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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

The Dead Sea Scrolls

Lift up the trumpet and loud let it ring, Jesus is coming again.

Cheer up your pilgrims, be joyful and sing, Jesus is coming again.

This is the voice of prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days.

Coming again, coming again, Jesus is coming again.

From our Voice of Prophecy studios in Los Angeles, California, we welcome you to this half hour of inspiration and music with the King's Heralds, Del Delker, Brad Braley, and our speaker, HMS Richards, a Seventh-day Adventist minister.

The music is different, but the words are the same as long ago, when David sang, The Lord is my light and my salvation.

Though an host of men were laid against me, Yet shall not my heart be afraid, and though there rose a war against me, yet will the poor against me.

For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His tabernacle.

Yea, in the secret places of his dwelling shall he hide me And set me up upon a rock of stone.

The Lord is the strength of my life, the Lord is the strength of my life, Of whom then shall I be afraid?

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ O Lord, our Heavenly Father, Take all fear from us, give us trust in Thee, and bless this broadcast to every listener.

Is a place of quiet rest, near to the heart of God, a place where sin cannot molest, near to the heart of God.

O Jesus, blessed Redeemer, sent from the heart of God, Hold us who bow before thee, near to the heart of God.

Of Jesus love that sought me when I was lost in sin, of wondrous grace that brought me back to his fold again, of heights and depths of mercy, far deeper than the sea, and higher than the heavens, Higher than the heavens, my theme shall ever be.

Sweeter as the years go by, Sweeter as the years go by.

Richer, fuller, deeper, Jesus' love is sweeter.

"'Twas wondrous love which led him for us to suffer loss, to bear without a murmur, the anguish of the cross.

With saints redeemed in glory, let us our voices raise, ♪ Hark, the herald angels sing, and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, praise.

Sweeter as the years go by, sweeter as the years go by, 1 of the as the years go by.

1 of the greatest of recent discoveries is that of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

Already, much has been written on the subject.

As a matter of fact, this subject on the Dead Sea Scrolls has found its way into the list of the 10 bestsellers in many areas.

Sing them over again to me, wonderful words of life.

Let me more of their beauty see, wonderful words of life.

Words of life and beauty, teach me Faith and duty.

Beautiful words, wonderful words, wonderful words of life.

Sweetly echo the gospel call, wonderful words of life.

Offer pardon and peace to all, wonderful words of life.

Jesus, holy Savior, sanctify Sanctify forever.

Here now is HMS Richards, the voice of prophecy speaker.

The so-called Dead Sea Scrolls are of special interest to all believers in the Bible.

The first of these scrolls was discovered in 1947 in a cave near the northwest corner of the Dead Sea.

Since that date, many other discoveries have been made of fragments of various sorts of books of the Old Testament as well as non-biblical writings.

Why are these lately discovered scrolls so important to Bible believers?

The answer is that they confirm the authenticity of the Bible writings which we already possess.

Siegfried Horn, writing in the Review and Herald of Washington, D.C., December 29, 1955, says that they come from Bible times.

The linen cloth which had served as wrappings for the scrolls was tested by the Carbon 14 method at the Nuclear Institute of the University of Chicago.

33 with a margin of error on either side up to 200 years.

Other methods have also been used in dating these manuscripts, and most of the experts on these subjects say that they come to us from the time of Christ or a little before.

We now have actual writings which were in existence in the time of Jesus and right in the land of Palestine.

1 complete roll or scroll of the book of Isaiah was discovered And it's interesting that in all essential points it reads exactly like the book of Isaiah in our Bibles today.

Do you remember what we read in the fourth chapter of Luke about Jesus visiting his hometown at Nazareth?

On the Sabbath day he went in the synagogue there and took part in the service and they gave him the book, the Holy Scripture, and he read, where from do you suppose?

From the 51st chapter, or the 61st chapter rather, and he applied it to himself.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.

He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, the recovering of sight to the blind.

He closed the book and gave it again to the minister and he said, this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

So Jesus called the book of Isaiah scripture and applied it to himself.

Now the thing that's interesting is this, interesting to me, that in that very year in which Jesus did this, in another little town over near the edge of the Dead Sea.

Someone else probably in the same day was reading that same passage of Scripture, because in the Jewish synagogues the same Scripture is read in every synagogue on the Sabbath day.

And it may have been from this same roll or scroll which we have discovered or which men have discovered in our day.

The same book, the same time, the same message, all pointing to Jesus.

It's quite clear from the ruins they've discovered over there near this cave by the edge of the Dead Sea, that there were some people who lived there for quite a long time, probably over 100 years.

The place was finally destroyed by the Roman soldiers when they marched against Jerusalem about 30 years after Jesus had ascended to heaven, it is believed that these same people, whoever they were, hid their precious library of religious books in the caves where they have lately been found.

Not in the form of books as we have them today, of course.

They were written mostly on the skins of animals and some on just plain leather.

These pieces of leather were fastened together in long strips and then rolled into a scroll.

As 1 would begin to read, he would unroll the scroll from 1 end and roll it up at the other end.

These scrolls were wrapped in linen cloth and placed in earthenware jars which were securely sealed with some sort of wax or tar.

They had earthenware lids and these lids were sealed on in that way and placed in these caves.

Of course during hundreds of years people have visited those caves hunting for gold and silver and hundreds of these jars have been kicked around and broken and manuscripts just torn and scattered in the caves.

But it's believed that a very severe earthquake which occurred during the reign of King Herod sealed up this 1 cave, so it was not discovered until 1947 when a sheep herder chasing a goat climbing up over these rocks found a tiny entrance to this cave that had been sealed by the earthquake.

It is believed that part of every book of the Old Testament, with the exception of Esther possibly, has been found in that cave, parts of the books, with many other books, and they're still finding more.

In fact, they've looked into over a hundred caves around there and found something in almost every 1 of them, just little parts in many cases.

But very interesting and very important because they sustain the authenticity of the text of the scriptures.

Also, much information as to the meaning of words has been discovered so that our modern scholars can better give us the exact meaning of some of the scriptural words.

Now remember this, friends, archeology and scientific research do not demonstrate the existence of a personal God, nor do they demonstrate that the writings of Holy Scripture are divine revelation.

But the evidence discovered has revealed facts that cannot be disproved by mere human speculations.

They have shown that the historical statements in the Holy Scriptures are reliable in every case where archaeology has made available material bearing on the same facts.

Now the archaeologists have found many other things in the last few years to sustain the scriptures.

Christianity is the holy secret of the ages, which human reason alone could never discover, but which is revealed by God Himself through His prophets and through His Son, Jesus Christ.

Christianity is really revealed in a person, Jesus, our Lord.

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