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I have all of R.H. Charles books, do you have the Book of Jubilees by chance?
Yes, and all of the DSS translated manuscripts.
Jubilees is interesting because it was read and believed by some, not all, Jews to be what it claims to be, but it contradicts the Gospel and the Torah.
It makes the Law the "be all end all" and it was not. Whoever wrote it had lost their understanding of what the "Schoolmaster" was given to do, which was to show the Way to bring us to Christ by the Atonement, when it was finished "once for all" and which they only rehearsed.
I believe Jubilees shows the mindset of the Jews of the age of the Diaspora, and some of it is correct in their remembrance of what they had read in their writings and lost, but much is total fabrication, and provably so.
For instance, when it purports to tell that Isaac warned Jacob not to even eat with the Gentiles because Abraham taught him not to go in to them or eat with them, it so totally lies about what Abraham did, who married Hagar -and the same word is wife that is concubine, "ishyah", in the Hebrew- and after Sarah died, he married a canaanite woman named Keturah and had six sons by her.
Also, Abraham had many alliances with the Canaanites and was a friend to many of them, like Mamre and his brothers.
Because Peter apparently believed Jubilees, but in error, Jesus had the sheet let down to teach him the lesson that; "what I have cleansed, call not thou unclean": so Peter could go with a clear conscience to the house of Cornelius.
Of course Jesus had demonstrated in His 3 1/2 years with Peter that, though He came first to
"the lost sheep of the House of Israel"; He also preached and ate with and went into the houses of Gentiles.
The second miracle of the fish and the loaves multiplied was for the Gentiles who came to hear Him, and the woman at the well was a Gentile, and the Samaritans were Gentiles whom Jesus went into their city and stayed two days, teaching them, after the woman at the well told who He was. So all that proved Jubilees point to be bogus and manipulative so as to trap the Jews in Judaising the Law to be the end, when in fact, it was to show the Way to the "End/Christ".
I still get info from reading Jubilees that they who wrote it got from other ancient sources: like the fact that "Prince Mastema" is a name meaning "the chief of the Satans", the stema being a plural form, as I have read, and the fact that in Jubilees they knew the demons were disembodied spirits of the giants who were destroyed in he flood, and that just as Enoch said they would do, they roamed earth tormenting and afflicting the descendants of Noah.
When Noah prays for his descendants to be relieved of the demonic torments and to bind the demons in Sheol, the LORD agreed, but Prince Mastema asked they not all be bound in Sheol, lest they should not be able to do their job of tempting the sons of Adam-so as to sift out the unworthy...
YHWH then agreed and had only 90% of them bound, leaving 10% to do what Enoch said they would do.
-So that is the source for the ancient truth that they had access to and which also shows the demons being let out of Sheol below, to torment man on earth in the tribulation.
