JUBILEES: Testing the Book of Jubilees
- Jeromy Kusch
- Jan 5, 2024
- 2 min read
IS IT INSPIRED, ACCURATE, AND CONSISTENT WITH THE BIBLE?
THE BOOK OF JUBILEES IS POPULAR, BUT IS IT BIBLICAL?
In this teaching, we will be testing the Book of Jubilees. This book is surging amongst believers, especially those in our walk, and is not only being used in personal study, but some are developing doctrines and theology from its pages. Many believe the Book of Jubilees should be included in our modern canon of Biblical Scripture and regard this text as not only informative but also as inspired Scripture, even going as far as to call it a “greater Genesis.” As a result, many include this book in their personal religious study, consider it authoritative for instruction and correction for believers, and build theology and doctrine from this text. 2 Timothy 3:12-17 kjv What is the book of Jubilees? Britannica explains it this way, “Jubilees, in its final form, was likely written about 100 BC, though it incorporates much older mythological traditions. Its isolationist religious spirit and its strictness led the Essene sect of Jews at Qumrān in Palestine to quote extensively from it in the Damascus Document, one of their major works. Jubilees is also closely connected with the Genesis Apocryphon, which also parallels Genesis and was favoured by the Qumrān community. Several fragments of the original Hebrew edition of Jubilees were found in the Qumrān library.” It is prudent that we test this book and the claims made about it so we too can rightly divide the Word, understand and preach the true Gospel of the Kingdom, and bring people into right faith in and discipleship to our Messiah Yeshua and the God of the Bible, YHVH. If the Book of Jubilees is tested and verified, we should hold to it as a part of the Torah since its writing is an extension of Genesis and Exodus. In that manner, we should accept its instruction as trustworthy, its commands as binding, and its words as divinely inspired. However, if it fails the test, we must reject it as Scripture. Not just the Book itself but also those “teachers” who build doctrine upon it. If proven false, any supposed teacher who relies on Jubilees for instruction and doctrine must be approached with caution, avoided, and, at times, even publicly opposed. This teaching will not discuss some important topics within the Book of Jubilees debate. For example, we will not discuss calendars, history, or claims regarding who accepts or does not accept Jubilees as inspired Scripture. We will only test for contradictions between the Book of Jubilees and the Bible. Jubilees is 50 chapters; therefore, we will not be able to cover every contradiction; we will explore a few concerning categories, review examples from the text, and, in the end, draw a conclusion based on the text alone. This teaching was delivered at Pursuing Truth Ministries. If you would like to find out more about that ministry, click here.
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You won’t know truth till follow him. The 7 th day sabbath shows that you follow the first commandment having nothing before him. Not work, not kids games, not your hobby, nt sex w/wife, he alone is who you put first. Second because show he is first it keeps you from making idols or third commandment taking his name in vain by saying you follow him but not actually doing what he told you. Even pagan or the world don’t murder, adultry, steal, lie, envy for the most part, or lie about doing it so following his days is important and Jubalee helps us understand evening till morning a day. Sleep and until sleep again 1 day. 6 days work…
Also after the 1000 year reign Satan will be loose again!!! YHWH will deliver you but satan is so know who really follows him. Silly you say YHWH failed because his plan!! Do you think his death was a failure? No it’s his plan
You know not all destroyed because make giants and David faught Goliath. You have fee will! He don’t want robots! If you are not following him of free will. He did not give he took 90%% and did not give!!! The devil is there so we exercise free will! He did not fail!! It is all predestined
Do know that giving of 10% is in Genesis and so is clean and unclean animals. I had read my Bible 30 years and never saw it till I started following that law. Genesis 7 :2 of every clean beasts thou shalt take by 7’s and of the unclean beasts by 2! Genesis 14:20 and he gave tithes of all. All the laws that were etched in tablets were in place in Genesis. Die is not literal is death eternal, your not going to have eternal life! The sabbath was set in Genesis one! YHWH rested and he sanctify and made the day holy and we are to remember it and do no work. Even in the wilderness YHWH provided…