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For those who abide the covenant, and those who do abide the covenant shall have peace and healing from the Spirit during the length of days and then shall they bear seed with all everlasting blessings and eternal rejoicing in the victorious life of eternity and they shall have a crown of glory together with garments of majesty and dwell in eternal light.

The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Possible Parallels to Mormon Doctrine and Practices

Monday, 09 August 2004

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The Dead Sea Scrolls -- Possible Parallels to Mormon Doctrine and Practices
1 - Prayer
2 - Restoration
3 - Church of Some Type
4 - Conclave
5 - Bishops and Presiding Bishops
6 - Godhead of Three
7 - Tithing
8 - Theology of History and a Plan
9 - Doctrine of Translation
10 - Restoration in Last Days
12 - Laying on of Hands
14 - Genealogy
15 - Tradition of Buried Records
17 - New Name and Key Words
19 - Patriarchal Blessings
20 - Temple to be Built in Last Days
21 - World to be Destroyed by Fire
22 - New Jerusalem
23 - Melchizedek
24 - Messianic Vision
25 - Urim and Thummin
26 - Zenos the Lost Prophet
27 - The Devil
28 - Baptismal Rites
29 - Assembly of Gods
30 - Elect of God
31 - The 10 Copies of Isaiah
32 - Two Witnesses
33 - Prophets

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1. PRAYER:
In the HODAYOT SCROLL (Thanksgiving Psalms), prayer, over a long period of time, some 20 years it seems, resulted in what appears to have been some kind of restoration or dispensation of knowledge and direction, leading to the organization of the Community of Qumran, under a teacher called The Teacher of Righteousness, by whatever name it called itself, sometime about 176 to 150 B.C. The QUMRAN community may have been true priests exiled from the Temple and Jerusalem, into the Desert, some seven miles south of Jericho, on the northwest side of the Dead Sea. They may even have taken a portion of or most of the Temple Library with them. After fifty years there is still debate on who they were and where they came from, and why.

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