I want to scream at the tv. I am watching a documentary about the dead sea scrolls because I actually had been very close to them when I went on a blind date to the dead sea exhibit at BYU years ago. And they are grasping to find a reason a sect who was not materialistic would have such a document preserved on copper which would have been difficult to keep.
It is obvious to me that money was buried and documented, like a time capsual, like the "voice from the dust". Because money would be needed to rebuild the New Jerusalem this was a pious contribution to that end. It seems almost obvious to me but, they keep quoting "scholars believe" and each readon is completely wrong.
So, I said my piece.
I think the owners of the Dead Sea Scrolls are the same Church of God as is the "Mormon" church. As I have observed from archeological information compared to Latter-day temples.
