Q This next question will be in two parts, A and B. Part A asks, what language
was used in writing the Dead Sea Scrolls?
A The Dead Sea Scrolls were written in Hebrew. The books of Tobit, Leviticus, and
Job were written in Aramaic. They have found a few manuscripts that were written in
Greek. All of the books of the Old Testament, except Esther, Nehemiah, and some of
the minor prophets, have been discovered in the Dead Sea Scrolls. The group who
created the Dead Sea Scrolls were Essenes. This was a community of esoterics who
were in rebellion against both the Old Testament sacrifice system and the New
Testament Messiah. So they are not a good source for correcting the historic rabbinic
bible. However, all new versions, including the New King James Version, consult the
Dead Sea Scrolls, and I think this is a grievous mistake.
Something kind of sinister is happening. The Rockefeller Foundation —
infamous for its involvement in one-world political organizations like the Council on
Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission — is funding the research on the Dead
Sea Scrolls. Also, the U.S. government’s top-secret research lab at Los Alamos, New
Mexico, is digitizing these Dead Sea Scrolls so that they can be more clearly read.
Anyone might ask, “Why would these parties be interested in this material?” This is
happening because the Dead Sea Scrolls prescribe all of the elements needed to coerce
people to adapt to the one-world political and religious system advocated by these
parties. The Dead Sea Scrolls advocate:
1. The confiscation of personal property to the group.
2. The coming of two Messiahs: one a religious prophet, the other a civil leader.
Students of bible prophecy know that this corresponds exactly to the beast and
the false prophet of Revelation. The Dead Sea Scrolls say that the Essenes are “sons
of the light,” ruled by the “angel of light.” Bible students know that the “angel of
light” is Satan.
The Dead Sea Scrolls also call for an initiation and for receiving a “Name,”
capital N-a-m-e. Revelation 13 warns against taking the name of the beast. The Dead
Sea Scrolls say instead that people who will not take the “Name” during a seven-year
period should be killed. John 16:2 says, “the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you
will think that he doeth God service.” The older printings of the NIV, in Leviticus
24:11, said, “the name of the Lord” (small “n” and “of the Lord”). The most recent
printing of the NIV has dropped “of the Lord,” and capitalizes the “N” in “Name,”
just like the Gastner’s Dead Sea Scrolls translation. We see this happening in Acts
5:41, where the KJV says, “his name,” with a small “n”; the NIV says, “the Name,”
with a capital “N.” The NIV now capitalize “the Name” seventy-seven times. They
are, as new printings come out, dropping “of the Lord” (e.g., Lev. 24:11 and 24:16).
Acts 22:16 says, “calling on the name of the Lord”; they are dropping “of the Lord,”
and putting “calling on his name.”
They are also changing the way “name” is used in the bible. In the King
James Version, John 17:11 says, “those whom thou hast given me,” but new versions
say, “the name which thou hast given me.” Daniel 9:19, in the KJV says, “thy people
are called by thy name.” It does not say “called” in some new versions now; it says,
“they bear your Name,” capital N-a-m-e.
We are warned against receiving “his name” (the name of the beast), but in
Revelation 14:1 the NIV adds “his name” to “his Father’s name,” thereby
scrambling the timing and recipients of the name given in Revelation 3:12, 7:3, and
22:4. In Galatians 6:17, the NASB says people receive “brand-marks of Jesus.” The
apostle Paul’s marks (“I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus,”) are beating
marks he received from the people, just like the Lord Jesus Christ received. They did
not “brand” Paul, they beat him. In the Living Bible, we see something very
dangerous happening in Isaiah 44:5. It says people should receive a tattoo. (“’I am
the Lord’s,’ they’lI proudly say, or ‘I am a Jew,’ and tattoo upon their hands the
name of God or the honored name of Israel” — LB.) The rendering of that verse in
the KJV shows that this is something we should not do. It is not “the name of God or
the honored name of Israel,” but “another” name. This is a warning about the
antichrist. The Living Bible tells the reader it is a good thing to do; the KJV tells its
readers that it is a bad thing to do.