Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The Preterist Archive

again heavy with portentousness for early Christian history. The 'justification' referred to has, of
course, to do with 'walking according to the Laws', a typically 'Jamesian' (as opposed to 'Pauline')
notion of justification. It is encountered across the spectrum of Qumran documents - for instance, at
the end of the Second Letter on Works Righteousness in Chapter 6 below and in the definition of 'the
sons of Zadok' above.
Again, the nationalist, Law-oriented nature of the apocalypse should be clear, but the last line is
portentous too. We have read the word mashuah in it as 'anointed', but it could just as easily be read
'Mashiah' - Messiah (i and ulo being interchangeable in Qumran epigraphy) - which then adds to the
weightiness of the text. However this may be, that this text is now moving into some concept of
'Kingdom' or 'Kingship', possibly that 'Kingdom' in Dan. 2:44 mentioned above 'that will never be
destroyed', is self-evident.