A Brief History of Christianity before Jesus Christ

Damascus Document Notes from the Damascus Document 1. The document opens by pointing come on that during the time before the exile to Babylon when unfaithfulness was prevalent, causing God to encounter about his wrath upon the people. 2. Then there came twenty twelvemonths in which a remnant of the people knew their own guilt and tried to mold a way to the path of righteousness, until God provided them with a Teacher of function who revealed the will of God. 3.The teacher of righteousness was opposed by the part of hoax who brought about persecution to the radical led some of them into altogether sorts of unrighteous acts and sinfulness. The Man of Mockery led some of the people to sin through the contamination of the temple and causing the people to wonder in a pathless wildernessabolishing the ways of righteousness 4. The teacher of righteousness was passed away at some point and the writer pointed out that the incident marked the rootage of the end of all the fighters wh o deserted to the Liar.The writer also pointed out that flowing lasted about forty years. It seems as though the writer is rangeing that flip away of the teacher of righteousness (perhaps killed) by the Man of Mockery, was began the forty year long war which ended all wars. 5. The righteous members of the group became the the Separatists when they left the Holy City. 6. The writer of the document foretells the coming of devil Messiahs out to the domicile of Aaron and Israel. Perhaps this may have been a reference to the John the Baptist (House of Aaron) and to savior the Christ (House of Israel).The exception to this theory is that technically Jesus was from the House of Judah, hardly collectively he Judah was Israels son, hence, the house of Israel would suffice. 7. The writer of the document explains the administrative hierarchy for members of the covenant. The one above all was the superintendent of the assembly. The document instructs that the superintendent shall tea ch the groups the ordinances of God and make decisions as to who can join the group and determine the rank that each will have. The Overseer shall be from thirty to fifty years old and will have final say on all the groups activities. The Overseer was the ultimate ascendance that settled disputes between members. 8. The Document also stated that congregation shall be divided into groups of ten and every group of ten members required a priest that rules the group of ten. distributively group of ten was to be registered by name and the first one to be enrolled was the priest followed by the Levites and wherefore came the regular Israelites with the proselytes being the last. The same order followed when members were settled during meals and assembly meetings. Each of the members was assigned a rank. 9.From here the documents provides a long succession of rules that governed the members including belongings the Sabbath (even a restriction from assisting an animal to give birth or gazump it out of pit if the animal falls on the Sabbath) prohibitions against sleeping with a woman in the City of the Sanctuary rules for bathing restrictions against selling of just animals or birds to gentiles in case they would offer them in sacrifices rules to members with children that require them to wildness their children to take an oath to the covenant upon the age of enrollment directives to the members to contribute two days of every months incomes to the poor and needy rules demanding all new members to study for a full year under the Overseer before partial membership if granted and rules prohibiting any membership for lunatics, the maimed, madmen, the deaf, the blind, simpletons, the lame, and the underage.