Eastburn Adventures

Today Robert and I drove to Kansas City, MO with Steve and Ginger to see a once in a lifetime event.  Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls were on exhibit at Union Station.  It's really hard for me to express the magnitude of this event.  One of the event staffers said that the collection was valued at over $65 million, but I don't think that he, or many others at the exhibit, understood that these fragments were priceless.

We saw, with our own eyes, the earliest known fragments of the Bible.  A fragment from Genesis detailing creation, and specifically God's creation of man.  A fragment from Isaiah that prophesies the coming of Christ as from the Branch of David.  A large portion of a Psalm where, even if you can't read Hebrew, you can pick out where the scribes had written YHWH - Jehovah. 

The fact that those fragments were preserved for over 2,000 years is also due to the instruction and providence of Almighty God.  Jeremiah 32:14 says, "This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel says:  Take these documents . . . and put them in a clay jar so they will last a long time."  The scrolls were found in clay jars in the caves near Qumran, just above the Dead Sea.

We also saw a Gutenberg Bible, a Tyndale Bible, and a Luther Bible, as well as many artifacts from the find, including the stone jars that held the water Jesus turned into wine, and a small vessel that would have held precious oils like Mary had when she anointed Jesus' feet and dried them with her hair.

And to further credit God for knowing me so well, of all the other artifacts to have at this exhibit, He allowed for me to see an ancient weaving loom, linen fragments, pieces of wool, some indigo roving, and a spindle and several whorls found at Qumran.  Photos weren't allowed to protect the exhibit from further damage or decay, but I'll remember this day forever.

It truly was a once in a lifetime experience.  To God be the glory.