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WHEN THE ANGELS SING -- IN OTHER TONGUES!

A New Light Dawns!

,

MUSICAL DAUGHTERS

OF JOB

 RECORDED IN THE

DEAD SEA SCROLLS

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WITH ANGELS!

  

 The Later End of Job's Life

(after he had successfully resisted all of Satan's severe temptations)

is recorded in Job 42:12-15

 

Many have received the gift of singing as well as speaking in the inspiration of the Spirit. The Lord giving new voices, he translates the songs into new tongues, he gives the music that is being sung by the angels and has a heavenly choir all singing the same heavenly song in harmony. It is beautiful music, no instruments needed in the meetings.

    "So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.

    He had also seven sons and three daughters.

    And he called the name of the first, Jemima,

---and the name of the second, Kezia,

---and the name of the third, Keren - happuch;

   And in all the land were no women found so fair as the

   daughters of Job; and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren,"

 

    Later added to by an unknown Essene author in a document known as --

    "The Testament of Job"

WIKIPEDIA

    The pseudepigraphical  Testament of Job (ca.100BCE-100AD) contains a conclusion which is believed to relate to the compiling of the hymnbook used by a Tharapaeutae  community.  Job gives one of his daughters "a cord" (a stringed instrument of some kind?)

   "And she took on another heart—no longer minded toward earthly things— but ecstatically in the angelic dialect, sending up a hymn to God in accord with the style of the angels. And as she spoke ecstatically, she allowed “The Spirit” to be on her garment." (T. Job 48:2-3)

     Job’s other daughters likewise took on “the dialect of archons”, “the dialect of those and the “dialect of the cherubim” (T. Job 49:1-50:3). The “cherubim” are also mentioned Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice as blessing God (4Q403 1 2, 15, cf. 4Q405 20 2, 3). These angelic tongues appear to be coherent, intelligible.

     There is parallel description of sung prophecy among the Therapeutae in Alexandria by  Philo, but no mention there of angelic tongues.

Another more commonly known about Dead Sea Scroll that uses the same "angelic Tongues" terminology is the one titled ---

Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice

The texts are fragmentary but appear to relate to

praise tongues:

[...] through the wonderful height [...] tongue of purity [...] gods (~yhla), seven [...] 4Q400 3 i, 1-2  ...Psalm of praise, on the tongue of the fou[rth]...[Ps]alm of [tha]nksgiving, on the tongue of the fifth...[Psalm] of exultation, on the tongue of the sixth...Psalm of [singing, on the to]ngue of the seventh of the [chief] pri[nces,] a powerful song [to the God] of ho[lines] with its se[ven] wo[nd]er[ful songs] 4Q403 1 i, 1-6  Proclaim his glory with the tongue of all who proclaim knowledge, his wonderful songs with the mouth of all who proclaim [him. For he is] God of all who sing {knowledge} for ever, and Judge in his power over all the spirits of understanding. 4Q403 1 i, 36-37 

...The tongue of the first will be strengthened seven times with the tongue of the second to him....{this is repeated for the series up to the seventh}... 4Q403 1 2, 27-30  It is not clear whether the angelic tongues are coherent, intelligible to man. However since Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice is itself related to sung praise at the Qumran community, there is a parallel with coherent angelic praise tongues in

 Testament of Job.

 

NEXT WE'LL CONSIDER THE LATE START IN THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF

NATIVITY SCENES! YOU'LL NO DOUBT BE SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT THE DEATHS OF THE EARLY CHRISTIANS WERE MORE LIKELY TO BE CELEBRATED THAN THEIR BIRTHS!

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