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Orthodox Jews/ Essenes

Orthodox Jews/ Essenes. Shema – Hebrew. Shema Israel, Adonai elohenu – Adonai echad Ve’ahavta et Adonai eloeikah B’khol levavkah Uve’khol naphshekah Uve’khol m’odekah Ve’ahavta le’reacha Kamocha , Amen. Shema.

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Orthodox Jews/ Essenes

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  1. Orthodox Jews/Essenes

  2. Shema – Hebrew Shema Israel, Adonaielohenu – Adonaiechad Ve’ahavta et Adonaieloeikah B’khollevavkah Uve’kholnaphshekah Uve’kholm’odekah Ve’ahavtale’reachaKamocha, Amen

  3. Shema Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God. The Lord alone. Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might. And Love your neighbor as yourself. Amen.

  4. Fullness of Time • But when the time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem those under law, that we might receive the full rights of sons. • Galatians 4:4-5

  5. Triangle Cities Korazin Bethsaida Capernaum Magdala

  6. Capernaum

  7. Galilee • Region much larger than around the sea • After return, a resurgence of commitment to God and the Torah

  8. Deuteronomy 6:7-9 Video

  9. Galilee • All their trials were from disobedience • The more persecution, the stronger the commitment • Hellenism

  10. Mt. Arbel

  11. Caves where families hid

  12. Bethsaida

  13. Korazin

  14. Capernaum

  15. Synagogue School

  16. Top-Notch Education • Memorize the Torah by 12/13 • The best of those could continue – Bet Midrash • Best of those could choose to study under a Rabbi • Galilee considered the Yale, Oxford of Jewish, Rabbinic study – better than Jerusalem • The entire population knew the text

  17. Jeremiah 31:33-34 “This is the covenant I will make with the people of Israel    after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds    and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. 34 No longer will they teach their neighbor,    or say to one another, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know me,    from the least of them to the greatest,”             declares the LORD. “For I will forgive their wickedness    and will remember their sins no more.”

  18. What does it take to be a disciple? • What does that level of commitment look like in our culture? • Do you have what it takes?

  19. Essenes A voice of one calling: “In the desert prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God.” Isaiah 40:3

  20. Essenes

  21. Storage caves

  22. Storage cave #9

  23. Word of God • Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away – Matthew 24:35 • 40% Books of the Tenakh – not Esther • 30% Apocryphal books • 30% “Secular” texts – rules of Jewish sects • Before this the earliest copies of the Bible were from around 1,000 AD • Proof the Bible changed very little through time

  24. Common Rooms

  25. Mikvah

  26. Housing Huts??

  27. Qumran waterway Living Water

  28. Who was here? • Many who came were wealthy members of the Priestly lines • Passionate about the word of God • Some studied for a short time and left • Some stayed for long periods • John the Baptist could have studied here

  29. Priest house in Jerusalem They gave up much to study the Word of God

  30. Temple Arch

  31. Walkway arch

  32. Priestly gate and walkway

  33. What would it take today to have the passion of the Essenes? • What is my commitment to the Word of God?

  34. Next week • Herodians • Zealots

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