What Are Jubilees and Why Was The Book Excluded

 Hi Everyone, Happy Thursday from an 85 degree day in Central Florida. Unfortunately in South Dakota where my kids still are and where I used to live it's noon right now and it's 12 degrees. Yikes! If you're also where you're still having a cold winter, Stay warm you guys.

The other day I was asked why I'm so focused on the Ethiopian Bible. I knew that there were many other books in the Dead Sea Scrolls that didn't qualify to make it into the Protestant Bible when the official list was voted on during the Council Of Nicea during the time of Constantine. Then I thought why weren't they included? I don't want to drag this on and be boring but I also feel everyone should know. We'll get into more book content after this explanation. This information is regarding only The Book Of Jubilees  from questions directed to my friend Google Gemini, and not any of the other books. So here goes.

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection around 900 manuscripts found in caves near the Qumran settlement between 1947 and 1956. They contain every book in the Protestant Bible except Esther, plus many others that weren't allowed. If we go with number 900, and there are 66 books in the Protestant Bible that leaves 834 books that potentially had vital information that inquiring minds (old tv commercial reference) like you and I want to know, that were rejected. WHY?? I want to know what's in there. Some people are satisfied going to church 1-3 times a week, maybe having a daily or weekly bible study. That's okay. Personally I'm not, but then again I never have been satisfied with the status quo or being compliant for that matter. 

When I read the guidelines for why books were excluded a couple of things were a little startling. Maybe it's something maybe it's nothing. But one document in the Historical& Textual category called Community Rule or War Scroll was specific to The Essene sect, granted this document was community specific not universal to everyone but it has become accepted by some that Jesus was part of the Essenes. I heard a guy this week named John Bevere say Mary was an Essene. 

In the Jewish Rabbinic category some were excluded because they were written in the "post-prophetic" era or weren't written in Hebrew. Some were written in Aramaic. Also what Jesus spoke. The next category was Theological.  These were excluded because they were either apocalyptic or Conflicted with the Mainstream Lunar Calendars and Temple practices at the time. We'll see more about this. Other factors were Sectarian Identity, too community specific for the general Bible, like The War Scroll. Were they considered Divinely Inspired or just helpful to read? And Popularity. Were they popular in the scrolls but rare elsewhere? Jubilees were in the scrolls 15 times. 

This is the main thing that bothers me. Exodus was written by Moses. The Book Of Jubilees written by Moses being spoken by angels. Throughout history we've seen a division among people over things they just couldn't agree on. In this case the rest of the world has missed out on and ridiculed for reading books other than the standard canonized books of the bible. Admittedly, the Bible the Catholic church uses has the Apocrypha. Here's how the different sides looked at their solar and lunar decisions. As we'll see in the Book Of Jubilees God gave requirements that the festivals were to be celebrated on the same days each year, and the solar calendar allows for that. 

The Battle of the Calendars

To understand why this led to the book's exclusion, we have to look at the "Calendar War" happening in Judea at the time.

The Solar Calendar (Jubilees) ☀️	The Lunar Calendar (Mainstream/Rabbinic) 🌙
364 days exactly.	Roughly 354 days, requiring "leap months" to stay in sync with seasons.
Holidays always fall on the same day of the week every year.	Holidays shift days (like your birthday or modern Hanukkah).
Claims the lunar system is "corrupt" and leads to sin.	The standard used by the Temple authorities in Jerusalem.

The Jubilees proposes a year that has exactly 52 weeks. Every date falls on the same day of the week every year. The year is divided into 13-week seasons.  One Key Point, In this system the first day of the first month of the New Year always falls on a Wednesday, which I didn't notice it saying, but that's the day, sun, moon, and stars, were created and made the first day. I still don't know why the time frames are called Jubilees, but it really doesn't matter, I don't know why we call a week a week, or a year a year. So to continue on, another copy and paste from our friend Gemini 

The "Units" of Time 🧱

The author breaks time down into specific mathematical blocks:

• The Year: Exactly 364 days (52 weeks).

• The Week of Years: A 7-year period (based on the Sabbath year cycle in Leviticus).

• The Jubilee: A 49-year period (consisting of 7 "weeks of years").

The Total Calculation 🧮

If we multiply these units, we can see the grand scale of the book's chronology:

50 Jubilees X 49 years = 2,450 years

By using this rigid system, the author ensures that every major event—like the birth of Noah, the Flood, or the life of Abraham—falls on a mathematically "perfect" year and day. This was a direct challenge to other ancient calendars that relied on the moon, which the author felt were messy and prone to human error.

This calendar does however have 1.25 missing days over the course of a year. One early 1900's scholar R.H.Charles has what is regarded as a very accurate interpretation of Jubilees, has said he thinks the author of Jubilees was so blinded by "theological dogmatism" that they prioritized mathematical perfection over the actual movement of the sun, and possibly didn't account for the shortfall at all. Because to add a leap day or extra month somewhere would break the 7 day cycle and ruin the Sabbath nature of the calendar. Charles supposedly shows in his 1913 interpretation of Jubilees that the Flood lasted exactly 364 days and not 370 like in a Masoretic Text of Genesis which is considered to be an authoritative text of the Jewish Bible. 

As we saw in the last post A.M. is used to signify a period of time in Jubilees called Anno Mundi. It's a system used to date events based on the number of years since the creation of the world. With that in mind, the world, and everything in it was created in the first week of the first Jubilee {1-7A.M.} The first week of the first 7 year period based on the Sabbath year cycle in Leviticus. 

The first week of the of the first year of the the first 49 year Jubilee. Adam and Eve were in the garden a full 7 years exactly, the 17th day of the 2nd month the serpent came to Eve. {8A.M.) 

Next time I was just going to give a lineage list of from Adam to Noah but well see how it goes breaking it down to include Jubilees. Until then,

Keep Searching, 

Paul 

    

Adam To Enoch To Angels On Earth

 Hi everyone, Happy Sunday. 

Before getting into the Book Of Jubilees I thought I'd share something that came to mind while I was listening to a video about the Book Of Enoch from a YouTube channel called Original Hebrew. The video mentioned the word repent, and made me think about how John The Baptist and Jesus both used the word. Here's a link to the website and also a section of the website Jerusalem Of Gold website explaining the Hebrew Meaning of the word Repent. This was significant to me because, on one hand Jesus came as a sacrifice for the world so we wouldn't have to continue to have animal sacrifices like in the Old Testament, but I also think if a person who doesn't go to church, is struggling with whatever is distressing them in their life and turns to God and truly wants to be free with whatever is going on, I can hear the conversation, pleading with God promising to change with God's help.... As this website says, every day we turn from the things we do that displeases and turn back to God, God welcomes us with compassion. Do I think you have to say The Sinner's Prayer, asking Jesus to come into your heart, that churches recommend? No. If you are truly remorseful and continue on a path to genuinely seek God's guidance, God is a loving God and forgives.   

The first public preaching word out of Yeshua's - the Messiah's - mouth in the New Testament is "Repent." (Matthew 4.17) This is also the same first public preaching word out of John the Baptist's mouth. (Matthew 3.2) So it is a very important word to the LORD and our relationship with Him.

In Greek "repent" has been written down as "metanoya."

But, in the Hebrew it would be the word: "Nacham". Nacham means: to change one's mind, be grieved, repent. Yeshua would have known His Hebrew and known with exquisite perfection that Hebrew words share roots.  

Nacham (repent) shares the same root as:

Nocham:  which means 'compassion'

Nachum:  which means 'console'

Nachama: which means 'comfort'

So the Hebrew word for repent literally comes with God’s compassion, consolation and comfort built into it. That understanding really helps me to repent on a daily basis, because His Compassion and Comfort are waiting immediately the other side of that sometimes painful process.

The second  Hebrew word for repent is 'shoov'. It means: "to turn back, to be returned, carry back, brought again" and means a relationship is restored.   

This is a life-pounding-run-across-a-desert-word, like our life depended on it. This is because one of the times it is used in the Hebrew Scriptures is when Moses the shepherd "turns", travels to the other side of the desert, sees the burning bush, encounters God and becomes a changed man with a profound and historic mission to save the Hebrew people from slavery (the book of Exodus). There are no empty or weak words in the Hebrew language for "repent", the Messiah's first public word. The Hebrew word for 'repent' also means to 'carry back'. The second we repent His loving arms are right there to pick us up and carry us back on track.

In the Jewish faith, when we ask the LORD to forgive us, it is called "doing te-shoov-ah", literally meaning "to do turning back" before God's face.  Even today, the Hebrew word  for "before" in the modern Hebrew language literally means "to the face of" and is the same word used in the Biblical scriptures. You can't come before God in the Hebrew and not look Him in the eye and He in yours! It would be a contradiction in terms in the Hebrew language. We cannot repent unless we  turn fully around from our sin and look at Him deeply face-to-face. Although that honesty with our Holy Creator initially can be very painful, His face is where you will find the universe's most powerful eyes of Compassion, Consoling and Comfort.  Repent and Turn.

Now, on with the Book Of Jubilees.

This is when Eve comes on the scene. All of the animals were brought to Adam and he gave them their name, and God said to "US" (an Angel is actually narrating this story") "it is not good that the man should be alone, let us make a helpmeet for him." As in the Protestant Bible it says God caused a deep sleep to come upon him and took one of his ribs to make woman and He Built up the flesh and built the woman. I thought that was interesting it was phrased that way. From verse 8 through verse 15 of Chapter 3 it talks about the rules not being able to touch anything sacred or enter the sanctuary during the times of defilement. 

For 7 years Adam and "his wife" (another interesting use of words since she was given a name) lived in the Garden Of Eden. This is the first week of the first Jubilee. This time period is called 1-7A.M.

This stands for Anno Mundi. A Latin phrase meaning "in the year of the world. A chronological system used to date events based on the number of years that have passed since the creation of the world." 

The Book Of Jubilees actually tells, to the day, when the serpent approached "the woman." On the second month on the seventeenth day. I'll summarize here since it is basically like the Bible, the serpent tempted her, she ate the fruit, and they realized they were naked. Through verse 27 God became angry, cursed the serpent, cursed the ground so now we have to work to provide for ourselves. Verse 28 is where it is different again and gets interesting. It says" on that day all the mouths of the beasts, cattle, birds and whatever walks and moves so that they could no longer speak: for they had all all spoken one with another with one lip and with one tongue." Then all flesh were sent out of the garden. Adam and Even dwelt in the land of Elda. They had no son. The in the 3rd week of the 2nd Jubilee {8A.M.} she gave birth to Cain. In the 4th she gave birth to Abel, in the 5th she gave birth to her daughter Awan. Here's a new development. 

Then in the first year of the third Jubilee Cain killed Abel. Verses 4,5, and 6 are similar to the Bible where Cain has to wander the world. Then Adam and his wife mourned for Abel four weeks of years. {99-127A.M.} Then in the 4th year of the 5th week they became joyful again, Adam KNEW HIS WIFE AGAIN, 😳 and she bare him a son and they called him Seth. In the 6th week they had another daughter Azura. Adam and Eve had 9 sons. Seth took Azura his sister to he his wife and they had a son named Enos. To spare you all the lineage, from verse 13-15 it talks about everyone leading up to Enoch being born. This is the time when angels called the watchers admired the women on the earth and came and defiled them.

Next time we'll get into the fall of those angels and Noah being born, but for now

Keep searching,

Paul

Artspace AI Adam and Eve having to go work for a living

Do Not Add or Take Away From the Word /Mankind Created

 Hi everyone. I hope you are warming up, unless you're in the Southern Hemisphere then hopefully you're having a nice summer and weekend swimming. This time I'd like to cover a couple of things before we get back into the Book Of Jubilees. 

The first things is, the other day I saw a title on the Bible Hidden Truths youtube channel that mentioned words in the Lord's Prayer in the Ethiopian Bible not included in the Western Protestant Bible. I didn't write then down but looked in my Ethiopian Bible and although the wording in the Lord's Prayer is phrased differently than the Protestant Bible those extra sentences weren't there. This is the second video making that claim and each video used different phrases. Now, a lot of the information on the channel does match the Ethiopian Bible, this didn't. What was interesting when I checked, in the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:9-13 after it says "but deliver us from evil" it says "[for thine is the kingdom and power and the glory forever, amen."] with those brackets around it. With a footnote saying this was not included in earlier manuscripts. So, we all learned a prayer created by someone who thought Jesus's words needed to be improved upon. This is called a Doxology (a short formula of praise.) The reason it was added was because, they possibly thought the original ended too abruptly. Fortunately the Author wasn't around to ask permission. 

Naturally that was one more thing that confused and irritated me because I remembered somewhere the Bible says we are not to add or take away from the word of God. Here are the scriptures that say that: Deuteronomy 4:2"Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you." 

Deuteronomy 12:32 says basically the same thing. but

Revelation 22:18-19 says "I testify to the one who hears the words of the prophecy contained in this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book, and if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life and in the holy city that are described in this book."

This is the kind of stuff who catch when you're looking for something else. Otherwise you keep going about your day thinking what your learning is legitimate and accurate. That leads me to the 2nd thing, in wanting to be accurate in what I bring to you, I wanted to be sure my excitement in learning about the Ethiopian Bible was legit, so for the past couple of days I've been searching for where to find the most accurate, authentic teachings of the Ethiopian Bible. I found Dr. Vince Bantu. Check out the video

Now onto the Book Of Jubilees. We'll continue on with creation in Chapter 2. On the 2nd day He created the firmament in the midst of the waters and the waters were divided on that day, half of them went up above and half of them went down below the firmament that was in the midst over the face of the whole earth, and this was the only work that God did on the second day. I wrote this whole 2nd day because I thought it was kinda funny that that was all He created on the 2nd day. Maybe he was trying to pace Himself after doing so much on the 1st day lol. On the 3rd day He commanded the waters to pass from off the face of the whole earth and the dry land to appear. On that day He created all the sees, rivers, lakes, all the waters in the mountains and on the earth and all the dew, all the seed, sprouting things, fruit bearing trees, trees of wood and the Garden of Eden. On the 4th day sun, moon and stars to give light on the earth and divided the light from the darkness and to be a great sign for the days, years, jubilees, sabbaths and the seasons. On the 5th day we're used to reading the fish and birds but the Ethiopian Bible says He created Great Sea Monsters and these were the first things of flesh. It goes on then to say He created fish and birds, and everything that flies and everything after their kind. THEN on the 6th day He created all the animals, cattle, and everything that moves on the earth. THEN after this He created Man. A man and woman He created them. The protestant Bible also says MALE and FEMALE He created them. The Ethiopian Bible says He created Mankind, Male and Female. And they are to have dominion over everything. 

Another thing that came to mind when I read this, was a conversation I had a very long time ago with my pastor and friend when we were talking about creation one day. He brought up the theory that was, Adam and Eve were the first man and woman created, or did God create MEN AND WOMEN and Adam and Eve just made it into the Bible because they were the ones that got to go to the Garden? I mention that because all that was done in the first week, because it tells us there was a 7th day and that was when God rested. Then in the 2nd week nothing was growing because it hadn't rained and THERE WAS NO MAN TO CULTIVATE THE GROUND. In the Book Of Jubilees it starts out by saying all the animals were brought to Adam for him to give them a name. In the Protestant Bible and Ethiopian Bible It says there was no man man so God created one. My question is, why weren't any of the men created in the first week qualified? 

One thought that came to mind was timeframe. Some people theorize that the days were periods of time. In that theory could the men and women have been prehistoric time frame, and Adam was a human man like we imagine him in a later period? Or, was Adam created in a different area, and in that area God will give Adam the garden? 

We'll look at that next time. Until then,

Keep searching.

Paul. 

I know we haven't talked about Eve or the serpent yet, but here's an Artspace.ai picture of them. I love how Eve used the different color leaves for her outfit lol

  

 

Matching Stories in Books Of Jubilees, Enoch and Exodus

 Hi Everyone,

Last night as I started reading The Book Of Jubilees, also called The Little Genesis, I saw a comparison to the Book Of Enoch and wanted to share it with you. In The Book Of Exodus in the Western Bible it mentions Moses being on Mount Sinai for 40 days and 40 nights. I had remembered reading and hearing that but wasn't quite sure, so I looked it up. Exodus 24:18 and 34:28 each mention this. The first time to get The Ten Commandments and the second time to the replacement copy. 

In The Book Of Jubilees it says in Chapter 1 that God spake to Moses saying "Come up to Me on the mount and I will give you two tables of stone of the law and of the commandments that I have written, that thou mayest teach them?" vs 1. Both book say Moses was on the mountain in a cloud for 6 days. The western Bible says smoke. Both also say the glory of the Lord appeared like a flaming fire. It goes on to talk about the promises to the people of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the punishments for disobeying the commandments, festivals and sabbaths. The punishments will be that they will be handed over to their enemies. He also says after that happens they will turn to Me with all their heart and I will build my sanctuary in their midst and I will dwell with them. {paraphrased 10 verses to make the point that shows God will honor His promise}

Towards the end of Chapter 1 God tells the angel of presence to Write for Moses from the beginning of creation til my sanctuary has been built among them for all eternity. I'm not sure what that time frame is, but it makes me think of The Ancient Map Of Heaven video on the Bible Hidden Truths channel on YouTube that talks about angels recording everything that happens on earth in The Akashic Record. 

Beginning in chapter 2 this angel spoke to Moses and told him to write the complete history of creation, how in 6 days the Lord God finished all His works and all that He created and kept the Sabbathon the seventh day. On the first day He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve Him-the angels of presence, the angels of sanctification, the angels of the spirit of fire, the angels of the spirit of the winds, the angels of the spirit of  the clouds, of darkness, and of snow, and of hail, and of frost, and the angels of the voices, and of the thunder and lightning, and of cold and heat, and of winter, spring, summer and autumn, and of ALL THE SPIRITS OF HIS CREATURES WHICH ARE IN THE HEAVENS AND ON THE EARTH. That last line made me have to stop for a moment. It made me think of the verse in Jeremiah 1:5 where it says "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart." Chapter 2 continues on in verse to say, He created the abysses, and the darkness, eventide and night, and the light dawn and day, which He hath prepared in the knowledge of His heart. 

This section about the angels stuck out to me because that's the part on the Book Of Enoch that's similar. In the Book Of Enoch, although it doesn't mention angels created for each specific season or type of natural occurrence, but it does mention 12 portals through which the winds blow and 4 angels Michael, Raphael, Gabriel and Uriel are associated with the 4 directions.

I had to stop after I read this. I knew my brain would be distracted with this, and I wouldn't be comprehending anymore if I tried to keep going. So, if you'll stay tuned, I'll keep reading and bring more in a couple a few days. This is very intriguing to me, I hope it is for you as well. 

As always, stay tuned and keep searching,

Paul