that was straight-forward and then the long struggle for interpretation began being confused with which person had the right to see the original fragments. It became political after a while, lots of good stories being written about the search for meaning and interpretation and then it seemed that everyone in the world began writing about the scrolls. When I was in graduate seminary, we studied some of the original material as well as the interpretive stories about what the scrolls really were. The result was that there were some very good books which were written, but there were also some very bad books written, unfortunately some of which the public decided to begin spouting as truth. Indeed, the story of the DSS have nothing on an Abbott and Costello sketch or two. On a personal note, I have discovered that it is easier to discern the truth about string theory than it is to understand some of the things written about the Dead Sea Scrolls.
And then we come across a scholar on the order of Ken Johnson, a man who writes clearly and has clearly read far more information than I would have ever imagined on the topic. While it does appear to be true that a group of Essenes were the last people at Qumran and that they were destroyed by an attack of Roman cavalry in AD 69, I think, a year before the temple in Jerusalem was razed, these people left a wide range of writings of their own along with dozens of Biblical scrolls from other sources. Hence, while these caves were also a genizah, or a place of storage for ancient scrolls which could no longer be used, there are also dozens of writings which appear to be written by the people at Qumran, themselves, a sect of Essenes.
One of the things which they left behind was a calendar and it is a Jewish calendar. In fact, the Essenes taught that God gave us a perfect calendar. the base unit was a 24 hour day and it was divided into sevens, called weeks. The calendar was 364 days long which made 52 weeks. This made all the holidays fall on the same day of the week. What is interesting, of course, is that this calendar is so different from what we call the actual Hebrew calendar and, in fact, the Essenes maintained that the calendar of the Pharisees was corrupted. If we believe the Dead Sea Scrolls, in fact, this is the origin of the true Jewish calendar. The Zadok priests said that giving up the original solar calendar would be a grievous sin. As a result, the Zadok priests were driven out and settled in Qumran. They took with them copies of everything in the temple library. The result is that for the first time in almost 2000 years we can construct the Hebrew calendar and with it, discover answers to some of the mysteries in the Bible.
Johnson has set up an interesting website where the dates can be computed. Much of the scholarship he provides is generated on the basis of this calendar.
https://dsscalendar.org/
This book is very detailed, but it is worthwhile reading if only for the relatively short chapter on how the calendars were created in Western civilization.
Fast forward to a number of scholars trying to make sense of thousands of fragments along with some better preserved metal and leather scrolls. Occasionally there was something that was straight-forward and then the long struggle for interpretation began being confused with which person had the right to see the original fragments. It became political after a while, lots of good stories being written about the search for meaning and interpretation and then it seemed that everyone in the world began writing about the scrolls. When I was in graduate seminary, we studied some of the original material as well as the interpretive stories about what the scrolls really were. The result was that there were some very good books which were written, but there were also some very bad books written, unfortunately some of which the public decided to begin spouting as truth. Indeed, the story of the DSS have nothing on an Abbott and Costello sketch or two. On a personal note, I have discovered that it is easier to discern the truth about string theory than it is to understand some of the things written about the Dead Sea Scrolls.
And then we come across a scholar on the order of Ken Johnson, a man who writes clearly and has clearly read far more information than I would have ever imagined on the topic. While it does appear to be true that a group of Essenes were the last people at Qumran and that they were destroyed by an attack of Roman cavalry in AD 69, I think, a year before the temple in Jerusalem was razed, these people left a wide range of writings of their own along with dozens of Biblical scrolls from other sources. Hence, while these caves were also a genizah, or a place of storage for ancient scrolls which could no longer be used, there are also dozens of writings which appear to be written by the people at Qumran, themselves, a sect of Essenes.
One of the things which they left behind was a calendar and it is a Jewish calendar. In fact, the Essenes taught that God gave us a perfect calendar. the base unit was a 24 hour day and it was divided into sevens, called weeks. The calendar was 364 days long which made 52 weeks. This made all the holidays fall on the same day of the week. What is interesting, of course, is that this calendar is so different from what we call the actual Hebrew calendar and, in fact, the Essenes maintained that the calendar of the Pharisees was corrupted. If we believe the Dead Sea Scrolls, in fact, this is the origin of the true Jewish calendar. The Zadok priests said that giving up the original solar calendar would be a grievous sin. As a result, the Zadok priests were driven out and settled in Qumran. They took with them copies of everything in the temple library. The result is that for the first time in almost 2000 years we can construct the Hebrew calendar and with it, discover answers to some of the mysteries in the Bible.
Johnson has set up an interesting website where the dates can be computed. Much of the scholarship he provides is generated on the basis of this calendar.
https://dsscalendar.org/
This book is very detailed, but it is worthwhile reading if only for the relatively short chapter on how the calendars were created in Western civilization.
July 22, 2020
3 1/2 stars
Good book that explains the calendar system clearly. Many times you get bogged down with his calculations but otherwise it is clear.
Good book that explains the calendar system clearly. Many times you get bogged down with his calculations but otherwise it is clear.
March 4, 2021
Great
Loved this book! lots of nuggets of information. I've always had a passion for the study of eschatology, and the true sabbath.
Loved this book! lots of nuggets of information. I've always had a passion for the study of eschatology, and the true sabbath.
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