Transcript of Orthodox Jews/Essenes. Shema – Hebrew Shema Israel, Adonai elohenu – Adonai echad Ve’ahavta et...
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- Orthodox Jews/Essenes
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- Shema Hebrew Shema Israel, Adonai elohenu Adonai echad Veahavta
et Adonai eloeikah Bkhol levavkah Uvekhol naphshekah Uvekhol
modekah Veahavta lereacha Kamocha, Amen
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Triangle Cities Capernaum Korazin Bethsaida Magdala
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- Capernaum
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- Galilee Region much larger than around the sea After return, a
resurgence of commitment to God and the Torah
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- Deuteronomy 6:7-9 Video
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- Galilee All their trials were from disobedience The more
persecution, the stronger the commitment Hellenism
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- Mt. Arbel
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- Caves where families hid
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- Bethsaida
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- Korazin
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- Capernaum
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- Synagogue School
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- 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
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- Essenes
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- Storage caves
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- Storage cave #9
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- 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
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- Common Rooms
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- Mikvah
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- Housing Huts??
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- Qumran waterway Living Water
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- 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
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- Priest house in Jerusalem They gave up much to study the Word
of God
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- Temple Arch
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- Walkway arch
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- Priestly gate and walkway
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- What would it take today to have the passion of the Essenes?
What is my commitment to the Word of God?
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- Next week Herodians Zealots