Kay (19 May 2005)
"The Copper Scroll and The Excavations at Qumran"


 
http://www.vendyljones.org.il/copperscroll.htm#GEOGRAPHY
 

Under Jeremiah's command, Haggai and Zachariah were two of the five writers of the Copper Scroll. These two are called the last of the latter prophets. Their books are both commonly known to us. They were both witnesses of the destruction of the First Holy Temple and the rebuilding of the Second Temple. Since they knew where the Tabernacle Treasures were hidden, the question naturally arises: Why didn't they recover them for the Second Commonwealth? The answer is, however, that all three wrote of the Third Temple, not the Second, as the ultimate Glory.

Could the destiny these two Prophets foresaw for the Third Jewish Commonwealth and Third Temple have a sequel in the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the very same Jewish year the State of Israel was reborn? This was a true co-incident! Even Professor Sukinik stated so. (As he purchased Israel's very first Scrolls in Bethlehem on the eve of the UN vote, he was unaware of the political happenings of that day.)

Could the "Door of Hope"( Petah-Tiqvah in 'Emeq-'Achor of Hosea 2:15 perhaps be the opening of that very cave that Jeremiah and his companions sealed "In the desolations of the Valley of Achor"? Could the hidden chamber that holds the treasures of Israel's glorious past(even yet be the Door of Hope for our more glorious future? If perchance it be so, this archaeological excavation is not only digging-up the past (it is uniquely digging-up the future!

Kay