Also on Youtube (not a sermon,but a teaching on the first Messianic followers and disciples. The scrolls written in Biblical Hebrew) https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=wLit979B60Y For Daniel 9, 24 25 & 27 see below
John the baptist was the real High Priest of the Jewish Temple,his father Zechariah (Luke 1, 5 - 25) served in the Temple, but the Herods were not fully Jewish and illegible to serve. (no Temple no law etc) This line was not of the House of David but of Benjamin (Herod was a Benjamite. King Herod was half Edomite, and half Nabataean (Babylonian Arabian’s who also spoke Aramaic). Edomites were of the House of Esau (who God hated see Malachi 1, 2- 3, & Romans 9,10 - 13 but who loved Jacob) and Ishmael who became one through Esau’s marriage to Mahalath, the daughter of Ishmael.He became the King of the Judeans and practiced Judaism. It is suggested that earlier marriages in his line brought him into loose alliance with the tribe of Benjamin ) As Herod Antipas and his wife Herodias and Salome fled and Herods line intermarried with the Gauls (Merovingian = Meroites of Ancient Egypt Meroe of ancient Ethiopia or Abyssinia, some of whom were Benjamites) but in the years preceding Yeshaus birth those in the "wilderness" as the Dead Sea scrolls relate were awaiting Messiah & John the Baptist confirmed him in Matthew 3 , 13 - 17 (Yeshua baptised) It was 3.5 years of his ministry & 3.5 years until Stephen was stoned to death = 7 years. (Acts 7, 54 - Acts 8, 2)
Another method to arrive at the birthdate of the Messiah is to examine the prophecy in Daniel 9, 24- 27 relating to the Messiah & not the Anti-Christ.Scholars identify the decree of Ezra 7,7 as the starting point of the 70 weeks or 70 x 7 as a day is like a 1000 years or 7 sets of 70 years. See Psalm 90,4 & 2 Peter 3, 8 *& Ezekiel 4,6 & Numbers 14, 34.There are other decrees in the Book of Ezra, Cyrus decree in Ezra 1,Darius in Ezra 6 & Artaxerxes in Ezra 7 (& see also Nehemiah 2) It is, therefore,from the first of the last two decrees that the date for the prophecy of Dan 9:25 should be dated.This decree is dated to the 7th year of Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:7),according to the Jewish fall-to-fall reckoning employed by Nehemiah (Neh 1:1; 2:1) Ezra’s contemporary & fellow worker (Neh 8:1, 9).This extended from Tishri or September–October in 458 B.C" (see also 'Supplementary Evidence in Support of 457 B.C.as the Starting Date for the 2300 Day-Years of Daniel 8:14' https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1291&context=jats ) 70 x 7 years = 490 years. Removing this week of prophecy we get 483 years & subtracting that from 457 bc we arrive at 26 ad or 27 ad as the start of Yeshua's ministry.Luke 3,1 states "In the 15th year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar,when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea,Herod tetrarch of Galilee,his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea & Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene" Tertullian on this subject counts from AD 14, & Luke counts from Tiberius’ co-regency beginning AD11/12, both have John the baptists early ministry, therefore,beginning in AD 26.Romans did not count from a 'new years day' but from accession to the throne.Coins of Tiberius called him Caesar from this accession even though he was co-regent in AD14, & some the coins had Augustus & Tiberius on them.Augustus died in AD 14.The Roman & Hebrew calendars differ & year 1 of Tiberius reign could have been one year on.Further, the incorrect assumption that December 25th (in any year) is the correct month is also an error.
See also when was the Messiah born https://www.bitchute.com/video/F9LmeCIqSrDK/
Who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls? Why were they forgotten?
The Dead Sea Scrolls in the Shrine of the Book at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.Officials took this occasion to underscore the continuity from biblical times to the present exemplified by these most ancient of biblical scrolls.Of course, examination of the Dead Sea Scrolls & of the ways they have been understood in ancient & in modern times afford evidence not only of continuity but also of dispute and disagreement.In her Israel Studies Lecture, "Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls and Why Were They Forgotten," Rachel Elior offers an overview of the provenance of the scrolls & her assessment of their significance in both ancient Judaism & modern scholarship.
Rachel Elior is John & Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy & Jewish Mystical Thought at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Israel Studies Professor for Spring Quarter 2013 at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is teaching a course at Uni of Chicago, "Major Issues in the Study of Jewish Mysticism: Between Kabbalah and Hasidism." Professor Elior is the fourth visiting faculty member at the Divinity School's Religion and Culture in the Twenty-first Century: Perspectives from Israel program, made possible through the generous support of the Israel Studies Project of the Jewish Federation of Chicago.
