Search For Temple Utensils Reveals City of Prophets

Jim Barfield’s 12-year search for the Temple utensils revealed an unexpected discovery to an Oklahoma Noahide: a powerful spiritual connection between the mountaintop Temple in Jerusalem and at Qumran, located near to the deepest spot on the planet. Just as Jerusalem was a city for priests to serve in the Temple, Barfield argues that Qumran was a center for prophecy.

New Dead Sea Scroll Translation Reveals Anti-Temple Calendar

A group of researchers from Haifa University pieced together fragments that made up the last of the Dead Sea Scrolls, discovering that the Essene sect that lived near the Dead Sea during the Second Temple era followed a calendar vastly different than the calendar used by the Jews, indicating what may have been the motivation for the sect choosing a desolate and isolated location to practice a type of Judaism that was essentially heretical.