The Book Of Jubilees: Re-Presented By Robert Bagley Iii

Between 1947 and 1956, approximately 15 copies of the "Book of Jubilee's were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls.This is second in number only to Psalms, Deuteronomy, Isaiah, Exodus, and Genesis, and far greater than any other extra-biblical text found there, including "The Book of Enoch."Also called the 'The Little Genesis,' 'Book of Divisions', and the 'Apocalypse of Moses' the Book of Jubilees is an apocryphal work (not accepted as Scripture) which historians believe was delivered to Moses by God on Mount Sinai. It was almost lost over thousands of years, but was retrieved from the Ethiopic language. It reinterprets the contents of Genesis 1 - Exodus 12 (or according to some scholars, Gen 1 - Exod. 15:22 or Exod. 16), which are here arranged in 49 periods, each of 49 years in length, the whole forming a Jubilee of Jubilees (Lev 25: 8-13)1 and gives additional details such as the fall of the angels, and the creation and destruction of the Nephilim detailing that one-tenth of their disembodied spirits would stay on earth as demons to tempt people and the rest would be imprisoned until the Tribulation Period.The original Hebrew text survives only in fragments found in the Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran. Up until their discovery, the work was known only from an Ethiopic translation of the whole and incomplete versions in Latin and Syriac. The fact that the surviving Hebrew fragments are from at least 12 different caves indicates that the Book enjoyed considerable popularity among the Qumran community.2Dr. Dales Sides purports, "Quotations from Jubilees were found within documents in the Dead Sea scrolls which verifies that it...was an early, pre-Christian document...there has been some speculation that these books [Enoch and Jubilees] were intentionally obscured by Satan in an attempt to hide the methods of his operation and the true identity of evil spirits."3The author (unknown, but definitely familiar with Mosaic Law, most like a Pharisaical Priest) has a main purpose to instruct on altering the regulation of the lunar calendar and festivals to a more suitable solar calendar with 12 months that contain 364 days. This system would cause all festivals, except Yom Kippur, to fall on a Sunday - a drastic idea for its time. Additionally, of great interest during this post-modern/heightened-sense-of-revelation era we now live, "The Book of Jubilees" mentions four classes of angels;1. Angels of the presence, 2. Angels of sanctifications, 3. Guardian angels over individuals, 4. Angels presiding over the phenomena of nature. An excerpt from Wikipedia states, "Enoch was the first man initiated by the angels in the art of writing, and wrote down, accordingly, all the secrets of astronomy, of chronology, and of the world's epochs. As regards demonology, the writer's position is largely that of the deuterocanonical writings from both New and Old Testament times.The Book of Jubilees narrates the genesis of angels on the first day of Creation and the story of how a group of fallen angels mated with mortal females, giving rise to a race of giants known as the Nephilim, and then to their descendants."4This is an important text for all Bible students at every age and every walk of life; both spiritually and physically, Proverbs 4:11. 1. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, s.v. "Jubilees, Book of." Page 905.2. Ibid, Page 905.3. Dale Sides: Principalities, Powers and Demons Their Differences, Their Originsand Our Authority Over Them, http://www.lmci.org/articles.cfm?Article=76 pgs 5-6.4. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Jubilees

Author: Robert Bagley

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Mar 08, 2017

Number of Pages: 262 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1543225381

ISBN-13: 9781543225389